Bobby Cole's Funeral
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John 13:34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.
INTRODUCTION
We are here to honor a man who deserve to be honored. Bobby Cole.
So this morning, I will in the short time that we have here this morning, I will not be able to do him justice.
In my text, Jesus was talking with His disciples and Jesus knew as He was talking to them that His days was numbered.
Jesus had the task of leaving, which is never an easy one. And I would think that Jesus had some of the same things on His mind that you and I would have knowing that our days are numbered too.
Such as, What would happen to them? They were going to be facing a crazy world. This world would be putting great pressure on them. How would they carry on?
Just like us we should be thinking, because our days are numbered also.
Psalms 39:4 "LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered—how fleeting my life is.
So Jesus knew this and He also knew much of their strength came from their unity. And I believe that Jesus begin to teach on this thing called love because He want to preserved their unity.
So Jesus taught them that only one bond would work, the bond of love.
This new commandment was to love as they had been loved by Him.
You see, I believe that if we love and care for others then we will set that example for others to follow.
Jesus had show and not just told, them how to live a life of love.
This new commandment was very clean and simple.
Bobby was one who loved people. He would make you feel comfortable around him.
But his love for family was so great. Drema, was the love of his life, you were his queen.
And being a grandfather, myself I know this feeling about those grandkids.
Bobby loved watching his grandkids and he would travel to Little Rock, NWA, and Tulsa to watch Brodie play ball.
My daughter Leslie was telling me the other day, that a few years ago that she had a yard sale,her a few of our employees at Kal Home health at our business.
And Bobby showed up, Him and his granddaughter and He told Leslie that he was checking to see what they were doing and as always he was just talking and the granddaughter found a teddy bear that she want and Bobby was going to buy it and Leslie told no you are not buying that, you can have it and Bobby was making sure that granddaughter got what she want it. And Leslie said he end up leaving a quarter on the table.
But Bobby love for life was always there.
He planned out his retirement and He was loving life. He brought a boat, Jeep and Tri and was set to enjoy his retirement.
Bobby loved all his children and He was proud of them and all their accomplishments.
But if you were with us on Thanksgiving family lunch, Bobby and I would get into a lot of trouble but we enjoyed kidding and Bobby and I teased Blake so much that Drema got on both of us and told us to leave Blake alone.
Bobby loved life. Bobby loved people, Bobby loved!
Love is a big deal, you see, in giving this new commandment Jesus explained what He requires of us.
And It is all gathered up in one word: Love
I know that if you are a family member or a friend, if you been around Bobby then you know that you were loved.
But I want to tell you about one who love is great than Bobby, mine or that person that you think love you the most.
John 3:16 "For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
God’s love for you, is so much greater. He know that you at “There”. There is the place of suffering and hurting, confused and mess up.
Many of you are “There” You are at that place.
Psalm 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
What a striking assertion, “Through the floods” Family, you are at that place going through the floods.
The place that flooded with thoughts, from confusion- pain and loneliness, Where God or is there a God at all.
You are at “There” but if you will notice the Psalmist said, we rejoice in Him.
I am not saying rejoice because of Bobby’s death, but I am saying rejoice because when you are at “There” in your life, flood water coming in that God the one who loves you more than Bobby will see you through.
Hosea 2:15 I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. She will give herself to Me there: Where is “There” in the valley of trouble.
It is in the night of trouble the brightest lamps are often lit.
We find ourselves having to face one of life’s most difficult challenges that is to trust in Christ in this dark time.
Jesus on the eve of His crucifixion, Jesus tells His disciples this as He is washing His disciples’ feet.
John 13:7 Jesus replied, "You don't understand now what I am doing, but someday you will."
There are many things that happen to us in this life that we do not understand and for which we can find answers.
Things come upon us that do not look like love.
From where we are, these things made no sense at all.
But those words that Jesus spoke to His disciples must speak to us. (You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.)
There will come a day when we all shall see clearly. But for now we must put our trust and faith in Christ.
He has already proven Himself to be trustworthy.
In this kind of hour there is a question that comes again and again to our minds.
The question is summed up in the word “Why”
Why did this happen? Why has this person been taken from me?
Can I tell you that Jesus know how you feel.
As Jesus was on the Cross at Calvary, He said this:
Matt 27:46 "My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me?" The Why question
In all of the Word of God, there is not a verse more difficult to explain.
The Master was never closer to a suffering heart than at the moment of this cry.
Yet the Son of God, the Creator of the world suffered and died on the cross.
And at the closing of Christ’s life, this is what He said:
Luke 23:46 Then Jesus shouted, "Father, I entrust My spirit into Your hands!"
And this is what we are here to do this morning:
We have gathered here to honor a man of should be honor . A man who loved, loved his wife, Children, grandchildren and people and life.
But we also need help, because we are in that “There” place, the flood water have came in, and we have so many “Why”.
And we need the one of loves us, The One now that has control of Bobby Cole eternity. We need your help to be able to rejoice again.
So we need your miracle touch because only You can help us today. So we place our lives in your hands, Our Lord and Savior.
2 Cor 1:4 He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.
2 Cor 1:5 For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with His comfort through Christ.
2 Cor 1:6 Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer.
God is the God of all Comfort. We don’t always understand but this we know:
God will always be in the “there” of our lives.
Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalm 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Psalm 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.