1 00:00:01,640 --> 00:00:13,080 I looked unglowed from countless cross a healing fountain 2 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:17,160 streams. It cleansed my. 3 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:28,480 Heart and now I sing. Praise God, I am breathing. 4 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:11,240 Forever. And when I reach that light, 5 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:18,840 more blood. That more don't ever be. 6 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:27,120 I cast my blood. I keep your speed. 7 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:42,480 I am redeem. I am redeem, I am redeem. 8 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:58,120 I stay in for I am. Oh, praise the. 9 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:20,320 Lord, let us bound prayer, our gracious eternal Father, as we 10 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:26,360 bow again in Thy holy presence. We thank Thee from the depths of 11 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,880 our hearts that we can sing. I am redeemed. 12 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,920 We bless Thee for the blood that has cleansed us, the blood that 13 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:37,000 has redeemed us and made us thine. 14 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,800 And we thank Thee, our God today, that the blood shall 15 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,440 never lose its power till all the ransomed of Church of God be 16 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,600 saved to send them more. O Lord, we thank Thee for all 17 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:55,080 that Thou has done for us and all that Thou dost mean to us. 18 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,360 And as we start the day at this open grey of Lord, we pray that 19 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,720 Thou would help us to number our dears and apply our hearts to 20 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,360 wisdom and grant our God that we who are thine that we may live 21 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,560 for Thy glory, that we may live close to Thee as the dears. 22 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:18,160 Goodbye, grant our gracious God, at the end of life we may hear 23 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,760 thee say, Well done, good and faithful servant. 24 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,320 Remember those who'll stand around this grave today, who 25 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,360 know not Jesus Christ as their Saviour or God. 26 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:36,240 Help them to realise that life will end someday and grant our 27 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,840 Father God that they may make that great choice of Christ 28 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,240 before that moment arrives, that they may know that they're in 29 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,000 the glory As we stand around this open grave. 30 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,240 Lord, we thank Thee for the memories of the One who's gone. 31 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,680 Lord, for over 50 years we have known and walked and played with 32 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,240 them and preached with them down through the years. 33 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,360 Lord, we pray that I would just help at this time. 34 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,880 You know all about it. You know just the things that 35 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,520 are in our minds. You know the sadness that 36 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,000 they're in our hearts. But Lord, we leave all with 37 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,600 Thee. We know that Thou art the God 38 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,080 who knows the best, and your ways are not our ways. 39 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:31,440 We do pray for those who mourn. We realise our gracious God for 40 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,720 that we woman Yonder and Lurgan to die. 41 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:39,400 We know our hearts broke so hard, Lord, but we thank Thee. 42 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,440 Thou art still the God who can comfort, and we pray thou will 43 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,200 draw near and pour in the oil and wine. 44 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,560 Thou will be very nearer. Lord, thou hast promised to be a 45 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,040 husband to the widow and the father to the fatherless. 46 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,960 Lord, you'll keep your word. We know you well. 47 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,440 You never break it. Rest Donald and Michael. 48 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:04,760 Thank thee for them for thine. Praise thee our God, for the 49 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,120 stand lift took. Bless all the family circle we 50 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,520 leave them all, and I care shall Lord undertake and help as we 51 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,640 stand at this grave. Bless our friend as he speaks to 52 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,800 us. Grant our gracious God that 53 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,480 again we may feel the presence of the Lord, and that the voice 54 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,880 of God may be heard at this open grave for Jesus Christ our 55 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,040 Saviour's sake. Amen. 56 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,400 Man, if you want to put on your hearts, it's quite all right, 57 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,200 it's cold. We'll have no dishonour to the 58 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,600 Word of God. If you feel the cold, just put 59 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,040 your heart on you. Understand, we're reading some 60 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:52,760 verses from the Epistle to the Corinthians, the first letter in 61 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,680 chapter 15. Moreover, brethren, I declare 62 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,960 unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye 63 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,640 have received, and wherein you stand, by which also ye are 64 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:12,160 saved, if you keep in memory what I have preached unto you, 65 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,080 unless you have believed in vain. 66 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:18,600 For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I 67 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,280 received. How? 68 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,160 That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 69 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,240 that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day 70 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:36,640 according to the Scriptures. For since by man came death, by 71 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,440 man came also the resurrection of the dead. 72 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,640 For as an Adam all die, Even so in Christ shall all be made 73 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,400 alive, every man in his own order. 74 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:52,840 Christ the first fruits, afterward they that are Christ 75 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:56,440 that is coming, then cometh the end. 76 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,600 He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, 77 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,000 when he shall have put down all all rule and all authority. 78 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,480 For he must dream till he has put all enemies on the respite. 79 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,920 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 80 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,480 Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we 81 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,360 shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of a 82 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:32,320 nigh the last trump for the trumpet shall sound, the dead 83 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:36,240 shall be raised incorruptible, we shall be changed. 84 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,160 For this corruptible must put on in corruption. 85 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,640 This mortal must put on immortality. 86 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,960 So when this corruptible shall have put on in corruption, this 87 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,480 mortal shall have put on immortality. 88 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,480 Then shall have brought the pastor, saying, It is written, 89 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,400 Death is swallowed up in victory. 90 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:05,280 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 91 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,880 The sting of death is sin. The strength of sin is the law. 92 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,600 But thanks be unto God, which giveth us the victory through 93 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,240 our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, 94 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:28,120 be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the 95 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,960 Lord. For as much as you know that 96 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:36,960 your labour is not in vain, in the Lord, we know the Lord well 97 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:47,920 bless his own precious work. Just before I come to the 98 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:53,400 preaching of God's Word today, I'd like to preface my remarks 99 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:59,280 with some remarks I made outside our brother's home in the town 100 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,520 of Lurgan this morning. I feel there may be those here 101 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,040 who were not present with us this morning, and I think 102 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,720 perhaps these words will be words of help, words of comfort, 103 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,480 and certainly words of testimony from God's precious and holy 104 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:21,480 book. We're met here, and very sad, 105 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,400 and in very testing and in very tragic circumstances. 106 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:34,240 An eminent, honoured, and much years servant of the Lord, 107 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:42,400 Perhaps the most eminent and honoured and most years servant 108 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:51,480 of the Lord in our generation has died, and the circumstances 109 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:57,960 of his death are both to us mysterious and alarming. 110 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:08,920 His passing has thrown over us all a deep blanket of gloom, not 111 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,720 only in this province but everywhere else throughout the 112 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,640 world. For His name was known and His 113 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:23,120 ministry was witnessed. Now, as God's people, we dare 114 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,280 not and cannot run away from this issue. 115 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,960 Thank God we don't need to run away. 116 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:37,560 We have got God's book. It's a lamp to our feet and a 117 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:42,360 light to our way. Our feet may be walking in 118 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,240 places they have never stepped before, and our way may be 119 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:52,280 trying, more trying than we've ever been called to tread 120 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:59,120 before, but nevertheless, the light of God's Word, brethren 121 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:04,920 and sisters, still shines. And it doesn't shine dimly. 122 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:11,160 It shines more and more unto the perfect day. 123 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:18,360 Our beloved brother Willie had been passing through deep 124 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:24,920 physical sickness, in fact, to two of his brethren, he 125 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:31,200 confessed just a few days ago. As he sat with them and wept, he 126 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:37,680 said, I am very sick, more sick than anyone can understand. 127 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,320 He had suffered from a stroke and also there were accumulating 128 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:50,920 circumstances which put up danger signals that physically 129 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:56,120 our brother's constitution was beginning to break up. 130 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:03,280 But added to those physical complaints that he had, there 131 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:11,440 was deep mental stream, a stream that came directly from his work 132 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:19,520 and labour of love for Christ. The man of God is often 133 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:27,600 misunderstood, he's more often misrepresented and he has to 134 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:32,640 walk a very lonely and difficult pathway. 135 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:38,840 And our brother was walking that lonely and difficult pathway. 136 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:46,840 Added to that, he had a great fear upon him that he was in 137 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:53,360 danger of bodily attack. That was why he kept a looted 138 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,680 shotgun beside his bed, and that was a fact. 139 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:02,640 No doubt that that gun was with him in the study at the time of 140 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,800 his passing. I have been tremendously struck 141 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:12,520 in the last days with the great similarity between the death of 142 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:16,760 our beloved brother and the death of one of the most eminent 143 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:22,840 of God's workers and Saints in Scotland in the last generation. 144 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:29,400 I refer to Hugh Miller, the great Scottish layman, the 145 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,840 friend of Thomas Chalmers, the associate of Robert Murray 146 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,800 Mcsheehan and the Bonner brothers. 147 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:45,480 And Hugh Miller died by a shot from his own gun, which was let 148 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:50,640 off by his own hand, in similar circumstances to our brother's 149 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:57,040 passing now, even although our brother's mind and our brother's 150 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:04,720 nerves were at stream, even although his reason reeled under 151 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,120 those bewildering circumstances through which he passed. 152 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,400 And the dark shadow that was coming down upon his life, Yet 153 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:25,400 amidst that ruin of mind and of body, there was still kept 154 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:32,480 intact his tender heart and his love for the Lord remained 155 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,880 unbroken. When you go home from this 156 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:42,640 service, take down your Bible and read the 69th Psalm. 157 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:48,160 For weeks, Willie Mullen was living in that Sam. 158 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:55,400 It is a terrible Sam, A Psalm of the mire, a Psalm of 159 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:02,520 overwhelming waters, a Psalm of the pit opening her mouth, a 160 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,280 Psalm of bitter misrepresentation, of physical 161 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,480 failure and failure of mind and soul. 162 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:17,920 And the last outline that Willie Mullen ever meet was upon that 163 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,560 Sam. I hold it in my hand today, and 164 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:26,880 he speaks about the man. And Willie was that man in deep 165 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:32,400 waters, standing in a place where his feet could not find a 166 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:39,320 place to stand. The mire, the midnight, And what 167 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:47,320 a dark midnight it was for him. Then there came the moments, and 168 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:54,320 then there came the magnet. But at the end there came the 169 00:15:54,360 --> 00:16:02,960 mystery and the melody. And today we can say sunrise has 170 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:09,520 come for Willie Mullen, and the shadows of all fled away. 171 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:17,720 Brethren, the word of God says the last enemy that shall be 172 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:25,320 destroyed is death. And over in the book of Jeremiah 173 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:30,880 there is a word of the prophet, a word of judgement. 174 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:39,840 And the prophet says, this year thou shalt die. 175 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:48,720 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, and this 176 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:56,120 year thou shalt die. I want to dwell on those words 177 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:03,880 for a moment or two. Death firstly defined, it is an 178 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:10,040 enemy. Death further described, it's 179 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:16,280 the last enemy. Death finally destroyed. 180 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:23,119 Thank God it will be destroyed. And standing on the verge of 181 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:29,600 this grave we say and triumph. Old death, where is thy sting? 182 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:36,120 Old grave, where is thy victory? The sting has been removed by 183 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:41,320 the neo pierced hand of Christ and the victory of the tomb has 184 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,920 been eternally smashed in the glorious resurrection of the 185 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,040 Saviour. And because he lives, we shall 186 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,680 live also. And then we update. 187 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,040 Death faithfully declared this year. 188 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:59,280 Thou shalt die. Death firstly defied. 189 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,400 It's an enemy, not a man standing around. 190 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,600 This grieve today doesn't know that death's an enemy. 191 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:14,080 We know that death's an enemy. Some of us here have lost a very 192 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:21,120 dear friend, one whom we love, one who we were close with, one 193 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:26,800 we knelt in prayer with, one around whose shoulders we often 194 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:31,880 put her arm, and had sweet and blessed fellowship together. 195 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,200 Deaths an enemy, It has robbed us of a friend. 196 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:42,120 Beloved, there are two men standing here, and they know 197 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:46,280 that deaths an enemy. For death has taken their dear 198 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:53,760 father from them, robbed them of a dear man of God, a father who 199 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,760 prayed for them, who instructed them in the things of God, and 200 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:03,920 who saw them led to Christ, to the place of pardon and peace. 201 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,640 And they know that death is an enemy. 202 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:13,840 There's a dear we mother down there in Windsor Ave today, our 203 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,480 sister Mary Mullen, and she knows that death's an enemy. 204 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:22,600 There's a vacant chair. Her beloved partner, her dear 205 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,840 one, will never sit in that chair again. 206 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,000 Why? Because death is an enemy. 207 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,520 Yes, in the town of Lurgan knows that death is an enemy. 208 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:41,480 A man that was at the back and call of suffering, sorrowing and 209 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,680 disheartened and depressed people that all hours of the day 210 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:50,560 and night got in touch with them for help, comfort, solace and 211 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,320 encouragement. He's no longer there. 212 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:58,320 An enemy has a peanut work. An enemy have done this and he's 213 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,160 gone. And what shall I say of the 214 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:07,280 whole Church of Jesus Christ, From many, many places, from 215 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,400 many denominations, from all sections of the commute 216 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,160 Christian community, There goes up a groan. 217 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,720 Today to heaven. We have lost a brother, beloved, 218 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,960 his vacancy in the pulpit. His vacancy on the Gospel 219 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,960 platform, his vacancy among God's people. 220 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:35,800 We know an enemy has done this. And what is more, our dear 221 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,920 brother Willie knew that death was an enemy. 222 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,600 And the closing moments of his life, when the dark shadows came 223 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:50,960 down, when the door was shut, That it's not for us to open and 224 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,960 will only be explained to us when we see face to face. 225 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,280 For now, we see through a glass darkly. 226 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:04,600 But Willie knew that death was an enemy. 227 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,520 Death is an enemy. It's an intruder. 228 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,920 When the world was me and there was no death. 229 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:17,800 Death is the first born of sin by one man. 230 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,760 Sin entered into the world and death by sin. 231 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:26,120 And so death passed upon all man, for that all have sinned. 232 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,000 But I want to tell you, dear unseen one, that death is a 233 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,440 terrible enemy for you. For some of us. 234 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,520 We know that that enemy has been dealt with. 235 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,840 We know that we'll never cross Jordan alone. 236 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,200 We know that will not fierce the king of terrors and the terror 237 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,240 of kings in a row. But when death comes, it'll be a 238 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:59,080 real enemy for you. It's going to rob you of your 239 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,320 opportunity ever to be seen. And that's the greatest 240 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:08,400 opportunity a man can have. Not for pleasure, not for 241 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:14,280 riches, not for placings among society, but the opportunity to 242 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:19,560 hear the gospel, the opportunity to hear the sweet message of 243 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:25,160 God's love, the message of the bleeding Saviour, the substitute 244 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:30,080 Son of God, the way of salvation through faith. 245 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,840 By Greus alone that opportunity will be gone. 246 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:39,400 Be Tulia to preach over your grieam, friend, Tulia to pray 247 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,320 for you when the shrouds on the corpse. 248 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,200 Tell me, if this was your grieam, would it be a crisis 249 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:52,120 green? Would it be a crisis corpse in a 250 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:57,000 crisis round and your soul in a crisis hell? 251 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,760 Face it today, friend. Death is an enemy that's going 252 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:09,440 to take from you your own soul. What shall a man give in 253 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:17,360 exchange for a soul? But the text has death further 254 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:22,120 described. Blessed God, even in this word 255 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,600 there's a word of hope for us. It's the last enemy. 256 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,240 Now we all have to fierce enemies down here and we have 257 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:37,280 many battles to fight. We have to fight enemies of the 258 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,840 body, enemies of the mind, enemies of the soul. 259 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:47,080 We all of our sadness, we all know what it is to pull down the 260 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:51,840 blinds, to wear the black clothes or mourning to weep over 261 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,160 our loved ones. We all have to fight life's 262 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,360 battles. But one day there's going to be 263 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,320 the final battle, the last enemy. 264 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:07,840 We breathe 17,000 breaths a day, but we'll only breathe, thank 265 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,840 God. One last breath, we're going to 266 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:16,160 meet the last enemy. But I'm and I glad today that 267 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,960 there was one who met that enemy. 268 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:23,680 The one who came from heaven's glory towards him, The one who 269 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,760 was rich, yet for our sakes became poor. 270 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:34,240 The one who came from God's throne to the Manger to be among 271 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:39,080 the cattle the Word made flesh, and the one who walked to 272 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:44,360 Calvary, and the one who died upon that cross for you and me 273 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:51,360 see from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow 274 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:57,480 mingled down, That ere such lovers sorrows meet, or thorns 275 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,040 compose. So Richard cried. 276 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,280 He met the last enemy. Death finally destroyed. 277 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,080 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 278 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:17,600 Death has had its celebration over our brother's body, but the 279 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:22,800 final celebration will be over the corpse of death itself. 280 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,400 One day this coffin lid will split. 281 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:33,240 One day this griev will give up. It's these earthly remains. 282 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,840 One day on the lip of this griev, the redeemed body of 283 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:43,520 Willy Mellon, united to its glorified spirit, Shall arise up 284 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:49,680 when the trumpet sounds, and we shall all be changed at the 285 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,280 twinkling of an eye at the last trump, when the dead in Christ 286 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,240 shall rise 1st. And we that are alive and 287 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,000 revealed shall be caught up together with them in the clouds 288 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,400 to meet the Lord in the air. So shall we ever be with the 289 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,360 Lord. Thank God there's a voice that's 290 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:13,880 going to say give forth, and this grieve shall give forth, 291 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:19,840 and this body shall come forth, and they'll not be a mark upon 292 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,680 it. Amen. 293 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,400 Praise God, it'll be a redeemed body. 294 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:33,440 May it like unto the Lord's most glorious body, brethren, while 295 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,880 there is mourning. And when they carried Stephen to 296 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,400 that grieve, there was great lamentation. 297 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,720 But praise God, there's joy today we sorrow not even as 298 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,040 those who have no hope for if we believe Jesus died and rose 299 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:58,720 again, those also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 300 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,520 Our brother had a favourite hymn. 301 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,280 It's an old hymn. It's not on your sheet and was 302 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,680 written by Richard Baxter, the Puritan and the prisoner in 303 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:15,320 those days of severe punishment. And they read this often in the 304 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,160 last days He was upon this earth. 305 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,320 He called his Son's attention to it. 306 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:26,080 Christ leads me through no darker rooms. 307 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,760 Just let me get these specks up, Lord. 308 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:39,760 It belongs not to my care whether I live or die. 309 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,840 To love and serve Thee is my share, and this Thy grace must 310 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,720 give. If life be long, I will be glad 311 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,920 that I may long obey. If short yet, why should I be 312 00:27:54,920 --> 00:28:00,440 sad to welcome endless day? Christ leads me through no 313 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,880 darker rooms that he went through before. 314 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,600 He that enter God's Kingdom comes, must enter by this door. 315 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:16,280 Come Lord, when grace hath made me meet Thy blessed, blessed 316 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,880 feast to see. For if thy work on earth be 317 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:26,240 sweet, what will thy glory be? My knowledge of that life is 318 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:32,800 small, the eye of fear is dim, but tis enough that Christ knows 319 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:37,040 all, and I shall be with him, with him. 320 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:39,800 Amen. The last enemy that shall be 321 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,400 destroyed is death. Death finally destroyed. 322 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:50,040 Death fearfully declared this year thou shalt die. 323 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,680 There's not a man here knows who next will pass this way. 324 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,680 It could be the preacher, it could be some hearer standing in 325 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,240 the crowd today. Tell me, how is it with your 326 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,920 soul? You know that verse came to me 327 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,680 as I thought upon our brother's passing the word of the 328 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,840 Prophet's servant to a poor stricken woman. 329 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,640 She had laid the dead body of her child on the Prophet's bed. 330 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,520 Her hope was gone. The light of life was 331 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,840 extinguished. And the old prophet said, Is it 332 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,360 well with the child? And she answered it as well. 333 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,000 The only thing that's worthwhile is to no friend. 334 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,840 It's well with your soul. And there was one thing that 335 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,560 Willie would want me to do today and that would be invite sinners 336 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,480 to the cross, to invite man and woman around this open air 337 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:59,160 graveside to come to the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as 338 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,520 their own and personal Saviour. The Lord is here. 339 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,960 He's here in a peculiar manner. We are privileged to stand here. 340 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:14,160 This is an historic occasion in the history of God's work in 341 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,680 Northern Ireland. Friend, you're here not seeing. 342 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,720 Meet Christ today. Go from this grave side with 343 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,840 everlasting life burning within your soul. 344 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:34,720 He that half the sun, half life, and that's what you need today. 345 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,320 It's not a church or a sacrament. 346 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:44,480 It's Christ and Christ alone. God grant today you'll close 347 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,920 with him. Just come to him now the gospel 348 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,840 invitation. How wonderful it is him that 349 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,600 cometh unto me. I will in no wise cast out. 350 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,440 What a take end Mr Nicholson used to say. 351 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:07,480 You got many takes in and life but what a take in this has to 352 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:12,800 be taken into Jesus. May God help man and woman to be 353 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:18,400 taken in to Christ. Brother Willie, we're not saying 354 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,920 good night goodbye, we're only saying good night. 355 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,760 We're going to meet you in the morning. 356 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,440 You love the Saviour and a little field not far from here, 357 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:37,000 After hearing the word of God under Brother Tucker, you fled 358 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,440 for refuge and you laid hold on eternal life and you were born 359 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,080 again. You loved the Lord, you loved 360 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,600 His book, and you loved His people. 361 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,200 You preached the gospel faithfully. 362 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,320 You prayed with earnestness. You were a shepherd to the 363 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,080 flock. We will no longer join you 364 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,800 behind the shafts of the gospel blind you've gone to your 365 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:09,440 reward, but we'll meet you. And our last word is today. 366 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:17,400 We praise God for you, and tomorrow we'll praise God with 367 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,360 you. Amen and Amen. 368 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:35,680 Friends, I would like you to sing just now the glory song. 369 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,600 I want you to sing it for my dad, and I want you to sing it 370 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,520 for dawn. I want you to sing it for me, 371 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,440 and I want you to sing it for my mother. 372 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,640 The glory song. Glory, Glory. 373 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:57,040 Hallelujah. When all my. 374 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:04,720 Labourers and trials. Are old and I am safe on that. 375 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,600 Guilty. Bullshore just to. 376 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,600 Be near the dear Lord, I are told. 377 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:21,440 Oh well, through. The ages be glory for me, all 378 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:31,800 that will be glory for me, glory for me, glory for me. 379 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:43,920 When by His grace I shall lurk on His face, that will be glory, 380 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:57,480 may glory oh me. Oh, and I like it. 381 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,520 Office in my. Night. 382 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:09,800 Grace I am accorded in heaven and a place just to be a right 383 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,400 to look on his face. Who will throw. 384 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:26,480 Today is the glory for me. All that will be glory for me. 385 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:33,800 I believe it. Glory for me, glory for me. 386 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:45,400 When by His race I shall look on His face, that will be glory. 387 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:59,120 Glory or me. Friends will be there. 388 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,760 I. Have a lot long. 389 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:15,640 Ago joy like a river and love me will flow from my spavour in all 390 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:21,040 oil through the ages, be glory for me. 391 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:29,760 All. That will be glory for day, 392 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:41,040 glory for day, glory. By his grace I shall. 393 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:47,400 Look on. His face, that will be glory. 394 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:03,960 Just before we pray on behalf of the Mullen family, Missus Mullen 395 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,920 and Donnie and Michael and their wives, the little ones, the 396 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:15,000 grandchildren, I'd like to say for them and in their name, a 397 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:21,720 very warm and sincere thank you to the great warmth of love and 398 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:27,040 friendship and help and Christian Greece that has been 399 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,000 imparted to them through the people of God. 400 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:35,160 At this time, we'd like to say thank you in their name to you 401 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:40,320 and we'd like to especially thank the members of the Royal 402 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:45,640 Ulster Constabulary who did such a special job today and getting 403 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,480 all the funeral cars through all the intersections in the city 404 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,680 and right through to Newton Ards. 405 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,920 I thought it was a fine tribute to a great man of God. 406 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,520 And, you know, I remember Willie saying to me after I was seeing 407 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,520 James Mae Kendrick came to Newton Arge for a mission. 408 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,360 And he said, I got friendly with the preacher. 409 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,480 And one day I was walking down the street and he said James 410 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,080 Mackendrick stopped. And he said, Willie, of all this 411 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,920 crowd walking along the pavements of Newton Arge knew 412 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,400 who we were. They'd be taking off their hats. 413 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,680 And Willie said, I looked at them and I said, Sir, they might 414 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,120 take their hats off to you, but certainly not to an old trump 415 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,400 like me. And the great man of God put his 416 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,120 hand on his shoulder, and he said, Will he now? 417 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:45,680 Are we the sons of God? And it doth not yet appear what 418 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:51,120 we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall 419 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,720 be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 420 00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:00,760 And you know I smiled today as I saw those policemen salute the 421 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,320 cartage, the man that was once a down and out Sinner sea of by 422 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,320 Greece. Even the authorities of the land 423 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,360 paid them a high respect today. And for this we are grateful to 424 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,800 everyone, to the funeral undertaker and to all who did 425 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,960 their job. We say thank you in the Saviour 426 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,680 name. Your work and labour of love 427 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:31,240 will not go on rewarded. Let us pray. 428 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:37,760 Father in Heaven, we thank Thee that we have had thy blessed 429 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:43,280 presence with us over these past days and especially at these 430 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,240 services. We thank thee for wisdom. 431 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,320 We thank Thee for help. We thank thee for grace. 432 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,760 And today, Lord, as we're going away, we're not going away sad 433 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,400 but glad. We're not going away in a gloom. 434 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,280 We're going away with a glimpse of glory in our souls. 435 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:10,320 Our brother has gone in to see the King in his beauty. 436 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:17,160 He has reached the land of far distances, and Yonder he stands 437 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,200 in a robe of white, praising his Lord. 438 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,400 Lord, he won souls for thee down here. 439 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,040 He was wise in the winning of souls. 440 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,000 And now it's said that those that turn many to righteousness 441 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:37,520 shall shine as the stars forever and ever. 442 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,720 And we thank thee that no pellets from a shotgun can 443 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:47,400 extinguish that star. It'll shine forever in the Milky 444 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:52,720 Way of heaven because he had everlasting life. 445 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:58,520 We bless thee for the triumph of grace in the life of Willy 446 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,040 Mullen. And we bless thee that grace 447 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:07,760 were sin abounded. Grace did super abound and we 448 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,200 sought and it was the work of God indeed. 449 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,080 Bless our sister Mary today. Put your arms around her. 450 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,600 Whisper sweet peace to her heart. 451 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,800 We thank thee for Donnie and Michael, for the grace of 452 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,640 God-given to them. We thank thee that today they 453 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,840 know their mother's Saviour and they know their father's God, 454 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:30,920 and they're walking with the Lord. 455 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,360 Bless their dear wives and their little ones. 456 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,840 Be with them especially, and bless our dear province. 457 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,400 Send to us more gospel preachers like Willie Mullen. 458 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,400 Send us more men of God like this dear servant. 459 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:50,840 Send us more mightily used servants of the Saviour, and 460 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,880 grant those of us who are left to keep our handles to the 461 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,080 plough. May we not look back, but may we 462 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:02,960 plough a straight furrow and keep right on to the end, 463 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:08,400 fighting the good fight, enduring the cross, despising 464 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:13,080 the shame. And now may thy grace and Thy 465 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:20,440 mercy and Thy peace be with us all today, tonight, and 466 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:27,760 tomorrow, until the day breaks and the shadows all flee away, 467 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:34,440 and the people of God said Amen, unshorted, Hallelujah, Amen.