JAMES MORELAND WAS: Luigi Pirandello once said, “Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time! Webster’s defines “gentleman” as: A polite, gracious or considerate man with high standard of propriety or correct behavior”. GENTLEMAN: To find the perfect example of a gentleman we have to look to the perfect One. Jesus was polite and had consideration for others. At the wedding in Cana., his Mom came to Him and declared that “they have no wine”, Jesus was considerate of His mother’s request and miraculously answered her request with His first public miracle of turning water into wine. Jesus is also gracious, kind, merciful and compassionate. We look to miracle of the fish and bread where He fed the multitudes. “Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said. “I have compassion on the multitude”. Jesus wanted to be kind, gracious and merciful as well as compassionate. He wanted to share a meal with them before He sent them away. Gracious people love to share meals with others. Some of our best memories relates to when we have shared a meal with friends or relatives. Jesus definitely had high standard of propriety and correct behavior. Jesus was the son of God. Jesus was God. He was perfect and did not sin. “For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow His steps: “Who committed no sin. Nor was deceit found in His mouth”. GENTLENESS: One of the fruits of God’s Holy Spirit is gentleness. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness; against such there is no law. PROVIDE FOR YOUR FAMILY: A gentleman must provide for his family. “But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. LIVE LIKE A DEACON: Not every man will be ordained a deacon, but he shoult try to life his life like one. “Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money. Holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons being found blameless. Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.” THE GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE: “For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore , Just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wife, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the wasing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having sport or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become on flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. THE GENTLM\EMAN AND HIS CHILDREN: “And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” Last evening James Moreland heard the Midnight Cry and stepped into eternity and is now serving his first ten thousand years. If I were to deliver an eulogy for this mentor and friend, it would be titled “He was a gentleman as described above. I could regal you for hours on how this man exhibited all the characteristics found in a Christian Gentleman, but I won’t for if you know him; you have your own stories, your own memories. Tonight my heart is broken for Margaret and Scott, the circle is broken for a time and their hearts are heavy with grief. I want to tell them I love them and will be praying for them in the days, weeks, and months to come as they walk through the valley of the shadows. To his family and friends, I share in your loss and grief; for we have truly lost a gentleman for the ages. Yesterday, James stood at the gate and heard these wonderful words, “Well done my good and faithful servant enter in.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 03:41:09 +0000
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