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[ Silence ] [Music] Okay. I will lift up mine eyes

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unto the hills from which cometh my help. For my help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth.

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He will not suffer my foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. [ Music ] >> We shall be seated.

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We have met here today to celebrate the homegoing of a dear faithful sister in the Lord. And we hope that all of us have come praying for those who care, especially the bereaved family.

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We will go according to the program as printed. [MUSIC PLAYING] [Music] I've gone to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses.

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And the voice I hear, calling on my ear, the Son of God is born. ♪ While he walks with me ♪ ♪ While he talks with me ♪ ♪ While he tells me of his Lord ♪

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♪ That will joy be shared as we tarry there ♪ ♪ None of earth has ever known ♪ ♪ A strain in the heart within ♪ ♪ The poor mind cannot meet before thee ♪

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♪ When he leads me home ♪ ♪ To the voice of hope ♪ ♪ His voice to me ♪ ♪ Is calling ♪

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♪ I'll be washed ♪ ♪ With me and he washed ♪ ♪ With me ♪ ♪ And he tells me I am his own ♪

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♪ And the joy we share ♪ ♪ As we tarry there ♪ ♪ None other ♪ ♪ Than to her ♪

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[choir singing] Amen. This is the scripture. The Lord is my light and my salvation.

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Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid. When the wicked, evil-minded enemies come upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumble and fail.

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Though a host should encounter against me, my heart shall not fear. "Though all should rise up against me, this will I be confident. One thing I have decided of the Lord that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and inquire

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in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilions, in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me. He shall set me upon a rock, and now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies around

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about me. Therefore, while I offer in his tabernacle sacrifice of joy, I will sing ye, I will sing praises unto the Lord. I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed

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away, and there was no more sea. And John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God with men, and

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will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crime neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away revelation 21 one through

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May God have a blessing to every. May we bow our heads. Almighty God, the ruler of this universe, Our Father, we thank Thee, O God, to gather round Your altar in prayer of Thanksgiving, thanking You for the death, burial, and resurrection of Your Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Oh Father of all, we pray to thee for those whom we love but see no longer. We thank thee for having known this one, our mother in Christ, our sister in the gospel, our friend, Sister Rosie White. We thank you for her life, a long well-spent life with strength.

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For she emulated the precepts and the examples set by the Master himself. We thank thee for she was a light that many among us could go even when she was tired and worn down to the level of emptiness in this Christian warfare. She was one we could go in the darkest moments of our hour and talk to her.

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She was never too spent to listen to us and to give words of encouragement of our counsel along life's way. She was not selfish when called upon to lead an old hymn, "Guide me, O thou great Jehovah." Yes it was old, but when she sang it, it was new.

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Oh, we thank you, Master, for her life, because she never laughed at our hopes and dreams, nor mocked our failures. We thank you, Master, with whom do now live the spirit of our dear Christian mother, who departed this life, and the Lord is in joy.

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We ask thee, Master, to uphold this family in this time of celebration for our loved one. Lord, we pray that thy will preserve this family from all bitterness, despair, and self-pity. Lord, help this family to live as those who believe and trust you that to live one must

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die. We ask, Master, to strengthen this family in faith and hope with the assurance of your presence that they may have courage to face the days to come. We give thee thanks, O God, for the good example of thy servant.

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She hath fought a good fight and hath finished her course in faith, and do now rest in your labor. We pray for your grace, your love, your mercy, your fellowship and Holy Spirit be with us all.

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In the name of our Lord, Savior and Master Jesus Christ we pray and thank thee. We thank thee. We thank you. Amen.

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[Applause] [ Music ] [Music] Oh, when I'm on my mission, Lord, You guide me.

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When I'm on my mission, Lord, You guide me. When I'm on my mission, Lord, You guide me. Teach me how to watch, fight and pray When I'm on my mission course, will you guide me?

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When I'm on my mission course, will you guide me? When I'm gone, my mission's gone, will you guide me? Teach me how to march, fight and pray. Oh, when I've done the very best I can, will you guide me?

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When I've done the very best I can, will you guide me? When I've done the very best I can, will you guide me? Teach me how to walk, I am afraid. Oh, when my friends turn their backs on me, will you guide me?

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Oh, when my friends turn their backs on me, will you guide me? Oh, when my friends turn their backs on me, will you guide me? Oh, teach me how to watch, fight, and pray. Oh, Lord, when I'm on my mission, Lord, will you guide me?

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Oh, when I'm on my mission, Lord, will you guide me? ♪ Oh, may I mourn, I wish I mourn ♪ ♪ With gladness ♪ ♪ Oh, teach me how to march ♪

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♪ I am brave ♪ - Amen. - Amen. This is from the pastor. Sister Rosie White was a veteran soldier of the cross.

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She served long and well. She demonstrated her love for Christ and the church for more than 50 years. We honor her memory and thank God for the years she dwelt among us. As from Pastor Griffin.

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Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee. Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise. This verse of dedication may well express the life of our member and friend, Sister Rosie P. White, who gave of her energy and talent, lifting up the name of our Savior

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to the glory and honor of God. Sister White loved her church and was an active participant in church and community services and labored in the vineyard of the Lord until the close of the day. If we remember last Sunday, Sister White was so vibrant, so alive, participating in the

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activities of the church. the Sunday school hour she was there working with the children and planning for the Sundays ahead. For of the many activities she was engaged in, children are working in children was her joy. She was always ready to reach out to a boy

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a girl. She loved them and they loved her. I believe Sister White worked in every department of the church where children were concerned. Then during the morning worship service she sat there in the pew and witnessed to the words of God by Pastor Griffin. But on Monday morning we heard the shocking news of

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the passing of Sister Rosie White with a deep sense of personal loss. She will be sorely missed for she was a veteran in the service of the King on a mission dedicated and ready to answer to the call of duty and hearing this we can readily ask ourselves say are you ready

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I, but if the deaf angel should come. For Jesus says, "Be ye therefore ready also, for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when we think not." This was the theme of Sister White's mission.

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The work, she worked in many phases of church service to name a few. She was serving as director of the children's department, grades one and two of the Sunday school. She sang in the choir as long as she was able.

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A member of the Baptist Training Union, a member of the Senior Missionary Society Number One Circle Five, and as a minister's wife. She was a minister, she was a member of St. John Minister's Wives Conference, and she served as the teacher among other duties. If the influence that was manifested by

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her upon those who knew her in her church life in the community, city, and state be reflected in someone's life then her living will not have been in vain. Because of her dedicated service in kingdom building, because of her loyal and sincere service to Ebenezer Baptist Church, because of the excellent

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Christian background and heritage which she provided the family, because of her wise counsel and convictions, Ebenezer Baptist Church gives humble thanks to God for sharing her long life with us. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family and commend them to our father who is full of love and

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compassion and able to sustain them. Humbly submitted, Ebenezer Baptist Church the Reverend Dr. Marvin C Griffin Pastor, Valverde C Phillips Clerk. [ Pause ] Dear Christian friends, I've known this family quite a while, at least four of them,

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and I just would like to express myself before I make my rendition, but time will not allow me to say what I want to say, so I guess I better cut it short. But I've known this pension for quite a while, a brother and three sisters, and they've always, we've always been rather close. When we sang over the radio, Sister Rosa and

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Sister Liliabelle used to write, we all wrote together, and we were very close. So I'm so proud to have something to say and if you'll excuse me I shall go on now with the rendition. There is comfort in just knowing. There's a loving God who knows why dark clouds obscure the sunshine and why the frost should

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light the rose, and why the beauty of a songbird is all prematurely steeled, why a loved one journeys on, leaving voids that can't be filled. Oh may you today in good fellowship. Trust all of your wives and leave to him knowing Knowing someday he'll make it plain When dark clouds of sorrow dim.

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Amen. Amen. Amen. (audience murmuring)

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[Music] [ Music ] It may be in the valley where countless dangers hide, It may be in the sunshine where I in peace abide,

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But this one thing I know, it leaves me dark of head. If Jesus is with me, I'll go anywhere. And Jesus comes with me alone. Give me prayer.

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'Tis heaven to me, wherever I be. In His land I found in a privileged people. This cross to bear, if Jesus was with me above, He'd be there.

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And maybe I was barely a blessed word of mine, But was the man in heaven who rose in sinful strife, And all in me thy love to every soul has led? If Jesus goes with me, I'll go here and there.

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If Jesus goes with me, I'll go here and there. He's standing to me wherever I be, if He is there. I've not enough privilege, He is close to me. If Jesus goes with me, I'll know He be with me.

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It is but mine to question the judgments of my Lord. It is but mine to follow the leadings of His Word. Oh, here to go or stay, or where to be or where, I'll be with my Savior, and He is anywhere.

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If Jesus goes with me, I'll go alone anywhere. 'Tis heaven to me, wherever I be, if He is there. I count it a privilege, He is close to where, If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere.

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To this bereaved family and friends and loved ones and to all that's present, and certainly to this host of ministers and wives, we are deeply grateful to be here today to share with you a word or two from the Lord on behalf of this bereaved family. Mr. White was the type of person that the one who would have the honor and I have it

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today to say some words about her. She was an easy person to say something about. She led that kind of life that practically everything you would say about her would be accepted.

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She was a lot of strength to me personally. When the Lord touched me and called me into the ministry here, she, I guess being a minister's wife, she would come to me and put her arms around me and say, "Just trust in the Lord. The Lord will make it all right." That meant so much to me. And her husband was a great

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soul. He would aid me in my stumbling efforts in trying to be what the Lord wanted me to be. Sister White lived that kind of life that all of us, if we're not, henceforth would should try and endeavor to do so. She lived a quiet life but a full life and she was faithful

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in all of her religious activities. Wherever she was, whatever she was asked to do, She endeavored to do it without mumbling or grumbling. She used the word, as Paul used to the Philippians,

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do all things without mumbling. And not too many of us can do that. Amen. [ Inaudible ]

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We're not preaching Sister White's funeral. Sister White preached her own funeral. Amen. And each one of us is preaching ours.

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Every day we are preaching our funeral. There's a book, and your life is that book. Whatever you put in it yesterday, if it's wrong, you can't take it out. You're going to have to give an account to God. And what we do

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henceforth is written in that unseen book that we all must give an account. I'm kind of funny, I use the word peculiar. When I'm speaking in regards to the word of the Lord, I like for us to be as still as possible.

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Amen. Amen. Now we don't have to worry about where Sister White is or where she's going. That I believe.

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There are some folks you have doubt. When the Lord calls them, you have doubt. Wonder where did they go or where are they going. But I don't know where she went.

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But I believe that she is in a safe place. And at that time, when the Lord Jesus will meet us all in the air, she'll be in that number. And I believe that.

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Amen. And there are many others who believe it too that knew Sister White. The last part of Revelation 2 and 10, because these words, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

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we're going to use if you like a subject or a theme, "Going All the Way." "Going All the Way." Jesus, the maximus lamb of God, said,

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"He that put his hand to the plow and looking back not fit for the kingdom of heaven. Be faithful all the way under all circumstances, regardless of our obstacles in life, the many problems that life affords, many situations that we have to face in life just because we're human beings, especially because we are children

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of God, but the Lord say, "Be faithful." I haven't found too many things that the Lord said be in his words. He didn't say, "For us to be good, amen." We use that word, "I'm being as good as I can. He was a good man, he was a good woman, she was a good woman. Lord didn't say no, be good. He said be faithful. And how long? Until death. Some of us, we

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started out a long time ago and we boast about how long I've been in the church and how all I've done and then someone say something that you don't like and you quit, go back home, sit down. Amen, brother preacher. You know, that used to, somehow, kind of would give me a kind of a lift and a little inspiration when folk would testify how long

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that they've been in the church. I joined church when I was, you know, just a few and I've been in church X number of years. That used to really kind of inspire me. I just keep looking at my life. I wonder will I be able to hold out. And I would hear and I would see those who gave those testimony fall by the

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wayside. We must go all the way. Starting is all right and we must get started. If you're going anywhere you must get started and the first step is to any destination is to make a start. But before you get to the end, there are going to be some obstacles in your way. Because there is someone who is a sanctified person who

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is Satan. He's gonna make sure that you don't go the easy road. Amen. Be faithful therefore therefore unto the end and I will give you. Who is this speaking? It's not President Reagan, the governor, your mother, your father, or some relatives that said I will, but it's Jesus. Jesus the Savior. He making a promise here to those who endure to the end. Amen.

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Sister White was faithful. She was faithful in all of her endeavors. She was talked about, misused, loved that, but she stayed faithful for the cause. The songwriter says the Lord has not promised that the way would be easy anyway. Another songwriter said and I don't believe he brought me this far to lead me here. I'm sure she came to those moments when she felt that she was alone and no one would

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come to rescue, but realizing that she knew a God that never slipped and neither slumbered, but was always abounding in and around her life. Lord you told me if I be faithful you'll give me something. And every one of us here now are looking for something better than what we have. Amen. I hope there's no one here that that's completely

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totally satisfied with everything about you and you know your surroundings. If there's such a person here, you're in a dangerous position. This life is not the end of it. This is just the beginning of it. And you don't receive those things

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that the Lord has promised us until we go all the way. You go on a job and you start in the morning and you quit before and then look for the man to pay you. Do you think he's going to pay you?

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You have a contract with the Lord. if you save me I'll do and I'll go. So we have a contract with the Lord. Amen. And the Lord has given us a promise that if you keep your contract that you've made with me, I've got something waiting for you at the end of this life. Amen. On the other side of this life if you go all

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the way I've got something waiting for you. Sister White, she heard about these promises, made a contract with the Lord, and the Lord has promised and he is faithful in all of his promises. This text, this text implies obligations to service. Service. We must learn how to serve in regardless of circumstances, regardless of situation we may be casted into

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find ourselves in. We must be faithful unto the Lord and be servants unto the Lord. As we say, I'm not preaching to Sister White. She's, she's already heard the word and accepted the word and heard the call. But there's always somebody have not accepted the word. And it's to all of us today, be ye also ready. For we know not the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh.

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For those who procrastinate, who put off and say I'm gonna get right after while when I finish this little serray, I'm gonna come in and be a good Christian, I'm gonna come in and wait for the Lord, but the Lord said to him that sayeth that I will come as a thief and a robber. Amen. And a thief, you know that's different, a thief and a robber. Thief come in when you're gone,

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you know, steal, you know, while you're away. But he said I'll also come as a robber. I'll come in, I'll take it you're looking at me and can't do nothing about it. There are folks robbing banks, folks looking at them when they rob, they don't do anything about it. But for those who be faithful, run to the cross to the promise and and stay with

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the contract that you've made with me I will fight your battle. Philippians 419 he said I will supply you heather renege. So whatever you need God has it. God has it. If you need money he said I've got it. Did he say the cattle of a thousand Hill is mine, silver and gold is mine, even you are mine.

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Fine. [BLANK_AUDIO]