Job 19:23-27, Isaiah 53:2-6Romans 3:21-26 and Romans 5:1-11

A Scriptural SermonFor A Christian Suicide

This task is literally a real test of faith. In some ways, there's nothing harder than to come to a place like this to say goodbye to someone who's taken his own life.

I've read a lot of funeral sermons meant for circumstances such as this, and most of them don't work. It's as I said before, this task is literally a test of faith.

Of course suicide is an irrational act, a desperate way of seeking relief from terrible pain or great depression. And of course, we have to deal with our own feelings of anger, guilt and rejection, but we have to deal with them in the context of a caring God.

"For I know that my Redeemer lives," Job said, "and at last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin h…