Cremation Defiles Jesus Christ
1 Thessalonians 5:23
“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Jesus’ body is holy and He created your body as holy to and for God. Jesus plans to use your body even after death.
Although this world is making it more economical than burial, we must pause, because cremation is a heinous sin that defiles Jesus Christ by ignoring that your body does NOT belong to you.
Cremation “defiles Jesus Christ as LORD who set the pattern with His own body for how we are to dispose of the body.” As Lord, Jesus commands the way we are to think of the body rather than how we choose to reason about it.
The body is used by God during life AND during death. The body is HOLY and is saved in burial for RESURRECTION and miracles.
Matthew 27:52 Context
49The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. 50Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. 54Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
Although becoming more popular in the world and even within some church denominations, every person who is born again knows in his or her heart that burning up the body God gave you is blasphemy against God. Giving it a fancy title, cremation, does not change the truth of what is being done. It is sin because YOUR BODY DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. Jesus owns it by having purchased it with His very own body, crucified and buried for you — then risen the third day. He is planning to raise your dead body from wherever it is located. All who love Jesus are living and dying in this expectation of His Gospel — THE BODY RAISED FROM DEATH IS THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN FAITH and WITHOUT THIS FOUDATION THERE IS NO CHRISTIAN FAITH.
1 Corinthians 6:20
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
King James Version (KJV)
Our Lord Jesus Christ is our pattern. We must honor God with our body in death as well as in life. Although, it will hurt some to hear this reality, you must ask God to forgive you if you have desecrated someone’s body and offended God by not keeping it whole for burial. How the body is transitioned from life in earth to death matters to Jesus. With cremation, you wipe out a person’s very existence as though they were never born and the “anointing” that is still carried in their dead body.
The body is central to Jesus’ Gospel and our faith in Jesus’ Gospel
ELIJAH’S BONES
2 Kings 13:21
“And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.”
JOSEPH’S BODY
Hebrews 11:22
“By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.”
JESUS’ BODY
Philippians 3:18-21
18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Psalms 116:15
“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.”
King James Version (KJV)
A Note About Accidents
You are not responsible if a person’s body is destroyed in an accident, terrorist act, or disaster. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE IF YOU CHOOSE TO DESTROY A HUMAN BODY BY CREMATION.
The rule Jesus gave to Truth Seekers of Jesus Christ, Truth Seekers Church and any real church in America or elsewhere is simple:
Would you do it to Jesus???
Now … Make A Change! It’s Survival!