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So Ten is asking, I have always wanted to be cremated upon death. However, scripture says when we die, we only sleep, and upon the coming of the Lord Jesus, of the Lord God Jesus, we will wake for judgment. So tell me, is it.
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Tin?
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Good question.
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I think we’ve answered it a little.
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Bit before, but feel free to die.
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Into it again because it is one that we know a lot of people are concerned about.
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And in general, there’s nothing in the Bible to suggest that destruction of the.
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Body of any sort is something that’s.
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Going to be a problem for resurrection.
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The ultimate verse on this really is.
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One Corinthians 15, verses 35 to 54.
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Actually like a huge section of One Corinthians, chapter 15.
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Paul’s just going through and talking about.
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What is the resurrected body going to be like? Because the people of the Corinthian Church are starting to get these weird ideas about what it is and is there even a resurrection? Maybe we just go straight up as a spirit.
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And Paul’s like, guys, dude, you’re getting.
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Things all out of whack. So starting at verse 35 of One Corinthians 15, paul says, but someone will say, how are the dead raised up?
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With what body do they come?
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And Paul says, Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be but mere grain, perhaps wheat or some other grain. So you’re saying, for example, you take a grain, you plant it in the soil, you take a seed of corn and you don’t get another seed of corn, you get a whole plant. It’s different than the seed that’s planted. And so he’s using this analogy to say, our bodies are going to be something totally different. Our bodies in sense get planted in the ground and we’re going to be resurrected in something totally different.
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Just like the plant, again, is different than the seed that was planted. Verse 38 continuing, he says, but God.
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Gives us a body as he pleases, and to each seed its own body. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh for animals, another for fish, another for birds.
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There’s also celestial bodies, terrestrial bodies, goes.
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On, on even each star has a different body.
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And verse 42, he says, so also.
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Is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it.
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Is raised in incorruption, it is sown.
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In dishonor, it is raised in glory, it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power, it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there.
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Is a spiritual body. And if we jump down to verse 48, he says, as was the man.
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Of dust, referring to Adam, so also are these who are made of dust.
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And as it is the heavenly man, so also are those who are heavenly.
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Verse 49 and as we are born in the image of the man of dust, we are also born the image of the heavenly man.
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So we’re going to get a body.
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That’S actually the same type of body that Christ had on his resurrection. We don’t think about that. We think Christ was resurrected with the same exact body as we had. No, actually he was resurrected with the heavenly body.
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And in fact he has an even.
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More glorified state of a body beyond.
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What we saw on earth and recorded there.
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Verse 50 says now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit corruption incorruption.
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So you’re not going to go to heaven with the same body you have.
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Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. Verse 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this incorruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. So this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is.
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Swallowed up in victory. So God is going to give us.
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An amazing new body. Philippians 320 paul talked about how in.
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The image of Christ we’re going to.
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Be given also again this lowly body that’s going to be confirmed to his glorious body. It’s going to be completely different. We’re made out of carbon, we’re made out of dirt, we’re made out of things that our new body is not going to be made out of the same stuff. What if we’re made out of like plasma, we’re made out of photons. It’s going to be of a nature that’s completely different than what our body’s like. And this is what Paul’s getting at. We don’t think in terms of the same science, the same physics, the same rules that our current body follows through.
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So I mean, that dirt that makes us up. Now God is not going to use.
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That to reconstruct you.
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He doesn’t need it. So consuming yourself upon death for cremation.
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Is not going to affect God whatsoever. And in fact, in Psalm 33 nine, I like the CSB version for this one. It says, when God spoke and it came into being, he commanded it and it came into existence. And same thing with Hebrews eleven three. It talks about how by faith we understand that God formed a universe by his command so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
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I mean, God creates stuff without nothing before it abenicio. And so we’re really putting God in.
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A box when we think that whatever happens to us now is going to affect what God can do for us.
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Later, especially when we’re speaking of just physical things. So have confidence. What happens to your body is this.
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Physical body upon death has no consequences.
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Whatsoever for your so, Tina, Wendy, anything you’d like to add?
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No, I think that covers it pretty well. I’m so thankful because can you imagine all those Christians that burned at the like back in the time of the like? Of course, God’s not going to be like, well, you died for me, but you burned, so yeah, no, yeah.
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It’s so fortunate you got burned, as opposed you just decayed slowly over time.
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You think, too, about anyone who dies in a fire or something like that. That can’t be a sentence of eternal destruction.
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Or what if someone who gets mangled and loses a limb? Or what about the people who are born with completely deformed bodies? Is God not going to be able to fix them? Yeah. So when we really stick through and think it through, really, we’re just ending up putting God in a box and worrying about things god doesn’t want us.
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To worry about whatsoever.
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Yeah. God’s so much bigger than our finite minds and our ideas. So thank God we serve a much bigger God than what our magic mission.
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