Many people often say: You Christians have no blood or no tears, why are your funerals so joyful? Christians are not without blood or tears, but Christian funerals should be joyful! A Christian funeral is our "graduation"! Christians end this journey of life, we have to upgrade to another journey! It's the same as a person who finishes elementary school and goes to middle school! No one will be sad for a person's promotion, only when a person is downgraded, there is need to be sad and cry! What is downgrade? To descend to hell! Only those who go to hell, we need to grieve for them, because they die forever, they will never come out of hell again! People are really quite simple, it's just that many wrong ideas kill us! Why do people do evil? Because they are still in "reincarnation"! Always be "reincarnated" in "evil"! Christians must have a very clear concept that people have only two directions: eternal death and eternal life! If Jesus doesn't come to pick you up, there is no doubt that you will die forever! When our concept is clear, we feel that "death" is something worth celebrating!
The death of a Christian is a farewell to the brothers and sisters to a better eternal life, and of course it is worth celebrating! True Christians must have Jesus come to pick them up! This is what Jesus has always emphasized: Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life! Does every Christian have the blessing of eternal life? Of course not! (Matthew 20:16) So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. ~ There are many very important truths in the New Testament! Jesus said: Many are called, but few are chosen! This explains why many Christians in the world were not taken back to heaven by the Lord Jesus! Those who can be chosen are eligible to be called back to heaven by the Lord Jesus! The Lord Jesus is the only one who knows the way back to heaven!
Many people don't believe the Bible because they don't study it properly! If the Bible is a lie, why do these lies need to echo each other? If the Bible is a lie, why does every prophet have the ability to prophesy? If the prophecy does not come true, it is a "lie"! If the "prophecy" is fulfilled, then it is not a "lie"! Besides, why did the early church fabricate lies about heaven and hell? Confucius didn't know God and ghosts, so, Confucius didn't speak strange powers and confused spirits! The Bible has no justification for lying! Jesus was not set free because of His authority of heaven! Jesus was crucified by the Jews! Moreover, the Bible was not written by Jesus, but the disciples of Jesus extracted the words of Jesus. The Bible tells us a very important concept: The "living people" is more important than the "dead people"! Chinese culture has attached great importance to the "dead people" since ancient times! We often say: the dead people are the greatest! We must change this misconception! We must regard the "living people" as more important than the "dead people"! If you treated someone badly before he were alive, and let you cry as much as he was death, does it make any sense? I would rather "treat" every living person well than "cry heartbroken" after death! Treating "living people" kindly is more important than grand burial and mourning!
My sister once asked me: Why do missionaries die early? "Death" is a Christian's graduation ceremony, so it can explain why missionaries die so early? Many missionaries died because of "martyrdom"! We must know that when we face death, how we die is not important, what matters is: will the Lord Jesus come to pick us up? ! So, when will you die? How old do you die? How to die? Those all doesn't matter! As long as we are the chosen ones, the Lord Jesus will surely come to pick us up! Many missionaries did not commit any crimes at all, and they did many good works. They must be taken back to heaven by Jesus. Why should they be afraid of death? For these missionaries, they graduated earlier than us because they had already completed their final exams! They have reached God's standard, Jesus will come to pick them up (Heaven must be a good place, in heaven we don't need money, in heaven there is no sorrow, no tears, no lies, no deceit, no killing, why don't we Congratulations to those who went to heaven home?)!
There is a kind of Christian, called a Christian, who is always spinning around in sin! This kind of Christian is what we often say: Christians in name! They keep saying that I am a Christian, but all they do is sin! Do you think this kind of Christian Jesus will come to pick them up? Never! (Matthew 7:21) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. ~The Bible never tells us about the Christian by name Christian can go to heaven! Jesus has said: Whoever calls me: Lord! Oh God! Neither can go to heaven! Only those who do the will of the Father can go to heaven! True Christians must do the will of the Father, and those who do the will of the Father, Jesus will definitely come to pick them up!
What should we Christians who have not yet graduated do? We must be clear: The death of life means that people enter another stage! To enter "eternal life" or to enter "eternal death"? These are the fruits of our present life! Are we doing the will of the Father? Are we those nominal Christians? Jesus hasn't come to pick us up yet, it's that we are not good enough! But we are not qualified to enter heaven at all! When a person is "full of evil", he will be taken away by "death"! "Life" is where we bear fruit! We must be in Jesus before we can bear good fruit and Jesus will come to pick us up! Christians don’t need to be afraid of death, let alone be sad. We don’t need to put on a drama for the world to see! When we are in Jesus, we bear good fruit, we naturally pass the graduation exam, we are sure to upgrade! Those who "upgrade" we need to bless them! Only those who have been "downgraded", those who have been cast down to hell, need to grieve for them! Instead of crying and gnashing teeth in the future, why not do the will of the Father now?