And it says, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron.
And remember, cursed is everyone that has hanged upon a tree.
You know, this is another way to really desecrate these guys for the evil that they've done.
But they took the head of Ishbasheth and buried it in the sepulcher of Abner in Hebron.
So the contrast there is between the burial and the hanging up of the body from a tree.
Because the Bible teaches that we should bury our dead out of our sight.
And you know, today it's become popular, I'll close on this, but it's become popular to
just say, oh just cremate, just cremate me.
Don't bury me, just cremate me and scatter me at sea, the Neptune Society or whatever.
And the reason why people are going with this cremation is because it's cheaper.
Now I have to say this, it's really sad how it's become so expensive to bury people.
And it's really a burden on people when their loved one has died and then they have to sit
there and raise all this huge amount of money to bury people.
It costs way too much.
You know, back in the olden days, behind the church, there was a piece of land that was
set aside that was, you know, the graveyard.
Towns would just have a piece of land and it would be the graveyard and they'd pitch
in and maintain it and everything.
Now we have these crazy costs and because of it though, now people are turning to this
heathen practice of burning people instead of burying them.
Now burial is taught in the Bible, in 1 Corinthians 15.
It teaches that when we bury that dead body, it's like, it's symbolic of the sowing of
a seed.
Because we believe that when we sow that seed, that that person is going to be raised up
one day.
Because the Bible says of the resurrection that it is sown in corruption, it is raised
in incorruption.
And so when we bury the body, it's the planting of the seed that we believe and are testifying
that one day that person will rise again.
And you know, it's a whole sermon of itself, but there are all kinds of scriptures about
burial.
You look up all the times that God says that we should give people burial and it's honorable
for people to be buried and so forth.
And it's not, it's a pagan practice, you know, to sit there and cremate people instead of
burying their body.
But you know, you just, and I always, this is what I say as far as my last will and testament
here, you know, in case I die tonight, God forbid.
But I need to be buried.
Now I'm not saying put me in some gold plated casket with all kinds of ornaments and stuff
like that and bury me in a big fancy place right in the middle of Tempe, you know, with
a gigantic, you know, 10 foot tombstone or whatever.
But all I'm saying is just put me in a pine box and dig in the earth and bury me, you
know, find the cheapest place, you know, or go out of town or whatever and bury me somewhere
though because you know, that's what a Christian deserves to be buried when they die.
You know, that's what the Bible teaches and you know, and, and this is what is Boscheth
at least was given this, you know, final dignity by David as a sign of respect from David.
And we should respect our loved ones and bury them.
And if it's expensive, we need to bite the bullet and pay for it or find a cheaper alternative,
find a cheaper cemetery or whatever.
You know, I'm not opposed to that.
Obviously you have to be sensible about these things and not waste a lot of money, but at
the same time, give people a burial for crying out loud.