And it says, "And hang them up over the pool in Hebron."
And remember, cursed is everyone
that is hanged upon a tree.
This is another way to really desecrate these guys
for the evil that they've done.
But they took the head of Isbasheth
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, okay?
Because the Bible teaches
that we should bury our dead out of our sight.
And 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 'cause 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.
There 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's gonna be raised up one day.
Because the Bible says of the resurrection,
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 the, 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 a burial.
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.
And, 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 this is what Hishbasheth,
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.