Learn Why You Don’t Have to Weep Today!
16th October 2023
In this article, we are going to be studying what it means when we say you don’t have to weep, how we know this is important, why it is important not to weep, and finally, what you think about the subject. In this world, even Jesus, the Christ wept when his good friend died. How then can we teach the opposite truth? Read more about this subject to find out the answers to this important question.
What Does It Mean When We Say You Don’t Have to Weep?
When the Bible teaches us not to weep as those who don’t have hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), it means we are different from them. We know for sure that life doesn’t end in the grave. We know what life is. We know there is an afterlife. If it’s true (and it’s true) that life doesn’t end when we die physically, then there is no need to weep.
However, we are human. Jesus Himself wept (John 11:35). Many people quote this verse to oppose the fact that we don’t have to weep for the dead, especially if he or she is a Christian. A Christian is someone who have repented of his or her sins and turned to God from the heart. He or she is a person saved by the grace of God through faith alone in Jesus Christ and His redemptive work on the cross.
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But, because Jesus wept doesn’t mean He was teaching us to do the same. In fact, He did this loving act before He was glorified. For us who knew Him after He was raised to glory, we know for sure who He is and all the good things He has accomplished for us. We are assured of eternal life because of His glorious resurrection from the dead.
We supposed to have more faith than when He was not yet raised from among the dead. This is because His glorious resurrection is the evident of eternal life, the new life of God. In Him, we have the life of God because of Him. We are born by the Word of God which lives and abides forever. Jesus Himself is the Word, and He was born as the result of God’s Word, His promise.
Because we are born of this living Word, who is Jesus Himself, we have the same life with Him. This is because we are the children of God. We are heirs and co-heirs with Christ Jesus. Having this knowledge is needed in order for us not to weep at all when our loved ones die. But this is far from being a commandment on my end. It all depends on your level of faith. Be reminded that there are four levels of faith. The first is known as saving faith. We then have working, friendship, and oneness faiths respectively.
How Do We Know That You Don’t Have to Weep?
We know this because of our faith in Jesus Christ. Without this faith we can be like anybody else. However, even 90% of Christians don’t know the fact that weeping for deceased believers is not necessary. This is a message we need to understand better. We either believe in God or not. There is no middle ground. Our faith in God must also grow. The sign of growth shows up in how we react to death.
In this world, we are faced by the harsh realities of death. If there is anything people and animals fear the most, death must be that thing. However, we Christians don’t have to fear death unless when a loved one dies before giving his or her life to Christ. Only those without the Son of God do not have life eternal. But those who have the Son have life according to the scriptures (1 John 5:11-13).
For that very reason, we don’t have to weep for those who died in the Lord as recorded for us in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 as quoted above from the very beginning of this article. We know that we know what we know is true. There is no any other assurance. We don’t need any other eyewitness apart from God Himself. God is the witness that this Life is in His Son. His Son is the Light of Life.
Because of the same Light, we know very well from our inner beings that we have the Life of God in our spirits. We have the Life of God in our souls. We have this Life of God in our mortal bodies. The Bible says that the very Holy Spirit quickens or gives Life to our mortal bodies (Romans 8:11). When we have that Life in us, we know that we don’t have to mourn or weep for the dead who believe as well. Rather, we celebrate.
How I hope and pray that my children and relatives will not weep but celebrate my death one day! Yes, I have to make sure I teach them this. I have to command them to sing and dance on my death-day. This is because I am very sure I am going to the Father when I die. I have passed from death to Life through faith alone in Jesus’s Name. What a truth! What a liberating truth this is!
Is It Important To Know That You Don’t Have to Weep?
The world is full of hopelessness in the name of hope. Even the very Christians don’t truly believe in what the Bible teaches about the afterlife. The proof of this disbelief is how they weep when someone dies. I am not here to blame them. I only blame their ignorance simply because even as you read this article, you still have a choice to make. You choose whether this teaching is true or false. It’s all your choice. However, it’s very important to know and study this important topic because it determines your faith is either growing or not. But if you agree with what God says about those who believe in Jesus Christ and His saving work, it’s very important to study and live by this very truth according to the Scriptures. Weeping in that hopelessness means one thing: you don’t believe. You don’t believe in the eternal life which is already our now, not only when we die and go to heaven.
The Bible teaches that we have the eternal life now, not when we die. In fact, if we die before we get ourselves right with God through faith alone in Jesus Christ, we are doomed forever. There is no eternal after death if we don’t have it now while we are still on earth. This means we must believe in this Gospel message, now. That’s the urgency of the Gospel. That’s the urgency of the Christian salvation.
First, know that you are a sinner. Second, the wages of sin is death, eternal death in the lake of fire. Third, there is only way to Life eternal, Jesus Christ. Fourth, and finally, each one of us must freely accept the Gift of God through faith alone in His justification work in order to receive eternal life in our lives, individually. This is what Evangelist Billy Bright referred to as the Four Spiritual Laws.
However, this regeneration, this rebirth, is purely the work of God the Holy Spirit. We can’t do it no matter how we explain this truth to people. I did this for many years when I was preaching to my late animist father. I couldn’t make him see the truth. But when the right time came, he saw Jesus and had no choice but to cry out to Him like a baby in the middle of the night and prayed a prayer of salvation as if someone taught him to pray that way. That was the time I knew he was indeed saved!
The Holy Spirit convicted him. I cannot do that. I can only share the truth of the Good News, the Gospel of Life and of Peace. This is what the world needs to hear. All the problems people face is spiritual. The world needs the assurance of salvation, which is only found in Christ through faith. This faith leads to justification.
All humans are enemies of God by birth according to the Scriptures. This means they are automatically condemned to eternal death in the lake of fire prepared for the Devil and his demons, and those who followed his ways on earth—all humans. For them to be saved, humans must believe in the Son of God, individually, as mentioned above.
What Do You Think About The Fact That You Don’t Have to Weep?
Now, what do you think about this article? Do you believe or accept the fact that people must individually believe in Jesus Christ in order for them to be born anew? Do you believe that life does not end in the grave? Do you accept the teaching that those who died after true repentance don’t deserve to be mourned? These questions are meant to help you reflect on these teachings. This means you have a choice to make. But what are your points based on? This is if you don’t believe in what this article is teaching. The teaching in this article is truly biblical as you can see above. Believing or agreeing with it means you agree with God, not with me.
Weeping is a sure sign of disbelief in the afterlife. If one truly believes in the eternal life in the biblical way, he or she has to be grieved after the loved one passed on, but he or she must not weep to the point to show that he or she doesn’t believe in the things of God. Eternal life is a reality here and now. It doesn’t become real after we die.
Conclusion
In summary, you have read about what it means when we say you don’t have to weep when your loved one passed on, especially if the deceased is a true Christian, how we come to know the facts why we don’t have to weep, why it’s important to know about it and live this life, and finally, your personal thoughts about this teaching.
Did you learn anything new from reading this article? What did you know before reading this article? These questions again are meant to help you reflect on the article and its teachings. I would like to hear from you. I know you have some knowledge about this article even before reading it. You can share your thoughts in the comments below. You can start a chat with me.
Thank you very much for reading this article. God bless and keep you! Shalom!
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Further Readings
- Do Not Weep for Me—funeralguide.co.uk
- I don’t have to weep—mindovermatterzine.com
- Top 71 Don’t Weep Quotes—quotessays.net
