Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of You;
In the grave who will give You thanks?
Unthankful. Ungrateful. Unknowing. Uncaring. Ungodly.
Death has a sting, and that sting is sin [1 Corinthians 15:55,56]. Sin corrupts. Sin destroys. Sin separates. Sin devours. Sin enslaves. Sin gives birth to death [James 1:15]. Death traps and ensnares the unwary soul, drawing it down into the grave where it no more has any hope of escape. Death is eternal separation from God and all the good things which God has in store for the soul that is in Christ.
Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Psalm 115:17
The dead praise not The LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise You, death can not celebrate You: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Your Truth.
Neither the grave, nor death have a voice to praise God with. Nor can their inhabitants, those who have died without the salvation of God upon their souls.
And who will go down into the Pit? The decaying. The souls who die without the robe of righteousness covering them. Those without Eternal Life giving them life in life. Those who have no hope of the first resurrection. The pit is the grave, that shallow trench in the ground into which the casket is lowered. It is the urn of ashes, the memory pendants and the natural burials.
The Pit is dark and darklit for a false light casts no shadows but reveals darksome and loathsome darkness. It is a place of despair [Job 9:31]. It is the darkest of the depths [Psalm 88:6]. The Pit is the grave and it is death. It is a place of abandonment, forsakenness, aloneness. It is a place without Light, without Love, without Hope, without Peace, without Knowledge, and without God.
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
The dead without Christ remember nothing and know nothing. Though we have the parable Jesus tells us of The Rich Man and The Beggar [Luke 16:19-31], it is a warning to the living to believe the gospel message of salvation which The Teacher had been teaching to those who followed Him.
Our emotions and our thoughts are our souls. How we love and how we think cease when our soul dies. The soul that does not know Jesus in life will not know Jesus in death. They neither love nor hate nor envy anyone any more. They knew not the love of God in life and are now dead forever: twice.
Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly (faithless) and unbelieving (untrustworthy) and abominable (detestable) and murderers (willful, intentional life-takers) and sexually immoral (all who habitually violate God’s moral order in matters of sexuality) and sorcerers (deliberate rebellion: an idolatrous attempt to secure power apart from the living God; magicians; [Isaiah 47:9-13; Micah 5:12]) and idolaters (pagan worship and misplaced trust [Ephesians 5:5]) and all liars (evidence of persistent unbelief, truth-twisters, speaking out of their own heart and not by The Spirit of God, charismatic and persuasive, yet not Spirit-filled nor Spirit-led [Jeremiah 23:16; Genesis 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:3,5]), their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.
The ungrateful dead do not believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. And they never will. They refuse to see that their destination is their own fault.
John 3:18
"Whosoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whosoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in The Name of The Only Begotten Son of God."
John 5:24
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My Word and believes in Him Who sent Me has everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into Life."
Matthew 13:40-42
"As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
Some of these ungrateful dead will be in the church but not of it. They think themselves safe because they merely attend or are members of a church, but not every church is God's house. Nor are they sanctuaries in which to seek The Lord in, nor honor Him with their hearts, only their lips move but there is no love for God, no worship to and of God.
The ungrateful dead are weeds who were hidden in the wheat. Though these weeds will be gathered with the wheat, they will also be separated from the wheat, and thrown into the firepit. The weeds are the wolves which threaten the sanctity of the church. These wolves preach false doctrines that do not align with The Truth of God's Word. The darkness of their hearts spills out of their mouths vile deceit and wickedness in their attempts to lead God's sheep astray.
With whom will you align yourself? With the ungrateful dead who deny God and His Christ? Or will you believe that Jesus Christ Is Lord and let Him save you from condemnation? Your choice. I can pray that you make the right decision, but I can't make your decision for you.
