Please stop saying RIP for just anyone! Those who have not trusted Christ will not be resting in peace, they will be burning in flames.
So many people are elevating people who lived wickedly as though it didn't matter, int their minds they will just all go to heaven anyway.
Even "Christians" seem to want to assume that everyone makes it to that "better place", without considering the way someone goes to heaven. Perhaps it's just a polite thing to say in someone's time of grief, I get that, however, it is not the truth.
As born again believers we need to be continually accurate and truthful. It might be better to remain silent at the memorial of an unsaved person so that we do not send the wrong message that no matter how you live or what you believe you will get to a better place. I would have more of a tentancy to grieve for the unbeliever knowing where they probably are, that is in the flames.
It would be better to decline to attend the ungodly memorial than to lie while validating the life of someone who rejected Christ.
I only attend the memorials these days of born again believers. Those I knew and was confident loved the Lord. For born again believers, memorials are a celebration of crossing over into heaven with Christ. But to the non-believer it's crossing over to somewhere, they do not know where without any idea what or who will be there, whatever they can imagine in their own minds.
Fantasy does not save anyone, pretending something might be true does not make it true.
We live in a world of mostly make-believe now in these end times. If we dare to tell the truth we can expect anger from all those who only like to think happy thoughts, whether or not they are true doesn't even matter.
John 16:12-14 "…12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
It is Christ Who saves people from hell and it is the Holy Spirit Who lives in born again believers as a guarantee of their inheritance. God will not give an inheritance to anyone who rejects Him, or worse yet, pretends to love Him while ignoring all His commands and principles.
Matthew 10:32-34 "32 herefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven. 34 Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.…"
One way many people deny Christ is to claim to belong to Him and yet have nothing but contempt for anyone who brings His Word to them in a correction. Those who love God love His Word and they also love the brothers and sisters in Christ.
1 John 3:13-16 "13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. "
