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Jan 4, 2022 · Through repentance and acceptance of Jesus’ death on our behalf, we are even called His children (John 1:12; Galatians 3:26). God no longer sees our imperfections; He sees the righteousness of His own Son instead (Ephesians 2:13; Hebrews 8:12). Because we are in Christ, God sees Christ’s righteousness covering us. Only “in Christ” is ...
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The reason this is an excellent question is because 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17really does sound like what Jonathan has said: believers who have died are raised from the dead, and in that sense, first meet the Lord at his coming, rather than immediately meeting him when they die. It sounds like that, but I’m sure that’s not what Paul means there, and I...
First, look at 2 Corinthians 5:6–8: Those are the two alternatives that Paul sees. I’m either here in my body — in one sense, away from being at home with the Lord — or I die and I’m at home with the Lord. Now here’s verse 9: “So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.” Paul did not conceive of a time when the body dies an...
The other passage is Philippians 1:22–24: “If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.” Now, those are the two possibilities f...
Now, let’s say a word about 1 Thessalonians 4. You’ve got to put on your thinking cap, because the logic of this text is so important. I think it’s clear, but it’s complicated. It goes like this: “For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep” (1 Thessalonians 4:14)...
Here’s my conclusion when I put these three passages together. Precede in 1 Thessalonians 4:15 does not refer to the dead preceding the living into the presence of the Lord in heaven, which, of course, they clearly do. Paul’s just not talking about that. Rather, precederefers to preceding with a resurrection body into the glorious experience of the...
Oct 23, 2024 · But because it is true, God can now see us as if we always have been and always will be perfect. This is how He can guarantee our inheritance from the time we believed ( Ephes. 1:13-14 ), and how He can assume responsibility for making us stand firm in Christ ( 2 Cor 1:21-22 ).
- “Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descen...
- Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and...
- For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy (Hebrews 10:14).In Romans 3:20-24 Paul explained that no one will be...
- Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).Because of this, we can no longer be condemned for any reaso...
- Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like h...
- As you can see, none of the above has come to us as a result of our behavior. As soon as we believed, it was accomplished in our lives as the free...
As the Apostle Paul wrote, “Now I know in part; then I shall know fully” (1 Corinthians 13:12). However, the Bible certainly does indicate that when we die we enter immediately into God’s presence if we belong to Christ.
Jan 23, 2006 · First, believers will be taken into the presence of Christ in heaven. Christ is in heaven now (Acts 1:2; 3:21; 1 Thes 1:10; 4:16; 2 Thes 1:7), and believers will go to be with Him. Jesus said to the thief on the cross, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with me in Paradise " (Luke 23:43).
Because God raised Jesus from the dead to reign in heaven forever, we inherit the same future as co-heirs with Christ of God’s promises. And those promises are founded on the most well-known verses in the Bible: John 3:16-17.
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Aug 1, 1993 · What we have seen so far is that believers in Jesus go to be with him when we die. Verse 8: “We prefer to be absent from the body and at home with the Lord.” For those of us who trust Jesus as Savior and Lord “to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21); “to depart and be with Christ is very much better” (Philippians 1:23).
