Date: Feb. 10, 2024
What benefits do believers receive from Christ when they die?
When believers die, their souls are made perfectly holy and immediately pass into glory. Their bodies, which are still united to Christ, rest in the grave until the resurrection.
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23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
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43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
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14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
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2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
15 having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
1 Samuel 22:1-23
Key Verse: 22:2
And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.