Where do we go when we die?

Where do we go when we die?

Question: "When do we go to Heaven? Is it when we die or is it after the final judgment? If it is after the final judgment, then where are we between the time we are dead and the time when we are all finally judged?" Thanks, Anthony B. 7/04

Answer:
Before Christ was born, died and rose from the dead, those who trusted in God went to a place called Abraham's bosom. When Christ died, he went there, and took the believers to paradise. They will remain there until Christ returns to earth, and they with him.
People who are saved that die today (in the years after Christ rose from the dead) go straight to paradise.

There is no such place as purgatory.

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The Light That Never Fails

A Servant Of God Must Stand so very much alone that he never realizes he is alone. In the early stages of a Christian life, disappointments will come --- people who used to be lights will flicker out, and those who used to stand with us will turn away. We have to get so used to it that we will not even realize we are standing alone. Paul said, " ... no one stood with me, but all forsook me... But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me..." (2 Timothy 4:16-17) We must build out faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When "important" individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do --- to look into the fact of God for ourselves.
Allow nothing to keep you from looking with strong determination into the face of God regarding yourself and your doctrine. And every time you preach make sure you look God in the face about the message first, then the glory will remain through all of it. A Christian servant is one who perpetually looks into the face of God and then goes forth to talk to others. The ministry of Christ is characterized by an abiding glory of which the servant is totally unaware --- "... Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him' (Exodus 34:29)
We are never called on to display out doubts openly or to express the hidden joys and delights of our life with God. The secret of the servant's life is that he stays in tune with God all the time.

2 Corinthians 3:18

Oswald Chambers

The Concentration of Personal Sin

When I come into the presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sence, but I suddenly realize and focus attention is directed toward the concentration of a sin in a particular areaof my life. A person will easily say "Oh yes, I know I am a sinner," but when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a broad and indefinite statement.

Our conviction is focused on our specific sin, and we realize, as Isaiah did, what we really are. This is always the sign that a person is in the presence of God. There is never and vague sense of sin, but a focusing on the concentration of sin in some specific, personal area of life. God begins by convicting us of the very thing to which His Spirit has directed our mind's attention. If we will surrender, submitting ti His conviction of that particular sin, He will lead us down to where He can reveal the vast underlying nature of sin. That is the way God always deals with us when we are consciously aware of His presence.

The experience of our attention being directed to our concetration of personal sin is true in everyone's life, from the greatest of saints to the worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, "I don't know where I've gone wrong," but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him. The effect of Isaiah's vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was "a man of unclean lips." "He touched my mouth with it, and said: ' Behold, this has touched your lips: your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged' "The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.


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Oswald Chambers

Just for Fun

From:Renne D

A man was driving to work when a truck ran a stop sign, hit his car broadside, and knocked him cold. Passersby pulled him from the wreck and revived him. He began a terrific struggle and had to be tranquilized by the medics.

Later, when he was calm, they asked him why he struggled so. He said, "I remember the impact, then nothing. I woke up on a concrete slab in front of a huge, flashing 'Shell' sign...and somebody was standing in front of the "S"!

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