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  2. So when Christ ascended the morning of His resurrection to enter into heaven, the purging of sin had already been completed by the blood shed at His death. But He could not have entered back into heaven alive at all except "by His own blood" through making such a sacrifice for sin.

    • Revelation 21:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
    • Galatians 2:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
    • Romans 6:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
    • 2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes. And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
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    When a believer dies, his body goes in the grave and “falls asleep.” But his soul does not sleep; his soul goes to Paradise (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; Luke 23:43). In Scripture, “falling asleep” is a softened term for the believer’s death. For instance, when Paul wrote to the Thessalonian believers, he said: “I do not want you to be igno...

    In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul writes, “And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body” (v. 37-38). Paul is using an illustration here. If you put a kernel of corn into the ground and let it grow, the green stalk that comes o...

    There is an age-old saying about blood being thicker than water. It points to the strength of family bonds as something more enduring than bonds of friendship. This is certainly true in the case of God’s family. When we are united by faith with Jesus Christ, we are adopted into God’s family (Romans 8:15-17). We become “joint heirs with Christ”; we ...

    One of the defining aspects of heaven is the opportunity to spend eternity with the Man who created us and gave His life to rescue us from the consequences of sin. If we do not know Jesus in this life, we will not know Him in the next. We will have no part in the new heaven, the new earth, or the city of New Jerusalem. Not everyone will be admitted...

    • Sickness and Death Entered the World through Original Sin. On the sixth day of creation, the Bible tells us, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Gen.
    • Sickness and Death Can Strike Us Because of Our Own Sin. Using the Bible again, let’s face the truth that sickness and death can strike us through our sin.
    • Sickness and Death Are Not Always the Result of Our Sin. It’s impossible to diagnose the reason for everyone’s sickness, but we could certainly say that most if not all of God-loving, sin-confessing, Jesus-believing Christians who are sick fall into this third category.
    • God Can Use Sickness and Death for His Glory and the Good of Others. Just because God is not the cruel originator of sickness does not mean he can’t use it.
  3. Sin can lead to physical death (1 Corinthians 11:28-32), but not in the specific case that John is discussing here (even though sin doesn’t always have to be involved for someone to turn their back on God).

  4. Jan 23, 2006 · This follows from the above point that believers are taken to heaven immediately at death. Heaven is fully pure and free from all tarnish and sin, and therefore when God takes us to heaven He makes us fit for the experience of it by making our hearts perfect in holiness.

  5. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes. Helpful. Not Helpful. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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