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1.
2. Stop, my friend, as you go by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you soon shall be.
So prepare yourself to follow me.
To follow you I’m not content,
Until I know just where you went”
12. 1. What is death like?
a. John 11:11-14
b. Job 14:10-12
13. 1. What is death like?
a. John 11:11-14
b. Job 14:10-12
c. Ecclesiastes 9:5
14. 2. Where are the dead?
Are they in heaven?
a. Psalm 115:17
b. Psalm 6:5
15.
16. 3. Are the dead aware of,
or involved in anything
that happens on earth?
a. Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10
b. Ecclesiastes 3:22
17. 3. Are the dead aware of,
or involved in anything
that happens on earth?
a. Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10
b. Ecclesiastes 3:22
c. Job 14:21
18. 3. Are the dead aware of,
or involved in anything
that happens on earth?
a. Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10
b. Ecclesiastes 3:22
c. Job 14:21
d. Isaiah 38:10,11
19. 4. How does man become
a living soul?
Genesis 2:7
20.
21. 5. What happens when man dies?
a. Psalm 104:30,29
b. Ecclesiastes 12:7
22. 5. What happens when man dies?
a. Psalm 104:30,29
b. Ecclesiastes 12:7
c. Psalm 146:4
23.
24. 6. What is the spirit that
returns to God?
Job 27:3
25. Ecclesiastes 12:7
“ruwach = spirit
Job 27:3
“ruwach” = breath
Root word meaning – “wind”
Breath - exhalation
26. “All the while my breath is in me, and
the spirit of God is in my nostrils.”
Job 27:3 (KJV)
27. 7. Does the soul live when
the body is dead?
Ezekiel 18:4
28. 8. Is the soul of
man immortal?
1 Timothy 6:15,16
29. Then the serpent said
to the woman,
“You will not
surely die”
Genesis 3:4
38. 11. What will the
resurrected saints
be like?
a. 1 Corinthians 15:51-53
b. Psalm 17:15
39. 11. What will the
resurrected saints
be like?
a. 1 Corinthians 15:51-53
b. Psalm 17:15
c. Philippians 3:20,21
40.
41.
42. “As we have borne the image of the man of
dust, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly man.” (1 Corinthians 15:49)
43. 12. When will this
change happen?
a. Revelation 22:12
b. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15
44. “Even so God will
‘bring forth’ those
who sleep in Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 4:15
45.
46. SUPPLEMENT
. Don’t Jesus’ words to the thief on
he cross in Luke 23:43 indicate that
esus and the thief went to paradise
hat day, Friday, the day they died?
. What about Paul’s statement to be
absent from the body, and present
with the Lord?”
Corinthians 5:1-9
47. 3. Didn’t Paul say that “to die is gain,”
and that he had the desire to “depart
and be with Christ?”
Philippians 1:21-23
4. Explain the souls of the martyrs
under the altar in Revelation 6:9,10.
5. What the Bible teaches about death.
An epitaph on a tombstone in Richmond, Virginia, reads: “Stop, my friend, as you go by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you soon shall be.
So prepare yourself to follow me.”
A school boy read the inscription, and added these words:
(fly in) “To follow you I’m not content,
Until I know just where you went.”
There are three basic theological opinions offered today on the state of man in death. Not one of the three is compatible with the other two, and only one is Biblically correct.
One suggests that at the time of death, the soul of the deceased goes either to heaven or hell.
Another claims that the soul is in a state of “limbo” called purgatory.
The third teaches that death is an unconscious state, like sleep, where there is no physical or mental activity until the day of resurrection. Let’s discover what the Bible says.
Our study tonight is: Beyond the Grave – What Happens When You Die?
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Jesus told His disciples that their friend Lazarus was asleep. The disciples misunderstood, thinking that if he were sleeping he would recover from his illness. Then Jesus clarified His statement: He said, “Lazarus is dead.” Jesus used the inactive condition of sleep to illustrate man’s status in death. In fact, there are more than fifty references in the Bible where death is referred to as sleep.
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The dead are “asleep” in the grave, not alive in heaven. Unlike the dead, those who are in heaven do give praise and thanks to God. (See Revelation 5:13 / 15:1-4 / 20:4-6)
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Notice that when God combined the dust of the ground (man’s physical body), with the breath of life, man became a living soul. Without both body and breath there is no soul.
DUST + BREATH = LIVING SOUL
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When the dust (body) and the spirit (breath) are separated, the soul ceases to exist, just as it was not in existence before man came alive.
DUST - SPIRIT = DEAD PERSON
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: Some have suggested that the spirit that returns to God at the time of death is the conscious mind of the deceased. The Hebrew word translated “spirit” in Ecclesiastes 12:7, and “breath” in Job 27:3, is “ruwach.” It comes from a root word meaning wind. According to Strong’s Hebrew dictionary it means “breath,” like an exhalation. The KJV translates “ruwach” as “spirit” in Job 27:3.
“All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils.” Our thoughts are not housed in our nostrils: our breath is. The breath represents life. When we die our breath, or life, returns to God. He reserves our life, as it were, until the day of our resurrection.
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Jesus said that Satan is the “father of lies.” The first lie he told was to Eve in the garden of Eden. It involved immortality. He said, “You will not surely die.” But he was wrong, wasn't he?
If a man’s soul went to heaven at the time of death, then his soul would be immortal, or never dying. Only God has immortality.
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In the preceding verses, Job chapter 14 is dealing with the subject of death. The “hard service” in the NKJV is translated “appointed time” in the KJV. Job recognized that he would be dead for an appointed amount of time, until the resurrection day. (See #’s 11 and 12)
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The Bible speaks of two resurrections. One occurs at the coming of Jesus, and the second happens at the end of the 1,000 years. (See 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 and Revelation 20:5,6. This subject is covered in more detail in the study - “Fire and Ashes: The Truth About Hell”).
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Adam was created in the image of God, with His likeness.
But sin marred the perfect likeness of God. Adam “begot a son in his own likeness, after his image.” (Genesis 5:3)
Jesus will restore in man His image and likeness. “As we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.” (1 Corinthians 15:49)
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A more accurate translation of verse 15 would be, “even so God will ‘bring forth’ those who sleep in Jesus.” The dead are not in heaven with God.
From their graves they will “rise first” to meet the Lord in the air.
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The Bible is clear about the state of man after death. Jesus taught that death is like sleeping. It is a time of inactivity, a time without involvement in what is happening in heaven or earth, a time of waiting for the resurrection morning
when Jesus will raise up those who have accepted Him as their Savior. They will be changed from mortal men and women, to glorified immortality. They will share eternal life with Jesus.
Then we will be reunited with those we have been separated from by death.
