A Question for All. - No. 6 - "What Is After Death?"

Narrator: Chris Genthree
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No question could be more important in its place than this one. The enemy, Satan, has many lies with which he seeks to lead men astray; but we can indeed be thankful that God, in the Bible, has given us the true answer, for no one but He could do so.
The apostle Paul tells us that if he was to die it was to be "absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”1 Again he says that for him to die meant to depart and to be "with Christ," which was far better.2 This would be happiness indeed! The death of Jesus had put away all his sins and everything that would have made him unfit for the presence of God, so that he would go to be with Christ, who had died for him; and this is the case with every believer on the Lord Jesus.
When the Lord Jesus, who is a divine Person, was here, He not only spoke of heaven, but also of a place of torment—hell. Those who reject the Lord Jesus cannot go to be with Him, as He said, “Ye... shall die in your sins; whither I go, ye cannot come... for if ye believe not that I AM (He), ye shall die in your sins."3
The thief on the cross who believed on Jesus went to be with Him in paradise;4 but the rich man we read of in Luke,5 when he died, went to hell, the place of torment. This is very solemn. Man can kill the body, but can do no more. God has power after death to cast into hell.6
After death is the judgment.7 At the resurrection all that are in their graves shall come forth,8 and all must stand before God; but the believer on the Lord Jesus shall not come into judgment, for Christ has borne the judgment for him, and if he die, his spirit at once goes to be with Christ, and at the resurrection, he will have a body of glory like Christ's.9
M. W. B.
 
5. Luke 16:19-3119There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. (Luke 16:19‑31)