Heaven and Hell: Week 1 • What Happens When You Die? • May 18, 2025
What we believe about
Unless Jesus comes back first, every person will experience
Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
1. When you leave this earth, your physical
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2. When you leave this earth, your
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.
Luke 23:42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. 43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
As a follower of Jesus, when you leave this earth you will immediately be with
2 Corinthians 5:8 To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Your body dies. Your soul lives.
3. When you leave this earth, you will face
1 Peter 1:17 **(NLT) And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will **judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time here as “temporary residents.”
*Dont be so focused on what
2 Judgments
The Great
Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
To enter eternity with God, your name must be in the
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Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven…
Revelation 20:15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
God does not
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
The Judgment Seat of Christ is not a
We are
The more
May 2025 Memory Verse
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-7