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Job 19:25-27
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I know that my Savior lives, and at the end he will stand on this earth.
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My flesh may be destroyed, yet from this body I will see God. 27
Yes, I will see him for myself, and I long for that moment.
John 11:25-27
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Jesus then said, "I am the one who raises the dead to life! Everyone who has faith in me will live, even if they die.
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And everyone who lives because of faith in me will never really die. Do you believe this?"
27 "Yes, Lord!" she replied. "I believe that you are Christ, the Son of God. You are the one we hoped would come into the world."
John 14:1-7
Jesus Is the Way to the Father
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Jesus said to his disciples, "Don't be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me.
2 There are many rooms in my Father's house. I wouldn't tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you.
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After I have done this, I will come back and take you with me. Then we will be together.
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You know the way to where I am going."
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Thomas said, "Lord, we don't even know where you are going! How can we know the way?"
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"I am the way, the truth, and the life!" Jesus answered. "Without me, no one can go to the Father.
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If you had known me, you would have known the Father. But from now on, you do know him, and you have seen him."
Romans 8:31-39
God's Love
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What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us?
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God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else?
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If God says his chosen ones are acceptable to him, can anyone bring charges against them?
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Or can anyone condemn them? No indeed! Christ died and was raised to life, and now he is at God's right side,
speaking to him for us. 35
Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death?
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It is exactly as the Scriptures say, "For you we face death all day long. We are like sheep
on their way to be butchered."
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In everything we have won more than a victory because of Christ who loves us.
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I am sure that nothing can separate us from God's love--not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future,
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and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Romans 14:7-9
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Whether we live or die, it must be for God, rather than for ourselves.
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Whether we live or die, it must be for the Lord. Alive or dead, we still belong to the Lord.
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This is because Christ died and rose to life, so that he would be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
The Lord's Coming
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My friends, we want you to understand how it will be for those followers who have already died. Then you won't grieve over them and be like people who don't have any hope.
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We believe that Jesus died and was raised to life. We also believe that when God brings Jesus back again, he will bring with him all who had faith in Jesus before they died.
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Our Lord Jesus told us that when he comes, we won't go up to meet him ahead of his followers who have already died.
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With a loud command and with the shout of the chief angel and a blast of God's trumpet, the Lord will return from heaven. Then those who had faith in Christ before they died will be raised to life.
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Next, all of us who are still alive will be taken up into the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the sky. From that time on we will all be with the Lord forever.
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Encourage each other with these words. |