Sermon Tone Analysis

Before talking about heaven, what happens after a believer dies?

Angels are going to usher your soul to heaven.

says, “Now, the poor man died and was carried away by angels to Abraham’s bosom.

And the rich man also died and was buried there.”

You get an escort service.

In fact, if you’ve read anything about the Auca Indians, there were five missionaries many years ago that died.

And they were the fiercest tribe.

Their lifestyle was one of murder.

They murdered all the other tribes, they murdered one another, it was actually probably as evil a group of people on the face of the earth, and these five missionaries began to pray for them, had a heart for them, they flew into the jungle, they dropped gifts.

Eventually they went down to meet them and they tried to help them, and they were all killed.

Their wives, after their husbands died, got together and said, “Our husbands can’t waste their life.”

Their wives, then, went back to that jungle to reach that same tribe and eventually there was this miraculous revival.

That tribe came to Christ.

The actual people who speared them to death were living and then as they became Christians and began to grow, they began to tell the story of that day and how after they killed them, they had this weird experience of there was all this singing in the trees.

And these white figures that came over the bodies and ushered them into the sky.

The second thing to happen is you immediately are in God’s presence.

To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

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- today you will be with me in Paradise.There’s no soul sleep, there are no intermediate places that you go at any time.

You are conscious and in command of your faculties, thinking, feeling, speech, and memories.

So when you die, as a believer, it’s not like you have this disembodied spirit that’s floating all around and you don’t know what’s happening.

You are conscious, you think, your personality, your soul, the real you is in the presence of God.

You participate in magnificent worship with angels and believers before the throne of God.

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This is happening in heaven right now.

This is not what heaven is like forever.We exist in an intermediate state until the resurrection.