For the Christian, death is simply falling asleep in Jesus

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

I Thessalonians 4

 

13  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

 

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

 

When a person died, the spirit of that person leaves his body.  Falling asleep, in Jesus.  James 2:26   For as the body without the spirit is dead,

 

The spirit is not in a grave in the ground with the body after he falls asleep (dies).  At the time of death, the spirit leaves the body.

 

God gives us a new spiritual body.  (I Cor. 15:48-51)

 

God has created a new heaven and earth in which we live in a new spiritual body.  There is no death there, no pain, no sorrow. God showed this "new Jerusalem to the apostle John" and he wrote about this so we could know what it was like.   (Rev. 21:1-5)

 

The pagan who know not God or Jesus sorrow greatly over death.  Paul didn't want us to act like those pagan because we know the truth from the Bible about physical death.

 

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15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

 

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

 

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

 

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 

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