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Question in Baptist Catechism WHAT BENEFITS DO THOSE WHO ARE EFFECTUALLY CALLED RECEIVE IN THIS LIFE?
Benefit Believers Receive at Death
1.Souls made Perfect in Holiness
2.Soul immediately passes into Glory
2 Corinth 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body,
and to be present with the Lord.
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
3. Anticipation of future Benefits. John 5:28,29 28
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming,
in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,29 And shall come forth; they
that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil,
unto the resurrection of damnation.
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
1 Corinthians 15:56,57 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven,
and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
2 Corinthians 6:2(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee:
behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
James 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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