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👉🏼 (Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
📜 ""And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.""
1 Thessalonians 4:13 (NLT)
📋 We believers in Christ have a glorious future which gives us great hope. The Apostle declares: "... Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). Because of the hope we have in Christ, we Christians should not mourn like unbelievers when our loved ones die in Christ. Knowing what will happen to believers when Christ returns gives us great hope.
Paul explains to the Thessalonian believers that those who die in Christ and believers who are still alive when Christ returns will all meet him in the air Paul writes: "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven. with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that. we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever" (v.16-17).
So there is hope for those who die in Christ: They will be raised by Christ and they will live with him in glory eternally. Those who die as unbelievers will go to hell, but those who die as true believers in Christ will go to heaven.
So there is hope for Christians. Are you a true Christian?
🔑 Key Lesson: There is hope for true believers.
🛐 Meditation and Prayer: Lord, thank you for the great hope I have in Christ.
📚 Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:50-57.
◼️ The Bible in One Year: Ezekiel 25-27.