Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?

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The souls of believers are, at their death, made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves until the resurrection.

Heb. 12:23; 2 Cor. 5:1, 6, 8; Phil. 1:23; Luke 23:43; 1 Thess. 4:14; Isa. 57:2; Job 19:26-27.

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Index: BODY Of elect after death and at resurrection
Index: CHURCH Its privileges and duties
Index: COMMUNION OF ELECT WITH CHRIST After death
Index: CORRUPTION OF NATURE Remains in the regenerate in this life
Index: DEATH An advantage to the righteous
Index: GLORY Immediately after death
Index: HEAVEN The state of the blessed
Index: HOLINESS Made perfectly holy in heaven
Index: IMAGE OF GOD Fully perfected in heaven
Index: RIGHTEOUSNESS Their state immediately after death
Index: SANCTIFICATION Made perfect at death
Index: SOUL State of soul when separate from the body

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Hebrews 12:23
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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,
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2 Corinthians 5:1
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2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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- CF 32.1
- LC 86
2 Corinthians 5:6
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2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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2 Corinthians 5:8
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2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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Philippians 1:23
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Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
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Luke 23:43
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Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
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1 Thessalonians 4:14
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1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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- LC 86
Isaiah 57:2
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Isaiah 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
also cited by 1
- LC 86
Job 19:26-27
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Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
also cited by 2
- CF 32.2
- LC 86

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