Actually,
@JLB777,
One passes from death into everlasting life at the moment that they receive a living and saving faith--John 5:24 (look it up in your kjv)
Don’t stop reading at verse 24.
All you OSAS folks keep ignoring the Day of Judgement, when we all will stand before His throne.
9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things
done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:9-11
- For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ
28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. John 5:28-29
- those who have done good, to the resurrection of life
- those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation
Paul says it this way -
God who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
Romans 2:6-8
- eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
Jesus gave us what He will be looking for on that Day.
31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: Matthew 25:31-34
On that Day when you and I stand before Him, we will hear one of two things:
- Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Or if you are a Christian that is fruitless, and does not love, you will hear this -
Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ Matthew 25:41-43
- Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels
for I was hungry and you gave Me no food;
I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink;
I was a stranger and you did not take Me in,
naked and you did not clothe Me,
sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
JLB
