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A Word from Our Sponsor "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." -- John 5:24 The Heidelberg Catechism: Part 2- Of Man's Redemption Week 22 57. Q. What comfort does "the resurrection of the body" give you? A. That after this life my soul shall be immediately taken up to Christ, its Head, and that this flesh of mine, raised by the power of Christ, shall be reunited with my soul, and be conformed to the glorious body of Christ. [Job 19:25-26; I Cor. 15:20, 42-46, 54; Phil. 1:21-23; 3:21; I John 3:2] 58. Q. What comfort does the article concerning "the life everlasting" give you? A. That, since I now feel in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, I shall possess, after this life, perfect blessedness, which no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, and thereby praise God forever. [John 17:3, 24; Rom. 14:17; I Cor. 2:9; II Cor. 5:2-3] Suggestions for discussion and review: True or false: 1. In heaven the streets will be paved with gold and precious jewels. 2. If you are a Christian when you die, you immediately go to be with Christ. 3. Christians should look forward to death and resurrection because this life is a prison from which death is a welcome escape. 4. God has chosen not to reveal specific details about life after death. 5. The bodies we have now will not be the ones we will have in heaven. 6. In this life we can't have even the slightest idea of what eternal life is like. * * * * * * * * * * Our whole life is to be poised on a certain glad expectancy of God; taking each moment, incident, choice and opportunity as material placed in our hand by the Creator whose whole intricate and mysterious process moves toward the triumph of Charity, and who has given each living spirit a tiny part in this vast work of transformation. -- Evelyn Underhill