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What Happens When You Die?

Louie Giglio

7 Days

His Perfection, Our Predicament

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All of our lives will come to the same conclusion. There is a day coming when each of us will draw our last breaths, and our time on Earth will come to an end. Most of us do our best to avoid the topic and fight to keep our minds from wandering and wondering about the reality of this guarantee. Even reading this introduction may have caused you to start sweating. But Jesus didn’t shy away from talking about death and what would come afterward for each of us. In fact, as Louie Giglio will show us, perhaps the most recognizable verse in all of Scripture paints a clear picture for us of the reality of eternity.

Let’s get started.

Summary

Humanity has a problem. We are caught in an inescapable predicament. We are the creation of a Holy God, whose very nature is perfection and righteousness, and yet look around. Do you see a world that could possibly live up to that standard? Could you?

Of course not. Even the most self-assured among us wouldn’t claim the title of perfect. See the predicament? If we can’t possibly live a life that meets the standard of perfection, then what do we do? How can we possibly escape the conflict our imperfection thrusts us into with God?

This is the Gospel in summation.

We, like a person, unconsciously laid upon the tracks of an oncoming train, are in desperate need of assistance. Sin has led us to a state of spiritual death, and yet, look back at that verse from the Gospel of John.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

When we could do nothing for ourselves, when we were dead in our sins, Jesus stepped in. Through His crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection, Jesus purchased for us eternal life. While there was nothing we could do for ourselves, Jesus did everything for us. This is the gift on the table today: new, everlasting life, given to all who believe and put their trust in Jesus.

This is where our track has to begin, with the Good News and with Jesus.

What's Next?

As we journey through this track together, do your best to always be honest with yourself and with God about the things you need to hear, learn, or let go of.

Let’s start at the very beginning.

What do you think about when you hear the word Heaven? How about the word Hell?
When considering God’s perfection, does it make sense that you could never earn your way to Heaven?
Have you ever investigated the Gospel before? If not, maybe our track “The Gospel: From Death to Life” is a great place to start doing just that!
Do you want to place your faith in Jesus and begin your life with Him today? If so, here is a prayer that you can pray if your heart has been stirred to believe in Him as Savior: "God, thank you that you sent your one and only Son to bear the weight of my sin on the Cross. Jesus, I want to live my life for you forever, so I repent and turn from my sinful ways, and I turn towards you. God, fill me with Your Spirit, help me to come alive in You. It is in Your Name I pray, Amen."

Scripture References

16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

6Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

7For we live by faith, not by sight.

8We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

9So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

13Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

14For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

15According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16For 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.

17After 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.

18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.

11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,

13their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.

14If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.

15If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.

8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

9not by works, so that no one can boast.

10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Louie Giglio

Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.