What Happens When You Die?

Apr 16

Louie Giglio helps listeners answer the question, “What happens when we die?” Everyone has considered this humbling question but few have investigated what is the most reliable and coherent answer in the person of Jesus. By drawing attention to the reality of eternity, Louie urges listeners to be all the more faith-oriented in the life we are given.

Key Takeaway

1. Your eternal destination is determined before your physical death, not after. <br><br>2. God doesn’t send people to hell, our sin did that.<br><br>3. The staggering gift is that as God’s wrath was falling toward us, Jesus willingly put himself in harm's way.

1. Jesus believed in Heaven and Hell

2. Our body sleeps in decay until the resurrection of the dead at the return of Christ.

3. Those you love who have died in Christ are alive in the presence of Almighty God.

4. The reality of our eternal destiny is the biggest storyline in humanity, yet most ignored by people obsessed with the trivialities of the brief here and now.

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“If you are a believer, death is a seemless transition into the presence of God. If you are without God, death is a transition into a separation from God for an eternity.”

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Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

What are some theories you have heard about what happens when we die?
What did you grow up believing about heaven and hell?
Pastor Louie says we have to understand “our predicament” before we talk about heaven or hell. What is our “predicament” in your own words?
How does holiness trigger wrath? Try to unpack that theological concept.
What was the illustration of the unconscious person in the line of the subway train about?
What did you grow up thinking heaven would be like? How did this talk inform your prior understanding?
What did you grow up thinking hell would be like? How did this talk inform your prior understanding?
From these passages of Scripture, what can we be confident in about heaven, and what can we be confident in about hell? List some facts together.
What does the glory of the presence of God (or the blessing of being with Him) teach us about the brutality of His absence? What does the brutality of God’s absence teach us about the glory of God’s presence?
Finally, what does it look like to live a life where the reality of heaven and hell are constantly on your mind?

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.