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What Comes after This Life?
The reality of death provokes a question we cannot What comes next? Many people assume the notion of an afterlife is wishful thinking, but God has plainly revealed that the grave is not the end. We need to know what comes after this life so we can live well in the present moment.
In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul presents the Bible’s teaching about heaven and hell. Though each of us deserves God’s eternal judgment for our sin, everyone who trusts in His Son for salvation will be received into the endless joy that God has prepared for those who love Him.
The Crucial Questions booklet series by Dr. R.C. Sproul offers succinct answers to important questions often asked by Christians and thoughtful inquirers.
In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul presents the Bible’s teaching about heaven and hell. Though each of us deserves God’s eternal judgment for our sin, everyone who trusts in His Son for salvation will be received into the endless joy that God has prepared for those who love Him.
The Crucial Questions booklet series by Dr. R.C. Sproul offers succinct answers to important questions often asked by Christians and thoughtful inquirers.
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Published February 23, 2023
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R.C. Sproul
673 books2,004 followersDr. R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian discipleship organization located near Orlando, Fla. He was founding pastor of Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Fla., first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Ligonier Ministries began in 1971 as the Ligonier Valley Study Center in Ligonier, Pa. In an effort to respond more effectively to the growing demand for Dr. Sproul’s teachings and the ministry’s other educational resources, the general offices were moved to Orlando in 1984, and the ministry was renamed.
Dr. Sproul’s radio program, Renewing Your Mind, is still broadcast daily on hundreds of radio stations around the world and can also be heard online. Dr. Sproul produced hundreds of lecture series and recorded numerous video series on subjects such as the history of philosophy, theology, Bible study, apologetics, and Christian living.
He contributed dozens of articles to national evangelical publications, spoke at conferences, churches, and academic institutions around the world, and wrote more than one hundred books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, and Everyone’s a Theologian. He signed the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and wrote a commentary on that document. He also served as general editor of the Reformation Study Bible, previously known as the New Geneva Study Bible.
Dr. Sproul had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and Jackson, Miss. He was ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
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March 19, 2023
This is one of the newest booklets in R.C. Sproul’s Crucial Questions series, all of which are free in the digital edition. These booklets offer clear answers to the most common and difficult questions about the Christian faith. In this volume, he examines what the Bible says about heaven and hell.
Sproul writes that death came as God’s judgment for sin. Every human being is a sinner and therefore has been sentenced to death. We are all waiting for the sentence to be carried out. The question then is what happens after death. For Christians, the penalty has been paid by Christ.
Sproul writes that our new body will be incorruptible. It will be invincible. It won’t age. It won’t decay. It won’t wear out. It won’t rot. It won’t break. It won’t get sick. When we see our departed friends and relatives in the resurrection, they will appear different from how they appeared on earth. But, when we see them, we will know them, and they will know us.
Sproul tells us that in all of Scripture, the place that gives us the most vivid and graphic description of what heaven is like is found in the book of Revelation. He encourages us to read Revelation 21–22 in its entirety, and think of it as a letter from heaven, addressed to us, describing this place where Christ promised to go to prepare a place for us, if indeed we are in Him.
Sproul tells us that the thought of death often brings fear for Christians and non-Christians alike. That fear is bound up with the question of what happens after death. While Christ has paid the penalty for Christians, for non-Christians the news is much less good. God’s wrath against sin will be satisfied in those who do not trust in Christ. That punishment will happen in hell.
Sproul writes that in probably no other time in the history of the church have more people challenged the doctrine of hell than in our own day. Yet, almost everything that we learn biblically about hell comes to us from the lips of Jesus Himself.
Sproul states that God is just and that He judges according to His own holiness and perfect righteousness. There will be a final judgment for human beings. Every one of us will be called to account before the presence of God, and we will be judged by His perfect righteousness and by His perfect law.
Sproul tells us that now is the day of salvation. Nothing in Scripture gives us the slightest hint that there will be a second chance after death. The longer we postpone our repentance and our fleeing to Christ, the more dangerous and perilous is our condition, for tonight our souls may be required of us.
In this helpful booklet on heaven and hell, Sproul looks at scripture passages such as John 14, Revelation 21 and the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16. He addresses whether or not there will be marriage in heaven, our new bodies, whether we will know our departed friends and relatives in the resurrection, the new heaven and new earth, whether hell is the absence of God, the reality of a final judgement, and that there are no second chances after we die.
Sproul writes that death came as God’s judgment for sin. Every human being is a sinner and therefore has been sentenced to death. We are all waiting for the sentence to be carried out. The question then is what happens after death. For Christians, the penalty has been paid by Christ.
Sproul writes that our new body will be incorruptible. It will be invincible. It won’t age. It won’t decay. It won’t wear out. It won’t rot. It won’t break. It won’t get sick. When we see our departed friends and relatives in the resurrection, they will appear different from how they appeared on earth. But, when we see them, we will know them, and they will know us.
Sproul tells us that in all of Scripture, the place that gives us the most vivid and graphic description of what heaven is like is found in the book of Revelation. He encourages us to read Revelation 21–22 in its entirety, and think of it as a letter from heaven, addressed to us, describing this place where Christ promised to go to prepare a place for us, if indeed we are in Him.
Sproul tells us that the thought of death often brings fear for Christians and non-Christians alike. That fear is bound up with the question of what happens after death. While Christ has paid the penalty for Christians, for non-Christians the news is much less good. God’s wrath against sin will be satisfied in those who do not trust in Christ. That punishment will happen in hell.
Sproul writes that in probably no other time in the history of the church have more people challenged the doctrine of hell than in our own day. Yet, almost everything that we learn biblically about hell comes to us from the lips of Jesus Himself.
Sproul states that God is just and that He judges according to His own holiness and perfect righteousness. There will be a final judgment for human beings. Every one of us will be called to account before the presence of God, and we will be judged by His perfect righteousness and by His perfect law.
Sproul tells us that now is the day of salvation. Nothing in Scripture gives us the slightest hint that there will be a second chance after death. The longer we postpone our repentance and our fleeing to Christ, the more dangerous and perilous is our condition, for tonight our souls may be required of us.
In this helpful booklet on heaven and hell, Sproul looks at scripture passages such as John 14, Revelation 21 and the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16. He addresses whether or not there will be marriage in heaven, our new bodies, whether we will know our departed friends and relatives in the resurrection, the new heaven and new earth, whether hell is the absence of God, the reality of a final judgement, and that there are no second chances after we die.
July 12, 2024
Hell is real!
As much as many want to deny hell exists it is affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. Dr. Sproul takes us through the specifics of what it is, who goes there, and more. I personally think the description of hell being outer darkness with an angry enraged God in the face of the lost far more scary than all the fire and brimstone imagery referenced throughout the Bible.
As much as many want to deny hell exists it is affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. Dr. Sproul takes us through the specifics of what it is, who goes there, and more. I personally think the description of hell being outer darkness with an angry enraged God in the face of the lost far more scary than all the fire and brimstone imagery referenced throughout the Bible.
April 8, 2024
Clears up a difficult subject
In an understandable explaination, Dr. Sproul illuminates a subject that is generally misunderstood and trivialized. If illumination of a difficult concept is what you seek, this book is written for you.
In an understandable explaination, Dr. Sproul illuminates a subject that is generally misunderstood and trivialized. If illumination of a difficult concept is what you seek, this book is written for you.
May 3, 2023
An excellent read - well written and thought provoking book...
July 27, 2024
Clear, concise and straightforward. Sproul's exploration of hell was really what stood out for me – that the separation from God is much worse than the eternal flame and heat.
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