Before Christ vs. After Christ (TMF:1576)

Monday, March 29, 2021
Peace to Live By: Before Christ vs. After Christ (TMF:1576) - Daniel Litton
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       Before Christ, death reigned. It reigned for Paul, as he just told us, and it reigned for us. Death had its way all the time. But before Christ literally came to the earth, there was no hope of becoming a new creation. No hope even existed of going to Heaven when people died. Rather, before Christ, people would have to go to a waiting place, which was in the same place where unbelievers would go, which had a great chasm that separated the believers from the unbelievers. Recall, Jesus talked about this in the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, which is found in Luke chapter 16. People couldn’t be with Jesus. Grace, though, grace gives us the ability to go up and be with God forever in eternity. Due to what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross and his resurrection from the dead, by depending on that accomplishment we can now go to be with him when we die. No more waiting room. No more delay.