Soul Sleep

"SOUL SLEEP"

Recently a few "recognised" Brethren teachers have been erroneously suggesting that those who have "fallen asleep from time to time, through Jesus" are in an unconscious state in the unseen realm, beyond death.

The Lord Jesus made clear that there is no "soul sleep" between death and resurrection

Luke 16 proves the conscious existence of both the saint and the sinner irrefutably, in that intermediate state. 

"To depart and be with Christ is very far better;" To be with Christ, then, is what departing from the body means; not "sleeping," which would be far worse than the portion we now , while alive, enjoy in His love.

It is to be absent from the body, no doubt,; not "sleeping" still less non-existent, but "at home with the Lord."

Immediately after death the righteous are "with Christ," while the wicked who have died in their sins will be "in Hades" "in torments."

"Soul-Sleep and the denial of the immortality of the soul are the damnable lies of the Devil!

No matter the esteem in which recognised teachers are held, where error is being taught or allowed we must stand against it and denounce it!

The believer who is numbered among the "dead in Christ," is not asleep, waiting to be awakened by the "shout, the voice of archangel" or "the trump of God, but is in the immediate presence of the lovely Saviour.

Even to one, not in the "church," He could promise, "Today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." 

May the Lord Jesus Himself garrison our hearts around with the truth of such comfort and consolation.

Luke 16:22 & 23;Philippians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 4: 13,14, & 16; Luke 23:43.