By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts From Parson Farms: Good Morning, The next obvious question after speaking about the nature of life after death for the believer is what takes place next in the order of God’s promises. For Christians our true hope and the reason why we die in peace and comfort is because we understand, through the vow made to us in our Savior, that we will partake in the resurrection on the last day in our glorified state. Yet, as with the apostles who inquired to Jesus about the same thing we have wonderings in our heart about the how, when, where, etc... of this future blessing. Our Larger Catechism queries and responses today are going to help us understand how to properly consider the resurrection, how to live in light of that hope, and why it is we can trust in the word spoken by Christ to His Father in the high priestly prayer of John 17, namely v.24, “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold M
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