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“What Really Happens When We Die?
October 5, 2025
Pastor Joe Cameneti
“God gave me four daughters. Now they have been taken from me. Someday I will understand why.” – Anna Spafford
When peace flows like a river through my life,
When sorrow crashes like waves of the sea,
No matter what happens, You’ve taught me to say:
It is well, it is well with my soul.
It is well (it is well),
With my soul (with my soul),
It is well, it is well with my soul.
My sin—what a joy to know it’s forgiven!
Not just a part, but the whole;
It was nailed to the cross—I carry it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
And Lord, I can’t wait for the day when You come,
When faith becomes sight at last;
The skies will roll back, the trumpet will sound,
And You’ll return—my future is secure.
Everyone Spends Forever Somewhere
Everyone Was Made by God for God
Psalm 100:1 Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy. 3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. New Living Translation
Acts 17:24 “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples, 25 and human hands can’t serve his needs—for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need. New Living Translation
Acts 17:27 “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. 28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ New Living Translation
Everyone was Made to Live Forever
Ecclesiastes 3:11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. New Living Translation
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Life, lovely while it lasts, is soon over. Life as we know it, precious and beautiful, ends. 7 The body is put back in the same ground it came from. The spirit returns to God, who first breathed it. The Message Bible
God Created Only Two Eternal Homes
Matthew 25:34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. New International Version
Matthew 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. New International Version
Matthew 25:46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” New Living Translation
Everyone Must Decide What They Will Do with Jesus
John 3:16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. New Living Translation
John 3:18 “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. New Living Translation
We Only Have an Opportunity to Choose Jesus on This Side of Eternity
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and the one sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide. New Living Translation
Revelation 20:12 I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books. New Living Translation
Revelation 20:13 The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. And all were judged according to their deeds. New Living Translation
Revelation 20:14 Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. 15 And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire. New Living Translation