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What are the benefits of death to believers?

T he greatest benefit is that we will be free from all the pains and sorrows and evils of this life, and we will be safely in God’s presence forever. When we purchase life insurance, the benefit pack age determines the cost of the policy, and the insured must die in order for the life insurance policy to be paid. If you think about it, the same sort of transaction occurred at Calvary, where Jesus was crucified. No mat ter how wealthy a person may be, only One could pay the cost of eternal life, and the benefits are guaranteed and held in the treasury of hope. The policy owner is the Lord Jesus Christ; the cost was His life’s blood to redeem us from sin; the fully paid benefit is our assur ance of eternal life in God’s kingdom, redeemable to those who exchange a sinful heart for a forgiven heart. When those souls pass from death to new life, the faith

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