Thanks for joining us for another episode of Ask Paul Tripp.

We've been receiving a lot of questions about death recently, not in a morbid way, but more

out of a theological curiosity.

So Paul, I'm going to throw a few of them your way, and the first, plain and simple,

what happens when we die?

Well, what the Bible declares is to be dead in the bodies,

to be home with the Lord.

Now, what that means is my soul is immediately united with my Redeemer.

But my body is still in the ground,

or could we say this is a little macabre

in the urn, waiting for the physical resurrection of the body.

And the physical resurrection of the body will happen.

We will be made 100% new again.

Our body's no longer subject to the ravages of the fall.

That's weakness, suffering, aging, a completely recreated body.

And no, we won't float around in the clouds, in white robes, playing harps.

The Bible says this world is going to be burned up and then recreated to a new heavens and a new earth.

And so we're going to have a physical existence on the new earth.

And if the plan of God is to reverse the curse of the fall and return us to a completely perfected cosmos world,

then there's a good indication we will be doing what Adam and Eve were commissioned to do.

Remember, Adam and Eve worked, but work was not the result of the fall.

Arduous work, hard work was a result of the fall.

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