In the last podcast, in episode 178, I asked you, can a sinner repent and be saved in

the final moments leading up to their death?

And here's a related follow-up question that some listeners have asked, Pastor John,

can a sinner repent and be saved after death?

The answer is no.

There are several passages of Scripture that make me clear about that.

I remember, again, my father preaching, and I can see the kind of squint in his eyes when

he quoted Hebrews 9, which he did numerous times.

He said, it is appointed to a man once to die.

And after that comes judgment.

And he would just say, when you die, here's what you look forward to, judgment, not some

kind of intervening space where you get another chance.

But the most clear passage of Scripture is Luke 16, and the story of Lazarus and the

rich man, people may remember that Lazarus was poor and sad of the door of the rich man,

that rich man walked by him in differently every day, manifesting that he had no love

for him, no trust in God, and they both die.

And Lazarus, who evidently had been trusting in God, goes to Abraham's bosom and is rewarded

and relieved of all his lifetime of suffering with delights and pleasures in the presence

of God, and the rich man goes to a place of torment and anguish where he's longing

to have just a drop of water put on his tongue.

And there's this imaginary conversation that Jesus creates between them, and he says,

I can't, you just send Lazarus down here.

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