What will happen to me after I die? That's a question that confronts everyone regardless of their

background or religious affiliation. And thankfully the Bible is not silent on this eternally important question.

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In this sermon based on Revelation Chapter 21, David Platt explains the Bible's teaching on what

happens to us after we die. For the unbeliever, the sobering prospect of God's

righteous judgment awaits.

But for the believer, there is an eternal hope

that fuels our perseverance in the faith.

Those who are in Christ will dwell with God forever.

Here's David Platt with a sermon titled,

The Hope of Life After Dead.

If you've got your Bibles, and I hope you do,

I want to invite you to open with me to the book of

revelation. Revelation chapter 21. As you're turning there I I've told you a few times that I've been living in New Orleans the last five or six years and have been relocated temporarily.

The church where I serve on staff down there in New Orleans, you can be praying for them, having their first worship service today since Katrina in a tent that was donated to us on the parking lot right outside of our church.

And then the last few years in the time that I've been there,

God has really done some amazing things in that church, particularly in a homeless

ministry we have in the French quarter of New Orleans.

And during our time, with that type of ministry,

first of all, especially when we were beginning,

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