My name is Martyn McGeown, I'm the missionary pastor of the Limerick Reformed Fellowship. I blog with the hope that God might use it to gather His elect & glorify Himself. Please feel free to comment and interact, no matter your religious position - as long as you do so respectfully and are genuinely interested.
I hope you will be blessed reading this blog!
Many people believe that God has a balance or a set of scales in heaven. Into one side, He places our bad works; and into the other side, He places our evil works. If our good works outweigh our evil works, we will go to heaven. If our evil works outweigh our good works, we will not go to heaven, at least not immediately.
But that is not what the Bible, which is God's Word, teaches.
What is a good work according to the Bible?
Believers will find A Pilgrim’s Manual to be full of instruction, comfort, and hope as they wend their way toward their eternal home.
Samson: Strong in Jehovah, Weak in the Flesh
Essentials of Reformed Doctrine is a systematic doctrine class aimed at older teenagers, but adapted in Ireland for adults who want to learn all the doctrines of Christianity.
Lesson 28 is "The Death of the Believer."
The main subjects covered in this Lesson are:
Part 1: The intermediate state of the soul; teachings in the OT and NT; the blessedness of heaven and the misery of hell.
Part 2: Errors concerning the intermediate state: the immortality of the soul; soul sleep and purgatory.
The LRF runs an adult reformed doctrine class in which we work through the Essentials of Reformed Doctrine catechism booklet published by the PRCA.
Below you will find the lesson outlines based on Lesson 28.
Each lesson outline comes as a handy PDF formatted to be printed as a single double-sided page with narrow margins. Download the attachments below.
Essentials of Reformed Doctrine: Lesson 28 (“The Death of Believers" [2])
Essentials of Reformed Doctrine: Lesson 28 (“The Death of Believers"[1])
The average person thinks he is going to heaven because he is "a good person." But what does that mean, and how "good" does a person need to be to go to heaven?
Jesus was asked once by a rich young ruler, in Mark, chapter 10, "Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" (Mark 10:17).
Jesus had a surprising response, "Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God" (Mark 10:18).
