{"id":44696,"date":"2022-10-01T01:19:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/can-the-living-help-the-dead-to-know-the-lord-bible-questions\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:19:40","slug":"can-the-living-help-the-dead-to-know-the-lord-bible-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/can-the-living-help-the-dead-to-know-the-lord-bible-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the living help the dead to know the Lord? – Bible Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What can a living Christian do to help their loved one who is dead and did not known the Lord?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is nothing that a living Christian can do to help a dead relative to come to know the Lord. The Bible teaches that judgment comes after all men die (Hebrews 9:27) and that it is only in this life that we have the opportunity to be reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 6:2). If one will study the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31, it is clear that after death there is no opportunity to repent of sin. Note also Acts 17:30, 31 and 2 Peter 3:9 in that regard; both of those passages teach that men must repent while they are upon the earth if they expect God’s forgiveness. Finally, 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 teaches that those who do not know God and obey the gospel will not be saved. That opportunity only happens in this life (2 Corinthians 5:11).<\/p>\n

Those whose relatives have died without knowledge of God can be sure that God will be just (Genesis 18:25), merciful (Psalm 89:14), and that these will not be punished above that which they deserve (Luke 12:48). Beyond that, there is nothing that one living may do to help a dead, lost, relative. Even prayer would be inappropriate as God does not desire for us to pray for those who have sinned unto death (1 John 5:16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What can a living Christian do to help their loved one who is dead and did not known the Lord? There is nothing that a living Christian can do to help a dead relative to come to know the Lord. The Bible teaches that judgment comes after all men die (Hebrews 9:27) and that it … Continue reading “Can the living help the dead to know the Lord? – Bible Questions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}