Let's join Guy Waters now as he helps us explore the life of the Apostle Paul.

Paul has monumental significance and influence in the history of the church.

We take only three men, three great men in God's work in His church, Augustine, Luther, and John Wesley, each of whom traces, if not their conversion, then a radical grasp of the gospel of grace to an encounter with the writings of Paul.

You remember Augustine's conversion.

He was in the garden, and he heard a child's voice say, "Tala lega, tala lega," take and read, take and read.

And he opens the Scripture to Romans 13:14.

Or flash forward a millennium later, and there's Luther in the Tower of the Black Cloister in Wittenberg, and he's pondering that phrase in Romans 1:17, "The righteousness of God." And it dawns on him that this is the gift of God in the Gospel.

How did this dramatic shift happen, and why? Here's a preview of next week's episode.

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To the believer, the grave is a bed to lay down for a time until God gloriously raises the body, reunites soul and body, and we are ushered as whole persons into the presence of our God.

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Guy Waters from his series Facing the Last Enemy.

What happens when a person dies? We want to think about what is often called the intermediate state.

That is, the period of time between a person's death and the return of Christ at the end of the age in glory.

Where do people go when they die? What is their fate? And to answer that question well, we need to address some unbiblical answers that have been posed to that question and are answers that we face sometimes within the church and within the world at large.

So let's start by asking: What doesn't happen after death? We can look at four views.