Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 38

What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

Scripture

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:42–43 [1]
    So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. (ESV)
  2. Matthew 25:33–34 [2]
    And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. (ESV)
  3. Matthew 10:32 [2]
    So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, (ESV)
  4. Psalm 16:11 [3]
    You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. (ESV)
  5. 1 Corinthians 2:9 [3]
    But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— (ESV)
  6. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 [4]
    Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. (ESV)