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16.6 What happens to believers in the final judgment?
Those who in the final judgment bow in reverence to Jesus as Lord will receive a never-ending life
of joyful communion with our triune God and with other resurrected believers, as they praise and
serve God together in the new heaven and the new earth—a world of unending life and love. In this
life together with the triune God and one another, they will experience “face to face” what they now
glimpse only partially—their deepest, truest delights in this life being only a dim foreshadowing of
the delights that await them in the fullness of the kingdom of God. By the grace of the triune God
they will freely, willingly and gladly enter God’s kingdom extended to them in Jesus Christ and by
the Holy Spirit. There they will enjoy forever all its benefits stored up for them in Jesus Christ who
is Lord and Savior of all. (Ps. 16:11; John 14:2-3; Matt. 6:20; 8:11; Col. 1:5; 1 Cor. 13:12; Rev.
21:1-4)

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