 
              Are We Instantly with the Lord When We Die?
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            Jesus told the dying thief on the cross, "Today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43). The apostle Paul said that to die was to be with Christ (Philippians 1:23), and to be absent from the body was to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8).
        
    
  
 
                 
                 
                             
          