The death of Stephen--and his amazing calmness and Christlikeness in the face of it--gives us the opportunity to look to the encouragement found in the Bible's teaching on death and why and how a Christian can agree with Paul's statement, "To live is Christ, to die is gain."
Death is the penalty of sin, the separation of the soul from the body and the foreshadowing of the second death in Hell, but its sting has be removed for all who are in union with Christ.
Death is gain for the Christian because his soul is immediately in the presence of Christ, is made perfect in holiness, passes into glory, and awaits the glorious resurrection when his body (still united with Christ!) is raised and glorified and joined to his perfected soul.
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