Where you at???

2 Corinthians 5:1-8 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)  "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

So when a Christian is asked, if asked; "What happens when one, when you die?"  What should ones answer be?  If in Christ, if one has believed the Scriptures that question has no merit.  But in response to such an ignorant question I will say:  "I can not die, for Christ lives in me and this life I live by His faithfulness to Himself and His Word."  To the non-believer, ones not in Christ who have not heard or worse heard and rejected the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus according to the scripture are dead and unless repentance transpires will face the second death at the Great White Throne Judgement.  

"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."  

Ephesians 1:13-14. "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit."  1 Corinthians 12:13.  "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:"  Romans 5:1.  "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful."  Colossians 3:10.

To many times we as human make our determinations from our perspective and not from God's.  We have His Word; if in Christ, He lives in us but we fail to live like it. " I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."  Galatians 2:20-21.  Those who hear us would be better served if we could come to know who we are in Christ, if in Christ.  "unless ye have believed in vain." 1 Corinthians 15:2b.  That tells me one can believe, but believe in vain.  We must "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."  2 Timothy 2:15.  Its not the believing that saves but the truth being believed that saves and the person of Jesus Christ is that truth;  "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."  John 1:14.  

Christians [so called] are great impersonators of those in the Body of Christ.  They have been taught all the modern cliche´s, catch phrases and present day mantras.  They have never studied nor are even interested in the "Word" but want others to think they are, 2 Peter chapter 2 goes into great depths of those who are "false teachers" by design or through ignorance, non the less lack truth:  "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage."  2 Peter 2:17-19.  Also 

"For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come," Hebrews 6:4-5.