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title: "Question 38: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? | Westminster Shorter Catechism"
description: "Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 38: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? At the resurrection, believers, being raised up to glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, "
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source: "https://ctkrp.org/assets/rpcna-constitution-2026.pdf#page=163"
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# Question 38: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? | Westminster Shorter Catechism

At the resurrection, believers, being raised up to glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.

Scripture proofs: 1 Cor. 15:43; Matt. 25:23; Matt. 10:32; 1 John 3:2; 1 Cor. 13:12; 1 Thess. 4: 17-18.

Original source: [2026 RPCNA Constitution](https://ctkrp.org/assets/rpcna-constitution-2026.pdf#page=163)

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- [Assurance of salvation](https://ctkrp.org/learn/topics/assurance-of-salvation/)
- [Westminster Confession of Faith · Chapter 32: Of the State of Men After Death, And the Resurrection of the Dead](https://ctkrp.org/confession/chapter-32-state-of-men-after-death-and-of-the-resurrection/)
- [Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 37: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?](https://ctkrp.org/shorter-catechism/question-37-what-benefits-do-believers-receive-from-christ-at-death/)
- [Westminster Larger Catechism · Question 82: What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible Church have with Christ?](https://ctkrp.org/larger-catechism/question-82-what-is-the-communion-in-glory-which-the-members/)
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- [Question 37](https://ctkrp.org/shorter-catechism/question-37-what-benefits-do-believers-receive-from-christ-at-death/)
- [Question 39](https://ctkrp.org/shorter-catechism/question-39-what-is-the-duty-which-god-requireth-of-man/)

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