When Someone Dies Where do They Go? Second Series

Body-sleep not soul-sleep 

1 Thessalonians 4:14^--"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."

Sleep means death of the body (1 Thessalonians 4:14-16; 5:10; Deuteronomy 31:16; 2 Samuel 7:12; 1 Kings 1:21; Job 7:21; Pslams 13:3; Daniel 12:2; Mark 5:39; Luke 8:52; John 11:11-14; Acts 13:36; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 15:51; James 2:26). These are all the passages where the word sleep is found in connection with death. The word slept is used in Matthew 27:52; 1 Corinthians 15:20 of death and the phrase slept with his fathers is used 36 times of death in the Old Testament.

Not one time is it stated that the soul sleeps. The soul is immortal (1 Peter 3:4). The term sleep in Jesus simply refers to those who were in Christ at their death (v14, 16)