Luke 20:34-36
"And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and
are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain
that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are
given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are
equal unto the angels; and are the children of God,
being the children of the resurrection."
The Sadducees then, came with this question about who would be the husband in heaven of the woman who was married to seven different men. They regarded such a question as the kind of thing that made belief in the resurrection of the body ridiculous. Jesus gave them an answer which has a permanently valid truth in it. He said that we must not think of heaven in terms of this earth. Life there will be quite different, because we will be quite different. It would save a lot of misdirected ingenuity,on our part, if we ceased to speculate on what heaven is like and left things to the love of God.
Jesus went further. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the body. They declared they could not believe in it because there was no information about it, because not but much if any proof of it in the books of the law which Moses had written. So Jesus pointed out that Moses himself had heard God say, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob," (Ex. 3:1-6), and that it was impossible that God should be the God of the dead. Therefore Abraham and Isaac and Jacob must be still alive. Therefore there was such a thing as the resurrection of the body.
My Friends, No wonder the scribes declared it to be a good answer, for Jesus had met the Sadducees on their own ground and defeated them. But out of this there is a truth for anyone who teaches Christianity to his fellow man. Jesus used arguments that the people he was arguing with could understand. He talked to them in their own language; he met them on their own ground; and that is precisely why the common people heard him gladly. We must approach teaching Christianity the same as Jesus.
Amen!
Reading: Luke: 20:27-40
Ref: HG SB, BSB
Jesus went further. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the body. They declared they could not believe in it because there was no information about it, because not but much if any proof of it in the books of the law which Moses had written. So Jesus pointed out that Moses himself had heard God say, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob," (Ex. 3:1-6), and that it was impossible that God should be the God of the dead. Therefore Abraham and Isaac and Jacob must be still alive. Therefore there was such a thing as the resurrection of the body.
My Friends, No wonder the scribes declared it to be a good answer, for Jesus had met the Sadducees on their own ground and defeated them. But out of this there is a truth for anyone who teaches Christianity to his fellow man. Jesus used arguments that the people he was arguing with could understand. He talked to them in their own language; he met them on their own ground; and that is precisely why the common people heard him gladly. We must approach teaching Christianity the same as Jesus.
Amen!
Reading: Luke: 20:27-40
Ref: HG SB, BSB
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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