1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,440 If you have a Bible, we're going to be in the book of 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:04,320 Luke 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,920 and in the 20th chapter. 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,240 And Jesus has been bantering 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,400 with these religious leaders, and they just don't get him. 6 00:00:14,519 --> 00:00:16,760 And uh I think that's true today too. 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,600 A lot of people just don't get 8 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:18,920 uh 9 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:20,279 Jesus. 10 00:00:20,279 --> 00:00:20,760 And um 11 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:21,400 uh 12 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,599 when they do, it is a beautiful thing to see. 13 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:24,960 But 14 00:00:25,119 --> 00:00:26,400 they couldn't catch him in his 15 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:27,119 words. 16 00:00:27,119 --> 00:00:27,840 They're in 17 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,840 verse 26, where we left off last time. 18 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:34,080 And they marveled at his 19 00:00:34,239 --> 00:00:35,200 answer and kept 20 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:36,080 silent 21 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,200 And so he kind of showed him up for a second. 22 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,239 You know, uh 23 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:40,560 they 24 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:48,160 couldn't catch him in his words about paying taxes to Caesar, and they honestly thought they had him, uh, because if he had said 25 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:48,880 if he said 26 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:49,520 no 27 00:00:49,940 --> 00:00:54,180 Then there would be an insurrection if he said yes, the people would stone him 28 00:00:54,580 --> 00:00:56,500 because they hated paying taxes 29 00:00:56,660 --> 00:00:57,940 like most people do 30 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:00,800 And so he blamed lambas 31 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:02,800 them with the whole image thing. 32 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:02,960 And 33 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:04,640 I don't know about you. 34 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:09,440 But the first time that registered in my mind that what Jesus was saying 35 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:10,320 about 36 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:12,840 Whose 37 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:13,720 image 38 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,560 is on the coin 39 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,960 and it was related to 40 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:19,160 whose 41 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:20,600 image is on you 42 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,680 And you give God to what 43 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:25,759 contains his 44 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,079 image. 45 00:01:28,079 --> 00:01:28,399 And 46 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:28,960 um 47 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:32,540 It's a powerful thing. 48 00:01:34,380 --> 00:01:35,740 He points this out 49 00:01:36,060 --> 00:01:36,700 that we 50 00:01:37,020 --> 00:01:37,340 are 51 00:01:37,660 --> 00:01:44,060 those that bear the image of God, you and I, created in the image of God. 52 00:01:46,060 --> 00:01:50,300 Genesis 1, 27, and God created man in his own image. 53 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:52,140 In the image of God, he created him 54 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:53,660 male and female. 55 00:01:53,660 --> 00:01:55,100 He created them. 56 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:58,380 Why can't people just read this and believe it? 57 00:01:58,460 --> 00:01:59,660 Right? 58 00:01:59,660 --> 00:01:59,820 It 59 00:02:00,460 --> 00:02:04,300 a lot of our political woes would go by the wayside. 60 00:02:06,060 --> 00:02:08,140 Male and female. 61 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:10,200 Not 62 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:11,560 six more or ten 63 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,680 more genders, just male and female. 64 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:15,960 Pretty simple 65 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,800 stuff. 66 00:02:19,380 --> 00:02:19,700 And 67 00:02:19,860 --> 00:02:20,500 so he 68 00:02:22,660 --> 00:02:26,100 So the Sadducees thought they would take their turn 69 00:02:26,220 --> 00:02:26,700 Right? 70 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:31,739 He's been bantering with the priests and the scribes and and Pharisees, and here come the Sadducees. 71 00:02:31,739 --> 00:02:32,060 Man, they 72 00:02:32,220 --> 00:02:33,420 think they got one. 73 00:02:33,420 --> 00:02:34,379 They got their ace 74 00:02:34,540 --> 00:02:35,180 in the hole 75 00:02:35,340 --> 00:02:35,819 question. 76 00:02:35,819 --> 00:02:37,900 They're gonna hit Jesus with, right 77 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:39,340 And so 78 00:02:39,980 --> 00:02:40,620 here it is. 79 00:02:40,620 --> 00:02:42,140 We're gonna we're gonna read 80 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:42,620 um 81 00:02:43,260 --> 00:02:43,740 verses 82 00:02:44,060 --> 00:02:44,940 twenty-seven 83 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:45,580 through 84 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:47,660 through forty. 85 00:02:48,459 --> 00:02:50,299 And then we might go on a little further. 86 00:02:50,299 --> 00:02:50,700 I'm not sure 87 00:02:50,860 --> 00:02:52,620 yet, depending on the time. 88 00:02:52,620 --> 00:02:55,739 I'm trying to uh we're kind of running into an issue with with our 89 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:57,500 with our lovely neighbor here, uh 90 00:02:57,659 --> 00:02:59,099 Bolero. 91 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:04,600 And uh we wanna wanna try to, you know, that I think they start some of their leagues at like one 92 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,560 or so, and so we want to kind of be cleared out of here. 93 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:07,880 So 94 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,600 I'm gonna uh I'll I'll try to look at the clock. 95 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,160 I usually don't. 96 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,800 I look up and think, oh really, I talked that long. 97 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,120 Uh 98 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,120 I'll try to watch it 99 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,880 But we're going to read verses 26 100 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,160 through 40. 101 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,320 Read along with me if you would, if you have your Bibles. 102 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,840 That's Luke chapter 20. 103 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:24,400 It says, then 104 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,240 some of the Sadducees who deny that there is a resurrection 105 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:32,580 That's why they are sad, you see. 106 00:03:32,820 --> 00:03:35,460 Came to him and asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses 107 00:03:35,620 --> 00:03:40,500 wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife 108 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:42,720 and he dies without children, his brother 109 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:45,519 should take his wife and raise up offspring 110 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,599 for his brother. 111 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:48,239 Now 112 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,040 There were seven brothers. 113 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:56,200 The first took a wife and died without children, and the second took her as wife, and he died childless. 114 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,599 Then the third took her, and in like manner 115 00:03:58,840 --> 00:03:59,800 the seven 116 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:00,360 also 117 00:04:00,820 --> 00:04:03,780 And they left no children and died. 118 00:04:03,780 --> 00:04:05,620 Last of all, the woman died also. 119 00:04:05,620 --> 00:04:10,260 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? 120 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,000 For all seven had her as wife. 121 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,080 And Jesus answered and said to them, 122 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:15,480 The 123 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,560 sons of this age marry 124 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,799 and are given in marriage. 125 00:04:19,539 --> 00:04:20,979 But those who are counted 126 00:04:21,139 --> 00:04:25,379 worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead 127 00:04:25,539 --> 00:04:30,419 neither marry or are given in marriage, nor can they die any more. 128 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,639 For they are equal to the angels 129 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,400 and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. 130 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,199 But even Moses 131 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:37,560 showed in the burning bus 132 00:04:37,879 --> 00:04:39,000 bush passage 133 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,039 passage 134 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:49,280 That the dead are raised when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 135 00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:53,280 For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all 136 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,720 live to him. 137 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,879 And then some of the scribes answered and said, 138 00:04:57,039 --> 00:04:59,199 Teacher, you have spoken well. 139 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:00,000 But after that 140 00:05:00,159 --> 00:05:02,080 they dared not question him 141 00:05:02,220 --> 00:05:02,780 Anymore. 142 00:05:02,860 --> 00:05:03,979 Let's pray. 143 00:05:03,979 --> 00:05:05,900 Lord, we uh 144 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:09,660 we believe that this is the inspired word of God. 145 00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:15,100 Lord, that we should uh believe it as such and take it into our hearts 146 00:05:15,060 --> 00:05:19,780 Lord, and yet we're we're feeble when it comes to this spiritual understanding. 147 00:05:19,780 --> 00:05:28,020 So I pray that you would open our understanding, Lord, that you would open our eyes, Lord, that you would help us see, that you would open our ears 148 00:05:28,060 --> 00:05:31,180 that we would hear what the Spirit of the Lord says to us 149 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:35,100 as people, as a church body, and as individuals. 150 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:40,540 Well Lord, we love you and we praise you for loving us so much that you give us this truth 151 00:05:40,699 --> 00:05:41,660 that we can 152 00:05:42,039 --> 00:05:45,639 Lord, we can hang our hat on, that we can rest our life on. 153 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:46,120 And so 154 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:46,680 Lord, 155 00:05:47,159 --> 00:05:48,039 use it now 156 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:49,240 as we uh 157 00:05:49,479 --> 00:05:51,720 look at it, as we examine 158 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,639 it, Lord, that you would take your word, the words of life 159 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:55,880 and minister 160 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,040 to our souls in Jesus' name. 161 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,240 Amen. 162 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:00,520 Amen. 163 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:01,160 So 164 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:03,960 the Sadducees come 165 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,600 And notice it says, and some of the Sadducees who deny 166 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:08,960 there is a resurrection 167 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:10,160 came to him and asked 168 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:11,120 him. 169 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:17,840 Can you imagine denying there is a resurrection, not believing that there was a resurrection? 170 00:06:17,820 --> 00:06:19,580 And they denied it. 171 00:06:19,580 --> 00:06:20,140 And um 172 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:26,220 then they present this ridiculous story of the seven brothers that all had this one woman. 173 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:29,580 And they thought this was a great way to get Jesus to stumble on his 174 00:06:29,740 --> 00:06:30,300 words. 175 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:31,419 The Sadducees 176 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:35,979 were the ancient version of the modern liberal theologians. 177 00:06:35,940 --> 00:06:41,140 They were anti-supernaturalistic, only accepting the first five books of Moses 178 00:06:41,380 --> 00:06:43,220 as authentic, and 179 00:06:43,460 --> 00:06:48,580 disregarding what was written in those books when it pleased them to do so. 180 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:53,300 They did not believe in immortality, spirits, or angels. 181 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,140 And you're like, what's the point? 182 00:06:55,140 --> 00:06:57,620 Why would you even go to church? 183 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,040 If this stuff wasn't true. 184 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,320 Right, if this is all there is, then 185 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,160 let's go down to the bar and party on, dude. 186 00:07:08,039 --> 00:07:14,840 And satisfy every one of our pleasures until we take our last breath because this is as good as it gets. 187 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,120 I mean, it's just like 188 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:17,639 these guys are an 189 00:07:17,879 --> 00:07:19,000 oxymoron 190 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:20,919 or just morons. 191 00:07:20,919 --> 00:07:22,039 I don't know. 192 00:07:25,940 --> 00:07:26,260 But 193 00:07:28,020 --> 00:07:30,660 think about it. 194 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:33,460 The Sadducees produced no life 195 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:41,080 They're kind of like our gay community. 196 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:46,600 Right like the old the old barnyard saying you can't get a chicken from two roosters 197 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,400 It doesn't produce any life, do you get it? 198 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,120 Right? 199 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,840 Male and female produce life 200 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,560 and God loves it. 201 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:04,200 And so 202 00:08:08,060 --> 00:08:08,460 I mean 203 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:10,379 what's the purpose of this life 204 00:08:10,539 --> 00:08:10,780 if 205 00:08:11,259 --> 00:08:11,900 if there 206 00:08:12,220 --> 00:08:15,020 is no resurrection, there is no 207 00:08:15,259 --> 00:08:16,940 life after death 208 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:20,000 Just go 209 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,000 where you can get. 210 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,000 No judgment, no heaven or hell. 211 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,080 What would be the point? 212 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:29,440 Seriously. 213 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,040 I mean you think about that. 214 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:31,440 What 215 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:34,880 But 216 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:46,320 if there is a resurrection, if there is a judgment, if there is an accounting for your life, then you probably should take heed to what our Lord says. 217 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:50,160 So 218 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,240 these guys, the Sadducees, use 219 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,400 this scenario of the leaven 220 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:55,040 rate 221 00:08:56,140 --> 00:08:56,700 Levy 222 00:08:57,020 --> 00:08:57,340 or 223 00:08:57,500 --> 00:08:57,980 levy 224 00:08:58,140 --> 00:08:58,700 rate 225 00:08:59,340 --> 00:08:59,980 marriage 226 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:02,380 that was found in the Old Testament, right? 227 00:09:02,380 --> 00:09:04,140 It's mentioned in Genesis 228 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:04,940 uh 229 00:09:05,260 --> 00:09:06,540 chapter 38. 230 00:09:06,540 --> 00:09:08,779 It's in Deuteronomy 25, but this is 231 00:09:09,019 --> 00:09:11,580 in the book of Ruth as well. 232 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:12,380 And that is 233 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:13,980 if a married man 234 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:14,640 Died 235 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:20,560 childless, it was the brother's responsibility to impregnate his brother's widow 236 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:26,480 and then count the child as the deceased husband's descendant. 237 00:09:25,820 --> 00:09:27,260 Raising up a descendant 238 00:09:27,580 --> 00:09:30,300 for the brother that had died. 239 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:32,380 And Genes 38 is where 240 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:35,980 Judah's son, Ur, you remember him? 241 00:09:35,860 --> 00:09:43,620 Some of you who went through Genesis with us, there was Ur, the oldest boy, and the Bible says that God killed him 242 00:09:44,180 --> 00:09:45,620 because he was wicked. 243 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:50,900 I look in the mirror sometimes and I'm wondering, 244 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:53,220 why did you not kill me? 245 00:09:53,220 --> 00:09:57,300 Because I don't think Ur had anything on me. 246 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,040 And God killed him. 247 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:05,880 And so Onan, the next one, took Tamar, his widow, and he was 248 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:14,560 He was willing to have sex with her, but he wasn't willing to raise up a child. 249 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:16,959 And you know the whole story, he mitts his semen 250 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,600 on the ground, and God kills him. 251 00:10:22,340 --> 00:10:22,580 So 252 00:10:22,740 --> 00:10:23,860 Ur and Onan 253 00:10:24,020 --> 00:10:25,540 are are gone. 254 00:10:25,540 --> 00:10:27,460 Gonzo, they're dead 255 00:10:27,940 --> 00:10:30,500 because of their wickedness. 256 00:10:30,339 --> 00:10:32,420 And Judah has one more son. 257 00:10:32,420 --> 00:10:34,579 But he tells Tamar, hey, just wait. 258 00:10:34,579 --> 00:10:34,899 Wait 259 00:10:35,060 --> 00:10:35,380 till 260 00:10:35,779 --> 00:10:36,100 uh 261 00:10:36,259 --> 00:10:38,660 Shelah or Shelah grows up 262 00:10:38,819 --> 00:10:40,420 and you can have him. 263 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:41,360 And 264 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,840 you guys know the story, right? 265 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,280 He doesn't wait 266 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:45,840 or 267 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,680 he waits too long 268 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:48,240 and 269 00:10:48,740 --> 00:10:51,620 She plays the harlot and Judah goes in and 270 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:52,260 obviously 271 00:10:52,580 --> 00:10:53,700 the two sons get replaced. 272 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:54,100 One of those 273 00:10:54,260 --> 00:10:56,820 Perez, which was in the lineage of Jesus 274 00:10:59,420 --> 00:10:59,660 But 275 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:04,540 this is ridiculous, this story that these guys come up with. 276 00:11:04,540 --> 00:11:05,740 Right? 277 00:11:05,740 --> 00:11:06,380 And so 278 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:10,060 What this 279 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:17,340 Leverite marriage thing though does tell us though, it tells us that God values life above human emotion. 280 00:11:17,340 --> 00:11:18,860 Could you imagine? 281 00:11:18,740 --> 00:11:20,900 Could you imagine if that was in our culture today? 282 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:23,140 You're gonna do what with who? 283 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,060 Over my dead body 284 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:33,000 And yet 285 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,600 God values these little ones. 286 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,360 This this gives old Proposition One 287 00:11:36,519 --> 00:11:38,199 big old fat kick in the head, is 288 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:39,720 what it does. 289 00:11:40,220 --> 00:11:42,140 God loves life. 290 00:11:42,140 --> 00:11:44,060 He loves babies. 291 00:11:44,060 --> 00:11:46,380 He wants babies to come into this world. 292 00:11:46,380 --> 00:11:46,860 Why? 293 00:11:46,860 --> 00:11:48,460 Because he wants heaven full. 294 00:11:48,460 --> 00:11:49,660 That's why. 295 00:11:49,660 --> 00:11:52,060 God wants heaven full. 296 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:52,900 The book of Malachi 297 00:11:53,060 --> 00:11:56,660 tells us that he desires godly seed. 298 00:11:56,660 --> 00:11:58,260 And when that baby is born, 299 00:11:59,540 --> 00:12:06,180 he's a prospect for godly seed, no matter what the circumstances are, no matter what. 300 00:12:06,740 --> 00:12:08,660 And he's the giver of life. 301 00:12:08,660 --> 00:12:11,620 And that pregnancy is God's will. 302 00:12:11,620 --> 00:12:14,100 And it's God's will that that baby. 303 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,400 Would come to maturity. 304 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:19,720 Because 305 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:20,360 no doubt 306 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,200 this this leverite thing 307 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,280 in families, it would have been an emotional roller coaster 308 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,720 to bring a baby into this world. 309 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,480 But then you have the beautiful 310 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,960 picture of the kinsman redeemer in the book of Ruth. 311 00:12:40,380 --> 00:12:41,820 It's powerful 312 00:12:42,060 --> 00:12:44,380 when you read through that. 313 00:12:44,380 --> 00:12:45,260 That Boaz 314 00:12:45,420 --> 00:12:49,260 comes along and he takes this Gentile woman as his 315 00:12:49,500 --> 00:12:49,820 wife 316 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:51,660 because the two brothers 317 00:12:52,740 --> 00:12:53,060 That 318 00:12:53,220 --> 00:12:53,860 could have 319 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:56,819 had children were dead. 320 00:12:56,819 --> 00:13:00,019 And he steps in. 321 00:13:00,019 --> 00:13:01,380 We don't know if Boaz 322 00:13:01,540 --> 00:13:02,180 had a family. 323 00:13:02,180 --> 00:13:02,420 He's 324 00:13:02,660 --> 00:13:03,139 very well 325 00:13:03,380 --> 00:13:03,779 -off 326 00:13:04,019 --> 00:13:04,899 fella. 327 00:13:07,460 --> 00:13:10,900 But it's a beautiful it's a beautiful thing in the book of Ruth. 328 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:12,660 And there was an out. 329 00:13:12,660 --> 00:13:14,660 They didn't have to do this. 330 00:13:14,820 --> 00:13:18,100 They could go to the leaders of the city, right? 331 00:13:18,100 --> 00:13:20,260 Instead of taking their brother-in-law's 332 00:13:20,740 --> 00:13:21,380 widow 333 00:13:22,020 --> 00:13:24,420 or their brother's widow. 334 00:13:25,380 --> 00:13:30,900 They could go to the city leaders and they could say, I decline. 335 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:34,020 I'm not going to raise up seed for my dead brother. 336 00:13:34,220 --> 00:13:41,900 But they would have to take their shoe off, and she would be there, and they would take their shoe off, she would take his shoe off 337 00:13:42,060 --> 00:13:45,020 and spit in his face. 338 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,880 And then he would have that title. 339 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,120 It was a title of dishonor. 340 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,240 The man whose shoe was loosed. 341 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,480 Because it wasn't willing to to do this deed 342 00:14:04,620 --> 00:14:06,620 Kind of bizarre, isn't it? 343 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:07,260 But 344 00:14:07,820 --> 00:14:09,100 it's God's 345 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:11,100 God loves life 346 00:14:11,660 --> 00:14:11,980 that 347 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:13,100 much. 348 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:14,779 And so they they 349 00:14:15,019 --> 00:14:19,420 he says that there were these seven brothers, and not one of them were 350 00:14:19,660 --> 00:14:21,100 had any babies. 351 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:23,100 I think it's hypothetical. 352 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:25,579 I don't think this was a real story. 353 00:14:25,540 --> 00:14:26,660 They were just 354 00:14:26,980 --> 00:14:30,500 hypothesizing to try to catch Jesus. 355 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:31,459 And then they 356 00:14:31,940 --> 00:14:36,019 they thought the resurrection was a ridiculous idea. 357 00:14:36,019 --> 00:14:36,339 So 358 00:14:37,060 --> 00:14:37,380 so 359 00:14:38,019 --> 00:14:39,940 whose wife is she? 360 00:14:40,519 --> 00:14:41,080 Oh, seven 361 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:41,480 had 362 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:42,200 her. 363 00:14:48,740 --> 00:14:49,699 This offers 364 00:14:51,459 --> 00:14:55,779 the afterlife a huge problem as far as these guys are concerned. 365 00:14:55,779 --> 00:14:58,420 This is a quandary, right? 366 00:14:58,740 --> 00:15:01,699 About these seven guys and the one woman. 367 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:03,820 But 368 00:15:03,980 --> 00:15:05,660 they don't understand. 369 00:15:06,380 --> 00:15:08,060 I was just talking to somebody about it. 370 00:15:08,060 --> 00:15:09,900 Oh, spiritual blindness 371 00:15:11,339 --> 00:15:13,180 People are spiritually blind. 372 00:15:13,180 --> 00:15:14,700 They don't get it. 373 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:16,540 They don't get this afterlife. 374 00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:17,500 They don't get 375 00:15:17,820 --> 00:15:20,380 eternity in our hearts. 376 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:22,940 They're so focused on this life 377 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:24,860 they can't see it. 378 00:15:25,180 --> 00:15:27,660 And it's disturbing. 379 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:30,140 It's troubling. 380 00:15:30,140 --> 00:15:30,460 You know, 381 00:15:30,620 --> 00:15:31,100 he's talking 382 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:32,700 so many of the uh 383 00:15:32,959 --> 00:15:34,080 the Democrats they got 384 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,160 they got they got plans and they got issue 385 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,680 they got you know that they're gonna 386 00:15:37,839 --> 00:15:40,320 they're gonna make things better for everybody 387 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,000 the thing about it is is all of their ideas are different 388 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:45,040 and all of them 389 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,959 have a different morality 390 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:54,459 How can two walk together, the scripture says, unless they be agreed? 391 00:15:54,459 --> 00:15:55,899 How can they walk together? 392 00:15:55,899 --> 00:15:57,180 They can't. 393 00:15:57,180 --> 00:15:59,819 It's gonna be a disaster. 394 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,080 These next two years are gonna be fun to watch. 395 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:07,680 It's gonna be uh 396 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,760 it's gonna be pretty wild. 397 00:16:13,839 --> 00:16:16,240 The Apostle Paul uses this 398 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:19,759 resurrection thing as a 399 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,800 powerful tool to bring separation. 400 00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:25,100 And I think it does separate 401 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:27,260 this whole idea of 402 00:16:28,140 --> 00:16:28,220 , 403 00:16:28,380 --> 00:16:29,660 no, this isn't it. 404 00:16:29,660 --> 00:16:33,180 This is just a proving ground for us who believe. 405 00:16:33,180 --> 00:16:35,020 And the resurrection is 406 00:16:35,580 --> 00:16:36,940 glorious. 407 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:38,920 But 408 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,640 for those who don't believe, it's a 409 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,880 it's a point of contention. 410 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,920 They scoff, they look down their nose, they 411 00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:48,540 They squabble. 412 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:50,060 And Paul got him to squabble him 413 00:16:50,220 --> 00:16:53,180 because they were about to kill him in Acts chapter 23. 414 00:16:53,180 --> 00:16:54,540 And it says, But when Paul res 415 00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:59,420 perceived that one part was Sadducees, here they are again 416 00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:12,100 And the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead, I am being judged. 417 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:21,960 And when he had said this a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided, for Sadducees say there is no resurrection, and no angel or spirit. 418 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,360 But the Pharisees confessed both 419 00:17:24,260 --> 00:17:28,339 Then there arose a loud outcry, and the scribes and the Pharisees 420 00:17:28,660 --> 00:17:31,299 party arose and protested, saying 421 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:40,120 We find no evil in this man, but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God. 422 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,160 At least the Pharisees had a sense that, oh 423 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,880 no, God's working here. 424 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:50,780 Possibly. 425 00:17:50,780 --> 00:17:51,820 And so I'm 426 00:17:51,980 --> 00:17:52,460 I kind of 427 00:17:52,620 --> 00:17:54,700 going all through this and pointing all this out 428 00:17:54,860 --> 00:17:56,380 just to challenge us 429 00:17:56,540 --> 00:18:00,620 as to what we really believe about the resurrection. 430 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,720 What do you really believe about it? 431 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,840 Because there's talk shows all the time, and people are saying, man, I just don't know if I can buy a 432 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,720 dead carpenter coming back to life. 433 00:18:18,580 --> 00:18:20,100 It's because they don't know. 434 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:22,740 Maybe they haven't been exposed. 435 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:28,039 When we were singing these hymns this morning, I was taken back 436 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,120 a long ways. 437 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:33,559 Like to when I was seven, eight, nine years old. 438 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,480 And I remember hearing this 439 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:41,000 doctrine of God being sung, that there was this sacrifice 440 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,680 and there was this death and there was this resurrection. 441 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,240 And how it filled my grandparents' 442 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:51,120 heart 443 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,480 with such joy, the hope of the resurrection. 444 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:07,100 Jesus responds to these guys in the next verses here, starting in verse 34. 445 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,560 Read read with me. 446 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:16,320 And Jesus answered and said to him, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. 447 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,040 This age 448 00:19:18,019 --> 00:19:18,100 This 449 00:19:18,419 --> 00:19:18,659 is 450 00:19:18,820 --> 00:19:19,539 we're in this 451 00:19:19,940 --> 00:19:21,700 we're in this time capsule 452 00:19:22,019 --> 00:19:24,100 here, right? 453 00:19:24,740 --> 00:19:26,500 We're stuck in 454 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:28,340 time. 455 00:19:28,340 --> 00:19:30,659 There is a place outside of time 456 00:19:32,020 --> 00:19:37,220 And in this place where we're stuck in time, there is this thing called marriage. 457 00:19:37,220 --> 00:19:39,060 And God ordained it. 458 00:19:39,060 --> 00:19:42,020 And God smiles when a man and a woman get 459 00:19:42,260 --> 00:19:43,140 married. 460 00:19:44,180 --> 00:19:44,660 It's his 461 00:19:44,980 --> 00:19:45,860 way. 462 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:45,880 of 463 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:47,400 like I said earlier, 464 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,400 populating heaven. 465 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,680 Nowhere in the scriptures do we see the Lord telling us to stop populating. 466 00:19:57,060 --> 00:19:59,780 He doesn't talk about population control. 467 00:19:59,780 --> 00:20:00,020 I think 468 00:20:00,180 --> 00:20:00,660 that's his 469 00:20:00,820 --> 00:20:03,380 job. 470 00:20:03,380 --> 00:20:04,100 Right? 471 00:20:04,420 --> 00:20:11,220 As you look throughout scripture, you see the Lord opening womb, closing wombs. 472 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:17,520 Now 473 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,280 Luke seems to be kind of 474 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:20,080 gentle here 475 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:21,440 compared to what 476 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,600 Matthew writes 477 00:20:23,919 --> 00:20:24,559 in his 478 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,400 take on this same 479 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:30,720 question that Jesus gets hit with 480 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,679 about the seven brothers and the one woman. 481 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,840 Jesus answered and said to them, this is Matthew 22, 29, you 482 00:20:38,159 --> 00:20:40,639 are mistaken. 483 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:45,120 Or I think one version says, you greatly err. 484 00:20:45,620 --> 00:20:45,860 not 485 00:20:46,020 --> 00:20:48,900 knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. 486 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:55,460 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels, the 487 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:58,660 are like angels of God in heaven. 488 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:00,000 He 489 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,480 says, you guys, you don't know 490 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:03,200 your 491 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,920 hind end from a hole in the ground. 492 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:12,360 You greatly err. 493 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,080 You've mistaken. 494 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:15,960 Planeo 495 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:16,760 is the word. 496 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,279 It means deceived. 497 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:20,120 You've deceived yourself 498 00:21:21,140 --> 00:21:22,260 You don't know this 499 00:21:22,420 --> 00:21:23,460 the scriptures 500 00:21:23,620 --> 00:21:26,260 nor the power of God. 501 00:21:26,260 --> 00:21:30,580 And so many people, there are people sitting in this room right now that don't know the scriptures 502 00:21:30,740 --> 00:21:32,420 nor the power of God. 503 00:21:34,059 --> 00:21:36,460 When you should be self-feeding 504 00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:43,260 and feeding your soul the truth of the Word of God, we just kind of let it go by the wayside. 505 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:44,140 You don't do it. 506 00:21:44,140 --> 00:21:44,860 Oh, I'm good. 507 00:21:45,179 --> 00:21:46,940 I go to church occasionally 508 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:53,280 Right. 509 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:54,480 We deceive ourselves 510 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:54,800 way 511 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,480 too easily. 512 00:21:58,980 --> 00:22:04,100 They didn't know the scriptures because they refused to know Jesus. 513 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:08,820 They refused to know him, who is the Word of God. 514 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,400 He's the Word of God, Jesus. 515 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,200 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us 516 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:19,660 The word 517 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:22,700 was and is God. 518 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:25,900 They didn't want no part of him. 519 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:27,340 What about you? 520 00:22:28,540 --> 00:22:29,340 How much of him 521 00:22:29,580 --> 00:22:30,220 you want 522 00:22:32,020 --> 00:22:34,660 As much as I can get, because 523 00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:36,660 I've had enough of me. 524 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:44,440 So he says, but those who are counted worthy to attain 525 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,400 that age and the resurrection from the dead 526 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,520 neither marry or are given in marriage. 527 00:22:51,780 --> 00:22:52,580 They never 528 00:22:52,820 --> 00:22:53,220 marry 529 00:22:53,380 --> 00:22:56,180 nor are given in marriage. 530 00:22:56,180 --> 00:23:02,500 And we live in a in a society here in eastern Idaho that believes there is eternal marriage. 531 00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:04,380 The Bible does not teach that. 532 00:23:04,380 --> 00:23:05,980 Jesus Christ himself 533 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:07,580 teaches it right here. 534 00:23:07,580 --> 00:23:11,100 They neither marry or are given in marriage. 535 00:23:15,419 --> 00:23:21,260 And someone said, well, if I can't be married to my man in heaven, I don't know if I want to go. 536 00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:22,940 Well, there is an alternative 537 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,120 Now 538 00:23:42,919 --> 00:23:44,679 Jesus tells them that 539 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:48,800 In 540 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,840 this age, they 541 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,400 marry and are given in marriage. 542 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,080 But in the age to come 543 00:23:57,540 --> 00:23:59,540 They don't marry or are given in marriage. 544 00:23:59,540 --> 00:24:02,100 Do you know why? 545 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:03,460 Do you know why? 546 00:24:04,660 --> 00:24:05,300 Listen 547 00:24:06,980 --> 00:24:10,580 The reason they don't marry in the in the in the resurrection 548 00:24:10,820 --> 00:24:13,940 is because there's no trouble in the resurrection 549 00:24:18,679 --> 00:24:21,000 And this is exactly what Paul said. 550 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,600 He said, But even if you do marry, you do not sin. 551 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,919 And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. 552 00:24:26,919 --> 00:24:28,120 Nevertheless. 553 00:24:28,220 --> 00:24:32,140 Such will have trouble in the flesh. 554 00:24:32,140 --> 00:24:35,500 But Paul says, I would spare you. 555 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:37,660 There's no marriage in the resurrection 556 00:24:37,980 --> 00:24:38,300 because 557 00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:40,940 there's no trouble. 558 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,560 And the resurrection. 559 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,360 Matrimony brings trouble. 560 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:51,320 Now, yes, it brings those little seedlings, right, that God loves with all of his 561 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:52,440 heart. 562 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,600 But there's usually these two adults that, you know, they lock horns 563 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,000 occasionally. 564 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,120 None of that 565 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,520 in the resurrection 566 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:12,600 So they neither marry nor are given in marriage, verse 36, nor can they die 567 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,880 anymore. 568 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,040 For they are equal to the angels 569 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,440 and are sons of God. 570 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:19,120 Being 571 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,280 sons of the resurrection. 572 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,040 This is some good stuff. 573 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,960 It's exciting. 574 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,120 I can't wait. 575 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,240 Some young pastors ask 576 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,440 an old pastor, well 577 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:36,840 he's 578 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:37,640 they said 579 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:38,120 , 580 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:38,840 Will there 581 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,720 be sex in heaven? 582 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,280 And the old pastor said, What's that? 583 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,040 Things fade a little with age. 584 00:26:08,659 --> 00:26:11,779 But notice it says, nor can they die anymore. 585 00:26:11,779 --> 00:26:12,820 Isn't that cool? 586 00:26:12,820 --> 00:26:15,380 Well what is that little saying in marriage? 587 00:26:15,380 --> 00:26:17,779 Till death do us part. 588 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,000 Statistically, men die before women. 589 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:24,240 And 590 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,480 so they ask a bunch of men, why is it that win men die before women? 591 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:29,840 One old boy says, because 592 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:30,960 they want to 593 00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:42,279 I've seen some of those. 594 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:43,480 I've seen some of them, my 595 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:44,600 boys. 596 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,080 But Jesus says, but those who are counted worthy, what does it mean? 597 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,120 What does that mean 598 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:58,120 to be counted worthy? 599 00:26:58,120 --> 00:26:59,880 Who is worthy? 600 00:27:00,340 --> 00:27:02,340 Jesus is worthy. 601 00:27:02,340 --> 00:27:07,220 So you better stay really close to Jesus if you want to experience this 602 00:27:07,380 --> 00:27:07,620 what 603 00:27:07,779 --> 00:27:09,620 he's talking about here. 604 00:27:13,919 --> 00:27:18,080 Do you receive and believe? 605 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,799 Do you love or do you hate? 606 00:27:21,340 --> 00:27:23,500 Do you forgive or do you harbor? 607 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:25,980 Do you get bitter or do you get better? 608 00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:27,659 I'm thinking 609 00:27:28,539 --> 00:27:28,860 the 610 00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:33,899 best way to know that we're worthy is to chase after Jesus with all your heart. 611 00:27:33,919 --> 00:27:36,320 Just chase after him with all your heart. 612 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,000 He's going to open doors for you. 613 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,520 He'll close doors for you. 614 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,280 He'll put people in front of you that you might bear spiritual fruit 615 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,520 and reproduce. 616 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,440 But they don't marry. 617 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,840 That's because I'm convinced 618 00:27:57,220 --> 00:28:05,300 That every relationship that we have in heaven will supersede the closest relationship that we have here on earth. 619 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:08,260 It will supersede it by far. 620 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,280 And the Bible suggests this, right? 621 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:12,760 1 622 00:28:12,919 --> 00:28:13,160 John 623 00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:14,200 3, verse 2 624 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,640 says, Beloved, now we are children of God. 625 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:17,460 And 626 00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:26,740 it has not been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when he is revealed, we shall be like him, for we shall see him 627 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:28,500 as he is. 628 00:28:29,780 --> 00:28:32,180 We're gonna be like him. 629 00:28:32,180 --> 00:28:34,420 We're gonna love like Jesus 630 00:28:38,380 --> 00:28:43,260 And this husband-wife relationship, it is the closest relationship 631 00:28:44,540 --> 00:28:44,700 that 632 00:28:45,260 --> 00:28:47,260 we have in this life. 633 00:28:47,260 --> 00:28:49,660 Nobody knows me like my wife does. 634 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,480 And nobody knows her like I do. 635 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:54,960 Right? 636 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,560 That's that closeness. 637 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:57,920 That's that oneness 638 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,080 that is a picture. 639 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,240 It's just a shadow. 640 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,960 Of that relationship that we will have with Jesus, us being his 641 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,320 bride. 642 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,120 Right? 643 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,120 It's going to be sweet, it's going to be intimate, it's going to be 644 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,000 the same with one another. 645 00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:18,020 It's a powerful thought. 646 00:29:18,020 --> 00:29:22,660 First Corinthians talks about it as well, Paul and in chapter 13. 647 00:29:22,820 --> 00:29:25,539 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then 648 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:27,220 face to face, now 649 00:29:27,380 --> 00:29:30,100 I know in part, but then I shall 650 00:29:30,620 --> 00:29:30,780 No 651 00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:33,100 just as I am also known. 652 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:36,220 And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. 653 00:29:36,220 --> 00:29:38,140 But the greatest of these is 654 00:29:38,460 --> 00:29:39,580 love. 655 00:29:39,580 --> 00:29:44,860 It's a thing that every human heart desires, above anything else. 656 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:50,460 Is that unconditional love? 657 00:29:50,460 --> 00:29:52,940 And they can't die anymore. 658 00:29:52,940 --> 00:29:54,780 This is huge. 659 00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:56,940 Imagine a life without death 660 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,680 But there are gonna be those who can die again. 661 00:30:09,940 --> 00:30:11,940 These were the sons of the resurrection. 662 00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,100 Can I say the first resurrection? 663 00:30:14,740 --> 00:30:16,580 They don't die anymore. 664 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:22,400 But those who don't take part in the first resurrection, they can 665 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,320 die. 666 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,480 And it's called the second death. 667 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,760 And you don't want any part of it. 668 00:30:28,919 --> 00:30:33,400 If you've never studied it, please go to the book of Revelation and study the second death. 669 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,679 It's mentioned there four times 670 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,080 just in the book of Revelation. 671 00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:43,000 You don't want to experience that. 672 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,840 That's that separation 673 00:30:45,159 --> 00:30:45,480 from 674 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,440 God for all eternity, ultimately 675 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,000 ending there in the lake of fire. 676 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:04,560 No wonder Paul said in Philippians 1:21, for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. 677 00:31:05,940 --> 00:31:06,580 It's a low 678 00:31:06,740 --> 00:31:08,980 whole lot gooder on the other side. 679 00:31:12,420 --> 00:31:13,780 Is gooder a word? 680 00:31:13,780 --> 00:31:14,500 I don't know. 681 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:15,540 It just was. 682 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:17,300 I just used it as one. 683 00:31:21,060 --> 00:31:22,900 That was a desire of his. 684 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:24,420 Is that yours? 685 00:31:24,820 --> 00:31:27,700 I mean, maybe if you're young, maybe not. 686 00:31:28,540 --> 00:31:28,780 And 687 00:31:28,940 --> 00:31:29,020 I 688 00:31:29,340 --> 00:31:31,420 did crazy things when I was young. 689 00:31:31,740 --> 00:31:39,420 I had had to kind of, because of what I did, I I kind of had to come to grips with the fact that I could die young. 690 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,440 When I was a junior in high school, a buddy of mine, his uncle bought us twenty 691 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:49,920 head of 692 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:51,760 bulls. 693 00:31:52,340 --> 00:31:52,659 And 694 00:31:52,899 --> 00:31:54,659 we start bucking bulls. 695 00:31:54,659 --> 00:31:56,659 Sometimes it was just two of us. 696 00:31:56,659 --> 00:32:01,299 If somebody got hung up, the other guy had to go help. 697 00:32:01,299 --> 00:32:03,539 It's a miracle we never died. 698 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,120 And I wasn't ready to die back then. 699 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,840 But it was a close call in the arena that finally got my attention 700 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,200 Boy, you're gonna die. 701 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,720 Are you ready for that? 702 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,000 Uh-uh. 703 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:20,720 No, I was 704 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,560 I wasn't ready for that. 705 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,760 And so I knew I needed to get ready. 706 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,400 And so the next three or four years the Lord was just, He wasn't just knocking on my door. 707 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,160 He was kicking in it and pounding on it. 708 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,400 Boy, you can let me in or not 709 00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:40,760 And I finally surrendered. 710 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,960 And then there was that desire, Lord, it's just gonna be, this life's full of trouble. 711 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:46,520 Isn't it? 712 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:47,559 Haven't you noticed? 713 00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:47,799 I think 714 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,320 Jesus promised that 715 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,039 Years ago I heard John 716 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:51,679 Corison 717 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,240 say this life is a tragic life. 718 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,000 It is tragic. 719 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,440 Golly, having to do people's funerals and 720 00:32:59,820 --> 00:33:00,140 and 721 00:33:00,460 --> 00:33:02,220 see brokenness and loss 722 00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:04,700 and and bankruptcy and divorce 723 00:33:04,860 --> 00:33:05,180 and 724 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:05,820 just 725 00:33:06,460 --> 00:33:07,100 trouble 726 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,720 And so there's this longing. 727 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:12,600 It talks about it. 728 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,480 Paul talks about it in 2 Corinthians 5, verses 1 and 2. 729 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,640 It says, For we know that if our earthly house, this tent 730 00:33:19,740 --> 00:33:21,820 This body is destroyed. 731 00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:26,780 We have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 732 00:33:26,780 --> 00:33:33,580 For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven. 733 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,360 I can't wait. 734 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:39,600 I 735 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,160 just went and seen a family member yesterday, and to see him 736 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:45,760 in this condition 737 00:33:46,740 --> 00:33:46,980 of 738 00:33:47,299 --> 00:33:49,380 being close to death. 739 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:52,900 It's just heartbreaking. 740 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:54,179 It's gonna happen 741 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:01,360 Unless I run out in front of somebody here in the next few days, he's gonna beat me. 742 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,520 I don't know that he's totally ready 743 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:11,000 If he was, he would be longing for this habitation 744 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,360 from heaven 745 00:34:15,179 --> 00:34:19,980 I am, and my carcass is in a little better shape than him, though I'm a little older 746 00:34:25,260 --> 00:34:25,580 Here 747 00:34:25,740 --> 00:34:27,500 in verses thirty-seven and 748 00:34:27,980 --> 00:34:30,220 thirty-eight, Jesus drives 749 00:34:30,379 --> 00:34:32,540 the point home where he says 750 00:34:33,099 --> 00:34:33,740 But even 751 00:34:33,899 --> 00:34:34,379 Moses 752 00:34:34,619 --> 00:34:36,700 showed in the burning bush 753 00:34:37,020 --> 00:34:39,980 bush passage that the dead are raised 754 00:34:40,139 --> 00:34:41,579 when he called 755 00:34:41,899 --> 00:34:43,339 the Lord. 756 00:34:43,780 --> 00:34:50,340 The God of Abraham, the God of Jacob, or Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 757 00:34:50,340 --> 00:34:53,700 For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living. 758 00:34:53,700 --> 00:34:54,340 For all 759 00:34:54,660 --> 00:34:56,179 live to him. 760 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,840 I never would have gotten that out of that passage. 761 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,600 And yet Jesus says that's what it's pointing to. 762 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,000 It's pointing to the resurrection. 763 00:35:09,260 --> 00:35:11,260 Which is the pinnacle of the gospel 764 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:24,000 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he was not. 765 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,079 It says that he is the 766 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,800 God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 767 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:28,960 He 768 00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:30,640 's not was the God. 769 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,000 He is the God. 770 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,280 They are alive. 771 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:33,760 Right? 772 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:40,080 We saw Abraham talking back in Luke 16. 773 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,880 2,000 years after he's been dead. 774 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,400 His body died. 775 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,200 But there's parts of him that didn't die, that are gonna live forever. 776 00:35:53,339 --> 00:35:54,540 Warren Beersby 777 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:55,500 puts it this way, he says, 778 00:35:55,660 --> 00:35:56,780 but Jesus said 779 00:35:57,020 --> 00:36:06,140 in Exodus 3, he taught not only the truth of life after death, but also the reality of the resurrection. 780 00:36:05,940 --> 00:36:07,859 In what way, you would ask? 781 00:36:07,859 --> 00:36:16,740 Not by direct statement, but by inference, God is the God of the whole person, spirit, soul, and body. 782 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:18,720 God is the God 783 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,200 of the whole person. 784 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,040 We're triune. 785 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,280 We bear the image of God, the triune 786 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:25,840 God. 787 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,600 We are triune. 788 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,680 Body, soul, and spirit. 789 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:29,839 1 790 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,200 Thessalonians 5. 791 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,400 23 it says, now 792 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,040 may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. 793 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:37,059 And 794 00:36:37,380 --> 00:36:45,779 may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 795 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:52,859 So whatever little bit of corruption happens to these old carcasses when we put them in the ground 796 00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:53,660 or turn them 797 00:36:53,819 --> 00:36:55,980 into dust in the infirmary 798 00:36:56,299 --> 00:36:57,500 or incinerator 799 00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:00,980 Something like that. 800 00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:09,980 It's alive. 801 00:37:09,980 --> 00:37:10,940 We're alive. 802 00:37:10,940 --> 00:37:11,260 I 803 00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:12,220 the Bible 804 00:37:12,380 --> 00:37:14,860 does not teach soul sleep. 805 00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:15,580 Some think 806 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:16,220 that 807 00:37:16,940 --> 00:37:20,780 it teaches soul sleep, that the soul is just asleep. 808 00:37:23,020 --> 00:37:26,220 But then you would have to explain away 809 00:37:29,740 --> 00:37:31,020 Samuel and 810 00:37:31,340 --> 00:37:32,460 Abraham. 811 00:37:39,380 --> 00:37:40,820 The body dies. 812 00:37:40,820 --> 00:37:46,340 To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, the Bible says. 813 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:47,720 And 814 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:54,120 because he created the whole person, he does not simply save our souls and ignore the rest of our being. 815 00:37:54,920 --> 00:38:00,840 Inherent in the very nature of God's creative act is his concern for the total person. 816 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,640 Hence, he will not keep us disembodied spirits forever. 817 00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:09,900 but will give us glorious bodies to match our heavenly perfection 818 00:38:17,340 --> 00:38:19,100 He's not the God 819 00:38:20,380 --> 00:38:23,660 of the dead, but the God of the living. 820 00:38:23,660 --> 00:38:25,980 It says, for all live to him. 821 00:38:26,140 --> 00:38:27,740 What does that mean? 822 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,920 Just us believers, we all live towards God? 823 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:32,800 I'm convinced 824 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,760 all of humanity lives towards God. 825 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:36,720 Right, we we 826 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:37,680 we have that saying 827 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,200 all roads lead to God. 828 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:44,960 In a sense that's true, because everybody's gonna stand before God and give an account for their life 829 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:51,320 Whether at the judgment seat of Christ or the great white throne judgment, you choose. 830 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,200 The choice is yours. 831 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:56,980 But you don't want to go to that great 832 00:38:57,140 --> 00:38:58,660 great white throne judgment. 833 00:38:58,660 --> 00:39:00,180 That's why Jesus came 834 00:39:00,340 --> 00:39:02,180 was to spare you that 835 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:13,980 Now, it's interesting, Jesus uses this passage because he's talking to the Faris 836 00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:17,740 the Sadducees, and the Sadducees believe that the only 837 00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:18,220 the 838 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,440 First five books of the Bible were legit and authoritative. 839 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,400 And so he pulls that out of Exodus chapter 3 840 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,800 to prove to him, listen, what are you guys doing? 841 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,440 Believing there's no resurrection? 842 00:39:33,119 --> 00:39:34,799 What have you been smoking? 843 00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:39,839 God has truly put eternity in our hearts 844 00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:48,440 And if you're confused about that, just cry out to the Lord. 845 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,400 He'll fill your heart with abundant life. 846 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,440 That's the abundant life that Jesus is talking about. 847 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,160 I have come that they might have life. 848 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:03,080 Resurrection life. 849 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:08,760 Now, as far as these seven brothers and this poor woman, she must have been a terrible cook. 850 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,840 They were infertile and all died before she did. 851 00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:28,140 But Jesus uses this passage to prove his 852 00:40:28,460 --> 00:40:30,299 point about the resurrection 853 00:40:30,940 --> 00:40:32,220 to these guys 854 00:40:36,799 --> 00:40:37,359 But all 855 00:40:37,599 --> 00:40:41,599 live to him. 856 00:40:41,599 --> 00:40:46,880 One pastor friend of mine used to say, well, all roads lead to hell but one. 857 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:48,040 Right. 858 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,920 And there is a lot of truth in that as well. 859 00:40:56,260 --> 00:40:59,940 So they conclude their questioning in verses 39. 860 00:40:59,940 --> 00:41:05,060 And some of the scribes answered and said, Teacher, you have spoken well. 861 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:07,820 They're still kind of buttering him up. 862 00:41:07,820 --> 00:41:13,500 But after that, they dared not question him anymore. 863 00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:14,460 Jesus 864 00:41:17,060 --> 00:41:22,500 Told us, confirmed the resurrection 865 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,360 And he chastised 866 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:28,640 these guys because 867 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,720 they were not wise. 868 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:36,960 They had been deceived, not believing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 869 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:38,440 Two things. 870 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,520 They limit God. 871 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:41,560 And they don't know his 872 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,000 word. 873 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,200 Is there anything too hard for the Lord? 874 00:41:51,220 --> 00:41:54,260 It's mentioned twice in the Bible. 875 00:41:54,260 --> 00:41:57,060 Is there anything too hard for the Lord? 876 00:41:57,060 --> 00:41:58,900 And the response is a resounding 877 00:41:59,140 --> 00:42:00,020 no. 878 00:42:00,020 --> 00:42:02,580 The power of God can do anything 879 00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:03,940 he wants. 880 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,160 People ask that 881 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,080 ridiculous question. 882 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,440 Well, can God make anything? 883 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:10,760 Well 884 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:11,880 sure. 885 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,000 Can he make a rock so big he can't lift it? 886 00:42:18,060 --> 00:42:20,140 That's stupid. 887 00:42:20,140 --> 00:42:21,820 That's just stupid. 888 00:42:26,839 --> 00:42:31,000 Nothing's too hard for the Lord. 889 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,680 But you and I stay on the same page with the Lord. 890 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,160 When we keep him in that place 891 00:42:36,319 --> 00:42:44,880 as Isaiah talked about, that he's high and lifted up, he's seated upon his throne, he's there, he's that all-powerful, all-knowing 892 00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:47,500 Everywhere present 893 00:42:47,740 --> 00:42:49,740 God. 894 00:42:49,740 --> 00:42:50,860 And His word 895 00:42:52,140 --> 00:42:55,020 converts the soul. 896 00:42:55,020 --> 00:42:56,540 And if you're not getting that word 897 00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:58,220 in there, where's your soul 898 00:42:58,380 --> 00:42:59,020 at? 899 00:43:00,140 --> 00:43:00,460 We 900 00:43:00,620 --> 00:43:02,700 forget about this. 901 00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:06,940 This is something we should never forget about, this resurrection. 902 00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:07,580 And so 903 00:43:07,820 --> 00:43:12,300 the scribe answered and said, Teacher, you have spoken well. 904 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,200 I pray that his 905 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:13,440 word 906 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,760 speaks well to your heart. 907 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,600 And that we would not be 908 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,440 lumped into this bunch that don't know the scriptures 909 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:22,880 nor the power of God. 910 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,880 And that's simply on us. 911 00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:26,160 Amen. 912 00:43:25,859 --> 00:43:27,300 Hey, let's all stand, shall we? 913 00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:31,940 Let's pray. 914 00:43:31,940 --> 00:43:34,420 Lord, thank you for your 915 00:43:34,579 --> 00:43:34,900 word. 916 00:43:34,900 --> 00:43:35,780 Thank you for 917 00:43:37,079 --> 00:43:39,320 Thank you for your power. 918 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,560 The power of God. 919 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,000 Lord, you had the 920 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:49,079 power to lay down your life for us, and you had the power to take it up again. 921 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,040 Therefore, you give 922 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,120 of that power to your people 923 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,520 as they put their faith and trust in you. 924 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:55,760 So 925 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:56,400 we may 926 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,480 find ourselves, Lord, just uh 927 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:03,040 believing in you with all of our hearts, Lord, knowing that there's nothing to 928 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:08,260 Too hard for you to do. 929 00:44:08,260 --> 00:44:10,980 And maybe, Lord, there's a 930 00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:15,620 there's a heart here today that's been hard, and you've softened it 931 00:44:16,299 --> 00:44:17,420 And if that's you 932 00:44:17,579 --> 00:44:17,740 and 933 00:44:19,180 --> 00:44:22,380 you know that, no, I need Jesus. 934 00:44:22,380 --> 00:44:25,339 I need Jesus in my heart. 935 00:44:25,339 --> 00:44:27,740 You just call out to him. 936 00:44:29,380 --> 00:44:30,500 A simple prayer. 937 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:34,500 I remember praying, oh Lord, forgive me of my sin and come into my heart. 938 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:35,940 A simple prayer like that. 939 00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:37,540 You can come over here with the prayer team. 940 00:44:37,540 --> 00:44:39,700 They're going to be over here to my left. 941 00:44:39,700 --> 00:44:42,740 If you need that in your life. 942 00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:45,540 He's come to give us life 943 00:44:46,180 --> 00:44:49,860 and abundant life to boot. 944 00:44:49,860 --> 00:44:52,260 You don't have to guess. 945 00:44:52,260 --> 00:44:53,620 I don't have to guess something 946 00:44:53,780 --> 00:44:55,220 if I'm gonna make it 947 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:58,400 Because he rose from the dead, his 948 00:44:58,640 --> 00:44:59,840 promises to me are 949 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,200 yes and amen 950 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:02,160 if 951 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,880 I receive him as my Lord and Savior. 952 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,080 Lord, thank you. 953 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,840 Thank you for being honest with these guys and telling them the truth 954 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:21,280 Lord, that we we have a future in front of us and a hope that our minds can't even grasp, this side of heaven. 955 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,040 Get us ready. 956 00:45:23,740 --> 00:45:26,140 Get us ready, Lord, whether we die 957 00:45:26,620 --> 00:45:32,060 and take our last breath, or whether you come and you snatch us out of here, I don't know. 958 00:45:32,060 --> 00:45:35,260 And honestly, I don't really care which way it is. 959 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:36,599 I know 960 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:42,680 for myself and many in this room, we just want to be with you. 961 00:45:42,839 --> 00:45:43,079 So 962 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,720 take us to that place, Lord, of going deeper with 963 00:45:46,359 --> 00:45:47,640 our King. 964 00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:51,619 Bearing fruit that remains until you come. 965 00:45:51,619 --> 00:45:52,420 In Jesus' 966 00:45:52,579 --> 00:45:53,140 name. 967 00:45:53,140 --> 00:45:53,780 Amen. 968 00:45:53,780 --> 00:45:54,260 Amen. 969 00:45:54,260 --> 00:45:55,780 Let's worship.