May 5, 2019 – Matthew 22:23-33 – Pastor Jake Susek

Pastor Jake spoke on Jesus’ conversation with the Sadducees in Matthew 22, and how we have a “God of the Living”.

Main Points & Outline

1. Humanity’s Haunting Shadow: Death
   1. A natural aversion to death
   2. Sad views of death
   3. Fanciful views of death
   4. The views of the Sadducees
   5. The “trick” of the Sadducees
2. Jesus’ Assessment: The Compassion of Truth
3. Two Universal/Fundamental Reasons for Error
   1. They don’t know Scripture
   2. They don’t believe the power of God
4. Application
   1. Our “temporary” hope: absent from the body & present with the Lord
   2. Our “future” hope: a bodily resurrection at the 2nd Advent
   3. The “basis” of our hope: the resurrection of Christ
   4. Our “final” hope: involves all of creation – a new heavens and new earth

Scripture: Matthew 22:23-33

The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, ²⁴ saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’ ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ So too the second and third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ After them all, the woman died. ²⁸ In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”

²⁹ But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.³¹ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”³³ And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. (ESV)