Not only is there a heaven, but it is infinitely greater than your wildest dreams. This message was given on February 12, 2017 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, please visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

1. The Resurrection
from the Dead
The Gospel of Luke 20:27-40

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Luke 20:27-40
Found on page 880 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

3. ?
Do you think that
this life is all there is,
or is death just
the beginning?

4. The Resurrection
from the Dead
The Gospel of Luke 20:27-40

5. 27 There came to him some Sadducees,
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those who deny that there is a resurrec-
tion, 28 and they asked him a question….

7. 28 …saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for
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us that if a man’s brother dies, having a
wife but no children, the man must take
the widow and raise up offspring for his
brother….

8. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The
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first took a wife, and died without child-
ren. 30 And the second 31 and the third
took her, and likewise all seven left no
children and died. 33 In the resurrection,
therefore, whose wife will the woman be?
For the seven had her as wife…..

9. 34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of
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this age marry and are given in marriage,
35 but those who are considered worthy
to attain to that age and to the resurrection
from the dead neither marry nor are given
in marriage, 36 for they cannot die any-

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…more, because they are equal to
angels and are sons of God, being sons
of the resurrection.

11. ?
Question #1:
What does Jesus mean
when he says there is no
marriage in heaven?

12. 1 Sadness
2 7
A Variety of Reactions….

13. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
A Variety of Reactions….

14. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
A Variety of Reactions….

15. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
4 Panic
A Variety of Reactions….

16. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
4 Panic
5 Revulsion
A Variety of Reactions….

17. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
4 Panic
5 Revulsion
6 Relief
A Variety of Reactions….

18. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
4 Panic
5 Revulsion
6 Relief
7 Embarrassment
A Variety of Reactions….

19. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
4 Panic
5 Revulsion
6 Relief
7 Embarrassment
8 Closure
A Variety of Reactions….

20. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
4 Panic
5 Revulsion
6 Relief
7 Embarrassment
8 Closure
9 Confusion
A Variety of Reactions….

21. 1 Sadness
2 Gladness
3 Delight
4 Panic
5 Revulsion
6 Relief
7 Embarrassment
8 Closure
9 Confusion
10 Other?
A Variety of Reactions….

22. The Hebrews’ View of Time
This Age The Age to Come
(marked by sin,
selfishness,
disease, death)
(marked by life, love
righteousness, peace)

23. Key Thought #1
Marriage and sex are
good things because
they were created by God.

24. Key Thought #2
Marriage and sex are
temporary things designed
for this age to populate
and “to fill the earth.”

25. Key Thought #3
Marriage and sex are
necessary things due to the
reality of sin and death
in this age.

26. What?!?!
No sex in heaven?
I ain’t down with that.

27. “You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures
evermore.”
~ Psalm 16:11

28. “I think our present outlook
might be like that of a small
boy who, on being told that
the sexual act was the
highest bodily pleasure
should immediately ask
whether you ate chocolates
at the same time. On
receiving the answer ‘No, he
might regard absence of
chocolates as the chief
characteristic of sexuality.

29. “In vain would you tell him
that the reason why lovers
in their carnal raptures don’t
bother about chocolates is
that they have something
better to think of. The boy
knows chocolate: he does
not know the positive thing
that excludes it.

30. “We are in the same
position. We know the
sexual life; we do not
know, except in glimpses,
the other thing which, in
Heaven, will leave no
room for it.”

31. “If we consider the
unblushing promises of
reward and the
staggering nature of the
rewards promised in the
Gospels, it would seem
that our Lord finds our
desires, not too strong,
but too weak.

32. “We are half-hearted
creatures, fooling about
with drink and sex and
ambition when infinite joy
is offered us, like an
ignorant child who wants
to go on making mud pies
in a slum because he
cannot imagine what is
meant by the offer of a
holiday at the sea. We are
far too easily pleased.”

33. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
no mind has imagined what God has
prepared for those who love him.”
~ The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NLT) ~

34. However great or horrible
marriage or sex may have been
for you, heaven takes us into a
dimension where one is called to
imagine the unimaginable.
~ Tim Lane
“Heaven: Better Than Sex?”
“

35. Jesus is saying that
heaven is far, far better
than marriage & sex!

36. 1 Sadness
2 Panic
3 Revulsion
A Variety of Reactions….

37. ?
Question #2:
What does Jesus mean when
he speaks of “…those who
are considered worthy to
attain to that age and to the
resurrection of the dead?”

38. ?
Question #3:
What does Jesus mean
when he says,“…they are
equal to the angels and are
sons of God?”

39. 37 But that the dead are raised, even
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Moses showed, in the passage about the
bush, where he calls the Lord the God of
Abraham and the God of Isaac and the
God of Jacob. 38 Now he is not the God
of the dead, but of the living, for all live to
him.

40. The Lord cannot be
the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob,
if they are dead.

41. 39 Then some of the scribes answered,
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“Teacher, you have spoken well.” 40 For
they no longer dared to ask him any
question.

42. Not only is there a heaven,
but it is infinitely greater
than your wildest dreams.

43. Hold on! With all
due respect, how
do I know that
Jesus was not
mistaken on this?

45. Th resurrection is part of the Good news
of the Kingdom of God that Jesus
proclaimed as true and demonstrated as real
by his own death and resurrection.

47. ~ CS Lewis, Oxford Professor
Lettes to Malcolm
“Joy is the
serious business
of heaven.”

49. “There was a real railway
accident,” Aslan said softly.
“Your father and your mother
and all of you are—as you
used to call it in the
Shadowlands—dead.
The term is over: the
holidays have begun. The
dream is ended: this is the
morning.”

50. And as He spoke, He no
longer looked to them like a
lion; but the things that
began to happen after that
were so great and beautiful
that I cannot write them.

51. And for us this is the end of
all the stories, and we can
most truly say that they all
lived happily ever after. But
for them it was only the
beginning of the real story.

52. All their life in this world and
all their adventures in Narnia
had only been the cover and
the title page: now at last
they were beginning Chapter
One of the Great Story which
no one on earth has read—
which goes on for ever—in
which every chapter is better
than the one before.

54. May you know the truth that Jesus
is the resurrection and life,
and may you eagerly long
for that fullness of joy at God’s
right hand where there are are
pleasures evermore.

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