God of the Living Sermon Equip Yourself and Embrace Heavenly Hope
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The document is a sermon overview that discusses Jesus answering questions from the Sadducees about marriage in the resurrection. The overview notes that Jesus gave a two-part answer: 1) He tells the Sadducees they don't know God's Word and 2) they don't understand God's power. The overview encourages equipping oneself with biblical answers to hard questions and embracing one's heavenly hope, concluding that God is the God of the Living and people should live for Him.
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God of the Living Sermon Equip Yourself and Embrace Heavenly Hope
- 1. “The God of the Living” Mt. 22:23-33
- 2. Sermon Overview THE QUESTION THE “SAD” PARABLE A 2-PART ANSWER
- 6. Jesus’ Two-Part Answer 1.First, Jesus tells them that they don’t know God’s Word. 2.Second, He tells them that they don’t understand God’s power.
- 7. Equip yourself with biblical answers to hard questions! What should we do?
- 8. Equip yourself with biblical answers! What should we do? Embrace your heavenly hope!
- 9. Equip yourself with biblical answers! Embrace your heavenly hope! What should we do? God is the God of the Living. Live for Him!
Editor's Notes
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post, Gene Weingarten, once said: “Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.” It probably wouldn’t surprise you to learn that Weingarten is an atheist. His writings are humorous, but are often laced with fatalism, the view that this life is all we’ve got. You are either on the upside or downside of the dirt. You may remember that a few weeks ago I introduced you to a group called the “Sad Bois” spelled “BOIS” They are fatalistic and listen incessantly to music that is filled with depressing and suicidal lyrics. One of the things that I learned this week was that the shooter in Highland Park who killed 7 people identified with the Sad Boi movement. Robert Crimo described himself to police as a depressed drug addict. Today we are going to focus on the Sadducees. In many ways they were the Jewish Sad Bois of the first century. They were fatalistic and although they believed in God, their faith was more like the faith of the deists who believed that God never intervenes, never performs miracles, and operates at an emotional distance from humanity, more like the Force of Star Wars than the loving God the Bible describes. Their God was mostly dead. They needed to encounter the Living God who is “The God of the Living.”
- The Question Matthew 22:23-24 23 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.’
- The Sad Parable Matthew 22:25-28 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.”
- A Two-Part Answer Matthew 22:29-33 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.