Resurrection Question:

Context:

• When is a question not a question?
• Not all questions are simple inquiries looking for an answer.
• Some questions have ulterior motives
• The Sadducees had such a question.

What did the Sadducees believe?

•  They had perverted the original teaching of Antigonus Sochaeus, who taught that one should serve God without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
• They didn't believe in the resurrection - they were Sad U See.

Matthew 22:29-32 "...But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ‘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...”

 

Mark 12:24-27 "...Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘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. You are quite wrong...”

Luke 20:34-38 "...And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, 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, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even 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. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him...”

Why were the Sadducees wrong in their thinking?

• They didn't know scripture.
• They didn't know the power of God.

When do we embrace false thinking?

• When we don't know scripture.
• When we don't know the power of God.

Why are both important?

In what ways are the resurrected like angels?

• "... they neither marry nor are given in marriage..."
• "... they cannot die anymore..."

Have you ever been in a conversation that involved non-question questions?

Have you ever been guilty of asking non-question questions?

What do you find when you search the scriptures?

• The way, the truth, and the life.