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What A Fool Believes
Controversy.
it is loaded in Luke 20.
The Jews question Jesus’ authority.
Jesus has told the parable of the master of the vineyard, where the father sends servants to the vineyard and finally sends his Son and the son is killed.
Jesus identifies himself as the sotne that the builders rejected.
This chapter is full of controversy.
To fully understand this, you need to know that the Sadducees were relatively more conservative thant the pharisees.
They did not accept anyone adding to their belief system.
They did not believe in angels, spirits, or the resurrection of the dead.
Their point was that Moses did not write about any of these doctrines.
Remember that the Sadduccees were the ones who opposed the apostles preaching of the resurrection in the book of Acts.
They also wanted to kill Lazarus, who Jesus raised from the dead.
And, since the OT says very little about what happens after death- what the future state looks like.
Greek thought divided the sould and the body, and believed in a future after death.
The pharisees tended to lean with the greek thought on this issue.
The Sadducees refused to even admit the basic teachings of the OT concerning the future of those who die, and actually didn’t bank on any future existence that was based on rewards or punishment.
This question is a hypothetical question
It is based on Levirate marriage custom .
The point was the brother of a deceased man would take his brother’s widowed wife in order to carry on the name of the husband who died childless.
The question the Sadducees are asking is not only an aberration, it is absurd at its roors.
Their question assumed the idea that the resurrection involves sexual reunion with one’s earthly partner.
Jesus is actually saying it is not correct to project earthly conditions into the future state (34-45)
Eternal life is actually the life of the age to come.
Luke 20:37 (ESV)
37 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.
Jesus has just told us that Moses taught the resurrection.
If you are a Sadduccee, you’ve just been told by Jesus that you missed something in the writings of Moses- because remember, they don’t believe in the resurrection because Moses didn’t teach that.
HOW CAN THIS BE?
So, how can this be?
Let me begin by taking you for a moment to a verse in John- John 8.58.
The reason we are going here is because it begs the same question, “How can this be”?
Let’s look at John 8.57-58
Now, we know that Jesus has had a conversation with the Jews that went like this: John 8.48-59
Now , you can see why this is the perfect text to go to- because Jesus is talking about eternal life.
Explain this passage, deeply..
Why did they pick up stones?
Because of what he said in John 8.58- “Before Abraham was, I am”.
Now that phrase, “I am” is “Eigo Eimi”- I exist.
The implication, which the Jews knew immediately- was that Jesus was identifying himself with God.
YOu may wonder why I say that- well, they knew their scriptures far better than you or I do… they knew that Jesus was pointing back to Moses’ burning bush experience.
Which, is exactly what Jesus is pointing to in our text this morning with the Sadduccees- same exact chapter and verse.
You see, when Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I am”, he was identifying himself as God. the eternally existent God.
Yes, the Sadduccees knew the OT better than anything else.
In Exodus 3, you know the story, but allow me to remind you.
The children of Israel were in bondage in egypt for 400 years.430
years.
God is about to let them go, and he chooses Moses who is hiding out because he had slain an Egyptian.
God appears to Moses in a burning bush.
Moses argues his qualifications.
First, look at Exodus 3.6
Now follow through the story.
Finally, Moses says, if they ask me what is your name, what do I tell them?
And look at what God says in Exodus 3.14
And there you have the issue in all of the scriptures.
Iam who Iam- the eternally existent one.
Now to answer the question, Why are the Jews going to stone Jesus in John 8? He claimed to be God.
Now in this apssage, specifically in the 37th verse, Luke 20.37
God is identifying himself as the eternal God.- and being an eternal God he is the god of eternal people- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
HERE.
vs. 37-38 says that the believer already participates in the life of the eternal, but its full expression in resurrection will wait until the new age that is coming.
In vs. 36, where Jesus said that they are equal to the angels- his point is that in the new age believers do not become angels, but rather share in certain characteristics that angels have.
Angels do not have the sexual aspect to them.
They are not boys and girls.
However, believers will have mutual recognition and love as in this life.
When Jesus mentions Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, he is invoking Moses- at the burning bush- where he referred to Abraham Isaac and Jacob in their existence which lies not only in the past- but in the future.
God is their God.
Jesus is pointing out that the Sadduccees question was limiting God’s power and denying God’s word.
They put a governor on their god.
Resurrection is not reconstruction- it is not a refurbishment of the existing body.
Paul, in the book of 1 Corinthians said our current body is but a seed- but the resurrection body would be a glorious fruit and flower.
Jesus’ body, in resurrection, was the same as before his death but different.
he could eat, his disciples recognized and touched him- but he also could walk through closed doors, change his appearance, and vanish in a millisecond.
Our future life is not a continuation of this life but new and improved life..
We Ford Pintos, Chevrolet Chevettes, and AMC Gremlins here- but there we will be Cadillac Escalades.
We will be ourselves- but there will be no more death, disease, etc., And because of that fact there will be no need for marriage or procreation.
We do not become angels in death.
In heaven we share the image of Jesus- and we are much higher than the angels.
In scripture, angels appear as humans, but they are spirit beings without sexuality.
We are like them in that way- no marriage or childbearing in heaven.
you see, the sadduccees were in essence denying the power of God.
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob were referred to by Moses because he was affirming that these three patriarchs were very much alive even though they had died generations before him.
And the Saddducees God was so much smaller thant that.
When You Limit God’s Ability, You Deny God’s Sovereignty
Sovereignty- supreme power and authority,
The question put to Jesus this morning is meant to prove that there is no resurrection.
But its imlications is that God is not powerful enough to raise the dead.
We know this, because part of the calling card to be a Saduccee is to deny the resurrection.
And their question to Jesus was predicated on there being a resurrection even though they didn’t believe it.
Christian, how many times have you said, “I can’t do this any longer.”
(You define your “this”)
I can’t forgive this person.
I can’t take care of these children any longer.
I can’t deal with this person.
I can’t do this again.
What are the possibilities?
Look at Matthew 19.26
The Sadducees did not believe in a resurrections- implicit in that statement is the fact that God cannot raise someone from the dead.
Note, Jesus said “All things are possible for God.” Jesus’ prayer was not predicated upon life being a bed of roses with a silver spoon in his mouth.
He was far too realistic for that thougth.
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