Harpo Who Diss Woman?

Intro

Explain the reference for the title. Harpo in the movie The Color Purple has a little girlfriend, while he still has a wife. Later on in the movie Harpo is seen dancing with his wife and the girlfriend sees. She asks the question “Who Diss Woman?” She doesn’t know who Harpo’s wife is but he sure does.

In todays text there will be questions answered by Jesus by those who weren’t actually seeking knowledge.

Matthew 22:15 NKJV

15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.

The Question

Matthew 23:22–28 NKJV

22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. 23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! 25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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Matthew 22:23–28 NKJV

23 The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, 24 saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh. 27 Last of all the woman died also. 28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”

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Matthew 22:23–33 NKJV

23 The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, 24 saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh. 27 Last of all the woman died also. 28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” 33 And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

Sadducees- Did not believe in the resurrection so they sought to catch Jesus up on His teachings to make Him look foolish.

The Law- The Law being questioned here states that

Deuteronomy 25:5 NKJV

5 “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

They did not believe in the resurrection in the first place so why ask the question? But they want to know since she had seven husbands which one does she belong to. Who was her husband since she had been married to all of them?

Jesus’s Answer

Matthew 22:29–33 NKJV

29 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” 33 And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

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“You are mistaken”- They believed that dead folks needed spouses. They were no longer of this world. They did not know...

The Scriptures

Power of God

In the resurrection- Eschatology (End time things)

Eschatology- a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of mankind.

a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of mankind

Merriam-Webster, I. (2003). Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. (Eleventh ed.). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.

Our Question

1 Timothy 3:12 NKJV

12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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