Living In The Resurrection
Sermon Notes
Resurrection means: In Christian belief, the rising of Jesus Christ from the dead after his Crucifixion and entombment, the rising of the dead on Judgment Day, as anticipated by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. God wants us to live now as we’ve been resurrected. The question was asked Jesus in Luke 17:20-21 by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come; he answered them and said; the kingdom of God cometh not with observation. neither shall they say; low here! or; low There! for behold the Kingdom of God is within you. What Jesus was saying is I am in the world not to build a worldly Kingdom but to offer you a spiritual Kingdom that may be in you for now and all eternity.
Matthew 22:27-28 And last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Here we see or hear the Sadducees ask Jesus what marriage would be like in heaven.
Matthew 22:29-30 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
In other words, Jesus was saying it is more important to understand God’s power than to know what heaven will be like. I find that in every generation and culture ideas of eternal life tends to be based upon images and experience of the present life. Jesus answered that these faulty ideas are caused by ignorance of God’s word. We must not make up our own ideas about heaven and eternal life by thinking of it and God in human terms. We should concentrate on our relationship with God rather than on what heaven will look like. Eventually, we will find out and it will be far beyond our greatest expectations.
Matthew 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
Resurrected people will not marry because they are eternal and have no need to recreate.
Matthew22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Here we see that because the Sadducees accept only the Pentateuch as scripture, Jesus answered them from the book of Exodus (6:3). Which is a part of the Pentateuch. The Pentateuch is the first five books of the BIBLE written by MOSES; What Jesus was saying to them was the present tense points to the Resurrection and Eternal life that all believers will rejoice in him.
Conclusion: Sometimes when we look for things; we look without the knowledge of God and cannot see that it’s already within us. So when we are looking or asking questions about the resurrection; the first place we should look is within ourselves.