“They can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.”
Luke 20:36
During the week before His crucifixion, Jesus was confronted by Jewish leaders trying to trap Him with questions about the law. Attempting to ridicule the whole idea of resurrection, the Sadducees posed a hypothetical case of a man who was widowed and remarried seven times. “Whose wife would she be in the so-called afterlife?” they asked.
To answer their complicated argument, Jesus didn’t respond on their terms. He turned to the Scriptures, recalling Exodus 3 when at the burning bush Moses calls the Lord “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” We’re so familiar with those words that we overlook the grammar. If Abraham had not been raised, Moses would have said, “The Lord was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
How else did Jesus answer His critics? By rising from the dead and appearing to more than 500 people over 40 days. That much eyewitness evidence would stand in any court.
When skeptics or even our own thoughts mock our faith, we can push back with the testimony of Scripture and the facts of history.
To answer their complicated argument, Jesus didn’t respond on their terms. He turned to the Scriptures, recalling Exodus 3 when at the burning bush Moses calls the Lord “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” We’re so familiar with those words that we overlook the grammar. If Abraham had not been raised, Moses would have said, “The Lord was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
How else did Jesus answer His critics? By rising from the dead and appearing to more than 500 people over 40 days. That much eyewitness evidence would stand in any court.
When skeptics or even our own thoughts mock our faith, we can push back with the testimony of Scripture and the facts of history.
Scripture Focus
Luke 20:27-40
Insight
Remember today that your identity in Christ is nothing less than “equal to angels” and “sons and daughters of the resurrection.”
Bible In A Year
- Deuteronomy 30-31
- Psalm 94
- Acts 18
