Sermons

The Question of Resurrection

February 5, 2023 Preacher: Ryan Brice Series: The Gospel of Mark

Passage: Mark 12:18–27

Main Idea: The reality of a future resurrection of the dead changes everything.

Temporal Institutions, Like Marriage, Will Not Continue After the Resurrection

  • 17–23 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”
    • Deuteronomy 25:5–10
    • Mark 10:6–8
  • 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
    • 1 Corinthians 13:8–13
    • Revelation 2:4
    • 1 Peter 1:12
    • 1 Corinthians 6:3

The Resurrection Is a Future Reality for All

  • 24 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
    • Job 19:25–27
    • Isaiah 26:19
    • Daniel 12:2, 3
  • 26, 27 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.”
    • John 5:28, 29
    • 1 Corinthians 15:12–28

So What?

  • Faith in Christ alone allows us to look joyfully towards the resurrection of the dead.
    • John 14:1–6
    • 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18

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