Matthew 22:23-33
Last Week – Trap #1 (Political)
Trap #2 (Theological)
1. The Conniving Question – Vs. 28
. The Sadducees
. . Theological opposite of the Pharisees who were traditionalists
. They are the religious liberals, religious aristocracy, secularists
. . Denied resurrection, angels (Acts 23:80), and the whole OT except the Torah
. . Controlled the temple
. . Hated Jesus: for cleansing their temple from the moneychangers
. . for teaching about heaven, hell, the afterlife, resurrection
. . . . . . for coming into Jerusalem claiming to be King
. . Their question concerned Levirate marriage – Deuteronomy 25:5-7, Genesis 38
. . . It was designed to ridicule rather than to get an answer
2. The Clarifying Response – Vs. 29
. . They do not understand Scripture
. . They do not understand the power of God
. . Life in the resurrection is not like life on earth – Vs. 30 (no marriage in heaven)
. . The Scripture – Vss. 31-32
. . ‘Have you not read?’ (Exodus 3:6)
. . . . Job 19:25, Psalm 16:9-11, Isaiah 26:19, Daniel 12:2
3. The Confounded Reaction – Vss. 33 (34)
Two Implications
1. It is possible to believe both the Scriptures and the power of God and yet be extremely wrong
2. Jesus teaches us to look beyond this life
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