Fearing Resurrection | Follow-Walking in the Way of Jesus | Sunday May 10th, 2026

Jesus still matters, and that's why the most important thing about you and I are what we believe about him. He made that promise. He said, I will rise from the dead. The disciples had no paradigm for it. But then he did, and he realized the promises that he made before his resurrection when he said to them, because I live, you will too. If Jesus is alive and you believe that he is alive, that if you've accepted his forgiveness, you're alive too. And you know what? You will never die completely. There is a place for you. [01:09:12] (36 seconds)  #JesusIsAlive

Now, Jesus is not diminishing marriage. What he's showing us is the resurrection, that the resurrection life transcends earthly institutions. That marriage belongs to mortality. That it's a means of of revelation where we understand God in union. That that it's a picture of legacy. That it gave God gave us an understanding of God's work throughout history and legacy in order to bring his glory over the whole earth. And that it it was very practical. You'd continue your family lines through the institution of marriage. [01:02:11] (33 seconds)  #ResurrectionTranscendsMarriage

Jesus here is arguing from a present tense. He's showing us how to interpret the scriptures. Right? He's giving meaning to god saying, I am the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We have and rightly have studied those words as g as god showing us that he is self contained, that he is the preexistent one. But he's also, Jesus is saying here, revealing that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were alive in some sense, in some real sense that they still existed, and that the covenant that God made with them transcended the life. [01:04:26] (42 seconds)  #GodOfTheLiving

That upon our belief in Jesus as savior, upon our belief that he died for sin but he rose again, the spirit comes into our life and brings our dead souls back to life. And it's a foreshadowing, a picture, a pointing towards that day when he will bring everything back to life. For these guys, their identity required preserving order, required remaining in control and holding on to their stuff. And the resurrection wasn't hopeful, it was threatening. [01:08:12] (36 seconds)  #SpiritualRebirth

He challenges the kind of God that they believed in. They believed in a god of their own making. They believed in a god who would affirm their belief. They believed in a god who would serve their ambitions and their desires, and that's why they resisted the resurrection. And isn't that sad? Isn't that unbelievable? They had limited by kinda saying, hey. If these human relationships are gonna exist in the afterlife, that that the the the limitation to their belief in the resurrection was their imagination. [01:06:18] (33 seconds)  #FalseGodExposed

Doesn't mean we won't know each other in heaven. It just means that marriage will no longer be necessary upon the resurrection. Why? Because the resurrection is about fullness. It's about union of our self according to our original design. Connection with one another. Right? Connection with one another in harmony, in fellowship, and with the the new creation, with the earth as it is in itself. That there's a permanence, that there is no death. [01:02:57] (29 seconds)  #ResurrectionFullness

That's why a lot of marriage ceremonies contain the words until death do us part. Because marriage is limited to this life. It also points to a transformed existence, where the effects of sin will be removed. There's this harmony, this union, that our biology, our psychology, that our whole inward self will be put together, back together by our spiritual selves. And we will exist as our original design upon Jesus bringing about the new heavens and the new earth. [01:03:26] (34 seconds)  #NewHeavensNewEarth

So as much as we go back to history to understand the nature of our doctrine, we do so with an awareness that culture will always influence that. The Sadducees were unwilling to do that because their doctrine, their specific interpretation was serving them well. And Jesus calls them out. Notice what Jesus does. He doesn't defend resurrection hypothetically. He actually assumes it literally. And he says, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. [01:01:38] (33 seconds)  #ContextMattersDoctrine