What fun is a exhilarating debate! And Jesus is the master. In Luke 20:19-44, the Pharisees send spies with trick questions about paying taxes to Caesar. As they produce the coin with Caesar's likeness, Jesus triumphs. ("Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.") "Yea, Jesus!" But the Pharisees - "astonished by his answer, they became silent."
Next it is the Sadducees turn. As they didn't believe in the resurrection, they come with a question from Moses' law about how can remarriages work in the resurrection. Jesus clearly explains how there is no marriage in heaven, and then goes on to prove from Moses' calling the Lord, "the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" that these men must have been resurrected. God "is not the God of the dead, but of the living". We have to exclaim with the scribes, "Well said, Teacher". But all those religious authorities "did not have courage to question Him any longer about anything."
Next it is the Sadducees turn. As they didn't believe in the resurrection, they come with a question from Moses' law about how can remarriages work in the resurrection. Jesus clearly explains how there is no marriage in heaven, and then goes on to prove from Moses' calling the Lord, "the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" that these men must have been resurrected. God "is not the God of the dead, but of the living". We have to exclaim with the scribes, "Well said, Teacher". But all those religious authorities "did not have courage to question Him any longer about anything."
Lord, peel from our eyes and hearts the dead crust of familiarity with Your word. Help us to be amazed and thrilled with You over and over again.
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