God of the Living

What the Prophets Foretold
Jesus and the Davidic Covenant
The Third Day

Mark 12:18-27

The Message

Our Intimacies Will Be with God

^18-23 Some Sadducees, the party that denies any possibility of resurrection, came up and asked, “Teacher, Moses wrote that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to marry the widow and have children. Well, there once were seven brothers. The first took a wife. He died childless. The second married her. He died, and still no child. The same with the third. All seven took their turn, but no child. Finally the wife died. When they are raised at the resurrection, whose wife is she? All seven were her husband.”

^24-27 Jesus said, “You’re way off base, and here’s why: One, you don’t know your Bibles; two, you don’t know how God works. After the dead are raised up, we’re past the marriage business. As it is with angels now, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God. And regarding the dead, whether or not they are raised, don’t you ever read the Bible? How God at the bush said to Moses, ‘I am—not was—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? The living God is God of the living, not the dead. You’re way, way off base.”

 
For Reflection

The mystery that is God.  God does not operate by humankind rules.  The bush is burning but not consumed.  The Son is dead and yet alive.  To God, time is not past present and future but now.  God lives in us, with us and through us in the eternal now.

 

Pray

Praise God for God's presence in our lives.  Praise God whose promise is eternally fulfilled.  Confess your humanity to God and bask in the glory of God's grace.