1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine fifty six. Today, 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Gospel 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: of Luke as we wrap up chapter twenty. Welcome to 4 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We're 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: going to wrap up chapter twenty and possibly start chapter 6 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: twenty one here, but first a word from this sponsor. 7 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 1: Chapter twenty we left off in verse twenty six. Verse 8 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: twenty seven starts with the resurrection and marriage. Some of 9 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: the sadducees, who say there is no resurrection came to 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: Jesus with a question. Teacher, they said, Moses wrote for 11 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: wife but no children, the man must marry the widow 13 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: seven brothers. The first married a woman and died childless. 15 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: The second and then the third married her, and the 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: same way the seven died, leaving no children. Finally, the 17 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: woman died too. Now, then at the resurrection, whose wife 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: will she be since the seven were married to her. 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: Jesus replied, the people of this age mary and are 20 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy of 21 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: taking part in the age to come, and in the 22 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: resurrection from the dead, will neither marry nor be given 23 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: in marriage. And they can no longer die, for they 24 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: are like the angels. They are God's children, since they 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: are children of the resurrection. But in the account of 26 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: the Burning Bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: for he called the Lord the God of Abraham and 28 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He 29 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: is not the God of the dead, but of the living, 30 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: for to him all are alive. Some of the teachers 31 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: of the law responded, well, said teacher, and no one 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: dared to ask him any more questions. So a couple 33 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: things that we see here. One that last verse at 34 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: the end gives you a hint that there is some 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: disagreement between the major let's call them political parties. That's 36 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: not quite true, religious parties in Judah at this time. 37 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: They are the Pharisees, who we've dealt with a lot, 38 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: who are basically lay teachers and the ancestors of modern 39 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: day rabbis. And then there's the Sadducees who died out 40 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: when the temple was destroyed, and they're the priestly party, 41 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: and one of the reasons they don't believe in the resurrection. 42 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: Is the only part of the Old Testament that they 43 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: use is the first five books, the Books of Moses, 44 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: and so they have the Law, and they have Exodus, 45 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: and they have Genesis, but they don't have any of 46 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: the prophets or the history or any of that. And 47 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: they certainly don't have the Talmud, which the Pharisees also studied, 48 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: which was the interpretation of the rest of the what 49 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: we call the Old Testament. And so because they didn't 50 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: see resurrection mentioned in those first five books, they don't 51 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: include it. They don't believe it. Now, the Sadducees tended 52 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: to be the priestly party, tended to be a little richer. 53 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: Things were going okay for them in life, and so 54 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: they didn't really need to preach resurrection of the dead. 55 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: So they were more grab all you can while you're here, 56 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: because you only go around once kind of people. And 57 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: so they come up with this scenario here for Jesus. 58 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: That's a little bit like you know, how many angels 59 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: can dance on the head of a pan. It's very contrived. 60 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: You can imagine that they weren't necessarily thinking of a 61 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: particular seven brothers and a particular woman. But you know, 62 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: they were basically trying to say, is look, this scenario 63 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: here that we can come up with here sort of 64 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: proves that the resurrection doesn't make sense. And that's why 65 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: they are bringing it to Jesus, and they want him 66 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: to somehow decide which of these brothers is going to 67 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: be the true husband in a resurrection that they don't 68 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: believe in, right, So they're just trying to do this 69 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: to test Jesus. Jesus' answer to this is the only 70 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: place in the scripture that I know of that he 71 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: talks about marriage and heaven, even that the subject comes up. Now. 72 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: I know that when I got married, I was promising 73 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: tell death to us part and so it was part 74 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: of the original agreement that we were married in this life, 75 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: and that when one of us died, that marriage dissolves. 76 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: And so Jesus is saying yes, and not only that, 77 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: but when we're in heaven, we don't have a need 78 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: for marriage, I think is what he's saying. We won't 79 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: be marrying now. I've always wondered if that's because here 80 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 1: it's hard to be that close with just one person, 81 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: and there it won't be I don't know why, but 82 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: basic marriage is of this life. Thing is how Jesus responds. 83 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,119 Speaker 1: And so you know, though we might watch Hallmark channel 84 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: and here a thing people talk about forever forever is 85 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: not the promise Forever there is not what marriage is about. 86 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: It's telled death to us part. But when Jesus starts 87 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: talking about Moses and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 88 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: which is how God introduces himself to Moses in the 89 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: Burning Bush, he is coming back at the Sadducees with 90 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: what we might consider proof from those first five books 91 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,559 Speaker 1: of the Torah that God is that God does believe 92 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 1: in resurrection, in the sense that he's saying that he 93 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: is not the God of the living but of the dead. 94 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: He's not saying I was the God of Abraham, I 95 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: was the God of Isaac, and I was the God 96 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: of Jacob. But I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, 97 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: and Jacob, even though clearly when Moses saw the burning bush, 98 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: those three had been dead for many years. And so 99 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: he's saying to God, the living and the dead, all 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: our alive. God, because he is timeless, can see past 101 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: this current age and this current death into a resurrection, 102 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: and so that's why you see some of the teachers 103 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: of the law. So the teachers of the Law and 104 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: the Pharisees do believe in the resurrection, so they like 105 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: this answer, and so they're saying, well said teacher, and 106 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: it says, no one dared to ask him any more questions. 107 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: So we already had the questions last week, including should 108 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: he pay tax as a caesar. That was supposed to 109 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: be a trap, and at this point they're kind of 110 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: done trying to trap Jesus with rhetorical questions continuing on 111 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: whose son is the Messiah? So Jesus goes on. Then 112 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, why is it said that the 113 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: Messiah is the son of David? David himself declares in 114 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: the Book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, 115 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: set up my right hand until I make your enemies 116 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: a footstool for your feet. David calls him Lord, Then 117 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: how can he be his son? And this is more 118 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: like a shot across the bow of the religious leaders 119 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: and the Pharisees, who again this is from the Book 120 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: of Psalms, which would not be included in the scriptures 121 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: of the Sadducees. That maybe you don't understand everything you 122 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: think you do about Messiah. And then one last section 123 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: here warning against the teachers of the law. While all 124 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, beware 125 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: of the teachers of the law. They like to walk 126 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with 127 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: respect in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats 128 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. 129 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: They devour widows houses and for a show, make lengthy prayers. 130 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: These men will be punished most severely. So the teachers 131 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: of the law liked him just a little bit ago, 132 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: but now a little less so because he's calling them out, 133 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: and he's calling them out for this need to be seen, 134 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: as seen and respected. Now this is not something that 135 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: is only true of the teachers of the law. We 136 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: can get ourselves into trouble when how people perceive us 137 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: and how people receive us is so important to us. 138 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: And without getting into details, just this weekend, a major 139 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: political leader felt snubbed that they didn't get the Nobel 140 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: Peace Prize and is moving us in a direction towards 141 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: conflict and war because of that feeling of being snubbed. 142 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: Now you and I don't have enough power fortunately that 143 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: all our petty grievances can turn into war or into conflict, 144 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: but we still have sometimes those petty grievances. Did somebody 145 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: sit in our seat in Sunday? Did someone greet us wrong? 146 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: Did someone say the wrong thing? Even when my wife 147 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: worked for a while at our church, she had to 148 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: deal with the sometimes I would say, junior high level 149 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: emotions of people she was working with that were adults 150 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: that so and so looked at me wrong or said 151 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: the wrong thing, and people in tears in her office. 152 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: This is something that happens to us as well, where 153 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: we crave the respect and it matters how people treat us. 154 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: And I understand that, but it probably matters more than 155 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: it should for us, and it certainly did. Jesus says 156 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 1: for these teachers of the law, and he's saying, they 157 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: devour widows houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. 158 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: So he's saying they're hypocrites. They are doing things that 159 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: God would not approve of, devouring widows houses. What exactly 160 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: they're doing there, I'm not sure, but God definitely cares 161 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 1: for the stranger. So the widow the orphan and the 162 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: foreigner more so than anyone else brought out in the prophets, 163 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: because they are powerless, and so they devour widows houses. 164 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: Is they don't care for what God cares for, and 165 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: then they make for a show, make lengthy prayers. They're 166 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: not doing it because they have a lot to say, 167 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: or they're not doing it because those prayers are needed. 168 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: They're doing it because they have people's attention. Now, we 169 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,839 Speaker 1: live in an attention society where we crave attention, and 170 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: where we have politicians, for instance, who actually are in 171 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: Congress and pass no legislation but just try and get attention. 172 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: That is not what their job is supposed to be. 173 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: But we are in a society where we reward that 174 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: behavior of attention grabbing, and we too can act that 175 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: way in a way that Jesus is not finding very 176 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: good here in the Teachers of the Law. In fact, 177 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: he says they will be punished. So the two things 178 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: we ought to avoid is being overly concerned with getting attention, 179 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: and then obviously with are we living a hypocritical life 180 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: or are we caring for what God cares for through 181 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: our actions as well as our words. I thought we 182 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: would get into chapter twenty one, but those last few 183 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: verses took me a little longer to explain that I thought. 184 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: So we'll do chapter twenty one next week, and with 185 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: that we'll end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. 186 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: If you have any questions, send an email to Chris 187 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: two x at gmail dot com, or, better yet, leave 188 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: a comment on this episode at the Bible Study podcast 189 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,079 Speaker 1: dot com. 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