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Resurrection Moments

 To trap Jesus, the Sadducees who don’t believe in resurrection, asked complicated question about a widow who’d   been married seven times according to Moses Law.

Sadducees ask, “Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

Jesus states they are wrong because they do not know the Scriptures or God's power.

He explains that in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Earthly marriage systems, Jesus says, don’t apply to the resurrected state.

The Sadducees basically asked an uninformed question.

Over the years I preached on the Resurrection that as a Christian you must believe it

 Resurrection is something you conveniently declare during worship.

Jesus’ resurrection isn’t something we completely understand.

Caroline Lewis tells of the time, after a lecture a woman spoke to her saying, “My cup was empty. Today was my road to Emmaus.”

The “empty cup”, I think, refers to believing, declaring, and understanding.

The Road to Emmaus” she referred to, I feel is a story of the beginning of her journey.

It was her experience, her resurrection moment.

Resurrection moments change life.

 Samaritan woman at the well, the healing of the man born blind, the raising of Lazarus, change one from death to life, darkness to light.

Resurrection means encountering Jesus, being called out of darkness, and sharing a meal with him.

When we are experiencing darkness or an “empty cup”, Jesus calls us into the light to walk and dine with him, to have a resurrection moment.


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