Passion: Resurrection Defended•
A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
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I. RESURRECTION DERIDED
A. APPROACH
1. TEACHING
Mt 22:23 The same day Sadducees (who teach that there is no resurrection) came to Him, questioning Him,
2. TORAH
Mt 22:24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’
B. ABSURDITY
1. TALE
Mt 22:25-27 Now among us were seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his widow to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. Finally the woman died.
2. TEST
Mt 22:28 Therefore at the resurrection of the seven, whose wife will she be? For she had been [wife] to all.”
II. RESURRECTION DEFENDED
A. ANSWER (About Power of God)
1. TWISTING
Mt 22:29 But Jesus answered them, “You’re mistaken, because you don’t understand the Scriptures or the power of God.
2. TEMPERAMENT
Lk 20:34 People in this age marry and are given in marriage
3. TIMELESS
Mt 22:30 But in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven Lk 20:36a for they cannot die anymore
B. ANSWER (About Scripture)
1. THEOLOGY
Mt 22:31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what God said to you Mk 12:26b in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying,
2. TOTALITY
Mt 22:32a ‘I am the God of Avram, the God of Yitzhak, and the God of Yakov’?
3. TRUTH
Mt 22:32b God is not God of the dead, but of the living.”
C. ASTONISHMENT
1. TURNING
Mt 22:33 And when the crowd heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
2. TROUBLED
Lk 20:39-40 Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, You have spoken well.” And they no longer dared to ask Him any question.