Luke 20:27-38 Who is going to care for us... who is responsible for us? Sermon given November 10, 2019

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This sermon looked at the scripture found in Luke's Gospel in Chapter 20, verses 20-38.  Here the issue isn't who gets to enjoy the benefit of being married to the woman nor even who gets the honor of being married to the woman, but rather who is responsible for her... who must take care of and provide for her.  Jesus' point here is that none of these seven brothers need to be concerned about 'having' to be responsible for the woman... God will now be taking care of her and providing for her.  In Heaven... God provides for and takes care of us all... what a wonderful thing to realize.

Praise God...

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In Christ,
Roy 

Luke 20:27-38 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
The Question about the Resurrection
27 Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him 28 and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man[a] shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; 30 then the second 31 and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. 32 Finally the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.”

34 Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; 35 but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. 37 And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 38 Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.”

Footnotes:
a) Luke 20:28 Gk his brother