Sermon Title: MORE COLOR THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
Sermon Text: MARK 12:18-27
Sermon Series: THE JERUSALEM MINISTRY: THE KING CONFRONTS EMPTY RELIGION
By: PTR NIC SY
Mark 12:18-27 ESV
And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died.In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”
SERMON NOTES
You can see accurately and still not see completely.
I. MISSING THE SCRIPTURES, MISSING THE POWER.
A God who can’t surprise you is smaller than the God of Scripture.
Reflect: Is your faith still alive to the possibility that God might do something you’re not expecting?
Faith that is alive is not faith that always gets what it wants. It is faith that refuses to believe that God is done.
II. NOT REPETITION, BUT TRANSFORMATION.
The silence of Scripture is not meant to frustrate us but to redirect us.
The end God promises is richer than the beginning we know.
Reflect: How should resurrection hope change the way we live right now?
God’s future is not a threat to what you love, but the completion of it.
III. PRESENT TENSE, PROMISED FUTURE.
Reflect: What would it mean for you to live today knowing that God will not forget you?
Resurrection is just God being true to himself.