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The Gospel of Matthew

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August 30, 2026
Matthew 22:23-33
Steven Lee
Pastor for Preaching & Vision

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0:15Welcome. If you're new among us, we're glad you're here this morning. My name is Stephen. I'm one of the pastors here. And if you are new, you may not know that we're preaching through Matthew's Gospel. So we're kind of working through passage after passage, expositional preaching through Matthew's Gospel. So we're glad you're here as we look at God's word this morning. Would you join me as I pray and ask the Lord for help?

0:46Father in heaven, we want to come this morning and we want to know your scriptures, but we want to know your power at work through these scriptures to transform us. So come now in the power of your Spirit and give us eyes to see and hearts that would come alive at the preaching of your word, so that we would hear you speak and obey all that you command. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

1:20Many years ago, I was invited to this nice restaurant in Los Angeles that was known for its prime rib, and the prime rib was terrific there, but there was this side dish that stole the show, which was the creamed corn. How many of you had some really good creamed corn before? Well, this was out-of-the-world creamed corn, and so when I got home, I decided, "I am going to duplicate this dish. It can't be that hard." And yet with most of my cooking, I don't do recipes. I almost always kind of wing it. I'll look at the recipe, but then I'll kind of just do it my way. How many of you are like that in the kitchen? Yes, it's the only way to cook.

2:08Measuring cups, who needs them? And 95% of the time, my family might say 85%, but 95% of the time it mostly works, but this was among that 5%. The resulting dish was wholly inedible, and it went straight into the garbage. And my patient wife resisted the urge to say, "I told you so." She's too nice to say that. My premise that I don't need a recipe was my downfall, and this was not a complicated dish. I went back as I was doing this illustration, and I looked at the recipe for creamed corn, and I'm like, "How do you screw that up? It's so easy." But my assumption that recipes are unnecessary led to a culinary disaster. And in our text this morning, the Sadducees come with assumptions about the Bible and about God that lead them down a dead-end road and ultimately to a spiritual disaster.

3:08They're locked in their own cul-de-sac of ideas, unable to travel the road to eternal life. And so this text illuminates the resurrection and the very nature of God. And so if you're just joining us, we've been moving through Matthew's Gospel. We've come to the final week of Jesus' life, and we're looking at the second of four confrontations that Jesus has been having with the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And he's just confounded the Pharisees, and so now the Sadducees come to give it a try. And what we see is that the Sadducees, they have assumptions that keep them from understanding God, understanding truth.

3:52They don't understand, and they refuse to listen. It's a little bit like teenagers maybe when they're kind of learning maybe a higher level math, a calculus, or interacting with their driving instructor, and they insist that they know better than their instructor. I was one of those teenagers as a kid. And here the Sadducees insist that they know better than Jesus, failing to see that they're debating with the Messiah of all life, the Son of God. So the central truth of our passage this morning is very simple but very profound. It's that the resurrection is real. It's very simple, and you probably know this information already if you've been in church for just five minutes. The resurrection is real.

4:41This passage is not primarily about the state of marriage in heaven, though Jesus touches on that. But what this text does is that it teaches that the resurrection is attested to in the Bible, God's power confirms it, and it's grounded in God's character, and therefore the resurrection changes everything for us this morning. So what I want to do is walk through this text like we do every week, and we're going to see this text in three points this morning, a wrong assumption and then a right assertion and then a hopeful application. So a wrong assumption, a right assertion, and a hopeful application.

5:21If you do have your Bibles, I'll be referring to them, so please keep them open. We're going to look at verse 23 as we come now to the wrong assumption. Look with me as I read verse 23. It says, "The same day Sadducees came to Jesus who say that there's no resurrection and they asked him a question." So let's just pause here and get a little background on the Sadducees. These were a religious group in Judaism. They were influential among the wealthy, and they were priests and religious leaders, and they held very different beliefs from the Pharisees and probably most of the crowds in terms of the law.

5:59And so verse 23 says, kind of states the most prominent disagreement. Look with me at 23. It says, "The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection." If you're familiar with Acts, Acts 23 verse 8, when Paul was kind of held between Sadducees and Pharisees, he cries out and the Sadducees, it says in Acts 23:8, "The Sadducees say that there's no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all." So ancient historian Josephus even records that the Sadducees believe that souls die with the bodies. So they pose a question to Jesus. Look with me at 24 to 27. "The Sadducees came to him saying, 'Teacher, Moses said, "If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother."

6:48Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died and, having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died.'" Verse 28. "'In the resurrection therefore of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.'" So like the Pharisees, the Sadducees aren't wanting genuine answers. They're kind of laying a trap, hoping to trick Jesus, and here they pose this riddle, this elaborate hypothetical situation with a man and his wife and his six brothers and lots of death. This is a theological debate that finds its roots in Deuteronomy chapter 25 verse 5. Just listen as I read Deuteronomy 25 verse 5.

7:35It says, "If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go into her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her." We see this played out in Genesis 38. And the Sadducees are trying to prove that the resurrection is impossible. So all sorts of questions should pop up in our minds at this point. How does this prove that there's no resurrection? How do the Sadducees think Jesus is going to answer? And then maybe a third question is why did God even include Deuteronomy 25:5 in the first place? Doesn't seem like maybe the best command.

8:25To our modern ears, it sounds rather odd. Some of you are thinking like, "If my brother dies, I don't want to marry my sister-in-law." Don't bring this up at Thanksgiving dinner. It would just make it awkward. "Hey, did you know if we lived..." No, don't do that. So let's answer that question first. Why did God command Deuteronomy 25:5? Well, we call this levirate marriage. It comes from the Latin word levir, which means a husband's brother, a brother-in-law. And this practice had three purposes. It was to perpetuate the deceased brother's family line, it was to support and protect the widow, and it was to keep ancestral property within the same family.

9:05And so you can see the most prominent example of this in the Bible in the Book of Ruth, where Boaz marries Ruth in order to care for her and Naomi, but he needs to let someone else go first, a kinsman redeemer, a closer relative. Now we return to the question: how does this scenario prove that there's no resurrection? What's the trap, if you will? Well, just like last week's confrontation, the Sadducees are trying to back Jesus into this lose-lose situation. And if Jesus affirms the resurrection and says, "Yes, when you die, you rise again to new life in heaven," and then he will supposedly endorse polygamy, or polyandry in this particular case, one woman married to multiple men. And back in Matthew 19, Jesus has already taught that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, and they become one flesh.

10:03And yet the Sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection at all. And so if Jesus answers, "Yes, there's a resurrection," they think he's going to be affirming polygamy, which he doesn't affirm. But then if he says, "Well, she's no one's husband or wife," excuse me, then perhaps he'll then agree with the Sadducees in rejecting the resurrection altogether. So Jesus either supports polygamy or he rejects the resurrection. That's what the Sadducees are trying to back Jesus into. Now, the Sadducees begin with the assumption that there's no resurrection, which leads to this nonsensical hypothetical question.

10:46It's like asking, "Can God create a rock so big that he can't lift it?" How many of you have heard that sort of riddle before? Yeah. And, if God can create such a rock, but then he can't lift it, well, then that calls into his power. And if God can't create such a rock, well, then that also calls into power his power, and so the result is God's not all-powerful. And C.S. Lewis has a great quote about these types of riddles. He says that God can do everything that is intrinsically possible, but not to do mutually exclusive alternatives because, and this is the quote from C.S. Lewis, "Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God." Just because you can think of a riddle like that doesn't mean you've somehow undermined God's power. So the Sadducees are raising this very familiar theological debate between them and the Pharisees and getting Jesus to pick sides, if you will.

11:47So this is insider baseball. It's like Minnesotans debating whether it's called hotdish or casserole, right? Or whether you call it duck, duck, goose, or duck, duck, gray duck. It's kind of a familiar area of debate among the Sadducees and Pharisees, and they're like, "We got Jesus over a barrel on this one." So you may be thinking, how do the Sadducees deny the resurrection, though? Or why do the Sadducees deny the resurrection? Well, there's several Old Testament passages that allude to, and I would say even prove, that there will be a resurrection. And you can go to Hosea 6:2, "After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up." Or you get events like Ezekiel 37, the valley of dry bones.

12:33Ezekiel comes, he's to prophesy, bones get raised to life. This is a picture of a future resurrection. There's Daniel 12:2, "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." So the Old Testament very clearly teaches that there will be a future resurrection. And so the question is, how could the Sadducees deny it? Well, this reveals a second assumption of the Sadducees, which is that only the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, they held was authoritative. So they rejected the Pharisees' oral tradition, and they only held that the first five books written by Moses were authoritative.

13:18Which is why in verse 24, they say, "Teacher, Moses said..." They're going to their main authority. So that's the riddle. It's a trap either way. Either Jesus supports polygamy or he agrees with them that there is no resurrection. And for the Sadducees, it's win-win. We either expose Jesus as a false teacher who supports polygamy, or he takes our side against the Pharisees and everybody else. So now we come to the right assertion. Look with me at verses 29 to 30. "But Jesus answered them, 'You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.'" And so Jesus' first reply is very blunt and simple. You're wrong.

14:09This could mean you're deceived, you've been misled. Second, Jesus says, "You don't know your Bibles. You don't know the scriptures." Previously, Jesus has asked several times, "Have you not read in the scriptures?" Implying you don't read well. You have poor reading comprehension. Third, you don't know the power of God. And I think the inference there is that you don't know his power, but you don't know God. You don't know who he is. You don't know his purposes, his plans, or his power. Now, Jesus teaching in verse 30 is almost an aside. He kind of addresses marriage because he's correcting their faulty assumptions in their riddle, but he doesn't give this full systematic theology of marriage in the afterlife. But we're going to pause and discuss Jesus' teaching on marriage in the resurrection. So Jesus says in verse 30, "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven." So what he states there is that marriage is this earthly reality that will not exist in heaven. Therefore, the riddle that they pose to Jesus is irrelevant.

15:25It's a non-issue. That's what Jesus is saying. Now, in what way will we be like angels in heaven? Not in every way, but when it comes to marriage, we will be like angels. I think we could surmise that we will be perfectly happy like angels in God's presence. We will be given imperishable bodies, kind of new glorified bodies, and then we're going to enjoy transformed relationships in heaven. We will have single-minded devotion to God and his purposes. In 1 Corinthians 7, it says that there is a married man, and what do married men think of? Their wife. They're anxious to please their wife, and his interests are divided, and the same is true of wives of their husbands.

16:12But in heaven, we will have single-minded devotion to God because none of us will be married. And in a sense, you could say marriage is unnecessary in heaven because the reality that it points to will be fully consummated. The reality it points to will be fully consummated. So if you can go to Ephesians 5:31 and 32. Ephesians 5:31 and 32 speaks of marriage, and it says this, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." And then he says, "This mystery of marriage is profound," and then he says, "And I'm saying that it refers to Christ and the church." So marriage is a metaphor. It's a pointer to the greater mystery of Christ's sacrificial love and union with the church. And in the new earth, we will partake in the marriage feast of the Lamb because we will finally understand in its fullness that mystery of Christ loving the church, which means we no longer need the metaphor that's pointing to that reality. And then the other purposes of marriage will also be fulfilled in the resurrection.

17:28I'll say the resurrection, or I'll say the new earth or the new heavens and the new earth. It's all referring to sort of our life with God after the resurrection when his kingdom is fully consummated. The other purposes of marriage will be fulfilled in the resurrection. There will be no more need for procreation. We will all be immortal. There will be no more need for companionship because we will bask in the very presence of God and have perfect fellowship with God and with one another, and we will be engaged in his service and worship. There will be no loneliness, no isolation in heaven. And in heaven, we will be so captivated by God that every single other pleasure that we have experienced here on Earth, including marital intimacy, will pale in comparison to the bliss and the wonder of being in the presence of God and gazing upon his face. Which is why the psalmist can say in Psalm 16:11, "In your presence there is fullness of joy, and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

18:40What can you say that of right now? Very few things, perhaps nothing. But in heaven, we will experience some of the greatest joys that there will be ever to experience, and it will be ever-increasing and never-ending. Now, very practically, I realize that verse 30 can be really unsettling for some of us this morning. It's a bit of a downer. You think, "I won't be married in heaven?" You reached over and you squeezed your spouse's hand, and you thought, "I love my spouse so much, it feels unthinkable to not be married." And some others hear this text and they are mixed with a measure of sadness and relief because marriage is your most painful relationship.

19:29It's marked by hurt and betrayal. And then there's others, widows and widowers here in our body, who so long to reunite with a spouse that has passed on. And then there's those who are unmarried who think, " Totally irrelevant text for me right now." Yet there are several implications that flow from this text for us this morning. First is that lifelong singles will not be left out and you will not be second-class citizens in heaven. You will not be relegated to third-wheel status for all eternity. No, you will join a very privileged group like Jesus and John the Baptist and the Apostle Paul as those who were never married, and we will all partake of the glories of Christ. Second, it means that in the new earth, there will be no more complicated family dynamics, blended families, and divorce and remarriages.

20:29All the awkwardness of Thanksgiving dinner will not be present at the marriage supper of the Lamb. And third, in heaven, in this new earth, our relationships will be so transformed that we experience perfect companionship with God and with one another. We will so know one another and we will so love one another that it just boggles our mind right now. C.S. Lewis says you will not have looked upon any mere mortal. We'll be tempted to worship each other in heaven because we're so beautiful and stunning with these glorified bodies. Now, let's return to verses 31 and 32. Look with me there. "As for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God? '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." So Jesus quotes Exodus 3:6 here. And Jesus could have responded in a multitude of ways. Could have quoted some of the Old Testament passages that we cited earlier.

21:39He could have went to Genesis 1 and said, "God is the creator and the sustainer of everyone and everything. How could you not think that he can't bring people back from the dead?" He could actually have called Peter, John, and James and say, "Hey, guys, remember on the Mount of Transfiguration, who did you see up there with me? Elijah, Moses. See? They're alive." Jesus could have said, "Just wait three days from now. I'll show you resurrection." He didn't do that. He quotes Exodus 3:6. Why does he do that? "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." How does Exodus 3:6 answer the riddle? Exodus 3:6 doesn't say, "I will raise the patriarchs from the dead." That would have been really helpful if he had done that.

22:30Out of 23,000 verses that Jesus could have picked in the Old Testament, he goes here. Why? Commentators, theologians have wrestled with this. They come down in some different places. I think the reason, first, is that Jesus cites a verse from the Torah, first five books. Since the Sadducees held that was what is authoritative. Now, Exodus 3:6 highlights God's covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but where does it come? It comes in the Exodus when God is speaking to Moses out of a burning bush, and he says, "This is who I am. Who am I? I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And what he's saying there is that God's covenant with those patriarchs was everlasting.

23:21It did not end when they died. Because when this was spoken, all three of those guys had died. But what it's saying is God's nature means that those he loves must live on. I realize that's a little bit confusing. One commentator stated it this way: God will raise the dead because he cannot fail to keep his promises to them that he will be their God. Or we could restate Jesus' reply this way. Jesus is saying, "If you really understood the Old Testament, and if you really understood God's power and what he's doing in this world, you would believe in the resurrection." Because anyone who is in covenant with God Almighty, the creator and sustainer of everyone and everything, who is known and loved by God, cannot stay dead. They must rise again so that they can take hold of every promise that I have made to them. And this is the essence of verse 32.

24:22He's not God of the dead, but of the living. This doesn't mean that the patriarchs never died, but that they don't remain dead. If there's no resurrection, people just die, and that's it, that's the end of the story, then God is a God of the dead. But he says, "No, that's not the case." God is the God of the living, and his very nature as the God of those who live means that all those who die must rise again. In John 14:6, what does Jesus say? "I'm the way and the truth and the life." He's the author of life, Acts 3:15. The Bible describes him as the fountain of life. Or listen to John 11:25, "I am the resurrection and the life.

25:10Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live." That's the same argument. His very nature as a God who knows and loves his children means those who die must live again. We were talking among our pastors and this illustration came to me. I liken it to me saying to my children as a dad, "I will love you as long as I live." Well, when does my love run out? Well, when I die. But when God says to his children, "I will love you for as long as I live," when does his love run out? He doesn't die, and not when you die. His love endures forever. The eternal and covenant nature of his enduring love means that he will cause us to live again and live forever. And this truth should change our lives this morning.

26:10God, by his very nature, if you know him, if you've come under the blood of Jesus, you will live forever and ever, and you will not, cannot stay dead. Verse 33 concludes, "And when the crowds heard it, they were astonished at his teaching." I think they're astonished that Jesus evades the trap once again, but then he reveals his divine wisdom. Now, what I want to do is to draw out three applications from this text for us this morning. And the first, we've come to the hopeful application. So the first is test your assumptions about Jesus with the Word. Test your assumptions about Jesus with the Word.

26:59We all come with assumptions about Christianity or about Jesus. We see the Sadducees. They come with these assumptions that lead them to disaster. And we all come with assumptions about Christianity that may not be biblical. An example is the late Grammy Award-winning artist Dolly Parton. Some of you have seen that she passed in the news. She sang songs with an explicit faith element because her grandfather was a preacher, and she supported causes that were contrary to biblical Christianity, like the sexual revolution. And in an interview, Dolly Parton said this, "I never go to church. I believe faith is in the heart.

27:39I'm not a religious person, but I'm very spiritual. I believe that God is love, and I've always been a firm believer in that thing that is greater than us, that great energy, that great love." I don't know if she ever came to understand the true essence of Christianity and followed it. And while we can't kind of Monday morning quarterback and decisively determine someone's faith from afar, we can discern the type of fruit that emerges from their life. Did they obey all that Christ commands? John 14 and 15. Do they increasingly love Christ's bride, the church? Are they willing to be hated by the world for the sake of Christ?

28:22So we're to test our assumptions this morning by bringing them under the authority of God's word. Are our assumptions based in our own ideas so that we can do what we want when we want, so that we're not accountable to anybody else? Or do our assumptions stem from God's word so that we would actually obey him? Are we willing to submit to what God teaches? Do we bring all of our ideas and concepts and assumptions and preconceived concepts and thoughts and bring them under God's word so that God can shape them? The Bereans received God's word by examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were indeed so. So this means we need to grow in our discernment. How do we do that? Maybe just a few warnings.

29:14Don't listen to every so-called Christian YouTuber or follow every Instagram influencer that claims to be Christian, or let any keyboard warrior shape your heart and mind. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 says, "Test everything. Hold fast to what is good." Second application, pay greater attention to the scriptures and to God's power. Pay greater attention to the scriptures and to God's power. Do we know the scriptures? Or I could put it this way, do you know the Bible like the Sadducees knew the Bible? Or like Jesus knows the Bible? The Sadducees knew their Bibles. They had probably the Pentateuch, the Torah, the first five books memorized. They could debate the fine nuances of the law with the Pharisees.

30:11Yet they failed to see where the scriptures were pointing. To Jesus. Jesus' words in John 5 capture the heart of these religious leaders. He says, and he's speaking to the Pharisees, but I think the Sadducees are among them, "You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." And so this morning, are we merely hearers of God's word, or are we those who obey, who do God's work? When was the last time your Bible reading or a Bible study or a sermon convicted you of sin so that you repented?

31:01I fear that some of us can inoculate ourselves from the conviction that comes from God's word. And it's like a waterproof coating. We spray it on ourselves so that God's word beads up and just slides right off. I thank you, Lord, that I'm not like those people. And so pay greater attention to the scriptures. But we also need to pay greater attention to God's power. The Pharisees had too limited an understanding of who God was and what he was doing in this world. The kingdom of God, they said, was just in here in this life. Once we die, that's it. That's the end of the story. Do we think so little of the cross and of grace and of forgiveness and of his coming kingdom? This text rebukes the Sadducees for denying the resurrection and for their small view of God. And so this morning, where do we harbor a small view of God?

32:03Perhaps not pertaining to the resurrection, but maybe we just believe some things are impossible, like the salvation of a people resistant to the gospel. And I think there's a story in 2 Kings that's just illustrative of the eyes that we need to see. So in 2 Kings 6, there's a story, and you probably have heard it before, but the king of Syria sends this great army of horses and chariots to lay siege and to capture the prophet Elisha. And they're surrounding them, and the servant cries out, like, "What are we going to do? Alas, my master, what shall we do?" 2 Kings 6:15. But how does Elisha respond?

32:50He says, "Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." And then he prayed for his eyes to be opened to the greater spiritual reality, and then he saw armies upon armies surrounding the king of Syria and his armies. And he's like, "Oh, the whole calculus has changed of how this battle is going to go." And he didn't even need that army. Elisha prayed that they would be blind, and then he led them to Israel. And so this morning, with whatever you're facing, whatever challenges that have come into your life, whatever things feel impossible, whatever preconceived ideas or assumptions you come with, we need new spiritual eyes to see.

33:37Like Elisha prayed for his servant, give them eyes to see the ones with us are greater than the ones out there. We need to see. Yes, there's a spiritual war that is being raged in the heavenly places, but the spirit of God is with his people. I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you. And so we need eyes to see that whatever challenges are before us, there's a spiritual reality. There's a greater spiritual reality. God may be using that suffering to transform us. God may be using that opportunity so that we would share the gospel, so that we would stand firm, so that someone would get saved, so that someone would ultimately be judged.

34:19But we need eyes to see. And the third application is let the reality of the resurrection shape our lives. Let the reality of the resurrection shape our lives. The central truth of this passage is that the resurrection's real, and it changes everything. It ought to transform our prayer lives. We should pray for God to bring revival to this country. What's the most burdensome relationship or problem or issue in your life right now? You can pray because we know that God is making all things new. He will not leave us, nor will he forsake us. And so do we pray with confidence because Christ is raised from the dead, seated on his throne, and he has said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, and I'm delegating that authority to my children to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them all that I've commanded until I return."

35:37Romans 8:32 reminds us, "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" And the resurrection of Christ Jesus is the down payment of those all things. We will also rise with him. And so it means this morning, we don't fear death. We can walk into old age with a little bit more grace. We remember who we are, holy and beloved, children of God, made in his image. The resurrection helps us to fear less, to be less anxious, to be less worried, to be less frantic, and to be less angry. And yet for some who are not trusting in Jesus, this resurrection is not good news for you.

36:30Daniel 12 speaks of rising to shame and everlasting contempt. Or Jesus in John 5 says some will resurrect to life, experience the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment, that they'll actually experience a second death and then be punished in the lake of fire. So the invitation this morning is to submit and surrender to King Jesus. This is not your only life. You're not designed to live your best life now. There is a life to come, and it's real. And so bow the knee to King Jesus. We began highlighting the disastrous assumptions that can lead to disastrous results. And Jesus teaches that the resurrection is real and that even death cannot sever his everlasting and unfailing love for his children. That's why God says in Jeremiah 31:3, "I have loved you with an everlasting love." Or that's why Paul can write in Romans 8, "I'm sure that neither death nor life will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

37:50Why can't death separate us from the love of God? Because because of his love, he will cause us to rise again from the dead. So the resurrection doesn't just promise life after death, but it promises that all those who are in Christ right now will be objects of his everlasting, eternal, covenantal, unchanging, persevering love for all eternity. And so God Almighty looks down on his children and says, "I will love you as long as I live." Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this good news. We thank you for the resurrection. We thank you that you are making all things new. You're wiping away every tear, that the groans of the whole creation under the weight of sin will one day go away. And so we long for that day. We love you.

38:55We trust you, and we pray that you would meet us. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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