Our paragraph topic is: (The Sadducees question Christ) Part 1.
The Herodians came, questioned and tested him, and left marveling at his answer. Now we have the Sadducees coming on the same day with their questions in their attempt to gather evidence against him. They were learned men. They studied the text and the books handed down by their fathers and the prophets but they had no wisdom or insight into the meaning behind the words. The spirit of the Lord was not with them.
They were the ones who did not believe in the resurrection. They only believed that we lived for today and die tomorrow. So they had no understanding of what happened after death. They had no knowledge or belief that there was an after life, a soul or a spirit. They only believed that they lived for today and tomorrow you die and that is the end of life. So, "On that same day some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him, and questioned him."
Christ was an ordinary man, an ordinary man of flesh and blood. He was not a hero. He was not a prince or a scholar, at least not in the eyes of those who practiced being a scholar in those days, those who trained with the elders and learned various schools of thought. He was just an ordinary man who would not attract the attention of anyone. Yet within this ordinary man lived the Son of Man, the Son of God.
He came down from heaven to walk among the ordinary people to be an example to them of a new way of life. He wanted to show that there is a God and a heaven and a life after death that we could all believe in and live for. He showed that he had the power of the Holy Spirit and God the Father to perform miracles that no other man or prophet had performed before him. He wanted the people to rejoice, to have hope, to be happy in the knowledge that they had a God to provide for them, to care for them, to protect them, and to love them, even if they had to suffer in the present.
For he came to suffer. He came to die for us. He came to become a substitute for us all that we might have new life. He came that the life that we lost in the garden we could have again. He came because of the passion of his love for us all. He came that we each might now have the choice to make our own decision as to whether we wanted to live with him or to die without him. The choice would be ours alone. The message would be spread to all. All would have the opportunity over and over again till the last day, to decide. The choice would be ours. We must choose or the choice will be made for us. Death will come and it will decide. Why wait.
The Herodians came, questioned and tested him, and left marveling at his answer. Now we have the Sadducees coming on the same day with their questions in their attempt to gather evidence against him. They were learned men. They studied the text and the books handed down by their fathers and the prophets but they had no wisdom or insight into the meaning behind the words. The spirit of the Lord was not with them.
They were the ones who did not believe in the resurrection. They only believed that we lived for today and die tomorrow. So they had no understanding of what happened after death. They had no knowledge or belief that there was an after life, a soul or a spirit. They only believed that they lived for today and tomorrow you die and that is the end of life. So, "On that same day some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him, and questioned him."
Christ was an ordinary man, an ordinary man of flesh and blood. He was not a hero. He was not a prince or a scholar, at least not in the eyes of those who practiced being a scholar in those days, those who trained with the elders and learned various schools of thought. He was just an ordinary man who would not attract the attention of anyone. Yet within this ordinary man lived the Son of Man, the Son of God.
He came down from heaven to walk among the ordinary people to be an example to them of a new way of life. He wanted to show that there is a God and a heaven and a life after death that we could all believe in and live for. He showed that he had the power of the Holy Spirit and God the Father to perform miracles that no other man or prophet had performed before him. He wanted the people to rejoice, to have hope, to be happy in the knowledge that they had a God to provide for them, to care for them, to protect them, and to love them, even if they had to suffer in the present.
For he came to suffer. He came to die for us. He came to become a substitute for us all that we might have new life. He came that the life that we lost in the garden we could have again. He came because of the passion of his love for us all. He came that we each might now have the choice to make our own decision as to whether we wanted to live with him or to die without him. The choice would be ours alone. The message would be spread to all. All would have the opportunity over and over again till the last day, to decide. The choice would be ours. We must choose or the choice will be made for us. Death will come and it will decide. Why wait.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
