1. He Is Not The God Of The Dead But Of The Living

2. Mark 12: 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.

3. And the second took her, and died, leaving 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?

4. 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.”

5. And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection.
Sadducees- Wealthy, aristocrats whose chief concern was Israel’s earthly prosperity.
No Resurrection- Rewards are for this life only- at death- the soul ceases to exist and a man’s life is done

6. Acts 23: Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

7. And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

8. Psalm 16: Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

9. Psalm 49:5 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah

10. Isaiah 26:19 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise
Isaiah 26: Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead

11. Daniel 12: 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.

12. “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.

13. In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be
In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

14. Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

15. For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

16. God’s power to create and restore life bursts the limits of both logic and imagination. Present earthly experience is entirely insufficient to forecast divine heavenly realities. We can no more imagine heavenly existence than an infant in utero can imagine a Beethoven piano concerto or the Grand Canyon at sunset.
- James Edwards

17. Philippians 3: But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,  who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

18. 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’?
Not “I WAS the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”

19. God does not make an everlasting covenant with insects that last an hour. The eternal God does not covenant with creatures that live only three score and ten years, and then go out like a candle.
R. Kent Hughes

20. He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”

21. If Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are nothing more than dust, God cannot now, at this moment, be their God. God is not the God of that which has ceased to be.
R. Kent Hughes