This month, we continue reading through the book of Luke in our Bible reading plan. In Luke 20:27, “they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
Pastor Matt Chandler preached a sermon series called, Games People Play, taken from Luke 20. You may listen or download a pdf of the sermons at The Village Church website:
Now when I first read this, I thought it was just a silly question. Here’s what I mean. I’ve had multiple opportunities to sit in front of non-Christian crowds and answer questions about our faith. It usually involves me apologizing a lot and then pointing out their flaws in their way of thinking. The funny thing about skeptics of Christianity is they are far less likely to look at their own belief system before attacking ours. So it’s really not that difficult to go, “Actually, we’re doing what we’re saying better than you’re doing what you’re saying.” I’ve never done it where I haven’t gotten this question: “Can God make a rock so big that He can’t lift it?” Do you see what he’s trying to do? It’s a little philosophical game. Because if He could, God’s not all powerful, and if He can’t, then God’s not all powerful. It’s a philosophical game that has no genuineness of heart, no actual seeking. It’s a philosophical question to which I always say, “That’s a silly question.” I thought the Sadducees were asking a silly question like that one.
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