S9E26: The Resurrection (November 2013)

Sermon #26

Human beings have a certain fascination with the concept of an afterlife.  Many cultures over the millenia have developed theologies of a world beyond this one.  Thousands of books have been written on the subject, many of which are written from the perspective of people who have supposedly gone to Heaven and returned.  But today, in this sermon delivered very early in my ministry, we meet a group of Jews who do not believe in life after death, and challenge Jesus on the matter using an elaborate story that they believe will destroy the notion of any kind of resurrection.  Of course, Jesus being God, He sees through their ruse and uses their own knowledge of scripture to demonstrate the error of their thinking and to show us today that there is indeed life after death.

Luke 20:27-40

Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on November 10, 2013 (Previously unpublished)

S.D.G.