In the beginning of all things, God created. When sin entered the world, God made a way out of sin. When life appears to be the darkest, God gives hope and light to see the good. God looks at problems as opportunities. Therefore it was only natural that Jesus would think like his heavenly father.
The Bible says…
Matthew 22 ( World English Bible )
23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.’
25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.
26 In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
27 After them all, the woman died.
28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”
29 But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.
31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
33 When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
Things are not always as they seem; situations may have within them unseen benefits and possibilities. Jesus answered the Sadducees’ mistaken conclusions by correcting their concept of what God is like. The Scriptures teach of the wonderfulness of God and HIS creations. To presume a contradiction within anything that God can or will do is nothing less than an exhibition of false pride, for how can the creature correct the creator?
God is above all that we can imagine, in not only his nature, but in what he can accomplish in the here and now and also in the hereafter. The good news is that God wants us to be better than we are and has a provided a way to accomplish that. In a word – JESUS. Listen to HIM and LEARN!
Are you listening? Or, perhaps a better question: Will you listen?
This means you as well, Gary!
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