LGBT family Do not let any one fool you. There no sex in heaven, Jesus has fixed it and we are welcome.
Matthew 22:29 "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God."
“Jesus answered and said unto them”: The Sadducees: as idle and impertinent as the case they put may seem to be and really was, our Lord thought fit to return an answer to them, thereby to expose their ignorance, and put them to silence and confusion.
“Ye do err”: not only in that they denied the immortality of the soul and the resurrection, but that supposing that there would be a resurrection, things in that state would be just as they were in this; for instance, that there would be the same natural relation of husband and wife, which their question supposes.
Jesus went right to the question these Sadducees had asked. They were thoroughly convinced of this one thing. Jesus' reprimand of them was twofold (you do not know and understand the Scriptures, and you under-estimated God.)
Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."
“As the angels of God in heaven”: The Sadducees did not believe in angels – so here Jesus was exposing another of their false beliefs. Angels are deathless creatures who do not propagate and therefore have no need for marriage. “In the resurrection,” the saints will have those same characteristics.
Jesus then explained that “in the resurrection” men do not “marry” but are asexual “as the angels.” The infantile illustration of the Sadducees shows that they had no confidence in the power of a glorious resurrection to a new life. They thought that a resurrection would be the some kind of life as on earth.
Jesus teaches neither that glorified men become angels, nor that all earthly family relationships are lost in heaven. All resurrected believers will be in a state of perfect glorification and fellowship.
Angels are ministering spirits, not flesh and blood beings like here on this earth. I am not saying we shall not have a body. We shall have a heavenly body (changed in the twinkling of an eye).
Angels (spirit beings) do not marry. Marriage is an earthly relationship and has no part in heaven. It is a function of the earth to populate the earth. Without death being in the picture, there is no need for birth. Mankind will be an eternal being in heaven.
Verses 31-34: Jesus further attacks the Sadducees’ major belief in no resurrection at all, by quoting Exodus 3:6, a statement from the only part of the Old Testament that the Sadducees unquestioningly accepted (the Pentateuch). He related the eternal “I AM of God to the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) to demonstrate that they were “of the living,” or immortal (a fact unlikely to be denied by the Sadducees in a public dispute).
“God is not the God of the dead” does not mean that He has no relationship to those who have departed; it means that the departed are not really dead, and are thus still responsible to the living God (Heb. 10:31). Thus the crowd is “astonished” and the Sadducees are “put … to silence.”
Matthew 22:31 "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,"
“Have ye not read”: This quotation is taken from Exodus 3:6, Exodus 3:16; and as the five books of Moses were the only part of Scripture which the Sadducees acknowledged as Divine, our Lord, by confuting them from those books, proved the second part of his assertion, "Ye are ignorant of those very scriptures which ye profess to hold sacred."
Matthew 22:32 "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."
“God is not the God of the dead”: Jesus’ argument (taken from the Pentateuch, because the Sadducees recognized only Moses’ authority, was based on the emphatic present tense “I am” of Exodus 3:6. This subtle but effective argument utterly silenced the Sadducees (verse 34).
This does not mean that God is just God of this earth. This means there is life after death, as we know it here on earth. God called Himself "I AM" to Moses. This was a special name showing His eternity. Jesus is Lord of the dead (to this earth) and the living.
In fact, a person truly never dies. We choose where we will spend this eternity either in heaven or hell, but we never die. We have a new body suited for all of eternity. A body that does not age and does not function exactly like our body of flesh and blood that we use here on earth.
Next to help you with Discrimination of all types.Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
“For ye are all one in Christ Jesus”: All those who are one with Jesus Christ are one with one another. This verse does not deny that God has designed racial, social, and sexual distinctions among Christians, but it affirms that those do not imply spiritual inequality before God.
Nor is this spiritual equality incompatible with the God-ordained roles of headship and submission in the church, society and at home. Jesus Christ, thought fully equal with the Father, assumed a submissive role during His incarnation (Phil. 2:5-8).
This expresses the logical outcome of the Galatians’ having “put on Christ” (verse 27) and, hence, being “the sons of God” (verse 26). God views them all the same (“ye are all one”), as His sons. There being no ethnic (“Jew, Greek”), social (“bond, free”), or sexual (“male, female”), distinctions.
I have said so many times in these lessons, that God is not interested in the flesh of mankind. It is in the flesh that we are different nationalities and different genders. The spirit does not have a color or a sex. It is the spirit of mankind that Jesus quickens, not the flesh. The part of us that is made in the image of God is the spirit. God is a Spirit.
If we are in the image of someone who is Spirit, then we must be spirit, too. The real me, is not the flesh you see with your eyes, but is the spirit which dwells within this body of flesh. My spirit is a son of God. Look in the words of Jesus, how we are one in Him.
John 17:21 "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."
Galatians 3:29 "And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
“Abraham’s seed” (see note on verse 7). Not all physical children of Abraham are the “Israel of God” (6:16), that is, true spiritual children of Abraham (Rom. 9:6-8). Gentile believers who are not physical children of Abraham are, however, his spiritual children in the sense that they followed the pattern of his faith (see note on Rom. 4:11-12).
“Heirs according to the promise”: All believers are heirs of the spiritual blessing that accompanied the Abrahamic Covenant, justification by faith (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4:3-11).
The only "if" in all of this, is if ye be Christ's. Have you given yourself over completely to Christ? Are you truly His, or are you pretending? He knows the difference. He will separate the pretenders, when we stand before Him on judgment day.
His sheep will be gathered into heaven to be with Him. The pretenders will go the way of the goats to eternal damnation. The seed of Abraham is Jesus. We inherit the promises, because we belong to Jesus. Do not let even one more hour pass, before you give yourself completely to Jesus.
Galatians Chapter 3 Continued Questions
1. What is a covenant?
2. What was the covenant sealed by many times?
3. What does disannulleth mean?
4. What does that tell us about the covenant God made with Abraham?
5. Who were the promises made to?
6. Who is the seed of Abraham?
7. Did the law do away with the promise?
8. Is this 430 years a literal time?
9. What son of Abraham was the law like?
10. How was it like him?
11. Which son of Abraham was the son of promise?
12. What is an inheritance?
13. The law was added, because of ___________________.
14. Who was the mediator spoken of in verse 19?
15. All of the sacrifices in the Old Testament were a type and shadow of what?
16. Who was Moses the mediator between?
17. Jesus did not come to do away with the law, but to ___________ it.
18. What has the Scripture concluded about all men?
19. What is the law called in verse 24?
20. When are we no longer under a schoolmaster?
21. What law does the Christian keep?
22. How can we be children of God?
23. What special name can we call the Father, after we have been adopted?
24. What is true baptism?
25. The part of us that is made in the image of God is our ________.
26. What is the only "if" to becoming heirs?
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