Gospel: Luke
20:27-40
Some
Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put
this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone’s
brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and
raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first
married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married her, and
likewise all the seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. Now at the
resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to
her.” Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; but
those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection
of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. they can no longer die, for
they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the
ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the
passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for
to him all are alive.” Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have
answered well.” And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
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Reflection:
Do you
believe that there is life after death? The Sadducees an organization within
the Jewish faith did not believe in the resurrection. The Sadducees gave Jesus
a story about a woman who married seven brothers. By asking whose wife will she
be in the resurrection they were actually mocking Jesus teachings on the
resurrection.
Some
people have a limited understanding of the vastness of life that they thought
that it is only up to the point of death, after that no more. But if there’s no
life after death what then is the use of living a worthy life in this world?
There is
a resurrection! And we begin to sow the seeds of resurrection the moment we
decide to walk away from all of our sinfulness. And when we die we will have an
up close and personal encounter with this resurrection. Therefore, eternal life
or resurrection will come to those who lived their lives pleasing to the eyes
of God.
In the
gospel Jesus tells us all the reality of afterlife, of heaven, of everlasting
life and of angels. However, not all will have the privilege of being there. For
it is only reserve for those who are considered worthy. Worthy based on the
merciful eyes of God not based on our own subjective and judgmental eyes. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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