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Every day I drive out of the driveway of my neighborhood, and I take a right, and I go past the Dutch Bros shack. And it still absolutely boggles my brain. There is always a line circling all the way around the shack, through their parking lot and out into the road. Every single day. And it doesn’t matter the time of the day or the night. 7 pm. People need their coffee! The line is always there. People need their coffee. Why is that? I tell you what, it’s not because of nutrition. And it’s probably not even because you’re tired. It’s because you want to experience the joy of being human. You wanna take a deliciously sugary cup of coffee and let your taste buds experience that. That’s one of the joys of being human in God’s world. To receive his gifts in a body. To touch, to taste, to hear, to see.
This Sunday’s sermon takes a look at a Gospel text- Luke 20:27-40. There we will see a God who is greater than logic, greater than reason, greater than we can possibly think or imagine. Great enough that he raises even our bodies so that we can taste, see, know that he is good.
Luke 20:27-40
Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
The second
and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.
Finally, the woman died too.
Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,
and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!”
And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
