There’s this thing in pop culture called a Mic Drop Moment. The speaker, often a stand-up comic, says something profound or pointed at the end of the act and dramatically drops the microphone. That’s it, nothing else needs to be said. Jesus had a mic drop moment in our next passage from Mark’s Gospel.
“Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him: “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child, that man should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother. There were seven brothers. The first married a woman, and dying, left no offspring. The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. None of the seven left offspring. Last of all, the woman died too. In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?” Jesus spoke to them, “Isn’t this the reason why you’re mistaken: you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I am 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. You are badly mistaken.”” (Mark 12:18–27, CSB)
The question the Sadducees posed was disingenuous on the surface since they didn’t believe in the resurrection. After a torturous hypothetical, they asked, “In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?” (Mark 12:23, CSB) Through some twisty logic, they were trying to trap Jesus into agreeing with their position. Jesus drops a mic on them. “You’re mistaken.” “You don’t know the scriptures or God’s power.” “You are badly mistaken.” Ouch.
There are two powerful truths in Jesus’s response. The final resurrection is real and will be vastly different than our current reality. Those whose faith is in Jesus will have new bodies. That’s good, my current one is getting worn out. The second powerful truth is that “He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” That is the promise of faith in Christ, eternal life with Him.
That eternal life doesn’t start the moment we die; it starts the moment we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. In the same way that God’s Kingdom is here but not fully here. Our eternal life in Christ is now, but not yet experienced in its fullness. Having that understanding changes everything.
In the final calculation, the Sadducee worldview was futile. Nothing mattered, except for today. That worldview is still prevalent today. But our worldview in Christ is that everything matters. Every choice has eternal consequences. (drops mic)
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