Please join our new Mentor 123 campaign starting this coming Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013!
What you need to do is to find two more people meeting once a week for three months, encouraging each others to have daily devotion - a daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus!
To create a momentum to this new yearly campaign I am going to start a new blog and podcast on that day. I will direct my two blogs and podcasts to that new site to have a 40 days BREAK.BUILD daily devotion. For a preliminary format please go to this site: http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/ .
You can see the layout and titles of all 40 days. Come on , let's get two more people to start a daily tasting of Jesus wonderful banquet specially prepared for us!
Today's Reading: Luke 20: 27-40
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Please click this link to read Luke 20: 27-40
Bible Study
Today's passage is a difficult one to understand. Jesus gave the Sadducees a good explanation about what resurrection was about that they did not believe.
N.T. Wright says:
In reply, Jesus makes two basic points. First, resurrection life will not be exactly the same as the present one. Death will have been abolished, and so sexual relations, and especially the need to continue a particular family line, will be irrelevant. Those who are raised will therefore be 'equal to angels': not in the sense that they will become angels, but in the sense that they will live in a deathless, immortal state.
Second, Jesus proposes that the book of Exodus, one of those the Sadducees acknowledged as authoritative, does indeed teach the resurrection, when it describes God as 'the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob'. The patriarchs are still 'alive to God'. This doesn't mean they are already 'raised from the dead'. Any first-century Jew would have known that was not the case. It means that they are alive in God's presence, awaiting their final resurrection. The Sadducees denied that, while the Pharisees believed it.
What has the resurrection of Jesus do to you? Without the resurrection of Jesus, what would you become? Have you been resurrected by Jesus into a new you? Or, are you still your old self?
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: Have you been resurrected by Jesus?
I had the opportunity to pray for a few people from other churches yesterday. After praying for a brother, I asked him, "How many days do you have daily devotion?" He said, "Three days. It's not good. There are too many temptations around me." From his answer, I know that he has been struggling with his relationship with Jesus and with this world. He needs to be resurrected by Jesus to a brand new life and not struggling to follow whether the old self or the new one.
It is so easy to say that we are being resurrected and transformed by Jesus. But, in reality, sometimes we are as dead as a corpse! If we are being resurrected by Jesus, our lifestyle will be totally different.
So, have you been resurrected by Jesus?