The Sadducees of Jesus’ day made a classic theological error, allowing logic to supersede Scripture. Worse, their logic was based on a hypothetical and implausible scenario plus a faulty assumption. No wonder they were sad!
Todays Scripture: Matthew 22:23-28
Jesus told the religious leaders in Jerusalem that prostitutes and thieving tax-collectors would get into God’s kingdom before them. Was Jesus endorsing an “ultimate grace” that saves unrepentant sinners?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 21:27-32
According to Jesus, there is no marriage in heaven. Why? And how will we relate there to our former spouses?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 22:24-30
Is there hope that the unrighteous will ultimately be freed from hell and reconciled to God?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 21:31-41
Jesus promised the righteous that, at their resurrection, they will be granted immortality. Why then is immortality often thought of as something that is inherently possessed by every spirit/soul of every person, righteous and unrighteous?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 22:29-34
Israel’s religious leaders unwittingly fulfilled Psalm 118:22 by rejecting the chief cornerstone, whom we know is Jesus. Their rejection of Him would result in God’s rejection of them.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 21:41-44
We are sometimes apt, like the scribes and Pharisees, to focus on things of lesser importance at the expense of things of greater importance. In today’s reading, Jesus offers us the remedy.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 22:35-40
Jesus said, “He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.” The latter phrase clearly depicts judgment upon the wicked, but what about the former?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 21:44-22:6
What is more important than loving God and others? What is less important than loving God and others? Nothing and everything!
Todays Scripture: Matthew 22:35-40
Today, David challenges those who believe that God sovereignly selects certain individuals for salvation to harmonize their doctrine with the obvious truth found in Jesus’ Parable of the Wedding Feast, namely that some people whom God wants to enjoy His salvation reject it.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 22:3-6