# 637 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 12:26 "But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? 27 "He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken."
The Sadducees based their assumption of no bodily resurrection on an ordinance that was communicated through Moses for the period of the old covenant...the law of the levirate, but Jesus goes right to the source.
He takes them to the very passage in which God personally identified Himself to Moses as the great I Am, and what was spoken at the burning bush was not an ordinance, it was a statement of fact. I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He didn't say “I WAS!”
This would be all the proof needed for a bodily resurrection, for these patriarchs were not just souls, they were body and soul! God is the God of the living, not the dead!
Then, Jesus could've said, “you are mistaken, but He added the word “greatly!” This belief in a bodily resurrection is no small matter. It is a great matter and it is why you will find it in the great Christian creeds.
Ro 10:9 says, “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” Believe it pilgrim, and live in that blessed hope. It's what gives us purpose!
1Co 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
Father, help me to live in the blessed hope of the resurrection. Everything changes when I live with an eternal perspective.
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