The Pharisees wanted to trap Jesus by asking him a question about taxes. Jesus saw their hypocrisy. Then Jesus said to them, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." We belong to God. We should be ready to give everything to God when he needs us!

Then Sadducees came with a weird story about brothers marrying one woman and all dying without children. They wanted to prove that there is no resurrection. They made a very fatalistic story, filled with the power of death and darkness. Jesus said to them. "Have you not read in the book of Moses, In the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, 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!" God was saying that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are still with him in heaven. They are still living with God. There is resurrection in God!

God has power to raise the dead. There is no death for those who believe in him. We will gain eternal life in the kingdom of God. Lord, it is easy to live under the power of death, darkness and fatalism. But you are the God of the living. Jesus has overcome the power of sin and death. We are no longer ruled by the power of death, but through the power of Jesus to overcome the power of death!


Application: Help us to have resurrection faith!
One Word: God is God of the living.