"‘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.”
{Matthew 22:32} (NIV 1984)
The next verse tells us that the people were astonished at His teaching. So am I! Here our Lord (who came from heaven to earth) is responding to men who are supposedly believers in YHWH, but who do not believe that there will be a resurrection of our bodies.
Our Lord points them back to the words of the Great I AM at the burning bush. When God spoke these words to Moses, the three patriarchs had been in the grave for centuries, their bodies were dust. Our Lord’s point is that if they were dead, how could the Living God still be in a covenantal relationship with them?
Put another way, personal relationships require both persons to be alive. These men, to whom God made wonderful promises, are alive and will see the kingdom of God come in power, they will see the great resurrection of the dead, and they will see the great King seated on His throne in the land that God promised they would inhabit. God is the God of the living not the dead!
Is He your God? Are you His child? If so, then you are truly alive! May we say to our Lord Jesus this day, what Martha said 2,000 years ago, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world." (John 11:27)
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