I believe in the living God. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Some Sadducees who denied the resurrection came to Jesus and asked him: “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a brother who had a wife died but was childless, his brother was to marry her and have a child for his brother. So, there were seven brothers. The first married and died childlessly. The second one took her, then the third, and all seven of them. But they left no children and died. Eventually, the woman died. To which of them shall a wife be a wife in the resurrection? After all, they had her at seven as a wife. “Jesus told them,” The sons of this age marry and marry. But those who are recognized as worthy of this age and resurrection are no longer married or married. And they are the sons of God because they are the children of the resurrection. To him, all live. ” Here, some scribes said, “Teacher, you have said it well.” And they no longer dared to question him.

The view of the nature of these days, amplified by the memory of the dead, and the thought of the approaching end of the church year evoke the desire to know more, believe, and experience from what Jesus taught people. Yes, many believe in God, we want to get to heaven, but we are afraid to live and believe, as Jesus teaches. And it is today that the words of Jesus are a memento for us: “God is not the God of the dead, but the living, for all life for him” (Luke 20:38)

The idea of ​​the future is as relevant today as it was in the time of the Lord Jesus. What will happen after death and how difficult it is to name notions of resurrection, life after death are often incorrectly marked. They cause misunderstandings, rejections, and even attacks. St. Luke describes the incident when a group of Sadducees who deny the resurrection ask Jesus about a levitation marriage to ridicule him in front of a crowd. They come up with an absurd story based on Moses’s law, which could only be done with very little probability, and only to ridicule Jesus without realizing that they are exposing their helplessness, confusion, and lack of valuable arguments. They act as they do intoxicate by the fear of Jesus, followed by more and more people, and Jesus teaches that the resurrection means the supreme and sovereign realization of the truth that “he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all life for him” (Luke 20). A group of Sadducee despised the idea of ​​the resurrection.

The resurrection in the Old Testament has not yet been revealed as we know it today. Even today, many believers have doubts about the resurrection, and he proved not only with his word but also with his deeds that the resurrection is a reality. The hope of a resurrection in the Old Testament has little to do with the resurrection in the New Testament. Rather, they understood the resurrection in natural life, more perfect, but here on earth. The Sadducee mock him and do not accept him. The body was looked contemptuous at the time. In the Gospels, we have more evidence of the existence of eternal life. Jesus is talking about treasures that we should not collect on earth, where they are unsure, destroyed by rust, moths, and stolen. We are to store our treasure in heaven, noting, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21). He emphasizes parable life in parables; a rich man whose field has yielded a rich harvest, and he is acting foolishly. (cf. Luke 12: 16-21), about the rich man and Lazarus (cf. Luke 16: 19-31), about talents and responsibility for them (cf. Mt 25: 14-30), but also about the ten virgins who were wise and unwise (cf. Mt 25: 1-13). Jesus’ words about heaven and hell: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the flesh, but they cannot kill the soul” (Matthew 10:28), or the words when the hand seduces us, the foot, the eye, how we are to behave and why (cf. Mk 9: 9,43-48), but also today’s passage from the Gospel are a challenge to the first responsibility to our soul and body. Jesus speaks of the existence of what will be what we on earth cannot understand, that those who acquire this status will no longer marry or marry, but will live like angels. There is talk of a new quality of transformation that is unimaginable for us today.