by Frank Retief | Aug 30, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 21 verse 2 – 4 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “I tell you the truth,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all...
by Frank Retief | Aug 29, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 21 verse 8 – 9 He replied “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and “The time is near’. Do not follow them. When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but...
by Frank Retief | Aug 28, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 20 v 41. “Then Jesus said to them, “How is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David?” Jesus now carries the argument regarding the resurrection on to the offensive. His opponents, the Sadducees had quoted an Old Testament law without any regard to...
by Frank Retief | Aug 27, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 20 v 33. “Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?” The Old Testament law referred to by the Sadducees was Deuteronomy 25 verses 5-10. It was required that if a man died without leaving a son and heir, his...
by Frank Retief | Aug 26, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 20 v 38. “He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” When the Sadducees tried to express what they thought was the fallacy of the resurrection by presenting Jesus with a fanciful illustration of a woman who outlived seven...
by Frank Retief | Aug 25, 2014 | Thought for the day
Luke 20 verses 37 – 39 “But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” Some...
