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July 8, 2025; Matthew 22:23-46

July 8, 2025; Matthew 22:23-46

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Daily Dose of Hope July 8, 2025 Scripture - Matthew 22:23-46 Prayer: Lord Jesus, We come before you this morning, thanking you for a new day. Lord, you are good and we rejoice in your holy and powerful name. As we begin our day, Lord, help us focus on you. Help us set aside our scattered thoughts and focus on your Word and what you want us to learn today. We get so distracted and self-consumed. Forgive us for that, Lord. In these next few moments of silence, help us have laser focus on your voice... In Your Powerful Name, Amen. Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, a deep dive into the Gospels and Acts. Today, we finish up with Matthew 22. In this chapter, we see the Pharisees and Sadducees are trying to trick Jesus. They are desperately trying to trap him in his words so they can discredit him and/or arrest him. These teachers of the law feel like Jesus is destroying the very fabric of their religious faith. He certainly is turning everything upside down! The first part of today’s passage is addressing Levirate marriage. The Sadducees, the intellectual aristocracy of the day, did not believe in resurrection. They were pressing Jesus on the topic, hoping to make him look foolish. If you will recall from Mark, levirate law was intended to protect widows without a male heir. When a brother died, leaving his wife without children, a surviving brother marries the widow with the sole intention of producing an heir. If a son is conceived, he is actually considered to be the deceased brother’s child. In ancient near-East culture, a widow without any connection to a male would either starve or be forced to beg or prostitute herself. Thus, the Sadducees question makes a little more sense even though it is a bit absurd. A woman’s husband dies and she marries a brother. That brother dies and she marries another brother and so forth until she has been married to all seven brothers. Then she dies. Whose wife will she be at the resurrection? Keep in mind, they ask this question knowing that they think the resurrection is false. Jesus basically tells them they are missing the point. In the resurrection, our bodies will be different – perfect and glorious. There will also be a change in our spiritual nature. Jesus is saying that in regard to marriage and sexual matters, we will be like the angels (note that he did not say we will be angels but we will be like them.) But the Sadducees were mistaken so significantly not because of this absurd question but because they didn’t believe in the resurrection. This is a fundamental aspect of Jesus’ teaching and they missed it entirely. The next part of today’s Scripture is in regard to the greatest commandment. Keep in mind, when asking about which commandment is greatest, the expert in the law is hoping to engage in some kind of debate. But the commandment Jesus chose was not one that could be open for debate–it was a commandment recited by pious Jews each and every day, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. But then, Jesus adds something new, as he often does. He says...and the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. A person cannot love God and treat their neighbor poorly. Love of God is not an intellectual or abstract claim. Rather, love of God is expressed in the way we love others. I John 4:20 speaks to this truth, Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. What’s interesting to me here is that Jesus says that the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments. If one loves God wholeheartedly, then they will observe the law. If someone loves God wholeheartedly, they will care for others as well. The prophets often proclaimed the need to worship God sincerely (not just go through the motions) and take care of those who were oppressed. One cannot split hairs about observing the Sabbath but then cheat your neighbor in the marketplace. Love of God and neighbor are intricately connected. This was true 2000 years ago and it’s true today. Think about this past week. How have you demonstrated love of God? What about love of neighbor? In the final portion of today’s Scripture, rather than allowing the Pharisees to try to entrap him, Jesus asks the hard question. He asks the group, “What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They immediately respond, “The son of David.” How then, Jesus asked, could David call him by the Spirit ‘Lord’ when he said, “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’ (Psalm 110:1). “If David”, Jesus said, “Calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” The Pharisees were unable to answer and “from that day on no one dared to question him...

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