R.C. Sproul

But Jesus rebukes them for this reason, you are mistaken

because you don't know the Scriptures.

You know, I think 100% of the theological errors that we make are because we don't know the Scriptures, because God has revealed the same things to all of us.

It's in the same book.

We read the same book, but we don't always agree on what the book teaches, and that's because we don't really know what's in there.

And every believer should strive with all of his might to have a sound knowledge of the Word of God.

Lest we hear that same rebuke from Jesus, you're mistaken because you don't know the Word of God.

You don't know the Scriptures.

And then he goes on to say what?

And because you don't know the power of God.

Christianity

Whatever else it is, dear friends, is a supernatural religion.

We live in a culture that does everything it can to squelch and to quench any idea of the supernatural.

And we say that we believe in God, and yet we live sometimes as if our lives were totally in the grip of

of the powers and forces of this world.

We haven't begun to understand the transcendent power of God, the God who can say, let there be light, and the lights come on.

the God whose power has been manifested throughout the gospel of Mark in the earthly pilgrimage of Jesus who calms the storm, who raises the dead, who heals the sick.

And so Jesus rebukes these Sadducees who were very closely related to the priestly class and the ruling body of the Sanhedrin, and He said, you people have no understanding.

You don't understand the Scriptures.

and you don't understand the power of God, so you come with this sophomoric question trying to trap me about what happens to these men who were married to this one wife.