R.C. Sproul

There'll be no exploitation of women.

There'll be no insults one to another of husbands and their wives.

Sin will be banished from all human relationships.

And don't you understand that my relationship with

to somebody that I hardly know in this world will be deeper, more blessed, more intimate, more fulfilling than anything I can experience in marriage in this world.

Think of it.

We will enjoy human fellowship and communion

that will be far richer than the best communion we ever can possibly experience in this world.

And I guarantee you, honey, if when we get to heaven, you find out that we're not married anymore, it's not going to bother you at all.

I was reminded of an episode I had in seminary when we had a speaker in chapel

who did everything but destroy the Reformed faith and attacked everything precious to classical Reformed theology.

And on the way out in my distress, I caught up with my mentor, Dr. Gerstner, as he was on the way to his car, and I said, Dr. Gerstner, if John Calvin were in that chapel this morning, he would have turned over in his grave.

And in mid-strive, Gerstner just stopped, and he turned to me, and he said, young man, don't you know that nothing could possibly destroy the felicity that John Calvin enjoys at this moment?

I said, excuse me.

But we fail to understand the depth of joy and delight

that God has prepared for His people in heaven.

If you use your imagination and try to conjure up the greatest possible experience that you would have in heaven, once you reach the pinnacle of that imagination, multiply it by a million times, and you still won't have reached what God is preparing for His people with His power and with His Word.

Now Jesus moves in verse 26 to this consideration, but concerning the dead, that they rise.

Have you not read?

He's going to give them a quiz here on what they've read of their theological acumen, what they've studied in the Bible.