R.C. Sproul

Have you not read?

Now, He doesn't take him to Isaiah, doesn't take him to Jeremiah, doesn't take him to Job or to the writings.

He takes him to the Torah, takes him to the second book of the Old Testament where he says, "'Have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him?'

That is, to Moses, saying, "'I am the God of Abraham.'"

the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

He's not the God of the dead, but He's the God of the living.

Therefore, you are greatly mistaken."

To prove his point,

of future resurrection, Jesus goes right to the very book that they thought did not teach life after death.

And he said, what do you think the Bible is teaching?

God's not the God of the dead.

And why would God say I'm the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, unless He was still the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Do you realize what that means to us today?

That Abraham, dear friends, is still alive.

Isaac still lives.

Jacob is alive and well because their lives are in the hand of the God of the living who will not let death end our personal existence.

So that we find in this text, dear friends, not only

a magnificent philosophical refutation of the views of those who would try to entrap Jesus.

But we find from our Master's lips once again His bold and strong affirmation to the oldest question that man has, which is this, if a man dies, shall he live again?

And our Lord, without hesitation, answers that question in the affirmative.