24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25 When the dead rise...," Mark 12:24-25 Jesus did say to those who did not believe in a bodily resurrection... They didn't believe, because of their self-centered interpretation of Scripture and limited view of their knowledge of God. Limited view, because they based their knowledge of God not on the whole counsel of God's inerrant word, but based their knowledge on their limit view of Scripture and tried to come to knowledge of God through their own reasoning and understanding, and efforts apart from what Scripture teaches--Hence, they concluded there is no bodily resurrection.
Such a teaching went against the grain of their reasoning and philosophy in man centered limited thinking and according to what met their eye and what they believed was agreeable to the law of physics, that a Human cannot be raised bodily. So, they had a limited view of Scripture and the power of God to raise the dead--Unbelief in the Resurrection.
Unlike Abraham who believed God and it was credited to him as righteous, even though he was old and Sarah's womb was barren and of old age, Abraham believed that God would give him a son through Sarah.
Jesus did say, "When the dead rise..." Jesus establishes the Truth and Fact of the bodily Resurrection of the Dead, not just all the dead, but the dead who die in the Lord--God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Those who die without Christ will be bodily raised to eternal physical torment.
God is greater than what meets our eye! Know that the power of God is greater than anything your eyes can see and experience in this life today!
Though the pressures of life and hardship of life may seem greater in our eyes—this must never blind us to the greatness and power of God; mighty to deliver!
what we go through will never compare to the greatness and power of God to deliver us in the promise of the hope of our Bodily Resurrection in Christ.
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