Error of the Sadducees

Jesus replied, " You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God." Matthew 22:29

The Sadducees attempt to ask Jesus a trick question of the seven brothers and one wife scenario to try to affirm their position that there was no resurrection or the afterlife. Christ quickly points out the error of their assumption that the Kingdom of heaven would equate to things of the present age.

Upon initial reading I equated the Sadducees with today's aetheists. The ones that argue against the resurrection or the afterlife today. I found myself shaking my head as I read the passage thinking..."Wow...the NERVE!" But upon reflection, I realize the Sadducees do not just represent those "other people" but that I may have more in common with them than I thought...

• My faith is easily stumped when things don't go my way.
  
• I justify things in an earthly "practical" way when one of God's commands is just too hard to follow.
• I tend to see things through earthly lenses instead of relying on scripture and believing in God's power in many facets of my own life.

I was challenged from today's passage. If I am so different from the Sadducees and believe without a shadow of a doubt in the resurrection and the afterlife, then I should be living my life very differently. I should be living for eternity and not for the things of this world.