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the God of the Living
Luk 20:27-40
Here our Lord answers the materialism of His time. He speaks with the note of absolute certainty concerning the unseen, Heb 11:27. Its inhabitants do not die or marry, nor are they subject to the conditions of our earthly life. These are the children of the resurrection. What an inspiring title! May it be applied to us as in Col 3:1-4? Too many are “the sons of this age,” Luk 20:34, r.v., margin! They adopt this transient earth as their foster parent! We cannot belong to both, though some, like Bunyan’s waterman, row in one direction, while they look in another.
How wonderful to find a proof of immortality in that passage about the bush, Exo 3:6! The fact that Jehovah said, “I am the God of Abraham,” proved that the patriarch was in existence somewhere at that moment. Those whom we describe as dead are living people who have died. Death is but a passage, a step. There is no break in the chain of existence. Yonder and here all live unto God, Rom 14:8.