Luke 20

He also perceived grace.

Luke 1, verse 22.

Luke 1, verse 22.

Luke 1, verse 22.

And when he came out, he could not speak unto them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple.

But he beckoned unto them and remained speechless.

Look at Luke 5, verse 22.

And I only want to use the book of Luke because, you know, the Gospels are, you know, accounts.

Why would you do that? Why do you spend so much money on healthcare while you're here and you won't invest in immortality that's free? I mean, are you nuts? Immortality.

Luke 20:36.

When you get into heaven, you can no longer die, for you'll be like the angels.

They're God's children since they're children of the resurrection.

I often tell people that I base my eschatology not on Revelation 20, but on Luke 20.

Not that I don't believe them both, of course, but I think Luke 20 gives a much more literal and less figurative picture of eschatology.

And here's what Luke 20, 34 to 36 says.

Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

So just digging into your argument, in kind of the systematic structure of your work, you lay down as quite foundational the... two-age idea and it's given very strongly in Holy Scripture.

Can you present the idea of these two ages to us and explain why they're important then for the rest of our eschatology?

I suppose I'm being a little bit of a smart aleck when I say it, but I often tell people that I base my eschatology not on Revelation 20, but on Luke 20.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet, we're told in chapter 16 verse 20, and that will happen soon to our world.

Turning back to Luke 20, we see how Jesus takes his disciples, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives.

And when he came there, he said the words we quoted earlier, Pray that you may not enter into temptation.

Verses 39 and 40 Let us make our prayer to, for our world is full of satans, whose minds are set on the very opposite to the things of God.

He says this, who then is the faithful and wise servant whom his master has set over his household to give them their food at the proper time? He's saying this because he's helping the disciples understand their mission, that they have to be ready not to serve food in some random house, but be ready to do the work of God in the time that's given to them, to be faithful stewards and to be found faithful.

Luke 20 and verse 10, it says, "'When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants.'" And they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard, but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

John 7 and verse 8, you go up to the feast, Jesus said.

I'm not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.

We submit to godly elders within the church for things that relate to the sacred sphere.

This very principle here in Mark 12, verse 17, and in the parallel passages in Matthew 22 and Luke 20, was the principle that undergirded the statement that our elders put together six years ago now.

In July of 2020, the Christ not Caesar is the head of the church statement.

Because there are times when if secular government oversteps its jurisdiction, where those in governing authority tell believers to do something that God has forbidden or tell believers to stop doing something that God requires, that the Bible actually gives us justification for civil disobedience.

So it's the sacrament of service.

Second thing, text in Luke 20.

This is where the, uh, Sadducees, there's kinda two main groups that are kinda going at Jesus all the time, the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

They don't like each other.

The Sadducees deny the resurrection, they deny angels, they deny anything outside the first five books of the Bible as being inspired.

So the Sadducees come to Him.

This is verse 27 in Luke 20.

"And they asked Him a question, saying, 'Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.' Now there were seven brothers.