Hey everybody, it's Matt, this is the Tim and a Bible Hour podcast, and this is a content warning.

We're going to be talking about all kinds of stuff that get real, real weird this time around,

and I know that some of you listen to this with your children, and I think that if you don't

listen to this first, it's going to inflict incredibly awkward conversations on you and your family.

So, if you want to, maybe just give this one a spin first, and then you can invite the kids

along later if you feel like it. All right, Jeff's going to play some music and we're going to

get after it. We're a Matthew chapter 22. Jesus is made as way into Jerusalem. Everybody's

real excited about it, even though I don't know exactly who he is. They haven't got that figured

out yet. That is, everybody except the religious leaders. They don't like it a bit.

And all the different various stripes of religious and political leaders are taking swipes at Jesus,

and it's just not working out for them because Jesus is Jesus in there whoever they are.

So the Pharisees try it and they come out looking stupid. Jesus hits them with some parables and

make them look real bad. And then the Herodians, the political group come out with the mini Pharisees.

They try it with some trick question about Pantaxes, the Caesar. Jesus shoots that down. They

look bad. Now the Sadducees are taking their turn and they think they have cracked the code

for how to defeat Jesus in this social situation. So they come up to him, verse 23 of Matthew 22,

that same day the Sadducees who say there's no resurrection came to him with a question. They

came to Jesus. That is with a question. Now we've talked about the Sadducees as a minority

political party. We've talked about the reality that they didn't believe in the resurrection.

We've looked at the Old Testament to see whether the notion of resurrection of the dead or eternal

life is there. It is. We've made sure that we remember all the different places or many of the

different places where Jesus talks about the eternal life and the resurrection of the dead and

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