Hello everyone, welcome back.
My name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
Today is Wednesday, June 5th and we will be reading Mark 12, 18-27.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Mark 12, 18-27.
And the Sadducees came to him, who say there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote for us that a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but no child.
The man must take the wife and raise up the children for his brother.
There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and when he died, left no children.
And the second took her and died, leaving no children, and the third likewise, and the seven left no children.
Last of all, the woman also died.
In the resurrection, whose wife will she be?
And the seven had her as a wife.
Jesus said to them, Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither of the Scriptures nor the power of God?
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?
He is not the God of the dead, but the living.
You are quite wrong.
Some of these parables are a bit harder to understand at my age.
I had to have my parents help me to understand this one a little bit better.
What I ended up understanding is that if we try to live for Jesus and be as holy as we can on earth, we someday go to heaven with Jesus.
The reading today said He is God of the living.
I sometimes like to imagine what heaven will be like, with all the sparkly gold, all the happiness all around, and the angelic singing.
It’s going to be so amazing.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dear God, help us to live the best at being holy, until one day we get to be in heaven like angels.
Thank you for being our guidance and helper.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!