Daily Manna 24 August
KEY VERSE: “And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?” – (Mark 12:24)
TEXT: Mark 12:18-27
18 Then some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him; and they asked Him, saying: 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, and leaves his wife behind, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife; and dying, he left no offspring. 21 And the second took her, and he died; nor did he leave any offspring. And the third likewise. 22 So the seven had her and left no offspring. Last of all the woman died also. 23 Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife.”
24 Jesus answered and said to them, “Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 26 But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.”
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A certain woman went to a man of God for deliverance. She had been hearing strange voices. The woman had been praying to God to speak to her in an audible voice and Satan took advantage of the situation. When the man of God, through the word of knowledge, asked her why she could not be delivered having gone earlier to two notable evangelists, the woman admitted that she did not really want the spirits to leave. “And what of now?” The man of God asked. She insisted she loved it so. That is willing ignorance.
The Sadducees did not believe in resurrection nor in the existence of angels, yet they came to tempt the Lord with a fabricated story about levirate marriage and resurrection. Their story stated that a man that had six brothers married a wife and died childless. The others subsequently took her to wife without having any issue also. They wanted to know who among the seven would have her as wife “in the resurrection”. The Lord as usual through His answer exposed their ignorance and explained that at resurrection people do not marry, but would be as angels of God. He further explained that God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
Ignorance is a major setback to men all over the world today. While some are genuinely ignorant, there are others who “willing are ignorant” (2 Peter 3:5). They know the truth but decide to remain in their errors. Ignorance leads to error, error leads to the wrong direction and destiny. So it is the duty of all who have been called to be “a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness” (Romans 2:19), to stir up themselves to lead men out of ignorance and darkness into the glorious liberty of the gospel of Christ. Every true believer must be involved in this wonderful assignment.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Seek the truth and abide in it.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Psalm 24-30
Thank you for studying today’s Daily Manna – Ignorance Begets Error – by Pastor Enoch A.
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Daily Manna 24 August 2021
