Mark 12:18-27 | Resurrection Life

In this passage from Mark 12:18–27, Jesus is confronted by the Sadducees—a powerful group who deny the resurrection. They come to Him with a hypothetical question meant to make resurrection faith look foolish. Instead of debating theory, Jesus exposes a deeper problem: they do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Jesus reframes resurrection not as a strange future idea, but as the necessary outcome of God’s covenant faithfulness. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. If He is still the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then death cannot be the end—and resurrection is not optional.

This sermon explores what resurrection meant in the Jewish worldview, why the Sadducees resisted it, and how Jesus grounds resurrection hope directly in the Torah. More than that, we see how resurrection is not only a future promise but a present reality. God is already making all things new.

Because Jesus rose from the dead, resurrection life has begun. And as people who have been made new in Christ, we are called to live as ambassadors of that future hope here and now—loving, forgiving, welcoming, and restoring as signs of the kingdom God is bringing.

Resurrection is not just about going to heaven when you die.

It is about God renewing His world—and beginning that work in us today.

Key Themes:

Resurrection and covenant faithfulness

God as the God of the living

The already and the not yet

Living resurrection-shaped lives

Bringing glimpses of the renewed world into the present

Scripture: Mark 12:18–27