{"id":4697,"date":"2019-12-30T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bencaodiaria.club\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:44:15","slug":"evangelho-do-dia-lucas-2027-381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bencaodiaria.club\/en\/evangelho-do-dia-lucas-2027-381\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel of the Day \u2013 Luke 20:27-38"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came and asked him,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saying: Master, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife, and leaving no children, his brother must take his wife, and raise up posterity for his brother.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and died childless; And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And the third took it, and also the seven also; and they died, and left no children. And last, after all, the woman also died.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife will the wife be, since the seven had her as a wife? And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But those who are considered worthy of attaining the world to come, and the resurrection from the dead, shall neither marry nor be given in marriage;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Because they can no longer die; for they are equal to angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And that the dead will rise again, Moses also showed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now God is not the God of the dead, but of the living; because everyone lives for him<\/span><\/strong>\u201c<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 20:27-38<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Importance of the Gospel of the Day<\/h2>\n

As Christians, we place a high value on God\u2019s Word. It is through belief in the Word of God that we are saved (Rm 10:17). The Word of God then becomes our guide for life in all circumstances, whether in employment, in social life or even in the family circle. Our aspiration should be to live by the Word of God.<\/p>\n

God of the living: when Jesus reveals the future we try to forget<\/h2>\n

There are questions that people ask not because they want to learn, but because they want to win an argument. Questions that seem intelligent, well-crafted, full of logic\u2026 but, deep down, carry a hidden intention: to corner God, reduce faith to cold reasoning and, if possible, discredit hope.<\/p>\n

The Gospel of the Day presents us with such a scene. A group approaches Jesus with a complicated question, an almost absurd \u201chypothetical\u201d case, constructed to confuse and ridicule the belief in the resurrection. They want to prove that faith is illogical, that the future is a myth, that life ends in the grave. And Jesus responds in a way that not only dismantles the argument\u2026 but opens a gigantic window to the mystery of eternal life.<\/p>\n

This passage is profound because it touches on a subject that every human being, at some point, needs to face: Death and what comes after.<\/strong> But Jesus doesn't speak about this out of fear. He speaks with authority. He doesn't offer a pretty theory for comfort. He reveals a reality: Life doesn't end.<\/strong> God is not the God of the dead. God is the God of the living.<\/p>\n

And that sentence changes everything.<\/p>\n

1) When faith becomes debate: the trap of the \u201cexperts\u201d<\/h3>\n

The group that questions Jesus is made up of influential religious people, knowledgeable about the Scriptures, but with one important characteristic: they did not believe in the resurrection. For them, life was this place. Everything ended in the end. The rest was exaggeration, imagination, popular tradition.<\/p>\n

And then they come up with an elaborate story: a marriage that, due to circumstances of law and tradition, is repeated with several siblings. And in the end, they ask: "In the resurrection, whose wife will she be?"\u201c<\/p>\n

The intention is clear: to create an impossible knot and make the idea of resurrection seem ridiculous. It's as if they were saying: "If there is life after death, then the law of marriage becomes chaos. Therefore, there is no resurrection."\u201c<\/p>\n

This type of trap still exists today, just in different clothes. Sometimes it's someone who uses science as an excuse to despise faith. Sometimes it's someone who uses philosophy to feel superior. Sometimes it's someone who uses religious trauma to justify indifference.<\/p>\n

But Jesus is not intimidated.<\/p>\n

He doesn't play the "who's smarter" game. He gets straight to the point: Your mistake is that you are thinking about heaven with earthly logic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) Heaven is not a repetition of life here.<\/h3>\n

Jesus responds that, in the resurrection, life does not function as it does here. Marriage\u2014which here has a concrete, human, historical function\u2014will not be necessary in the same way, because existence will be transformed.<\/p>\n

This is a huge key: Eternal life is not "more of the same".<\/strong> It is a new reality. It is not a tired extension of current life. It is a transfigured life, full, complete.<\/p>\n

Many people are afraid of heaven because they imagine a monotonous eternity. Others think it doesn't make sense because they believe everything needs to stay the same. But Jesus reveals that the resurrection is a change of condition.<\/p>\n

It's as if He were saying, "You are trying to measure the eternal with the ruler of the temporary."\u201c<\/p>\n

The resurrection is another way of existing<\/strong> \u2014 and this does not diminish our human bonds; on the contrary, It purifies and elevates everything.<\/strong>. Love doesn't disappear. It is completed. Communion doesn't end. It becomes perfect.<\/p>\n

3) "They are like angels": what does that really mean?<\/h3>\n

When Jesus says that the resurrected are \u201clike angels,\u201d He is not saying that we will become angels (being human remains being human). What He is revealing is a quality: life will be free from the limitations that today bind us to time and death.<\/p>\n

Today we live under the shadow of fragility.<\/p>\n