An Episcopal Sermon: November 9, 2025

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Subject of Sermon: The Sadducees ask a question about the resurrection. Jesus replies that resurrection means a different existence from earthly life, and that it depends on a God who has a personal and living relationship with all people.

Sermon By: The Rev. Karen Cuffie at The Episcopal Church in Almaden.

Today's Gospel Reading: Luke 20:27-38

“ Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus
and asked him a question, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's
brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the
widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven
brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the
third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally
the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the
woman be? For the seven had married her."
Jesus said to them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are given in
marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and
in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are
children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the
dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where
he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him
all of them are alive." ”

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