Scripture Union Daily Guide – 15 August 2025: Today’s Devotional Reading and Reflection – Friday
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TOPIC: God of the Living
Opening Prayer
Dear Lord, I pray that you sanctify my spirit, soul and body as I read your word in Jesus name.
Scripture Reading
Matthew 22:23-33
23 That same day Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Jesus. 24 They asked, “Teacher, Moses said, If a man who doesn’t have children dies, his brother must marry his wife and produce children for his brother.[a] 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married, then died. Because he had no children he left his widow to his brother. 26 The same thing happened with the second brother and the third, and in fact with all seven brothers. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 At the resurrection, which of the seven brothers will be her husband? They were all married to her.”
29 Jesus responded, “You are wrong because you don’t know either the scriptures or God’s power. 30 At the resurrection people won’t marry nor will they be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like angels from God. 31 As for the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what God told you, 32 I’m the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?[b] He isn’t the God of the dead but of the living.” 33 Now when the crowd heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
Question for Meditation
► Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
The Sadducees are said to have descended from Zadok, the High Priest who remained faithful to King David and continued to the time of Solomon (1 Chronicles 29:22). Their official responsibilities included the day-to-day maintenance of the Temple. Many of their members served on the Great Sanhedrin, which was the Supreme Court of the country. They were rivals to the Pharisees, with whom they rarely agreed on the interpretation of the Law.
In God’s progressive revelation to the people of Israel, the concept of the afterlife was not explicit in the Law given through Moses but only a later development. Believing strictly in the letter of the Law, these sad Sadducees denied the concept of any possible resurrection from the dead. Jesus had silenced the Pharisees; but they felt they were in a superior position. They sought to bring Jesus to ridicule, along with the Pharisees, using the unlikely, extreme scenario of their question. Jesus turned the tables on them by exposing their ignorance on two levels (see Matthew 22:29). Is the God they worshipped as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob a God of the dead or of the living?
And So
Why is life after death so important to our Christian faith? See 1 Corinthians 15:19.
Insight
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
We thank you, living God, for eternal life you give us through our Lord, Jesus Christ.
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Jeremiah 16-18.
One Year Bible Reading Plan – Hard Copy version: Jeremiah 30-31
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN 15TH AUGUST 2025
PRAYER FOCUS
SALVATION OF OUR RELATIONS/LOVED ONES
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance”. 2 Pet. 3:9
THANK GOD FOR:
* The life he has given to our loved ones and in preserving them until this time • His interest in their salvation by this same Jesus that saved us from sins through our faith in him
PRAY FOR:
* Them to have a divine encounter with conviction by the power of the Holy Spirit. • Every opportunity in their lives to point them to the saving power of the Lord • Their hearts to seek the Lord now that he can be found, to enable them experience the peace of God
PRAY AGAINST:
* The power of the enemy holding them captive through the excuses of religion and self-righteousness
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