"Sia ang Dios sang mga buhi -para sa iya ang tanan buhi"

Ebanghelyo subong nga Adlaw (Lucas 20:27-38)

Domingo (Nobyembre 10)

May mga Saduceo nga nagpalapit kay Jesus. (Amo ini sila ang nagasiling nga wala sing pagkabanhaw.) Ginpamangkot nila sia, “Manunodlo, si Moises nagsulat sining kasugoan para sa amon, ‘Kon ang isa ka tawo mapatay nga wala sila sing bata sang iya asawa, ang utod nga lalaki sang napatay magapangasawa sang nabalo agod nga sila makapamata para sa napatay nga tawo.’ 

Sadto anay may pito ka mag-ulotod nga lalaki. Ang magulang nagpangasawa, kag napatay nga wala sing anak.

Dayon ang ikaduha nagpangasawa sang nabalo, kag amo man ang ikatlo. Amo man ang natabo sa tanan sa ila. Napatay sila nga wala sing ginbilin nga anak.

Sang ulihi ang babayi napatay man.

Sila nga pito nakapangasawa sa iya. Karon, sa adlaw sang pagkabanhaw sang mga minatay, kay sin-o bala sia asawa?”

Si Jesus nagsabat sa ila, “Ang mga lalaki kag mga babayi sining kalibutan nagaasawahay, pero ang mga lalaki kag mga babayi nga takos nga pagabanhawon kag magakabuhi sa palaabuton nga panahon wala na nagaasawahay.

Kay kasubong sila sang mga anghel kag indi na sila mapatay. Mga anak sila sang Dios, kay ginbanhaw sila gikan sa kamatayon.

Si Moises nagapamatuod sing maathag nga ang mga patay pagabanhawon. Sa bahin sang kasulatan nahanungod sang nagadabdab nga kahuykahoy, nagahambal sia nahanungod sa Ginoo subong ‘Dios ni Abraham, Dios ni Isaac, kag Dios ni Jacob.’

Ini nagakahulogan nga ang Dios amo ang Dios sang mga buhi kag indi sang mga patay, kay para sa iya ang tanan buhi.”

Prayers:

"May the Lord Jesus put his hands on our eyes also, for then we too shall begin to look not at what is seen but at what is not seen. May he open the eyes that are concerned not with the present but with what is yet to come, may he unseal the heart's vision, that we may gaze on God in the Spirit, through the same Lord, Jesus Christ, whose glory and power will endure throughout the unending succession of ages." (Prayer of Origen, 185-254 AD)

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Reflection of the Daily Gospel:

Is your life earthbound or heavenbound? The Sadducees had one big problem – they could not conceive of heaven beyond what they could see with their naked eyes! Aren't we often like them? We don't recognize spiritual realities because we try to make heaven into an earthly image. The Sadducees came to Jesus with a test question to make the resurrection look ridiculous. The Sadducees, unlike the Pharisees, did not believe in immortality, nor in angels or evil spirits. Their religion was literally grounded in an earthly image of heaven. Jesus retorts by dealing with the fact of the resurrection. The scriptures give proof of it. In Exodus 3:6, when God manifests his presence to Moses in the burning bush, the Lord tells him that he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He shows that the patriarchs who died hundreds of years previously were still alive in God. Jesus defeats their arguments by showing that God is a living God of a living people. God was the friend of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when they lived. That friendship could not cease with death. As Psalm 73:23-24 states: "I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory." The ultimate proof of the resurrection is the Lord Jesus and his victory over death when he rose from the tomb. Before Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he exclaimed: "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" (John 11:25). Jesus asks us the same question. Do you believe in the resurrection and in the promise of eternal life with God?

The Holy Spirit reveals to us the eternal truths of God's unending love and the life he desires to share with us for all eternity. Paul the Apostle, quoting from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4; 65:17) states: "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him," God has revealed to us through the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). The promise of paradise – heavenly bliss and unending life with an all-loving God – is beyond human reckoning. We have only begun to taste the first-fruits! Do you live now in the joy and hope of the life of the age to come?