Pastor Shaun Marksbury

“ The Resurrected Jesus Appears” ( John 20:11–18) Series:               “John: Life in Christ’s Name” #105   Text:                 John 20:11–18 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                June 1, 2025 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:             AM Service   I.         ...

Old Testament Overview Part 10 : Major Prophets, Part 2 This Session: Introductions Ezekiel Daniel End Times? I. Introductions Last time, we considered the major prophets into the time of the exile. II. Ezekiel “Then they will know that I am the Lord” (75x). NAME: “Ezekiel” [“Strengthened by God”]  A priest/prophet, like Jeremiah One of 10,000 captives taken in the 2nd siege of Nebuchadnezzar, 11 years before the final overthrow of Jerusalem DATE: 593 BC (1:2) to 571 BC (29:17)(written first to the exiles in Babylon) THEME: Condemnation, consolation, and restoration Full of strange signs to the people: He shuts himself up in his home.   He binds himself.   He is struck dumb.   He was to lie on his right and his left sides for a total of 430 days.   He ate bread that was prepared over dung.   He shaved his head and beard, considered shameful. A message for our social justice era: “The soul who sins will die” (18:1-32) We cannot ...

Someone sent me this question: "Who are the sons of God in Job 1:6?"  The term "son of" speaks of both generation and creation.  God indeed has only one Son (Psalm 2:7; John 3:16), because only Jesus bears exact likeness of God (Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:3).  However, special creation also speaks of sonship.  For instance, Adam is called a son of God (Luke 3:35) because God made him.  Israel is also called God's "son" (Deuteronomy 14:1) because God created the nation.  It speaks of God as direct Creator. None of these are referenced in Job here.  This is another group of beings specially created by God known as angels.  Because God created them directly, they get to bear the honorable term "sons of God." What we've skipped in all this is one key other usage, though it's not applicable to Job 1:6.  In the New Testament, Christians who repent and trust in Christ as their Lord and Savior are also called "sons of God" (...

We read today about yet another group approaching to accost Jesus: the Sadducees.   They’re sent from the chief priests for a third wave of questioning, hoping to trap Him in a statement (cf. 11:27; 12:13).   This wealthy group of men included the chief priests and much of Jerusalem’s ruling council. Even wielding great influence in Jewish religious life, the beliefs of the Sadducees would be akin to theological liberalism today.   They only held the books of Moses as authoritative, and not even that.   They also didn’t believe in the resurrection (v. 18) nor in the existence of angels, a future judgment, or the immortality of the soul (cf. Acts 23:6–8).   As such, this hypothetical scenario of a woman marrying seven husbands is, of course, a challenge to Jesus.   If He’s stymied, they believe they would prove themselves more intelligent than Jesus while also demonstrating how absurd it is to believe in the resurrection. However, such challe...