So, if you would, go to Matthew chapter 22. Let's look at another strange doctrine of
the Mormons. Matthew chapter 22, this is a good resurrection tie-in for Easter Sunday.
Matthew chapter 22, and this is where the Sadducees confront Jesus, and it says in verse
23,
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say, There is no resurrection, and asked him,
saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife,
and raise up seed unto his brother.
Now there were with us seven brethren, and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased,
and having no issue, left his wife unto his brother. Likewise the seventh also, and the
third unto the seventh, and the last of all, the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection
whose wife shall she be of the seven? For they all had her. Jesus answered and said
unto them, You do err not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection
they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But
as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto
you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the multitude heard this,
they were astonished at his doctrine. But notice he says unto them, that when they're
wondering who this woman is going to be married to in the afterlife, he says, you are in error.
You err. You've made an error because you don't know the scriptures and you don't know
the power of God. So that's where most error tends to come from, doesn't it? Not knowing
the Bible, not knowing what the scripture says. Just like that apostle had all those
errors because he didn't know Leviticus 18 and he didn't know John chapter 2. And the
Bible clearly says here that in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage,
but are as the angels of God in heaven. So therefore, in the resurrection, you're not
going to be married. You know, there's a saying, when you get married, till death do us part.
It's not that we're just never going to part, ever. It's till death do us part. Now, go
back if you went to Isaiah chapter 53. Did I have you turn there and I forgot to deal
with it? Go to Isaiah 53 because I want to show you that. Isaiah 53. But the Mormons,
you know, they have this strange doctrine and I read it to you a moment ago in that
letter where, you know, Jay Smith is asking Jay Smith for advice and they say, we are
taught that only through temple marriage can we receive the highest degree of exaltation
and dwell in the presence of our Heavenly Father because they think you have to do it
as a couple. It's a couple's thing, you know, in the real high echelons of heaven. You can't
go in there solo. It's a couple's only event. But in reality, you know, marriage is for
this life only. OK, when we get married, that lasts for this life only. Jesus was very clear
that in the resurrection they don't marry. They're not given in marriage. You say, well,
yeah, but if you're already married. Folks, he was answering a story about a woman who
was already married and saying that's a meaningless question because in the resurrection they
neither marry nor are given in marriage. And in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, you know, the
apostle Paul says, you know, the time's coming when it's not going to matter whether you're
married or not because that's all going to be over. That's done. So we are not married
forever. Now, this is one of the things that the Mormon Church will use as like a recruiting
tactic is they'll kind of push the family image. Now, I don't know if you guys remember
this, but back in the 1980s, they had a big TV campaign for the Mormon Church. Everybody
remember that? OK, now we're back to one of those illustrations where I have two people
who remember. Remember the commercials? They're like they show this real family or it's like
this message is from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California. It was
now everybody's saying, yes, where were you a minute ago when I raised your hand? What
do you mean? Yes. Did you see it or not? But anyway, you know, we see all these commercials
and it was brought to you by I saw hundreds of them. I mean, I almost joined. No, I'm
just kidding. I never did. I never thought about it. But throughout my childhood, I just
kept seeing all these commercials about all these commercials. And it was always like
a family man and a mother who really cares about her family. They've always kind of pushed
that angle. And if you read their tracks, because we'll go up on the rez and we'll get
their literature sometimes that they're passing out up there and it'll say like, isn't it
great how families can stay together for eternity? And you don't have to worry about
being separated from your family because, you know, it's just going to be one big happy
family for billions of years. It's like, whoa, that, you know, that's a pretty intense commitment,
you know. But anyway, we have this Mormon lady who would pick up produce at our house
and she's like, yeah, she's like, yeah, we're married forever. And I'm like, well, you know,
I'm sure your husband really appreciates you saying it that way. She was acting like it
was this big downer. But anyway, you know, they have this weird belief that marriage
goes on after the grave and it simply doesn't. I'm glad that, you know, people love their
wives and husbands and want to stay together. It's great. And I'm sure we're going to hang
out up there, right, honey? You know, we're going to, but you're not going to be married
forever. It's just not biblical. It's a false doctrine. It's an error because you don't
know the scripture. What could be clearer in scripture? Jesus is flat out said you're
wrong. You've made an error. You don't know scripture. So the verse that they're using
to try to say that Jesus was married is this verse in Isaiah, 53. Remember, this is what
Orson Hyde quoted. In Isaiah, 53, where it says in verse 10, he shall see his seed. Now,
the seed is talking about the children or the offspring or the descendants, right? That's
what seed means there. But if we actually back up a little bit, let's start back in
verse number five. It says, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for
our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And with his stripes, we are
healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way. And
the Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all. So it's talking about Jesus dying for
our sins. All our iniquities were laid on him and he was bruised and beaten for us and
by his stripes were healed. Verse seven, he was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth. He's brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment.
And look at this next phrase. It says, and who shall declare his generation? For he was
cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken.
I want to point out that key phrase, he was cut off from the land of the living. And before
that it says, who shall declare his generation? For he's cut off out of the land of the living.
What does that mean, who shall declare his generation? Okay, well, keep your finger there.
Go back to Genesis. If you go back to Genesis, you'll often find the definitions of key terms
early in the Bible. You know, Genesis kind of introduces a lot of concepts and gives
you a lot of key terms and defines them. So if we want to know what does this mean, you
know, his generation, what does that mean? Well, look at chapter 5 verse 1, the Bible
says, this is the book of the generations of Adam. And what is this book about? The
generations of Adam, it goes on to do what? It goes on to say that in verse 3 he begat
a son named Seth and then, you know, Seth begat Enos and Enos begat Canaan. The book
of the generations of Adam is a list of Adam's descendants. Does everybody see that? So it
goes through his children and their children and their children and on and on. And then
if we go a few pages forward in the Bible to chapter 10 verse 1, it says, now these
are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, right? And it goes on to
explain who their descendants are, right? So in Isaiah 53 it says, who shall declare
his generation? Now, when we think about generation or generations, what we're talking about is,
is a lineage. Now, you have basically two kinds of lineage. You've got the lineage that
led up to you and then you've got the lineage coming from you. Because in Matthew chapter
1 it says the book of the generation of Jesus Christ and then it says, you know, Abraham
begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob, and it goes all the way down through getting to Jesus.
So that's the generation of Jesus is basically all the people that came before him. Another
kind of generation that we saw in Genesis, the generation of Adam, is all the people
who came after him. Generations of Noah, all the descendants that he had. Now obviously
when the Bible asks the question in Isaiah 53, who shall declare his generation, we're
not talking about the people that came before him because, well, that's an easy answer.
Matthew is going to declare his generation. Who shall declare his generation? Luke in
chapter 3. Who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the
living. He had no physical descendants. He has no generation. He did not generate offspring.
He did not have children. Now, this should be obvious because we've got Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John. None of them mentions Jesus being married. What we do see Jesus doing
is just going off and preaching nonstop for years. And he's so busy, often he barely even
gets a chance to rest and eat. I mean, he's very busy throughout his ministry. He's constantly
trying to get away from the crowds and just take a little break. And people are following
him and thronging him. And over and over again, Jesus is trying to take a rest and take a
break and he's just preaching and just redlining for the three and a half years of his ministry.
And then we see him, you know, going off by himself to pray in a mountain. And we do see
him at the home of a friend, you know, where he's at the home of a friend with Lazarus
and Mary and Martha and their friends. But why is there no mention of Jesus' wife? Because
you didn't have one. You can't just make up stuff and say, well, the Bible didn't say
no. And here's what it says in this article. The scripture is silent on the issue of Jesus'
marital state. Well, then why don't you be silent about it? Because here's the thing.
If you'd be silent about it, there is no one who would read Matthew and walk away and say,
I think Jesus was married. Nobody's going to read Mark or Luke or John and think that
because there's nothing like that in scripture. Now, look, the Hindus teach that Jesus went
to India. They think that Jesus, when he was a teenager, you know, he went through that
phase like John Lennon and, you know, Paul McCartney or something. He went through that
phase that the Beach Boys went through where they go and they take drugs and they play
the sitar and hang around with some kind of a guru in India. They claim, that's what Hindus,
I've gotten hundreds of comments like that on my videos. Jesus went to India, you know,
Jesus. And he studied Hinduism and came and that's what he was teaching Hinduism. Now,
here's the thing. Is there a can I point to you a chapter and verse that says Jesus did
not go to India? Do I have a Bible verse that says Jesus did not go to India? OK, who here
thinks Jesus went to India? He didn't go to India because that's absurd because there's
no mention of that in scripture. So we don't have to have a verse that says he didn't go
to. It also doesn't say he did not go to Timbuktu. He did not circumnavigate the globe. He didn't
go to Antarctica. I don't need a verse to tell me that because my beliefs are based
on what the Bible does say, not on what it doesn't say. And I don't sit around speculating
about these wild theories of, well, maybe he was married. Maybe he had children. And
then you've got to love this. This false prophet says if Jesus was not the bridegroom
on that occasion, please tell me who was. So if I can't produce the name of the guy
who got married two thousand years ago in Cana, then well, it's got to be Jesus. Because
I don't know, you know, that it was Shlomo, whatever they got married. Who knows? So when
we read the scripture in context, we see what the Bible is saying in verse eight. He did
not have offspring. He was cut off from the land of living. He died without producing
children. Does everybody understand? I mean, that's obvious because when Jesus is on the
cross, who is he worried about? His wife? His kids? He's worried about his mom. When
Jesus is on the cross, he says to the apostle John, behold thy mother. And he says to Mary,
woman, behold thy son. And John took her into his home from the day, from that day
on. You know, how come he's not like, oh, okay, honey, you're going with Peter or what?
You know, where's the care and concern for his wife and kids? Because he didn't have
any because that's a dumb doctrine that's not in the Bible. So Jesus did not have physical
descendants. And then let's keep reading. Are you there in Isaiah 53? Look at verse
nine. And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he
had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He has put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall
see his seed. Now, if this were talking about his actual physical children, why does he
have to wait until his soul is made an offering for sin to see them? Everybody see what I'm
saying? When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. And then it
says he shall prolong his days because he was cut off out of the land of living. He
was killed physically. But he's going to do what? He's going to live forever. Because
when Jesus rose again from the dead, he lives to die no more. Death hath no more dominion
over him. And so when his soul is made an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He
shall prolong his days. And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall
see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. So if we take verses ten and eleven
together, right? Ten and eleven together. He shall see his seed. What does he see in
verse eleven? He shall see of the travail of his soul. How is he going to see the travail
of his soul? Because by his knowledge he shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.
So here's what the Bible is saying. The Bible is saying that because Jesus Christ died for
our sins, he ends up saving us. He ends up justifying us, bearing our sins. He's going
to justify many people. And he shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.
He shall see his seed. Look, we are his seed. The travail of his soul. What does travail
mean? Travail is the pain of childbirth, right? When women are in labor, they're in travail.
If somebody's out in a field on a really hot day working super hard, they're travailing,
right? Travailing is labor, pain, suffering. Now if I went out and worked in the field
and then I saw of the travail of my soul and was satisfied, you know what that would mean
is, you know, I went out and labored and I plowed the field and I planted and I watered
and I worked and sweated, right? And then what do I see? I see the crops and I see the
harvest and I see the barn filled with all of that bounty and I sit back and say, yup,
it ain't much but it's honest work, you know? And I look at the travail of my soul and be
satisfied, right? You look at it and you're satisfied. Like I worked hard and here's what
I've achieved. Well why did Jesus go through the travail of the cross? Why did Jesus endure
such contradiction of sinners against himself? Why did he go through that beating and spitting
and mocking and be nailed to the cross and take upon him the sins of the world? It was
to save us and Jesus Christ does not regret that decision because he sees of the travail
of his soul and is satisfied because by his knowledge he has justified many and he looks
at all of us that are saved and all the other people around the world that are saved and
you know what? He's glad that he died on the cross for us and he's glad that he endured
the cross. He's glad that he did that because he sees his seed. He sees his seed. And he's
satisfied. He's justified many. I don't think this is super hard to understand in verses
10 and 11. If you just slow down and read verses 10 and 11. The seed are the ones that
he's justifying. The travail of his soul is what he accomplished. What did he accomplish
by dying on the cross? Justifying sinners. Saving sinners. Justification is another word
for salvation, right? To be justified means to be declared righteous in the eyes of God.
We're not righteous. We're sinners. But in the eyes of God, he sees us as righteous.
We're declared righteous because we're covered by the blood of Jesus. Our debt has been paid
by Jesus. And so to look at this verse and to say, oh, well Jesus had physical children
because he shall see his seed. And that's like the worst way that you could ever interpret
the Bible. Just grab a verse out of context, part of a verse, and then you're going to
grab a verse out of context, part of a verse, and just make up a meaning. When the meaning
is right here, what is the seed? It's the ones that he's going to justify. It's all
right there. Because he didn't actually have a physical generation because he was cut off
out of the land of the living, but he actually gets to live forever and enjoy his seed because
even though he didn't get to enjoy being married and having physical children, he ended up
having a lot of spiritual children because we are his sons and daughters. Because if
we're saved, we are the seed of Jesus Christ. And so that's why my genealogy doesn't matter.
You know, it doesn't matter who my parents or grandparents are or anything like that
in determining whether I'm one of God's chosen people. My genealogy looks like this.
You know, Abraham begat Jesus, and Jesus begat Stephen Anderson. That's my genealogy.
So my genealogy is found in the New Testament because my genealogy is Christ's genealogy
because I'm his seed. And because I'm his seed, then all the promises of Abraham come
to me. Because the Bible says in Galatians chapter 3, if you be Christ's, then are you
Abraham's seed? Think about this, you know, if my dad is Swedish, but I'm not Swedish.
Does that make any sense? No, because, you know, if my dad is Swedish, then that makes
me Swedish, right? Well, guess what? If Jesus Christ is Abraham's seed and I'm in Christ,
then I'm Abraham's seed. That's what Galatians 3 explicitly states. If you're in Christ,
you're Abraham's seed because Christ is Abraham's seed. So you're jacking into that genealogy
and you pick it up from there because you're adopted and you're begotten again as his seed.