Resurrection According to Luke

All right, let's begin this morning.

Let's begin with prayer as we continue our Sunday School series on the resurrection narratives

in the New Testament.

Let's pray.

God, we thank you for raising your son, Jesus Christ, from the dead.

We thank you for the good news that he is Lord of all.

We thank you that his work on the cross is complete and finished and accomplished on our behalf,

and so we can draw near to you with confidence.

We pray that you would bless this time as we spend time together in your word.

We pray that it would be fruitful for us.

We pray for the children as they're in their classes and youth.

We pray for the people who are upstairs in the worship service as well.

Lord, that you would make your word, plant your word in our hearts and minds,

and may it grow and bear fruit for your glory.

In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

All right, so let's start with the chart.

There are two handouts.

Everybody got one?

If you didn't get one, Ben has them.

Do you need handouts back?

We're good?

Okay, great.

So let's start with the chart.

So I feel like there's an echo.

Are you hearing an echo or is it just me?

It's good.

Should I just cut the...

Am I loud enough?

Should I just cut the mic?

I'm always the loudest one, so...

Sometimes the pastors sort of humorously compare ourselves to one another.

And I usually get...

That's how I just...

Well, anyway, at least I can get louder.

Anyway.

So we are looking...

So I thought I would compare the four Gospels and what we learn from each of them about the resurrection of Christ.

So Mark is the shortest account.

I don't know.

Maybe I should just turn this on but turn it down.

I think that's what I will...

Maybe that's what I will settle on.

How's that?

Is that better?

Okay.

All right.

We'll do that.

So Mark is the shortest account.

And we looked at that a little bit on Easter Sunday.

Although I think Peter's lesson was more just about the historical plausibility of the resurrection of Jesus in general.

If you look at Mark 16, 1 to 8, that only tells about the visit to the empty tomb.

And the end of verse 8 is the women flee, trembling in fear, saying nothing.

Now, there's a whole question about where did Mark's Gospel originally end?

Okay.

Did it end at verse 8?

Did Mark just sort of want to leave us all in suspense?

Now, of course, he's not saying that they never said anything to anyone.

Right?

The angel says, go tell his disciples and Peter.

You will see him in Galilee.

He's going before you to Galilee.

Obviously, Mark has written his Gospel because people have spread the news about his resurrection.

So, obviously, you know, the end of verse 8 is not absolutely the end of the story.

But it might have just been an ending that sort of leaves us in suspense and emphasizes the surprise and the astonishment that the women felt upon seeing the resurrection.

And that's just a theme that comes out in the way Mark tells the story.

Very sort of simple and direct.

And you see how surprised they are and how they weren't expecting it and how the resurrection sort of surprises us with it's a sort of divine surprise.

But other people think that perhaps the original ending, Mark, might have continued the story, but the original ending might be missing because when they had books back then, you didn't have a book like this.

You had a scroll and it was rolled up.

And so the end of it might be on the outside.

And so, you know, if you pass the scroll around, it gets bumped and, you know, falls in the dirt and, you know, the end of it gets wet and then it gets torn off by mistake.

Right. You could easily imagine how the original ending of Mark's gospel might have been.

There might have been a fuller ending.

So the current ending that you see in most Bibles or most Bibles, it'll have nine through 20, but then it'll have a note that say some of the earliest manuscripts do not include 16, nine through 20.

And the earliest manuscripts don't.

So these are, you know, we have copies of the New Testament from throughout from the second century to the, well, the present really, but, you know, through the Middle Ages before the printing press.

The printing press sort of standardized things.

But when you compare all the copies, the early ones don't have Mark 16, nine to 20.

So I think it's likely a summary of other narratives of resurrection appearances found in the other three gospels.

So it talks about the appearance to Mary Magdalene, which John narrates in more detail on the road to Emmaus, which, as we'll see, Luke gets into in more detail, appears to the 11 disciples at a table at dinner.

There's a great commission, which Matthew and Luke and really John in his own way records.

But and then the Ascension, which Luke narrates.

So so this is there.

Just so you know, there are only two places in the New Testament where there's a chunk of text that we're not totally sure if it was there in the original writing.

And it's here.

And it's the story of the woman caught in adultery in John chapter eight.

So so, you know, there's this this doesn't.

The question about how Mark's gospel ends, it doesn't prevent us from it doesn't.

It's not in any way preventing us from trusting that.

What am I trying to say?

It doesn't hinder us from trusting in the scriptures.

So the trustworthiness of the New Testament, you know, again, we have thousands of copies of the New Testament.

You know, they're remarkably consistent.

And, you know, this is one of the two actual, you know, paragraph, couple paragraph long sort of narratives that we're not quite sure.

Did Mark write this or most likely I think it was written later.

Anyway, if you have questions about that, you can ask questions about that.

So Matthew follows Mark's account of the empty tomb pretty closely.

Even some of the wording is is the same, though not all of it.

But he adds some more details.

So the earthquake, the guards tremble, they become like dead men.

The women depart with fear, but also with great joy.

And they run to tell his disciples.

So, you know, yes, did they go away fearful and trembling, saying nothing at first?

Yes.

But eventually and probably pretty quickly, they made it to the disciples and did tell them.

And then we have Jesus appearing to the women, to Mary Magdalene and the other Mary,

which may be the same as the incident that's recorded in fuller form in John's gospel,

the one that I preached on on Easter.

And let's see, then there's something about the guards report and then a great commission on mountain and galley.

So Matt led us through this last week in Sunday school and focused on the theme of Jesus' authority.

Jesus' authority that calms our fears and reassures us in our doubts and brings clarity to our confusion.

So that's sort of Matthew's emphasis is we see that the resurrection establishes the authority of Jesus.

Today we're going to look at Luke.

So I'll get back to Luke later.

But next we can look at John.

John is sort of the longest account of different resurrection appearances.

It records four.

Luke reports sort of the empty tomb plus two, the road to Emmaus and the disciples at dinner.

It mentions the third Jesus appearing to Simon, but doesn't describe it.

So John records four in full.

Mary Magdalene in the garden, the 11 minus Thomas, the 11 including Thomas,

and then seven disciples by the Sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias,

where there's the miraculous catch of fish and Jesus cooks the bread and fish on the,

he cooks breakfast for them and he reinstates and commissions Peter.

So any questions about this chart?

We're going to look more deeply into Luke.

And I'm not going to look at Acts 1, but just Acts is also written by Luke.

And so I think we should combine Luke and Acts because they're really volume 1 and volume 2 of the same thing.

Luke begins the gospel by saying this is what Jesus did when he was on earth.

And Luke begins Acts by saying this is what Jesus continued to do by the Holy Spirit through his apostles,

through the disciples after his resurrection.

So I've put in briefly what Acts tells us about Jesus after his resurrection through the ascension,

which is the first 11 verses of Acts.

All right.

Any questions about this chart before we jump into Luke?

Jeff.

Jeff.

The end of Mark that's not in the original manuscript.

Are there any details in that part that contradict the other gospels?

Are there any details in any of the gospels?

I know some of them cover something.

But do any of the gospels say different things about the same events?

Yeah.

So that's a great question.

So in terms of the ending of Mark, I don't think there's anything that contradicts the other gospels,

partly because I think it's, I think it was, what I think happened with the ending of Mark is,

it's a little bit like how we have study Bibles today, right?

You have a study Bible, you have the text of the Bible, and then you've got a line,

and then you've got notes underneath that sort of explain in more detail and answer common questions.

Back then, you just had one scroll.

You didn't have this formatting that we have today for a study Bible.

And so if somebody, if a preacher wanted to make a note in the margin of his gospel manuscript

about just an explanation to the reader or something like that, you just write a note in the margin, right?

Or you might write a note at the end of the gospel of Mark just to sort of say,

okay, what happened after the empty tomb?

Well, Jesus actually appeared to people.

Well, here's some of the people he appeared to summarizing the other gospels.

So I think that's a plausible explanation for how these verses came to be associated with the gospel of Mark.

Now, what do they say?

I don't think they contradict anything.

There is, so if you look at Mark 16, verse 18, or 17, it says,

Mark 16:18

These signs will accompany those who believe.

In my name they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues,

they will pick up serpents with their hands,

and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them.

They will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover.

So picking up serpents is unique.

So it doesn't contradict the other gospels, but it's unique.

And this is the verse that a few, you know, fringe Christian groups have used

to support picking up poisonous snakes and saying,

Well, look, the Bible says you can pick up an anaconda and you won't get hurt.

I don't think that's a good use of this verse, regardless of whether Mark wrote it or not.

I think, but also, it's only here and it's nowhere else in the Bible.

And this part probably wasn't even written by Mark.

So it's a bad verse to base a sort of dangerous practice on.

In terms of generally, are there contradictions between these accounts of the appearances?

Now, they are described differently.

So in Mark, it says they saw a young man sitting on the right side of the tomb,

dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed.

In Matthew, it says there was an angel.

Well, the angel rolled back the stone and sat on it.

Or Luke, let's see, Luke says there were two men who stood by them in dazzling apparel.

Anyway, so there's a difference in how these men are described.

Is there just one man who's referred to?

Are there two men who's referred to?

Are they men?

Are they angels?

Now, is that a contradiction?

I would say no.

When angels appear in the Bible, they most often look like human beings.

Sometimes they look like a sort of heavenly warrior of light.

But sometimes they just appear as a messenger, as if they were a human being talking.

So, you know, and obviously, when it just says men in dazzling apparel,

okay, a regular guy doesn't wear dazzling apparel.

Like, that's sort of unusual.

Okay?

So, anyway.

So, there are some of those things.

It's a little, there are some things that are a little bit challenging to figure out.

Is this referring to the same incident or a different incident?

So, some people have asked the question, when John refers to Mary Magdalene running to, going to the tomb while it was still dark,

is that the same thing as when Mary and a couple other women go to the tomb in Matthew and Mark and Luke?

Or, did Mary get up before everybody else, go to the tomb while it's still dark, she's all confused, and she runs away and doesn't stay there,

and goes and gets the male disciples, and then maybe goes and gets some other women, and then they all go together later on?

Or, is John just, or, no, is it the same thing?

You know, John only mentions Mary Magdalene, but there are others with her.

The reason why he only mentions her is because he's going to focus on Jesus appearing to her later in his story.

You know, it's not an error to say, you know, Jeff walked to the store yesterday.

The reality is he, you know, two of his kids went with him.

It's not an error if I don't mention the kids.

You know, it's just, you know, you emphasize certain details, not others.

Say, because Jeff had a conversation with the storekeeper, you know, and that's what I want to tell you about.

And his kids didn't, right?

So there's some questions about how do you sort of put this all together.

And so it is interesting.

Some people have made the point that if, let's see,

if the disciples were conspiring, okay,

if they were saying, all right,

what really happened is we stole Jesus' body,

but we don't want anybody to know that.

So here's the story that we're all going to tell.

So-and-so went to the tomb.

They found the tomb empty.

Jesus appeared to them.

Then Jesus appeared to us.

And then you sort of repeat it.

Okay, who, you know, like, you know, right,

you have this strategy meeting and you say, all right,

we have to tell exactly the same story.

Because if we tell slightly different details,

people will think it's, you know,

people will question us and then we won't know what to say.

And so you sort of construct this verbatim report

and just repeat it and copy it.

That's not what we see here, right?

We see, you know, different gospel writers,

including different details,

but it's very clearly referring to the same thing.

It's very clearly referring to

Jesus rising from the dead,

the tomb being empty,

and him appearing in person

in a body that is both a real physical body,

but also a resurrected body

that's not always immediately recognized

by his disciples.

So he's the same Jesus,

but he's also glorified, you know,

or resurrected, glorified, you know,

an immortal, yes, yes.

That's right.

That's right.

His flesh was incorruptible.

That's right.

And that's why he ascended into heaven

and he still has his resurrection body.

He's still a human.

Do you know that Jesus is still a human being?

Yeah.

He didn't just become a human being

while he lived on earth

and then sort of leave behind

his humanity and his body on earth

and sort of fly away to heaven

and now he's just God.

No, he's still the son of God

and the son of man, right?

And that's why he still can be our mediator

because he's both our brother

in his humanity

and he's our savior and our Lord

in his divinity.

And yet he's one and the same.

Yeah.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,

today, and forever.

That's what the book of Hebrews says.

I end up coming again

in that resurrection body.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

And it will be even more glorious

than the disciples saw it here.

Right?

This is just sort of a,

it's almost like a sneak preview

of what's going to come

when Jesus comes again.

Amen.

That's true.

Amen.

Amen.

Does that answer your question, Jeff?

Yeah, I was just thinking that,

you know, there's 12, 15 of us

in this room.

If we all saw something happen,

we wouldn't tell the same story.

Right.

Especially if it's something

that is out of the ordinary

because, you know,

we see ordinary things every day

and we sort of get programmed to it.

We can retell the story

and everybody tells us

into the same thing.

But if we see an automobile

out there,

if we see a robbery happening,

and we all see exactly

the same thing,

and then we're asked about it,

we're all going to tell

slightly different versions of it.

That's right.

Some of us are going to,

you know,

there are going to be some highlights

that everybody gets the same.

Yeah.

And, you know,

there are going to be details

that you see,

but I don't.

Right.

And you'll report it

and I won't report it.

You'll remember there were two people

and I'll remember there were three people.

Yeah.

So, you know,

the resurrection was not ordinary,

you know,

it didn't happen every day.

Right.

So when people saw it,

it really was,

it stretched their minds

because they weren't accustomed

to dealing with it.

You know,

they knew they were expecting

to know what they did,

but,

and they found something

completely unexpected.

And, you know,

while Jesus is both God

and human,

these people were all just human.

Right.

They reacted the way humans

would react.

Right.

Right.

So I think that,

you know,

my question was not

whether the stories are identical,

but whether there were any details

that directly conflicted

with other accounts

of the resurrection.

Yeah.

No, I don't.

Someone saying that

one person went versus three persons,

in my mind,

is not a contradiction.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wanted to mention that

because some people will say

there are contradictions.

I would say ultimately no.

I don't think,

I don't think there are,

I don't think the differences

are not,

I don't think the differences

are unresolvable.

But I think when you ask,

well, okay,

what are the contradictions

you're saying?

I think some of them

are sort of like,

well,

you know,

did Mary go first

and then ran back

and brought,

told Peter and John

and then they ran

and then later on

she walked over

with the other women

to see it again?

Or,

did Mary go with

three or four women

right from the start?

And then they went back

and told the guys

and guys were figuring

out what to do from there.

You know,

honestly,

either way,

I think there's probably

a legitimate way

to harmonize that

either way.

I think,

I would say,

I think John

probably indicates

that somebody else

was with Mary

from the beginning.

So,

I'm not necessarily convinced

that Mary did a solo trip

and then came back

and then,

you know,

I think,

in fact,

I think he even uses

the word we.

Mary Magdalene

came to the tomb early

while it was still dark

and saw the stone

had been taken away

from the tomb.

So,

she ran and went

to Simon Peter

and the other disciple

whom Jesus loved

and said to him,

they have taken the Lord

out of the tomb

and we do not know

where they have laid him.

So,

that's interesting

that she says we.

Now,

some people say we

when it was just I

but still,

like,

I think that's an indication

like probably

she was with,

probably,

she was with the other women.

John just doesn't

mention all of their names.

So,

yes?

I thought the version

spoke about Luke 10,

19,

and he said,

you know,

to be a power

of the church

and you're in the world.

Isn't that a metaphor?

You don't literally

mean,

stick your hand in there

to see if God

will protect you.

That goes back

to Matthew 4

and he said,

don't tempt God,

you know.

If you didn't know

that there was going

to be a bomb

in that building,

you walk in

and God protects you,

you're good.

And then you say,

just go,

oh,

just because God's here,

let me go sit

on this bomb.

I'm good.

God's right here

to go and get

on my back.

Yeah,

right,

right.

Is it metaphor?

Yeah,

no,

I think that,

I mean,

who's the serpent

in the beginning

of the Bible?

The spirit of pride?

Right,

right,

or the devil himself,

right,

who tempts us

and deceives us

and so when he says,

I'll give you power

to tread on serpents

and scorpions,

I think he's basically

saying,

you have authority

over those

who would want

to deceive you

and sort of attack you

and,

well,

I mean,

the Bible says

Satan's the father

of lies,

right?

So,

and I think that's

primarily what it's

referring to.

Obviously,

our own sinful hearts

sometimes can deceive us.

We can be deceived

just by our own flesh

and our desire

for self-indulgence

and things like that,

but I think mostly

it's talking about

or the world,

in a sense of the world

in rebellion against God

that can be deceptive,

but I think it's mostly

referring to Satan.

So,

yes,

I agree.

Dr. Mabai.

Yeah,

one of the most amazing

is the reality

of the human being

of Jesus Christ.

The humanity of Jesus,

yes.

Yeah,

and,

he says,

really,

we are here.

I remember one day,

this is the reality.

20 people,

you sit down,

Paul,

the first person

says something,

sentences,

they have to repeat

the same thing.

At the end,

it's going not to be

the exact same thing.

Right,

right.

Right,

we put it in your own words.

And I think that's,

that's what we see

in the four Gospels,

is we see

the accounts

of the four writers

in their own words

with their own details.

You know,

and Luke mentions

specifically

that he has consulted

eyewitnesses

in

writing his Gospel

because Luke

wasn't there

at the Resurrection.

You know,

but in some ways

you can say,

well,

each of the Gospel writers

either wrote

from their own experience

or based on

the eyewitnesses

that they consulted.

So,

Mark's Gospel

is probably based

on Peter's preaching.

That's sort of

an early,

I think,

reliable tradition.

Mark doesn't say it

explicitly,

but I think there's

some indications

of that.

Anyway,

so let's move on

to Luke.

Is that alright?

Any other questions

before we move on

to Luke?

Let's go to Luke.

Luke 24.

So there are

three main parts

of Luke 24.

One is the account

of the empty tomb,

which is in all

four Gospels,

and then

there are two

other narratives.

One is the road

to Emmaus,

and second is

the disciples

who are

gathered together.

It seems like

this

refers to

it seems like

that all these

three incidents

happen on the same

day,

on Resurrection Sunday,

right?

First Easter Sunday.

the empty tomb,

and then verse 13,

that very day,

two of them

were going to

a village named

Emmaus,

so that happens

on that day.

It becomes

that evening

because

verse 29,

stay with us

for it is

toward evening,

and the day

is now far spent.

So then

Jesus is

recognized by them,

and then

it says,

verse 33,

they rose that

same hour

and returned

to Jerusalem.

So they run

back seven miles,

so they've just

walked seven miles

to Emmaus.

They get up

and run seven miles

back to Jerusalem.

So they've just,

you know,

that's more than

a half marathon,

okay?

Now,

they might have

been in good shape,

but still,

right?

That's a,

that's a,

it's a lot

to get up

when it's evening

time

and walk

seven miles

back then.

So it's probably

dark by the time

they get back

to the disciples,

and then it says,

they told what

happened on the road,

how it was known

to them,

verse 35,

and then verse 36,

as they were

talking about

these things,

Jesus himself

stood among them.

So,

so it seems

like this is

referring to

the same

incident that

John describes

in John 20,

19 to 23,

when Jesus

appears to his

disciples on

the evening

of Easter Sunday,

because John

also talks

about the

evening of that

day,

the first day

of the week,

Jesus came

and stood

among them.

So,

John 20,

19.

So,

that's what

we have

here,

these three

instances.

What I want

to do

is,

on this

handout,

the second

handout,

I want

to just

focus on

two main

themes

that Luke

brings out.

And you can

see each

of these

main themes

in all

three sections

of chapter

24.

So,

I think we

can know

that these

are themes

that Luke

intentionally

wants to

highlight

because they

come out

in all

three sections.

So,

the first,

actually,

let me take

the second

theme first.

So,

turn the

page over.

I want

to spend

a little

more time

on the

other

theme,

but let

me just

do this

briefly.

So,

in both,

in,

in,

in,

four times

in this

chapter,

we see a

pattern where

initially,

Jesus'

followers are

confused,

and later

on they

recognize

what has

happened.

So,

initial

confusion.

When the

women came

to the

empty

tomb,

it says

they were

perplexed

and frightened.

And then,

let's,

yeah,

so they were

perplexed

and frightened,

but then

the men

say to

them,

he's not

here,

but he

has risen.

Don't you

remember how

we told you

this?

They remembered

his words,

and returning

from the

tomb,

they told

these things

to the

eleven and

all the

rest.

So,

right,

initially they're

confused and

perplexed,

and they don't

know what's

going on,

and the

word of the

angel gives

clarity to

them.

And so they

go and tell

the disciples

what has

happened.

The disciples

have their

own,

the male

disciples,

verse eleven,

these words

seem to them

an idle

tale,

and they

did not

believe them.

So,

they hear

the women's

report,

they think,

that just

sounds like

something,

it sounds like

these women

are just

hallucinating,

just a

fairy tale.

But then,

verse twelve,

Peter rose and

ran to the

tomb,

stooping and

looking in,

he saw the

linen cloths

by themselves,

he went home

marveling at

what had

happened.

And,

now,

marveling in

Luke is an

interesting word

because it's not

always clear whether

it means people

believe or not,

but it does

mean that they're

sort of astonished

by something that

God is doing,

even if they

don't totally

understand it.

So,

then again,

this theme of

confusion and

recognition happens

on the road to

Emmaus,

verse fifteen and

sixteen,

while they were

talking and

discussing together,

Jesus himself

drew near and

went with them,

but their eyes

were kept from

recognizing him.

But then if you

look down at

verse thirty-one,

or thirty and

thirty-one,

he's at the

table with them,

he takes the

bread,

blessed and

broken,

and gave it to

them,

and their eyes

were opened.

And they

recognized him.

So,

notice,

their eyes were

kept from

recognizing him,

their eyes were

opened,

and they

recognized him.

And then when

he appears to

his disciples at

dinnertime that

evening,

Jesus says,

peace,

but they were

startled and

frightened.

They thought

they saw a

spirit.

In other words,

they thought

they were

seeing ghosts.

And Jesus

says,

why are you

troubled?

Why do

doubts arise

in your

hearts?

See,

it's me.

Touch me and

see.

He showed

them his

hands and

his feet.

And verse

45 later on

says,

he opened

their minds

to understand

the scriptures,

not only that

he had truly

risen,

but that it

was in

fulfillment of

the scriptures.

So,

let me just throw

out this question.

Why do you

think Luke

shows us

in all of

these instances

that the

disciples were

initially confused,

but later on

recognized Jesus?

Now,

obviously,

you could just

say,

well,

that's how it

happened,

right?

I mean,

so in some

ways,

that's a

great answer,

but,

which is

true.

You know,

again,

he wants us

to know

they weren't

dreaming about

this,

and they

didn't see

it and

think,

this is

what we've

always been

dreaming

about.

No.

No,

it wasn't

that.

So,

why do you

think Luke

brings out

this theme?

Maybe it was

his glory,

you said?

I think

glory,

his glorious

body.

He was so

glorious,

like,

I don't

know,

like that,

you know,

ah,

man,

awesome.

Yeah,

yeah.

God wanted

to emphasize

miraculous,

yeah,

yeah,

right.

The resurrection

is a miracle,

right?

It is not a

natural,

it's not a

natural occurrence.

Yeah.

Any other

reasons,

why you

can think

of,

why does

Luke

highlight

this theme

for us?

I think

sometimes

we're

confused

that it

takes us

a while

to understand

things.

Yeah.

So,

we look at

this and

we're

encouraged

that the

disciples

who were

watching this

the whole

time

didn't get

it all,

that it's

okay sometimes

if we're

confused.

Yeah,

yes,

yes.

So,

that answers

my second

question.

What

implications

does this

have for

us?

Right?

That's a

good,

um,

it's a

good

implication

for us.

Dr.

Bye.

To show

that it's

not kind

of,

you know,

like,

automatically

know,

because this

was not

fabricated,

it was

fabricated,

so one

thing,

there would

be no

condition,

no...

Right,

if you're

making it

up,

you're not

confused.

Okay?

You know

the story

that you're

making,

you know

what you're

making up,

right?

Yeah,

if you make

it up,

you're not

confused and

surprised by

what you

make up.

If your

kids are

older,

you'll

retract that

statement.

They make

up their

own stories

and then

they get

confused

about

the

matter.

Well,

okay,

I can,

acknowledge

that,

yes.

Yes.

Any other

thoughts on

this theme?

Well,

there's lots

of times

when Jesus

talks about

having eyes

you don't

see and

having ears

you don't

hear.

Yeah.

And then

that,

you know,

it's the

work of the

Spirit,

it's God's

word to

let us

actually see

the truth

about him.

Yes.

So,

that just,

for me,

that just

echoes

through

when

they're

with him

but they

don't

recognize him

until he

chooses

that they

should know.

Yeah,

until he

opens their

eyes,

right.

Right.

Right.

You can be

physically

close to

Jesus

but spiritually

still blind

toward who

he is.

know about

him but

not know

him.

Yes,

you can

know about

him but

not know

him.

Right.

So,

there's

like

spiritual

seeing and

spiritual

hearing and

spiritual

understanding.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You walk

in the

spirit,

you understand

the things

of the

spirit.

So,

the natural

man cannot

understand the

spirit because

their obeys are

foolish.

I was

looking at

scriptures on

discernment.

Mm-hmm.

He's discernment.

Yeah.

So,

Jesus gave

them discernment

when he

revealed.

That's cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No,

that's right.

He perceived

a lot.

He said,

someone touched

me.

What?

Everybody

touching you.

Are you

kidding me?

Oh,

she did.

Yeah.

Yes.

It does

also show us

how the

resurrection

body is

different.

Yes.

It's the same.

There's the

physicality to it.

It aids

to touch him.

Mm-hmm.

But,

he could be

not in a

room and

then be

in a

room with

a door

not

opening.

Yeah.

Right.

So,

it's different

to the

laws of

this

fallen

world.

I have

not

seen.

Also,

I think

that their

inability to

recognize him

and then to

recognize him

was dependent

on him,

not on them.

Because he

did certain

things that

triggered their

recognition.

Yeah.

It wasn't

a human

perception.

So,

you know,

we're told to

seek God.

It's true.

We should

seek God,

but we're

not going to

find God

on our

terms.

Yeah.

Because,

you know,

he has to

come with

it.

Yeah.

So,

even though

they had

been with

him all

this time,

they weren't

able to

recognize him

until he

did very

specific things

that opened

their eyes.

Yeah.

And the two

things that

he does,

so the

first thing

he does

is he

opens the

scriptures

to them.

And they

don't

immediately

get it

just from

him opening

the scriptures,

but later on

they say,

weren't our

hearts burning

when he

opened the

scriptures to

us?

Right?

God,

and just as

he did then,

God is

faithful now,

God uses

the scriptures

to make

our hearts

long for

him and

give us

sort of a

taste of

him and

a desire

for God

and helps

us to see

him through

the scriptures.

And the

other thing

he does

is he

took the

bread and

blessed and

broke it

and gave

it to

them,

which of

course would

have reminded

them of

all kinds

of things.

It could

have reminded

them of

the miracle

of the

feeding of

the 5,000

because the

words are

used there

and just

Jesus'

provision of

bread and

of a

meal for

those people.

But I

think especially

it reminded

them of

the Last

Supper,

right?

When Jesus

took the

bread and

broke it

and gave

it to

them.

And I

think there's

also a way

when we

celebrate,

you know,

both,

you know,

in some sense

when we share

meals as

believers,

but I

think especially

when we

share the

Lord's

Supper

together.

And we

remember that

Jesus blessed

and broke

and gave

the bread to

his disciples

as a

sign that

his body

would be

broken and

given for

them.

And when

we take

that,

you know,

that's a

place where

our faith

can be

renewed,

you know,

where we

can meet

Jesus when

we take the

Lord's

Supper.

And that's

why we do

it so often.

That's why we

do it every

other week

here.

is because

it's one of

the places

where Jesus

meets us

and just

sort of

fills our

hearts with

his joy

and helps

us to

know who

he is.

So I

think,

you know,

those are two

good things

that,

you know,

if you're

sort of at

a place

where you're

like,

I'm feeling

far away

from the

Lord,

I don't

feel like

I'm seeing

him clearly,

I'm doubting,

these are two

places to go,

go to the

scriptures and

come receive

the Lord's

Supper,

you know,

when God's

people gather

together.

And pray that

God would meet

you in those

ways like he

met the people

on the road

to Emmaus.

I just

wanted to say

that I don't

think I

know.

Yeah,

that's true.

That's true.

I experienced

that too,

just this one

verse I

repeat.

I see

it.

It's really

cool.

I have a

question.

Yeah.

It was about

the,

you said

the bread

and the

wine.

And it

says,

it goes

down,

it says,

he who

does it,

is something

about the

Lord's

death?

Yeah,

we do it

in remembrance

of him,

or we

remember the

Lord's

death until

he comes.

Yeah,

we proclaim

the Lord's

death until

he comes.

So when

we're,

you know,

when we

gather to

share the

Lord's

supper,

we always,

you know,

we always

preach about

Jesus who

died on the

cross for

us,

and we

always explain

before we

take it,

this is,

we do this

to remember

that Jesus

Christ died on

the cross for

our sins,

and that his

blood washes

away our sins,

and that we're

his people now.

so,

yeah,

oh yeah,

yeah,

well we

should talk,

we should

talk more

about that,

so there is a

warning about

not taking it,

don't take it

improperly,

or don't take

it unworthily,

and we can

talk more

about that

passage,

but the

context of

that passage

was some

people were

taking the

Lord's

supper,

and then

they were

basically just

really badly

mistreating the

other people in

the body of

Christ,

so they were

sort of coming

together,

and sharing

this meal

together,

and saying

we're remembering

Jesus together,

and then they

were,

you know,

what it said

what happened

was basically

some people

would eat,

would come

early,

and eat all

the food,

and leave

none for the

people who

came late

from work,

because it

usually happened

in the evening,

on work day

probably,

and so some

of the people

who,

you know,

who probably

were the

hungriest,

because they

had to work

the longest

hours,

would come,

and they,

you know,

some people

would just

be indulging

themselves,

and just

completely

disregarding

their brothers

and sisters

in Christ,

so that's

actually the

context where

Paul says

don't eat

the Lord's

supper in

an unworthy

way,

because the

Lord's

supper means

we're united

with one

another as

the body

of Christ,

and so we

should treat

each other

right,

and so

basically what

he says is

repent,

you know,

so if there's

something going

on in our

lives,

you know,

if there's a

relationship with

another Christian

that's not

reconciled,

or somebody

else we

haven't forgiven

them,

we need to

repent of

that,

release that,

you know,

release them

into the

Lord's hands,

or go and

apologize if we

need to apologize,

or,

you know,

whatever the

issue is,

it says we

should repent,

and then we

can come back

to be able to

receive the

Lord's

supper in a

good way,

but we can

talk more

about that,

that's a

great question,

yeah,

no,

that's good,

I'm glad you

raised that

question,

all right,

let's go back

to the first

theme,

because I

want to spend

a little more

time on this,

I think this

is really Luke's

main theme,

is that Jesus'

resurrection is a

fulfillment of

the scriptures,

so,

does somebody

want to read

these verses,

can somebody

read,

I just printed

them on the

handout,

so you can

read them from

there,

or from the

Bible,

but,

can somebody

read 24,

5 to 8,

and then

somebody else,

the next one,

somebody else,

the next one,

and then

somebody else,

the next one,

page 1,

24,

5 to 8,

as they were

frightened and

bowed their

faces to the

ground,

the man said

to them,

why do you

seek the

living among

their dead,

he is not

a lamb,

I just

know,