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0:00Luke 24:1
0:02But on the first day of the week, at
0:05early dawn, they came to the tomb,
0:07bringing the [music] spices which they
0:09had prepared, and they found the stone
0:11rolled away from the tomb. But when they
0:14entered, they did not find the body of
0:16the Lord Jesus. While they were
0:19perplexed about this, behold, [music]
0:21two men suddenly stood near them in
0:24dazzling clothing. And as the women were
0:26terrified and bowed [music] their faces
0:28to the ground, the men said to them,
0:31"Why do you seek the living among the
0:34dead? He is not here, but he has risen.
0:38Remember how [music] he spoke to you
0:40while he was still in Galilee, saying
0:42that the Son of Man must be delivered
0:44into the hands of sinful men and be
0:47[music] crucified and the third day rise
0:50again?" And they remembered his words
0:52and [music] returned from the tomb and
0:55reported all these things to the 11 and
0:57to all the rest. Now they were Mary
1:00Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother
1:02of James. Also the other Mary with them
1:06were telling the things to [music] the
1:07apostles. But these words appeared to
1:10them as nonsense
1:13and they would not believe them. But
1:16Peter got up and ran to the tomb.
1:20Stooping and looking in, he saw the
1:22linen wrappings [music] only. And he
1:24went away to his home, marveling at what
1:27had happened. Jesus had told them, "No
1:31one takes my life from me, but I lay it
1:33down, and I will take it up again."
1:36Because living in the mortal life of his
1:40humanity [music] was the Almighty God.
1:43And God did not die. And God cannot die.
1:47And God has retabernacled [music]
1:49himself in the human body of the Lord
1:52Jesus.
1:54And he's no longer in the category of
1:57mortal flesh. He's now passed into an
2:00indestructible life. He can pass through
2:02walls. But his [music] body is like ours
2:06is going to be when we are raised at the
2:08end.
2:10And what has happened is
2:13Jesus [music] has descended into the
2:16power of the devil, which is death. He's
2:20descended into the grave. He has not
2:23gone into physical or literal hell. He's
2:27gone into shield, into a tomb, [music]
2:29into the grave. And he's taken away the
2:32key of death and and the grave. and he's
2:36come back and robbed the devil of his
2:40threat. That's how the devil holds
2:42people in bondage all their lifetime
2:44through the fear of death. And he's
2:46taken that away. The way the atonement
2:49has worked is that
2:52justice is the law of life in the world.
2:57It's the law of sewing and reaping. It's
2:59what allows us to give birth. It's what
3:01allows trees and animals to reproduce.
3:06You plant a seed in the ground, you're
3:07going to harvest it. It's the power of
3:10reproduction in the world. It's the law
3:13of life. But when we sinned, we turned
3:16that law of life against oursel because
3:19what we started planting was
3:21transgression. And that also is going to
3:24reproduce as anguish and pain and
3:26ultimately hell in eternity. And God
3:30cannot nullify
3:32his law of justice. He cannot say, "Oh,
3:34I made a mistake. I'll undo the law of
3:36justice." Because if he were to undo the
3:39law of justice, there would be no life.
3:41There would be no new children. There
3:43would be no young plants. There would be
3:45no life in the world. His law of justice
3:48is good. And I'm not talking about the
3:50Mosaic law. I'm talking about the
3:53principle of compensation. The law of
3:55compensation that is encoded and
3:58embedded in nature itself.
4:01And so God has to satisfy and absorb the
4:07harvest
4:08of our planting of sin without
4:12nullifying it but validating it and
4:16allow us to find refuge from that. And
4:20so he robes himself. The Almighty robes
4:24himself in our own weakness. He clothe
4:27himself in our hum humility in our
4:29humanity. He tabernacles
4:33hi the divine in the flesh of a man. And
4:37this is this is the mystery. Great is
4:39the mystery of godliness that God was
4:42revealed manifested in the flesh. And
4:45and Paul tells us God was in Christ
4:50reconciling the world to himself, not
4:53imputing their trespasses to them, but
4:56instead imputing those trespasses to
4:58himself, to his own body, so that his
5:02humanity could absorb the just penalty.
5:07But in in the courtroom drama,
5:11which is an imperfect analogy,
5:13the judge is not an angry father. The
5:16judge is the law of justice. And Jesus
5:21steps into the courtroom and says, "I
5:25want to purchase these prisoners of
5:28justice on death row. I want to purchase
5:31them." And this was a principle that
5:34occurred
5:36in the Roman legal system. A wealthy
5:40man, a lord, a governor, or sometimes
5:44just a wealthy individual could purchase
5:47a criminal from the Roman state.
5:51And when they did, they had total
5:53ownership and control over that slave.
5:57He was called a bond slave.
6:01So there's no scenario where they would
6:03purchase a guy and then wave at him as
6:06he walked out of the courtroom and they
6:08went back to their house. They purchased
6:10him to come into their own household and
6:14become their slave.
6:17So if Jesus had not risen from the
6:19grave,
6:21he would not have worked the freedom.
6:25He works the freedom because he lives
6:28because he disarms principalities and
6:32powers. Then he becomes the place where
6:35death has no hold or threat.
6:39So Paul says in Ephesians 4, when he
6:43ascended, when he rose, he led captive a
6:47host of captives. Now listen to that.
6:51He led captive a host of captives. He
6:54does not say he freed a host of
6:56captives. He said he took a host of
7:00captives as his captives. You and I and
7:03all who would believe in Jesus, we were
7:06captives to fear. We were captives to
7:09judgment. We were captives to sin and
7:12death. And he came and said, "I would
7:15like to purchase those who will accept
7:18me and come to me." But he does not free
7:21us on our own recgnizance. He does not
7:24turn us loose. Outside of him, we are
7:27not free. But it is only in him, in his
7:30house, under his name, in his spirit, in
7:34his identity in Christ that we now have
7:38this life and this freedom. Not to live
7:41to ourselves, but for us to live is
7:44Christ. And to die is truly gain. My
7:48life is not my own. I've been bought
7:50with a price. So the atonement does not
7:53atone for that which lives outside of
7:56Christ. It atones for that which is
7:59surrendered into and abiding within
8:02Christ. Christ in his spirit. Christ in
8:06his name. Christ as a place of
8:08salvation. Christ in his body. Christ in
8:12his covenant as a kingdom. As a temple.
8:15He is that house. He is that temple. And
8:17we are freed from the death march of
8:21sin. We are freed from the chains and
8:24bondage of death. But we are transferred
8:28as now the captive of Christ. I, a
8:31prisoner of the Lord Jesus, beseech you,
8:33Paul said. So we have to stay faithful,
8:37not perfect, but faithful to him who
8:39bought us. If we are a runaway servant,
8:42if we flee his house and do not abide,
8:46then we escape that city of refuge, that
8:49place of refuge that Christ is where the
8:52blood fell, where the atonement was
8:55wrought, and where the resurrection
8:57triumphed over death. That's where we've
8:59got to be. It's in him. It's not just by
9:02him.
9:04Everybody doubted, but Peter couldn't
9:06resist going and seeing for himself. So
9:09he runs down there. Peter ran to the
9:12tomb. Stooping in, he saw that the linen
9:16wrappings were there only. Verse 13. And
9:20behold, two of them were going that very
9:22day to a village named Emmas, which was
9:24about 7 milesi from Jerusalem. And they
9:28were talking with each other about all
9:29these things which had taken place.
9:32While they were talking and discussing
9:35presumably the death of Jesus and the
9:38loss of their Lord, Jesus himself
9:40approached and began traveling with
9:42them. But their eyes were prevented from
9:46recognizing him. And he said to them,
9:49"What are these words that you are
9:51exchanging with one another as you are
9:53walking?" And they stood still looking
9:57sad. One of them named Cleopus answered
10:00and said to him, "Are you the only one
10:04visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the
10:08things which have happened here in these
10:10days?"
10:14He was the only one in Jerusalem who
10:17knew the things that had actually
10:19happened in these days.
10:22And he said to them, "What things?"
10:26You see, he wants to know their faith.
10:30He wants to give them the opportunity
10:34to show if they heard any of his words
10:37about resurrection or if they've
10:40completely forgotten all of that and are
10:43in the doldrums, the the mourning of the
10:48tragedy and not looking toward the
10:50resurrection. [clears throat] And he
10:52said to them, "What things?"
10:55And they said to him, "The things about
10:57Jesus the Nazarene,
11:00who was a prophet, mighty in deed and
11:05word in the sight of God and the
11:07people."
11:09He was so much more than a prophet.
11:12But his death has already canceled out
11:14for them
11:16Peter's confession. You are the Christ,
11:19the son of the living God.
11:22Now he's a prophet.
11:25and how the chief priests and our rulers
11:27delivered him to the sentence of death
11:29and crucified him.
11:32But we were hoping that it was he who
11:35was going to redeem Israel. If God ever
11:38wanted to see how fickle our faith and
11:41commitment is, here it is. We were
11:45hoping. It's a past tense. We've given
11:48up already. We were hoping he was the
11:50redeemer, but now we're calling him a
11:53prophet.
11:55Indeed, besides all this, it is the
11:57third day since these things happened.
12:02But also, some women among us amazed us
12:05when they were at the tomb early this
12:07morning and did not find his body. They
12:10came saying that they had seen a vision
12:13of angels who said he was alive.
12:18You don't feel a lot of faith in these
12:19words. They amazed us, but they were
12:22women. Who knows?
12:25Some of those who were with us went to
12:27the tomb and found it just exactly as
12:30the women also had said, but him they
12:34did not see.
12:37They can't put it together. They can't
12:40think outside of their frameworks,
12:42outside of what's normal, what's
12:44expected. They saw him die.
12:48And he said to them, "Oh foolish men,
12:53slow of heart to believe in all that the
12:58prophets have spoken."
13:02Was it not necessary for the Christ to
13:04suffer these things and to enter into
13:07his glory?
13:10Jesus is exasperated with them. Oh
13:13foolish men. And here's the key word,
13:17slow of heart.
13:20What does it mean to have a fast heart
13:23to believe? It was not their mind that
13:26was blocking their knowledge. It was not
13:28their mind that was blocking their
13:30faith, their belief. It was their heart.
13:33They were slow of heart to believe.
13:37Then beginning with Moses and with all
13:40the prophets, he Jesus explained to them
13:44the things concerning himself in all the
13:48scriptures.
13:51And they approached the village where
13:54they were going, and he acted as though
13:57he were going further.
14:00But they urged him, saying, "Stay with
14:04us, for it is getting toward evening,
14:07and the day is now nearly over." So he
14:10went in to stay with them. He's talking
14:13with them. He's [clears throat] opening
14:14the scriptures,
14:16and something is stirring in them, but
14:18they don't yet recognize that it is
14:20Jesus.
14:22They don't ask him to stay because he's
14:24the Messiah. They ask him to stay
14:26because the hour is late. and they're
14:29trying to be nice to this guy who knows
14:31the scriptures very well,
14:33but they have not had the aha moment.
14:37When he, Jesus, had reclined at the
14:39table with them, he took the bread and
14:42blessed it, and breaking it, he began
14:45giving it to them.
14:47Then their eyes were opened, and they
14:52recognized him, [clears throat]
14:54and he vanished from their sight.
15:00They said to one another,
15:02"Were not our hearts burning within us
15:06while he was speaking to us on the road,
15:09while he was explaining the scriptures
15:12to us."
15:16And they got up that very hour and
15:18returned to Jerusalem and found gathered
15:21there the 11 and those who were with
15:24them, saying, "The Lord has really risen
15:28and has appeared to Simon."
15:31They began to relate their experience on
15:34the road and how he was recognized by
15:37them in the breaking of the bread.
15:44People speculate as to whether Jesus was
15:48in some strange form like he had an a
15:52body that with a different nose and eyes
15:55and ears and such. I don't read that
15:57here.
15:59I think this reflects
16:02the
16:05extent
16:06to which our expectations
16:10inform our insights.
16:13I think this reveals that yes, it's
16:16evening time. They would have been
16:18wearing
16:20a cloak often times with a with a um a
16:26turban over their heads where you would
16:29not necessarily have seen the figure
16:31very clearly. And they may have been
16:33walking in shadows with the sun at their
16:36backs for those last miles toward Emmas.
16:42But I think what this shows is Jesus is
16:46showing them that I'm going to keep
16:49coming to you and I'm going to be in a
16:52form you don't recognize.
16:54I'm going to come to you through one
16:56another. I'm going to come to you
16:58through my body. And you need to learn
17:00to recognize me by the burning in your
17:04hearts, not by what your eyes can see
17:08only. because I'm going to be opening
17:11the scriptures in a way that only I can
17:13open them. And I I think that that's the
17:16powerful thing. They say, "Did not our
17:19hearts burn within us?" Their minds were
17:22saying, "Can't be." Their eyes were
17:24saying, "Not him.
17:27This is impossible."
17:29Their hearts were burning. However, but
17:32they were slow to believe in that
17:35burning in their hearts, that witness of
17:38the Holy Spirit that was saying, "We
17:41know this voice. This is the voice of
17:43the Lord."
17:45But in the breaking of the bread,
17:48in the in the breaking of the bread,
17:50they've seen him feed the 5000. They've
17:53seen him feed the 4,000. They've seen
17:56him feed them at the last supper when he
17:59said, "This is my body." And somehow in
18:02the sharing of that meal, in the
18:05breaking of that body that signifies his
18:08own giving of himself, they recognize
18:12only Jesus serves the bread like that.
18:16Only Jesus gives himself like that. And
18:19their eyes are opening opened.
18:22While they were telling these things, he
18:24himself stood in their midst.
18:27So they go and start telling the others
18:28in Jerusalem what [clears throat]
18:30happened. And while they're telling the
18:32story,
18:34it's not just a witness of his spirit
18:36that they sense while they're telling
18:39their testimony, but while they're
18:41telling their testimony, Jesus is with
18:43them. Wherever two or three are gathered
18:46in my name, there I am in the midst of
18:48them. Again, this is a sign that as you
18:52share your testimony, as you confess in
18:55faith to others what you have
18:56encountered, you're going to sense that
18:58I am with you again. It's like the other
19:01symbol of the breaking of the bread.
19:04While they were telling these things, he
19:06himself stood in their midst and said to
19:08them, "Peace be to you. Shalom."
19:13And they were startled and frightened
19:16and thought they were seeing a spirit.
19:21Just what they thought when he came to
19:23them walking on the water. And he said
19:26to them, "Why are you troubled and why
19:29do doubts arise in your hearts?
19:34See my hands and my feet that it is I
19:38myself.
19:40Touch me and see. For a spirit does not
19:44have flesh and bones as you see that I
19:47have. Jesus is certainly a spirit, but
19:51he's not just a spirit. He's a spirit in
19:54a tangible human body.
19:57And when he had said this, he showed
19:59them his hands and his feet.
20:02While they still could not believe it,
20:06because of their joy and amazement, he
20:08said to them, "Have you anything here to
20:11eat?"
20:14They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
20:18not boiled, broiled, fire roasted, and
20:22he took it and ate it in front of them
20:24before them.
20:27Now he said to them, "These are my words
20:30which I spoke to you while I was still
20:32with you, that all things which are
20:34written about me in the law of Moses and
20:37the prophets and the Psalms must be
20:39fulfilled."
20:41Then he opened their minds to understand
20:44the scriptures.
20:46So he eats the fish to prove that he's
20:49not an apparition. He's not a phantom in
20:52their minds and he's not merely a
20:54spirit, but he's Jesus. He's their
20:58friend. He's their Lord. He's the one
21:01who they knew. Then he opened their
21:04minds to understand the scriptures and
21:07said to them, "Thus it is written that
21:10the Christ would suffer and rise again
21:13from the dead the third day, and that
21:17repentance
21:18for forgiveness of sins would be
21:21proclaimed in his name to all nations,
21:25beginning
21:26from Jerusalem."
21:29This is Luke's version of Matthew's
21:31great commission. Matthew says, "Go ye
21:34into all the world and make disciples of
21:36all nations, baptizing them in the name
21:39of the Father and of the Son and the
21:41Holy Ghost." And that name is Jesus.
21:44Luke just says [music] it like this.
21:46Thus it is written that the Christ would
21:48suffer and rise again [music] from the
21:50dead the third day, and that repentance
21:53for forgiveness of sins would [music] be
21:55proclaimed in his name, Jesus's name, to
21:59all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
22:03You are witnesses of these [music]
22:05things. And behold, I am sending forth
22:08the promise of my father upon you,
22:10[music] but you are to stay in the city
22:13until you are clothed with power from on
22:17high. And he led them out [music] as far
22:20as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands
22:23and blessed them. While he was blessing
22:26them, he parted from them and was
22:29carried up into heaven. And they after
22:32worshiping him returned to Jerusalem
22:36with great joy and and were continually
22:39in the temple praising God.
22:44So he tells them,
22:46"Go in the city until you be clothed
22:49with power. You're going to be my
22:51witnesses. You're going to [music]
22:52spread this gospel all over the world,
22:54but you don't yet have the power.
22:57You don't yet have the resurrection
22:59power that just brought me forth from
23:01the grave. It needs [music] to be in
23:03your life. And when it comes, you're not
23:06going to deny me before the servant
23:09girl. When it comes, you're not going to
23:11doubt me and my presence among you. When
23:14it comes, [music]
23:15you're not going to bicker and worry
23:17about who's the greatest. You're going
23:19to stand up with great boldness and
23:22carry this message to the ends of the
23:24earth. So wait there until you be
23:27clothed with power from on high. And the
23:30apostles did it. [music] And that
23:32concludes
23:34the Gospel of Luke. We'll be starting
23:36with John next.
23:40[music]
23:49[music]

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