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INTRODUCTION
Well it has been two and a half years, but we have arrived at the end of the book of Luke.
I am sure more than one of you has thought, “We’ve been in Luke a really long time.”
But honestly—we could have gone slower.
It takes time to study God’s Word.
But I pray this has been profitable.
I firmly believe it has.
In many ways, we turned to Luke the Physician and we asked him to carry us through the pandemic and he has.
With the most detailed birth story of Christ.
With large swaths of His brilliant, life-giving teaching
With eye-witness accounts of Jesus’ miracles
With the events of Holy Week
Luke’s Gospel has been an anchor for this church as the winds of the pandemic blew
And now this morning we arrive to the end of the book.
The final appearance of Jesus to His disciples in Luke
Luke’s Great Commission
The Ascension of Christ
Luke is wrapping up the first half of his story.
And for our purposes, we will draw three teaching points from the text and see what the respond of the church should be in each case.
CONTEXT
A little bit of context.
This is the third of three Easter scenes in Luke 24...
The first came with the women coming to the tomb to find that Christ was not there
The second came with the disciple on the Emmaus Road
This is the final scene with Jesus coming to the Apostles
If the scene feels like it has a familiar rhythm, that is because it moves the same way the first two did.
There is confusion.
There is correction.
There is teaching.
There is a witness.
As we look at this final scene in Luke, we have the Eleven apostles behind closed doors in Jerusalem.
At this point, Peter would have been telling them that he has personally seen Christ resurrected.
Then the Emmaus Road disciples come in the room with their witness of what they experienced
I think it is safe to imagine that the scene Jesus walks into is one with a bit of pandemonium
EVIDENCE FOR THE RESURRECTION (v.
36-46)
So as they are discussing all of this, Jesus comes and stands in their midst and says, “Peace to you.”
He comes and declares shalom in the midst of the pandemonium.
That is exactly what they should be feeling because death has been robbed of its sting.
But instead, they are startled and frightened because they think they are seeing a spirit—a ghost.
This isn’t the first time.
I know it might be easy for us to think, “How thick can you be, boys?
Wake up.
It is the resurrected Lord!”
But you have to remember what the whole city of Jerusalem saw happen to Jesus just days earlier.
It was a public, heinous execution.
He was clearly dead.
He was reported as dead.
There is no way any of us aren’t reacting the same way in this situation.
Zero judgment from me on this one.
In verse 38, He asks them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?”
They are troubled and doubting.
So what does He do?
He gives them evidence for the resurrection.
Teaching Point #1: Christ gives evidence of the resurrection.
The risen Christ ministers to the doubting and fearing hearts of the disciples by giving them physical, logical and Scriptural evidence for His resurrection.
First, it is the physical evidence.
In verses 39-40, He offers them His hands and His feet and they take Him up on the offer.
He wants them to see that He is the same Jesus that was crucified on Good Friday and that His body still bears the marks the of the nails and the spear.
He is not a spirit.
He is flesh and bone.
When the text says that He shows them His hands and feet in verse 40, the insinuation is that He is letting them handle His body.
Touch His skin.
Run their fingers over the scars on His hands.
To see that He is the same Jesus that they lived with and walked with and learned from and loved for three years.
But—they are still struggling.
Luke says they “disbelieved for joy” and “were marveling.”
I love that phrase, “disbelieved for joy.”
It means that they felt like this was too good to be true.
ILLUSTRATION: I have never felt the disbelieving joy that these brothers were feeling.
Touching the scars of the resurrected God of the Universe.
That is a whole different level.
But I do remember in 2019 when Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur and won the Champions League Final, I couldn’t believe it.
I was doing a wedding in North Carolina and I walked up to the Groom’s party and said, “My soccer team just won the Super Bowl of soccer.”
And then I banged my head on a piece of wood that was hanging down from this overhang.
They were like, “Are you okay?
That was really hard.”
I was like, “I didn’t even feel it.
I can’t believe what is happening.
Liverpool just won the Champions League.”
Then I had to go do the wedding 5 minutes later.
When your heart is so happy that your brain just can’t believe the source of that happiness is real—that is some deep feeling.
So to help them with their disbelieving joy, He offers them logical evidence in verses 41-43.
He eats in front of them.
He asks if they have any food and they give Him some broiled fish and He eats it in order to show that He is a real human.
If He was a spirit, He couldn’t eat food.
And then, He gives them Scriptural evidence.
In verses 44-46, you can see it.
He reminds them of His words that He spoke to them in His teaching ministry.
He reminds them that the Old Testament is packed with promises about Him and He has come to fulfill those promises (v.
44)
We saw last week how multiple times in Luke, Jesus warned His disciples that He must suffer and die.
In Luke 18, He explicitly tells Him that these events are predicted by the prophets:
From Moses’ law to the sacrificial system to the Passover to the tabernacle and the temple—it all pointed to Christ.
The preaching of Moses to the nation of Israel.
The songs of the Psalmists.
The wisdom of Solomon.
The poetic warnings of the prophets
The story of Israel’s history
It was all about how Jesus would bring glory to God by rescuing a host of captives from the hand of death.
It was all about Him.
His coming.
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