He Lives
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Luke 24:1-12
Luke 24:1-12
v.5
Why do you seek the living among the dead?
Why do you seek the living among the dead?
An interesting question.
Why would you go to an area of death, and expect to find the living?
You wouldn’t!
Clearly, they didn’t believe that he would be living.
They approached the area, expecting to find someone dead.
After all the time they had spent with Him, the full weight of the one they served had not yet been recognized.
v.6
He has risen!
He has risen!
What beautiful, startling words those must have been!
For we know that by nature, people don’t generally come back from the dead.
When someone is dead, they generally stay that way!
Remember His words
Remember His words
Matthew 12:40
For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 16:21
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Matthew 17:22-23
As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed.
Matthew 20:18-19
“See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”
I think that Jesus is trying to make a point!
He was going to die. More than that, He was going to come back!
Everyone else, just wasn’t seeing it.
Maybe they thought Jesus was using a figure of speech, or confused in some way.
v.7
But Jesus was emphatic, these things MUST take place.
This was a statement of necessity.
Jesus was saying this was needed, and it was inevitable.
It was His duty to fulfill this purpose, the only reason He had been born was for this purpose.
For this was the will of God..
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
It was God’s will to crush Him.
Jesus was put to grief so that His offspring…us would be able to prosper.
1 John 4:9-10
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Jesus died, that we might live.
He came to be the propitiation for our sins.
Propitiation is paying the price to unite us to God.
Propitiation means that God would expiate, which is to remove our sins from us, and to place them on Jesus.
This is why it was said, Jesus MUST be delivered into the hands of sinful men.
But that wan’t the end of the story, far from it!
v.7
He would rise on the third day
He would rise on the third day
Just as Jesus dying was a necessary event, Jesus rising was also a necessary event!
The Father had decreed it, it would surly happen.
Paul preaching at Antioch states:
Acts 13:32-37
Acts 13:32-37
David wrote that psalm. David died and saw corruption.
Obviously he wasn’t writing it about himself then.
The holy one who would not see corruption, was Jesus.
It was a sure thing that He would rise from the dead.
Why was it so certain that God’s holy one wouldn’t see corruption?
Because when David says holy, he is not speaking of holiness as a sanctifying work.
He is speaking of holiness as pure, righteous, and without sin.
What is the cause of all death?
Sin
If sin is the cause of all death, can a sinless one die, or see corruption?
Death could not hold onto the Holy One, becasue sin is what gives death power.
The Holy One is righteous or without sin.
So death has no hold on Him.
He bore our sins, but they weren’t His own.
His is the righteous, holy one.
1 Corinthians 15:20-22
1 Corinthians 15:20-22
Since Jesus rose from the dead, he has become the firstfruits.
He was the first one to rise in incorruption.
Lazarus rose from the dead, but he didn’t rise to incorruption, and because of that, he later died.
Others in scripture have also risen from the dead, they also died.
Jesus was the first one to rise in incorruption.
This means that the evidence that we to shall rise is found in Jesus.
And when we rise, it shall be to incorruption.
That being on the day that death is destroyed (1 Cor 15:25-26)
Revelation 1:17-18
Revelation 1:17-18
Jesus, by taking the keys of death and Hades (Revelation 1:18) means that he had taken the power of death since by His sacrifice He has expiated (that is removed) our sins from us.
Because He died, and is now alive forevermore.
He is saying that if He is your king, you too shall live forevermore, for He is the one who holds the power of death and hades.
Let this spur us to live holy lives, honoring our king!
Because He lives, we know that we too shall live.
Because He has risen, we know that we too shall rise.
We do not need to fear death, or anything in this world
For our king has conquered the grave.
Let us continue to confess the great truth laid out in Timothy.
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.