50 Days and Wake Up: The Church Under House Arrest

Intro

Wake-up

Student I worked with in lockup would often say “So many days and wake up” meaning they had a certain number of days left in their sentence before they were released. I think that maybe you and I are saying to ourselves, “Twelve more days and wake up.” At least when you’re on the inside you have a release date. You and I are under house arrest waiting to be told when we can resume “normal” life.

What did Jesus Do?

After that first day of appearing to Mary, the women, Peter and the apostles, and various disciples, Jesus didn’t stop there...

1 Corinthians 15:3–8 NASB95

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.

Jesus didn’t do anything without purpose and although His great work on the cross was complete, He still had an earthly ministry before He ascended and returned to the Father.

Return to the Galilee

Jesus and the Sea of Galilee

The Lexham Bible Dictionary The Sea in the New Testament

• On the banks of the Galilee at Kursi, Jesus exorcised demons and sent them into a herd of swine (Matt 8:28–32).

• The disciples whom Jesus called into service were mostly fishermen who made their living from the Galilee (Matt 4:13–22).

• Jesus preached from a boat on the Sea of Galilee (Matt 13:2).

• Jesus taught by the shore (Mark 4:1–34).

• Jesus calmed the sea (Mark 4:35).

• Jesus recrossed the Galilee to Capernaum (Mark 5:21).

• Jesus walked on the lake (Mark 6:45–53).

The Lexham Bible Dictionary The Sea in the New Testament

• Jesus cast demons out of a man in Gerasa, or Gadara (Mark 5:1–20).

• Jesus raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead (Mark 5:21–43).

• Jesus fed 5,000 people (probably near Bethsaida, John 6).

• The miraculous catch of fish and recommissioning of Peter at Mensa Christi (John 21).

• Healing of a demoniac (Mark 1:21–28).

• Healing of Peter’s mother-in-law (Matt 8:14–15).

• Healing of a paralytic (Matt 9:2–8).

• Healing of the centurion’s servant (Matt 8:5–13).

40 Days to Grow Up (4/19)

Jesus gave the disciples 40 days to grow up.

House arrest

Michael Cohen scheduled to go on house arrest after Covid-19 outbreak at his prison.

How many of us feel like we’re on house arrest? We don’t have ankle monitors, but we may feel forced into your home and stuck. Waiting for direction.

Even now, your church ministries are planning how we can safely and quickly reopen, but we are waiting on local and state governments to rescind the existing stay at home orders and release new guidelines for how we can move forward. We are keeping in touch with our Assiociation, CSBC, legal counsel and insurance company requesting advice and counsel as we get ready to be a church in a Covid-19 world.

What do we do when on House Arrest?

Do we protest?

Michigan , New York, Brazil. Around the world people are beginning to protest their lockdown conditions.

Unfair application

Kentucky church cited for holding a drive in service. People came to the parking lot and stayed in their cars as the Pastor preached.

Judge declared, “If you can drive to a parking lot, get out, and buy beer, you can go to church”

Learn about the kingdom

Jesus taught about the Kingdom.

Acts 1:3 NASB95

To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

What Comes Next?

Believers kept wondering what comes next. Jesus’s disciples wondered, “What comers next”.

Acts 1:6 NASB95

So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

Jesus and the Sea of Galilee

Promise of Heavenly Backup (4/26)

Great Comission

One Lord Who Goes Up (5/31)

The ascension

Ten Days till Show Up (

Holy Spirit at Pentecost

Notes

Scriptures

Mark rushes through the acounts moving from the meeting in the room to the great commission to the ascension. Mark was very known for moving to the big events, one right after the other.

Luke goes from the room to the ascension, but there was 40 days in there. he mentions some of this time in Acts

Acts 1:1–11 NASB95

The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

Matthew

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 28

16 But the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated.

17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful.

18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

19 “aGo therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

John

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 20

Why This Gospel Was Written

30 Therefore many other bsigns Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

Chapter 21

Jesus Appears at the Sea of Galilee

1 After these things Jesus amanifested Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and He manifested Himself in this way.

2 Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.

3 Simon Peter *said to them, “I am going fishing.” They *said to him, “We will also come with you.” They went out and got into the boat; and that night they caught nothing.

4 But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

5 So Jesus *said to them, “Children, you do not have any fish, do you?” They answered Him, “No.”

6 And He said to them, “Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat and you will find a catch.” So they cast, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish.

7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved *said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea.

8 But the other disciples came in the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but about one hundred yards away, dragging the net full of fish.

9 So when they got out on the land, they *saw a charcoal fire already laid and fish placed on it, and bread.

10 Jesus *said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have now caught.”

11 Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.

Jesus Provides

12 Jesus *said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples ventured to question Him, “Who are You?” knowing that it was the Lord.

13 Jesus *came and *took the bread and *gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

14 This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead.

The Love Motivation

15 So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you blove Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

16 He *said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”

17 He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus *said to him, “Tend My sheep.

Our Times Are in His Hand

18 “Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.”

19 Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He *said to him, “Follow Me!”

20 Peter, turning around, *saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”

21 So Peter seeing him *said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?”

22 Jesus *said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!”

23 Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

24 This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they *were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself *would not contain the books that *would be written.