Luke 24:1-35, “The Resurrection Of
Jesus”
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1.
INTRO:
1.1.
In our last study, we looked
at verses 26-56 of chapter 23.
1.1.1. Jesus was crucified on Friday morning and remained on the cross for six
hours. He was taken down before dark so
that He could be buried the same day as the Law required and at the same time
not interfere with anyone’s plans for observance of the Sabbath.
1.1.2. We saw many prophesies of the Old Testament scripture were fulfilled in
Jesus on this day.
1.2.
In our study today, we are
going to look at the first 35 verses of chapter 24 which deal with the events
of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.
1.2.1. Before we get started in our study today, I want to ask some questions
to test our general Bible knowledge of the events of Jesus’ resurrection, and I
want you to respond by raising your hand if you believe that the answer to each
question is “YES.”
1.2.1.1. QUESTION #1: An angel was deployed to roll away the stone covering
Jesus’ tomb so Jesus could get out of the tomb?
1.2.1.2. QUESTION #2: Though the gospel accounts vary significantly
in their detail concerning the sightings of Jesus after His resurrection, still
if you are careful it is possible to piece those events together sequentially?
1.2.1.3. QUESTION #3: Jesus’ disciples were terribly grieved and
dejected after Jesus’ death upon the cross.
However, three days later on the day of Jesus’ resurrection, having
heard the stories of the women meeting angels who told them Jesus was raised
from the dead, Peter telling them that he had seen Jesus raised from the dead,
and the two disciples who had been walking on the road to Emmaus telling them
of having seen and been taught the scriptures by Jesus who had been raised from
the dead, the apostles (minus Thomas) are finally relieved and comforted when
their beloved Savior appears to them all together that evening?
1.2.1.4. QUESTION #4: When Jesus finally left His disciples did He
ascend up in the air order to go to heaven?
1.2.1.5. QUESTION #5: When the disciples saw Jesus, could they see
the scars from His wounds?
1.2.2. The answer to all of these questions is “NO” :
1.2.2.1. QUESTION #1: The angel rolled away the stone not to let
Jesus out but to let the disciples into the tomb. After Jesus’ resurrection when He wants to go
somewhere He disappears and shows up there.
In fact, in John’s account of the resurrection we see that inside the
tomb that John and Peter find the rolls of cloth in which Jesus had been
wrapped in laying on the ground not having been unrolled. Remember, mummifying spices were first
applied to Jesus’ body and then the cloth was wrapped all around over His
limbs, head, and body. However, these
wraps were never unwrapped.
1.2.2.2. QUESTION #2: After Jesus’
resurrection, He no longer is limited to being in one place at a time and
actually appears simultaneously to His disciples in different places at the
same time, such as to Peter and also to the men on the road to Emmaus. Jesus told His disciples before His death
that He would answer all of their prayers and this implies that after His
resurrection He must be in more than one place at a time. Jesus is not limited to this time/space
dimension after His resurrection.
1.2.2.3. QUESTION #3: After all of these sightings and testimonies
of having seen the resurrected Jesus the apostles are scared to death when He
appears to them all gathered together as they believe that they have seen a
ghost.
1.2.2.4. QUESTION #4: Though Jesus ascended up as He left for heaven,
heaven is not located in an upwards direction, it is located in another
dimension. Heaven is possibly existing
right where we are and yet we are unable to perceive it.
1.2.2.5. QUESTION #5: Scars are the result of the healing that
occurs to our earthly physical bodies.
The scriptures never say that Jesus’ body had scars after His
resurrection. Jesus’ new body was
different than his old earthly body and most likely did not contain scars but
rather marks that indicated where He had been injured during the events of His
crucifixion.
1.2.3.
Also
before beginning our study, I want to discuss for a moment the several theories
which have been concocted by skeptics throughout history for disproving that
Jesus was in fact resurrected from the dead.
Each of these theories actually end up being evidence that Christ in
fact did raise from the dead. These are
the best theories I’ve heard about:
1.2.3.1.
THE
SWOON THEORY.
1.2.3.1.1.
This theory believes that Jesus revived in the tomb
and came out and found His disciples.
1.2.3.1.2.
Those who created and hold to this theory believe that
after being taken down from the cross that Jesus revived. They believe this in spite of the fact that
He had been beaten, given 39 lashes with the Cat Of 9 Tails, been too weak to
carry His own cross to Calvary, hung on the cross for 6 hours, the guards were
so convinced that he was already dead they they didn’t break His legs to hasten
His death when they came to take His body, the Roman soldier had stuck a spear
into His side releasing blood and water from His heart and the sack surrounding
His heart, they had taken Him to the tomb and covered His body all over with
100lbs. of sticky spices, His body was then wrapped numerous times all around
with the burial cloth, He was placed into a cold tomb with a stone of 1½ to 2
tons rolled against it, the tomb had the Roman seal placed over the stone
condemning to death anyone who disturbed it, and a Roman guard of 4 to 16 of
the world’s best fighting men were assigned to guard the tomb.
1.2.3.1.3.
However, in spite of all of this they believe that
Jesus revived, removed His burial cloth and the 100lbs. of spices sticking to
His body, rolled the stone up and out of the way of the tomb without waking the
Roman soldiers, and then found His disciples and revealed Himself to them
telling them that He was going to be able to recover after all.
1.2.3.2.
THE
DISCIPLES STOLE THE BODY.
1.2.3.2.1.
The gospels tell us that this story was created by the
Jewish leaders right after Jesus was reported to be resurrected from the
dead. Those who created and those who
hold to this theory believe that though the Romans had placed a 1½ - 2 ton
stone against Jesus’ tomb, placed a Roman seal over the stone so that if anyone
tampered with the tomb they would be killed, and placed the 4-16 of the finest
soldiers to guard the tomb that the world has ever known, that the disciples
mustered themselves and their courage together and came and attacked and
overpowered the Roman guard. Next, they
moved the stone from the opening of the tomb, rolling it up and out of the
way. Then, they stole away the body of
Jesus and went and told everyone that He had risen from the dead.
1.2.3.2.2.
This theory of course negates all of the numerous eye
witnesses of Jesus after His resurrection, including up to 500 who saw Him in
total as Paul writes in 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
1.2.3.2.3.
This theory is also held regardless of the fact that
all of the 11 apostles but John were killed for their faith refusing to recount
that they were personal eye-witnesses of His resurrection.
1.2.3.2.3.1.
On Terry
Watkins website is the following quote concerning how that the 12
apostles would not have gone all the way to the grave without recounting that
Jesus had raised from the dead if it were in fact not true, “Michael Green, principal of St. John's
1.2.3.3.
THEY
WERE ALL HALLUCINATING.
1.2.3.3.1.
Those who hold to this theory believe that Mary
Magdalene came to Jesus’ tomb on that first Sunday morning and in her
distraught and grieving state of mind hallucinated that she had in fact seen
and talked with Jesus. Then, she ran to
the disciples and told them that she had seen the Lord. Then, Peter and John ran to the tomb and had
an hallucination. In fact, each of the
one’s who claimed to have seen Jesus had the “same hallucination,”
including each of the following:
1.2.3.3.1.1.
Mary Magdalene (John 20:11-18; Mark 16:9).
1.2.3.3.1.2.
Other women (Matthew 28:8-10).
1.2.3.3.1.3.
Peter (Luke 24:34; I Corinthians 15:5).
1.2.3.3.1.4.
The two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35;
Mark 16:12).
1.2.3.3.1.5.
Ten of the eleven remaining disciples (Luke 24:36-43;
John 20:19-29) .
1.2.3.3.1.6.
All eleven remaining disciples, eight days later (John
20:24-29).
1.2.3.3.1.7.
Seven disciples by the
1.2.3.3.1.8.
Five hundred followers (I Corinthians 15:6) .
1.2.3.3.1.9.
James (I Corinthians 15:7) .
1.2.3.3.1.9.1.
This is Jesus’ half brother, not the apostle
James. This James became the pastor of
the church in
1.2.3.3.1.10.
The eleven at the ascension (Acts 1:3-12).
1.2.3.3.1.11.
The apostle Paul upon the road to
1.2.3.3.1.11.1.
The man who was originally named Saul was the most
zealous of all of the Pharisees in
1.2.3.4.
THEY
ALL WENT TO THE WRONG TOMB.
1.2.3.4.1.
Those who hold this theory believe that Mary Magdalene
was so distraught that she went to the wrong tomb, found that it was empty and
then thought that Jesus must have raised from the dead and went and told the
disciples about this. They then went to
the wrong tomb and came to the same conclusion.
The Romans went to the wrong tomb also when they tried to figure out
what was going on. In fact, Joseph of
Arimathea who owned the tomb, even went to the wrong tomb.
1.2.3.4.2.
If the
Romans could have found the body of Jesus after His resurrection then they
would have carted it around the city in a wagon in order to prove to the
multitudes that Jesus had not resurrected, however the fact that they never did
this gives us evidence that Jesus did in fact raise from the dead.
1.2.4. The fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ gives us as Christians
great confidence and assurance of many things, including:
1.2.4.1. We know that everything that Jesus taught His disciples can be relied
upon.
1.2.4.2. We know that all of our enemies have been conquered by Jesus: sin, hell, death, the grave, and the Devil.
1.2.4.3. We know that we too will be resurrected with a body like Jesus’
resurrected body.
1.2.4.4. We know that Jesus is now the judge and that one day all people are
going to stand before Jesus as their judge.
1.2.4.5. We know that Jesus is with us where we are each and every day.
1.2.4.6. We know that Jesus’ resurrection power can work in our life and that we
can live a holy and empowered life that pleases the Lord.
1.2.5. Warren Wiersbe writes the following, “Christianity is in its very
essence a resurrection religion,” says Dr. John Stott. “The concept of resurrection lies at its
heart. If you remove it, Christianity is
destroyed.””
2. VS 24:1-11 - “1 But
on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the
spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled
away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the
body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this,
behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; 5 and
as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the
men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? 6 “He
is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still
in
2.1.
As soon as there was a little light, these women
proceed to Jesus’ tomb with their mission of properly anointing His body for
burial. They had no conception in their
minds that Jesus might be alive.
2.2.
‘Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of
James’ were the women whom we saw in our last study were at the cross till
the very end with Jesus, and then who went with Joseph of Aramathea to the tomb
where Jesus’s body was laid. They wanted
to be sure they knew where this tomb was located so that they could prepare
some spices and return on Sunday and give Jesus’ body a proper burial.
2.3.
Luke tells us however that with these women were some
‘other women.’ It is interesting
to me that Jesus’ mother is not recounted in the resurrection stories as having
gone to His tomb. Plus, you would think
that with this lack of emphasis upon Jesus’ mother by the gospel writers that
the Catholic Church would not affix such a dominant emphasis upon Mary as being
the mediator for mankind to Jesus, and as such be one whom we should direct our
prayers. Surely Mary was grieved and
eventually converted but she was only a minor character in God’s workings after
Jesus was crucified, as also demonstrated in the Acts accounts of the early
church.
2.4.
The women had been
concerned on this morning about who would roll away the stone from the tomb for
them however when they get to the tomb their worry turns into confusion when
they discover the stone rolled up and away from the entrance to the tomb. They do not know what to think and are
perplexed because Jesus’ body is missing.
2.5.
As the women are in the tomb and observing that Jesus
is not there, two men appear to them however their appearance is described like
many of the scripture’s sightings of angels, for they were in ‘dazzling
clothing’ or clothing that was very shiny and glowing.
2.6.
Note here that the women are rebuked by these angels
for not believing what Jesus had told them when He was alive about how He would
be rejected, persecuted, and killed and then raise again on the third day, ““Why
do you seek the living One among the dead? 6 “He is not here, but He
has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, 7 saying
that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified,
and the third day rise again.””
2.7.
Here we see that the testimony to the disciples by all
of these women was consistent about having found Jesus’ tomb empty and having
witnessed two angels who told them that Jesus had been raised from the
dead. However, when the women return and
report what had happened the disciples on this day were refusing to believe
that these things could be so even though Jesus had clearly told them on
several previous occasions that these things would occur.
2.7.1. Women, men
have not changed have they? Aren’t men
slow to believe your stories and accounts of things even today? When you tell your husband about the noise
that your car made does he in fact immediately believe your words? NO!
2.8.
There are some discrepancies between the various
gospel writers accounts of the appearances of Jesus after His resurrection from
the dead, and I cannot tell you with certainty exactly how each of these
discrepancies should be resolved.
However, I would remind you that if there were no discrepancies in the
various witness accounts then this would bring great suspicion upon the
veracity of the testimonies, because this is the way eye witness accounts are
received. The fact that there are some
minor discrepancies does not disprove the reliability of the scriptures but
rather demonstrate it, while at the same time providing challenges for Bible
commentators to resolve those discrepancies and see how to add together the
details of the various accounts into one complete summary of events.
2.8.1. One discrepancy
in the gospel accounts of Jesus’ resurrection involves reconciling this account
here in these verses with the other gospels’ accounts:
2.8.1.1. John
20:1-18, “1 Now on the first day of the week Mary
Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already
taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken
away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” 3
So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the
tomb. 4 The two were running together; and the other disciple ran
ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first; 5 and stooping
and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not
go in. 6 And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered
the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7 and
the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings,
but rolled up in a place by itself. 8 So the other disciple who had
first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. 9 For
as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the
dead. 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes. 11
But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she
stooped and looked into the tomb; 12 and she saw two angels in white
sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been
lying. 13 And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She
said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where
they have laid Him.” 14 When she had said this, she turned around
and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. 15
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”
Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried
Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” 16 Jesus
said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which
means, Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I
have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I
ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’ ” 18 Mary
Magdalene came, announcing to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and that
He had said these things to her.”
2.8.1.1.1.
John does not include the fact that the women saw the
angels right away at the tomb.
2.8.1.2. Matthew
28:1-10, “1 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the
first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at
the grave. 2 And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an
angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and
sat upon it. 3 And his appearance was like lightning, and his
clothing as white as snow. 4 The guards shook for fear of him and
became like dead men. 5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be
afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. 6
“He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place
where He was lying. 7 “Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has
risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into
2.8.1.2.1.
According to Matthew’s account, an angel rolled the
stone away and was sitting upon it, causing the guards to fear and become like
dead men, and then the angel spoke to the women who had come to the tomb.
2.8.1.3. Mark
16:1-10, “1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary
the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come
and anoint Him. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, they came
to the tomb when the sun had risen. 3 They were saying to one
another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” 4
Looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, although it was
extremely large. 5 Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting
at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed. 6 And he
said to them, “Do not be amazed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who
has been crucified. He has risen; He is not here; behold, here is the
place where they laid Him. 7 “But go, tell His disciples and Peter,
‘He is going ahead of you to
2.8.1.3.1.
Mark only mentions that the women saw one angel inside
the tomb on this morning.
2.9.
One of the things that we
have begun to see in these resurrection sightings of Jesus is that Jesus is not
immediately recognized by those who loved and knew Him best. The body that He appears in is not a
glorified body nor is it His earthly body.
Rather, it is some sort of temporary body that He chose to manifest
Himself in until that point in time when He ascends up to heaven and receives
the glorified body described in the first chapter of the book of Revelation,
Rev. 1:12-18, “12 Then I turned to see the voice that
was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; 13 and
in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in
a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. 14
His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes
were like a flame of fire. 15 His feet were like burnished
bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like
the sound of many waters. 16 In His right hand He held seven stars,
and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the
sun shining in its strength. 17 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like
a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am
the first and the last, 18 and the living One; and I was dead, and
behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.”
3. VS 24:12 - “12 But
Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen
wrappings only; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.” - Peter (and John) runs to the
tomb and verifies that Jesus is not there
3.1.
We already observed from the
apostle John’s account of this event that John ran with Peter on this morning
to the tomb and that he was faster than Peter and actually beat Peter to the
tomb.
3.2.
We see here that Peter saw
Jesus’ ‘linen wrappings’ laying there inside the tomb, however Luke doesn’t
tell us the detail that we saw John already provide that these ‘wrappings’
had not been unwound (John 20:7 indicates this). As was stated earlier, the fact that these
wrappings had not been unwound by anyone indicates that Jesus disappeared right
out of the ‘wrappings.’
3.3.
Its too bad that Peter and
John didn’t hang around the tomb a little longer for we have seen from John
20:11-17 that not long after this as Mary Magdalene was weeping outside the
tomb that two angels appeared again inside the tomb and then Jesus appeared to
Mary Magdalene. From the gospel accounts
it would appear that Mary Magdalene was the one person most devoted to Jesus
and this must have had to do most with the incredible work that Jesus performed
in her life in casting out 7 demons and restoring her life to her. She remains alone at the tomb while everyone
else has gone.
4. VS 24:13-35 - “13
And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named
Emmaus, which was about seven miles from
4.1.
In these verses, we read the
story about a man named Cleopas and another unnamed disciple. These men were not part of the 12 apostles
that Jesus had picked but were part of the larger group of Jesus’ disciples,
and they were very committed to the Lord.
As these men are heading back to Emmaus, a city about seven miles out of
4.2.
These men were ‘sad’
and the conversation on this walk was very emotion packed as these two
disciples are discussing with each other all of the day’s events. They are discussing the fact that some of the
women who followed Jesus had come that morning to His tomb and reported that
the stone was rolled away, Jesus’ body was gone, and some angels had talked
with them and told them that Jesus was raised from the dead.
4.3.
Jesus plays dumb with these
disciples acting as if He hadn’t heard anything about the events that had
transpired on this day as He says, “What are these words that you are
exchanging with one another as you are walking?” When this question is asked the two disciples
are so dumbfounded that the man has not heard of the events that they stop
walking and marvel at the man. Then, the
men recount the life and ministry of Jesus and as well as the events of the
last day.
4.4.
Note the description of the events of this day given
by the two disciples:
4.4.1. “Jesus
the Nazarene, [who] was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God
and all the people.”
4.4.2. The chief
priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified
Him.”
4.4.3. “We were hoping
that it was He who was going to redeem Israel.”
4.4.3.1. Note here
that these disciples had a sense of understanding Jesus’ role as redeemer of
mankind but that at this point in time they thought that Jesus had failed in
this role.
4.4.4. “Indeed,
besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.”
4.4.4.1. This is a ‘third
day’ reference reminiscent of Jesus’ prophetic predictions that just like
Jonah was three days in the belly of the fish that the Son of Man would be in
the earth for three days, however nothing is really expounded upon concerning
this statement.
4.4.5. “Some
women among us amazed us. When they were at the tomb early in the morning, 23
and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a
vision of angels who said that He was alive.”
4.4.6. “Some of
those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women
also had said; but Him they did not see.”
4.5.
Just as the angels had rebuked the women at the tomb
earlier in the day for not believing Jesus’ words when He had prophetically
predicted the events of His crucifixion and resurrection, here Jesus rebukes
these two disciples in a similar manner, saying,“O foolish men and slow of
heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!”
4.6.
Next, the Bible study of all Bible studies begins as
Jesus starts to explain the Old Testament scriptures which prophesied the
things that He did in coming to earth as a man, dying upon the cross and paying
for mankind’s sins, and then raising from the dead. Luke tells us that as Jesus began to teach
this study he did this ‘beginning with Moses and with all the prophets.’ We can imagine many of the scriptures which
Jesus mentioned to these disciples, and surely they must have included much of
the scriptures that the apostles used when preaching the gospel in the book of
Acts and which the New Testament writers used when revealing how Jesus was
prophesied about in the Old Testament, including perhaps:
4.6.1. Genesis 3:15: The seed of the serpent biting the heel of
the seed of the woman but the seed of the woman crushing the head of the
serpent.
4.6.2. Numbers 21:6-9: The bronze
serpent set up on the pole such that when the people who had sinned and thus
had been bitten by the fiery serpents looked at it they would be healed and
live.
4.6.3. Duet. 18:15: Moses’ promise that
the Lord would raise up a prophet like himself one day, and that they were
supposed to listen to this man.
4.6.4. 2 Sam. 7:12-16: The descendant
of King David who would rule on his throne forever.
4.6.5. Psalm 22: The suffering of crucifixion
encoded in David’s writing of his own suffering, having had his hands and feet
pierced and all of his bones out of joint and his being able to see all of his
bones which stared at him.
4.6.6. Isaiah 7:14: The Lord giving the
nation a sign in that a virgin would be with a child.
4.6.7. Isaiah 9:6: The Lord giving them
a Son upon whose shoulders the government would rest, the one called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
4.6.8. Isaiah 40: The forerunner would
come to prepare the hearts of the people for their Messiah.
4.6.9. Micah 5:2: The Messiah would be
born in
4.6.10.
Isaiah 53: The Suffering Servant who would be punished
for all of our transgressions.
4.7.
Because of the fact that
our, “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God,”
4.8.
After these disciples arrive
at Emmaus their unrecognized traveler who has been teaching them from the
scriptures about what was prophesied concerning the Messiah, acts like he
intends to continue on with his journey.
However, in reality the man (Jesus in disguise) really wants to continue
with these disciples and break bread with them.
The disciples talk the man into staying with them.
4.9.
Evidently, this traveler had
so impressed these disciples with his teaching that over dinner they asked him
at their meal to pray over and break the bread with them, and as he does so the
Lord opens their eyes and they suddenly realize that it is Jesus whom they have
been traveling with all along, and who has opened their minds to understand the
scriptures about the Messiah. Jesus
immediately disappears.
4.10. So, in the middle of the night these two disciples realize that they
need to travel back to
4.11. When the two disciples arrive back at
5. CONCLUSIONS.
5.1.
Jesus resurrection changes
everything in our lives, does it not?
All of our great and mighty hope that we have as Christians is dependent
upon our understanding of the historical fact of Jesus’ resurrection.
5.2.
Romans 10:9-10 says, “9 that if
you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the
heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he
confesses, resulting in salvation.”
5.3.
Just as happened with the
disciples on this day of Jesus’ resurrection, the Lord can overcome our
depression, fears, and doubts, but we need to get into His Word for this to
happen. Lets spend time with the Lord in
His Word every day so we can have victory over our circumstances.