Reassurance of Resurrection Luke 24:13-27

It's been a little different morning with the 10 o 'clock fellowship. We don't do that every week. Some probably wish we did. And it's it's got its benefits but there's a little work involved with that, but What a blessed day.

Resurrection Morning and Church Announcements

Well, welcome to Faith Bible Church and He has risen. Indeed he has and Isn't that a beautiful mural? That's the the Russian church that meets here in the afternoon. They put that up this week and it's pretty striking.

It's a it's quite a Image to to reflect on especially today. What a great time of fellowship this morning and enjoying one another. God is good and gracious and he's blessed this church abundantly and we thank him for that and To there's a lot of emotions on this day, you know with when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.

It's a it can be an emotional time it's a it's a time of reflection a time of just considering the depth and the magnitude of What we believe because without Jesus's resurrection We'd have no hope that wouldn't that if he hadn't risen.

That would have been a long journey of misery for us if he hadn't risen. But he did he has risen and we thank him for that. I want to share on the bulletin and I had a copy. Here we go The on the announcements prayer meeting tonight.

There won't be a prayer meeting tonight. So just take note of that. Normally, it's every week at 6 o 'clock and the women's Bible study month is April 15th and I think that's kind of it in the way by way of announcements I wanted to share a verse here from Isaiah 53.

And you can just listen in it's two verses five and six, but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our Iniquities the chastisement for our peace was upon him and by his stripes. We are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. And if we really stop to think of what that means in the depth of My sins I put him on the cross.

My sins were nailed with him to the cross that's intense and Only the God of the universe Could give us that in a gift in his son his very own son to do that for me. And I thank the Lord that he did it for me and that I can be with him Eternally and to live life on this earth with purpose and meaning and having joy even in times of trial because we know God is overall and he is sovereign and he he has a plan for each one of us and it's exciting to wait to see what God is going to do in our lives in the life of this church even so.

Anyway as we let's go to the Lord in prayer and then we'll have David come up and lead us in and song Our dear Heavenly Father. We are so blessed to be here this morning when we can Think upon and dwell upon and pray upon Lord the gift that you've given us in your son Jesus Christ.

What a mighty and glorious thing it is to think that we can be with the creator of the universe for the rest of our lives. Father may we this morning honor you with our words with our thoughts and our prayers father as we lift our voices and song may we meditate upon the words and and just have a greater understanding of What a wonderful loving caring and righteous God that we serve so God be with those today that aren't able to be here father that are away out of town with family and friends and Lord just bless them those that are sick and ill and infirmed Lord May they have a moment of time to think upon you father that you would support them even in the quietness of the place that they're at Lord you are present with each one of them and we know that and so We commit them to you father.

So God bless this day. We pray and may our may We just rejoice and be glad that our Lord and Savior is risen and it is in his name. We pray.

Amen, Easter. Happy resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord our God and.

Let's stand and we sing to our Lord our Heavenly Father this morning. Thank you and please be seated.

The Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15

Our spiritual reading for this morning is 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1 through 8. 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1 through 8. Remember brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preach unto you Which he also ye have received and when you stand By which also ye are saved if ye keep a memory while I preach unto you This unless you have believed in vain.

For I give unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to scriptures and that he was buried and that he was again the day according to the scriptures and That he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve.

Now after that he was seen of about five hundred. Brother runs from the greater part remain unto this presence, but some are falling asleep. After that, he was seen of James then of all the Apostles. Last of all, he was seen of me also as a one born of due time.

May the Lord has mercy to read his word. Good morning.

He is risen. I Will be preaching from Luke chapter 24 verses 13 Through 27. I know we have been going through the gospel according to Luke and we were only at chapter 6. But we're jumping ahead because we need to commemorate Resurrection Sunday, so we are finding out the ending of the book Much in advance.

So sorry to spoil it for you all. Luke. Luke chapter 24 verses 13 through 27. Now behold two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus Which was seven miles from Jerusalem and they talked together of all these things which had happened.

So it was while they conversed and reasoned that Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained so that they did not know him and he said to them What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?

Then the one whose name was Cleopas Answered and said to him. Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem? And have you not known the things which happened there in these days and he said to them what things?

So they said to him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth who was a prophet mighty indeed and word before God and all the people and How the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

But we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel indeed besides all this today is the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain women of our company who arrived at the tomb early astonished us.

When they did not find his body they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive and Certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said but him they did not see.

And he said to them Oh foolish ones and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory in Beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself, this is the word of the Lord.

Let us pray Father we are thankful that we get to celebrate the risen Lord Jesus Christ. He is physically risen death and sin are Defeated once and for all because he is risen father. We pray that we would celebrate and delight in this fact not just today but every day of our lives because that he is the only hope that we have of Being free from sin and death once and for all father.

We pray that your spirit would work in our hearts to clearly understand your scripture and to Live it because we believe in it help us to see Christ today in Jesus name. Amen. It's important for us when we are talking about Christ's resurrection that we see Both the crucifixion and resurrection in the same picture.

Although they happen on different days. They need to be grouped as one event. We cannot talk about the resurrection without talking about the crucifixion. We cannot talk about rising from the dead without talking about how he died and why he died.

So on Friday the Good Friday, we all Hopefully read the account of the passion narrative and in all of these passion narratives from Matthew Mark Luke and John what's highlighted here is The fact that Jesus was guilt-free.

He was innocent. It's not even that he was innocent in our eyes the believers eyes. It's that he was even innocent in the eyes of the rulers who were putting him to death. It's important because Jesus did not die for his own sin.

Jesus did not die because of his own guilt. He died for the sin and guilt of others and Here are some ironies that you would have caught When reading Luke's account really frankly any of the accounts in Luke 23 35 When the rulers mocked him Said he saved others.

Let him save himself if he is the Christ the chosen of God. The irony here is that By staying on the cross and not saving himself He was saving others once more. Even from a greater enemy than any illnesses or demon possession but sin itself and The soldiers mock him just two verses later if you're the king of the Jews save yourself.

The irony here is that it was precisely because Jesus is the promised of it a king Wearing the crown of thorns and he's exalted physically in Which his glory is seen for the whole world to see by staying on the cross he was ruling from above and this morning we see more irony as Luke shows us Jesus appearing to two disciples who are in doubt they're in doubt of the risen Lord and Ironically, he is talking to them for the whole seven miles and This is important because what Luke is showing us in addition to the witnesses of the empty tomb and the angelic announcement, right of the risen Christ.

Luke is showing us that Christ actually appeared to his followers and interacted with his followers. What Luke wants to highlight here is that the resurrection really happened and This is really important for us this morning because if the resurrection didn't happen we are some of the most hopeless people every year every morning.

We all experience the effects of sin. We experience some sort of decay. We have to squint when reading books or our book our Books or phone even because our eyes are getting dimmer. Waking up in the morning takes more effort.

Getting out of bed even more so and every year there's fewer hair on Your head and for us we've we've seen the effects of sin. Even among our church family as many of us have gone to the hospital for various illnesses that came unexpectedly and Some of us have not been able to join in physical worship.

Because they they're not able to they're not able to Get up from the bed. They're not able to walk on their own but for those. For all of us really There's hope. The resurrection gives us hope. First and foremost the resurrection gives us.

Hope that the decay the decaying touch of death and sin is Not the final story. That there is a great reversal coming. Not only that Your temptation to sin. Every time you sin you tell yourself. Why did I do that again?

Why did I reveal against God? But there is a day that's coming in which there won't be any desire for you to sin. When you're standing in front of the presence of the risen Christ the resurrection teaches us that sin and death have been dealt with once and for all and this morning It is crucial to realize That the resurrection really happened.

So the main point of this text is what does God provide for us to believe in Jesus resurrection? What does God provide for us to believe in Jesus resurrection? First despite multiple testimonies of Jesus resurrection some still doubted the resurrection.

Despite multiple testimonies of Jesus resurrection some still doubted the resurrection. This is really important because oftentimes people claim that there is no evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It is far from the truth. The New Testament is one of the most well attested ancient documents in the world. There are over 5 ,000 copies of the New Testament manuscripts written in Greek all of which agree 99 .9 of the time and not only that these documents many of them are written found Copied from the 2nd century.

So less than even 100 years after Jesus death and resurrection. Compared to this Biography as Julius Caesar the old the oldest copy we have is from the Middle Ages. Yeah, we have no trouble believing in the life of Jesus Julius Caesar.

And this morning we see the evidence of Jesus resurrection in the eyewitness testimonies and not only that these eyewitness testimonies happen that they actually spread to these two disciples who were not Among the eleven apostles left.

So the eyewitness testimonies spread even to on. By the third day people who followed Jesus found out about this. This was not some conjured up story. Now we go to the text. After the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Luke focuses on two rather unknown disciples walking away from Jerusalem.

Processing what just had happened. Now behold two of them were traveling the same day to a village called Emmaus. Which was seven miles from Jerusalem and they talked together of all these things which had happened.

Now it is unclear to this day still where Emmaus is that little town. Other than the fact that it's seven miles away from Jerusalem. It's an obscure village. And This really shows loose careful attention to every historical detail.

He collected all sorts of detail in order to compile and Show people that this isn't his it's an historical account which can be believed. In another sense if Luke were actually making up a religion, right?

He's making up a fake religion for people to follow. Choosing a relatively unknown town like Emmaus would have been counterproductive. Why choose Emmaus. Unless it really happened to be that town in which these two disciples were going to now verse 15 introduces a dramatic irony.

So it was while they converse and reason that Jesus himself drew near and went with them as. These two men are having a heated discussion about what happened to Jesus in the last couple of days. Luke tells us Jesus himself approaches them.

This really shows us even the resurrected Christ has no Problem approaching his followers. Even the resurrected Christ in his heart. Desires to appear Before his followers. Desires to interact with his followers.

The resurrection did not make him more distance. He drew near. Just as he's been drawing near all throughout the gospel of Luke. Now Luke tells us Jesus himself approaches them and the drama begins. As the main focus the main topic of their discussion actually enters the discussion himself.

Yet they do not even know who he is. Right verse 16, but their eyes were restrained so that they did not know him. Here the passive verse were restrained passive verb in the context if it allows for it.

We call it a divine passive. The one who does the restraining when the subject is unclear is God. The one who restrained them from seeing that it's Christ the resurrected Christ is God. And this is a rather mysterious aspect of the resurrected Christ.

It also occurs in John 20 with Mary standing by the tomb thinking that Jesus the risen Christ is the gardener. This is not because that Jesus looked different after the resurrection as if he's a totally new person but rather God in his sovereign purpose stopped these followers from recognizing Christ.

Temporarily, right? This is not a permanent thing temporarily. Mary Would know that it's Jesus when Jesus calls her Mary and. These disciples, although we didn't read the text will know that it's Jesus when he breaks the bread with them.

Now in verse 17 Jesus asks what the deep discussion is all about. To which Cleopas one of the two disciples answers. Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem and have you not known the things which happened there in these days?

This is important because During the time of crucifixion and resurrection. It was the week of the Passover the Feast of Unleavened Bread so a lot of Jews Would travel to Jerusalem to celebrate that so that's why they're.

They're using the language stranger, right? Well, you must not be from here, but man if you were there in Jerusalem, you would have known what happened, right? Another phrase would be have you been living under a rock, right?

You don't know do you really not know what happened to which Jesus asks what things. Now from verses 19 through 24 Cleopas explains to Jesus what happened to Jesus. Verse 19 identifies Jesus as the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth.

Who was a prophet mighty indeed and word before God and all the people? Now this title a prophet mighty indeed and word is very significant. This is more than just any other prophet, right? This is more than just another Isaiah or another Jeremiah another Micah, right?

It is actually used this phrase is used to describe Moses in Acts 7 verse 22 and Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and deeds and. For many of us who went through the Exodus series, we know that in the Old Testament Moses was the prophet par excellence.

Right unlike the iPhones that come out later and later they're better and faster and take better pictures. Moses Was the best prophet he was the best prophet of the Old Testament. He set the standard right all the Prophets that came after Moses no matter how far along the historical timeline.

They all pointed back to Moses because Moses was the standard of God's prophet. God spoke to him face to face not in visions not in dreams. God got Moses back whenever they rebelled against him. In one sense Moses was the Stradivarius of the prophets.

All the ones who came after only hoped to emulate him. However in Deuteronomy 18 15 Moses himself reveals that God will one day raise up a prophet like him. You know what there is going to be a prophet and it's gonna be like Moses.

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst from your brethren him. You shall hear. You shall listen to him. You shall follow him. Moses predicted the coming of Christ the ultimate prophet of God thousands of years earlier and Thus Cleopas believed that Jesus was that second Moses.

From witnessing his mighty deed and word. They believed that Jesus was some eschatological prophet the prophet of the last days who would just as Moses did deliver God's people from their enemies. They thought Jesus was the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 18.

Now verses 20 to 21 show why Cleopas and his buddy were actually downcast their hope in this prophet publicly perished and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

But we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed besides all this today is the third day since these things happened. Despite the marvelous miracles and powerful preaching the religious elites and political leaders of their own people crucified Jesus and The crucifixion remember in the Roman time was a public execution.

Not for To not not really ought to put someone to death in the quickest most efficient way possible. But it was an utter humiliation Publicly done for hours at a time. It was to show you go against the Roman authority.

This will be done to you and this is why. This is why these two disciples were downcast. And this was specifically the thing that they were talking about. It was a public execution of humiliation and It seemed that this stranger on the road was the only one in whole Jerusalem Who was unaware of this?

Now. Their hope in this prophet again was that he would redeem Israel. The word for redemption Happened one time before and this was all the way in the beginning and This was Zechariah's prophecy regarding Jesus in Luke 1 68 that the hope of redemption would come through the child Jesus.

They hope that Jesus would deliver Israel out of Rome and lead Israel into a new era of glory a Time in which that Israel has really not experienced before. The closest they got were around David and Solomon's time where they weren't paying tributes to an empire that's bigger than them and They expected that Jesus was the one he was doing the miracles.

He was preaching God's Word really powerfully. This must be the second Moses a New exodus was coming and they thought it was through Jesus and Ironically, it was actually precisely through the public crucifixion Jesus the greater Moses delivered his people From the greatest enemy sin.

It wasn't that their vision was too high. It's that their vision was not great enough. They settled for a lesser enemy Rome and they settled for a lesser deliverance of political deliverance. Now in verses 22 to 24 Cleopas shares two testimonies that they've heard regarding Jesus body first.

Yes, and certain women of our company who arrived at the tomb early astonished us. When they did not find his body they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who had said He was alive in a beautiful sense.

The book of Luke Book ends the testimonies by women tests of the testimonies by angels and testimonies by men. Right Luke chapter 1 through 2 had women's testimony. Mary and Elizabeth Had angelic testimony to the shepherds and also Zechariah testifying of Jesus birth the coming redemption through Christ and even the resurrection.

Luke compiles women's testimonies angels testimonies and men's testimonies. Now in response to these women's testimonies other disciples attempt to confirm This wild claim. How can a dead man who's been crucified by the Roman Empire be alive?

So verse 24 and certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. But him they did not see. These two verses are A short summary of the first 12 verses of chapter 24.

Now the women visited Jesus tomb to embalm him after the Sabbath day and Early in the morning. They were greeted with greeted by angels who proclaimed that Jesus is not in the tomb because he's living and he actually foretold this three times and This resulted in Peter and John which we found it find out in the Gospel of John that it's Peter and John who ran there and they found the tomb empty and We see here that Cleopas and his friend are not convinced by these testimonies because they did not see the risen Christ for themselves, of Course the irony here is that the final piece of evidence that's not.

That's preventing them from seeing believing in the resurrection that they were longing for Was speaking to them for the whole seven miles and here We see two disciples despite the evidence presented to them cannot believe in Christ's resurrection.

They want to believe on their own terms. They're not satisfied with what is given and Note the mounting evidence that's piled up all on the same day. Right. This is not. Oh, yeah, this happened three years ago.

No, it's all happening on the same day the third day. The Sunday the women saw the tomb empty and the angels told them he's not there. He's risen and For us this morning the women's testimony is it is extra powerful and this is because in in ancient times Women were not in the right status to actually testify in court.

They they would rather believe in slaves than women. Now in all four of the gospel accounts Matthew Mark Luke and John The first witnesses of the resurrection, which is the most important event in Christianity Are women and again, this is looking at the other point of view.

What if Christianity were all made up if Christianity were a made-up Belief. It would make no sense to choose women as the first witnesses of the most important event in Christian history. Unless That's what happened.

Unless they're actually recording what's true. That's a powerful evidence for us even more powerful to us than them now. When Peter and John heard the news from the women they went to check it out and they confirmed that the tomb was empty.

Now the giant rock Removed from the entrance would have been humongous and heavy and women would not have been able to remove that. And second The soldiers who were supposedly guarding the tomb had no incentive to remove The stone themselves lest they be killed.

For avoiding their duty of guarding the tomb. There was no Reason why the tomb was roll the tombstone was rolled away and the body was empty. No one could have done it and that satisfied Peter and John and despite all of this these two disciples are Disheartened.

They can't believe Jesus unless Jesus meets them on their own terms and This is not a noble thing at all. And you might have experienced this talking to unbelievers. I'm not gonna believe in Jesus unless he shows up right in front of me.

And even then I might not believe it. I might think I ate something wrong for lunch. I've had someone tell me this when I asked what would it take for you to believe that Jesus? Died for your sin and rose from the dead and he said those words.

Again we want to believe Jesus in our own terms despite the evidence it really shows that unbelief is not a Logical choice when the evidence is so mounting now, the question is how does Jesus respond to this unbelief?

Because Jesus actually holds the key. To show them that they can actually believe because that was the final puzzle that was missing. But they didn't see him. The women didn't see him. The disciples didn't see him.

Jesus rebukes their unbelief of God's testimony of his resurrection. Jesus rebukes their unbelief of God's testimony of his resurrection. Now immediately Jesus rebukes these two disciples. Oh Foolish ones and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken.

Foolishness in the Bible as we have seen it over and over again in the Old Testament in the Psalms. It's not about ignorance. Foolishness is not about ignorance nor is it about lack of intelligence? Foolishness rather points to moral deficiency.

It's a spiritual condition in This case it's lacking faith. Hence Jesus uses another title describe them slow of heart to believe their heart their the seed of emotion will and intention and desire. Is that they don't want to believe?

They're resisting to believe. Now, what are they resisting to believe it is significant to know that the content of unbelief? Wasn't right you unfaithful men. Why don't you believe what these women saw and these men confirmed?

Right. Jesus didn't say that they confirmed the body was missing. The tomb was open. Who could have done it. Not the Roman soldiers. Jesus didn't say that Jesus was in rebuking these two disciples for not believing that evidence.

It also wasn't you unholy creatures, how could you doubt the testimony of the holy angels? Do you not know that they're messengers from God? Jesus didn't say that. No, Jesus rebuke is centered around not believing in what the prophets have said.

Ultimately what God has testified regarding Jesus through the prophets of the past. The supreme evidence of Jesus crucifixion and resurrection lies in Scripture. Jesus go to proof for his resurrection is not the eyewitness testimonies.

Although God graciously gives them to us. Jesus go to proof for his resurrection is not even his own appearance. Although he could have revealed who he is at any moment. Just show them your hands and that's all they wanted in verse 24.

The crux of their doubt came from not no one actually seeing the body. But him they did not see. No, Jesus doesn't meet their standard. Jesus gives them something better. Jesus go to proof for his resurrection is God's own testimony regarding himself in the Old Testament.

Verse 26 ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory, it's foretold in the Old Testament. Oftentimes we forget that the Old Testament is the evidence for the crucifixion and the resurrection.

We do not count it often as a historical document. Even though it is in fact, it is God's testimony written down. The source is God. It's better than any eyewitness testimonies. If someone came here this morning and claimed that Jesus showed up Right in front of them and told them a certain thing that goes against the Bible.

We better go with God's testimony about Jesus. Now Jesus. Expectation of belief in his resurrection is not based upon the current availability of evidence. But rather one's trust in God's past promises.

Are you willing to believe in the resurrection? Because God had said so. Not not because some of your friends said so. Not because of a close relative said so but because God said so. And this is not to say that the eyes eyewitness accounts do not matter they ended up in scripture.

Luke compiled it and collected it and it is for our edification to help us to believe in the risen Christ. What Jesus is saying is that God's testimony of the resurrection? Revealed centuries before Christ's resurrection is more than sufficient for his disciples to believe.

It's more than enough for them. God has provided for his disciples enough evidence to believe in the legitimacy of christ's death and resurrection. Hence in verse 27 jesus attentively opens the scripture to them.

And beginning at moses and all the prophets he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Beginning at moses means the law the first five books that of the old testament that moses wrote right genesis Deuteronomy.

The prophets are actually an expansive group. It's not just starting from isaiah and on to malachi. But rather the jews considered. Uh. The books of joshua judges samuel kings as prophetic books because there are prophets.

In which god speaks through them in these books? So to say beginning with moses. To the prophets. Is ultimately the whole scripture of the old testament? Right, not only that in acts 2 29 through 31 even king.

David is called the prophet, right? And he's he's the author of a great number of psalms. So what's what jesus is saying? The whole old testament Ultimately points to jesus. And if you miss this You can't believe it.

And that's why jesus unpacked it for them. I don't know about you that is. That is some special privileged lecture that you can't get in any seminary or books that you can buy. Now just to be brief there are Two different types of prophecies that you will find in the old testament that point to jesus.

The first one is the are the direct prophecies regarding jesus the messiah. Uh, they are directly talking about the coming messianic king, uh, the along the david's line, right? Or adam's offspring eve's offspring to crush the serpent's head, right?

That's directly talking about jesus and then there are Typological prophecies which are patterns in the old testament that occur and jesus intensifies and fulfills it. And i'll give you an example of one one each.

So a well-known example of a direct prophecy comes from isaiah 53 which herald read this morning isaiah 53 shows. Uh the suffering servant there is one man who is rejected by his own people. And not only that he is suffering.

He is going through an excruciating pain. And isaiah 53 verse 5 actually shows us the manner and the purpose Of the suffering that heavily resembles the crucifixion of jesus christ. But he was pierced for our Offenses he was crushed for our own wrongdoings.

The punishment for our well-being was laid upon him and by his wounds. We are healed. Just as the suffering servant was prophesied to be pierced. And crushed for our sin sins of his people jesus was pierced on the cross and bore our punishment so that we may be healed through his suffering.

Right. This is kind of like a prototypical substitutionary atonement. Right jesus takes your place of punishment that you deserve. He's pierced for it the suffering servant does. And then you're healed on his behalf.

Isaiah 53 is so clear that in modern synagogues they avoid it. Modern synagogues do not read isaiah 53. They want to avoid jesus now. Just as the suffering servant, right? That's the direct prophecy. For those of us who know of what happened to jesus when you read isaiah 53 You can directly connect the dots and this suffering servant can't be anyone else.

Some people argue that's israel. That's talking because israel is often called the servant of god and in in the context of isaiah. Jacob is called god's servant. But there's one problem. Israel never died for anyone's sin.

Israel never suffered for anyone's sin except its own sin. So when did this happen? Now an example of a typological typological prophecy is uh christ being the ultimate sacrifice. This is typological because It's not A literal thing in which we would say christ is a calf or a goat.

Right when we say christ is the passover lamb. It's not like he's genetically a sheep all of a sudden. It's that he takes on the pattern That's seen in the old testament. And he intensifies it and ultimately fulfills it.

So in the old testament israel had to sacrifice Bulls lambs goats and various birds to maintain their relationship with their god the lord. Now there was a sacrifice for specific type of sin. Was it intentional?

Could it be recompensed? Could you make it up? Could you not there are different sacrifices for those? And there was a sacrifice to say thank you to god. There was a sacrifice to say, uh. To uh have peace with god to uh say I love you to god, right?

So in one sense there was a sacrifice for Each one if you wanted to say sorry to god. Thank you to god. I love you to god. There was a sacrifice for each one different ones. Different manners different animals.

Some things were burnt up some weren't very very intricate. Now in christ. All of these sacrifices find their ultimate fulfillment. The author of hebrews argues that the blood of calves and goats Offer external cleansing.

But how much more shall the blood of christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to god. Cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living god. Yeah blood of calves and goats that provided external cleansing external purification.

But consider christ's sacrifice his precious blood. That cleanses you inside and out. Right. So this is not to say that all of a sudden on the cross. Jesus was counted as a calf or a goat or a sheep. It's that he Fulfills the sacrificial system in the old testament so that Christ's one sacrifice on the cross accomplishes all the sacrifices in the old testament combined and much more.

And in christ you can say sorry. Thank you. I love you. Without slaying a single animal. Because it's been done for you. That's the typological Fulfillment of christ and that that happens with the passover lamb that happens with the one and only son isaac.