Book of Luke - Ch. 24, Vs. 1-31 (01/03/2021)

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Well, good morning. It is so nice to be able to see people in here again.

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It is a lonely feeling when you're doing this by yourself, looking around and seeing no one.

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We're going to go into Luke 24 and Resurrection Sunday before the day is done.

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It'll probably take us two days, but we'll begin today. But one more thing before we actually go into Luke 24, a couple of loose ends to tie up from last

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Sunday. But first, let's pray. Most gracious Heavenly Father, thank You for this day. Thank You for giving us the technology to reach out and touch one another, even though we're not all here today.

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And thank You for having those of us that are able to be in church in person today.

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Thank You for having us here. Bless us and keep us. Teach us the message that You want us to hear.

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Have us learn the lessons of life that we need. And You know that each of us have different needs and different lessons that we need to learn.

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Bless us and keep us and go through the services today. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Now, if you would turn to Matthew 27, verse 62, and we'll begin.

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Now the next day that followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto

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Pilate. Well, I probably didn't do a good job of telling you what day this is. This is the day that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus put

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Jesus in the tomb and the two women, or three women, followed

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Him to see where they put Him. Now, the next day, the day after the day of preparation, the chief priests and the

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Pharisees came together to Pilate. Now, the day after the day of preparation was

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Passover. Now what this got to mean is the chief priests and the

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Pharisees actually went to Pilate with this request on the

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Sabbath. And this was not just any Sabbath which would be bad enough.

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This was the Passover Sabbath. It was a high Sabbath. It was one of the most holy days of the year for the

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Jews. And the chief priests and the Pharisees were meeting Pilate to make the following request of him.

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Now, obviously they're like a lot of our politicians today. They felt like the law of the

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Sabbath didn't apply to them. They thought the laws didn't apply. Okay, 2762.

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Now, the next day that followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto

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Pilate saying, Sir, we remember that deceiver said while he was yet alive,

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After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulcher be made sure until the third day.

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Lest the disciples come by night and steal him away and say to the people,

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He is risen from the dead. So the last era shall be worse than the first.

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It's kind of weird they're already admitting that they made a mistake, aren't they? The last era shall be worse than the first.

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And Pilate said unto them, You have a watch. Go your way. Make it as sure as you can.

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So they went and made the sepulcher secure, sealing the stone and setting a watch.

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Now every commentary that I looked at took that to mean that Pilate was going to provide the soldiers to guard the team.

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But it seems to me that the passage could have been read this way. You have your own guards.

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You make it as secure as you can. But I do understand why the commentators think like they do.

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If you'll go down to Matthew 28 verse 11, you will see the passage that makes the commentators think that Pilate provided the soldiers.

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Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came unto the city and showed unto the high priest all the things that were done.

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Now the people that have come to visit the tomb, Mary Magdalene and those, they have now left.

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And while they were going, some of the soldiers came into the city and showed the high priest all the things that were done.

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And when they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying,

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Say ye, his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept.

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And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and secure you.

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So they took the money and did as they were taught. And this saying is commonly reported among the

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Jews until this day. Well, you'd think, I would think, that if Pilate had provided the soldiers, the soldiers would have gone to Pilate and said,

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Guess what? This man that you put in the tomb and had us guard, while we were diligently watching him, the stone rolled away, an angel sat on it and said,

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He is risen from the dead. That's what I would have thought a soldier would have said and who he would have said it to.

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These guys went where? They went to the chief priest and to the

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Pharisees. So I think maybe they were not Roman soldiers at all, but soldiers guarding for the chief priest.

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But I may be wrong and it really doesn't matter. Now we're going to go to Luke 23 verse 55 to set the scene for resurrection

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Sunday. Luke 23, 55. And the women also which came with him from Galilee followed after.

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They followed after Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus as they took

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Jesus' body and put it in the grave. And beheld the scepter and how his body was laid.

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And they returned and prepared spices and ointments and rested the

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Sabbath day according to the commandments. Now unlike the chief priest and the

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Pharisees, they did think the law of the Sabbath applied to them. Now Luke 24.

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Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the scepter bringing spices which they had prepared and certain others with them.

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Now the Sabbath had officially ended Sunday on Saturday, our time.

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At that time, the women could continue preparing their spices and purchase more if they needed to.

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The events described in verse 1 of chapter 24 occurred the next morning at dawn on Sunday, the first day of the week, the day we call

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Resurrection Sunday. Sometimes we call it Easter.

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And they found the stone rolled away from the scepter. Now again, Matthew gives us always more detail than Luke.

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So I'm going to bounce around between Matthew's account, Luke's account, and John's account because each one of them gives us different information, some more, some less, but they all work together to give us the whole story.

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So starting Matthew 28, verse 1, at the very same place that Luke began, chapter 24, at the end of the

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Sabbath, as it began to dawn, dawn Sunday morning, toward the first day of the week, came

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Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the

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Lord descended from heaven. Now a lot of times the angel of the Lord refers to Jesus, but this time it doesn't.

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This time it's just a messenger from the Lord, an angel. The angel of the

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Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on it.

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So when they came down, what did they see? They saw the stone had been rolled away and an angel sitting on the stone.

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Now, and behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it.

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This is the second earthquake that has dealt with Jesus and His death, crucifixion, resurrection.

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The first was found in Matthew 27, verse 51, when the veil was split from the top to the bottom and there was a great earthquake and some of the dead arose and wandered around through the cities.

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All of that happened. That was the first earthquake. This is the second. The first earthquake was more widespread, had a more widespread effect.

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This one was probably more local and confined to the immediate area around the grave when the angel supernaturally rolled the stone back from the door.

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Now, anybody know why the stone was rolled back from the door of the grave?

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Why do you think God felt it necessary to move the stone?

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To show openly that Jesus was gone? To allow the witnesses, the women and the disciples, a way to get in?

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Was it open to allow Jesus to get out? Well, let's consider this.

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Yeah, let's go there and let's go there and look. That would be in John 20, verse 19.

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The same day, but in the evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the

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Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and said unto them, Peace be unto you.

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Jesus appeared in the midst of them, in a room with all the doors closed and locked, no way in and no way out.

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And suddenly, Jesus just appears in the midst of them. He didn't need to be let in the room, and He didn't need to be let out of the grave.

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The opening of the grave, the rolling away of the stone, was not for Jesus to get in and out. It was for people to get in and out.

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They had to open the door. There were none of the disciples that left the upper room that went out without opening the door.

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It was only Jesus that came in and out without opening the door. Back to Luke, verse 3.

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And they entered... That's the women, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary. And they entered and found not the body of Jesus.

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And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed, thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

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Now, we've talked about three angels. The one that was sitting on the stone, and the two now that are standing beside Him.

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Now, they went in. They went into the grave. They didn't find Jesus there. And they looked around, and behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

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Now, there's often criticism made of the Bible saying, the

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Bible is not consistent. One time, one place it will say one angel, and another place it will say two.

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I've already accounted for three. And there's a fourth one in the works, but a special one.

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One of a different kind. But just because one says one, and one says two, and one says three, and another says four, doesn't mean that they're in disagreement.

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It just means they're talking about different things. Mark and Matthew are talking about the one that's speaking to them.

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Luke and John are talking about both of them. And John also talks about a third.

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Okay. Back to Matthew 28, and I'll reread verse 2, so you can get the flow.

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Matthew 28, verse 2, And behold, there was a great earthquake. For the angel of the

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Lord... That was an angel, not Jesus, not the Messiah. For the angel of the

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Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and set upon it.

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That's going to describe that angel. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

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And for fear of him, the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. They weren't just scared.

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They were really scared. And the angel answered... Now he's not speaking to the keepers who are like dead men.

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He's speaking to the women. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not.

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Fear not ye, for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified.

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He is not here. He is not here. He is risen, as he said.

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Then the angel goes on to say, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

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So he's going to take them into the... He's going to take them into the grave. Now, or he's going to send them into the grave.

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It says come, so I guess he goes in with them. So this angel that was sitting on the rock may now be one of the angels that's inside.

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I don't know that for sure. Doesn't matter. So, when did

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Jesus say... Remember He said,

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He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. When did Jesus say that He was risen?

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Luke's going to tell us in a minute while He was still in Galilee. While you guys were following Jesus, when

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He was in Galilee, before He came to Jerusalem, He told you that this was going to happen.

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And that He was going to rise from the dead. And there's other ways they should have known too.

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We'll get to that in a second. Now, Matthew 28 verse 7 goes on to say,

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Go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead. Now, that's the instructions.

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Who got the instructions? Mary and Mary Magdalene and some other women. He said, Go quickly and tell

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His disciples that He is risen from the dead. And behold, He goeth before you into Galilee, and there you shall see

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Him, lo, I have told you. So remember the instructions? What were they told to do?

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Tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead. And then tell them to go to Galilee, and I'll be there when they get there.

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Now, back to Luke. Luke is still speaking to the women. This is in 24 verse 5.

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And they were afraid, and they bowed their faces down to the earth, and they said, the angel said unto them,

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Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but He is risen.

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Remember how He spake unto you when He was yet in Galilee.

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So Luke tells us where it was that He told them that He would rise from the dead.

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He also tells them what Jesus said, saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and on the third day rise again.

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And they remembered His words. Now they remembered that Jesus had actually told them that when they were in Galilee, and returned from the sepulcher, and told all of these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

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So all the disciples now got this message that Jesus had whatever message they gave them.

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And Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.

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So that's the people that were there. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some other women that were with them.

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And they told these things to the disciples. The women obeyed, and relayed the angel's message.

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But the disciples, we're going to find out, didn't believe them. On the other hand,

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Peter and John were concerned enough to go see for themselves. Now we know

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Luke 11 says, And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

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So the disciples didn't believe them. They gave the message to the disciples, and the disciples didn't believe them.

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Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulcher. And stooping down, he beheld the linen cloths laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

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Now John's account gives us a little bit more information. We're going to start John's account also at the beginning of the morning, the first day of the week.

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Cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark unto the sepulcher, and seeing the stone taken away from the sepulcher.

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Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciples whom

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Jesus loved. That would be John. And said unto them, They have taken away the

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Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid Him. Now, I told you they relayed the message from the angel to the disciples.

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Did they relay the message exactly as they got it? What did he tell them to say?

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He said, you go tell them that He is risen from the dead, and go to Galilee, and I'll be there.

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What did they say? They said, they have taken away the

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Lord from out of the sepulcher. So Mary Magdalene didn't quite believe it at this time.

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She knew that the body was gone. She knew the tomb was open. She knew the angel told her to go tell the disciples.

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And she told them what she knew. She didn't tell them what the angel told her to tell them. You know why?

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She didn't quite believe it yet. I believe the first person to really recognize that Jesus had risen from the dead was not

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Mary Magdalene, was not Peter, but it was John. I'll tell you why in just a minute.

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These things... They didn't tell them word for word exactly what the angel said.

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She told him what she saw, and she knew the angel told her to tell them, and she told them.

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Maybe she did tell them. Maybe it is a difference in the way it was referred to.

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But I think she didn't tell them because she didn't believe. You'll know why she didn't believe in just a minute.

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You'll know why she didn't believe that He was risen from the dead in just a moment. It won't be too many minutes until she will believe.

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But she has to have one more thing. One more thing that she has to see and hear before she will believe.

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Okay. We're still in John's account. And Peter therefore went forth and that other disciple, that would be

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John, Peter and John, and came to the sepulcher. So they both ran together, and the other disciple, that would be

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John, did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulcher. And he,

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John, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying, yet he went not in.

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Then cometh Peter, following him, and just like Peter, he went right on into the grave.

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And Peter came first. The other disciple did outrun

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Peter and came first to the sepulcher. And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying, yet went not in.

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Then cometh Peter, following him, and went into the sepulcher, and seeing the linen cloth lie, and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

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Then went in also the other disciple, which came first to the sepulcher, that would be

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John, he saw and he believed. So I think he's the first one to really believe that Jesus had risen from the dead.

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It goes on to say, For as yet they knew not the Scripture that he must rise again from the dead.

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Now they should have known it. It was all throughout the Scriptures, and they'd been studying with Jesus for three years, and he had told them several times, but apparently they didn't.

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It seems to me that John might have been the first to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. Then the disciples went away unto their own home.

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So now they're gone. John believed when he saw the empty tomb.

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Peter was concerned, but he did not yet believe, and neither had been reminded of his words as the women had been.

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But now look at verse 11. Now Peter and John have gone into the tomb.

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They've looked around. John believes that Jesus has risen. Peter's not certain yet.

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Mary is standing outside, weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had laid.

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And they said unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? And she saith unto them,

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Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him. So what she's thinking right now is, somebody took

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Jesus' body and left with it. She's not right now thinking that He has risen from the dead and walked away

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Himself, or went through the walls Himself. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw

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Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus. Why do you think she didn't know?

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Why do you think she didn't know that it was Jesus? She was in the grave.

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The angels told her, that's part of it.

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When she looked at Him, when she looked at this man, let me just keep reading a little bit.

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She saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. And Jesus said unto her,

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Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said unto

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Him, Sir, if they have borne Him away, hence, tell me where thou hast laid

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Him, and I will take Him away. So she thinks that this is the gardener she's talking to, that he has taken

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Jesus somewhere, and he's laid Him aside. She says, I'm going to go get Him. I'm going to wrap Him up.

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I'm going to rebury Him. That's what she's saying. Now, who is this she's talking to that she thinks is the gardener?

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Now, why did she think He was the gardener? Why didn't she think He was Jesus? Couldn't she see? He must have looked different.

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He's just gone through a crucifixion. He has been beaten.

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There's a passage that says his visage is marred more than any man. Isaiah, I think, talked about his beard having been plucked out.

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His appearance had changed enough that she didn't recognize Him. So she says,

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Sir, if thou had borne Him, hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away.

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And Jesus saith unto her, Mary, it didn't take much.

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And she turned herself and said unto Him, Rabboni, which is to say,

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Master. Now Mary believes. And then

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Jesus says something strange. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not.

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You know what she wanted to do? She wanted to run up and hug Him. Wouldn't you want to do that? She wanted to run up and hug

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Him or something. But He said, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go and tell my brethren, and say unto them,

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I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and unto my God, and your

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God. And Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the

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Lord, and that He had spoken these things unto her, and they still didn't believe.

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Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the

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Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

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Right in the middle of the room, boom. He just pops into sight. And when

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He had so said, He showed unto them His hands and His side.

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Then the disciples were glad when they saw Jesus. And now

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I believe, all except Thomas believed. You know why

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Thomas didn't believe? He wasn't there to see. The wounds in His hands, and the wounds in His side, and His feet pierced, and His hands pierced.

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He wasn't there. And then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you.

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As the Father has sent me, even so send I you. And when

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He had said this, He breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.

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Whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosoever sins you retain, they are retained.

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But Thomas, one of the twelve called Didymus, was not with them when

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Jesus came. Now, verse 25,

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The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. Now they know that the

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Lord is risen. Thomas doesn't know. Now, Thomas is no worse than any of the others.

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We call him Doubting Thomas. I think that's unfair. He was no more doubting than Mary Magdalene, no more doubting than Peter, no more doubting than any of the other disciples.

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They all had to see to believe. We have seen the

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Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side,

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I will not believe. Okay, so now eight days later.

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In the meantime, apparently Jesus has actually ascended unto the

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Father and came back down because he's going to tell Thomas to do something that he told

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Mary not to do. And after eight days again, his disciples were within, and Thomas was with them.

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Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace unto you.

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Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither by finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but believing.

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Now, did Thomas do all that? Did Thomas put his finger in the nail holes and his hand in the side?

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What did he have to do to believe? The same thing all the rest of them had to do to believe. He had to see.

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He said, My Lord and my God. And Jesus saith unto him,

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Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.

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And many other signs did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the

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Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life through his name.

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Now, I've got one more... Oh, I've got plenty of time. One more little passage to go through.

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And if you don't think the Lord has a sense of humor, keep that in mind as we go through this passage.

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Verse 13. This is back in Luke. And behold, two of them went that same day to a village called

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Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about three score furlongs.

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Well, two things to tell you. Three score furlongs is about seven and a half miles.

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They're getting ready to begin a seven -mile Bible study. One of the guys' names was

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Cleopas. And that's the only one we know for sure. There's speculation on who the other one is.

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Some think it was James, and some think it was Cleopas' wife. And we don't know because it doesn't tell us.

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And they talked together of all those things which had happened. And it came to pass that while they communed together and reasoned,

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Jesus Himself grew near and went with them, but their eyes were holding that they should not know

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Him. Now that's a little bit different. Why didn't they know who He was? I'm sorry?

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Jesus shrouded Himself. I didn't understand the word that you said. Jesus shrouded

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Himself. Jesus made Himself not knowable to them. That's what holding means.

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Their eyes were not able to perceive who He was. God kept them from recognizing

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Him. And He said to them, What manner of communications are these that you have one with another as you walk and are sad?

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This is Jesus, unbeknownst to them, talking to them about why it is that they're sad.

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And it's like maybe He didn't know. And one of them, whose name was

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Cleopas, answered and said, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass in these days?

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I would have said it this way, Where have you been, fellow? Don't you know the things that have happened in Jerusalem during these past three days?

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Don't you know what's going on here? Haven't you heard? How can you be in Jerusalem and not have heard? And He said to them,

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What things? And they said to Him concerning Jesus of Nazareth, Which was a prophet mighty indeed in word before God and all the people.

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So they recognized that Jesus was something special. They just didn't recognize how special.

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Now the crucifixion of Jesus was already such a well -known event around Jerusalem that they were shocked that anybody could pass through Jerusalem and not have heard about it.

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So they explained it all to Him. So now you have Cleopas and his companion describing to Jesus what happened to Jesus up to and on and after the crucifixion.

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And how the chief priest and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death and have crucified

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Him. Now you know now that at this point, these two had no clear understanding of Jesus and His mission.

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So here's what they say, But we trusted that it had been He who should have redeemed

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Israel. Well let me ask you a question. Was He the one that was to redeem Israel?

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Was Jesus the one that was prophesied to redeem

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Israel? Well the answer to that is, of course, yes. So they were right in that. But they just had a misunderstanding about what

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His immediate duty, His immediate mission was. They thought He was going to set up an earthly kingdom.

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And that didn't happen. But we trusted that it had been

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He which should have redeemed Israel. And besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done.

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So they thought that Jesus was the Messiah and they expected Him to set up an earthly kingdom.

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But now He was dead. And they're perplexed. And then they're surprised when the women brought the report that He was alive.

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And besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women, also of our company, made us astonished which were early at the sepulcher.

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And when they found not His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels which said

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He was alive. Now did they see a vision of angels? Or did they see the angels?

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They saw the angels. But this guy, whoever is speaking now, reports it as having seen a vision of angels.

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That's right. And little tiny, little tiny deviations take us far off the trail.

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The women were obedient, but they didn't fully understand. So because they didn't fully understand, they didn't get the message quite right to the disciples.

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And they didn't understand. And these were one level down disciples. They weren't the eleven. These were other disciples.

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And so the story gets further and further from the truth. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulcher, that would be

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John and Peter, and found it even as the women had said, but Him they saw not.

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Well, you wouldn't expect to see Him there in the grave. He's risen. And then this is

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Jesus speaking to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all the prophets.

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It's no secret. He might have said to them, Fella, where have you been? What did the

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Scripture say? You've read the Scripture. You've been studying the Scriptures for three years, some of you longer.

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What did the Scripture say? Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter glory?

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Now, what was Jesus' immediate mission? To be crucified, to be buried, and to rise from the dead.

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That's what you should have been expecting from the Messiah. Not that He would set up an earthly kingdom. That's coming, but it's not coming now.

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What's coming now is He's going to be crucified, buried, and He's going to rise from the dead. That's what you should have been listening for or looking for.

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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the

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Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Now John MacArthur says this.

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If you go down to verse 44, it will describe piecewise the kind of Scriptures that he's talking about.

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And what Luke is doing, he's just doing a shorthand version of the same thing. I want to read that to you.

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Verse 44, and it still is in Luke 24, so it's down about four or five verses.

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And He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the

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Psalms concerning Me. The expression in Luke is merely a shortened way to say the same thing when he said, in all the

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Scripture. I think I said that earlier part was in Luke.

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I don't think it is. I think it's in Matthew. It's either Matthew or John, I believe. I didn't put a title on it.

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And MacArthur goes on to say, In the inscrutable wisdom of divine province, the substance of Christ's exposition of the

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Old Testament messianic prophecies was not recorded. But the gist of what he said undoubtedly would include an explanation of the

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Old Testament sacrificial system. All of the Old Testament sacrifices were designed to be a reflection of Jesus.

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It was full of types and symbols that spoke of His suffering and death.

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He would also have pointed to them, to the major prophetic passages which spake of His crucifixion, such as Psalms 16 verse 8.

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Beginning at verse 8. I'm going to read that one. I'll read a couple of these, but not many. This is

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David speaking. I have set the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand.

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I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth. My flesh also shall rest in hope, for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell.

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That's David talking about himself. And then he goes on to say, Neither wilt thou suffer thine

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Holy One to see corruption. That is David telling us that the

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Messiah will rise from the dead. The Lord will not allow the

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Messiah to see corruption. He will rise from the dead.

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They should have been expecting Jesus to rise from the dead. And then last week we talked about Psalm 22, the whole thing about Jesus on the cross.

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And then we have Isaiah 52 and 53, which we talked about a little bit last week too.

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And then we have Zechariah. I'm going to read that one. Zechariah 12, 10. I will pour on the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the

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Spirit of grace and supplication. And they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only

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Son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

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He not only tells them He's going to die, but He tells them that in the process of His dying, they're going to have pierced

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Him. They're going to pierce His hands and His feet and wound Him in His side. This prophecy told how

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Jesus was going to die. And then Zechariah 13, verse 7.

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Awake, O sword, against My shepherd. The shepherd is Jesus.

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And against the man that is My fellow, saith the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

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Zechariah is telling them Jesus will be killed and the disciples will scatter.

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He would also have pointed out the true meaning of passages like Genesis 3 .15.

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I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, and it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise

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His head. I said that backward. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise

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His heel. Jesus will be hurt by Satan, and Satan will be destroyed by Jesus.

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And then there's a host of other Messianic prophecies. And they drew nigh unto the village whither they went, and He made as though He would have gone further.

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So they're at the village. They're at Emmaus. They're going to stop, and Jesus acts like He's going to keep going.

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But they constrained Him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.

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And He went into Tarry with them. And it came to pass, that as He sat at meal with them,

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He took bread, and blessed it, and break it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew

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Him, and He vanished out of their sight. Now how did they know

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Him? They've walked seven miles with Him, talking with Him. They didn't know Him. And why did they know

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Him now? Because now their eyes are opened. Who opened their eyes?

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The same one that closed them, Jesus. And He vanished out of their sight.

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I'm sorry? Oh, I don't know.

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I didn't check that. Oh, okay.

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I see what you're saying. I suspect it is. It's impassive in the English. When it says, their eyes were opened, it didn't say they opened their eyes.

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Their eyes were opened. That's passive in English. I suspect it is in Greek. And that's where we're going to stop today, and we'll finish

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Luke 24 tomorrow. And that will finish the book of Luke. Any questions or comments?

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I'll have to look at that. That will come in the next section,

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I think. Maybe not. We may have gone past that and not picked that up. So you should have told me that later, earlier.

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If not, let's leave the word of prayer. Most gracious Heavenly Father, thank You for this day, and thank

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You for all the many blessings that You have given us. Protect us and keep us. Go through the services today.

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Teach us the messages and the lessons that You want us to hear. Bless us and keep us.