1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine hundred and 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: sixty two. Today, The Bible Study Podcast continues the study 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: of the Gospel of Luke with Luke twenty four. Welcome 4 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. 5 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: We're continuing on and wrapping up here the Gospel of 6 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: Luke with the Resurrection. But first a word from this sponsor. 7 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: Luke twenty four starts this way, Jesus has risen. On 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: the first day of the week, very early in the morning, 9 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: the women took the spices they had prepared and went 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find 12 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering 13 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: lightning stood beside them. In their fright. The women bowed 15 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: down with their faces to the ground. But the men 16 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: said to them, why do you look for the living 17 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: among the dead? He is not here. He has risen. 18 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: Remember how he told you while he was still with 19 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: you in Galilee, the son of Man must be delivered 20 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: over to the hands of sinners, be crucified. And on 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: the third day, be raised again. Then they remembered his words. 22 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: When they came back from the tomb, they told all 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: these things to the eleven and to the others. It 24 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: was Mary Magdalene, Joanna Marry, the mother of James, and 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: the others with them who told this to the apostles. 26 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: But they did not believe the women, because their words 27 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: seemed to them like nonsense. Peter, however, got up and 28 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips 29 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: of linen lying by themselves, and he went away wondering 30 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: to himself what had happened. Now, Remember that in the 31 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: chapters previous, as they're heading to Jerusalem, Jesus tells them, 32 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: I think it's on three different occasions. What is going 33 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: to happen? That he he's going to die, that he's 34 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: going to rise again. But it made no sense to them, 35 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: and it still makes no sense even when the women 36 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: come back to the disciples and say that we ran 37 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: into this beings. I don't know if they use the 38 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: word angels. But these messengers, these people wearing these bright 39 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: white clothing that's gleamed like lightning, that are telling us 40 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: that Jesus isn't dead anymore. Now isn't dead anymore is 41 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 1: one of those strange phrases that one does not get 42 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: to say. It is not something that one normally uses 43 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: when one is dead. One tends to stay dead. I 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: thought it was interesting when I learned Spanish that there 45 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: are two different words for to be, something that is 46 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: temporary and something that is permanent. And oddly enough, in Spanish, 47 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: when we say that you are dead using the word 48 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,839 Speaker 1: to be, you use the temporary form. And I think 49 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: that's a great statement of faith here, that the belief 50 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: in this temporariness of death. But it wasn't what these 51 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: people believed. It wasn't what Mary and Mary Magdalene and 52 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: Joanna believed. They came to the tomb on this Sunday 53 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: morning to say goodbye, to anoint Jesus's body for burial. 54 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: They didn't get a chance to do it on Friday 55 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: night because it was the Sabbath and they weren't allowed 56 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: to work on the Sabbath, and so as soon as 57 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: the sun went down they had to stop this preparation 58 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: of Jesus's body. But that is what they've come to 59 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: do here. They've come to say goodbye in the appropriate 60 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: fashion by anointing Jesus' body, but it's hard to do 61 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: when there's no body. What they weren't expecting, even though 62 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: Jesus had told them this would happen, is they weren't 63 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: expecting the tomb to be open, to have these angels 64 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: in it giving them a message. So they do what 65 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: you should do, You run back and tell everybody else, 66 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,119 Speaker 1: and everybody else doesn't believe them. I always thought it's interesting. 67 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: Of course, it's the everybody else who writes down this story. 68 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: Later on, Luke goes and interviews people and creates his 69 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: understanding of the story and writes this account. And the 70 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: disciples are probably the ones who told him yeah, which 71 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: they came back and we didn't believe them. It doesn't 72 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: put them in the best light, but it's what happened. 73 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: And Peter goes and runs to the tomb and sees 74 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: the strips of lenin where there should be a body, 75 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: and he still isn't sure what's going on, continuing on 76 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: on the road to Ammeis. Now the same day two 77 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: of them were going to a village called Amais, about 78 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other 79 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: about everything that had happened, As they talked and discussed 80 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: these things with each other, Jesus came up and walked 81 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: along with them, but they were kept from recognizing him. 82 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: He asked them, what are you discussing together as you 83 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: walk along? They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, 84 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: named Cleopus, asked him, are you the only one visiting 85 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened 86 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: in these days? What things? He asked about Jesus of Nazareth, 87 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 1: They replied, he was a prophet powerful in word, indeed 88 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 1: before God and all the people. The chief priests and 89 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, 90 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: and they crucified him. But we had hoped he was 91 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what 92 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: is more, it is the third day since all this 93 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. 94 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: They went to the tomb early this morning, but didn't 95 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: find his body. They came and told us they had 96 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. 97 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: Then some of our companions went to the tomb and 98 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: found it just as the women had said, but they 99 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 1: did not see Jesus. So Jesus is walking along with 100 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: these two disciples who we haven't really met before. We 101 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: don't know who the one is. His name isn't given. 102 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: The other one is Cleopus, the only time I think 103 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: Coleopus is mentioned. So relatively minor disciples in terms of 104 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: this whole story that Luke has told. But for some reason, 105 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 1: Jesus is walking along with them, the resurrected Jesus and 106 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: they don't recognize him. So this always gives us questions 107 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: about resurrection and are we getting a new body that 108 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 1: doesn't look like the old body? And why don't they 109 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: recognize Jesus And is this something supernatural that kept them 110 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: from recognizing them or did he just look different? All 111 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: of those I can't answer. But we've got this journey 112 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: that these two are going along with to this town 113 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: of Emmaeus. And as they're going along, they're talking to 114 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: Jesus and they're talking about what's happened, because Jesus is 115 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: acting as if he has no idea of this story, 116 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: and so we get to see that an understanding of 117 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: what they were thinking at the time. It's this great 118 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: little snapshot, this post this almost pre Easter vision here 119 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: or this early Easter vision here, where they're still very confused, 120 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: and they tell us what they had expected. They'd expected 121 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: him to redeem Israel. That expected him to be Messiah, 122 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: and probably Messiah in the traditional fashion of this is 123 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: going to be the one who's going to kick out 124 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: the Romans. Right, They weren't expecting him to come and 125 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: die for their sin. That wasn't the Messiah they were 126 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: looking for. And so they knew that he was powerful 127 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: in word. Indeed, before God and all the people, they 128 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: knew he was a prophet. But they their understanding of 129 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: Messiah isn't clear yet, and their understanding of his mission 130 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: was completely unclear, and it would get clarified here. And 131 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: he said to them, how foolish you are, and how 132 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: slow to believe all the prophets have spoken. Did not 133 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter 134 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: his glory? And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, 135 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: he explained to them what was said in all the 136 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: scriptures concerning himself. So he starts to re educate them 137 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: what Messiah means, and starts talking to them, probably with 138 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: those verses we know from Isaiah about a suffering servant 139 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: who comes and gives himself as a sacrifice. He probably 140 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: talks to them about sacrifice and talks to them about 141 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: the lamb of the Passover because it goes going back 142 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: with Moses and the prophets, and talks to them about 143 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: what Jesus' role really was. As they approached the village 144 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if 145 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: he were to go further, but they urged him strongly 146 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: stay with us, for it is nearly evening, the day 147 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: is almost over. So he went in to stay with them. 148 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: When he was at the table with them, he took bread, 149 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it to them. 150 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and 151 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, were 152 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: not our hearts burning within us? While he talked with 153 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: us on the road and opened the scriptures to us. 154 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: Then they got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. 155 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 1: There they found the eleven and those with them assembled 156 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 1: together and saying, it is true the Lord has risen 157 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: and has appeared to Simon. Then the two told them 158 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: what had happened on the way and how Jesus was 159 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: recognized by them when he broke the bread. I think 160 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: It's interesting that it is the breaking of bread that 161 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: they recognized Jesus, because that is still something we use 162 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: to remember Jesus, that breaking of bread for communion or 163 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: Eucharist or whatever you call it in your church. And 164 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: we don't know if they recognized him from the feeding 165 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: of the five thousand or whether they were there at 166 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: the Last Supper. Certainly the Last Supper only depicts twelve 167 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: people there, but that doesn't mean that that is accurate. 168 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: These could have been disciples who were there in one 169 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: of those occasions. But it's in that breaking of the 170 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: bread that they realize that it's Jesus and they run 171 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: backed dru Jrusal And remember Jerusalem is still seven miles away, 172 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: so it's going to take them some hours to get 173 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: back to Jerusalem. And by the time they get there, 174 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: the word is out. It's not just the women that 175 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: Jesus has appeared to. It's not just these Cleopus and 176 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: this other disciple, but Jesus has also appeared to Peter, 177 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: and Jesus has risen and that word is still spreading. 178 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: But with that, we're going to end this episode of 179 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: the Bible Study podcast, and next week I think we're 180 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 1: going to wrap up this study and go on to 181 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: something else, and I am debating possibly between Exodus and Leviticus. 182 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: Let me know your thoughts, and with that we're going 183 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. 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