1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine hundred and 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: sixty four. Today, The Bible Study Podcast wraps up the 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: study of the Book of Luke. Welcome to the Bible 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We're going to 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: wrap up the study of Luke today as we continue 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: on with Luke twenty four. But first a word from 7 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: this sponsor Luke twenty four. We continue on with the 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: story of the Resurrection, and we get Jesus appeers to 9 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: the disciples. While they were still talking about this, Jesus 10 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: stood among them and said, peace be with you. This 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: that they're talking about here is we've just done the 12 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: story of the two disciples who saw Jesus on the 13 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: road to Ammaeus. They come back to Jerusalem, and when 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: they get there, they're told it's true the Lord has 15 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: risen has appeared to Simon or to Peter, Simon Peter, 16 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: and that's this in the sentence. So while they were 17 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: still talking about this, Jesus stood among them and said 18 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: to them, Peace be with you. They were startled and frightened, 19 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, why 20 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: are you troubled and why do doubts rise in your minds. 21 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: Look at my hands and at my feet. It is 22 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: I myself. Touch me and see. A ghost does not 23 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: have flesh and bones as you see I have. When 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: he said this, he showed them his hands and feet, 25 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: and while they still did not believe it because of 26 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: joy and amazement, he asked them, do you have anything 27 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: here to eat? They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 28 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: and he took it and ate it. In their presence. 29 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: He said to them, this is what I told you 30 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: while I was still with you. Everything must be fulfilled 31 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: that is written about me in the Law of Moses, 32 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: the Prophets, and the Psalms. Then he opened their minds 33 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: so they could understand the scriptures. He told them, this 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: is what is written. The Messiah will suffer and rise 35 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: from the dead on the third day, and repentance for 36 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name 37 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of 38 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: these things. I'm going to send you what my father 39 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: has promised, but stay in the city until you have 40 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: been clothed with power from on high. So this is 41 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: the story that Luke tells. The version of it that 42 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: Luke tells about the appearance of the disciples. A couple 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: things to note here is they were just told that 44 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: it is true. There was just this conversation that it's 45 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: true Jesus's rise from the dead. Peter has seen him. 46 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: We understand, you two just saw him on the road 47 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: to Amaeis. It's still a tough thing to believe. We 48 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: talk about it every Sunday at church as if it 49 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: were a normal thing. But this is not something that 50 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: happens very often. Now, these are the same disciples that 51 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: saw Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead, so they have 52 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: also seen him raise the son of the widow of Nane, 53 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: and so it isn't something that is completely unheard of 54 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: for them. And yet it's still something that doesn't happen 55 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 1: every day. So they see Jesus right after this conversation 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: about how Jesus is raised from the dead, and they 57 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: think they're seeing a ghost. It's just a normal natural reaction. 58 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: And so he says, touch me, I have flesh and bones. 59 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: Let me have something to eat. They give him something, 60 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: Indeed he eats it. So apparently his resurrected body still 61 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: works like a body in the sense that he can 62 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: still eat, he still has flesh and bones. It is 63 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: different in some ways in the sense that they have 64 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: trouble recognizing him sometimes like on the road to Amais, 65 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: or he keeps them from recognizing him in some ways. 66 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: And then he shows them his hands and feet apparently 67 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: where there is still evidence of crucifixion, and that's why 68 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: we have this. In other versions, we have you know, Thomas, 69 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: put your hand in my wound basically so that you 70 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: can see that it is me. We don't have that 71 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: in this version. But he's still showing them his hands 72 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: and feet where apparently there are scars or holes or 73 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what exactly, but there is evidence of crucifixion. 74 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: So they finally get to the point of okay, we 75 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: understand this is Jesus, and he says, I told you 76 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: all this was going to happen. And remember we had 77 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: him talking on at least three occasions about I'm going 78 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: to go to Jerusalem and I'm going to be handed 79 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: over to the Gentiles and I'm going to be killed, 80 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: and then a third day I'm going to rose again, right, 81 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: and the third day I'm going to rise again. He 82 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: told them that explicitly, but now he's opening their mind 83 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: to the scriptures, as he did with the two on 84 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: the Road to Ammaeis. He's saying, this isn't something new. 85 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: If you go back into the Book of Isaiah, for instance, 86 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: the prophets, you will see that this was the plan 87 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: all along. Now they knew about Messiah. But again, there 88 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: are two sets of verses in the Old Testament that 89 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: talk about Messiah, some that talk about conquering king and 90 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: some that talk about suffering servant. And if you were 91 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,799 Speaker 1: a people who are basically occupied by a foreign power, 92 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: which of those two sets of verses are going to 93 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: be more popular, Well, it's going to be the verses 94 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: about the conquering king. And so it isn't that the 95 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: other verses weren't there, and maybe they were even aware 96 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: of them, but the focus on Messiah was on conquering king. 97 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: And so Jesus has to point out that the scriptures 98 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: always talked about Messiah will suffer and rise from the 99 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: dead on the third day. And then he says the 100 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: plan going forward here, you're going to be doing something. 101 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: Repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in 102 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: his name to all nations. And he's basically saying, by you, 103 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: you're going to be talking to not just the Jews, 104 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: but to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You're going to 105 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: start right here where you are, your witnesses, and I'm 106 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: going to send you out, but not yet, wait until 107 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: you get power from on high, Wait until the Holy 108 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: Spirit comes, which will come, which Luke will also document 109 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: in part two of his book, which is the Book 110 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: of Acts, which is not what we're going to study next. 111 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: I have done a study in the Book of Acts before. 112 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: If you want to continue on with this story, you 113 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: can go ahead and read on your own as Luke 114 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: continues this story in his second book, or you can 115 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: listen to those to the Bible Study podcast study on 116 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: the Book of Acts. You can find it on the 117 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: biblestudypodcast dot com or on your podcast feed. You're going 118 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: to have to go back a bit to find that. 119 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: But he says, I'm going to send you out with 120 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: what my father's promised. Stay in the city until you're 121 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: clothed with power. And then Luke closes this first of 122 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: two books with the ascension of Jesus. Then, when he 123 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he 124 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was 125 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: blessing them, he left them and was taken up into Heaven. 126 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 127 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: and they stayed continually at the temple praising God. Now 128 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: that's not again the end of the story. The story 129 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: continues on in Acts and will take up that story 130 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: from Jesus being ascended into Heaven in the Book of 131 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: Acts as well. And then, of course the Book of 132 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: Acts will continue this theme that we saw in the 133 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: Gospel of Luke, that all of this was intended for 134 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: every nation. That we see in these verses, we also 135 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: saw throughout the Book of Luke that was always Luke's 136 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: intention to get that story across. And it becomes even 137 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: more obvious in the Book of Acts that this is 138 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: not just for the Jews, in the same way that 139 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: this is not just for us. This is meant for 140 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: every nation. This is God's plan for bringing people back 141 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: to Him. And the calling that he gives these disciples 142 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: is the same calling that he gives to us to 143 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: spread this good news. And that wraps up the study 144 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: of Luke. I still haven't dicided for sure, but I 145 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: think next time, I'm actually doing something very different. We're 146 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: going to go back in the Old Testament and we're 147 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: going to look at the belevitical law. This has been 148 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: a book that I'll tell you next time why I 149 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: have been avoiding doing a study on this for a while. 150 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: But we'll get into that next time, so you'll have 151 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: to come back. So with that, we're going to end 152 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. 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