Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty four. Today, The Bible Study Podcast wraps up the
Speaker 1: study of the Book of Luke. Welcome to the Bible
Speaker 1: Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We're going to
Speaker 1: wrap up the study of Luke today as we continue
Speaker 1: on with Luke twenty four. But first a word from
Speaker 1: this sponsor Luke twenty four. We continue on with the
Speaker 1: story of the Resurrection, and we get Jesus appeers to
Speaker 1: the disciples. While they were still talking about this, Jesus
Speaker 1: stood among them and said, peace be with you. This
Speaker 1: that they're talking about here is we've just done the
Speaker 1: story of the two disciples who saw Jesus on the
Speaker 1: road to Ammaeus. They come back to Jerusalem, and when
Speaker 1: they get there, they're told it's true the Lord has
Speaker 1: risen has appeared to Simon or to Peter, Simon Peter,
Speaker 1: and that's this in the sentence. So while they were
Speaker 1: still talking about this, Jesus stood among them and said
Speaker 1: to them, Peace be with you. They were startled and frightened,
Speaker 1: thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, why
Speaker 1: are you troubled and why do doubts rise in your minds.
Speaker 1: Look at my hands and at my feet. It is
Speaker 1: I myself. Touch me and see. A ghost does not
Speaker 1: have flesh and bones as you see I have. When
Speaker 1: he said this, he showed them his hands and feet,
Speaker 1: and while they still did not believe it because of
Speaker 1: joy and amazement, he asked them, do you have anything
Speaker 1: here to eat? They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
Speaker 1: and he took it and ate it. In their presence.
Speaker 1: He said to them, this is what I told you
Speaker 1: while I was still with you. Everything must be fulfilled
Speaker 1: that is written about me in the Law of Moses,
Speaker 1: the Prophets, and the Psalms. Then he opened their minds
Speaker 1: so they could understand the scriptures. He told them, this
Speaker 1: is what is written. The Messiah will suffer and rise
Speaker 1: from the dead on the third day, and repentance for
Speaker 1: the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name
Speaker 1: to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of
Speaker 1: these things. I'm going to send you what my father
Speaker 1: has promised, but stay in the city until you have
Speaker 1: been clothed with power from on high. So this is
Speaker 1: the story that Luke tells. The version of it that
Speaker 1: Luke tells about the appearance of the disciples. A couple
Speaker 1: things to note here is they were just told that
Speaker 1: it is true. There was just this conversation that it's
Speaker 1: true Jesus's rise from the dead. Peter has seen him.
Speaker 1: We understand, you two just saw him on the road
Speaker 1: to Amaeis. It's still a tough thing to believe. We
Speaker 1: talk about it every Sunday at church as if it
Speaker 1: were a normal thing. But this is not something that
Speaker 1: happens very often. Now, these are the same disciples that
Speaker 1: saw Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead, so they have
Speaker 1: also seen him raise the son of the widow of Nane,
Speaker 1: and so it isn't something that is completely unheard of
Speaker 1: for them. And yet it's still something that doesn't happen
Speaker 1: every day. So they see Jesus right after this conversation
Speaker 1: about how Jesus is raised from the dead, and they
Speaker 1: think they're seeing a ghost. It's just a normal natural reaction.
Speaker 1: And so he says, touch me, I have flesh and bones.
Speaker 1: Let me have something to eat. They give him something,
Speaker 1: Indeed he eats it. So apparently his resurrected body still
Speaker 1: works like a body in the sense that he can
Speaker 1: still eat, he still has flesh and bones. It is
Speaker 1: different in some ways in the sense that they have
Speaker 1: trouble recognizing him sometimes like on the road to Amais,
Speaker 1: or he keeps them from recognizing him in some ways.
Speaker 1: And then he shows them his hands and feet apparently
Speaker 1: where there is still evidence of crucifixion, and that's why
Speaker 1: we have this. In other versions, we have you know, Thomas,
Speaker 1: put your hand in my wound basically so that you
Speaker 1: can see that it is me. We don't have that
Speaker 1: in this version. But he's still showing them his hands
Speaker 1: and feet where apparently there are scars or holes or
Speaker 1: I don't know what exactly, but there is evidence of crucifixion.
Speaker 1: So they finally get to the point of okay, we
Speaker 1: understand this is Jesus, and he says, I told you
Speaker 1: all this was going to happen. And remember we had
Speaker 1: him talking on at least three occasions about I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to Jerusalem and I'm going to be handed
Speaker 1: over to the Gentiles and I'm going to be killed,
Speaker 1: and then a third day I'm going to rose again, right,
Speaker 1: and the third day I'm going to rise again. He
Speaker 1: told them that explicitly, but now he's opening their mind
Speaker 1: to the scriptures, as he did with the two on
Speaker 1: the Road to Ammaeis. He's saying, this isn't something new.
Speaker 1: If you go back into the Book of Isaiah, for instance,
Speaker 1: the prophets, you will see that this was the plan
Speaker 1: all along. Now they knew about Messiah. But again, there
Speaker 1: are two sets of verses in the Old Testament that
Speaker 1: talk about Messiah, some that talk about conquering king and
Speaker 1: some that talk about suffering servant. And if you were
Speaker 1: a people who are basically occupied by a foreign power,
Speaker 1: which of those two sets of verses are going to
Speaker 1: be more popular, Well, it's going to be the verses
Speaker 1: about the conquering king. And so it isn't that the
Speaker 1: other verses weren't there, and maybe they were even aware
Speaker 1: of them, but the focus on Messiah was on conquering king.
Speaker 1: And so Jesus has to point out that the scriptures
Speaker 1: always talked about Messiah will suffer and rise from the
Speaker 1: dead on the third day. And then he says the
Speaker 1: plan going forward here, you're going to be doing something.
Speaker 1: Repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in
Speaker 1: his name to all nations. And he's basically saying, by you,
Speaker 1: you're going to be talking to not just the Jews,
Speaker 1: but to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You're going to
Speaker 1: start right here where you are, your witnesses, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to send you out, but not yet, wait until
Speaker 1: you get power from on high, Wait until the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit comes, which will come, which Luke will also document
Speaker 1: in part two of his book, which is the Book
Speaker 1: of Acts, which is not what we're going to study next.
Speaker 1: I have done a study in the Book of Acts before.
Speaker 1: If you want to continue on with this story, you
Speaker 1: can go ahead and read on your own as Luke
Speaker 1: continues this story in his second book, or you can
Speaker 1: listen to those to the Bible Study podcast study on
Speaker 1: the Book of Acts. You can find it on the
Speaker 1: biblestudypodcast dot com or on your podcast feed. You're going
Speaker 1: to have to go back a bit to find that.
Speaker 1: But he says, I'm going to send you out with
Speaker 1: what my father's promised. Stay in the city until you're
Speaker 1: clothed with power. And then Luke closes this first of
Speaker 1: two books with the ascension of Jesus. Then, when he
Speaker 1: had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he
Speaker 1: lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was
Speaker 1: blessing them, he left them and was taken up into Heaven.
Speaker 1: They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
Speaker 1: and they stayed continually at the temple praising God. Now
Speaker 1: that's not again the end of the story. The story
Speaker 1: continues on in Acts and will take up that story
Speaker 1: from Jesus being ascended into Heaven in the Book of
Speaker 1: Acts as well. And then, of course the Book of
Speaker 1: Acts will continue this theme that we saw in the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Luke, that all of this was intended for
Speaker 1: every nation. That we see in these verses, we also
Speaker 1: saw throughout the Book of Luke that was always Luke's
Speaker 1: intention to get that story across. And it becomes even
Speaker 1: more obvious in the Book of Acts that this is
Speaker 1: not just for the Jews, in the same way that
Speaker 1: this is not just for us. This is meant for
Speaker 1: every nation. This is God's plan for bringing people back
Speaker 1: to Him. And the calling that he gives these disciples
Speaker 1: is the same calling that he gives to us to
Speaker 1: spread this good news. And that wraps up the study
Speaker 1: of Luke. I still haven't dicided for sure, but I
Speaker 1: think next time, I'm actually doing something very different. We're
Speaker 1: going to go back in the Old Testament and we're
Speaker 1: going to look at the belevitical law. This has been
Speaker 1: a book that I'll tell you next time why I
Speaker 1: have been avoiding doing a study on this for a while.
Speaker 1: But we'll get into that next time, so you'll have
Speaker 1: to come back. So with that, we're going to end
Speaker 1: this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. If you have
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