See My Hands and Feet

Luke 24:36-43

About the Sermon

Someone will ask, Paul wrote, “how are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” Those are good questions (1Cor. 15:35). The resurrection is difficult to grasp but grasp it we must if we’re to receive life from him and give our lives for his name. This is Luke’s purpose for us in what is a third of three resurrection encounters near the end of his gospel account. Jesus appeared to Peter, then to two disciples on the road to Emmaus, and now to a group of disciples in Jerusalem. This encounter recorded for us in Luke 24:36–43 invokes fear but answers that fear with a broiled fish.

About the Series

Luke writes that we may be certain of the things that we have been taught. That is, confident in the good news about Jesus. Apparently some of the things we have been taught are so wonderful they are hard to believe. In his orderly account, Luke announces good news of great reversals in which God humbles the proud and exalts the humble. Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins really is available but on God’s terms. To show us how we must come to him, Luke introduces us to the characters Jesus lifted up and to the proud whom he brought low. In all this he compels us to humbly believe in the Son of the Most High God and to preach this good news of great joy to the end of the earth.
Luke writes that we may be certain of the things that we have been taught. That is, confident in the good news about Jesus. Apparently some of the things we have been taught are so wonderful they are hard to believe. In his orderly account, Luke announces good news of great reversals in which God humbles the proud and exalts the humble. Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins really is available but on God's terms. To show us how we must come to him, Luke introduces us to the characters Jesus lifted up and to the proud whom he brought low. In all this he compels us to humbly believe in the Son of the Most High God and to preach this good news of great joy to the end of the earth.

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