RESURRECTION
- LUKE 24 -
“IF GOD WERE SMALL ENOUGH TO BE UNDERSTOOD, HE WOULDN’T BE BIG ENOUGH TO BE WORSHIPPED.” ~TIM KELLER
THREE MOVEMENTS IN LUKE 24:
VICTORY, VALIDATION, VISION …
ARGUMENTS AND ANSWERS: Vv.1-12
THE BIG ARGUMENT IS FROM JESUS HIMSELF …
THE ISSUE OF WOMEN …
THE ISSUE OF WITNESSES …
RICHARD BAUCHEM, JESUS AND EYEWITNESS, “THIS PASSAGE DOES NOT AT ALL RESEMBLE A LEGEND … ANCIENT HISTORIANS GAVE MOR WEIGHT TO STILL LIVING EYE WITNESSES THAN WRITTEN DOCUMENTS OR ANY OTHER SOURCE OF PROOF … EYEWITNESS WERE ALWAYS THE SOURCE OF CHOICE FOR HISTORY.”
THE ISSUE OF A WORLDVIEW …
“THE RESURRECTION IS A HARD, BARE, TERRIBLY IRRITATING, PARADIGM SHATTERING, HORRIBLY INCONVENIENT BUT IMPOSSIBLE TO DISMISS FACT.”
~TIM KELLER
SKEPTICISM AND CONVERSATIONS, Vv.13-24
BLIND DISCIPLES, THE EMMAUS ROAD …
THOUGHT: THE RESURRECTION PAIRED WITH THE CROSS MAKES THE GOSPEL MAKE SENSE AND OPENS ALL OF THE SCRIPTURE.
A BLINDED DISCIPLE, THE DAMASCUS ROAD …
ACTS 9:3-5
GRACE AND GLORY, Vv.27-50
BEGINS WITH THE SCRIPTURE, Vv.27
BLIND EYES OPENED, Vv.31
BURNING PASSION, Vv.32
BLESSING TO THE WORLD, Vv.9, 33-35
APPLICATION: THERE IS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE,
THE FUTURE IS REAL,
THE FUTURE IS RELATIONAL,
THE FUTURE IS IRREFUTABLE,
THE FUTURE IS RADICAL
