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