Lives made new

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Lives made new

• Physical Resurrection
• Luke 2436-49
  
  
  
  
  

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Why talk about this at all?

• Light to share in the darkness with others we know

Hope for ourselves grounded in
biblical reality!
Hope for those we love as we come to
Jesus
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1 Corinthians 1534
1 Corinthians 1517

• Think straight. Awaken to the holiness of life.
  No more playing fast and loose with resurrection
  facts. Ignorance of God is a luxury you can't
  afford in times like these. Aren't you
  embarrassed that you've let this kind of thing go
  on as long as you have?
• (The Message)

If Christ wasn't raised, then all youre doing is
wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever
(The Message)
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1. The Resurrection of Jesus
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Luke 2436-49

• 36While they were still talking about this,
  Jesus himself stood among them and said to them,
  "Peace be with you." 37They were startled and
  frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.38He said
  to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts
  rise in your minds? 39Look at my hands and my
  feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see a ghost
  does not have flesh and bones, as you see I
  have."

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Luke 2436-49

• 40When he had said this, he showed them his
  hands and feet.41And while they still did not
  believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked
  them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"42They
  gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took
  it and ate it in their presence.
• 44He said to them, "This is what I told you
  while I was still with you Everything must be
  fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of
  Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

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Luke 2436-49

• 45Then he opened their minds so they could
  understand the Scriptures. 46He told them, "This
  is what is written The Christ will suffer and
  rise from the dead on the third day, 47and
  repentance and forgiveness of sins will be
  preached in his name to all nations, beginning at
  Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses of these
  things. 49I am going to send you what my Father
  has promised but stay in the city until you have
  been clothed with power from on high."

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What kind of resurrection for Jesus?

• Able to be present anywhere at will v36
• Flesh blood v39
• With the marks of history etched upon his
  hands and feet v40
• With a functioning yet changed body v43
• With continuing purpose v45

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• In the period in which the Gospel accounts were
  written the ancient world thought of surviving
  death in terms of existing as a spirit or of
  being resuscitated. It is significant therefore
  that the scriptural writers insist that the
  resurrected Jesus was neither a ghost nor a
  reanimated corpse... Christs resurrection
  represented an entirely new and strange
  idea...Jesus having overcome death and being
  raised into some unknown form of bodily
  immortality...involving a kind of spiritual
  glorification

John Haldane Prof of Philosophy at University
of St Andrews and Consultor to the Pontifical
Council for Culture in The Times Holy Week
2009
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• In the period in which the Gospel accounts were
  written the ancient world thought of surviving
  death in terms of existing as a spirit or of
  being resuscitated. It is significant therefore
  that the scriptural writers insist that the
  resurrected Jesus was neither a ghost nor a
  reanimated corpse... Christs resurrection
  represented an entirely new and strange
  idea...Jesus having overcome death and being
  raised into some unknown form of bodily
  immortality...involving a kind of spiritual
  glorification

John Haldane Prof of Philosophy at University
of St Andrews and Consultor to the Pontifical
Council for Culture in The Times Holy Week
2009
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2. Will it be the same for us?
From the Apostles Creed I believe
in the Holy Spirit,      the holy catholic
church,      the communion of saints,      the
forgiveness of sins,      the resurrection of
the body,      and the life everlasting.
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• With what kind of body will they come?

1 Corinthians 1535f
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• God gives...a body as he has determined v38

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• When you sow, you do not plant the body that
  will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of
  something else. v38

flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God v50
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• it is sown in dishonour, it is
  raised in glory v43

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• It is sown in weakness, it is
  raised in power v43

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• The body that is sown is perishable, it is
  raised imperishable v42

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• it is sown a natural body, it is raised
  a spiritual body v44

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•  49And just as we have borne the likeness of the
  earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the
  man from heaven.

So what is our resurrection like? God gives us a
real body not a ghostly spirit
but a glorious, powerful, imperishable,
spiritual body in which...
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...we shall see God!

•  25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer
  lives, and he will stand upon the earth at
  last. 26  And after my body has decayed, yet in
  my body I will see God!  
• Job 1925-26 (NLT)