It's all about Jesus: The Risen Savior revealed (Pt. 2)

(Part 2)

“Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.”-John 20:6-9

Another reason that Jesus stuck around for forty days, after leaving the tomb, was to confirm the scripture regarding His resurrection. The empty tomb bewildered many, because they still did not understand from the scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

Luke 24 records an encounter two of Jesus’ disciples had with Him on the road to Emmaus. The two were walking along discussing the events of the day when Jesus joined them on their journey. Scripture tells us that they were restrained from recognizing Him and they began to explain to Him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth. They spoke about how He was a great prophet in word and deed, hated by the chief priests, and crucified in Jerusalem. However, they were perplexed by the testimony of some of the women who went to the tomb to anoint His body. They returned to them saying that they could not locate the body of Jesus and that they had an encounter with angels who said that Jesus was alive! It was at this moment that Jesus interjected declaring:

“Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”-Luke 24:25-26.

Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He began to expound to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself! The next day while they eating together at the table, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them. The Scripture tells us that, precisely at that moment, their eyes were opened and Jesus vanished from their sight. The two turned to one another and said:

“Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scripture to us?”-Luke 24:32

Why was this a significant moment? Because they would only have Him for a short time longer, but they would have the Scriptures forever:

“And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things.”-Luke 24:45-48.

They now could point others to Christ because they had been taught and Christ had been revealed to them in the Word of God.

Pastor Scott Burr

Dayspring Community Church