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AFTER THE "PASSION"

We have talked about the wonderous things that Jesus did while He was with His disciples, and I hope that I was able to find enough verses showing where Jesus Himself said that He is Lord. But there were some amazing accounts of things that happened after Jesus died on the cross and I want to go through as many of them as I can. Let's start with the events of Easter morning.

MATTHEW 28:1-7 "After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The gaurds were so affraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, 'Do not be affraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. Then go quickly and tell His disciples: He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him. Now I have told you.'"

MARK 16:4-8 "But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 'Don't be alarmed,' he said. 'You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter, He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him, just as He told you.' Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were affraid."

LUKE 24:1-8 "On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, 'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you, while He was still with you in Galilee: The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' Then they remembered His words."

JOHN 20:10-18 "Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, 'Woman, why are you crying?' 'They have taken my Lord away,' she said, 'and I don't know where they have put Him.' At this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 'Woman,' He said, 'why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?' Thinking He was the gardener, she said, 'Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.' Jesus said to her, 'Mary.' She turned toward Him and cried out in Aramaic, 'Rabboni!' (which means Teacher). Jesus said, 'Do not hold on to Me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, I am returning to My Father and you Father, to My God and your God.' Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: 'I have seen the Lord!' And she told them that He had said these things to her."

These are the four gospels' accounts of what happened Easter morning. He was to appear again and again as we will come to. One of the things that I think that lends a truthful hand to these accounts is that they are not very alike. If someone was going to write these things afterwards, just making them up, they would have made it so that they were all very close to each other. But these were the accounts of different people, who saw and remembered things differently. At the scene of a car crash, different people may have seen it differently, and the stories may be a little different when they are put together. To me, the accounts of this wonderous event, left the way they were told, are easier to believe than four accounts of exactly the same thing. After all, this event was undescribable to say the least.

I never got to this point where I was looking for any proof that God is God, nor did I doubt that Jesus is Lord. Though at one point in my childhood I thought that He never said He was actually God. Later in life this fell away. So going through these accounts is not new but in this way, listing them as some sort of "See! I told you so!" is new for me and I'm not sure if that is healthy. But as a study, just going over these events as part of the history of the way early Christianity began is teaching me. And it is also a way to keep the book open and go through His Word. Does this make any sense? Let's just say that I know why I'm doing this. Your reasons for wanting to know the Word will always be yours. I also have been feeling the need to share what I have found and this may be some sort of practice.

Let's get back to it, shall we?

Jesus appeared to two travelers on the road

LUKE 24:13-32 "Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing Him. He asked them, 'What are you discussing together as you walk along?' They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, 'Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?' 'What things?' He asked. 'About Jesus of Nazareth,' they replied. "He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed Him over to be sentanced to death, and they crucified Him; but we had hoped that He was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And wha is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn't find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said He was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but Him they did not see.' He said to them, 'How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter His glory?' And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning Himself. As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if He was going farther. But they urged Him strongly, 'Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.' So He went in to stay with them.~

~When He was at the table with them, He took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, and He disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, 'Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?'"

Have you heard of Doubting Thomas?

JOHN 20:24-29 "Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, 'We have seen the Lord!' But he said to them, 'Unless I see the nail marks in His hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe it.' A week later His disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!' Then He said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.' Thomas said to Him, 'My Lord and my God!' Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.'"

1PETER 1:7-9 "These have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls."

Jesus made a promise, that He would send the Holy Spirit to the disciples:

JOHN 16:7-11 "But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. When He comes, He will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgement: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; in regard to righteousnes, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard to judgement, because the prince of this world now stands condemned."

LUKE 24:45-49 "Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, 'This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in His name to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I 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.'"

This came to pass at the day of the Pentecost.

ACTS 2:1-4 "When the day of the Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them."
ACTS 2:5-13 "Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. Utterly amazed, they asked, 'Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs-we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!' Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, 'What does this mean?' Some, however, made fun of them and said, 'They have had too much wine.'"
Peter addresses the crowd:
ACTS 2:14-21 "Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: 'Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It's only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'"(Joel 2:28-32)

One thing I've come to know: You can trust in the Lord. If He says He will do something, He will. My life has become so much better than it was when I had only my will to live by. I ran my life into ruin. Now the problems that I face are so small, and even those I turn over to God, always asking for His strength and love. My 12 step program brought me to understand that I could not manage my own life. And I will always be catching myself trying to run it, but it is easier to spot these times now. I am tempted, as most of us are, but He leads me to make the right choices by the Spirit that lives within me. I pray for help and it comes-even if I don't recognize it at first. He works in the people around me, and in the Word that I read. I pray that He will use me to work for Him to help others. If this is what He has in mind for me, it will be in His time and for His purpose. And that is what I want.

The next study will be on our choice in our salvation and being chosen by God for savation.

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