Sandusky Life Church Trial Church Group
Sunday, March 24
  • Rest On Us
  • Do It Again
  • Revelation Song

      • 1 Peter 2.9LBLA95

      • 1 Peter 2.10LBLA95

      • 1 Peter 2.9LBLA95

      • 1 Peter 2.10LBLA95

  • Last week we looked at the beginning of luke 24 and the Resurrection of Jesus. On Sunday morning, The women and later Peter had gone to the tomb and found it empty. Angels proclaimed to the women that Jesus was alive. In the gospel of John we find that Jesus himself appeared to the Mary Magdalene where we pick up the story is on Sunday afternoon. Rumors and speculation traveled fast but there was more conjecture and guessing than actual knowing at this point.
    Luke 24:13–35 (ESV)
    13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
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    One commentary I read theorize that this might be a husband and wife who had followed and supported Jesus.
    One of the travelers is later identified as Cleopas.
    This is the only time we hear about him. He was apparently close to Jesus and the disciples.
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    15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
    in ancient times people walked and encountering and traveling with randos was probably common
    16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
    What does that mean? Were they just dumb? How is it possible that they would not recognize Jesus? It was a supernatural concealing.
    For the moment, Jesus knew that it would be best for them to have a learning experience without recognizing him.
    17 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. 18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
    19 And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 20 and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 21 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.
    22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, 23 and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.”
    Jen taught the kids about this a few weeks ago and I am straight up stealing some of her insight here:
    These 2 people grew up learning the old testament backwards and forwards. They were looking forward to and expecting 1. a prophet like Moses, 2. the Son of David, 3. the Suffering Servant, 4. the Messiah, and 5. the Son of Man.
    These people had followed Jesus.
    These men also KNEW Jesus
    They probably knew his favorite food
    They probably knew his favorite color
    They saw him perform miracles
    They heard Jesus himself say that he was God
    They heard Jesus himself say that he was the Savior who was prophesied
    They basically look Jesus straight in the face and speak the gospel to him:
    1 Corinthians 15:3–5 ESV
    3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
    They know the content of the gospel but they have not embraced it as truth that applies directly to them. they have not connected the information with tie implication and personal application.
    25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
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    The Serpent would be crushed
    Genesis 3:14–15 ESV
    14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
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    Coverings provided
    Genesis 3:21 ESV
    21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
    1 Peter 2:24 ESV
    He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
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    Promises to Abraham
    Genesis 12:1–3 ESV
    1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
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    Offering of Isaac
    Genesis 22:7–8 ESV
    7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
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    The exodus itself: Physical salvation foreshadowing spiritual salvation
    1 Corinthians 10:1–4 ESV
    1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
    Passover
    Exodus 12:21–23 ESV
    21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
    The Law
    He gave it because he loved them
    He gave it to set them apart
    He gave it to point them to their dependency on him
    Matthew 5:17–18 ESV
    17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
    Hebrews 4:15 ESV
    15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
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    The sacrificial system, temple and tabernacle, the high priest, the scape goat
    Hebrews 9:1–10 (ESV)
    1 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. 2 For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. 3 Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, 4 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. 5 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. 6 These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, 7 but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.
    Hebrews 9:18–22 ESV
    18 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” 21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
    Hebrews 10:1–4 ESV
    1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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    Hebrews 9:11–14 (ESV)
    Hebrews 9:11–14 ESV
    11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
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    The serpent in the wilderness
    John 3:14–16 ESV
    14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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    David’s kingdom
    Genesis 49:10 ESV
    10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
    2 Samuel 7:12–16 (ESV)
    12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’ ”
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    The Prophets
    Born of a virgin
    Isaiah 7:14 ESV
    14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
    born in Bethlehem
    Micah 5:2 ESV
    2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
    Ministered in Galilee
    Isaiah 9:1–2 (ESV)
    1 But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
    Came on a donkey
    Zechariah 9:9 ESV
    9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
    Suffered and died.
    Isaiah 52:13–53:12 (ESV)
    2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
    4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
    7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
    9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
    11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
    THE STORY DOES NOT END THERE. He Will sit on the throne forever.
    Daniel 7:13–14 ESV
    13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. 14 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
    Isaiah 9:6–7 ESV
    6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
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    28 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, 29 but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. 30 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. 31 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.
    Real physical body but not bound by imperfect human limitations.
    32 They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” 33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
    NOW they get it.
    They believe
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    So What?

    1. Even when things do not happen like I think they should happen, God is in control.
    I am facing trials
    I still struggle with sin
    The teachings of the Bible make me seem old fashioned
    2. Read and know your Bible and NEVER forget that its about Jesus.
    3. The Good News is simple - Repent and Believe in Jesus.
    Romans 10:9 ESV
    9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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      • 1 Corinthians 15:3–5NIV2011

      • Genesis 3:14–15NIV2011

      • Genesis 3:21NIV2011

      • Genesis 12:1–3NIV2011

      • Genesis 22:7–8NIV2011

      • 1 Corinthians 10:1–4NIV2011

      • Exodus 12:21–23NIV2011

      • Matthew 5:17–18NIV2011

      • Hebrews 4:15NIV2011

      • Hebrews 9:18–22NIV2011

      • Hebrews 10:1–4NIV2011

      • Hebrews 9:11–14NIV2011

      • John 3:14–16NIV2011

      • Genesis 49:10NIV2011

      • Isaiah 7:14NIV2011

      • Micah 5:2NIV2011

      • Zechariah 9:9NIV2011

      • Daniel 7:13–14NIV2011

      • Isaiah 9:6–7NIV2011

      • Romans 10:9NIV2011

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