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Luke 24:8-12 Well, you can turn to the final chapter in, in Luke’s Gospel, Luke chapter 24. We’re going to continue the section we started last week. So Luke 24, I’m going to start reading in verse 1. And I trust what we covered today in Luke’s, in this section of Luke’s Gospel will prepare us for the celebration of our Lord’s Supper as we celebrate that together as a church at the end of the service. Luke 24:1, I’m going to start by reading the first seven verses and we will continue in this sermon through the 12th verse. Luke 24, verse 1, “Now on the first day of the week at early dawn, they,” that is the women, “came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared, and they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. But when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. That happened,” with, “while they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing. And when the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, ‘Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and the third day, rise again.”  We learned last time, there’s this group of really exhausted women. They have had quite the weekend, very little sleep and so they are weary in their souls with sorrow, but weary in their bodies with lack of rest. And they come to the tomb early on this morning, the first day after the Sabbath, our Sunday. And they are coming intending to prepare Jesus body for resting in peace, as it were, in this place of memorial, in this tomb. They expected that the greatest obstacle that they would face would be the massive stone blocking the entrance to the tomb. How’s a group of women going to move this one or two ton obstacle away? That stone was not the greatest obstacle that they faced. In fact, the stone itself had already been rolled away as if to invite them into the tomb. That’s where they discovered their greatest obstacle to all their intentions and their hard work and their preparation, no body. They’re tired, sorrowful eyes, maybe their shoulders sagged as they were deflated and frustrated in their best efforts to honor the Lord Jesus and prepare his body for his entombment. At that moment, suddenly they, they’re overwhelmed with this dazzling, brilliant light. They’re suddenly overwhelmed with a, with the appearance of angels in the dazzling, brilliant light of their appearance and these angels appear and they announce the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ to them. As we’ve been through, in the account, the angelic messengers that go on to remind the believing women of what they had forgotten. And what they had forgotten are those most essential words of Jesus. The teaching that he gave prior to the cross, a year or two prior, and he’d said it several times. He taught them about the cross. He taught them about the resurrection. He had predicted everything that they had just seen and had just heard. Everything that they had witnessed, he’d already told them about. He taught them to interpret it. He told them to expect it. And this is well before any of it had ever happened. We see in our text in verses 8 and 9, that the women remembered his words, and then they leave the tomb to go and tell the others. We also know from Matthew and Mark’s account, their accounts, that the angels commanded the women to go tell the disciples, Jesus is risen from the dead, and they gave further instructions, passed through the women to the disciples to go and meet him in Galilee; there you’ll see him. Luke doesn’t relate any of that; what Matthew and Mark tell us about. Luke keeps all of our focus on this scene. He kind of keeps everything in and around Jerusalem. He’s got reasons for that, but he also wants us to keep our attention on these particular words

Luke 24:1-9 Would you turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 24. We are returning to the final chapter of Luke’s Gospel, Luke 24, getting the details of this amazing, amazing account of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. There may be occasions or seasons in the Christian life when a believer loses sight of what’s important, when a believer loses focus on that which is essential and maybe veers off course, becomes ineffective due to, in that state of wandering and veering off course, becomes ineffective due to temptation to sin or distraction or worldliness. And in that condition, having fallen, he can become discouraged and even for a season be faithless. We know, though, from Scripture that God will always bring his believing children back from, faith, faithlessness through the precious gift of repentance. God will strengthen their faith and restore their hope, return them into his, his useful service. The formal presentation of what I’ve just described, the doctrine, all its relating and supporting truths, the doctrine is called the Doctrine of Perseverance, the perseverance of the saints. And this is really what we are seeing in this 24th chapter of Luke. Christ is coming. He has risen from the dead. He never left, but he has risen from the dead and he comes now in this final time on earth to restore the faith of his people. And he’s going to do it by preserving them in God’s Word, by God’s Word. Listen to this brief section from the confession that we affirm and we, every couple times a month, we confess from it. The London Baptist Confession of Faith from way back in 1689. Those guys knew how to put a word together, a sentence together. This is what they said, “though many storms,” this is from chapter 17, on the perseverance of the saints. “Though many storms and floods arise and beat against the saints, yet they shall never be able to take them off that foundation and rock which by faith they are fastened upon. Notwithstanding through unbelief and the temptations of Satan, the sensible sight of the light and love of God may be for a time clouded and obscured from them, and yet he is still the same. And they shall be sure to be kept by the power of God unto salvation, where they shall enjoy their purchased possession, they being engraven on the palm of His hands and their names have been written in the book of life from all eternity.” That’s the scroll that is now in the hands of our risen Savior, that was just sung about in that song. Paul told Timothy, in 2 Timothy 2:19, “The firm foundation of God stands having this seal, ‘The Lord knows those who are his.’” There are times, as I said, and seasons, in which a believer may not look very much like he belongs to the Lord, and that’s a tragic time for sure. But the Lord still knows those who are his. He knows. He is omniscient. He sees all things. He knows the decision made from eternity past. But how are they known to others? How are God’s people known to others? True believers repent of sin. They walk in faith. And that’s why Paul continues and says, “let everyone who names the name of the Lord abstain from Adikia.” Adikia is the word unrighteousness, sometimes translated iniquity or sin. And that Adikia, unrighteousness, wickedness, iniquity is always rooted in unbelief and unbelieving thinking. The Lord knows those who are his, and everyone else around will know who belongs to the Lord by the life that they live. So as we come to the morning of the resurrection, we need to realize that this is exactly what the disciples of Jesus need so desperately at this juncture in their lives: the restoration of their faith. It’s critical that they return to what they know by faith to be true and to be right, and hopeful, and solid, because they are broken, scattered, troubled. Starts with the apostles themselves, the band of Jesus’ disciples. They are struggling, aren’t they? Led by Peter, denied even knowing Jesus; the rest of them have slinked into the sh

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