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“Father, Glorify Your Son.”

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The disciples really didn’t know what was coming.  After the crucifixion – and even shortly after the resurrection had already taken place – they still didn’t understand.  

But Jesus knew all along.  He saw into the glory of eternity.  He saw every failure and victory in the history of the church.  He saw you and me right now.  He saw the resurrection and He no doubt saw the cross.  And this is how he began His prayer – knowing that trials and suffering and death were the first things on His agenda:

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: ‘Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.'” – John 17:1-5 (NKJV)

Palmer St. Podcast: Luke 24

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This week we’ll finish the Gospel of Luke, reading his last chapter, and getting his take on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

We’ll see the women visiting the empty tomb, finding angels instead of a dead body.  Jesus will appear again in Jerusalem and commission His followers to take a message of repentance and forgiveness to all nations.  Finally, He will lead them out to the Mt. of Olives and be carried up into heaven.  “See You later, Jesus!”

Listen: Luke24.mp3

Read: Luke 24.pdf

One Good Bible Study

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These guys were discouraged.  Life had suddenly become gloomier than it had ever been.  The man they took for the Messiah had just died a gruesome death.  Now what?

They were confused.  Some women they knew said the body of Jesus was gone and claimed to see angels who said He was alive.  Alive.  What?  This was all going to take some time to process.

What they didn’t realise was that they were walking and talking with the risen Jesus at that very moment. 

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?’ And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”  – Luke 24:25-27 (NKJV)

Too often the Lord gets my attention the same way: “O foolish one!” (literally, “without mind, without sense”) In this case, He kept their attention for a long time – and the students took it all in.  Later, they recalled it:

And they said to one another, ‘Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?'”- Luke 24:32 (NKJV)

No question, that was the best Bible study we all ever missed.  Still, there’s one more thing Jesus said that we should all probably take more seriously. 

These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” – John 14:25-26 (NKJV)

May our hearts and minds be open to everything the Spirit desires to teach us.