24:38,39
“Why are you troubled?” The answer might seem obvious, but when God is at work, even if something goes completely against everything we have come to expect, we do not need to be troubled. Jesus shows them the wounds in His body. So we see two things about the resurrection body. On the one hand it is very different from our mortal bodies, yet at the same time it is absolutely real. We love to separate the physical and the spiritual, but in God’s kingdom both go together.
24:40-43
Jesus showed them His hands and feet to demonstrate that He really had been crucified. The crucifixion was absolutely real, the resurrection was absolutely real. Then it says “they did not believe it because of joy and amazement”. The events seemed too good to be true. Jesus then asked them for something to eat. They gave Him some broiled fish, which Jesus took and ate in their presence. Why is Luke telling us, and his original readers, all this? To demonstrate beyond all doubt the reality of the resurrection. There are those who speak only of a spiritual resurrection. Such people are fools, and there is absolutely no evidence for a “spiritual” resurrection. There is a mountain of evidence for the true resurrection of the Bible.
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