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    Adult Christian Life: Second Quarter 2018
    Adult Christian Life: Second Quarter 2018
    Adult Christian Life: Second Quarter 2018
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    Adult Christian Life: Second Quarter 2018

    By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation

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    Adult Christian Life contains Sunday school material for people ages 25 and older. The exposition of the Scripture, with life-centered insights, is preceded by an introduction to the lesson designed to help learners gain a greater understanding of the text under discussion relative to context, content, and meaning for life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9781681673608
    Adult Christian Life: Second Quarter 2018

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      Adult Christian Life - R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation

      BACKGROUND PASSAGE: LUKE 24:1–35

      RESOURCES: New National Baptist Hymnal 21st Century Edition,

      God’s Promises Bible, Boyd’s Commentary for the Sunday School

      Intro

      The events of Passion Week had been hectic beyond anything the disciples could have imagined. Jesus had been welcomed to Jerusalem by cheering throngs, then arrested by the Sanhedrin guard, taken before Pilate, scourged, paraded to the top of the nearby hill of Calvary, and summarily crucified. The crucifixion happened on Friday so the disciples, still numb from all that had transpired, were forced to rush to take the body of their dead Lord, haul Him off to a nearby grave, place Him inside, and watch as the Roman soldiers rolled a large stone across the entrance to the tomb. Sabbath started at sundown and all their work had to be finished so that the Jewish disciples would not be in violation of the Sabbath Day prohibitions.

      All night Friday, and all day and night on the Sabbath, they huddled in a room trying to make sense of it all. How could everything have gone so wrong so quickly? Finally, on Sunday morning, the Sabbath over, the women among the group of disciples returned to the tomb to properly care for the body of Jesus. As the events of Easter morning unfolded, they would soon realize that Jesus had kept His promise.

      Our modern society has become accustomed to promises that have an expiration date. Thankfully, the words of promise Jesus made to His first disciples are still valid today. What He promised to the Twelve and the various others who followed Him, He has promised to us as well.

      Think About It

      How do we know God always keeps His promises?

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      Remember What He Told Us (Luke 24:1–9)

      Know It

      It has been the custom in many Christian traditions to greet one another on Easter Sunday with the following exchange: one says, Christ is risen, to which the other responds, He is risen indeed. Christians do not simply take the story of Jesus’ resurrection as a metaphor for His influence somehow continuing after His death. The account of Jesus’ resurrection is a historical account, not merely a tender-hearted story of comfort for the bereaved survivors of a deceased person. Paul wrote that if Christ has not been truly raised, then faith in Him and faith in our own eventual resurrection are in vain and we are lost without hope (1 Cor. 15:12–15). Thanks be to God that this is not the case!

      On at least three occasions, Jesus had told the disciples what was going to happen to Him, but they failed to understand (Luke 9:22; 17:25; 18:32–33). The stereotype of who and what the Messiah would be was so ingrained into the psyche of the Jews of the day that whatever Jesus told them they simply interpreted within that framework. There were enough prophecies of a conquering hero to overcome any suggestion that Jesus was being literal when He spoke of His death.

      As proof of the lack of comprehension, on the first Easter morning, we find the women heading to the tomb to do what observant Jewish women always did when a family member died. They came with spices and cloth to embalm the corpse, which they obviously expected to find right where they had left it late on Friday. When they saw that Jesus’ body was gone, they were perplexed (24:4). New Testament scholar Leon Morris writes, Jesus had often spoken metaphorically and they had probably taken the strange words about resurrection in some such way (Luke: An Introduction and Commentary [Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1988], 365).

      It finally began to click for the women when two angels from God appeared and told them to remember how he told you about what was going to happen (v. 6, NRSV). Suddenly, what had been confusing metaphorical statements about future suffering made sense. Luke did not suggest that the women had it all figured out at this point, but they understood enough to rush back to the other disciples and tell them what had happened. Their story was incredible. The Lord Jesus had risen. The magnitude of what had happened to them displays the continuity of the Gospel. In the beginning chapters of Luke, angelic appearances predominated the stories of Elizabeth, Zechariah, Mary, and the shepherds in the field. Now at the close of the Gospel narrative, Luke embraces the angelic beings once again. This type of enveloping shows the events were not the result of serendipity: Jesus’ birth and resurrection were not accidental occurrences. God’s hand had been orchestrating these events from the beginning. This broadcasts God’s intentionality in sending Jesus and in accepting His life as a ransom for many. The angels make the grand announcement: He is risen!

      An Idle Tale (Luke 24:10–12)

      Immediately the women ran back to the place where the disciples were gathered and shared with them the astonishing news. They had brought Good News to the others, sharing the Gospel message with enthusiasm. Women in Israel were mistrusted as witnesses, their testimony often dismissed by men in ways that are sadly not foreign in women’s experience today. When the group of women returned from the tomb with wild stories about a missing body and angels saying that Jesus had been raised from the dead, most of the male disciples simply rolled their eyes and dismissed this outburst as the idle tales of excitable women. Something, they reasoned, had apparently happened, but there were many potential explanations that did not rest on miracles. But Peter went to see for himself and found the tomb empty as the women had said it was. Peter caught the excitement and propelled himself into motion. He ran to the sepulchre and examined the grave clothes. He found them folded neatly as if someone had taken the time to fold them, as if they had been freshly laundered. He went home amazed.

      What does the two travelers’ reaction to Jesus’ breaking the bread suggest about the significance of the Lord’s Supper?

      Risen Indeed (Luke 24:30–35)

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