Luke 24:5
I. The first thought that these words of the angel messenger, and the
scene in which we find them, suggest, is this: The dead are the
living. Language, which is more accustomed and adapted to express the
appearances than the realities of things, leads us astray very much
when we use the p... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:11
I. We can hardly conceive that, had the Cross and the sepulchre been
the end of the course of Jesus, His followers would have held together
many months. That such men should knit up again their ravelled and
scattered expectations; that these disciples, being what we know them
to have bee... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:13
The Journey to Emmaus.
I. We see in this appearance something very characteristic of our
Lord's habits and ways. During His lifetime His disciples and
followers were always craving for publicity and display. He was always
retiring from too much of that, carrying on His work as quietly a... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:17
The modern world contains not a few of the disciples of Christ in
name, downcast and sad, who are leaving Jerusalem as if on the point
of giving Him up; and He, as of old, joins them once and again, in
another form, so that their eyes are holden and they do not see Him.
He comes to them... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:29
The Evening Prayer of Christ's Friends.
I. First, notice some of the feelings which must have been in the
hearts of those who presented this prayer. (1) The first and most
natural feeling was grateful interest in a spiritual benefactor. (2)
The next feeling was a desire to have such con... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:30
Christ Meeting with Doubters.
The story of the two disciples going to the village of Emmaus is the
one which men in later ages have most connected with their own
experiences; the one which has done most to bridge over the chasm
between them and those who saw and handled the Word of Life... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:32
Christ stopping at Emmaus.
We have here:
I. A striking illustration of our Lord's method of teaching which was,
to give more when that already given had been duly received. He did
not pretend to open truth after truth, just as though His whole
business had been to furnish to the world a... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:34
I. The importance of Christ's Resurrection is a thing which we must
each learn for ourselves; it will not be felt by our being assured by
others that it is important. But few persons of any education reach
the age of manhood without having an opportunity to learn it, whether
they choose... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:39
The Resurrection of the Body.
I. We may learn from this text, first, that the Resurrection will be
the restoration of the whole man, in spirit and soul and body; a
restoration of all in which consists the integrity of our nature and
the identity of our person. And this is emphatically t... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:40
Note:
I. The doubts of the disciples. There were some things respecting
their Master which these disciples strangely doubted; and there were
other things, which they as strangely, as it seems to us, did not
doubt at all. They doubted whether He were risen, as some had
reported; but they... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:46
Our Lord's Last Words.
I. The last command of a friend who has left us is commonly regarded
with more than usual interest. Whatever else men forget they remember
this. It is connected with a moment sacred in their recollections. The
last glimpse of the familiar form receding from their v... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:50
The Ascension of our Saviour.
I. As we meditate upon the passage before us, taking it in connection
with other passages in which the same writer has entered more minutely
into detail, there are several attendant circumstances of the
Ascension upon which we may profitably dwell. (1) As to... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:50
The Ascension.
I. As far as the accompaniments of the Ascension were visible to men,
they were the simplest and most unattractive that the case could
admit. Even the Birth of the Saviour was far more honoured than His
Ascension in supernatural accompaniments. On the Birth of Christ the
h... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 24:52
Warfare the Condition of Victory.
I. It will be well if we take to ourselves, and learn that great truth
which the Apostles shrank from at first, but at length rejoiced in.
Christ suffered and entered into joy, So did they, in their measure,
after Him. And, in our measure, so do we. It i... [ Continue Reading ]