3rd Sunday of Easter

Luke 24:13-35

“Here, the dead don’t stay dead!”

For the second week in a row doubt and unbelief hang heavy

over the disciples. Once again, the perfectly reasonable, yet false

belief... that the dead stay dead, cause these two disciples to doubt

and discard Jesus’ mighty promises that His death would end in life.

Unbelief is nothing more than self-delusion and blindness to the truth.

Jesus brings these disciples from the death of unbelief to the

life of faith. Jesus speaks harshly to them to kill and to make alive,

“O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!” Jesus tells them

that they have every reason to believe from the Prophets, GOD’S WORD, the Old Testament...

that He is the redeemer of Israel and the whole world, that He is the Lamb of God who takes away

the sin of the world. That He is the one who conquered death by His death.