Can You See Him?
Luke 24:16 AMP Classic “But their eyes were held, so that they did not recognize Him.”
Scholars, theologians, and Christians for the past several years have debated why the Jesus was unrecognizable in His post resurrection body. Many have postulated, myself included, that since Jesus was in His glorified, resurrected body it was difficult for those who knew Him by His earthly body to comprehend that this was the One Who had been born of a virgin, lived, bled and died. But may I suggest to you an even deeper explanation? May I suggest that what kept them from “seeing” Him was the fact that they hadn’t yet accepted that He was their Resurrected and Living Christ. They hadn’t accepted the crucifixion of Christ was for their resurrection and as a result the stone that covered Jesus’ tomb remained rolled into place shutting the followers of Christ from seeing and receiving His resurrection. Mark 9:9 states: And as they were coming back down the mountain, He admonished and expressly ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man should rise from among the dead. Oswald Chambers adds: “As the disciples were commanded, you should also say nothing until the Son of Man has risen in you— until the life of the risen Christ so dominates you that you truly understand what He taught while here on earth…Our Lord doesn’t hide these things from us, but we are not prepared to receive them until we are in the right condition in our spiritual life..We must have a oneness with His risen life before we are prepared to bear any particular truth from Him. Do we really know anything about the indwelling of the risen life of Jesus? The evidence that we do is that His Word is becoming understandable to us.”
As we proceed to Pentecost have we really answered the questions: Are you in the right condition in your spiritual life to receive Jesus as your Risen Savior? Savior from what and who? Do you have a oneness with His crucified life in order to have oneness with His Resurrected life? The evidence lies simply in the fact that His Words are becoming more understandable to us. You now see Him, and recognize the ways that He speaks, because you have been crucified with Jesus, and resurrected to a new, born-again life by the Holy Spirit. This is normal Christianity. This is the eternal life Jesus spoke of and defined in John 17:3. To know Him is to love Him. To love Him is to obey Him.
