Peace!
Historic One Year Lectionary Gospels • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Introduction
Introduction
Sadness & Fear
Fear of the Jews
Rabbi/Messiah is dead
The one we trusted must have failed. Are we hopeless?
Jesus says 3 times, “Peace be with you.”
Peace be with you (Doubting that He could really be alive and truly here… )
Appears in their midst in a locked room. A miracle of his resurrected body. Able to seemingly walk through walls. How could this be possible?
He died! But He is now hear speaking to them.
And Bodies can’t pass through walls! But He did! He showed them His hands and side!
Communion/the Lord’s Supper - How can the bread and wine be Christ’s body and blood? It still looks and tastes like bread and wine, and besides, isn’t Jesus now ascended into heaven and seated at seated at the right hand of the Father? Bodies can’t be in more than one place at once! but Christ shows us here that though He still has His resurrected body, He is able to exercise His full powers of divinity and is not restrained by physical limitations. Besides, Christ continues to teach us that we can believe His Words. I don’t need to be able to fully comprehend it or understand how it works, but I should believe Him in what He says. “This is my body given for you.”
He puts their minds at ease, saying, “Peace be with you.”
They didn’t need to doubt that Jesus was who He said He was, the One they had believed would deliver them. He hadn’t failed. He had defeated death!
They didn’t need to fear the Jews because their Rabbi had taken away the sting of death and overcome all of His enemies.
Peace be with you… and through you
Sent by the Father and Jesus to bring reconciliation to the world.
Indwelled with the Holy Spirit of God
Empowered by Him for ministry, as Jesus was at his baptism for His years of ministry
Given the authority to forgive sins through the message of peace (or hostility)
colossians 1:17-23
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
You are offered true peace and forgiveness from Jesus through His disciples when they forgive you. When Jesus disciples withhold forgiveness from you because you are unrepentant, that forgiveness is withheld from you by God.
Peace be with you… who doubt the Good News of Jesus