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This morning marks the end of our time in the Gospel of Luke.
This is the 143 sermon from Luke and it is the end of it.
Please open your Bible’s the very end of Luke’s Gospel, .
This morning we come to the very end of our
Read Luke 24:50-53
Don’t read this line - Looking forward with joy
Hold up the advent calendar.
As you go through each ring, rip it off.
There is joy in looking forward to something.
Do you remember making these for Christmas?
This is an advent calendar.
Each ring represents a day of the week.
And at the end of the day, you tear off one of the rings, meaning you are one step closer to the big day.
The advent calendar was a display of a child’s joy towards Christmas.
Then there was Christmas Eve, the night before Christmas.
I believe Christmas Eve is the night of a child’s worst sleep.
Because he’s so excited for the next morning.
Presents, stockings and goodies throughout the day.
As a child I loved tearing off each ring.
It meant I was closer to that glorious morning.
Here we are at the very end of Luke.
Luke doesn’t give us a timeline.
I still look forward to Christmas.
But we are about 40 days after the resurrection of Christ.
Luke says we are in Bethany.
In Luke’s follow up book, Acts, we learn that they are on the Mount of Olives.
The two are very close.
So close that if you say you were going to Bethany, you were going to the Mount of Olives as well.
The last time we saw the disciples, they were moping around.
Jesus was resurrected, but they weren’t believing.
On Easter morning, women returned from the tomb and told the disciples that Jesus was a live, and remember what they said?
They said it was an idle tale, make believe.
But now there is something different going on, there is joy.
This is something they are looking forward to.
Jesus blesses His disciples, and then all of a sudden, Luke says He was carried up into heaven.
He just went into the sky and left them.
In , a book also written by Luke, he gives a little more information.
You heard Richard read about it this morning at the start of our service.
says, “And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?
This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
He was lifted up and went into the clouds and then was gone.
He was physically in the presence of the disciples.
Went up and then somehow went into the presence of God, to sit at His right hand side.
This isn’t the first time something like this happened.
Remember the prophet Elijah?
How did he go to heaven?
In chariots of fire.
The ultimate Uber came and picked him and he was seen no more.
What I’d like you to see though is the response of Jesus’ disciples.
Think for a moment of a goodbye.
Goodbye’s are awful.
My nephew Nathaniel can’t stand goodbyes.
Jesus is a priest
He hates the word goodbye.
Just saying it makes him cry.
Think of a goodbye where you are never going to see that person again.
This might happen at an airport.
Before a move.
On a vacation.
In a hospital.
It’s not really a goodbye, it’s final, and it hurts.
These disciples are never going to see Jesus again.
For 40 days He would appear and spend some time with them.
But this is it.
He’s going up into the clouds.
This is a final goodbye.
Yet we don’t see tears, and we don’t read of crying.
Their lives will forever change after this moment.
They won’t have Jesus in their presence to protect them in quite the same way anymore.
Their lives will forever be on the line.
The world will hate them.
Yet, they don’t respond with tears or in fear.
In the end of John’s gospel, Peter is told that he will be crucified.
Tradition tells us that he was crucified upside down, because he didn’t want to take the honor of dying like Christ.
John was boiled alive.
One by one these disciples would die for following Christ.
Yet, we see an attitude of joy.
They are like a child, tearing off the rings from an advent calendar.
It’s as if they are actually looking forward to something.
Jesus leaves, and in verse 52 it says they worshiped him and returned with great joy.
They then went to the temple and blessed God.
Their actions are the the result of Jesus being the object of our affections.
A child looks forward to Christmas morning.
Each day is one of joy, because they are one step closer to that wonderful morning.
The disciples are filled with joy because Jesus is the object of their affection.
When Jesus is the object of our affections, then He becomes the object and the source of our joy.
He is Who our joy is for, and He is Who our joy comes from.
So that is what we are going to do this morning, we will look to Christ, and in the process discover the same joy that the disciples had.
This is about joy.
Do you want joy?
I’m sure you do.
But this isn’t the power of positive thinking, nor is it 12 steps to a happy life.
This is simply, and I mean simply, simply looking to Jesus.
Looking with anticipation.
Because that’s what the disciples did.
They watched Jesus go, but they were looking forward to something with joy.
This morning we will look at 5 reasons to have joy because Christ ascended to the Father.
The first reason for joy is because with Jesus leaving He will send the Holy Spirit.
Back in , Jesus told the disciples that He was going away.
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