The Lord has indeed risen

Notes of meeting on 5 May 2015

Luke 24 v 33 - 53
³³ They set out that instant and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven assembled together with their companions,
³⁴ who said to them, 'The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon.'
³⁵ Then they told their story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised him at the breaking of bread.
³⁶ They were still talking about all this when he himself stood among them and said to them, 'Peace be with you!'
³⁷ In a state of alarm and fright, they thought they were seeing a ghost.
³⁸ But he said, 'Why are you so agitated, and why are these doubts stirring in your hearts?
³⁹ See by my hands and my feet that it is I myself. Touch me and see for yourselves; a ghost has no flesh and bones as you can see I have.'
⁴⁰ And as he said this he showed them his hands and his feet.
⁴¹ Their joy was so great that they still could not believe it, as they were dumbfounded; so he said to them, 'Have you anything here to eat?'
⁴² And they offered him a piece of grilled fish,
⁴³ which he took and ate before their eyes.
⁴⁴ Then he told them, 'This is what I meant when I said, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets and in the Psalms, was destined to be fulfilled.'
⁴⁵ He then opened their minds to understand the scriptures,
⁴⁶ and he said to them, 'So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
⁴⁷ and that, in his name, repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
⁴⁸ You are witnesses to this.
⁴⁹ 'And now I am sending upon you what the Father has promised. Stay in the city, then, until you are clothed with the power from on high.'
⁵⁰ Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them.
⁵¹ Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven.
⁵² They worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy;
⁵³ and they were continually in the Temple praising God.

 

Isaiah 1 v 3

³ The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib; Israel does not know, my people do not understand.'

 

Isaiah 2 v 2 -4

² It will happen in the final days that the mountain of Yahweh's house will rise higher than the mountains and tower above the heights. Then all the nations will stream to it,
³ many peoples will come to it and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob that he may teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths.' For the Law will issue from Zion and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
⁴ Then he will judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples. They will hammer their swords into ploughshares and their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift sword against nation, no longer will they learn how to make war.

Lord we thank you that you are risen from the dead and call us to share in your Life.
Help us to know you and listen to you who are our master.
Let us come to you and your Holy Mountain, help us walk in your ways and be fed and nourished by you.
Fill us with your gift of Peace and all your good gifts.
Amen.