NT Come Follow Me 27
Introduction:
“He Is Risen”
Some were definitely surprised that Jesus the Miracle Worker
was now hanging on the cross and would die. Some mocked, others mourned. Few
comprehended what this would mean for them and for all of us. Like all of us,
His family and disciples didn’t want to see Him go because they loved Him.
John 19:30
When Jesus proclaimed, “It is finished,” He was not saying that our Father’s
Plan had ended; He was saying that His mortal ministry had come to an end.
Matthew 27:42
In order to save every soul that had or would live, Jesus would not save
Himself from experiencing death. It was an essential part of our Father’s Plan
and of Jesus Christ’s perfect atonement for us.
Luke 24:5
He is not dead. He is ever among the living. And those who are alive in Him
will have His Spirit to be with them.
Matthew 28:19–20
If we teach and share the gospel of Jesus Christ, He will always be with us.
Personal Study: Jesus Christ was resurrected.
How did Jesus’s disciples feel when they saw the resurrected Lord? How does the reality of Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection affect you? How do feel about His love? How will you feel when you see Him and you embrace one another?
Resurrection
Our physical and spiritual bodies will be reunited, never to be divided again. Jesus
was the First to be resurrected, and because of Him, we all will be
resurrected. Resurrected beings are immortal. They have bodies of flesh and
bone, but they no longer have corruptible bodies with blood. The righteous dead
will be resurrected before those who are evil.
Jesus had a tangible body after the resurrection. He ate fish and honeycomb; He
had a body of flesh and bones; invited His disciples to touch Him and witness
that it was He; His tomb was empty; angel proclaimed He’d risen; upwards of 500
saints also rose after the resurrection of Jesus and visited with many.
Jesus has a glorified resurrected body. In order to be resurrected to Eternal
Glory in the Celestial Kingdom, we need to be valiant in our testimony of Jesus
Christ. Latter-day revelation confirms the truth of the witnesses to the
resurrection found in the Bible.
1 Corinthians
15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
There are many
witnesses to Christ’s resurrection in the Bible and in modern day scripture. He
appeared His disciples both in the lands of His mortal ministry and in the
Americas after His resurrection (and to other lost tribes as well).
We will stand before
God for a final judgment and receive a resurrection of glory.
The atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ gives me the greatest hope. Hope
for the remission of my own sins; hope for help to ultimately overcome the
world through Him; hope in my own resurrection and in the resurrection of my
family and friends; hope that our family can be together forever.
Personal Study: I can invite the Savior to “abide with [me].”
How do you invite the Savior to travel with you and abide with you?
Luke 24:29 This was the feeling that I had
when I first received a witness from the Holy Ghost that The Book of Mormon,
Another Testament of Jesus Christ is true. I wanted to keep that Spirit with
me.
Lord, please linger longer.
Abide with Me; ’Tis Eventide
Personal Study: Resurrection is the permanent reuniting of
the spirit with the body.
We can learn so much
from the accounts of the resurrection found in the scriptures.
Luke 24:36–43 The disciples were able to handle Him and
see…He had His body back. He ate with them.
John 20 Jesus appeared to Mary and to His apostles.
1 Corinthians 15:35–44 Paul proclaims that our bodies are quickened to the same likeness when resurrected. He also taught that people would obtain different degrees of glory according to their faith in Jesus Christ, their repentance, and their choices.
Philippians 3:20–21 Our bodies will no longer be subjected to sickness and death, but will be glorified through Jesus Christ.
3 Nephi 11:13–15 Jesus’s disciples in the Americas were also invited to come and see and feel for themselves that Jesus was the resurrected Christ.
Doctrine and Covenants 88:27–31 Resurrected bodies, though both body and spirit like we are now, are often spoke of as spiritual bodies, because we will be quickened by the spirit. Then according to the laws that we chose to be governed by, we will be quickened to a degree of glory.
110:2–3 Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery beheld the Risen Lord in the Kirtland Temple.
130:1, 22:
1 When the Savior shall appear we shall see him
as he is. We shall see that he is a man like ourselves.
22 The Father has a
body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost
has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not
so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.
Personal Study: “Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”
John 20:25
Why did Thomas say he wouldn’t believe unless he could see? Maybe He didn’t
feel like He could be His Special Witness without seeing the Resurrected Lord.
John 20:29
How is it a blessing to you to believe even when you haven’t seen? How is
feeling the witness of the Holy Ghost even more important to us?
Alma 32:16–21 We are blessed when we press forward with faith in Jesus Christ, even if we have some doubts.
Ether 12:6 Faith is sometimes even more powerful that sight. We are putting our hope and trust in the Lord.
Personal Study: The Savior invites me to feed His sheep.
Similarities and differences in the Lord’s initial
invitation to His disciples and His invitation after His resurrection:
Luke 5:1–11
Jesus showed them a miracle in a great catch of fish; then He called them to be
fishers of men.
John 21
Write more about this Feed My Sheep chapter when you read it.
John 21:15–17
Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved Him; Peter responded affirmatively,
and Jesus told Peter to feed His sheep. Christine asked me if there is a
significant connection between Peter denying the Lord three times and Jesus
asking three times if He loved Him.
I agree with Christine that this would have added to Peter’s discomfort. Maybe
in this teaching moment, the Savior helped Peter repent.
Do you love the Lord, Heidi? Will you listen to the Spirit and feed His sheep?
Family Study: He is Risen
Luke 24:5–6
He Is Risen!
No words meant more to President Monson than these words.
Family Study: Jesus
Really Lives
What impresses you about the people who visited the Savior’s tomb? What do you learn from the words or actions of the Apostles or from the disciples on the road to Emmaus?
How has the knowledge of Jesus’s resurrection brought you
comfort, hope, gratitude, and faith?
Family Study: We Can
Engage with the Lord in the His Work
Matthew
28:16–20 We are to take the gospel to all the world and invite all to
have faith in Jesus Christ and to be baptized. As we teach His gospel, He will
be with us.
Mark
16:14–20 We are to teach the gospel, and those who believe in Jesus
Christ and are baptized will be saved.
Luke 24:44–53 We need to teach of the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; and that through Him we can repent of our sins and be cleansed. Jesus’s faithful disciples can be endowed with power from on high.
Mark 16:20
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and
confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Family Study: Feed My
Sheep
How do we feed others through ministering? How are we ourselves fed as we minister?
John 21:15–17 Peter is asked three times if He loves the Lord. I can show that I love the Lord by feeding His sheep.
Matthew 9:35–36 Jesus visited in all their cities and villages; He taught the gospel; He healed the sick; He was a Shepherd to them.
10:5–6 His disciples were called to gather the sheep of lost Israel.
25:31–46 If we are ministering to each other, we are ministering to the Lord, and we become His sheep as we help Him attend to His flock.
Luke 15:4–7 Each soul is precious and we should work to help recover them and bring them to the Lord.
John 10:1–16
Jesus is the Good Shepherd; His sheep know His voice, and He knows who His
sheep are.
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/matt/28?lang=eng
Christ
the Lord is risen—He appears to many—He has all power in heaven and earth—He
sends the Apostles to teach and baptize all nations.
Vs 5-7 These days were marked by
many out of the ordinary events. But the angels told them that they didn't need
to fear any more. Jesus was alive again!
Vs 8-9 They hurried to
obey the angel's directions, and the Lord appeared to them. They held Him by
the feet and worshiped Him.
Vs 10 Jesus also told them to not be afraid and to
tell His brethren that they'd see Him in Galilee.
Vs 16-20 Don't doubt. Meet Jesus on His terms adn
worship Him. Invite others to come unto Him; and He will be with you always.
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/mark/16?lang=eng
Christ is
risen—He appears to Mary Magdalene, then to others—He sends the Apostles to
preach and promises that signs will follow faith—He ascends into heaven.
Vs 6-8 An angel announced that
Jesus was risen and directed them to tell Peter and the other disciples to meet
Him in Galilee. Even though they had been told not to be afraid, these were
strange happenings, and they were afraid.
Vs 9-11 The first mortal
person to see Jesus after His resurrection was Mary Magdelene. She told His
disciples and they didn't believe her.
Vs 12-13 He appeared to
two disciples on the road to Emmaus. There report was not believed either.
Vs 14 When Jesus visited the eleven, he upbraided
them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe them
which had seen him after He was risen. (There wasnt' just one doubting Thomas.)
Vs 15-20 The Twelve are commissioned to take the gospel
into all the world, before Jesus ascended into heaven. Likewise, we are asked
to gather Israel and to invite all to come unto Christ.
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/luke/24?lang=eng
Angels
announce the resurrection of Christ—He walks on the Emmaus road—He appears with
a body of flesh and bones, eats food, testifies of His divinity, and promises
the Holy Ghost—He ascends into heaven.
Vs 4-11 The angels announced to the women that Jesus had risen. They
ran to tell the apostles, and they were not believed.
Vs 12 Yet Peter ran to see for Himself.
Vs 13-31 Jesus traveled with the two disciples going to Emmaus. They did
not recognized the Lord. When He gave them His sacrament, the eys of the
understanding were opened.
They Spirit had witnessed to them, but they needed to learn to
recognize the Spirit.
Vs 46-53 Jesus expounded scripture and taught them more
about His atonement and resurrection, and repentance and the remission of sins.
They will be His special witnesses. First they needed to be endowed with power
from on high.
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/john/20?lang=eng
Mary
Magdalene, Peter, and John find the empty tomb—The risen Christ appears to Mary
Magdalene in the garden—He appears to the disciples and shows His resurrected
body—Thomas feels the wounds in Jesus’ hands, feet, and side—Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God.
Vs 1-9 Will you run to see for
yourself? Run fast to see and be with the Lord.
When they saw that Jesus was no longer in the tomb, John believed
that He was rise. Before that time, they didn't understand that scripture that
He must rise again from the dead.
Vs 11-17 Mary was privileged to see two angels and then
to see the resurrected Lord Himself. Who was Mary. Was she just a repentant
disciple, or was she His wife?
Vs 19-23 Jesus appeared
unto His disciples. He speaks peace to them. He shows them His hands and side.
The are so glad to see the Lord. Again he speaks peace to them and He is
sending them out to share His gospel, even as Heavenly Father send them out.
And He gives them the Holy Ghost, and also the sealing power for remitting or
retaining sins.
Vs 26-31 Thomas was also
privileged to see the Lord and to receive the calling and blessing the others had.
This testimony was given by John so that we might believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God and have life through faith in Him.
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/john/21?lang=eng
Jesus
appears to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias—He says, Feed my sheep—He
foretells Peter’s martyrdom and that John will not die.
Vs 3-25 The chapter is a good
conclusion to the gospels. The disciples are invited once again to follow the
Lord. Just like at the beginning, the Lord shows them a miracle in the
abundance of fish they catch. Once again, their lives are no longer about
catching fishing, but about feeding the people and saving souls.
He feeds them before He teaches them. Giving Simon instruction and
a chance to repent and repair from his denials, He asks three times if he loves
Him. Peter is invited (or commanded) to feed Christ's sheep. He did so. And
Jesus's disciples continue to learn from the experiences of the Apostles and
the Gift of the Holy Ghost, so that they can do so.
John is a translated being. I wonder if today's apostles have seen
him. He will be resurrected after Jesus returns again.
John verifies that His testimony is true. Believe in Jesus Christ.
He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
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