INTRODUCTION:
A person can find a lot of teaching and revelation on the times when Christ was on the earth, walking with His disciples. The Gospels are full of the teachings and summaries of the signs and wonders. What would be exciting is to know is what He did after His resurrection, and the power that was revealed to those that He appeared to.
SHOW NOTES:
Over a period of three and one-half years, the disciples walked with Jesus, witnessed many signs and wonders, and were taught many things, but they didn't seem to understand in many ways.
After He arose, He sent them to the upper room, some 120 believers, saying, “You are not ready.”
Receiving the Holy Spirit was the turning point when the disciples were enabled to receive what Christ was saying.
His appearings over those 40 days after He rose reached thousands, and it empowered the disciples to become dynamic witnesses.
QUOTATIONS:
He (the Father) wants to bring us into His likeness by virtue of His Son, the firstborn of many brethren.
Most people when they talk about Christ, always talk about the time before the resurrection—His three and a half year ministry and the disciples walking with Him.
For me personally, I would rather be there that 40 days after His resurrection and sit before a resurrected Lord: sit at His feet and receive the impartation and teaching from Him—must have been tremendous.
Honestly, I think the day of Pentecost wasn't for the disciples; it was for the multitude. It was like an explosion of the Holy Spirit; there was a power in what they were moving in, which obviously they did not have before.
They were eyewitnesses to Christ's resurrection. He appeared to them over and over again. Those appearings set in motion the great thing we know as the Church.
The key to the salvation is His resurrection. Without resurrection, no power. There's no glory. There's nothing but death. The resurrection was the key to Him being the Son of God and to Him fulfilling everything that He had come for.
REFERENCES:
He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying. Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold I have told you.
And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.
To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.
“I will ask the Father , and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth , whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
“ And it shall be in the last days, “God says, “that I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
So then those who had received His word were baptized: and that day there were added about three thousand souls.
TAKE AWAY;
The power of the resurrected Lord was demonstrated over 40 days. In that time He taught keys about the Kingdom of God and opened up a new level of life for us who believe. Christ prayed for us to be able to follow Him in His ascension, where He is, we are to be also.