That I Have -Luke 24:38-53

Luke 24:38-53 ESV
And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate before them.
44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. 51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple blessing God.

Jesus appears before them. They still struggle with disbelief with what they see. Jesus stands in front of them, yet they know He was crucified. They are transfixed and dumbfounded. He tells them to touch Him for themselves and see that He is flesh and bones. It seems significant that He says, "flesh and bones", rather than flesh and blood. We can look to Genesis and see the same reference to Eve who is taken out of man. His blood was shed for all and life no longer resides in the blood of the creature, but in the Spirit of God, the living water.

It says He opened their minds to Scripture, and then began to speak. The disciples saw with their eyes, touched with their hands, and heard with their ears the very word of God. What is written is fulfilled in Jesus.

Jesus sits on the throne in heaven, now clad with His immortal body, flesh and bones of a kind unfamiliar to us. With this same body He was raised up into the clouds, into heaven, the first of many that would come.

It is with this flesh and bones that He will receive His bride, and they will become one, just as Adam and Eve became one in the Garden.

We become His flesh on earth , an incarnation now filled with an immortal spirit, we are a new creature, transported into kingdom of God through the provision of the Holy Spirit. At His coming, we will be joined with our immortal, incorruptible bodies. Heaven and earth become one.


Hosea 6:2-3
After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.”

1 Corinthians 15:50-52
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

1 John 1:1-4
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— 3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

Psalms 110:1
1 The Lord says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Genesis 2:23
Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”