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The Victory of Christ`s Resurrection(John 20:24~29)

Our lord Jesus died on the cross before the Sabbath began and remained dead for the whole Sabbath day. At the dawn of the next day, which is Sunday morning in our calendar, He rose from the dead and appeared to Mary Magdalene who came to the tomb. (John 20:15-18)

And on the evening of the day, He came to the house where His disciples were gathered. Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came (v24). It was when Jesus left the disciples when Thomas joined them and they told him, ¡°We`ve seen the Lord!¡± But he said to them, ¡°Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.¡± A week later all the disciples including Thomas were there in the house. Although the doors were locked, our Lord Jesus appeared in the midst of them. He said, ¡°Peace be with you!¡± 27 Then he said to Thomas, ¡°Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.¡± (verse 27) And Thomas said to him, ¡°My Lord and my God!¡± Then Jesus told him, ¡°Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed (verse 29).

What do we learn from this account of story, one of many that recorded what the Lord Jesus did after His resurrection before He ascended to Heaven? Most of all, it tells us that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. He resurrected, indeed. He left unmistakable evidence of His resurrection. Indeed, he appeared to His disciples. How we are to be grateful for it! Our Lord Jesus said numerous times that he would suffer and die but would rise from the dead in three days. And suppose that he went straight up to heaven without letting anyone know that He resurrected. If that was the case, can you imagine how hard it would have been for the disciples and those of us who live 2000 years later as well to believe His resurrection was true? What a grateful thing it is to us that He showed His resurrected body to His disciples!

Not only that, He appeared twice in the same place. He did so that we may be certain that what the disciples saw was not a dream dreamed by a dreamer who missed the Lord so much or a mere hallucination but a reality. It was not a hologram in the air. But what they saw was the real body of the Lord whose hand had a nail pierced marks that they could touch and whose side had a spear pierced mark they can put their hand into. Our Lord didn`t leave any room for doubt. Then He said, ¡°Stop doubting and believe. It shows how important thing it is for us to believe His resurrection.

The second thing we should notice in today`s text is that our resurrected Lord came to His disciples who even betrayed Him. This means that our Lord forgave the disciples who betrayed their master. Although they betrayed Him, our Lord`s love toward them was unchanging. Our Lord Jesus wanted them to repent and turn to Him, seeing their unbelief, weakness, cowardice and betrayal. Our Lord wanted to restore their faith and love and their loyalty toward Him. The Lord wanted to continue His relationship with His disciples. He wanted to let them know that His early plan that He would make them fishers of men was still in effect. He couldn`t change or cancel his plan because He had a job to give them.

The third thing we need to learn from today`s text is that Jesus is the Lord and true God. It can be said to be the most complete and clearest statement in the New Testament one has made of who our Lord Jesus Christ is. This confession of Thomas was as good as or even better than that of Peter`s who said, ¡°You`re the Christ and the son of the living God.¡± Peter said that as an answer to our Lord`s question He asked in Caesarea Philippi: who do you say I am? Our Lord Jesus was satisfied with this confession of Thomas who doubted Him first. He said those who had this kind of belief are blessed. Also he wanted people to believe without seeing. Thus he said, blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.¡± Although He said this to Thomas, in fact, He was saying that to all the disciples. For they didn`t believe the first report of His resurrection given by the women who went first to Jesus`s tomb after Sabbath day. They doubted what these women said who had been to the tomb (Luke 24:1-11). Before He died he told them a number of times about His crucifixion and resurrection. However, the disciples wouldn`t believe unless they saw with their own eyes. They were no different than Thomas. We no longer have a chance to see our resurrected Lord with our own eyes. We have no choice to believe through the account of His resurrection. Yet our Lord says that we are blessed because we believe without seeing. This kind of belief applies to not only the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We believe without seeing that our God is the trinitarian God and the world was created by His word and we also believe in the incarnation and virgin birth and all the accounts of his ministry and miracles that go beyond our experience and common sense and the things we didn`t see with our own eyes. Yet we are blessed people in that we believe without seeing. What a thing to be grateful for! It must have been a very shocking thing to the disciples that the Lord Jesus who had died on the cross came back to life and came to them. It must have been more shocking than that the Lord Jesus died on the cross.

When the disciples met Jesus, they were joyful and relieved that they were forgiven of their sin of betrayal. Not only that, they must have been feeling ashamed of themselves and their egos shattering before the resurrected Lord. He is the one whom they betrayed and they didn`t have courage to see him again. Yet He was God and no doubt He was standing in the midst of them, which shocked them beyond description. When they were restored from the shock that caused in them the guilt and shame and shattered egos, they could gather their thought and saw that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was a hugely positive and a mega sized event.

In the history of mankind, one can find no greater reversal happening than this. There were numerous wars and victories, but none can outweigh the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. That is why for all those of us who believe in His resurrection, it is the source of our victory, assurance, comfort, courage, joy and hope. Resurrection faith is a source of power that enables us to overcome death and to revive us from being in death-like state. Although they betrayed the Lord Jesus, there was none more saddened and who felt more despondent by this innocent man`s Lord`s death. They were the ones who saw, heard and knew the Lord Jesus closely and they went through the ups and downs together with Him. They knew more than anyone else that Lord Jesus was an innocent man. Crucifixion was nothing but unfair to Him. No one was better than him. No one wiser. No one more loving. None holier or more righteous. What did He do to deserve crucifixion? Maybe there was no one who felt more despondent and heartbroken than the disciples. Can you imagine how tormented they felt as they saw Jesus died on the cross while they had to flee without even trying to muster up strength to stand up against this kind of injustice. They must have felt despondent. The disciples in that despondent state are all the more reason our resurrected Lord came to meet them. He needed to resurrect them. So the resurrection of the Lord Jesus is also the resurrection of His disciples. Our Lord Jesus` death on the cross is the result of evils of the world amassed. The incident was the culmination of the Jewish religious leader`s conspiracy and jealousy and their desire to maintain their comfort zone and the instigation and their calculated maneuver to fulfill their political ambition at the expense of justice, and these were coupled with all kinds of ugliness. Strangely enough, however, the crucifying of our Lord Jesus was in fact, done in accordance with God`s will. That is why it is called God`s victory. It looks as though the deceiving world got the better hand over the truth. And it looked like the wicked destroyed the good. But they were nothing but the tools God used to bring about the victory of eternal truth and life. God won and the world knelt down. A great victory by a great God was won in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection of Jesus Christ gives the power to endure to the end to those who live upright lives and who suffer from the wicked. The resurrection of Jesus Christ gives forgiveness, comfort, hope and courage to stand on their feet, to the people who otherwise should feel shameful and their ego shattered. The resurrection of Jesus Christ gives us an assurance that good and truth will prevail. It is the proof that all lies will be exposed. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a medicine that cures those who suffers from their anger over the unfairly unequal world where the good starve and the wicked fill their stomachs and keep having all kinds of good things going for them. This resurrection medicine teaches us to wait for the victory without fidgeting.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ shows that the crosses we Christians bear is a glorious cross and a victor`s crown. The resurrection of Jesus Christ teaches us that no matter how hard the world threatens and attacks us Christians and the church with their unjustly flogging and ferocious sword and spear, it cannot succeed. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a revelation from God saying and awakening us to the truth that whenever and wherever we are with Christ we are victors in the end so we should not succumb to the world. I pray that we all refresh this resurrection faith always in us and we may become victors in our everyday living.