Lesson for the Lord’s Day
And He said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. Luke 24:46
As He met with his disciples after His resurrection, the Lord sought to comfort and restore them. He also spoke of the Scriptures that he had discussed with them earlier. At this time, he ‘opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures’. What a wonderful revelation they received that day! All of the Old Testament was revealed to them in a way that they had never grasped before. Just as He did with the folks on the Emmaus road, He spoke to them of all those things in the Scriptures concerning Himself.
As we gather to Remember Him today, let us keep in mind that we are celebrating the culmination of all of the prophecies, the reality of all of the types, the fulfillment of all of the offerings and ordinances. We are not told, of course, what Scriptures specifically He referred to. But we thrill today to know that throughout the Old Testament times, the Word of God was providing revelations of Christ.
We know that He did not suffer just to fulfil Scripture. But we also know that He could not have failed to fulfil Scripture.
Let us draw near today to appreciate His suffering and resurrection, and to also appreciate how the Word of God provides for us the details, in both the Old and New Testaments, of His suffering. -Jim MacIntosh