The Miracles after the Resurrection

40 Days

After the Rescurection

What did Jesus do
those 40 days

The Bible clearly states that after His resurrection Jesus repeatedly appeared to His
disciples over a period of 40 days, and then miraculously ascended into the presence of
God. The Bible says, "He was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from
their sight" (Acts 1:9)

#1 - He met with the disciples.

Acts 1:3 tells us that one of the primary things that Jesus did with His disciples in those 40

days of being with them prior to His ascension was that “He presented himself to
them” and showed them convincingly that He was very much alive. He did this by
eating with them, as He did with Cleopas and the unnamed disciple on the road to
Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35), and feeding His disciples as He did by the Sea of Galilee
(John 21:12-13). He invited His disciples to touch and see Him up close (Luke 24:39;
John 20:27).

“As you look back on the past 40 days since Easter, how has Jesus met with you?

How has he encountered you and shown Himself to be real to you in a tangible way?

How has He fed you and ministered to you during this critical time in human history?”

#2 He taught them

We also see in Acts 1:3 that in the 40 days from

His resurrection to His ascension, Jesus also
took considerable time to speak to His
disciples regarding the kingdom of
God. Could you imagine what some of those
conversations might have entailed? I would
have loved to have been a fly on the wall just
listening in on some of those conversations
that Jesus was having with His disciples in
the days following His resurrection.

In the same way, I believe that the last
40 days has been a time where Jesus has
been teaching us and instructing us
about life in the kingdom of God. And
the questions that I want to ask you are:

“What has He been speaking to
you about? What has He been
personally teaching you in this
season of being sheltered-in-

place — about life,

about Himself, about yourself,

and the kingdom of God? ”

For some of you, I sense that
perhaps the Lord has been

speaking to you about what is
truly important in life. Perhaps
there has been a re-arranging of
your priorities or a reorganizing

of your values.

The Miracles continue after the Resurection

On the Road
to Emmaus

• On the Road to Emmaus

•13Now that same day two of them were going to a

village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a]from
Jerusalem. 14They were talking with each other
about everything that had happened. 15As they
talked and discussed these things with each other,
Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;
16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

•17He asked them, “What are you discussing together

as you walk along?”

• They stood still, their faces downcast. 18One of

them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only
one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the
things that have happened there in these days?”

On the Road
to Emmaus

•19“What things?” he asked.

• “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet,

powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.

•20The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be
sentenced to death, and they crucified him;

•21but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to
redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all
this took place.

•22In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to
the tomb early this morning

•23but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had
seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

•24Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found
it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

On the Road to Emmaus

•25He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all

that the prophets have spoken! 26Did not the Messiah have to suffer
these things and then enter his glory?” 27And beginning with Moses
and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the
Scriptures concerning himself.

•28As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus

continued on as if he were going farther. 29But they urged him
strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.”
So he went in to stay with them.

On the Road to
Emmaus

•30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread,
gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.
31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized
him, and he disappeared from their sight.

•32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning
within us while he talked with us on the road and
opened the Scriptures to us?”

•33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem.
There they found the Eleven and those with them,
assembled together34and saying, “It is true! The Lord
has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35Then the two
told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus
was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

Self Reflections

“In looking back on the last 40

days, what do you sense that the
Lord is preparing in you?

Where do you sense that God is

leading you?

What are some of the areas of

your life that you are
experiencing a “transition” of
sorts?”

40 Days of
Preparation Unto
Transition

One last note worth mentioning before I close -- in the Bible,

“40” is the number that signifies two things:

1) preparation

2) transition.

Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness being prepared to lead

the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness. The
end of the 40 years marked a critical transition in his life from
being a shepherd leader overseeing a flock of sheep to a
shepherding leader who oversaw the people of God. We
also see Elijah being prepared for his transition and new
assignment as a prophet of God, during the 40 days that he
made his way to Mount Horeb (1 Kings 19:8). And even
Jesus Christ Himself, spent 40 days in the wilderness for His
preparation and transition into the start of His earthly
ministry.

As we are moving on from these 40 days from Easter, my last

questions that I want to leave with you are these: