Luke 24:41 Commentary - Dr Peter Masters

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Luke 24:41

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This is a most mysterious thing. ‘Oh,’ you say, ‘that that was a sure proof that he was alive in the body and he had broken the bands of death in the body.’ Yes it was, but it is more even than that. What a curious thing! ‘Have ye here any meat?’ We can be sure that the Lord wasn't hungry. What right do we have to say that? The Lord didn't need that food. What right do we have to say that? Well it's obvious. The Lord who has power to just arrive, to pass through locked doors, to pass through the crowd of little group of people without them being aware that he's pushed through their ranks as it were and come to the very centre – such a Lord in such a glorious condition is not going to be hungry or in need of food. So why does he ask, ‘Have ye here any meat?’, if it is not to demonstrate that he is in the body? They look at him just bemused at first. Then one of them – it may have been Peter, because he was usually the forward one but it doesn't say – suddenly springs to it. ‘Yes, we have food.’ Then another, then another and suddenly they are awake and alert and they are serving him just like they used to. He was their master. They were his disciples. They looked after him. They provided for him. It was their love and their joy to serve him. ‘He has died; now he has risen. We can attend to him again. We can serve him. We can bring him a piece of broiled fish and a piece of an honeycomb.’ What joy that would have given them?

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But there is a lesson in it. The risen Lord is to be served by his people. The greatest motive for Christian service is the same that gripped the disciples on that first appearance of the risen Lord. It is the delight of being able to offer him things and do things for him. Now this is something we forget. To teach Sunday school every week, week in, week out. Whether you're really looking forward to it, or whether it's one of those occasions when you are tired out, and it seems to be a great chore and a mountain to climb, just remember this: ‘I do this, yes, for the children. I do this for the truth. But the greatest reason and the highest motive for doing this is that I am serving my Lord. ‘Have you here any meat?’ I am doing something for him.

When we preach, when we do good works, when we visit the house bound, when we sit with people and sympathize, when we do some task, some arduous thing for somebody who can't do it for himself or for herself, full of love and good works, then we do it for him. Before we do it, we thank him that we can do this for him. That's the lesson from this. You are serving the risen Lord and your greatest motive is that you are doing everything you do for him. So these are the lessons which are coming from this passage.

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Luke 24:41 Commentary and Bible Study

The meaning of Luke 24:41 explained