Words of Jesus Podcast - Signs to Establish the Disciples Authority

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

Bible, Scriptures, discrepancies, resurrection, flesh and bone, immortality, signs to establish disciples authority, justification, atonement ***119: Jesus Appears To His Disciples At Evening Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36-43; John 20:19-23Some of the disciples were gathered together secretly, fearing the authorities. In the evening of the day Jesus had appeared to Mary Magdalene, the two who had returned from Emmaus were telling how they had seen Jesus; and at that moment he appeared in the midst of the group, saying:            “Peace be unto you.”            The disciples were terrified and frightened, thinking they saw a spirit. But Jesus showed them his hands and the wound in his side, and said to them:            “Why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that is I myself. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”            And they were glad, knowing he was the Lord.            Jesus said to them:            “Peace be unto you. As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”            Then Jesus addressed the disciples, saying to them:            “Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.”

Music Think Red Ink Ministries presents The Words of Jesus Series with Don C. Harris Hello my friends, welcome once again to the Words of Jesus series. I'm Don Harris, your host. From Pytown, New Mexico. If you'd like to write to us, I'd love to hear from you. You can simply, you can write a paper letter if you, that's what you'd like to do. To P.O. Box 718, P.O. Box 718, Pytown, New Mexico 87827. If you're, if you're an email person, I have an email you can write to me at Don at ThinkRedInc.com.

Just that simple. Don at ThinkRedInc.com. And I'll get your email and I would love to hear from you and see what you think about the show. I hope it's been a blessing to you. I hope you've enjoyed it half as much as I have. I dearly love the Gospels. I am so pleased that we have them. I don't know if you know what a miracle it is that we even have the Gospels. I've studied church history,

certain denominational histories, world history. I've studied a lot of things, but there's just something about, and I would recommend everybody take time to learn where your Bible came from, and honor it for what it actually is. Not for what you think it is, not because it's a magic book, or a book of incantations, or ways to get goodies from God,

but that it's a wonderful gift given to those of us at the end of the age. There's so many things in there that you never live enough lifetimes to have these things revealed to you. And the Lord saw fit to write them down, figure out a way against all odds to publish them and get them into our hands in our language.

And we oughta just know every word by heart. No, I don't. And we've got to just know every word by heart. No, I don't. But we should. Jesus could have come to this earth, even at the commission of His Father, and done His wonderful work, and allowed us to be saved by something as flimsy as hearsay evidence.

Never get to know him, where he came from, what town he was born in, who his mom was, who his dad was, all the miracles and the formulation of this seemingly convoluted but turns out to be an extremely complex plan to redeem us out of this earth. I just can't help but think that He really loves us, and He wants to save us. He's done everything He knows to do. You are at the end of the age. Your life. You are at the end of time. And what has been given to you, has been given to you for you.

It's the mysteries of God revealed to us by the Scriptures. It's just such a wonderful gift. I don't understand why people don't know what they don't know. You should never want to know anything more so than you know your God. Your Creator, the one who loves you. Frankly, I hope you never have to find this out my friend. But I have a feeling that He's the only one that does. Alright, let's get on with our story. If I can make you following up with your Bible, I'm going to do that.

Because I want you to do that. I don't want you to try to make it into a magic book like I said. It's not. It's not a magic book, but it is a wonderful record of testimony of people who placed their faith in God and came out the other side victorious. They came in and they left this world. They left a mark worth leaving. They loved a God that loved them back.

Alright, we're going to read from chapter 119 in our book, The Words of Jesus. This is when Jesus appears to His disciples at evening. Some of the disciples were gathered together secretly, fearing the authorities. In the evening of the day Jesus had appeared unto Mary Magdalene, the two who had returned from Emmaus were telling how they had seen Jesus. What day was this? What day was this? We're still in that

Sunday, the first day of the week, you remember? And now they have gathered together to break bread together and these two men are testifying that they actually saw the Lord and they're telling the other disciples. Well you're going to find that one of the disciples was not here. We'll continue. It says that they were telling how they had seen Jesus and at that moment He appeared in the midst of the group saying, Peace be unto you. The disciples were terrified and frightened, thinking that they saw spirit. But Jesus showed them His hands and the wound in His side and said to them, Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I myself handle me and see for I am for a spirit hath not

flesh and bones as you see me have." My book on Sabbath explores one of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Why did God ask us to rest? It's really an odd commandment when you think of all that He could have asked us to do to show our faith in and our love for Him. Are we to become Jews? Seventh-day Adventists? Or some wild cult in the wilderness?

This popular book leads the reader to his most important decision he's made since deciding to make Jesus Christ as Lord. We don't want to miss what Jesus had in mind when He said the Sabbath was made for man. Perhaps God will not give us the next step until we obey the instructions we have in our hand. Get your copy of On Sabbath at QuestionsofJesus.com. Both of these books are also available in audio.

The On Sabbath book is available in English, Spanish or French. Specify the language you wish. You remember when Mary Magdalene saw Jesus after His resurrection. He said to her, touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. There are some who perhaps they know more about languages than I do. Chances are they do. But they have kind of come up with the explanation of the scripture, meaning that when Jesus said, touch me not, he was saying,

don't hinder me for I have not yet ascended to my Father." Okay, yeah, all right, if that's what you want to do. But I happen to believe that if he meant don't hinder me, he would have said to Mary something like, don't hinder me, I need to go and be with my Father. I'm just that simplistic, sorry, but that's me. And what he did say was, touch me not,

for I'm not yet ascended to my father. I think that that has something to do with some ceremonial cleanliness of the sacrifice that was made by his blood, subsequently by his death, that this sacrifice is to be made and I'm about to go make it. So I don't need this sacrifice defiled by a human touch. That's just what I think. Nevertheless, no matter why he said what he said,

I think that you can see from this story that we're reading now that something happened. from this story that we're reading now, that something happened between the time that he was found at the tomb by Mary Magdalene and then subsequently by all the women. By the way, I don't know if you've ever sat down not to cast dispersions upon your sacred and holy scriptures

and the inerrant and unfallible Word of God, as people like to say. But you're going to find if you do read the four Gospels, that the four stories of the resurrection and the events following, immediately following the the resurrection you're going to find that those stories do not coincide. There are certain things about certain things that are said certain dates and times that are really hard to put together and with the exception of perhaps one statement that I have not been able to reconcile, I'm thinking that it may be a colloquialism

and I don't like to blame what I don't know on bad translation and stuff that's very common to do. There is a huge chance that I don't know everything. So even though I was not able to reconcile all of the points of the stories of the four Gospels pertaining to the resurrection, and you won't be able to either, It's logically impossible and sometimes even theologically it creates theological problems trying to explain some of the things that were said there. I don't know if you've ever noticed it. Preachers don't preach this. They preach on Sunday morning. I assure you your preacher is only going to

preach out of one of those Gosp you, your preacher's only gonna preach out of one of those gospels. He's not gonna preach out all four, because he's gonna have a whole bunch of explaining to do that can't be explained. Especially with modern Christianity that believes, one, that he spent 36 hours in the grave, and not 72, like was prophesied by the prophet Jonah three days and three nights.

That's got to go out the window. Second, he rose on Sunday morning, which he didn't. This particular teaching is not about the resurrection. But if you'd like to have a DVD that I made years ago now, as a matter of fact, a bunch of us were just kinda sitting around talking, and they kinda said, hey, how about you going through these with us and see if we can't reconcile this?

Fine, let's set up a movie camera and we'll record it. And that's what we did. And never, it never was professionally produced or anything. Don't expect anything fancy. But that particular DVD is a real mover, especially around Easter when people are starting to look at these kind of things. And they'll hear me say on the radio that Jesus didn't raise on Sunday, He rose on Sabbath Day.

And so those kind of things will, I think it prompts something in somebody to want to know something different. And when they do, they'll write to me, and you can do the same, write to info at thinkreddink.com and ask for the DVD called Reconciling the Resurrection. Now, in this particular time, you find him saying, Behold my hands and my feet, For a spirit hath not flesh and bone as you see me have. That might be an odd thing. What do you mean, your hands and your feet?

What's that all about? He was actually showing them a body that had been raised from the dead that had holes in it. I remember one time at a feast at Tabernacles we were all sitting around the fire talking. And I said, has anybody got a scripture that tells you that when we get to heaven, and I always put quotes around that because, you know, we're not going to heaven. Heaven is coming to us. But in talking about this, in discussing this, I said, has anybody ever found a scripture that assures you that if a crippled man

goes to heaven that he can walk? Or that a blind man, if he dies in the Lord and goes to heaven, he can see? Is there any scripture anywhere? And of course, you know, the Bible pages start flying and everybody is sure that it says it in there somewhere. I read it. I read it.

I get that all the time. I've read it. If my pastor was here, he could tell you. No, he can't. He can't. We have, the Bible says there is one. It doesn't take long says there is one. Doesn't take long to count to one.

There is one that hath immortality. Who do you think that is? You think it's your grandpa? Really? No, it's Jesus Christ. There's only been one that's ever been raised from the dead. Anybody who dies in the Lord goes into the earth or whatever preparations you make for a body and there they await the resurrection, either the resurrection of the just or the resurrection of the unjust. The Bible is very clear on

this. Does it disappoint you at all to find out that if you happen to be a 65 year old, decrepit old man that when you go through the resurrection that you're going to come out the other side just the way you went in the grave? I had an old man, a friend of this ministry for many years, tell me, you know, if I'm going to be raised from the dead in this old body, I'm not even interested in it. I said, no, no, no, don't feel that way. No, the new Jerusalem, the millennial reign of Christ, that time that we spend with Him in that time. The Bible says that inside that kingdom is a tree of life.

So what's the tree of life do for me? The Bible says that the leaves of that tree are for the healing of the nation. The fruit of that tree is for the healing of the nation. It's His intention during that thousand year reign to bring us back to proper health, to undo all the destruction that thousand year reign to bring us back to proper health, to undo all the destruction that we've done to ourselves while we were here. No, you don't have to stay in that condition, but the only example that we have of anyone being raised from the dead is Jesus Christ.

And here you have Him not with healed hands, but hands with holes in them. What are those holes there for? Well, that's because that's where the stakes went through. What is that hole in his side there? What is that? That's where the sword went in. Well, so when he comes back, we got this bloody, gory Jesus.

Wait a minute. Notice that he said, for a spirit, he was trying to defy the fact that he had risen as a spirit. No, he rose bodily. But notice that he said, for a spirit hath not flesh and bone, as you see me have." Not flesh and blood, flesh and bone. What is that? Are we missing something?

Yeah, we're missing something. Remember I told you, touch me not Mary, I'm not yet ascended to the Father. Here he comes back and says, handle me. What happened between there and then? What happened? The blood of Jesus Christ was given in sacrifice for you. He bought you.

He paid your ransom. He owns you if you'll own Him. And so as He stands there, He stands there in a physical body. However, the blood? Not there. It's up there. I've not yet ascended to my Father. He goes to the Father.

He makes the sacrifice, comes back, here, handle me. See here? Spirit hath not flesh and bone as you see me have. Interesting thought, eh? Alright. So, he says, and they were glad knowing that he was the Lord. Jesus said to them, Peace be unto you, as my father has sent me, even so send I you. Then Jesus addressed the disciples saying to them receive you the

Holy Ghost whosoever sends you remit they are remitted under them and whosoever sends you retain they are retained what in the world did he say there what is what is he talking about here you know interesting question. Do we really have the ability to forgive sins on the earth? That's what Jesus had.

Jesus had the ability to forgive sins on the earth. He forgave sins one time, you remember, He said to a man, rise and walk, and thy sins be forgiven. Who is this that forgives sins? Who can forgive sins but God alone? He looked at the Pharisees and said, but that you may know that I have power to forgive sins.

He saith unto the sick of the palsy, rise up and walk. And he got up and walked. He's saying, this is that power. The power that gives me the ability to forgive sins gives me also the ability to heal. The disciples were about to engage in a primitive, primary plan to spread this gospel around the earth. And he gave them the power to raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out demons. You remember this? Whatever you ask, I'll give it to you. I know, I know your preacher told you that you have that ability

Have you figured out yet that you don't? Do I have to tell you or do you just what are you ready to admit? No, I don't have that power I got I got serious problems I got problems and people around me have problems and I don't seem to be able to affect them good for you You're starting to see things logically. But he did give that power to the disciples and in doing so he was saying that in communication with me and in doing what I have for you to do you have the power to forgive sin. If people come to you, come to me through you. Remember in 17 chapter John when he says, those who believe on me through their word.

See that's us isn't it? All of us are believing on Jesus through their word. And when those men look at our lives, look at our repentance, look at us, we're able to have that assurance within us that these men know what they're talking about. And therefore, my sins can be forgiven through that, through that power. Now there's also a secondary aspect of of these men who have the power to have forgiven, permit sin. Do you realize that God is very jealous over you? Do you realize that God loves you more so than you love your own children? How do you feel when you see your child being mistreated by somebody else,

another child, another adult, or just life in general? How do you feel when you see that? There is a rage. It's almost a godly indignation that we feel very protective about our children. Do you know that the Lord feels that way about you as well? When someone comes against me personally or even as a minister of the gospel, says things about me or does things, whatever they do. They all like to play their silly little politic games.

But when they do that, my default reaction, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. Let me tell you, before that was my default reaction, I watched people suffer for putting their hands on what is obviously revelation from God. And I'm not saying I'm something special. I'm not one of them preachers that says,

touch not my anointed, do my prophets no harm, and threaten people with that kind of thing. That's not what I'm saying at all. But what I am saying is, is I have found God to be very jealous over his people. So I found out that, oh I see what you're saying. You're saying if I forgive them, you'll forgive them? I can forgive them. And the one whose sin against me I remit or will be remitted and the ones that I retain

will be retained? Do I really have that kind of power? Look, I don't want that kind of power. As far as I'm concerned, anybody who does me wrong, I forgive you. It's not a problem. I may not trust you. You've got to forgive me for that. But if I forgive sins, He'll forgive them. Good, good. Forgive them. Don't lay this sin to their charge. Isn't that what Stephen said? Don't lay this sin to their charge.

What sin? Killing you? How is that a sin? You're God's child. So, who does He give this power to? People that know how to handle it. The people that understand the mystery that's been hidden since the foundation of the world. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Forgive one another,

even as I have forgiven you. Even as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you. Forgive not every man their trespasses, neither will my heavenly Father forgive you of your trespasses. These are very threatening and very powerful things. But don't worry, these aren't given out willy nilly.

There's a lot of people that call themselves Christian that will never experience this kind of power. Why? They're not really Christian. Not at all. All right. Time for us to go.

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