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The Caldwell Commentaries dive deep into the Bible to reveal the amazing truths God has shared with mankind about HIStory, salvation in Christ, and the future! Be prepared for some spiritual heartburn!
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Life of Christ Lesson 190: Christ Deals with Doubt {Thomas}
Jun 2901:05:18Tap to summarizeThe sixth recorded post-resurrection appearance of Christ took place one week after Resurrection Sunday evening. Both the Aramaic name "Thomas," and the Greek version, which is "Didymas," mean "twin" (as in "ditto"). Thomas has "twins" all over this skeptical world of ours! He can be said to symbolize the "scientific approach" to life: "I will only believe what I can test; what I can touch and see and feel". Sadly, Thomas also has "twins" ("dittos") all over Christendom, for the Lord has many weak children in His family. Thomas was a true sheep who fell briefly into the trap of insisting on the world's way of "proving" things - which is that seeing is believing. It took a loving, living, resurrected Saviour to make a special appearance just for Thomas to "resurrect" a buried faith! He will do it for you, too! DO YOU KNOW THIS TRUTH - Thomas is the first person in all four gospels to openly confess Jesus as "God"!? "Doubting Didymas" became the Apostle to give the strongest and most conclusive testimony to the Deity of Jesus! How's that for the grace of the Good Shepherd toward a wandering sheep?
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 189: Behind Closed Doors
Jun 2801:11:03Tap to summarizeWe take a look at the fifth post-resurrection appearance of the Lord Jesus in this lesson, "Behind Closed Doors". It was now Resurrection Sunday evening. All the Apostles, except Thomas, were gathered in the Upper Room with a group of other believers (including the two who had returned to Jerusalem after their journey with Jesus to Emmaus). Wouldn't you have loved to be in that room when Christ suddenly appeared in their midst, even though they had the door locked and He had not knocked and waited for someone to open it? They were "terrified and affrighted" and thought He was a ghost! His first words to them after they had scattered from Him? "Peace be unto you"! What a gracious Saviour! This is an exciting lesson. A lot of "meat" and good information. We also discover what our own resurrected bodies will be like by observing the Lord and what He was able to do in His resurrected, glorified Human body! Poor Thomas had to go through a whole additional week of disbelief and gloom because he had forsaken the assemblage with the others!
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 188b: Emmaus Road Spiritual Heartburn
Jun 2601:02:39Tap to summarizeTHIS IS ONE OF THOSE MESSAGES YOU NEED TO HEAR AND SHARE WITH OTHERS, especially with those who have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour! There is no doubt He is the True Messiah of Israel and One and Only Saviour of mankind, and this lesson shows that fact from ALL the Scripture, Old and New Testaments.
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 188a: Emmaus Road Despondency
Jun 2401:08:05Tap to summarizeThis is the account of Christ's fourth recorded post-resurrection appearance; the one that launched us into a study of Old Testament Christology (see Lesson 1 in our Christ in Genesis series). If it was possible to take a time machine into the past, I personally would join the two disciples on the Road to Emmaus Resurrection Sunday afternoon to hear the unrecognized Lord Jesus preach "the things concerning Himself" from the Old Testament Scriptures. Having their eyes opened to see how Christ has always been the Subject of Scripture, from Genesis to Malachi (and, of course, the entire New Testament), is what dramatically changed those disciples! They went from utter despair to the utmost delight during their 7-mile walk with the Greatest-ever Bible Teacher, and we're never the same again! They became infected with spiritual heartburn and couldn't wait to spread it to others (see Lesson 188b)!
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 187c Resurrection Lies Exposed (Jesus DID Rise from the dead!)
Jun 2301:06:58Tap to summarizeMatthew 28:11-15 Mark Twain once stated that a lie can go around the whole world while truth is still lacing up her boots! Sinful human nature somehow causes men to prefer to believe lies than truth. While the women were going about bringing the truth of Christ's resurrection to the disciples (who did not believe them), the soldiers assigned to guard the tomb were bringing their remarkable, eye-witness report to the chief priests. However, because the priests DID believe what they heard, they paid the soldiers a large amount of money to spread the LIE that Jesus' disciples had stolen His body! Since that original lie, many others have been concocted over the passing centuries regarding Christ's resurrection. In this interesting lesson, we discuss many logical reasons why the chief priests' lie is false, before then showing why many other "theories" (lies) invented by unbelievers wanting to explain away the resurrection are likewise false. Examples we consider are: "the swoon theory," "the no-burial theory," "the telepathy theory," "the séance theory," "the mistaken identity theory," and "the theft theory". IT IS IMPORTANT FOR CHRISTIANS TO KNOW HOW TO REFUTE THESE LIES!!
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 187b: Resurrecion Morning Conversations
Jun 2001:04:28Tap to summarizeThe resurrected Lord Jesus' first two recorded conversations, which were with Mary Magdalene and the Galilean women, who (like Mary) had an encounter with the living Christ on Resurrection Sunday morning!
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 187a: Firstfruits of the Resurrection!
Jun 1900:59:53Tap to summarizeMatthew 28:9, 10; Mark 16:10, 11; John 20:17, 18 The resurrection of the Lord Jesus is foundational to the Christian faith, for it undergirds the significance of other Biblical truths. We discuss 8 of these foundational truths that are verified by His resurrection in this lesson. In this lesson, we learn of the first two recorded conversations Christ had following His resurrection. One was with Mary Magdalene (who had just come to recognize Him at the end of Lesson #186), and the other was with a group of women who, like Mary, had an encounter with the living Lord on Resurrection Sunday morning.
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 186b: Joy Comes in the Morning!
Jun 1801:12:31Tap to summarizeMary Magdalene's blinding despair and confusion are turned to blessed joy unspeakable! Think of this: Mary wept for the wrong reason; she wept because she found the tomb empty. The fact is, because the tomb WAS empty, she had every reason to be rejoicing! THE SAME IS TRUE FOR YOU AND ME! THIS will be one of your favorite lessons! It will fill your cup to over-flowing with joy, love, hope, and true comfort!
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 186a: The Empty Grave Clothes! {How they PROVED the Resurrection}
Jun 1701:05:53Tap to summarizeYou will want to hear this study to find out how the grave clothes appeared (and the folded head napkin) to give the women invited into the tomb by the angel and the Apostle John instant proof that Jesus had, indeed, RISEN FROM THE DEAD! The grave clothes of the Lord Jesus are a very exciting subject.
Transcribe →Life of Christ Lesson 185b: Angelic and Ecstatic Activity Re: The Resurrection!
Jun 1601:03:52Tap to summarizeNOTE: Correction to this message - replace Katherine's words about "Thursday evening" with "Wednesday evening". To understand this change, listen to podcast message entitled, "Passion Week Chronology". There was so much activity taking place at the Lord's EMPTY tomb early Sunday morning, it is difficult to get the sequence all put together, but it is explained very clearly in this study - and in a very exciting manner! Bible critics who claim inconsistencies in the accounts of the four gospel authors are addressed and easily answered! This is a fascinating lesson! It is informative in many ways; even humorous in the way the differences between women and men are demonstrated! Did you know it was a group of three women who first announced the full Gospel message - the death, burial, and resurrection! To whom did they make that announcement? The Apostles. What was their reaction? Disbelief. In fact, they thought the women were full of delirious wild talk! How ironic that when they publicly shared the Gospel on the Day of Pentecost, they were accused of being drunk! We should not be surprised when people to whom we share the Good News of salvation in Christ think we are narrow-minded, non-woke, backwoods, ignorant fools - should we? It has always been that way! Nonetheless, the Truth is the Truth and we sow the seed and leave the response of "the soil" to the Lord!
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