August 04 2025

Monday August 04

“Handle Me and See”

Luke 24:36-46

36 Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you." 37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have." 40 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41 But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, "Have you any food here?" 42 So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it and ate in their presence. 44 Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Today we're continuing to look at Luke 24:36-46. This is Jesus' first appearance to the eleven disciples in the upper room when they're all together. And when Jesus appears, the scripture says that “they are frightened and terrified. And they suppose they had seen a spirit”. And He said to them, "Why are you so troubled? Why do doubts rise in your hearts?" He had told them many times He would be crucified, and that He would rise again, but their hearts still doubted even now. And so, He assures their troubled hearts with these words, "Behold My hands and My feet. It is I Myself."

What we want to talk about today is in these next words of Jesus to the disciples, “Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. And when He said this, He showed them His hands and His feet”. Now John's gospel tells us in John 20:25-27 that when Jesus showed them His hands and His feet, it doesn't say that He showed them the scars on His body, but at least twice it says that He showed them the prints. He showed them “the prints of the nails”. The prints of the nails in His hands and in His feet.

Then Jesus said, "Handle Me and see”, And again, it says, “He showed them His hands and in His feet”, not the scars. The only thing in heaven that will be made by man are the prints of the nails in His hands and His feet. We will be able to still see them. And then we find also that Jesus went on to say, "And while they did not believe for joy and marveled, He said to them, 'Do you have any food here?'" And they gave Him a piece of boiled fish and some honeycomb, and He took it and ate in their presence”.

Now, one of the most asked questions I get is, "Will we eat in heaven?" What will we be like in heaven? Will we have bodies in heaven? And for a fact, I'm convinced at the rapture of the church, the Bible speaks about the dead in Christ rising in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4:13-18 and in 1 Corinthians 15:50-58. Paul reveals to us a mystery and there He says, "We shall all be changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye." In Thessalonians 4:16, he wrote, "And the dead in Christ shall rise first”. The bodies of all the deceased believers will resurrect out of the graves and at that moment they'll reunite with their soul and spirit in heaven and at the same time our bodies with be changed to a body like Jesus’.

1 John 3: 2-3, tells us, "And when we see Him, we will be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." We'll have a body like Jesus. He could eat solid foods. He could move in and out of rooms through closed doors. Now how a physical body could go through a closed solid wall, I cannot explain. But my friend, we'll have a body like that. I believe we'll travel at the speed of thought even during the millennium, just like Jesus did from Galilee and back and forth to Jerusalem during the 40 days after His resurrection.

Oh, heaven's going to be a wonderful place. We have new bodies. “This corruptible must put on incorruption. This mortal must put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that's written, Death is swallowed up in victory." We will have new bodies. A body that will not experience any more pain, any more suffering, and has no more problems with health at all. Oh, we'll see perfectly because we'll still have all our faculties. People will recognize each other in those bodies that we originally had on planet Earth, but they'll be glorified bodies just like Jesus.

Jesus still says troubled hearts, "Handle Me and see." Interesting to me, the Gospel of John starts out with, "Come and see," to Andrew and John (John 1:39). But now Luke’s Gospel ends with, "Handle Me and see." Later John went on to write in 1John 1:1, “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life”.

Oh my friend, today Jesus invites us to come and handle Him. First you, “Come and see”, but now You can handle Him and see. Come to Jesus today and handle Him in His Word. You can reach out and touch Him today! Open your heart to Him. Believe in the reality of a physical, literal resurrection of Jesus Christ. The reality of this truth will change and transform your life like it did the disciples as the Holy Spirit fills you.

God bless!