“He said unto them, Why are ye 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 a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have. And when He had thus spoken, He showed them His hands and His feet”— Luke 24:38-4038And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 39Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. 40And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. (Luke 24:38‑40).
CHRIST’S victory over death is the assurance that the sin question has been settled to the divine satisfaction, and that peace has been made by the blood of the cross. As the risen One, “He is our peace,” who has vanquished our foe and has opened the way into the immediate presence of God for all who come to Him by Jesus Christ. As we look up, by faith, into the holiest of all, and see Him, who once stood in our place when He bore our sins in His own body on the tree, now seated as the glorified Man at the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens, we know we have nothing to fear. God has accepted us in Him, His beloved One, and we now stand free of all condemnation. All this is involved in His salutation, “Peace be unto you.”
“Christ’s grave is vacant now,
Left for the throne above;
His Cross asserts God’s right to bless
In His own boundless love.”