Riverside Church Sunday Message
Oct 6, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
Sarah Auger speaks on Luke 24:36-49 as part of our Did not our hearts burn? series. The disciples have seen Jesus alive, but the story isn't finished. When Jesus appears among them again, he speaks…
Sarah AugerHost
It's a film that centres around the story of these two people who have both gone through, young adults who've gone through quite big traumas in their life.
So one of them saw their mother killed, the other sort of lost their brother in tragic circumstances.
And the film is kind of a coming-of-age, reconciliation, kind of restoration film about the lives of these two young adults whose lives have been so dramatically altered by events that they have been part of.
But right towards the end of the film, Robert Patterson's character has been reconciled with his dad, with whom he's had a really difficult relationship.
So he's gone early in the morning to meet his dad in his office and he's there looking out with the kind of camera behind his back.
The film then switches to a classroom scene where this character, Robert Patterson's sister, is in a classroom.
And she's there in her classroom, ready to start her day, having been just dropped at school by her dad.
And as she starts unpacking her bags and she sits at her desk, the teacher in the classroom writes the date on the board of the day that they are there on that morning.
The film then shots back to Robert Pattinson, and rather than the camera being behind his head, it's now outside the office block, looking in to where he is staring out of his dad's office window.
And the camera pans out and out and out until you realize that he is standing at the top of the Twin Towers.
And how you view that film and all the little clues of what this film is leading up to dramatically changes.
Because in the context of knowing the date and the details of when that last scene happens, you review the whole film in your head.
Because it took place, obviously, on that tragic day in New York when the terrorist attack meant that both the Twin Towers fell and thousands of people lost their lives in the film, fictionally, including the character that Robert Pattinson was playing.
The context, the details, the date of that film change everything about how we see that film and what we know about that film.
So actually, rooting this passage that we've just heard read from us for the end of the book of Luke in some of the scriptures that we find earlier in the Bible do the same for this passage for us.
Because putting it in the context and the details and the things that we've already read about in the Old Testament help us to learn and understand even more of what this passage is and the significance of why it was written.
Because some of the passages in the Old Testament, we know historically, factually, were written that many, many years before Jesus was born.
So there are fragments, there are pieces of parchment where books from the Old Testament have been found.
It's a film that centres around the story of these two people who have both gone through, young adults who've gone through quite big traumas in their life.
So one of them saw their mother killed, the other sort of lost their brother in tragic circumstances.
And the film is kind of a coming-of-age, reconciliation, kind of restoration film about the lives of these two young adults whose lives have been so dramatically altered by events that they have been part of.
But right towards the end of the film, Robert Patterson's character has been reconciled with his dad, with whom he's had a really difficult relationship.
So he's gone early in the morning to meet his dad in his office and he's there looking out with the kind of camera behind his back.
The film then switches to a classroom scene where this character, Robert Patterson's sister, is in a classroom.
And she's there in her classroom, ready to start her day, having been just dropped at school by her dad.
And as she starts unpacking her bags and she sits at her desk, the teacher in the classroom writes the date on the board of the day that they are there on that morning.
The film then shots back to Robert Pattinson, and rather than the camera being behind his head, it's now outside the office block, looking in to where he is staring out of his dad's office window.
And the camera pans out and out and out until you realize that he is standing at the top of the Twin Towers.
And how you view that film and all the little clues of what this film is leading up to dramatically changes.
Because in the context of knowing the date and the details of when that last scene happens, you review the whole film in your head.
Because it took place, obviously, on that tragic day in New York when the terrorist attack meant that both the Twin Towers fell and thousands of people lost their lives in the film, fictionally, including the character that Robert Pattinson was playing.
The context, the details, the date of that film change everything about how we see that film and what we know about that film.
So actually, rooting this passage that we've just heard read from us for the end of the book of Luke in some of the scriptures that we find earlier in the Bible do the same for this passage for us.
Because putting it in the context and the details and the things that we've already read about in the Old Testament help us to learn and understand even more of what this passage is and the significance of why it was written.
Because some of the passages in the Old Testament, we know historically, factually, were written that many, many years before Jesus was born.
So there are fragments, there are pieces of parchment where books from the Old Testament have been found.
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