The resurrected Christ did some normal human things like eat fish (Luke 24:42 – 43), cook breakfast (John 21:12), and show real wounds caused by the nails (John 20:27), but the risen Lord also did things that no human being could do, like pass-through shut doors. In John 20 on the evening of resurrection day the disciples were closed up in a room because of fear. At this point, John had already believed in the risen Christ, and Peter had experienced a personal visitation with the resurrected Jesus, but if the two of them had tried to convince the other disciples that were in that room that everything therefore would be okay, it wasn’t working. They were afraid of reprisals from the Jewish leaders and they had every right to be afraid in the natural because the persecution of the believers began immediately and their life was in real jeopardy. In the midst of that scene of cloistered fear Jesus does something supernatural and superhuman when He passes through the closed doors and stands in their midst and says to them, “Peace be with you.” Jesus then showed them his hands and feet and as he sensed their continual struggle to believe what their eyes were seeing He asked them to give Him something to eat and they gave Him a piece of broiled fish and he took it and ate it in their sight.
Fifty days later on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit would fill them and create in each of them a union with the resurrected Christ, and from that day forward they could be described as people who were in Christ, the One who had conquered death. Even though they were still human after the day of Pentecost, they were more than just human for they, being in union with the one who can pass through closed doors, were superhumans, though still squarely on the earth, yet heavenly in nature and capacity.
On Easter evening they were locked away in logical fear, but when the resurrected Christ stood among them their fears turned into His peace. As people who are in Christ, seated in the heavenly places, Jesus joins us in the most normal human things but because it is the death conquering Jesus that we abide in, we no longer are subject to the tyranny of logical fears and anxieties. No matter what we face as human beings in this fallen world, we face it with the risen Christ not just standing among us but dwelling in us, setting us free by his resurrected presence and power from the gravitational pull of being just normal fallen people. Though our feet are standing on the earth, our identity is seated in the heavenly places in Christ. Because of our union with the resurrected Christ, nothing we face is simply as it appears to be. We are more than overwhelming conquerors through Him.