The Barometer of Understanding Easter
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The Barometer of Understanding Easter
The Barometer of Understanding Easter
How well do we really understand what we see, hear and read?
Depends on background and accurately processing what we hear.
“Bless this food in its tender juice”
Is it important that we understand? How important?
Japanese
Asking the correct questions and understanding the answers
How much is this?/What is the price of this?
How can we be confident that we do understand the important things of life? Probably at issue here is accurately determining what is important.
How do we define what is important?
Are there spiritually definable items?
What are viable options if we do not understand?
Make excuses?
Too complicated
Excuse self
Not that important
Blame others?
Making it too hard
Not communicating effectively - teacher is the problem
Accurately processing some information can be a matter of life and death!
How do we accurately assess whether we accurately understand the Word of God and what God is saying to us?
Like Christmas, Palm Sunday and the of Easter are well recorded in the Word of God. Many people, whether or not they profess to believe or even be religious, remember snippets of those events. But the Scriptures would also remind us that it is not only what we remember but do we remember accurately and are we implementing what we remember in ways that allow the Word of God to change our hearts and lives. A variation in this would be the elementary truths that we might fail to understand and live, make it difficult if not impossible for us to understand and apply secondary truths.
i.e. driving a vehicle - automatic, standard, size, weight, brakes - standard, power, air,
That is beautifully demonstrated in the heart warming/heart burning account of “The Two on the Road to Emmaus.”
At the heart of this recounting of Jesus’ post resurrection intimate time with the two on the Road to Emmaus is Christ’s underscoring that the most important reality in the world is the Word of God/the Scriptures/God’s truth.
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
for my hope is in your rules.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Jn 17:
by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Tim
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
God’s truth is tried.
This God—his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Ps 18:
God’s word is upright - - forever settled in heaven - - a lamp for the feet and a light for the path - - pure - - source of reward -
God’s word is a source of blessing.
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
God uses His word to sanctify us.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
God’s word is an effective weapon
and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
Only those who understand the Bible can know - the truth of salvation from sin and deliverance from eternal hell.
Only those who understand the Bible can know - the truth of salvation from sin and deliverance from eternal hell.
Only those who obey the truths of God’s word can live obedient, fulfilled, effective and truly joyful lives.
When we understand the Scriptures, we understand everything from God’s perspective, which is the only true/accurate way of seeing .
In the Scriptures we see life as God created it to be and how that which was lost can be reclaimed.
The greatest favor, gift that we can give anyone is lovingly, graciously explaining to truths of the word of God to them.
Two disciples on the road to Emmaus -
That very day - kai idou - and behold - KJV, NASB - 26 times in Luke and 8 times in Acts - used by Luke to introduce something new and unexpected.
Two of them - disciples - integral part of a core group of disciples that we wrongly assume was limited to the 12 and a small group of woman who were often close by -
Later report to the 12 and those who were gathered with them - Luke 24:33-36
Mark also referred to the encounter referred to by Luke
After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.
Emmaus - nothing known for sure - only referred to here in the Scriptures - tradition connects it with Kubeibeh, seven miles
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