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The sense that we will live forever somewhere has shaped every civilization in human history.
Australian aborigines pictured Heaven as a distant island beyond the western horizon.
The early Finns thought it was a distant island in the far away east.
Mexicans, Peruvians, and Polynesians believed that they went to the sun or the moon after death.
Native Americans believed that, in the afterlife, their spirits would hunt the spirits of buffalo.
The Gilgamesh epic, an ancient Babylonian legend, refers to a resting place of heroes and hints at a tree of life.
In the pyramids of Egypt, the embalmed bodies had maps placed beside them as guides to the future world.
The Romans believed that the righteous would picnic in the Elysian Fields, while their horses grazed nearby.
Seneca, the Roman philosopher, said, "The day thou fearest as the last is the birthday of eternity."
Although these depictions of the afterlife differ, the unifying testimony of the human heart throughout history is belief in life after death.
Anthropological evidence suggests that every culture has a God-given, innate sense of the eternal—that this world is not all there is.
Yet people have great difficulty believing in life after death, or of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In the Gospel of Luke two disciples are crippled in their belief in the resurrection.
Luke 24:13-35
*Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
[14] They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
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* It was "that same day" that the women discovered the empty tomb and reported it to the disciples (the resurrection day, Easter Sunday)
* The news had been received with skepticism, as utter nonsense.
* These two, Cleopas and his companion, had either been present or someone told them.
* As they made their way to Emmaus they were sad, gripped by a spirit of despair over the Lord's crucifixion.
Their hope that Jesus was the promised Messiah had been dashed against the rocks of death
* Misery loves company
* When you are sad you want someone to:
* Cheer you up
* To talk to
[15] As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; [16] but they were kept from recognizing him.
* They were so absorbed in their dispair, so downtrodden, that they didn’t realize the stranger walking along side them.
* Scholars say that Jesus by now has a resurrected body or some say a partially resurrected body, but the Bible doesn’t say that, so neither am I.
It was the same day (Sunday)
* Why didn’t they recognize Jesus?
Because Jesus supernaturally willed it.
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*[17] He asked them, "What are you discussing together as you walk along?"*
* They stood still, their faces downcast.
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*[18] One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?"
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The first question: What are you talking about; what is it that is causing you to look so sad?
2. Jesus could see sadness and despair written all over their faces.
3. Cleopas was surprised that the stranger did not know.
"How could anyone be in Jerusalem and not know why we are sad and despairing?"
*[19] "What things?" he asked.*
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The second question: What circumstances could possibly cause such sadness and despair?"
Cleopas answered, covering three subjects in v19-24.
a. *Jesus' death*.
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He was a great prophet.
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The rulers crucified him.
The Jews delivered Him, and the Gentile Romans condemned and crucified Him.
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We had trusted that He was the Messiah, the One who was to save Israel.
b. *Jesus' prophecy of three days*.(Cleopas
was sharing how their dead Master had told them)
a. to watch for the third day, for some unusual event.
b. that He had spoken of "rising again on the third day," whatever that meant.
c. that they thought the words meant that His triumph would take place on the third day.
c. *Jesus' empty tomb* and perplexing reports from certain women, reports...
a. of an empty tomb.
b. of a vision of angels.
c. of Jesus being alive.
d. that had been confirmed.
e. that Jesus was not seen.
[25] He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
[26] Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?"
* The problem with the two from Emmaus, as it is with so many today, was their shortsightedness and unbelief
* There is one major reason why men refuse to accept a risen Lord.
A risen Lord means that a man must subject himself to the Lord and obey and serve Him.
* The third question: "Did not the prophets predict Messiah's death and resurrection?"
* They have studied, they should know these things, but they didn’t.
* They were without excuse
* If you are here today, there is a reason.
* You came wanting to know more than just what color the walls were painted.
[27] And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
* Jesus explained the Scripture to the two disciples, taught them book by book.
* Churches offer this same opportunity to study, yet Christians, and Christian leaders fail to act on it.
[28] As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther.
[29] But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over."
So he went in to stay with them.
* The two disciples wanted to hear more.
* The Word of God being proclaimed is what had stirred the conviction and the burning
* Their response to the conviction—inviting Christ into their home—led to their coming to know Him personally
[30] When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.
[31] Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.
[32] They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"
It was night, but the two rushed back to the apostles.
When they arrived, they found the apostles and some other disciples already gathered together.
They were all bursting with excitement.
To the shock of the two from Emmaus, the group had the same immortal witness to share: "The Lord is risen.
He has appeared to Simon."
As they listened to Simon's experience, they were bursting at the seams, hardly able to contain themselves, waiting to share their own experience.
Finally, their time came and they shared their experience and the very same immortal witness: "The Lord is risen indeed."
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