He is Risen...He is Risen Indeed!!!!
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Heads Are Spinning
Heads Are Spinning
13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
These two men were walking to Emmaus, it was Sunday. It is most likely mid to late afternoon. They were aware of the women telling about the empty tomb. It is most likely these are part of the larger group of disciples, but not the twelve. There is an evidence that these men were known by the twelve. They were not random men. They were probably a part of the 120 mentioned in
15 In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said,
It is also possible that the men lived in Emmaus and they were heading home.
It takes about two hours to go from Jerusalem to Emmaus.
These men were confounded by the events of the weekend. They were struggling to find the meaning of all the events.
A Stranger!
A Stranger!
15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
They did not recognize Him
They did not recognize Him
16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
This was a supernatural action to prevent them from recognition,.
It does not indicate that Jesus was unrecognizable in His resurrection body. (Luke 24:31)
A time for humor?
A time for humor?
17 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. 18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” 19 And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
Notice how the two men recieved Jesus, they were not confrontational, just surprised that He was unaware of the events.
In asking “What things”, Jesus is showing some humor.
He is showing that His joy is greater than His suffering!
Observe, (1.) Jesus Christ made light of his own sufferings, in comparison with the joy set before him, which was the recompence of it. Now that he was entering upon his glory, see with what unconcernedness he looks back upon his sufferings: What things? He had reason to know what things; for to him they were bitter things, and heavy things, and yet he asks, What things? The sorrow was forgotten, for joy that the man-child of our salvation was born. He took pleasure in infirmities for our sakes, to teach us to do so for his sake. (2.) Those whom Christ will teach he will first examine how far they have learned; they must tell him what things they know, and then he will tell them what was the meaning of these things. and lead them into the mystery of them.
Matthew Henry,
Their response is one of consternation mixed with sadness: ‘What’s the matter with you, how could you possibly not know the things that have happened?’
R. C. Sproul, A Walk with God: An Exposition of Luke (Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 1999), 419.
Skeptics Abound
Skeptics Abound
22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, 23 and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.”
They doubted the authenticity of the resurrection accounts.
They hadn’t embraced the message of the women—it was hearsay, as far as they were concerned, even though some of the men had been to check for themselves.
The tomb was empty, but no-one had seen the risen Jesus.
“Was it not necessary?”
“Was it not necessary?”
25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
Jesus rebukes the two men.
This is not the wicked fool, but as weak men.
The are fools because:
Their slowness to believe.
Believers are branded as fools by atheists, and infidels, and free-thinkers, and their most holy faith is censured as a fond credulity; but Christ tells us that those are fools who are slow of heart to believe, and are kept from it by prejudices never impartially examined.
Their slowness to believe the writings of the prophets.
He does not so much blame them for their slowness to believe the testimony of the women and of the angels, but for that which was the cause thereof, their slowness to believe the prophets; for, if they had given the prophets of the Old Testament their due weight and consideration, they would have been as sure of Christ’s rising from the dead that morning (being the third day after his death) as they were of the rising of the sun; for the series and succession of events as settled by prophecy are no less certain and inviolable than as settled by providence. Were we but more conversant with the scripture, and the divine counsels as far as they are made known in the scripture, we should not be subject to such perplexities as we often entangle ourselves in.
Matthew Henry
Jesus then rebukes them: ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!’ Jesus’ words are crucial; notice he doesn’t rebuke them for not believing the testimony of the women, but for not believing all that the prophets had foretold. When he calls them foolish he doesn’t mean that they were slow in their minds or unable to reason properly due to insufficient evidence, rather he was making a moral judgment. The problem was not their rationality, but their hearts; they were still cold to the truth of God.
R. C. Sproul
The Greatest Sermon Never Recorded
The Greatest Sermon Never Recorded
27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
It is reasonable to argue that Jesus interpreted the entire Old Testament.
Here is a list of some of the passages we know about.
Think about some of verses pointing to Christ:
The promise to Adam and Eve
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
The promise to Abraham
18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
The Passover Lamb (Exodus 12)
The Scapegoat (Leviticus 16:1-34)
The Bronze serpent
9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
The Greater Prophet
15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—
The Star and Scepter
17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.
The Smitten Rock
11 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Immanuel
The Good Shepherd
The Suffering Servant
He who bore our griefs
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
The Branch
The Heir of David
The Ruler from Bethlehem
The lowly King
The pierced victim
The messenger of the covenant
1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
The Son of Righteousness
2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
Beginning at Moses, He shows, from the types, the prophecies, and the Psalms, how that the Christ must suffer and die, ere the glories of His kingdom can begin; that the cross and the grave both lay in the path of the Redeemer, as the bitter and prickly calyx out of which the “glories” should unfold themselves. And thus, opening their Scriptures, putting in the crimson lens of the blood, as well as the chromatic lens of the Messianic glory, the disciples find the cross all transfigured, inwoven in God’s eternal purpose of redemption; while the sufferings of Christ, at which they had stumbled before, they now see were part of the eternal plan of mercy, a Divine “ought,” a great necessity.
Henry Burton, “The Gospel according to St. Luke,” in The Expositor’s Bible: Luke to Galatians, ed. W. Robertson Nicoll, vol. 5, Expositor’s Bible (Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton Co., 1903), 110.
The Greek word used here for interpret is defined as: to make sense of, to expound or explain.
Jesus preached an expository sermon on Himself for up to two hours. Imagine the insight and explanation of Scripture.
I would love to hear this sermon one day, for I think there would be none like it in all of history.
Eyes are opened
Eyes are opened
The breaking of bread was a honor of the host, not the visitor.
Sitting down to meat, the Stranger Guest, without any apology, takes the place of the host, and blessing the bread, He breaks and gives to them. Was it the uplifted face threw them back on the old, familiar days? or did they read the nail-mark in His hand? We do not know; but in an instant the veil in which He had enfolded Himself was withdrawn, and they knew Him; it was the Lord Himself, the risen Jesus!
Henry Burton, “The Gospel according to St. Luke,” in The Expositor’s Bible: Luke to Galatians, ed. W. Robertson Nicoll, vol. 5, Expositor’s Bible (Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton Co., 1903), 110.Burning Hearts
The Word rightly preached affects you internally!
32 They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”
Knowledge Drives Action!!!
Knowledge Drives Action!!!
33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
Notice how the realization of the risen Christ changed the disciples!
The more knowledge you have, the more responsibility you have in acting on that knowledge.
Obedience is immediate, not delayed. We are to respond immediately to the Word.
Genesis 3:15; 9:26; 12;3; 22:18; 49:10; Exodus 12:13; Numbers 24:17; Deuteronomy 18:15, 18; 2 Samuel 7:12-13; Psalm 2:2; 22:1, 18; 45:11; 68:18; 69:20-21; 72:8-9; 110:1; 118:22; 132:11; Job 19:25; Isaiah 2:4; 7:14; 8:8, 10; 9:1, 2, 6-7; 11:10, 25:8; 28:16; 35:5-6; 42:1; 49:6; 52;14; 53:1-12; 55:4; 59:16; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 17:22; Daniel 2:24, 35, 44; 7:13-14; 9:25; Micah 5:2; Haggai 2:6-9; Zechariah 3:8; 6:12; 9:9; 11:12; 12:10; 13:7; Malachi 3:1
