Encounters with the Resurrected Christ, Part 6: The Afternoon Of
Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 4 viewsNotes
Transcript
Sermon Tone Analysis
A
D
F
J
S
Emotion
A
C
T
Language
O
C
E
A
E
Social
“What should I do when sin and circumstances leave us devastated?”
So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
What should we do when sin and circumstances leave us devastated?
Remember that Jesus draws near.
The Resurrected Christ doesn’t abandon us in our devastation. He draws nearer to us because of our devastation in order to have an encounter us.
Luke 24:17 (NKJV)
“What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?”
What should we do when sin and circumstances leave us devastated?
Keep talking to Jesus.
Luke 24:18 (NKJV)
Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?”
And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him.
But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.
Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.
When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.
And certain 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.”
What should we do when sin and circumstances leave us devastated?
Remember the promises of the Resurrected Christ.
Luke 24:25–26 (NKJV)
Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in what your Rabbi taught you. Didn’t Jesus tell you that He must suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”
Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”
And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Jesus did not first reveal Himself in His true character to them, and then open the Scriptures to their minds; for He knew that they would be so overjoyed to see Him again, risen from the dead, that their souls would be satisfied. They would not hunger for the sacred truths which He wished to impress indelibly upon their minds, that they might impart them to others, who should in their turn spread the precious knowledge, until thousands of people should receive the light given that day to the despairing disciples as they journeyed to Emmaus.
He maintained His disguise till He had interpreted the Scriptures, and had led them to an intelligent faith in His life, His character, His mission to earth, and His death and resurrection. He wished the truth to take firm root in their minds, not because it was supported by His personal testimony, but because the typical law, and the prophets of the Old Testament, agreeing with the facts of His life and death, presented unquestionable evidence of that truth.
Luke 24:30–31 (NKJV)
... He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
They went from being hopeless to hope filled not for encountering the scars of the Resurrected Christ but after encountering the Scriptures of the Resurrected Christ.
What should we do when sin and circumstances leave us devastated?
Encounter the Resurrected Christ within the Scriptures.