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Announcements
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This Thursday April 21 at 6:30pm the Revelation Bible Study continues.
Next week is Baptism Sunday (April 24) with a celebration potluck following.
So please bring your favorite dish and enjoy the fellowship.’
Worship Team Meeting and Training to be announced...
Introduction
He has Risen!
He has Risen indeed!
Good morning and Happy Resurrection Sunday!
We are glad that you are with us this morning to worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time, one book at a time.
Today, we are going to visit Dr. Luke and take a look at the Road to Emmaus one of the most amazing stories in the Bible.
A story of disappointment, but yet one of Faith, Hope, and Love church.
But the greatest of these is Love.
But before we dive into our text at hand, I wanted to give you some background to where we are headed.
Prayer
Lord Heavenly Father, You loved this world so much, that you gave your one and only Son, so that we might be called your children, the righteousness of God In Christ Jesus and live with you in eternity.
May today we realize a new what Your death and resurrection means for us us individually and collectively as the Body of Christ.
Help us to fully understand that forgiveness and freedom were not cheap and that it was our sins that put your Son on the cross.
Let us have eyes that look upon your grace and rejoice in our salvation.
Help us Lord to walk in that mighty grace and tell your good news to all the world.
We pray this in Jesus Name, we love You! Amen
Background
The story takes place that Jesus shows up at the house of Simon the leaper and shortly after Mary the sister of Martha shows up with an alabaster flask of costly fragrant oil and anoints Jesus head and feet for burial...
Jesus is well pleased with Mary and shares with his penny pinching disciples that wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what Mary did will also be told as a memorial to her.
So we see Mary make history and what is interesting is that she did not know the day or hour that the Son of man would be crucified.
While this was happening, the religious leaders along with Rome, where plotting to kill Jesus, while Jesus is planning to have the passover meal with his disciples.
Jesus washes the feet, The Last Supper happens, communion is instituted, and Jesus is betrayed church by Judas to the religious leaders and turned over to Pontius Pilate to be crucified.
But before the crucifixion and trail came the whipping that tore the flesh off his back, the beating that was unbearable, the mocking and spit of the soldiers and crowd that we deserved and not our King.
You know the sad thing is that many who witnessed the miracles of Jesus Christ, were the same ones that yelled, “Crucify Him, Crucify Him!”
He was handed the old rugged cross and carried it to Calvary church, but there came a time when he was exhausted from the tearing of his flesh and the beating, that Simon the Cyrenian helped him.
When Jesus made it to the hill of Calvary outside the city, they drove nails into his hands and feet, drove a crown of thorns on his head, and placed him next to two criminals on the cross.
Above his head they placed a sign that said, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews!”
This was on Friday and from the sixth hour to the ninth hour there was darkness on the land, this means that the sun was darkened church...
The ninth hour Jesus cries out, “My God, My God why have your forsaken me!”
And then he gave up his Spirit, the veil was torn from top to bottom, graves were opened and saint resurrected that went into the holy city and appeared to many.
Jesus was buried in a borrowed tomb, rested in the grave on the Sabbath, and was resurrected on Sunday, the day that we now worship and we pick up here in Luke.
Read Luke 24:13-35
As we take a look at this text we are going to discover three things church:
A sorrowful walk
A scriptural talk
And a satisfied flock
Two of them, most scholars agree that these were disciples of Jesus, not just two people that knew little about the Messiah, but two that knew him much.
It is clear that one of these disciples was Cleopas as we will learn shortly, but the other is unknown.
So it is Sunday and they are walking back having a conversation about Jesus.
What a blessed time it is when we have conversations about Jesus with our brothers and sisters about Jesus!
I wonder what they were saying church and what the Lord thought?
I wonder if they said, well he lied to us, he said he was coming back, but did not return?
Someone must of stolen his body?
There is no way, Jose!
We wanted a conqueroring King and he came as a suffering Servant???
Emmaus was about seven miles form Jerusalem as the text says, but the exact location is somewhat unknown.
Here is a map that show approximately where it was at...
So these two disciples are walking and talking and it is clear that they are disappointed, discouraged, depressed, and in despair.
They talked about everything that had happened that week in relation to Jesus.
I think it is important for us to realize that there are times in life that we are going to be disappointed and even feel betrayed, not everything in life is going to go our way.
We will be hurt and let down, but guess what, in the midst of or disappointment, in the midst or our discouragement, depression, and despair Jesus will show up!
But the question is,”Will we acknowledge him?”
Did you see that?
In the midst of their suffering, the Suffering Servant arrives and I think we can say that God’s timing is always perfect and right on time.
But we should also recognize that he timing and our timing is not the same much of the time.
While the disciples were walking, they were discussing the things that had happened to Jesus Christ.
At that very moment Jesus Himself approached them and began traveling with them.
This was not unusual.
Strangers often walked along together.
In a seven mile walk at 20 minutes per mile, it would be about a 2-2 1⁄2 hour walk.
That is a lot of time for a lot of conversation.
This is very important for us to see the But here!
When the text says But their eyes were restrained, this is written in the passive tense int he Greek and not the active.
It means that the had nothing to do with their eyes being restrained, but that it was God who was restraining their eyes.
For it is God church who gives sight to the blind!
This mean that they could not see his nailed scarred hands and feet, nor where the crown of thorns was....
These men are going to learn a truth that is greater than their sight.
Whenever I teach on sight, I am always reminded about what Helen Keller said when she was asked was there anything worse than being blind?
And she responded,
“ Having sight and not being able to see!”
And we see that here in our story today!
Why were their eyes restrained?
It is simple, Because Jesus had a lesson to teach them on faith!
Note: Jesus show up!
And he shows up when they are sad!
Jesus shows up shortly after his resurrection in the midst of their disappointment and sadness church.
Isn’t this a profound truth!
God always shows up at the right time and place, when we are discouraged, depressed, despairing and sad.
He loves us so, so, much church that he send a messenger of redemption into the midst of our pain.
But there is another truth here, Jesus shows up in the midst of their conversation....
What if God showed up in the middle of or conversations and asked what we are talking about?
Would the tone of the conversation change?
It is crucial church that we remember that God is always listening to our conversations because there is nothing hidden from His sight.
So these disciples are sad and defeated.
They are sad because they were convinced that Jesus did not rise.
Church, this is one of the most ironic statements in all the Word.
Jesus was not a stranger to them, but because their eyes were retrained by God, they thought he was...
Look at the next text, Jesus humors them:
Jesus said, What things!
Then look at where Cleopas goes, he articulates right theology from his head about what happened to Jesus but failed to believe the witnesses that God sent to tell them that he was Risen!!!
These were Jews and they knew their Bibles which would be the Pentateuch, Moses and the Prophets, but like many, they failed to Jesus in the OT, therefore, expected a conqueroring King, not a suffering Servant.
Look a Cleopas’ sermon:
Did you see that they were hoping that he was going to redeem Israel.
I think it is important for us to see three thing here:
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