1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome everyone. It's good to be here today to 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,520 worship God in spirit and in truth. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,440 And I would like to say I appreciated not only the song 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:16,000 that Wade LED that we all sang together, but his comments 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,520 regarding the author that wrote it. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,080 And that is that God is worthy of our praise regardless of the 7 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:28,680 circumstances in our life. And sometimes in our life we 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,840 have things that are trying and we have things that are 9 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:35,720 difficult and sometimes we even suffer. 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,880 The entire point of what we're going to talk about is 2 men 11 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,040 that traveled on a lonely road and that was to Emmaus, a little 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,360 village from Jerusalem about 7 miles away. 13 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,320 And one of the hardest things that they had to deal with in 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,880 their mind was they couldn't fathom that the Messiah had to 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,160 suffer first before entering into his glory. 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,800 As we were singing that song just a moment ago, I thought 17 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,880 about and I reflected on our Christian lives. 18 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,920 And the Bible does say that we're going to have glory one 19 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:18,240 day, but what does it say after we have suffered a while? 20 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,080 That's life. And while we're going through 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,680 that, God is worthy of our praise every step of the way. 22 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,400 This morning I've looked forward to this. 23 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,040 We're starting a brand new series. 24 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:37,480 I've taken you now from a series prior to this one, beginning 25 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,040 from the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and we 26 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,720 took it all the way through the resurrection. 27 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,840 And now what we're going to do is this morning we're going to 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,960 start a series on the 40 days that Jesus spent with his 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,880 disciples after the resurrection and before the ascension. 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,960 I don't know how many times in Bible studies where I study the 31 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,120 book of Acts with someone, which is very important, I always talk 32 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,040 about, well, I mentioned that I narrate the crucifixion, the 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,760 burial, the resurrection of Jesus. 34 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,320 And then I always say, and then skipping 40 days later to Acts 35 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,480 chapter 1 to the ascension and get right into the meat of the 36 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,160 book of Acts. But what I thought I'd do is 37 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,680 back up. Let's study those 40 days. 38 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,960 They were so significant, the 40 days the Lord spent after his 39 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,880 resurrection before he ascended. We're going to do our very best 40 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,880 to keep things in chronological order and sequence as much as 41 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,040 possible. And in doing so, we've got to 42 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,680 bounce around through the different narratives of the 43 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,040 different gospel accounts. But this morning, as we begin at 44 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,400 the beginning, we've got to go to Luke chapter 24. 45 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,560 Now, in Luke chapter 24, Luke focuses on the bodily 46 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,000 resurrection of Jesus, and that's very important. 47 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,720 But what Luke does is Luke leaves out specific details that 48 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,000 the other gospel writers actually include. 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,480 And what Luke does is he talks about two appearances, one of 50 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,480 which we're going to discuss today, and that is when Jesus 51 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,040 met those two men on the road to Emmaus. 52 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,240 Later he's going to talk about and that'll be next time. 53 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,240 Later he's going to talk about the time or we're going to refer 54 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,480 to that Luke refers to when Jesus walked through those doors 55 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,080 and met with the 11 and whoever else was present there. 56 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,800 We talk about that next. What Luke does is the Luke 57 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,760 chapter 24. He deals with those two 58 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,440 appearances and then he skips 39 days and gets right to the 59 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,000 ascension. Now we know that the author Luke 60 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,400 understands about all those days because in his sequel when he 61 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,400 wrote Acts, the book of Acts, he actually points out in Acts 62 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,720 chapter 1 and verse three that Jesus showed himself alive for 63 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,680 those 40 days. So we understand that he knew 64 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,360 that. But in the gospel according to 65 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:59,280 Luke he only mentions two occasions where the Lord was 66 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,120 seen. But in all the Gospel accounts 67 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,480 we find that there are 10 post resurrection appearances of 68 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,120 Jesus, five of which actually occur on this day, the morning 69 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,600 or the day of the resurrection. Let's begin in Luke chapter 24 70 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:20,079 and verse #1. Luke 24 and verse #1. 71 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,120 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, 72 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,360 they and certain other women with them came to the tomb, 73 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,080 bringing the spices which they had prepared. 74 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,120 Notice this phrase on the first day of the week. 75 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,600 This phrase actually in the original is literally translated 76 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,560 among Jews. And you got to look at this by 77 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,360 the way, through a Jewish lens and what they would have 78 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,360 understood. So we go back in our mindset to 79 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,920 what the Jews actually referred to by way of their own calendar. 80 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,720 This phrase, the first day of the week. 81 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:56,480 If you ever want to know where that came from or what it means, 82 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:02,040 it actually is translated on the one of the Sabbaths. 83 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,560 And why was that? Well, the Jews didn't have names 84 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,240 for the weekdays like we have. We have Monday, Tuesday, 85 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,000 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 86 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,080 We've got that. You know what? 87 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,600 The Jews didn't have that. Everything that they did 88 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,880 regarding their week, 7 day week, everything concerning the 89 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:27,360 description of every day was always with reference to the 90 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,160 Sabbath because why the Sabbath was the significant day under 91 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,160 the law of Moses. That was the number one 92 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,720 significant day. Now we have a different 93 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,200 significant day, but hold that thought. 94 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:39,640 I'm going to make a point in just a minute. 95 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,080 We have a new significant day. We don't recognize the Sabbath 96 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,880 anymore or the 7th day. That was an Old Testament under 97 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,520 the law of Moses thing. We know that. 98 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,920 So every day concerning the week was always described with 99 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:57,360 reference to the Sabbath. So what was the first day of the 100 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,400 week? It was the first day after the 101 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,080 Sabbath. So that's why it was called the 102 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:07,400 first day of the week. Now in the New Testament, early 103 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,080 Christians continued the same practice of reckoning their days 104 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,000 in sequence from the Sabbath. 2 Very important passages that we 105 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,120 all know very, very well with regards to our worship. 106 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,920 Acts 20 and 7. Now on the first day of the 107 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,640 week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, 108 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,320 ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his 109 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,360 message until midnight. How about this a passage that we 110 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,000 use with reference to the contribution after we commune. 111 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,840 We do this, and customarily we choose out of expediency to do 112 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:44,920 it. After that, after the communion 113 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,400 doesn't matter when we do it as long as we do the five items of 114 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,880 worship on the Lord's Day. Notice on the first day of the 115 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,440 week, First Corinthians 16 and two, let everyone of you lay 116 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,360 something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no 117 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,720 collections when I come. OK, so the first day of the week 118 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,480 is the first day following the Sabbath. 119 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:10,880 And I don't mean to insult anyone. 120 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,280 We just have to lay some. We got to set the table here. 121 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,040 It's talking about Sunday, and Sunday is the New Testament day 122 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,480 of significance, not the 7th day, not the Sabbath. 123 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,800 Just a little side note here, and I have a lot to cover so I'm 124 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,640 not going to get bogged down with side points here today, but 125 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:30,960 I got to just make this one point. 126 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,240 When people describe and religious people describe Sunday 127 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,240 as the Sunday Sabbath, that is a contradiction of terms. 128 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:46,560 Sabbath is 7th first day of the week. 129 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,200 Sunday is first. There are two different days, 130 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,000 and Jesus marked the transition between the Old Testament 131 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,120 Sabbath and the New Testament first day of the week. 132 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,480 OK. By the way, one of the reasons I 133 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,160 hated him, He said I'm the Son of God. 134 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,800 Why else did they hate him? The way he handled the Sabbath? 135 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,320 Jesus said I can do whatever I want on the Sabbath. 136 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,840 I'm Lord of the Sabbath, I'm greater than the Sabbath. 137 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,640 He also marked the transition between the Old Testament 138 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,880 Sabbath day and the New Testament significant day, the 139 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,000 first day of the week, which is Sunday. 140 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,360 OK, with all of that being involved here, let's talk about 141 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,920 the Jewish idiom, an idiomatic expression or a common 142 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,080 expression of the day. What about this phrase right 143 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:40,840 here, 3 days and three nights? The phrase 3 days and three 144 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:45,800 nights is used in the Scriptures to describe the amount of time 145 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,560 that Jesus is going to spend in the grave. 146 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,800 It is a phrase, by the way, that is so misunderstood and 147 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,400 misapplied and I just want to make a couple of points about 148 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,640 this. You remember in Matthew chapter 149 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,200 12 and verse 40, they came to Jesus and they said, give us a 150 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,120 sign. In other words, show us some 151 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,760 kind of a magic trick. And Jesus says an evil and 152 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,640 adulterous generation seeks after a sign. 153 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,720 And the only sign I'm going to give you is the sign of the 154 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,280 prophet Jonah. For his Jonah was 3 days and 155 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,640 three nights in the belly of a great fish. 156 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,640 So also shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in the 157 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,200 heart of the earth. OK, that idiomatic expression 3 158 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,920 days and three nights. Very important here is simply 159 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:39,320 referring to what it means. And that is the third day. 160 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:50,000 Now remember, there are only three days identified by the 161 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,240 gospel writers with regards to the connection of the death, the 162 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,360 burial and the resurrection of Jesus. 163 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,640 There's only three days. And by the way, this is really 164 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:10,600 important, understand three days preparation day, Sabbath day and 165 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,040 1st day. Now do you remember when I said 166 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,680 the first day of the week? Is there expression meaning on 167 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,160 the one of the Sabbath meaning day one after the Sabbath? 168 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,920 The first day of the week is the first day after the Sabbath. 169 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,360 What was the preparation day? The word preparation is the word 170 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,360 Paris QA, which means the day before the Sabbath. 171 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:36,800 Very significant. Notice what Jesus did. 172 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:41,000 He was crucified on the day of preparation. 173 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:47,120 OK, we know that he was crucified at 3:00. 174 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,840 According to John's account, 3:00 PM on the day of 175 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,600 preparation. Day of preparation was the day 176 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,320 before the Sabbath. He's in the ground. 177 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,760 He's buried all the way through the Sabbath day. 178 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,640 Guess what happens on the first day, which is the new 179 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,160 significant religious day under the New Testament times. 180 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,680 He rose from the dead. Do you see a picture here? 181 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,960 When we are baptized for the remission of sins, what happens? 182 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,360 We go down into the waters of baptism. 183 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:24,600 We died of sin, we are buried, and then we rise like Jesus rose 184 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,400 too. Don't you see? 185 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,720 Jesus took the old Law of Moses according to Colossians. 186 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,440 He took the Sabbath and He buried it as the old man of sin 187 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:39,960 in our baptism symbolizes a burial too, and we rise to walk 188 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,360 in newness of life. And Jesus rose to bring in the 189 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,880 new significant day, the first day of the week. 190 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:53,080 Remember this too, the Sabbath day began at Friday at 6:00 PM. 191 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,600 It continued until Saturday at 6:00 PM. 192 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,600 Jesus was crucified on the day before that, on the day of 193 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,200 preparation at 3:00. That means in order for the 194 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,920 Bible to be true, there's three hours that Jesus has to get 195 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,400 buried in to count that day. So you've got 3 days and three 196 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,280 nights. I just want to make one fast 197 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,840 point about this. This is not 324 hour periods. 198 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,680 It is a Jewish colloquial phrase meaning any part of the day. 199 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,960 In fact, if you look at the Talmud, the Talmud says a day 200 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:33,080 and a night equals one ona, and any part of an ona is as the 201 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,160 whole. It's not referring to 324 hour 202 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,720 periods. The phraseology of three days 203 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,480 and three nights that he would be raised is the same thing as 204 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,400 saying he would be raised on the third day, which is the first 205 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,840 day of the week, which was early that Sunday morning. 206 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:54,160 OK, notice what happens. Here came the women and they 207 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,680 come to the tomb bringing spices which they had prepared. 208 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,360 You know, I thought about this a couple of days ago as I was 209 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:05,000 writing this sermon. This is even more proof that 210 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Jesus was crucified on Friday and not tried on Wednesday and 211 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,440 crucified on Thursday. And listen, I know I've read 212 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,800 that too. I know about the double Sabbath 213 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,880 theory. I get it, I get it, and I get 214 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,320 what people try to do to back it up, to get the days and nights 215 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,840 in, But you know, this actually proves that Jesus was not tried 216 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,560 on Wednesday and not crucified on Thursday. 217 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:32,920 Why was that? These women waited until after 218 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,920 the Sabbath. He's crucified at 3:00 PM on 219 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,800 Friday, the day of preparation. There wasn't enough time for 220 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,960 them to come and prepare the body of Jesus and still 221 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,680 recognize the Sabbath. What did the Sabbath law tell 222 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,280 them? They had a Sabbath day's 223 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,120 journey. They could not exceed another 224 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,000 word. They were only allowed to travel 225 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,120 a certain distance. I read that scholars have said 226 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:03,400 these women lived or where they were was about two miles from 227 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:08,040 where Jesus was buried. Keep that in mind about a 228 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,840 Sabbath day's journey. I'm going to get back to that. 229 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,040 My point is this. If Jesus was crucified on 230 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,400 Thursday, there would have been plenty of time for those 231 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,640 precious women to prepare the body before he was buried. 232 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,720 But there was no time. You know why? 233 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,400 Because the Sabbath is kicking in in three hours. 234 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,560 Further proof, I believe it was on Friday. 235 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,440 Remember, there's only three significant days now. 236 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,720 Preparation day, Sabbath day, first day of the week when he 237 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,920 was raised. OK, now since I have gone in 238 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,440 great detail on the resurrection, I'm not going to 239 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,920 go into those things. I'm going to read verses 2 240 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,040 through 10 on the screen with no comment at all because we've 241 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,360 already dealt with the resurrection. 242 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:52,120 Here we go beginning in verse 2. But they found the stone rolled 243 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,120 away from the tomb. Then they went in and did not 244 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,080 find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it happened, as they were 245 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,800 greatly perplexed about this, that behold, 2 men stood by them 246 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,040 in shining garments. Then as they were afraid, bowed 247 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,800 their faces to the earth, and said to them, Why do you seek 248 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,120 the living among the dead? He is not here, but he's risen. 249 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,520 Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee, 250 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,600 saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of 251 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:25,840 sinful men and be crucified. And the third day rise again. 252 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,840 And they remembered his words. Then they returned from the tomb 253 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,280 and told all these things to the 11 and to the all the rest. 254 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,160 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and 255 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,760 the other women with them who told these things to the 256 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,520 apostles. Now verse 11 look at their 257 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:51,720 response and their words seem to them like idle tales. 258 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,720 You know what that means? Foolish talk or nonsense? 259 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,440 It actually this foolish tale or foolish talk and nonsense is 260 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,400 medical language, according to Vincent, used in reference to 261 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,520 the wild talk of a delirious patient. 262 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:13,680 I got to say, I think it's dangerous for us sometimes and 263 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:20,600 maybe a little bit irresponsible for us to say what we would have 264 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,560 done and how we would have responded if we were there. 265 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,720 Because we know what the book says, it's easy for us to say. 266 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,320 How did they not get it? But I got to tell you, I don't 267 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,960 know how they didn't get it. How many times did Jesus say I'm 268 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,240 going to die and I'm going to be raised from the dead? 269 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,920 They should have understood, but they didn't understand. 270 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,920 So notice what happens. They say that's foolish talk, 271 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,600 that's nonsense. Now you look at verse 12. 272 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,680 But Peter arose and ran to the tomb, and stooping down, he saw 273 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,200 the linen cloth lying by themselves, and he departed, 274 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,760 marvelling to himself at what had happened. 275 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:07,200 OK, there's two possibilities why Luke includes this 276 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:12,040 particular clip at this point. 2.2 different interpretations, 277 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,960 two different ideas. I'll throw them out. 278 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,560 I really don't think it matters #1 This record of Peter, 279 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:22,240 according to Kaufman visiting the tomb, is possibly a 280 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,960 flashback of the earlier visit to the grave by Peter, and a 281 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,200 condensed version of a more detailed account that we read 282 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,240 about in John chapter 20, verses 3 through 10. 283 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,480 It's possible. Indeed, this is Luke's account 284 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,440 of a flashback and not necessarily a specific narrative 285 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,360 of the chronological sequence. That's possible. 286 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:48,920 Conclusion #1 Possible conclusion #2 This is another 287 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,760 possibility that Luke is recording a second visit to the 288 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,280 tomb by Peter after which Jesus appeared to the apostle. 289 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:01,200 Remember in verse 34 of this chapter it says he appeared unto 290 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,760 Peter. Then we find in First 291 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:08,320 Corinthians 15, three through 7, he appeared to Cephas, which by 292 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:12,640 the way is Peter, and then also to the apostles or the 293 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,760 disciples. So it's entirely possible one of 294 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,560 those two things are possible, that Luke is recanting or going 295 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,240 over a flashback of an event that already happened, or it's a 296 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,360 second one. We don't know. 297 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:29,560 It doesn't really matter. OK, but let's notice now verse 298 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,000 13. Now behold 2 of them. 299 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,560 These men, these disciples, were traveling at the same day to a 300 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:43,400 village called Emmaus, which was 7 miles from Jerusalem. 301 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,600 These two men, by the way, are clearly not apostles. 302 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,880 They're clearly not apostles. How do we know that for sure? 303 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,000 Well, we know the names of the apostles, but these men are not 304 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,800 apostles. One of them is called Cleopas, 305 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,880 or Cleopas however you want to pronounce his name as evidenced 306 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,440 in verse 18. And by the way, I know this is a 307 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,240 long narrative. I'm not going to break down and 308 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,040 keep you here for two hours and talk about every little thing 309 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,000 about all these verses. Some of these verses we're going 310 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,160 to narrate, some we're going to go through, and some we're going 311 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,560 to make detailed comments, OK? I know there's a lot in this 312 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,920 narrative on this great journey this day, right? 313 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,400 Cleopas obviously was one of those disciples. 314 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,680 Now, there's conjecture as to who was the other one. 315 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,440 Well, some commentators say it could have been Luke. 316 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:31,400 Could it? I don't know. 317 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,160 Maybe. And maybe his name's not 318 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,120 included because he wrote the Gospel of Luke. 319 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,360 Is it somebody else? It doesn't matter. 320 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,760 If God wanted us to know specifically who it was, then we 321 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:46,560 would know who it was. OK Emmaus, though, is likely the 322 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,960 home of these two disciples who remained in Jerusalem. 323 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,680 Why? Because it was the Sabbath and 324 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,400 they couldn't travel. Remember I said those women 325 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,680 couldn't travel? The women couldn't travel. 326 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,760 They lived 2 miles away. It would have exceeded the 327 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,040 Sabbath day's journey. Under the Sabbath Day law, these 328 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,520 men live 7 miles away. That would have exceeded the 329 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,120 Sabbath day's journey. And why were they in Jerusalem? 330 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,480 They were in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. 331 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,640 So this Sabbath was not a run-of-the-mill. 332 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,880 Sabbath, in fact, the Bible calls it the high day or a high 333 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,120 Sabbath or a Passover Sabbath. Very significant. 334 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,080 And that's why they were there. Guess what? 335 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,880 Once the Sabbath kicked in, they couldn't leave. 336 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,880 They couldn't travel 7 miles. OK, let's go further. 337 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,360 Remember when I said we're going to talk about how far they were 338 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:42,680 allowed to travel? If you look in the Old 339 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,440 Testament, even a number of translations, I didn't look at a 340 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,600 lot of translations, but all the ones that I looked at in the Old 341 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:53,920 Testament that said this, they were only allowed to travel 2002 342 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,160 thousand cubits. Now maybe you have cubics in 343 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,160 your mind and you know all about cubics and spans and all those 344 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,840 things that the Bible talks about and maybe you know exactly 345 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,640 how far that is. I do not. 346 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:12,280 I had to do a little calculation. 2000 cubits is the 347 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,040 equivalent of .5 sevenths of a mile. 348 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,240 We might just say in an approximate or roundabout way, 349 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,440 about a half a mile. So in other words, a Sabbath 350 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,720 day's journey could not exceed a half a mile. 351 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,560 Women, they were stuck on the Sabbath. 352 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,800 They were two miles away. These men, they were stuck too. 353 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,920 They were 7 miles away. OK, where is Emmaus today? 354 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,520 Modern day. OK, nobody knows exactly. 355 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,600 And I say nobody knows because some have interpretations or 356 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,040 ideologies or different ideas. So they all differ. 357 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,480 So we don't know for sure. All we know for sure is this. 358 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,760 It was 7 miles or 11 kilometers from Jerusalem. 359 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,680 We know that it was northwest of Jerusalem. 360 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,280 Therefore, it was at least we know, still in Judea. 361 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:10,600 So early on this resurrection morning, they left Jerusalem. 362 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,720 They went NW 7 miles to that little village. 363 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,440 Oh, and some significant things are about to happen on that day. 364 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:26,080 We look at verse 14 and they talked together of all these 365 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,720 things which had happened. Can you imagine what was going 366 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,480 through their minds? Here they are, these two guys, 367 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:36,800 they're walking along and they're talking about 368 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,360 everything. They're discussing everything 369 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,000 that happened. Can you imagine what their 370 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,320 mindset was? The frustrations that were going 371 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,400 through their mind, the details of that conversation we find out 372 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,800 later. We find out what those details 373 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,080 are when Jesus shows up. We're going to get to that in 374 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,760 just a second. But here these two men are 375 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,120 walking along and they're discussing all these things. 376 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:06,840 In fact, in verse 15 it says so it was while they conversed and 377 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,680 reasoned that Jesus himself went with them. 378 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,400 What the word reason means, it means to seek or examine 379 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,200 together to discuss or dispute. According to Mr. Thayer, a 380 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,200 modern word for this. It's not just they were having a 381 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,960 conversation. Here's a modern word debate. 382 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,680 Have you ever gotten into a heated conversation with 383 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,920 somebody? And not necessarily heated as in 384 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,000 I mean intense. I'm not talking about like 385 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,320 angry. I'm just talking about an 386 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,680 intense conversation and dispute. 387 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,520 One person's very strong about one opinion, one person's very 388 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,400 strong about this fact over there, and pretty soon what are 389 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,920 you doing? You're debating the issue. 390 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:52,760 That's exactly what they were doing. 391 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,600 They were reasoning together. They were examining, discussing, 392 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,200 disputing, or they were simply debating. 393 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,160 Think about what they would have maybe debated. 394 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,600 I just, I'm going to throw a few highlights. 395 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,160 Maybe this came to mind. I don't know. 396 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,960 How about on that Sunday when Jesus made his triumphal entry 397 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,080 into Jerusalem, maybe their minds went back a whole week, a 398 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,480 whole week now and Jesus makes his triumphal entry into 399 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,960 Jerusalem on the back of a cult of the donkey. 400 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,560 And the people that then would stand opposed to Jesus at the 401 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,480 time threw their coats down on the path, on the road, so that 402 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,240 that donkey can walk on the path. 403 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,520 And they said, Josanna of the heist. 404 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,480 Then maybe they talked about the cleansing of the temple. 405 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,800 Then maybe they talked about his daily teaching in the temple. 406 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,760 How about this? How about the rush trial? 407 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,640 How about the rush to judgement? How things began to turn and 408 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,040 things began to change. Maybe they're talking about all 409 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,680 that, the significance of all that. 410 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,560 How about the trials that were illegal and then how man tried 411 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:08,520 to make legal what was illegal? How Pilot says I find no fault 412 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,520 in him six times and yet his shocking crucifixion where he 413 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,320 was nailed to a Roman cross and died for the sins of the world. 414 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,640 Here's my point. Get this please. 415 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,080 What was their problem? The problem was, their 416 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:29,440 expectations did not allow them to embrace or imagine any 417 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:34,120 scenario whatsoever that their Messiah had to suffer and die. 418 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,520 That's the point. They couldn't wrap their minds 419 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:44,840 around the concept that the Messiah had to die, especially 420 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:51,520 at the bidding of their own religious Jewish leaders, by the 421 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,560 hands of the Romans. These two disciples struggle. 422 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,200 Let me ask you a question. Don't, don't answer it out loud 423 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,840 just to yourself. I don't care what your answer is 424 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,400 to either, by the way, because I already know what it is. 425 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:08,080 I already know what it is because you're human, and so 426 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,320 mine. Have you ever struggled? 427 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,680 Have you ever struggled in your life? 428 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,760 You don't have to answer that. I know what the answer is. 429 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,760 And again, I don't mean to be cute here, but if if you have 430 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,520 it, then you're perfect and correct. 431 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,240 Congratulations. But for the rest of us, yeah, we 432 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,080 struggle. You know what they did? 433 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,960 They struggled three ways. Very important. 434 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:44,480 Number one, they struggled emotionally #2 it LED them to 435 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:50,720 struggle intellectually #3 it led to the most important thing 436 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,520 and the most dangerous thing. They struggled spiritually. 437 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,240 And you know, that's what happens to us sometimes. 438 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:04,400 We struggle emotionally and then because of that, because of 439 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,680 that, we are, for example, one way we can do that. 440 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,160 We struggle because we are not looking through the eye of 441 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,680 faith, we're looking through the eye of fear and we struggle 442 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,160 emotionally as a result. You know what that does? 443 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,440 Then our mind kicks in. We start thinking, oh, that's a 444 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,080 bad thing. Think it's good if your thinking 445 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:28,280 is based upon the right standard, God, Jesus, the word 446 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,200 of God. When it's the right standard, no 447 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,480 problem. But when we start thinking that 448 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:38,120 we can outsmart things, reason on our own, oh, careful, then we 449 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:40,120 know what happens after that. Then we struggle spiritually. 450 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:41,320 And that's exactly what happened to them. 451 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,560 They struggled emotionally, intellectually, then 452 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,800 spiritually. So Jesus draws near and he 453 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,360 begins to walk alongside them. Here we go, this is beautiful. 454 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:54,280 Can you imagine? They are debating back and forth 455 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,720 what in the world happened, and then all of a sudden here comes 456 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,440 Jesus. Here he comes. 457 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,240 But notice. But it says their eyes were 458 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:09,440 restrained so that they did not know him. 459 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,200 In other words, they perceived Him as a human being. 460 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:19,960 They perceived Him as flesh and bone, but they didn't recognize 461 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,160 who it was. And you know, there are other 462 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,040 post resurrection appearances of Jesus where he's not immediately 463 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,560 recognized. And there are reasons like #1 464 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,120 how about this? There's sorrow over his death. 465 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:38,760 Those that loved Jesus so much, they had so much incredible 466 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,440 sorrow over his death. They couldn't fathom that that 467 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,880 was Jesus after he rose from the dead. 468 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,200 So that's one reason. How about this? 469 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,360 How about distance? Do you remember in John's 470 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,120 account, I believe John 21. And I can't wait to get to that 471 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,520 story in this series. The disciples go out at night 472 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,640 and the Bible says they're fishing and they're fishing at 473 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,160 night. You know what? 474 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:01,920 They caught nothing. They look out and they see Jesus 475 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,720 on the shore walking told them and they don't know what it is 476 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,200 or don't. They don't know who he is 477 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,920 because of the distance. How about this? 478 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,000 How about in this very chapter in verse 37 that we're getting 479 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,080 to next time when Jesus appears before the disciples and they 480 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,440 didn't recognize and why they were scared out of their mind. 481 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,160 They were frightened. So my question is, if those 482 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,320 things are true, then why were they restrained and why couldn't 483 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,440 they recognize Jesus? Again, I'm going to give you 2 484 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,600 possibilities, 1 possibility, and they both have merit, but I 485 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,120 think 1 is more effective or makes more sense. 486 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,400 But #1A continuation of their earlier failure to understand 487 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,040 that He was going to suffer. For example, going back to Luke 488 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:53,800 Chapter 9, verse 44 and 45, Jesus says, let these words sink 489 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,440 down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed 490 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,360 into the hands of men. But they did not understand this 491 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,400 saying and it was hidden from them, so they did not perceive 492 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,760 it and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying. 493 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,360 OK, one possibility then is this. 494 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,440 Their lack of recognition was a reflection of their unreadiness 495 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,120 to deal with Jesus's death, according to Mr. Tannehill. 496 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,240 Is that possible? That's possible, except for 497 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,160 this. Do you know if this word 498 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:32,360 restrained here is a verb? And this verb in context is 499 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,480 passive. By the way, just like later on 500 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,200 when it says their eyes were opened and they're going to 501 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,200 recognize Jesus in just a little bit, that verb is also passive. 502 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,080 What's all that mean? All that means is this. 503 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,600 They had nothing to do with it. In other words, whatever was 504 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,120 happening to them was supernatural and it happened to 505 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,600 them. It wasn't a choice. 506 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,840 There was a reason for that too. We're going to get to that 507 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,920 reason. But notice their eyes were 508 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:02,880 restrained and they did not know Him. 509 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:10,560 So therefore, it denotes an outside agent is responsible for 510 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,040 their inability to recognize Jesus. 511 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,200 In other words, his identity seems to be miraculously veiled 512 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,200 for a time to allow him to test them and prepare them to 513 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,200 understand the Scriptures concerning him. 514 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,360 That makes more sense. So here comes Jesus. 515 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,000 I love this. And he says to them, what kind 516 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,200 of conversation is this that you have with one another and you 517 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:40,160 walk and are sad? Oh, the Lord's brilliant. 518 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,720 He's setting up a teaching moment. 519 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,640 The first thing he says is what are you talking about? 520 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,720 This making you sad? Why were they sad by the way? 521 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,880 They were grieving over their dashed hopes. 522 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,600 Hold that thought they were grieving over their dashed 523 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,880 hopes. Then in verse 18, then one of 524 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,320 these, whose name is Cleopas, answered and said, Are you the 525 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,800 only stranger in town, and you have not known the things which 526 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,280 are which happened there in these days? 527 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,960 First of all, Cleopas, who was he? 528 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,640 Again? Conjecture. 529 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:22,200 Some say he is Clopas, the husband of one of the Marys that 530 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,120 was at the Crucifixion. Possibility #1 possibility #2 531 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,200 again, conjecture. Some say his name was Clopas 532 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,240 also, but he was the brother of Joseph. 533 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,880 We have made him the relative of Jesus. 534 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,280 Is that possible? Yeah, it's possible. 535 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:40,440 Is it? Is it important? 536 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,400 No. Or the Bible has told us exactly 537 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,000 the importance of that. So his identity is not known for 538 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,240 sure. Then the question, are you the 539 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,880 only stranger in Jerusalem and have not known the things which 540 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,280 have happened there in these days? 541 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,280 They're absolutely blown away. Surely, if you don't know what 542 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,360 we're talking about, are you the only one that's a stranger? 543 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,160 You've got to be the only visitor in the world that came 544 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,000 to Jerusalem over the past overtime and not know what we're 545 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,880 talking about. You know what the irony is here? 546 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:14,680 He was the only one that knew the significance of all the 547 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,000 events that had happened during these days. 548 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,240 He knew exactly the answer. And I love this. 549 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,640 So he says this. What things? 550 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,640 What things? At this point Jesus knew their 551 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,440 understanding was incomplete. So Jesus asked the question to 552 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:40,000 expose their partial knowledge. He says what things? 553 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,760 So they said to him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth who 554 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:49,000 was a prophet, mighty indeed and word before God and all the 555 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,120 people. Then in verse 20 and how the 556 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,280 chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to 557 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:01,800 death and crucified him. Now there is something here 558 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:06,760 that's very important that they did recognize and they were 559 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,320 right. While they did recognize the 560 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:15,199 obvious that the Romans crucified Jesus, that the Romans 561 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:17,880 actually went through with it, nailing him to the cross. 562 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,280 You know what they really recognized? 563 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:27,040 It was the Jews fault. The chief priests and rulers 564 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,880 delivered him to be crucified. I was on the Radio One time 565 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,800 listening to this religious discussion back and forth and 566 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,239 there were some people that really took exception, really 567 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,159 took exception. They said no, the Romans 568 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:42,360 crucified Jesus. The the Jews didn't do that 569 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,719 wasn't their fault. Oh, remember when Pilate took 570 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,639 Jesus and Barabbas and stood them before the people, and one 571 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:53,239 was going to be released over the Passover and they said, 572 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,320 which one do you want me to release unto you? 573 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,640 And they said, Barabbas, He said, what do you want me to do 574 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,200 with Jesus, which is called Christ? 575 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,680 What they say? Crucify him. 576 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,240 And Pilate said, why, what evil has he done? 577 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:13,840 You know what they said? They said all the more the 578 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,360 religious leader stirred up the people and they cried out, 579 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,120 crucify him. And then they said this, Let his 580 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,520 blood be on us and on our children. 581 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,760 Ouch. These these disciples understood 582 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,960 that very thing. So they were correct about that. 583 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,360 They had insufficient knowledge about other things, but they 584 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,600 were correct about that. But notice in verse 21, But we 585 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,160 were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. 586 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:47,360 In other words, we were hoping that He was the Messiah and we 587 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,960 had expectations of His messianic fulfillment. 588 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:58,240 Now what happened when Jesus died? 589 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,200 Their hopes were abandoned, their expectations that He was 590 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:16,480 the Messiah was abandoned. They lost their faith and then 591 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,400 they lost their hope. Please remember this faith and 592 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,360 hope is very important in our life. 593 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,160 Our brother prayed in our prayer about hope. 594 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:30,520 Do you know why we have hope? Because we have expectation. 595 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:31,680 You know why we have expectation? 596 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:36,320 Because of our faith. Faith is trusting God in the 597 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:41,440 present. Hope is trusting God for the 598 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:46,520 future. If you lose your faith, you will 599 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:51,040 lose your expectation, which leads to losing your hope. 600 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,680 And that's exactly what happened to these two disciples. 601 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,640 And now they have no hope. And sadly, that happens to us 602 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,360 today too. And notice. 603 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,200 And again, here's that phrase again. 604 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:09,440 And besides all this, today is the third day since these things 605 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,840 happened. Now notice the next three verses 606 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,640 with no comment. Verses 22 through 24, please. 607 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,120 Yes. And certain women of our company 608 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,080 who arrived at the tomb early astonished us. 609 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,480 When they did not find his body, they came saying that they had 610 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,400 also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. 611 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,960 And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and 612 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,520 found it, just as the women had said. 613 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:40,040 But him they did not see. Then Jesus is going to respond. 614 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:44,800 Notice he says, Oh, foolish once. 615 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:53,520 First of all, the disciples are full of unbelief because they 616 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,960 have only partial knowledge of the scriptures. 617 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,760 And because they only have partial knowledge of the 618 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,720 scriptures, Jesus calls them foolish ones. 619 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:07,040 Now Jesus wasn't name calling here, he was giving a 620 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,200 description. What does the word mean? 621 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,280 Foolish ones? It signifies, according to West 622 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:17,360 E Vine, senseless and unworthy lack of understanding. 623 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,920 You have a senseless, unworthy lack of understanding. 624 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,520 You know why? Because they put should have put 625 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,200 together the testimony of the Old Testament prophecies. 626 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,240 They should have put together all the testimony of Jesus 627 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,080 himself concerning His death and His resurrection. 628 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:39,760 They should have known. In other words, there was no 629 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:46,970 excuse. Now let me ask you this. 630 00:38:48,730 --> 00:38:52,480 Whose fault was it that they had a poor understanding of the 631 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,840 Scriptures? I'm going to tell you what 632 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,960 people say. Sometimes people try to make the 633 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,000 scriptures the reason they can't understand it. 634 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,680 Sometimes people say, well, it's hard to understand, or 635 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,920 everybody's got all these different opinions, so you can't 636 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,600 really know what God wants for your life. 637 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,000 We've heard that a million times. 638 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,680 They misunderstood the Scriptures and they had a 639 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,720 partial understanding. You know what Jesus calls them 640 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:17,560 foolish. Why? 641 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:24,120 Because they were slow of heart to believe the emphasis is on 642 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,560 them. In other words, what he's saying 643 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,400 is you have insufficient knowledge of the Word of God and 644 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,120 it's your fault. Wow, it's your fault. 645 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,720 Remember, what does the Bible say? 646 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:42,840 If our gospel be hid? It is hid to them that are lost. 647 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,120 It also says that God is not the author of confusion, but of 648 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,520 peace. In other words, if we 649 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,600 misunderstand it or we have partial knowledge and base of 650 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,880 religion upon it, it's our fault, just like it was their 651 00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,520 fault so long ago. He lays the blame on them for 652 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,400 them not understanding the scriptures. 653 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,680 Then he says this. He asks A rhetorical question. 654 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,800 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to 655 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,080 enter into His glory again? As I said before, they focused 656 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,280 on the promise of His glory. So when He suffered and He died 657 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,680 in the cross, they threw out the expectation. 658 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,840 They lost their hope. Again, their fault. 659 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,520 Why? How many times does the Bible 660 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,240 talk about the predictions of His suffering? 661 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,120 How about Psalm 22? How about Isaiah 52 and 53? 662 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:38,160 So now Jesus asked this rhetorical question, and now 663 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,800 here it comes, the preaching, Luke 2427 and beginning at Moses 664 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,080 and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the 665 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,440 Scriptures the things concerning himself. 666 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,960 In other words, it's significant, I think, that Jesus 667 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,480 does not make himself known to them initially by his 668 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,040 appearance, but through the testimony of the written Word of 669 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,400 God. And that, dear friends, is the 670 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,760 Bible pattern. Romans 10/17. 671 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,320 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. 672 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:19,080 Faith has to be based on the word, not based on an experience 673 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:25,400 and not based on emotion. It has to be based on a word on 674 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,440 the Word. It starts with your faith. 675 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:34,000 It gives you expectation and gives you hope and that should 676 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,680 be every child of God. Then in verse 28, we're getting 677 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,320 close here. Then they drew near to the 678 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,560 village where they were going and he indicated that he would 679 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:49,520 gone had gone further. You know, I think this is really 680 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:56,200 significant here. Jesus acts like he's going to go 681 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:03,520 a little further. Do you know Jesus never forces 682 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:09,360 himself on anyone? The door, your heart's door, the 683 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,760 knobs on your side. Jesus stands there as the song 684 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,680 we used to sing so many times. He's standing and knocking at 685 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,920 your heart's door, but you got to open up and let him in. 686 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,360 Jesus was there. He knew they had impartial 687 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:29,160 knowledge of the scriptures. He preached A sermon. 688 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,080 You know what he's doing. He threw the word out. 689 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,000 Let's see what the word does. Oh, I love that they still don't 690 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,120 know it's Jesus. See what the word does. 691 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:38,960 He acts like he's going to keep going. 692 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,880 Oh, but guess what they constrained him saying abide 693 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,520 with us for it is toward evening and the day is far speed and he 694 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:53,720 went in to stay with them. I love that he's not going to 695 00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:57,360 force himself. He's going right on by, but they 696 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,840 constrained him to stay. Notice, please. 697 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,640 One scholar said it this way. If the man of Emmaus had not 698 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,760 invited Jesus into their home, He would have passed on, and how 699 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,360 poor would be their lives, or their lives would have been. 700 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,200 But because He had spoken to them thus on the way, their 701 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,000 hearts burned with love for Him, and they invited Him in and thus 702 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,000 received the richest blessings, even the Lord himself as the 703 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,760 living King in their lives. How often does the Lord or does 704 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,480 he address us also on life's way? 705 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,680 And He still desires to enter where He's invited. 706 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,520 So all of a sudden now we go inside their house. 707 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,960 And it came to pass as he sat at the table with them, that he 708 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,200 took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 709 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:57,200 I got to say, some commentators say that this is the Lords 710 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,640 Supper, this is not the Lords Supper. 711 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,720 How do I know that for sure? Do you remember in Luke 22 when 712 00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:07,200 Jesus instituted the Lords Supper, which already happened? 713 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,200 What did Jesus say about the Lords Supper or partaking of the 714 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,120 Lords Supper after that? Luke 2216 For I say to you, I 715 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,720 will no longer eat of it, of it, until it's fulfilled in the 716 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:20,760 Kingdom of God. That is not going to be 717 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,920 fulfilled until when Acts chapter 2, when the Kingdom is 718 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:28,320 established, the church is born, and therefore we are congregants 719 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,800 here doing the very same thing that we're going to do now that 720 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,560 the Kingdom is here when we commute. 721 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:40,760 So this was not the communion. This is an intentional act to 722 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,680 awaken their recognition and remembrance of him. 723 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,320 Plummer said it this way. There is something familiar in 724 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,880 his manner of taking and breaking the bread, blessing it 725 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,880 and giving it to them that triggers and restores their 726 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:58,760 ability to recognize him. Notice, please. 727 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,520 Then their eyes were open and they knew him. 728 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:11,240 Again. The word opened, that verb is 729 00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:16,720 also passive, meaning something happened to them. 730 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,360 Not a choice. Not a choice. 731 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:28,040 Now please look at the screen. You got Jesus in the middle. 732 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:35,680 You got these two disciples all of a sudden in the breaking of 733 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:36,960 bread. And that was their testimony 734 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:37,960 later. That's when they knew. 735 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:44,040 They know it's Jesus. And then look what happens right 736 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:48,480 here. He vanishes out of their sight. 737 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,200 Can you imagine? Pretty good experience, didn't 738 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,200 it? We live in a world where people 739 00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,080 say, I want an experience. Let me tell you, that's a pretty 740 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,800 big experience. They're on the road to Emmaus. 741 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,440 They hear the great sermon by the Lord. 742 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,360 The Lord comes back to their house. 743 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:16,280 He finally reveals himself in the breaking of bread, and then 744 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,600 he disappears. Pretty good experience, isn't 745 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,400 it? You think that's what impressed 746 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,560 him the most? All we got to do is look to the 747 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,560 Word of God. What does the Word say? 748 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,680 This is what they said as soon as Jesus disappeared the very 749 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,520 next verse and they said to one another did not our heartburn 750 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,200 within us while they talked with us on the road and while he 751 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:45,800 opened the scriptures to us. That's what was important. 752 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,640 That's what was impressive. That's what was the stimulation 753 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,520 for their faith. That's what got him right back 754 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,080 on track. It wasn't the experience, folks, 755 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,240 by the way. Again, pretty big experience. 756 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,480 It was the word of God. You know what they did? 757 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,520 They couldn't sit still. I love this man. 758 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,640 They didn't sit back, relaxed, get up the next day. 759 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:12,800 No what that's what happened there. 760 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,280 So they rose up the very hour and returned to Jerusalem and 761 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,080 found the 11 and those that were with them gathered together. 762 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:25,120 That's what they did. So in conclusion, what did we 763 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,600 learn? We learned three very important 764 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,840 things. That's a pattern for our lives 765 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,960 today too. Number one, they heard the Word 766 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,480 of God. It was preached by Jesus 767 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,240 himself. They heard the word of God. 768 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,240 What did the word of God do? It burned in their hearts. 769 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,960 Then what? It produced something and they 770 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,360 went out immediately and told others about Jesus. 771 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,920 And you know what? That is still a pattern for us 772 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,560 in our lives today too. They just couldn't sit still. 773 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,640 They had to get back. Next time we're going to talk 774 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,840 about where they're going. We're going to talk about where 775 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,600 Jesus went next. Fascinating stuff. 776 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:10,200 Got a lot to talk about next time. 777 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,040 That's all I have this morning. Thank you for your kind 778 00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,200 listening. I hope something was said that 779 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:21,000 was encouraging to you in some way edifying to you as we looked 780 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,840 at this great event that happened so long ago. 781 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,920 We never close a time that we teach from the Word of God 782 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:32,080 without extending an invitation. Is there someone here at the 783 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:33,760 sound of my voice that is not a Christian? 784 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,720 The steps to become a child of God based on the word of God. 785 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,800 And we talked about the importance of the Word. 786 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,680 You got to hear the Word of God. Romans 10/17 So faith comes by 787 00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:44,520 hearing and hearing by the word of God. 788 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,800 Just like those men on the road to Emmaus. 789 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:48,600 Then what? You got a choice to make. 790 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:49,800 You got to believe with all your heart. 791 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,240 Hebrews 11 and 6. Without faith it's impossible to 792 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:56,840 please him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and 793 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,120 that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 794 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,800 Then what? You got to repent of your sins? 795 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,800 Acts 17 and 30. Truly these times of ignorance 796 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:09,760 God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. 797 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,640 Then you must confess Jesus Christ as the Son of God. 798 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,320 Then Philip said in Acts 837, If you believe with all your heart, 799 00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,160 you may. And he answered and said, I 800 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,560 believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 801 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,400 Upon taking these steps, you are now a fit candidate to go to the 802 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,400 point of salvation, and that is to be baptized for the remission 803 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,560 of your sins. Jesus even said, Mark 1616. 804 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,720 He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does 805 00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:40,360 not believe will be condemned. Is it necessary? 806 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,440 Absolutely. First Peter 321 the like figure 807 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,760 where the even baptism doth also now save us, not the putting 808 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,800 away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience 809 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,320 toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 810 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,240 If you've never taken those steps of obedience, we would 811 00:49:57,240 --> 00:49:58,640 love to assist you in that today. 812 00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,240 Maybe you have. Maybe there's something in your 813 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:02,840 life that is just not what it should be. 814 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,480 Maybe you've drifted. Maybe you just need the prayers 815 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,720 of God's people together. If you have something in your 816 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:10,360 life that is not right, then repent of it. 817 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,480 Confess that we'll pray with you and for you, and God will 818 00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,440 forgive and restore. We want to be to class. 819 00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,520 Come forward while we stand in what we say.