Luke 24:23-26 in the King James Version of the Bible tell us: "And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulcher, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
This is a very important section of scripture. Two of Jesus’ believers are taking a lonely but thoughtful walk on the Road of Emmaus. They are talking about something they had heard. That same day they heard about the resurrection of Jesus. They thought about what they had heard and they discussed the events. Now should they believe it to be true or not. Same question I would guess we all would have discussed. As they were discussing what they had heard, Jesus drew near but He did not reveal Himself to them. Jesus asks them what they are talking about. Why are you men so sad? Then one of the believers says: We are sad about the things that have happened. Jesus says: What events? They answered Jesus’s death for He was a great prophet, he was crucified and He was thought to be the Messiah. They speak about the empty tomb and all the perplexing and confusing reports. Reports of visions and reports of Jesus being alive AND the reports were confirmed!
The Lord, Jesus Christ, in speaking of His resurrection, did not show them the prints of the nails in His hand to prove it. He referred them to the Scriptures rather than to the nail prints. What did Jesus say? He said “You should have believed what the prophets said.” A little bit of a mild rebuke. His death and resurrection were necessary and then He explains the Scriptures. Here, we get a glimpse of of our Lord’s attitude about the Bible. We see Jesus after His resurrection meets some believers who are speaking of those things that they had witnessed and heard of on the Road to Emmaus.
Things are no different today. The day in which we are living we see that people doubt the Word of God. There are people who are actually saying that you cannot be intelligent and actually believe the Bible. Many people are afraid that they will not be considered intelligent if they say that they actually believe what the Bible says is true. In reality, it is the most subtle and satanic trap of our day to discount the inerrancy and integrity of the Word of God. Christ says that a man is a fool not to believe the Bible. Christ says that a man is a fool not to believe it. He gave an unanimous and wholehearted acceptant of the Bible’s statements with no "ifs, ands or buts".
The disciples in today’s passage were very much like that. The work was only half done, and their sadness was rooted in misunderstanding and unbelief. Now they believed part of what the prophets had spoken, but they did not believe or understand it all. They had the discouragement of confused hearts. When we don’t understand the Word of God, that can lead to discouragement. I have met many Christians who get discouraged because they don’t understand the Scriptures. They miss the fulfillment of Jesus because He doesn’t work in the way we would expect.
Let me give you an example that might help you to understand:
Once, a little boy came into the kitchen and his mother was baking a pie. So he stood and waited until she took the pie out of the oven. But this young boy said that he had never been so disappointed and angry in his life. He looked and there was no pie in the shell. He thought either his mother was extremely mean, or she had gone out of her mind. He literally ran out of the house. He can remember that he went a whole half-block murmuring to myself. When I returned, he learned the rest of the story: She was not finished with what she was doing. In baking terms it is called “Blind baking.” To blind bake pie crust, prick the crust all over with the tines of a fork and line the unbaked pie crust with aluminum foil, or line the crust with parchment and cook the shell for about 15 minutes so this way if you put a filing in that is liquid or one that does not need to baked like chocolate or lemon pies or even a quiches the crust will NOT be soggy or uncooked. So the pie is not completed to yet enjoy.
Well the two on the road to Emmaus…they were short-sighted and had unbelief.
The Scriptures are not ALL yet fulfilled...but one day soon, they will be!
You see we are witnessing much of this today, me refuse to accept a risen Lord. A risen Lord means that a man must subject himself to the Lord and obey and serve him. Yes, we should be knowledgeable about the Death of Jesus Christ on the Cross BUT we must also be engrossed in the Resurrection of the Lord. Jesus told the Believers that they were dull and slow to believe. They were fools, they were without excuse, for their minds and hearts were capable of more than that. The two disciples were feeling hopeless and perplexed, full of sadness and despair for one simple reason: unbelief. All they saw was the death of Christ and they could not see beyond Jesus’ death They were willing to accept and admire a dead Savior, a great prophet who had been martyred but they had great difficulty in accepting a risen Lord. They would not believe the reports of the women, the glorious news of the Living Lord.
What about you? Will you accept the glorious news that Jesus resurrected from the death and that means do you accept it or do you only want to believe in a dead martyr. Christ arose from the dead and that is our hope as Christians. Yes, we are all terminal we will all die but if we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior when we die we will go to heaven and be resurrected in new glorified bodies.
Those disciples had to respond when Jesus took that bread and blessed it. They had to decide that the risen Christ was not a spirit, not a vision, not a phantom, not an hallucination or any other figment of their imagination. He was the risen Lord- bodily- not someone else, nor some other spirit. His body was that of Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth. He had physically risen from the dead and His body was real. It differed a little but it was His body. It was perfected and no longer subject to the limitations and frailties of this earth that we live in and its laws, it was now glorified by the power and spoken Word of God. That is what is awaiting us. Praise God!
This is a very important section of scripture. Two of Jesus’ believers are taking a lonely but thoughtful walk on the Road of Emmaus. They are talking about something they had heard. That same day they heard about the resurrection of Jesus. They thought about what they had heard and they discussed the events. Now should they believe it to be true or not. Same question I would guess we all would have discussed. As they were discussing what they had heard, Jesus drew near but He did not reveal Himself to them. Jesus asks them what they are talking about. Why are you men so sad? Then one of the believers says: We are sad about the things that have happened. Jesus says: What events? They answered Jesus’s death for He was a great prophet, he was crucified and He was thought to be the Messiah. They speak about the empty tomb and all the perplexing and confusing reports. Reports of visions and reports of Jesus being alive AND the reports were confirmed!
The Lord, Jesus Christ, in speaking of His resurrection, did not show them the prints of the nails in His hand to prove it. He referred them to the Scriptures rather than to the nail prints. What did Jesus say? He said “You should have believed what the prophets said.” A little bit of a mild rebuke. His death and resurrection were necessary and then He explains the Scriptures. Here, we get a glimpse of of our Lord’s attitude about the Bible. We see Jesus after His resurrection meets some believers who are speaking of those things that they had witnessed and heard of on the Road to Emmaus.
Things are no different today. The day in which we are living we see that people doubt the Word of God. There are people who are actually saying that you cannot be intelligent and actually believe the Bible. Many people are afraid that they will not be considered intelligent if they say that they actually believe what the Bible says is true. In reality, it is the most subtle and satanic trap of our day to discount the inerrancy and integrity of the Word of God. Christ says that a man is a fool not to believe the Bible. Christ says that a man is a fool not to believe it. He gave an unanimous and wholehearted acceptant of the Bible’s statements with no "ifs, ands or buts".
The disciples in today’s passage were very much like that. The work was only half done, and their sadness was rooted in misunderstanding and unbelief. Now they believed part of what the prophets had spoken, but they did not believe or understand it all. They had the discouragement of confused hearts. When we don’t understand the Word of God, that can lead to discouragement. I have met many Christians who get discouraged because they don’t understand the Scriptures. They miss the fulfillment of Jesus because He doesn’t work in the way we would expect.
Let me give you an example that might help you to understand:
Once, a little boy came into the kitchen and his mother was baking a pie. So he stood and waited until she took the pie out of the oven. But this young boy said that he had never been so disappointed and angry in his life. He looked and there was no pie in the shell. He thought either his mother was extremely mean, or she had gone out of her mind. He literally ran out of the house. He can remember that he went a whole half-block murmuring to myself. When I returned, he learned the rest of the story: She was not finished with what she was doing. In baking terms it is called “Blind baking.” To blind bake pie crust, prick the crust all over with the tines of a fork and line the unbaked pie crust with aluminum foil, or line the crust with parchment and cook the shell for about 15 minutes so this way if you put a filing in that is liquid or one that does not need to baked like chocolate or lemon pies or even a quiches the crust will NOT be soggy or uncooked. So the pie is not completed to yet enjoy.
Well the two on the road to Emmaus…they were short-sighted and had unbelief.
The Scriptures are not ALL yet fulfilled...but one day soon, they will be!
You see we are witnessing much of this today, me refuse to accept a risen Lord. A risen Lord means that a man must subject himself to the Lord and obey and serve him. Yes, we should be knowledgeable about the Death of Jesus Christ on the Cross BUT we must also be engrossed in the Resurrection of the Lord. Jesus told the Believers that they were dull and slow to believe. They were fools, they were without excuse, for their minds and hearts were capable of more than that. The two disciples were feeling hopeless and perplexed, full of sadness and despair for one simple reason: unbelief. All they saw was the death of Christ and they could not see beyond Jesus’ death They were willing to accept and admire a dead Savior, a great prophet who had been martyred but they had great difficulty in accepting a risen Lord. They would not believe the reports of the women, the glorious news of the Living Lord.
What about you? Will you accept the glorious news that Jesus resurrected from the death and that means do you accept it or do you only want to believe in a dead martyr. Christ arose from the dead and that is our hope as Christians. Yes, we are all terminal we will all die but if we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior when we die we will go to heaven and be resurrected in new glorified bodies.
Those disciples had to respond when Jesus took that bread and blessed it. They had to decide that the risen Christ was not a spirit, not a vision, not a phantom, not an hallucination or any other figment of their imagination. He was the risen Lord- bodily- not someone else, nor some other spirit. His body was that of Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth. He had physically risen from the dead and His body was real. It differed a little but it was His body. It was perfected and no longer subject to the limitations and frailties of this earth that we live in and its laws, it was now glorified by the power and spoken Word of God. That is what is awaiting us. Praise God!
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