Jason Robinson – Toward Jerusalem – Class 6 – The Only Visitor

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Thank you very much.
And for our second to last time,

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Good morning, Bible School.
It’s Friday.

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Where did the week go?
All right, today’s topic is the

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only visitor.
Before we jump into that quick

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question, was anybody surprised
yesterday how many times food

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comes up in Luke’s gospel?
It’s pretty crazy, isn’t it?

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And I can’t believe I miss it,
whether Pete reminded me of

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another one.
What was the first miracle

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performed by Christ?
Water to wine again, another

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food one and again the the first
miracle, water to wine, the

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first temptation to turn bread.
We see this theme beautifully, I

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think, taken through us, taken
with us throughout Christ’s

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journey to Jerusalem.
So thank you guys very much for

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your comments and questions
after the classes.

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They’ve been appreciated.
OK, so we’re going to talk today

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about the only visitor.
We’re going to be talking today

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based in Luke chapter 20 four,
what we did yesterday is we

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entered into Jerusalem.
It was a bit rushed yesterday,

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but we did make it there.
Christ enters into the the

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temple and T as we see in
Matthews account, he overthrows

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the tables, the money changers.
Only one table belongs in the

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temple.
There’s the table of showbread

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and again, another little food,
quick food teaser for you.

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But he enters into the temple.
He he removes the the den of

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thieves from there he is
crucified.

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He is resurrected.
And we come then to Luke chapter

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24.
Now, as we’ve seen so far in our

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sessions, a very, very, very
large majority of the people who

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Christ came into contact with
were confused as to the purpose

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of why Jesus came.
We’re going to look at a few of

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those to kind of start us off
today, because the theme for

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today is, do we actually know,
do we actually recognize who

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Jesus is?
That’s what Luke 24 is trying to

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show to us is do we see who
Jesus is or do we miss him?

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Do we do we confuse him with
somebody He’s not?

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So Luke chapter 24.
So we’re going to start off, but

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let’s get some context here to
see who so far in our journeys

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has kind of missed the point,
has kind of missed who Jesus

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was, why he came so on and so
forth.

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So the first place we’re going
to go is Luke chapter 2 turns me

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to Luke chapter 2.
This is the beginning we’re

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going to see in Luke chapter 2
in verse verse 49.

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We know this is the the visit
the temple.

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And he said to them, how is that
you sought me?

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He says to his parents, whiskey
not that I must be about my

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father’s business.
And they understood not the

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saying which he spake unto them.
So the first person we get is

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his mother.
His mother is confused as to

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what he was doing and maybe to
the purpose, at least at this

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point in his life.
The next group we want to go to

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is in Luke Chapter 9.
Luke Chapter 9, we’re given

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another group who’s confused as
to why Jesus has come.

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Luke Chapter 9 verse 18.
And it came to pass as he was

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alone praying, His disciples
were with him.

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And he asked them saying, who do
the people say I am?

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They answering said John the
Baptist.

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Some say Elias, others say one
of the old prophets is risen

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again.
So the crowds, the people didn’t

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understand who Jesus was we saw
yesterday and basically the rest

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of the week.
Luke 1834 tells us they, the

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disciples understood none of
these things.

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This saying was hid from them
neither they knew that the

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things which were spoken that
the apostles, the 12 chosen by

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Christ missed who he was, missed
his purpose, missed the reason

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for his journey to Jerusalem.
Now especially as we come near

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to the end, Luke chapter 20
verse one, it says, and it came

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to pass on one of those days as
he taught to the people in the

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temple and preached the gospel,
the chief priests scribes came

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upon him with the elders and
spake unto him saying, tell us

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by what authority do you do
these things or who is it that

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gave you this authority?
So the leaders of the religious

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organization based in Jerusalem
were also now confused.

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They’d misunderstood why Jesus
was sent.

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This is a lot of people who miss
completely why Jesus was sent to

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Jerusalem.
Besides one or two very

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perceptive people at his birth
and his death, his ministry went

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largely misunderstood.
His entire journey toward

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Jerusalem was lost on the crowd.
How many people in his day

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expected a Moses like person?
How many people in his day

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wanted a Moses like person?
Somebody who would, who would go

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into Lee of the Romans and say,
let my people go, if you don’t,

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we’ll send plagues upon all the
Roman Empire.

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How many people wanted that man
to March into Jerusalem?

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It’s no wonder that when he’s
captured, the people say, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, crucify him.
He’s done nothing for us to help

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us against the Romans.
They missed the man that was

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right there in front of him.
They didn’t see him even though

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he stood right there.
That’s Luke 24.

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Jesus wasn’t who they thought he
was.

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So when he rides the donkey into
the final chapter of his life,

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he’s finally entered into
Jerusalem.

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He wasn’t there to conquer the
Romans.

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He was there to conquer a far
older enemy, the reign of sin

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and death, an enemy that was
4000 years old, the one that had

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conquered all.
But no one understood who Jesus

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truly was.
When Adam and Eve partook of the

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fruits in the Garden, all they
knew was good, that was.

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What was in the world was simply
good.

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They had a knowledge of good.
Evil became for them a new

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experience.
This was what was created when

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they sinned.
Evil now lived in the world.

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It was a piece of fruit and it
was the sin behind it that

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exposed them to this brand new
world.

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It was a one of sin and death.
They understood consequences.

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And so, brothers and sisters, we
now know that if we exercise the

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bad, we’ve seen in our journey
to Jerusalem together that

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Christ came and to call us to
repentance.

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If we exercise the good, we’ve
learned that Christ has now made

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a way through grace and mercy
for us to be saved.

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So all this being the purpose of
his journey towards Jerusalem,

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God was taking a man, He was
turning his Son into the Savior

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of the world, to rid the world
of the evil and to put in it

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again good.
All right, so with that context,

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let’s come to Luke chapter 24.
We’ve been talking this whole

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week about getting to Jerusalem.
That’s been our theme, getting

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there.
He steadfastly set his face to

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go to Jerusalem.
It was time for him to be taken

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up.
Luke ends his whole book with

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the story about leaving
Jerusalem.

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Why?
Why would Luke end this book

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with a story about departing
Jerusalem?

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It’s one of my favorite stories
in all of Luke’s gospel.

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It’s a story about a couple
people who have no idea who

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Jesus is.
He places immense priority in

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talking to them.
He reveals who he is when he

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eats with them.
What a story Luke concludes his

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book with.
What a mysterious, curious story

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he’s going to leave for us.
In Luke chapter 24, a couple

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people who don’t recognize him,
who Christ came to save,

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brothers and sisters.
This has been Luke’s journey.

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This has been Luke’s journey
narrative with Christ.

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How many times did Christ save,
heal, call somebody completely

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unexpected?
That’s the point of the journey

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to Jerusalem.
He’s called everyone, including

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these two strangers on the road
to Emmaus.

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He calls everyone to follow him
to Jerusalem.

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But even those who follow Christ
may not recognize him.

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So we open it up with Luke
chapter 24 with a couple people

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who are leaving.
They are going to talk to

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Christ, but they’re not going to
recognize him.

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Now, this theme here has been
really what Luke is trying to

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get us to see.
This whole time people were

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confused.
We’ve already been opened up by

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looking at at everybody who’s
been confused.

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You see, everyone at the time
tried to take Jesus and to fit

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him into this mold of who they
expected the Messiah to be, they

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said.
We’ve read these things before.

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We know who’s coming.
It’s, it’s, it’s someone who’s

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going to deliver us from the
Romans and, and, and we know

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that, that it needs to be in
this exact picture, this exact

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shape.
And we know what he’s going to

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do.
And so when Jesus comes onto the

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scene, it doesn’t match any of
this.

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They look at their at their
texts and they say, this is,

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this is not what we’re
expecting.

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No one would recognize why he
came.

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This is Luke 24.
Everyone at the time tried to

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fit Jesus into the mold they
assumed he should fit into, not

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into the actual reason he came.
They failed to see the entire

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journey to Jerusalem.
Did he tell them what his plan

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and mission and purpose was?
Yes.

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Over and over and over.
He told them he would die.

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The Law told them they he would
die.

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The Psalms told them he would
die.

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The prophets told him told them
he would die.

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This is not new.
This should not be a surprise to

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anyone.
But when they came, they

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expected somebody completely
different.

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They should have expected him to
be beaten, betrayed, murdered,

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resurrected.
They didn’t.

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They didn’t see it.
It wasn’t the Messiah that they

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were expecting.
So these two travellers join all

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the other characters we’ve
looked at in Luke who are blind

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to who the Savior truly was, the
Savior who walked right beside

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them the whole time.
We need to ask ourselves by the

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sisters, should we see Jesus for
who he truly is or if we changed

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him to fit into what we think he
needs to look like, what we

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think he needs to act like?
Or do we go to the Scripture and

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say this is the main we follow
to Jerusalem?

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That’s the question we have to
ask ourselves.

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It’s not for, it’s not for our
neighbor to answer, it’s for us

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to answer.
Let’s then quickly look at the

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events that are recorded for us
in Luke 24.

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We have in Luke 24 the
resurrection first.

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This happens in Luke’s account
in the 1st 11 verses.

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Now this is the resurrection.
It happens in all four gospels,

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of course.
Next event is he appears to

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marry.
We’re told this in Mark’s and

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John’s account that he appears
to marry.

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We’re given a little extra
detail in Matthew’s account that

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he appears to the women.
So these are the order of

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events.
There was more than one woman at

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this appearing.
And then some people, some

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commentary commentaries place
the appearance to Peter and

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we’re going to look at this in a
second place, the appearance to

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Peter right after this
appearance to the women.

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We’re going with Luke’s account
for now.

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So the next people he’s going to
talk to is in verse 13.

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It’s going to tell us the story
of the two travelers.

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Today’s session is a story.
We’re not going to be hopping

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through the journey to Jerusalem
anymore.

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We’re not going to be pointing
out little things that we can

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follow and bread crumbs that we
can trail.

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We’re going to simply look at
the story of Luke 24.

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So let’s get started.
Mark only has 2 verses on these

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two travelers.
Matthew and John don’t really

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mention them.
Luke is going to spend from

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verse 13 to 35 talking about
this appearance.

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We’re going to look at these
this appearance for our session

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today.
The story starts in verse 13.

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And two of them it says, went
that same day to a village

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called Emmaus, which was from
Jerusalem.

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About 3 score furlongs.
It’s the only time we have this

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phrase, this place called
Emmaus.

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Now they’re traveling from
Jerusalem.

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We notice Luke’s gospel has been
trying and trying and trying and

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trying to get us to Jerusalem.
He’s going to conclude with a

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couple people leaving the city.
Why?

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Why is this the concluding
story?

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The ESV says it’s about 60
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So what this looks like is
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hours from Jerusalem to Emmaus.
So what they’re doing is it says

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in verse 14, they talked
together of all these things

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which had happened.
So just like you would do at the

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end of a fun trip with your
family, you pack up the car, you

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get in the car, you start
driving and you go, kids, what

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was your favorite part?
And the kids can talk and they

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can talk and they can say all
these fun things that they did.

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Most rewarding time is just
hearing the feedback.

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That’s what they’re doing.
They’re just talking about their

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trip to Jerusalem.
They talked together of all the

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things that happened, it says
verse 15, and it came to pass

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that while they communed
together and reasoned, Jesus

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himself drew near.
So what they’re doing is they’re

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communing and they’re reasoning.
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The discussion isn’t quite as
straightforward as the text

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actually makes it sound.
To communed is pretty

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straightforward.
It means to converse or to talk.

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But to reason means to
investigate, to argue, to

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debate.
What do you suppose that these

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two people, by the way, we can’t
be certain that it was a man and

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a woman.
We know the name of one of them,

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Cleopas, but we don’t know the
name of the other, so we’re not

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sure.
For the sake of the example, I

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just put a couple, but what do
you think that they’re

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investigating, they’re arguing,
they’re debating about with each

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other?
What do you suppose that they

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would be in heated discussion
about as they travelled away

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from Jerusalem towards Emmaus?
We’ll look at the conversation

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basically.
But they probably were saying

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something like, well, if he were
the Messiah, well, why did he

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allow himself to be killed?
What we expected to happen

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didn’t happen.
The man we thought was going to

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come didn’t come.
What happened in Jerusalem?

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We’re going to see their
conversation opened up in a

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little bit later.
But they’ve even clearly stayed

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an extra few days in Jerusalem
if they’re just now leaving

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after the resurrection.
You know, maybe they had heard

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rumors that he would be
resurrected, but no sign had

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come.
And so now they depart

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Jerusalem.
They’d heard that his body is

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not even there anymore.
Maybe the story ends there.

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So a feeling of defeat.
Heads hung low, They leave

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Jerusalem.
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It wasn’t long after leaving
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A stranger, a man they did not
recognize, joins them.

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Think for one second about
Jesus’s itinerary for this

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moment after being resurrected.
Pardon the visual.

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He pulls out his itinerary and
he says my first thing is to

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wait around the garden for Mary
Magdalene, who interestingly

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enough, also doesn’t recognize
him.

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The very next thing on his
agenda to do, he checks off,

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waits for Mary Magdalene.
The very next thing to do is to

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travel away from Jerusalem to
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So he sets off alone.
Why didn’t Jesus rush to see all

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the apostles who’ve probably
been crushed at this moment

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Their Messiah, the man they had
followed for 3 1/2 years is dead

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and his body is lost.
We failed as followers.

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Why didn’t he go to comfort them
as his item number 2 on his

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list?
Why didn’t he go and see his

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mother who’d probably been
crying for days at the death of

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her son to just reassure her
he’s he’s been resurrected and

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then move on to these two?
What about going to Pilot’s

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house and that have been
interesting, knocking on Pilot’s

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door and saying what about
crashing the celebration at the

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Pharisees and scribes, the party
they were definitely having

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somewhere in Jerusalem?
Why does he go to these two?

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That’s the whole story of Luke,
isn’t it?

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You would never expect him to go
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And everybody at his time,
everybody who claims to be this

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religious leader, was so
confused that he would debase

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himself to be like people with
this, like this.

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This is the story of Luke.
It’s all about calling the last

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people that you’d expect,
brothers and sisters.

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It’s about calling people like
us, isn’t it?

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I’d be the last person that I
expected to be called to the

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Kingdom.
Think about it for a second.

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Out of everybody on this planet,
the people in this room, you

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have an opportunity to be in
God’s Kingdom.

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Do you think about that
incredibly massive blessing

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often enough?
Think about everybody else in

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the world.
You’re not one of those people.

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You’re here called to follow
Him, and that’s what he does

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with these strangers.
But it says their eyes were

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Holden.
Verse 16 Their eyes were Holden,

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that they should not know Him.
They expected a victory in

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Jerusalem, not a death.
They expected a mighty

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deliverer, not a humble servant.
Their eyes were certainly

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Holden.
To who it was walking with them

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so as Jesus approached and he
catches up to them as they walk

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heads down sad debating with
each other what’s just happened.

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He catches up and he asks them a
question.

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Verse 17, he said to them,
what’s manner of communications

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are these that you have one to
another as you walk and are sad.

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The phrase and are sad in most
other translations is actually

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describing them and not part of
Christ’s response.

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Most other translations, and
I’ll read the ESV here for us.

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It says, but their eyes were
kept from recognizing.

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And he said to them, what is
this conversation that you were

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holding with each other as you
walk?

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And they stood still looking
sad.

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So we just have a slight change
there in what the text probably

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should read.
But they’re sad.

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They’re standing there looking
sad.

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And Christ approaches them and
said, what are you guys talking

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about?
Why do you look stand here?

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And they stood there looking
sad.

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These two were exhausted.
They were debating, they’re

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arguing, they’re confused.
And Cleopas answers, probably an

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answer he came to regret
forever.

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He says in verse 18, Are you
only a stranger in Jerusalem?

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Was Jesus simply a stranger to
that city?

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The only visitor, say other
versions?

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Are you the only visitor to
Jerusalem who does not know the

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things that have happened here?
You must be the only person in

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Jerusalem who has no idea what’s
just happened, He says to the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
All the planning, all the

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effort, all the shame, all the
challenges that went to getting

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to that city so that he could
die for the world.

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The death and the resurrection
was barred on the greatest event

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the planet ever seen.
And it happened in Jerusalem.

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And the man who was responsible
was standing there in front of

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them being called a visitor to
that city, clueless to those

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events.
And Jesus chose to make this his

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visit this morning, his second
stop as a resurrected being.

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He chose to visit these two.
Are you the only stranger in

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Jerusalem, verse 18 and has not
known the things which are about

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to come, which are come to pass
in these days.

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He says, and Jesus, I said it
yesterday, man, it would have

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been humbling to talk to Jesus.
Jesus says, what things?

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What things are you talking
about, Cleopas?

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And he plays into this role of
the only visitor to Jerusalem

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perfectly.
Are you the only visitor here

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who has no idea what’s just
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What’s happened?
He says whether adversary or

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foe, follower or family, Jesus
had a way with words.

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Let’s look at his answer.
And they said verse 19

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concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
which was a prophet, mighty in

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deed and word before God and all
the people, and how the chief

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priests and our rulers delivered
him to be condemned to death and

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have crucified him.
But we trusted that it had been

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he which should have redeemed
Israel.

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And besides all this, today’s
the third day since these things

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were done.
Yeah.

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And certain women also of our
company made us astonished,

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which were early at the
sepulchre.

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And when they found not his
body, they came saying they had

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seen a vision of the angels
which said he was alive.

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And certain of them which were
with us went to see the

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sepulchre and found it even as
the women had said.

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But him they didn’t see.
Let’s dissect these words for a

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second.
Let’s just take a look a little

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bit deeper at what they say.
He’s he says that this Jesus,

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which was a prophet.
A couple things we can glean out

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of this story.
He was nothing more than a

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prophet.
According to them, it was just

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another prophet.
He was not the Messiah.

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He was not to deliver.
He was a prophet, but he was no

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longer is.
He was a prophet.

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He’s gone.
We don’t know what’s become of

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him.
Another prophet to perish.

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He was mighty in Word and deed.
Who does that sound like?

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Moses?
Acts 7.

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They were expecting a man like
Moses, weren’t they?

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This is the man they wanted to
see.

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And they also say our chief
priests and rulers delivered him

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to be condemned to death and
have crucified him.

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They claim that they were their
chief priests and rulers.

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They belong to us, they’re ours.
And how could they be wrong?

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See, what they had unfortunately
fallen into, what everyone in

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this time had fallen into was
their teachings.

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The picture of Jesus that was
painted by these chief priests

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and rulers was a very different
man than the Jesus who showed up

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in Jerusalem.
And so when they’re looking for

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this image of Jesus, it doesn’t
match, it doesn’t fit, it

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doesn’t work.
And they’re blind to the man

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right in front of them and they
reveal this so plainly in their

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conversation.
So let’s keep going.

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It says in verse 25.
Then he said unto them, O fools

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and slow of hearts, to believe
all that the prophets had

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spoken.
Ought not Christ to have

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suffered these things, and to
enter into his glory, and to

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beginning at Moses, and all the
prophets, he expounded unto

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them, and all the Scripture the
things concerning himself.

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Jesus then gives what was
probably the very best Bible

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study to this day.
Imagine hearing from Jesus

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himself the conclusion of those
two verses that we saw.

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Luke 1831 came to fulfill
everything the prophets written

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of me.
Luke 2444, everything that the

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prophets in the Psalms and Moses
wrote about me.

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He is the one who delivers the
message, verse 27, beginning at

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Moses and all the prophets, He
expounded unto them in all the

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scriptures the things concerning
himself.

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Imagine being able to listen to
that Bible study.

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Imagine hearing from Jesus
himself, a resurrected Messiah,

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how every sinew of scripture was
relevant to why he was in

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Jerusalem.
This was not some stranger, some

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visitor to this city.
Jerusalem existed for this man.

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Jerusalem existed because of
this man and Jerusalem exists

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now through this man and he
teaches them all the Scriptures,

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the things concerning himself,
but he calls them in verse 25,

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fools and slow of hearts, ought
not Christ have suffered these

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things and to enter into his
glory.

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This would have been quite a
wake up call for those two,

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wouldn’t it?
You’re traveling, the stranger

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catches up to you.
He says we know what things are

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going on in Jerusalem.
They say, oh, this is not that,

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that and this.
And he goes, you fools, you

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missed the whole thing.
It would have been quite an eye

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opening conversation for them.
But Scriptures moves on right

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past it.
And it says in verse 28, again,

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no rebuttal by these two, verse
28.

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And they drew nigh into the
village where they went and he

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made as though he would have
gone further.

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The exit sign for Emmaus is
coming up and he keeps on

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walking.
He goes right past the exit sign

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and they say, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, wait a second, wait a

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second.
Would you be able to come to our

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house?
Verse 29 and they constrained

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him saying abide with us for it
is toward the evening and the

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day is far spent and he went to
tarry with them.

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But the sisters, he’s going to
eat again, by the way, he’s

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going to have a meal, as Luke
often paints, still having no

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00:29:40,520 –> 00:29:43,520
idea it’s their Messiah.
They say, come on, stay with us

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00:29:43,720 –> 00:29:44,640
for the evening.
It’s getting late.

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00:29:44,640 –> 00:29:48,000
It’s an interesting development.
In the summary chapter of Luke,

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Christ will reveal himself to
you.

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He’ll show you who He is and
what His calling entails.

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00:29:56,800 –> 00:29:58,880
But he’s not going to force you
down that road, is he?

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00:29:59,440 –> 00:30:03,840
He is going to keep walking.
It’s up to us to say, whoa, I

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want to go with you.
I want to go where you’re going.

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00:30:06,840 –> 00:30:08,680
And so they bring Christ to
their home.

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So Jesus sits at the table with
them, and the story gets even

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stranger.
Verse 29.

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And he went to tarry with them.
Verse 30 And it came to pass, as

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he sat at meet with them, He
took bread, He blessed it and

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00:30:25,120 –> 00:30:28,200
break and gave to them.
Have we heard these words

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00:30:28,200 –> 00:30:30,960
before?
We hear these words weekly,

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00:30:30,960 –> 00:30:34,520
don’t we?
So Jesus sits at the table with

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00:30:34,520 –> 00:30:37,960
them and does he play guest at
their own house?

461
00:30:39,280 –> 00:30:42,920
What does he play the role of
the host?

462
00:30:44,080 –> 00:30:48,520
He gets the bread.
What a strange visitor this was

463
00:30:48,520 –> 00:30:52,840
to their house.
You think about their adventure

464
00:30:52,840 –> 00:30:56,280
they’ve had leaving Jerusalem.
A stranger joins them, gives

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00:30:56,280 –> 00:30:59,120
them a mysterious, fabulous
Bible study.

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They beg him to come to dinner.
He does, and he says thanks for

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00:31:03,840 –> 00:31:07,880
coming to dinner.
What a strange event this was.

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00:31:08,160 –> 00:31:12,160
But he takes the bread, he
blessed it.

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He break it and gave it to them,
as we saw in our session

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00:31:20,520 –> 00:31:25,960
yesterday on eating.
Does Jesus eat here?

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It doesn’t seem like it, right?
We know he eats in his final

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00:31:31,720 –> 00:31:36,120
meal coming up in this chapter.
He does what he always does.

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00:31:37,040 –> 00:31:41,760
He feeds others.
He feeds others.

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00:31:43,560 –> 00:31:46,440
Now something incredible
happens.

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00:31:47,040 –> 00:31:51,080
We’ve read so far their
blindness, their eyes were

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00:31:51,080 –> 00:31:54,480
Holden.
They have no idea who this is,

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00:31:55,520 –> 00:31:58,120
but something changes at this
meal.

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00:31:58,640 –> 00:32:03,320
What is it that changes?
It says verse 30.

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00:32:03,320 –> 00:32:06,160
Again it came to pass, as he sat
a meet with them, He took bread

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00:32:06,160 –> 00:32:11,760
and blessed it and break it and
gave it to them, and then their

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00:32:11,800 –> 00:32:16,840
eyes were opened and they knew
him.

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00:32:18,040 –> 00:32:22,520
It was at this moment, the
moment after not only hearing an

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00:32:22,520 –> 00:32:27,240
exhortation from Christ about
how every sinew of Scriptures

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00:32:28,120 –> 00:32:31,920
pointed to this man, it was the
moment of breaking bread that

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00:32:31,920 –> 00:32:36,680
the understand who was truly
there at their dinner table.

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00:32:36,920 –> 00:32:39,840
They knew Him, it says in verse
31.

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00:32:40,120 –> 00:32:42,880
But what about the breaking of
bread made it so?

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00:32:42,880 –> 00:32:46,040
Their eyes were open?
What made it so they instantly

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00:32:46,040 –> 00:32:51,880
saw their Messiah?
How does He reveal Himself a few

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00:32:51,880 –> 00:32:54,760
verses later?
The disciples believe when they

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00:32:54,760 –> 00:33:00,520
what?
When they see his hands, so

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00:33:00,520 –> 00:33:06,360
Christ takes the bread, He
breaks it, and they pull the

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00:33:06,360 –> 00:33:12,920
bread away from his hand, and
they see the holes, and they

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00:33:13,120 –> 00:33:19,640
instantly knew that’s Jesus,
that’s the Messiah.

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00:33:22,560 –> 00:33:26,680
Their eyes were open.
They see his hands.

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00:33:28,120 –> 00:33:31,200
It’s at this dinner.
Jesus reaches across the table,

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00:33:31,200 –> 00:33:34,200
assuming the role of the host.
He takes the bread.

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00:33:34,280 –> 00:33:36,800
He breaks it into and he passes
it to each of them.

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00:33:36,960 –> 00:33:40,400
And when they take the bread
from his hand, they know that’s

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00:33:40,400 –> 00:33:44,480
Christ.
We’ve been blind to who he was

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00:33:44,480 –> 00:33:49,560
this whole time.
He was a man who came to save.

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00:33:50,760 –> 00:33:55,440
He was the man who died, not the
man who would conquer the world.

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00:33:55,960 –> 00:33:58,960
He was a man who came just to
die for sin.

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00:34:00,080 –> 00:34:07,600
They knew now who he was.
So without a doubt, this man’s

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00:34:07,720 –> 00:34:10,400
Jesus.
Oh, just imagine their

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00:34:10,400 –> 00:34:13,719
excitement.
Jesus.

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00:34:14,280 –> 00:34:16,280
It’s Jesus.
He chose to eat with us.

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00:34:16,520 –> 00:34:18,760
He walked with us.
It’s the resurrected Jesus.

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00:34:18,960 –> 00:34:23,400
I can’t wait to tell everyone I
have AI have 1000 questions to

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00:34:23,400 –> 00:34:24,360
ask you.
Jesus.

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00:34:25,239 –> 00:34:28,800
And what does he do?
Instantly he vanishes out of

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00:34:28,800 –> 00:34:32,159
their sight.
He’s gone.

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00:34:34,280 –> 00:34:38,000
Their eyes are open to him and
before they can even get a

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00:34:38,000 –> 00:34:41,440
single question out, he
vanishes.

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00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:51,920
His work there was done.
And they sit there absolutely

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00:34:52,120 –> 00:34:55,159
dumbfounded.
That’s what they’ve just

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00:34:55,159 –> 00:34:59,080
witnessed.
And they recap in verse 32.

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00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:04,240
And they said one to another,
Didn’t our heart burn within us

519
00:35:05,160 –> 00:35:08,320
while we talked, while He talked
with us, by the way, while He

520
00:35:08,640 –> 00:35:16,680
opened to us the Scriptures.
That was the Christ, and they

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00:35:16,680 –> 00:35:20,520
rose up the same hour.
And where did they go?

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00:35:24,040 –> 00:35:30,600
They returned to Jerusalem,
brothers and sisters.

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00:35:31,000 –> 00:35:32,880
That’s why Luke ends with this
story.

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00:35:36,200 –> 00:35:41,080
Life comes from Jerusalem, and
these two, blind to who their

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00:35:41,080 –> 00:35:48,480
Messiah was, leave the city.
And Christ says, come on back,

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00:35:50,160 –> 00:35:56,480
we belong here.
Life is here and he reveals who

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00:35:56,480 –> 00:36:00,840
he is, who he truly was, not the
man the world assumed he was.

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00:36:01,520 –> 00:36:09,000
A man who humbly gave himself.
And we also remember him in the

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00:36:09,000 –> 00:36:12,360
breaking of bread.
So they leave home.

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00:36:13,280 –> 00:36:19,280
It’s night now, it says verse
33.

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00:36:19,280 –> 00:36:25,320
They rose up the same hour,
returned to Jerusalem and found

532
00:36:25,320 –> 00:36:30,080
the 11 gathered together and
them that were with them.

533
00:36:31,440 –> 00:36:34,880
They now know exactly what they
have to do.

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00:36:35,280 –> 00:36:38,320
They know exactly where they
have to go.

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00:36:39,320 –> 00:36:41,720
They have to return to
Jerusalem.

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00:36:42,160 –> 00:36:45,480
Now we before we join these two
back on their journey, we should

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00:36:45,480 –> 00:36:49,400
look back really quick and just
simply stall on a principle for

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00:36:49,400 –> 00:36:53,200
a bit.
As we alluded to, this isn’t the

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00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:57,280
first time a couple was given
something to eat and in

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00:36:57,280 –> 00:37:01,360
partaking of that food had their
eyes open to something new.

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00:37:02,560 –> 00:37:05,640
This is not the first time and
there’s a lot of clues that if

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00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:10,280
we read carefully we would have
seen Luke 2436 it says Jesus

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00:37:10,280 –> 00:37:14,400
stood in their midst.
Genesis 2 there’s a tree of life

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00:37:14,400 –> 00:37:20,080
was placed in the midst of the
garden gave Luke 24 verse 30.

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00:37:20,280 –> 00:37:25,680
He broke it and he gave to them.
Genesis 3/6 she took of the

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00:37:25,680 –> 00:37:29,080
fruit and gave also to her
husband.

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00:37:30,200 –> 00:37:35,720
Eyes opened.
It says in Luke 2431 their eyes

548
00:37:35,720 –> 00:37:41,080
were opened and they knew him.
Genesis 37 eyes of them both

549
00:37:41,080 –> 00:37:43,840
were opened and they knew that
they were naked.

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00:37:44,240 –> 00:37:48,080
This is telling the same story.
Scripture starts off with it’s

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00:37:48,080 –> 00:37:53,920
little passages like this that
make us stand in wonder at this

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00:37:53,920 –> 00:38:02,840
book, and it’s passages exactly
like this that these two would

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00:38:02,840 –> 00:38:05,520
have been exhorted on on the
road to Emmaus.

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00:38:06,040 –> 00:38:13,120
When Jesus reveals how
everything related to him at

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00:38:13,120 –> 00:38:18,720
Bible schools, we get the
simplest of dustings of these.

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00:38:19,960 –> 00:38:22,240
Imagine what Jesus was able to
give.

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00:38:23,440 –> 00:38:28,280
Imagine their conviction on
hearing from himself these

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00:38:28,280 –> 00:38:31,600
things.
Oh, what we would have given to

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00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:36,360
just hear some of them.
And it says their eyes were

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00:38:36,360 –> 00:38:40,000
opened because this has happened
before.

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00:38:41,080 –> 00:38:48,680
Serpent, as a host, offered food
to his two guests, the two

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00:38:48,680 –> 00:38:52,920
guests not quite grasping who it
was, providing the food.

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00:38:53,080 –> 00:38:56,360
They partake of it, and by
eating the food, their eyes are

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00:38:56,360 –> 00:38:59,280
open to something brand new.
They gain an understanding they

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00:38:59,280 –> 00:39:01,600
didn’t have before.
It should have been obvious that

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00:39:01,600 –> 00:39:03,920
they have listened properly all
along, but they missed it.

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00:39:04,440 –> 00:39:06,800
In the garden, Adam and Eve
partake of the fruit.

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00:39:06,840 –> 00:39:10,840
They learn evil, but when the
two travelers partake of the

569
00:39:10,840 –> 00:39:15,000
food, they learn true goodness
provided by who Christ actually

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00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:17,800
was in the Garden.
Adam and Eve have their eyes

571
00:39:17,800 –> 00:39:21,360
open to sin and death and pain,
and it’s passed on to all.

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00:39:21,480 –> 00:39:25,640
But the travelers have their
eyes open to a man who provided

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00:39:25,640 –> 00:39:29,800
life and passed that on to all
in the Garden.

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00:39:29,960 –> 00:39:33,400
Adam and Eve immediately
understands what God had been

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00:39:33,400 –> 00:39:36,240
telling them all along.
The warnings were now crystal

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00:39:36,240 –> 00:39:38,960
clear.
So to the travelers, after

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00:39:38,960 –> 00:39:42,120
partaking of the bread,
immediately, instantly

578
00:39:42,120 –> 00:39:45,200
understand everything Christ had
just told them.

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00:39:45,560 –> 00:39:52,800
It all clicked and the very next
thing they do is they go to

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00:39:52,800 –> 00:40:00,520
Jerusalem.
They understand now that that’s

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00:40:00,520 –> 00:40:05,320
where they belonged.
This is our dream to Jerusalem,

582
00:40:05,320 –> 00:40:11,360
isn’t it, brothers and sisters?
Christ went to that city most

583
00:40:11,360 –> 00:40:16,880
definitely not as a stranger,
but as the man who would save

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00:40:16,880 –> 00:40:20,640
the world.
Now we’re given a three-step

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00:40:20,640 –> 00:40:28,880
process to eyes being opened in
this chapter, Luke 24 verse 32.

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00:40:29,680 –> 00:40:33,760
They said one to another didn’t
pass tense.

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00:40:34,160 –> 00:40:39,000
Our hearts burn within us.
Firstly, brothers and sisters,

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00:40:39,200 –> 00:40:47,880
we need to have our hearts open
to understand the true character

589
00:40:47,880 –> 00:40:52,040
of Christ, the true mission and
purpose of Christ.

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00:40:52,240 –> 00:40:58,000
When the hearts are open, it
says in verse 31 your eyes can

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00:40:58,000 –> 00:41:07,880
be opened and they knew him.
And finally, once our hearts

592
00:41:07,880 –> 00:41:14,000
have been accepting and we see
with the eyes of faith that it

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00:41:14,000 –> 00:41:20,600
says in verse 45 will bring
understanding, then open to

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00:41:20,720 –> 00:41:24,560
their understanding that they
might understand the Scriptures.

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00:41:26,480 –> 00:41:32,440
Brothers and sisters, He reveals
himself to us in the breaking of

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00:41:32,440 –> 00:41:35,640
bread.
It’s at the table of emblems

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00:41:35,640 –> 00:41:39,080
every single week that we know
who Jesus is.

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00:41:40,720 –> 00:41:47,400
He’s merciful, He’s gracious, He
gave everything.

599
00:41:48,440 –> 00:41:52,320
That’s who Jesus is.
Is that the man that you

600
00:41:52,320 –> 00:41:54,320
picture?
Is that the image you see?

601
00:41:54,320 –> 00:42:01,800
Is that the mold that you see
Jesus taking or do we see a

602
00:42:01,800 –> 00:42:08,080
Jesus who’s merciful to us?
But I hope he’ll rain fire down

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00:42:08,080 –> 00:42:12,680
on them.
This Jesus is one who brought

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00:42:12,720 –> 00:42:17,240
life for everyone.
He walked to Jerusalem.

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00:42:17,400 –> 00:42:21,800
He put himself on the cross to
bear the sins of the world and

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00:42:21,800 –> 00:42:23,640
was accepted to the right hand
of his Father.

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00:42:24,760 –> 00:42:28,280
So it says in verse 33 they
returned to Jerusalem.

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00:42:31,400 –> 00:42:37,120
Let’s pick up our journey then
where we left off and they found

609
00:42:37,120 –> 00:42:40,600
the 11 gathered together and
them that were with them saying

610
00:42:40,800 –> 00:42:44,800
the Lord, they said the Lord is
risen indeed and he hath

611
00:42:44,800 –> 00:42:46,800
appeared to Simon.
This is the clue that we have

612
00:42:46,880 –> 00:42:51,720
that possibly he had appeared to
Simon before, but they reveal to

613
00:42:51,720 –> 00:42:57,200
the 11 that Christ was certainly
risen and how he made himself

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00:42:57,280 –> 00:43:01,160
known.
Verse 35 in the breaking of

615
00:43:01,160 –> 00:43:07,960
bread, it’s eating again.
That’s how he made himself known

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00:43:08,240 –> 00:43:12,200
to his brethren.
Now you’ll never guess where the

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00:43:12,200 –> 00:43:16,320
story goes from here, do you?
Verse 36 And as they thus spake,

618
00:43:17,320 –> 00:43:20,240
Jesus himself stood in the midst
of them and said to them, Peace

619
00:43:20,240 –> 00:43:23,040
be unto you.
So as they the two run in and

620
00:43:23,040 –> 00:43:25,440
they’re explaining to this, who
appears?

621
00:43:26,960 –> 00:43:32,080
Jesus himself.
Jesus himself appears again.

622
00:43:35,320 –> 00:43:37,760
But they verse 37 were
terrified.

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00:43:38,120 –> 00:43:40,600
They were affrighted.
They supposed they had seen a

624
00:43:40,600 –> 00:43:44,080
spirit.
And he said unto them, Why are

625
00:43:44,080 –> 00:43:45,600
you troubled?
Why do you thought to rise in

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00:43:45,600 –> 00:43:47,120
your hearts?
Behold, he says, look at my

627
00:43:47,120 –> 00:43:53,560
hands and my feet.
It’s I myself handle me and see,

628
00:43:53,840 –> 00:44:00,800
see, see who I am.
For Spirit has not flesh and

629
00:44:00,800 –> 00:44:04,040
bones, as ye see me have.
And when he had thus spoken, he

630
00:44:04,040 –> 00:44:05,280
showed them his hands and his
feet.

631
00:44:05,400 –> 00:44:08,160
And while yet believe not for
joy and wondered, He said unto

632
00:44:08,160 –> 00:44:10,120
them, We looked at this
yesterday, Do you have anything

633
00:44:10,120 –> 00:44:13,840
to eat?
And he’s going to partake now of

634
00:44:13,840 –> 00:44:20,960
the food, and eat in front of
them, to prove it’s me.

635
00:44:20,960 –> 00:44:24,440
It’s Jesus, it’s actually me,
and he eats.

636
00:44:26,520 –> 00:44:28,280
We read in verse 44 the familiar
words.

637
00:44:28,280 –> 00:44:32,280
Yesterday He said unto them,
These are the words which I

638
00:44:32,280 –> 00:44:36,040
spake unto you, while I was yet
with you, that all things must

639
00:44:36,040 –> 00:44:39,440
be fulfilled, which was written
in the law of Moses, and in the

640
00:44:39,440 –> 00:44:49,480
prophets, and in the Psalms
concerning me, concerning me.

641
00:44:50,560 –> 00:44:55,320
Then think of these words in
verse 45.

642
00:44:57,320 –> 00:45:02,600
He opened their understanding,
that they might understand the

643
00:45:02,600 –> 00:45:09,640
Scriptures, and said unto them
familiar words to the disciples,

644
00:45:10,400 –> 00:45:12,800
but meant an infinite amount
more.

645
00:45:12,960 –> 00:45:18,680
Now thus it is written, And thus
it was needful for Christ to

646
00:45:18,680 –> 00:45:21,960
suffer and to rise from the dead
the third day, and that

647
00:45:23,360 –> 00:45:28,920
repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in His name

648
00:45:29,840 –> 00:45:34,880
among all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem.

649
00:45:37,760 –> 00:45:44,920
So brothers and sisters, He now
expounds to his eleven friends

650
00:45:46,080 –> 00:45:52,120
how everything pointed to this,
and He opens their understanding

651
00:45:53,920 –> 00:46:00,560
and how everything starts in
Jerusalem, beginning at

652
00:46:00,560 –> 00:46:02,960
Jerusalem, and it’s all going to
start here.

653
00:46:03,080 –> 00:46:06,320
This is where it starts, it’s
this city.

654
00:46:06,480 –> 00:46:11,640
So it goes on and it says, and
ye are witnesses of these

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00:46:11,640 –> 00:46:13,760
things.
And behold, I send you the

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00:46:13,760 –> 00:46:18,880
promise of my Father upon you.
But he says, Tarry ye in the

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00:46:18,880 –> 00:46:25,960
city of Jerusalem, wait here, He
says, this is Luke’s story.

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It ends with him saying,
disciples, you made it.

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Wait here for further
instructions.

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Tarry ye here in the city of
Jerusalem, until ye be endued

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with power from on high.
And then we read the familiar

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words from Brother Stevens
class, and he led them out as

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far as to Bethany, lifted his
hands, and blessed them.

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And it came to pass, while he
blessed them, he was parted from

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them, carried up into heaven,
and they worshipped him, and

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00:47:04,640 –> 00:47:10,840
they returned to Jerusalem with
great joy and they were

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continually in the temple
praising and blessing God.

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And they were to remain in the
city of Jerusalem until we get

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to the second volume of Luke’s
works.

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So the Gospel of Luke ends with
this seemingly bizarre random

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story, a story that doesn’t seem
to make any difference if it

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were included in the text or
not.

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There probably were countless
people that Jesus walked with on

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roads.
But this one is given the

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concluding chapter in Luke’s
Gospel, his first book to

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Theophilus.
What an amazing, amazing plot

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priority that he places on the
importance of getting to

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Jerusalem.
So as we’ve made it into the

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city in our sessions, we still
race obviously towards Jerusalem

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in our lives, brothers and
sisters.

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But tomorrow, God willing, we’ll
go beyond Jerusalem.

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We’ll see that Jesus’s mission
wasn’t even close to completion.

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It was beginning at Jerusalem.
We’ll see in the book of Acts.

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Finally, he has now convicted,
motivated, educated apostles,

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and he showed them He came to
fulfill everything, and that

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everything that was written
about him in the prophets and in

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the Psalms and in the Law was
all fulfilled at Jerusalem.