Luke, Week 5: The Walk

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 WE Serve our: 1.    COUNTY 2.    COMMUNITY 3.    CHURCH COUNTY: 10,000 Cans of food. COMMUNITY: Block Parties.  CHURCH: Adding 2 Saturday Night Services starting October 5th: 4:30 & 6:15. WE SERVE CENTRAL!  Title of Message: The Walk (Luke 24:13) (NIV) Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. (Luke 24:14-17) (NIV) They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.  As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;  but they were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” (Luke 24:17-18) (NIV) They stood still, their faces downcast.  One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”   Observations from The Walk: 1.    Jesus shows up at the worst moment. (Luke 24:19-23) (NIV) “What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.  The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.  In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.   2.    Jesus’ words will cause your heart to burn (Luke 24:25-27) (NIV) He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. (Luke 24:31-32) (NIV) Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”  3.    Jesus will cause you to take hope back to where you lost it. (Luke 24:33-35) (NIV) They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread. (Hebrews 4:12) (NIV) For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.