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Sermon #B704 - Heart Burn
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All right, we are ready
to go. We are ready to go.
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Luke chapter 24, Luke chapter
24, Luke chapter 24. And I want
to go to verse number 13, Luke
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chapter 24, verse number 13. And
I believe we are ready now, this
along with scripture. So bear
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with me. I am going to read it.
The word of God says; 'and
behold, two of them went that
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same day to a village called
Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem
about threescore furlongs. And
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we know threescore. Three times
20 is 60 furlongs. And they
talked together of all these
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things which had happened. And
it came to pass that while they
commune together and the reason
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Jesus himself drew near and went
with them. But their eyes were
held that they should not know
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him. And he said unto them, What
manner of communications are
these that he had one to
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another, as he walked and are
sad. And one of them whose name
was Cleopas answering said unto
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him, 'are thou now only a
stranger in Jerusalem and has
not known the things which are
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coming to pass there in these
days?'. And he said unto him,
'What things?' And they said
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unto him, ''concerning Jesus of
Nazareth, which was a prophet
mighty in deed and word before
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God and all the people and how
the chief priests and our rulers
delivered him to be condemned to
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death and have crucified him.
But we trusted that it had been
he which should have redeemed
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Israel and beside all this,
today is the third day since
these things were done. Yay. And
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certain women also have our
company, made us astonished,
which were early at the
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supplicant. They found out his
body. They came saying that they
had also seen a vision of Angel
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which said that he was alive and
certain of them, which were with
us, went to the supplicant and
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found it even so as the woman
had said, but him, they saw not.
Then he said unto them, ''old
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fools and slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets
have spoken, ought not Christ to
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have suffered these things and
to enter into his glory and
beginning at Moses and all the
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prophets, he expounded unto them
and all the scripts, the things
concerning himself.'' And they
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drew nigh unto the village,
wherever they went. And he made
as though he would have gone
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further, but they constrained
him saying, ''abide with us for
it is toward evening and today
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is far spent.'' And he went in
to tarry with them and came to
pass. As he sat at meat with
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them, he took bread and blessed
it and broke and gave to them
and their eyes were open and
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they knew him and he vanished
out of their sites. And they
said to one another, ''did not
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our hearts burn within us while
talk with us by the way and
while he opens to us the
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scriptures.'' And they Rose up
the same hour and returned to
Jerusalem and found the 11
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gathered and them that were with
them saying, ''The Lord is risen
indeed and have appeared to
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Simon'' Verse 35, And they told
what things were done in the way
and how he was known of them in
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breaking of bread. They just
allow me a little time on the
subject, heartburn. Father God
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bless us. Now, as we open your
word, make it real, make it
applicable to our lives. I pray
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the power of the Holy Ghost, not
just in this sanctuary, but I
pray that your Holy ghost
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visited everyone who is watching
and tuning into this broadcast
right now. We pray for the power
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of your Holy Spirit to pour down
on each. And every one of us
forgives me of my sins. I am not
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worried that it is staying up
here, but Lord forgives me of my
sins, cleanse me from things
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that are not right and pleasing,
not citing me. That people not
see me thee and here the today.
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And when the appeal time comes
Lord, as you do it every week,
move. We pray. I pray this
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prayer. I ask these things in
Jesus name. Amen.Heartburn,
heartburn. Have you ever had
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that experience when you could
not see something, but it was
right in front of you in the
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Byrd home. That is my home. One
of the greatest possessions in
our home is the television
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remote control. Everyone wants
to have the remote in their
hands from myself to Christyn,
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to Caileigh, to Carissa, not so
much my wife, Danielle, but to
the rest of us, everyone wants
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the remote. And so sometimes we
will hide the remote control
from each other. So if we have
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to step away, no one will change
the channel. Do I have a witness
in this place? Somebody knows
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what I am talking about. Do not
act like you do not know what I
am talking about. Tell the
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truth. Shame the devil. You hide
the remotes. One day I wanted to
watch an LA Lakers basketball
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game. I wanted to watch and see
LeBron James play, but I could
not find the remote. I looked
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everywhere, the counter, the
couch, the table, in my chair. I
am looking everywhere, but I
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could not see it. I could not
see the remote. So I asked my
wife, Danielle, where is the
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remote? She says I do not know
Christyn. Where is the remote? I
do not know Caileigh. Where is
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the remote? I do not know. Even
our baby girl, Carissa, Carissa
where is the remotes. I do not
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know. I am going crazy. I am
looking everywhere. I am turning
the place upside down because I
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want to see that basketball
game. The game has started. I am
going crazy. I am missing it
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because I do not see the remote
again. I call out Danielle's
upstairs. Danielle where is the
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remote. She says to check the
couch. I already checked the
couch. Where is the remote? So
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Danielle with a smile on her
face comes down the stairs, goes
to the couch, lifts a pillow,
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finds the remote. Gives me that
look and says, here you go. I
said, but I looked there, but I
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did not see it. Do not laugh at
me. I know you are. I cannot see
you, but I know you are, but do
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not laugh at me because I know
it has happened to you too,
because it is frustrating when
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you cannot see something and it
is right in front of you now,
remote control is important and
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a big deal for our family. But
in the overall scheme of things,
remote control is really not
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that important. It is really not
that big of a deal. But what
about those times when you are
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looking for something important,
but you cannot see it. Jesus was
crucified on Friday on the
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Sabbath. He laid resting in the
grave, which means he was
obedient to his law, even in
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death. But early Sunday morning
on the third appointed day, he
got up with all power in his
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hands, power over death, power
over hell, power over the grave.
Jesus rose from the dead and now
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Jesus lives. And because he
lives, we live because he got up
one day, the dead in Christ are
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going to get up. And one day we
with our alive and remain are
going to be caught up to meet
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the Lord in the air. And so
shall we ever be with the Lord?
But on this day, the Bible says
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the women in our texts are sad
and the disciples are afraid.
The disciples are scared. They
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had laid down their lives, laid
down their jobs. They laid down
their careers to follow Jesus.
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They had left their family, left
their friends to follow Jesus
Christ. And when he was healing,
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the sick, when he was raising
the dead, when he was restoring
sight to the blind, it was good.
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It was cool to be a disciple,
but now he is dead. And all of a
sudden it is no longer popular
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to be one of his disciples. It
is no longer safe being one of
his disciples. You see in my
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life, I have learned that
sometimes being in the will of
God causes you to be out of the
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favour of people. I wish I had a
witness in his place. The women
are on their way to the tomb.
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And the disciples are in the
upper room because, in their
hearts and minds, Jesus is dead.
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And because they think he is
dead, they are discouraged,
despondent, disappointed, and
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they are defeated. see the last
time they saw him, he was dead
and in a Tomb. But when the
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women go to the tomb on this
day, he is not there. He is not
in the grave, but his linen is
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still in the form of his body
without disturbing it again. God
rolled away from the stone not
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to let Jesus out so much, but to
let the believers in. the angels
sat down on that stone as if to
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say to the Roman soldiers, what
are you going to do about it?
Because when God rolls your
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stone away, when God prepares,
thank you Jesus, a table in the
presence, your enemies, All your
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enemies can do is sit down and
watch you eat. I wish I had a
witness to this place. God has
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the angel roll. The stone away.
The angel then asks the women,
''Why seek the living among the
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dead. He is not here. He has
risen. He is alive.'' I serve a
risen saviour. I do not serve a
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dead Jesus, but I serve a risen
saviour. He is in the world
today. I know that he is living.
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Whatever men may say, I serve a
risen saviour. I do not serve a
dead Jesus. God's not dead.
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God's alive. That is why I do
not understand how some
Christians cannot smile, cannot
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sing, cannot praise God, cannot
worship God. Do not, you know,
he is alive. And if he is alive,
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he wants you to be alive. You
are not the frozen chosen. You
are not the first church of
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refrigeration. You are the
saved, sanctified. Blood bought
blood-washed child of the most
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high God. And I am so glad that
Jesus died for me. And I am so
glad that he got up from me
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because if Jesus had just died,
we still be in our sins But
because Jesus Rose everything.
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He said everything. He taught
everything. He promised means
something you see Christ was
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given a death sentence, but the
end result is the eternal life
sentence for us. Christ died in
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result for us however is grace.
Christ rose from the dead and as
the ultimate conqueror of death
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and hell and sin. Oh, death! ,
where is I sting? Oh, grave!
Rare is thy victory? The
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strength of the sin of death is
sin. The strength of sin is the
law, but thanks be to God who
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gave us the victory through our
Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
So victory is mine. Victory is
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today is mine. I told Satan to
get thee behind victory today is
mine. Now when the women, I got
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to get to my points so I can sit
down. When the women go inside
the tomb, the tomb is not
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disturbed. The tomb is not
messy. The tomb is not
ransacked. It looks like Jesus
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took his time leaving. Hear me,
everybody, because the linen
napkin that was over his face,
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the linen napkin that was over
and covered his body. He folded
it and left it in the grave. You
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all do not hear what I am
saying. Now, anybody who folds
clothes knows. You got to take
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your time folding clothes. You
do not fold clothes quickly.
Somebody hear what I am talking
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about. Jesus got out of the
linen cloth and left the linen
cloth in the form of his body.
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And he did this to demonstrate
that God did it. He was wrapped
in linen cloths, but God got him
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out. And the living did not
unravel when God got him out.
Now quickly. The text says that
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there are two disciples on their
way back to Emmaus it is late in
the evening. On resurrection
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day. The Bible says that Cleopas
is one of the disciples by name,
but we are not given the name of
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the other person. Now, some
people say it was Cleopas' wife,
but the Bible does not tell us
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who it was. We just know that
there are two disciples, two
followers on their way back to
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Emmaus. Emmaus Is seven miles
from Jerusalem and they are
walking, but Jesus does not want
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them to leave until they get
their story straight. So the
Bible says that Jesus joins them
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on their walk. Are you hearing
what I am saying? Now Jesus
appears to these discouraged
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disillusioned disciples. He
could have appeared in many
other places. He could have
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dropped in on Pilates palace for
a few minutes. He could have
shown up at Caiaphas home
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unannounced. He could have made
a visit to the Sanhedrin. He
could have even shown up at the
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Roman guard's barracks, but
instead, Jesus joins these two
disciples. These two disciples
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who had given up and headed
home. These two disciples who
were disillusioned and dejected.
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These two disciples who were
gloomy, mournful and sad. They
are walking and talking about
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what happened on Friday. They
had waited around on the Sabbath
But nothing had happened. And so
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they leave Sunday without
getting the story straight
Jesus, he joins them, but they
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do not recognize him. They do
not know who he is. Maybe they
do not recognize him because
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they weren't expecting him.
Because maybe the reason some of
you will never get a
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breakthrough or a miracle is
that you are not expecting it.
You watch other people say,
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amen, you watch other people
say, thank you, Jesus, you watch
other people say, praise the
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Lord, you watch other people
shout, but it never moves you
because you are not expecting
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it. And you only get what you
expect. Are you hearing what I
am saying? If you do not expect
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to be blessed, then that is not
going to happen for you. If you
do not expect your prayers to be
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answered, that is not going to
happen for you. If you do not
expect God to make a way away
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will not happen. But I am today
looking for a miracle. I am
expecting the impossible. I am
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seeing the invisible. I am
touching the intangible because
the sky is the limit to what I
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can have, but maybe they did not
recognize him because they did
not expect him. But then number
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two, maybe they did not
recognize him because they had
little faith. They had heard the
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reports of the women who went to
the tomb. They had seen the
empty tomb for themselves, but
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yet they had not believed the
supernatural working of God to
raise Jesus from the dead was
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outside of their box. And we
need to be careful not make the
same mistake and that is to
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discount what God has done
simply because we cannot explain
it or we cannot understand it.
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Or it is not within our box. It
is not in the church box. While
God often uses natural things to
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accomplish his will. God can
also do things. We do not
understand. God can also do
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things we cannot explain. God
says my ways are not your ways.
My thoughts are not your
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thoughts. These two disciples,
these two followers knew that
something had happened, but it
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was beyond their level of faith
to be able to see things as they
truly were. Let me tell you
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something. Just because they
knew about Jesus did not mean
they knew Jesus just because
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they could not see Jesus could
see Jesus did not mean they
could really see who he was.
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Many people think today, think
they know who Jesus is. They
have heard about him. They have
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read about him. They have used
his name, but they would not
recognize him. If they saw him.
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If he were looking at them dead
in the face, if he were making a
way for them right in front of
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their eyes, if he were
performing a miracle for their
benefit, they would not know it
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because their eyes have not been
open. I wish somebody knew what
I was talking about. They cannot
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see him for what he is doing,
because knowing about him and
knowing him are two different
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things. But then maybe number
three, they did not recognize
him because he looked different
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after the resurrection. There is
something about him now that
wasn't like him before. That is
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just like some of us. When we
give our lives to Jesus and we
become a new man, a new woman, a
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new creature in Jesus. Some
people do not recognize us
because of how we look after our
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change. I wish I had a witness
in this place, but then number
four, I think Jesus prevented
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them from recognizing him
because he had a purpose in
blinding their eyes. What am I
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talking about? Jesus isn't being
cruel here. But his gradual
revelation of himself allows
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them to learn certain lessons
about God's promises. You see
the disciples had been told
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earlier about these events, but
yet they still did not believe.
The Bible says that when Jesus
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joins them, Jesus says, what are
you discussing? What are you
talking about? Why are you so
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sad? Why are you so down? Now?
Let me remind you, friends of
mine, that God is omniscient,
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which means God is all-knowing.
So he does not ask this question
for his benefit. He never asks a
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question that he does not know
the answer to. I wish I had a
witness at his place. They
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respond. You have not heard, you
do not know. You do not know
what happened to Jesus. Jesus
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was a prophet indeed in word,
but he was crucified. Our elders
crucified him. Now notice, they
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now call Jesus a prophet. They
no longer say he was the Christ.
They no longer say he was the
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Messiah. They lost their faith
for them. Jesus is dead. And he
must've been a prophet, just
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like the prophets of old who had
died. They said he possibly, he
could not possibly be the
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Messiah chosen by God because
the Messiah was supposed to come
and liberate his people. But
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Jesus is dead. And here it is
the third day. And here are some
women who run around here
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talking about, they saw him. But
according to their culture, they
said, you cannot put confidence
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in women. You cannot take their
word for it. They are not
reliable. We cannot trust them.
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We cannot trust these women. We
cannot or gain them. We cannot
let them be pastors. We cannot
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let them be elders. We cannot
let them be the president or the
vice president of the United
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States. We cannot let them be
the speaker of the house. We
cannot let them be in power. The
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Bible says that there is nothing
new under the sun, the same
cultural bias and misogyny that
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existed then still exists now in
some circles. But in the name of
Jesus, you better read your
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Bible. Joel, two 28 and 29 days,
and it shall come to pass
afterwards that I will pour out
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my spirit upon all flesh and
your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy. Your old men
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shall dream dreams. Young men
shall see visions and also on
the surface and upon the
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handmaids in those days, I will
pour out my spirits. Jesus
scolds them for not having hope
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and not realizing what has
happened. They thought the
Messiah was going to be a
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political liberator, but Jesus
shows them but that isn't what
the Messiah was going to do. He
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did not come to be victorious
like a military leader, but he
had come to achieve victory
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through his own suffering. but
Jesus was wounded for our
transgressions. Bruised for our
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iniquities. Chastisement from
our peace was upon him but by
his stripes, we are healed all
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the scriptures point to Jesus.
So when you cannot see Jesus,
look at the scriptures, when you
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cannot see what Jesus is doing
in your life, I dare you to look
at the scriptures. Jesus said it
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best. Search the scriptures.
They testify of me So in Jesus,
God, through preaching about
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Jesus, the Bible says he was
acting like he was about to
leave him. And then they said,
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hold up, wait a minute. Abide
with us. Stay with us. As a
matter of fact, the Bible says
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they constrained him to stay
with them that night When they
sat down to eat when they bless
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the bread when they broke the
bread, the Bible says, Jesus
stopped restraining their eyes.
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And immediately they saw someone
who looks familiar immediately
they recognized him for who he
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is as he hands them the bread
and right at that amen moments,
right at that hallelujah moment,
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right at that thank you Jesus
moment, he is gone. He vanishes.
He leaves them, he is gone. And
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they say did not our hearts burn
within us while he talked with
us, by the way, while he opened
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to us, the scriptures I am done.
But let me just say this. You
see, somebody knows that when
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