I used to have a doctor and I really liked her.
She was pretty good actually.
She was kind of into treating the whole person rather than getting a shot or getting drugs
every time you go in or being prescribed a medicine.
And so she would help me figure out like was I vitamin deficient or did I was I not getting
enough sleep wasn't I getting you know those kinds of things.
And I really enjoyed that about her one time I was I was living in Perishburg at the time
and I went to go see her I made an appointment.
The appointment was for one o'clock right after lunch.
It's a good time to make doctor's appointments actually because a lot of times the whole
staff's coming right back from lunch and it's you're the first appointment you have to
wait.
And I got there and surprisingly enough they had changed their schedule or they just had
skipped lunch or because they were so far behind or whatever.
And she said the doctor will see you shortly and I sat down in the waiting room and I waited.
Now if you know me at all before I got saved I'll just make this clear before I got saved
I had very little patience and after I got saved I've been blessed by the fruit of patience
from the Holy Spirit but I don't have a lot of patience.
That's the that's the reality of it.
And I sat there and after about a half an hour or so I started thinking I've been waiting
too long and I got up and I went up to the nurse or office manager whoever she was sitting
at the desk and I said I've been here about a half an hour.
I said you said she's seen me in a few minutes and I'm still sitting here and she said yeah
we're running really behind.
But we we worked right through lunch or some of the people worked right through lunch or
something whatever she said and she said but we'll get to you shortly.
And I went back and I sat down.
Now this is in the day before smartphones so I didn't whip out my smartphone and start
you know surfing the Internet or the time might have passed more quickly or whatever
and I didn't check my emails I just sat there and waited.
In fact I had brought my paper Bible with me and I was scanning through the Bible and
yet it got to be about an hour after my appointment and I heard somebody go up to the counter
and ask and say I've been waiting here for an hour and a half since my appointment time
and I'm still waiting.
And I thought to myself if I've already been waiting an hour this person's already been
waiting an hour and a half so they're ahead of me for sure.
And I thought man I just I just don't have time for this and I was actually taking time
out of my workday to do this appointment.
And so about five minutes later I just gave up and I left I left the doctor's office and
I thought well I'll make an appointment another day.
Well when I left the doctor's office guess how many of the problems that I went to go
see the doctor about were solved.
None.
I went because I was pretty sure I had an ear infection and and my doctor would be pretty
good to check my ears and say okay yeah you do have an ear infection she gives you a little
she was one of the doctors that give you a poke in the butt antibiotics 24 hours you
feel like a new man right.
And so that's why I went to the doctor and so I wound up two days later having to go
to urgent care because my doctor's appointment did not solve my problem at all.
So I want you to bear that thought in mind then as I say to you that concerning Jesus
appointments are available today.
All right.
Grab your Bibles if you would maybe give me a little who to holler amen whatever you feel
like as we go to Luke chapter 24.
Praise God.
So this is a relatively long text but it's in story form so there's not a lot to explain
as we go by.
Okay.
I'll try if there's anything I see anything to kind of break it down and describe it to
you on the way by.
So this is Luke 24 beginning of verse one it says but on the first day of the week at
early dawn they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb and when they entered they did not find
the body of the Lord Jesus and it happened that while they were perplexed about this behold
two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling apparel and as the women were terrified and
bowed their faces to the ground the men said to them why do you seek the living among the
dead?
He is not here but he has risen.
Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee saying that the Son of Man
must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and the third day rise
again?
So these ladies had heard the teaching of Jesus that this exact set of events was going
to transpire so that they were terrified for the loss of Jesus for the loss of his body
but now these two men dressed in sparkling clothing which is sort of a biblical formula
for angels maybe are saying he told you this was going to happen now we're in verse eight
and they remembered his words and returned from the tomb and reported all these things
to the eleven and to all the rest.
Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James also other women
with them were telling these things to the apostles so they all got together and they
went and witnessed to the apostles.
It says in verse eleven and these words appeared to them as nonsense and they would not believe
them.
So the apostles thought what the women were telling was just ridiculous that can't be
right something is totally wrong and they didn't just flat out believe even though they
too had heard the teaching of Jesus that this is going to go exactly the way it's going.
Verse twelve says but Peter arose and ran to the tomb stooping and looking in he saw
the linen wrappings only and he went away to his home marveling at that which had happened.
I'm going to stop there for a second I want you to hone in on the word marveling.
So here is the debate that goes on here is the debate that people question was Peter
beginning to believe in this moment or was he doubting?
I think you know Thomas gets a lot of like bad rap because they call him doubting Thomas
and he doubted the risen Savior Jesus that he wasn't there the first appearing and so
he thought oh I don't know if this could be true but I submit to you that all of the disciples
are full of doubt.
You can kind of see that in the story where Jesus calms the storm like wow you have little
faith right.
So all of them are sort of full of doubt but I submit to you it's a doubt a little more
like maybe like my own marveling and wondering at how awesome Jesus is and what Jesus does
and how amazing that is.
So he goes away marveling I submit to you that something has happened and he knows that
something has happened he's not 100% sure of what has happened okay and he's in wonder
or excitement about what it is exactly that has happened and I'll clarify that a little
more in the points later.
The story goes on now this is the same day it says in verse 13 it says and behold two
of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus which was about seven miles from
Jerusalem.
Now we do not have the historical location of Emmaus today that village is gone and there
was a lot of strife in that area and it's been kind of erased geographically speaking
but we know that it was about seven miles from Jerusalem and they were conversing with
each other about all these things which had taken place.
So they're walking down the road talking about the amazing events as you might talk about
politics or strange occurrences in your day they were doing the same thing.
It came about that while they were conversing and discussing Jesus himself approached and
began traveling them with them but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him so they
didn't get that this was Jesus even though he's come and begun to walk along with them
verse 17 and he said to them what are these words that you are exchanging with one another
as you are walking and they stood still looking sad and one of them named Cleopas answered
and said to him are you the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which
have happened there in these days and he said to them what things and he didn't say he
was unaware he just says what things and they said to him the things about Jesus the Nazarene
who was a prophet mighty indeed and word in the sight of God and all the people and how
the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to the sentence of death and crucified
him but we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel indeed besides
all this it is the third day since these things happened but also some women among us amazed
us when they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body they came
saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive and some
of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women also
had said but him they did not see okay now to be clear this tells you exactly where in
the stories the story these two men left right it tells you that right after those previous
events they left and they don't they don't have more information than what they're relating
verse 25 and he said to them oh foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and
to enter into his glory and beginning with Moses and with all the prophets he explained
to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures so basically this is Jesus
remember he begins to start at Genesis 1 he talks about the fall he talks about the curse
he talks about Noah and how Noah was it was a messianic figure and and protected he and
his family to sustain all of mankind he talks about all that that the David did all the
things that happened during David's day and the promises that were made to David then
he goes he talks about everything that happened with Moses he talks about everything happened
during the day of judges and how they kept spiraling further and further down into sin
after they would repent after God would send a man or in certain cases a woman to call
them back to goodness and they were still spiraling into sin and he continues he goes
through all the prophets and all the prophets and I don't know that he gets every verse
but he shows them clearly how it's all laid out in the Bible and it's all speaking about
him and what would happen except they don't know it's him because their eyes have still
been blocked and they approached the village this is verse 28 and they approached the village
where they were going and he acted as though he would go further so to them it looked like
he was going to go on he didn't say it was going to but he to them it looked like he
was going to keep on traveling and they urged him saying stay with us for it's getting toward
evening and the day is now nearly over and he went in to stay with them and it came about
that when he had reclined at the table with them he took the bread and blessed it and
breaking it he began giving it to them and their eyes were opened and they recognized
him and he vanished from their sight so they were sitting there having dinner and they
go oh this is Jesus that we've been walking with oh this is Jesus that has been teaching
us all about Jesus and suddenly he's gone and they said to one another were not our
hearts burning within us while he was speaking to us on the road while he was explaining
the scriptures to us they started to realize didn't we get a recognition wasn't there
something when he was walking with us on the road even though we couldn't see it was him
wasn't there something happening inside us now it all makes sense they say verse 33 and
they arose that very hour and returned to Jerusalem and found gathered together the
eleven and those who were with him saying the Lord has really risen and has appeared
to Simon and they began to relate their experiences on the road and how he was recognized by them
in the breaking of bread and while they were still telling these things he himself stood
in their midst but they were startled and frightened and thought they were seeing a
spirit and he said to them why are you troubled why do you doubts arise in your hearts see
my hands and my feet that it is I myself touch me and see for a spirit does not have flesh
and bones as you see that I have and when he had said this he showed them his hands
and his feet and while they still could not believe it for joy so now they're trying
to believe but they're so amazed it's so exciting it's so incredible what has happened
they're troubled to believe it for joy and they were marveling he said to them have you
anything here to eat and they gave him a piece of broiled fish and he took it and ate it
before them now he said to them these are my words which I spoke to you while I was
still with you that all things which are written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets
and the Psalms must be fulfilled then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures and
he said to them thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the
dead the third day and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in
his name to all the nations beginning from Jerusalem you are witnesses of these things
and behold I am sending forth the promise of my father upon you but you are to stay
in the city until you are clothed with power from on high these are the encounters most
of them anyway with Jesus that occurred on the day that he came back to life I submit
to you that as the disciples marveled as Peter wondered and got excited about what might have
happened there were a few possibilities so first let us examine a few of the possibilities
the first that we'll examine is that someone unknown something unknown the body was stolen
something that they are not even sure about yet that they've never even heard about yet
or whatever has occurred when we know if something that we don't know about has occurred will
it be when evidence appears because they have an empty tomb so they think well could be
something that we're not expecting could be something that no one has told us about something
that has not been made clear I submit to you this is a place that the church sometimes
goes we get wrapped up in doing things that God didn't ordain he didn't prophecy didn't
say anything about that we've got a the largest church claims to be Christian in the world
that has all kinds of traditions that the Bible's never Bible never taught we've got
cults all over the world that believe in things that men taught them to do that have nothing
to do with Jesus and this is a place we think it could be something that God has not told
us was going to happen now Peter would want to go no it can't be that that doesn't make
sense it could be something different so Jesus it could be that Jesus is absent from the
tomb in fact this has been confirmed by various witnesses but now the Jewish guards are already
lying about the fact that the body was stolen and so there is enough room to doubt enough
room to wonder about how the body is absent and in any case could the body be absent because
Jesus has now gone home they believed with certainty that he was from the father they
believe with certainty that he was a prophet or what we would call today on the other side
of the cross a saint right they believed with certainty that he would go to heaven when
he died but did Jesus die and was buried and was resurrected into God's eternal kingdom
and so he's no longer on the earth but the ladies say no they say Jesus is alive but
we're having trouble believing what the ladies say now Peter himself encounters Jesus and
he begins to say no he's alive but there's still no certainty because they don't understand
what's going to happen next and then these two men come and they say we've been taught
everything from the beginning of scriptures as we walk that seven mile journey he broke
it all down for us and then we realized it was him and the truth becomes evident for
the first time ever what's true about the empty tomb what's true about the rock rolled
away what's true about men and dazzling clothes that proclaim the risen Savior it's true he
is alive the truth is revealed he is the Son of God the implications are greater than simply
he is no longer in the tomb he could have gone to heaven they are greater than simply
he said this would happen and they did he is the ancient of days born into the present
day what are the ramifications of this they go farther than we'll all go to heaven when
we die if this is the risen Savior if Jesus is like this then there is a ramification
of this which is discovered by the men as they walk the road and sit with him at dinner
there is a ramification of this that goes far beyond anything that is taught in scripture
because it is the culmination of everything that is taught in scripture Jesus said I did
not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it what is Jesus's fulfillment of the law
that's the question that's where they're left and they will take 40 days with Jesus to learn
the fullness of it so of the things that they were thinking they began to realize that it
is true that Jesus is resurrected the truth has been revealed that he is God incarnate
and has come back to life this day as those men walked along the road and as Jesus walks
with the 40 with the men for 40 days the promises are revealed and related to one another and
make clear the ultimate truth that may make a man's heart burn if you'll stop and think
about it I was on a mission trip to the UP some years ago and we were sleeping on our
sleeping bags in a cafeteria no air mattresses if I did that today I'd probably get up with
a crick in my back slept in the hospital floor overnight one night when Sherri was having
a baby boy that would hurt for days and I was quite a bit younger then but I was sleeping
on the floor in a cafeteria and we had done a devotional before we went to bed and there
was a young man who was sleeping across from me on his sleeping bag and he got out his
Bible and he began to look at it and as a youth director working with teenagers of like
a youth getting out their Bible and looking at it without me suggesting it like I just
saw a teenager actually reading his Bible without me suggesting it and that was such
an encouragement and I said if I'm mad just if I could just ask you this question of what
are you reading what do you what what interested you that get you started and he goes well
I do try to do a devotional every night before to bed but I'll tell you what I was thinking
about I was I got to thinking about Adam and Eve and I got to thinking about what they
might have known or not known about what Jesus was going to do and we started to talk through
the scriptures now I'm not Jesus I'm not like one gazillionth as knowledgeable as Jesus
about what the scriptures say about Jesus but we began to work our way from the fall
and Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel and Noah and we worked our way through the Bible that
night we started at about midnight which was technically lights out but we had flashlights
we finished about 430 in the morning in that church building in the UP and everybody is
not now when we quit we said we're not done but as we studied the Bible with an eye toward
Jesus understanding that everything that is written in this text from Genesis to Revelation
is about God's redeeming love as displayed in Jesus Jesus is the embodiment of God he
is what makes God clear and this word does the best it can as a written word inspired
by God to make Jesus clear and as we studied the Bible till 430 in the morning in a quiet
church building on a cold floor frankly in a hard floor in a sleeping bag with little
flashlights I had one of those little AA flashlights that you know you can just see like two inches
on the page my heart burned within me and I thought it was over and then the next morning
we got up and we did our devotional with the bigger team mind you I'm on four hour
sleep now if that and the Holy Spirit for lack of a better way of saying it showed Himself
and we we got wrapped up in what we were reading and everybody literally like almost everybody
in the room was crying and we were realizing how awesome God is the promises that have
been revealed they may make a man's heart burn within him in recognition but I submit
to you that the promises do not save this is heresy somewhere and someone ain't gonna
like it I submit to you that the Word of God as you have it here Genesis for revelation
does not save souls I'm gonna take it one step further before we're through and I'm
gonna say that this Word of God as you're written does not change hearts that one hurts
this Word of God as here written does not cleanse you from your sins it does not make
you a better person taught by Jesus with the authority of God this Word of God is a whole
other thing we come to this Word of God with our questions and the real danger is if you
come to this Word of God with your questions and you seek out what you want to know you
may find what you want to know and it may not have all that much to do with what God
wants you to know here they those men what I understand those men walking down that road
that day they may have had good chance Old Testament books memorized word for word from
beginning to end they're Jewish men they don't have other books to read they've never
seen a science fiction book they don't have social media or TV or anything they have zero
other opportunities for mental expansion if you will and so they would study the word
they would go to the synagogue and hear it read and they would memorize what was said
when the when they're quote-unquote pastors they didn't have pastors obviously but when
their preachers would preach or talkers would talk they would memorize what was said memorize
it wrote verbatim word for word public speakers in that day would stand up and everything
would rhyme for an hour not not written down but that's how they would speak and that's
how people would enlarge themselves and so these men were walking down the the promises
that Jesus was explaining to them as they didn't understand what was they already understood
them they already had them memorized why was it so different what made it so different
when he explained it why did it burn in their hearts then and not at synagogue the previous
week the understanding comes not from seeing alone but from being told or taught or coming
to a logical conclusion none of those things get the job done do you understand that Jesus
died on the cross for sins has someone told you that and you believed it I hope so but
I submit to you that that understanding that thought itself does very little to change
your state your sins are not forgiven because you know that Jesus died on the cross your
sins are not forgiven because you believe it this hurts because you believe that Jesus
died on the cross your sins are not forgiven because you believe that Jesus died on the
cross to pay for your sins am I getting a little close to somebody's sensitive spot
you know but wait I thought that's how I got my sins for him because I believed in Jesus
and believed that he died on the cross and so now you're telling me that's not how my
sins are forgiven no your sins are forgiven because Jesus is standing at the right hand
of God making intercession for believers right now the sin you commit tomorrow will be forgiven
not that you should do it on purpose but the sin you could commit tomorrow will be forgiven
because Jesus is standing there right now making intercession you needed a savior like
that you needed a sacrifice like that that was eternal that would never stop being that
sacrifice never stop being that payment never stop being the one who petitions the father
to forgive your sins and he does it incessantly what we would call 24 hours a day forever
that's the kind of intervention that you needed that says something more than I believed in
Jesus and got saved it says something more than I believe what the pastor said and I
prayed a prayer those things when people use those things to say that's what Christianity
is yeah I'm saved I don't have to involve the church I don't have to serve I don't
have to give I don't have to do nothing I don't have to be with other believers I don't
I haven't prayed in a week or three weeks or years I haven't prayed since I prayed to
accept Jesus when people say those kinds of things it's clear that they never got an understanding
of the thing that the disciples needed 40 days with Jesus to fully understand that the
disciples on the road needed Jesus revealed to them at dinner to truly understand this
gospel these promises this truth it all matters like it matters not because of what you know
but who you know it's a darn good thing because if salvation was contained in knowledge someone
could forget a whole generation could forget and then salvation would never be available
anymore but salvation is not contained in knowledge it is not contained in teaching
right now you are not listening to the sermon to get something out of it right now you are
not listening to the sermon to know something that you didn't know before right now you
are not listening to the sermon to grow as a Christian ouch you are listening to this
sermon with the intention of having an appointment a meeting with the risen Savior if you can't
meet with Jesus while I'm preaching you're not going to get the thing that God wants
you to get today understanding is not from seeing alone it's not from being told or taught
or coming to a logical conclusion the effect of this unveiled truth becomes real at the
revelation of Jesus alone that's when they get it he explained it all the way there and
they didn't get it and he was going to go on and they said no stay with us and then
over fellowship over bread at prayer he was revealed and they began to realize that everything
that he had said had spoken about him I submit to you they may even have realized that everything
that he had said had spoken about Jesus and still did not realize it was him don't you
understand you could study your Bible every waking moment and walk into a room with Jesus
and not know he's there you could memorize whole books of the Bible and walk into a room
with the risen Savior Jesus himself and just think he's some other guy might be a good
teacher a good explainer a good preacher might have a bold delivery you may go back I think
I might want to hear that guy again listen to me hearing that guy again will not save
the truth that they were revealing it was not about what they knew but who they knew
because Jesus was the embodiment of God he is resurrected he is available to us and to
all people that was the point that he was making that's not about right place right
time and it's a darn good thing because if it was a right place right time you could
be born in the wrong country never hear about Jesus and spend eternity in hell because you
were born with a sinful nature and you would sin you were born with a yearning nature and
you might seek for Jesus but if finding Jesus was about right place right time then you
might never find him and then never finding him you would spend eternity in hell it's
not luck it's not a chance it's not even a choice ouch so was it but I chose to follow
Jesus choosing to follow Jesus maybe the smartest thing you could ever do in this life it can
have a rough ending I'll warn you you say well I choose to follow Jesus so did Judas
before you say all the disciples chose to follow Jesus all good so did Judas he followed
Jesus everywhere he went choosing to follow Jesus will not save you to those who chose
to follow him and already believe John 8 he said come come follow me stop there but we
don't because the verse isn't out there and then you will know the truth and the truth
is Jesus and then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free John 14 right
I am the way the truth and the life come follow me and then you will know the truth and the
truth will set you free you want to be a Gnostic that's your choice but it won't get you to
heaven you want to think you're okay because you're better off than somebody else that's
your choice but it won't get you to heaven now that it will not provide you with an abundant
life you want to think you're better than the rest of the world because you came to
church today and they didn't fine you can do that that's your choice but it won't get
you to heaven you want to divide your attention between Jesus and the things of this world
have one foot in all the things of the world entertained on your phone on tablet on TV
playing sports exercise what all the things is what it might be whatever is good for you
build your body etc and have one foot in the kingdom seeking Jesus you can do that but
it won't get you to heaven because what will happen is you'll be sitting in the room with
Jesus while you're on your phone you'll be sitting in the room with Jesus while you're
thinking about your hobbies and be sitting in the room with Jesus you'll be at the appointment
Jesus will be there and you'll be too busy to interact with him and then you'll arrive
at the end of the road and he'll say get away from me I never knew you as a young couple
Sherry and I had to learn that when you go on date night you got to stop answering the
phone and you got to put your phone away when you sit down at the table and it hurts your
butt you don't set it on the table in front of you so you can see if it rings you put
it away and that's just the representative just an idea and understanding of the way
we treat Jesus like yeah Jesus come on take care of my sin yeah Jesus come on take care
of me yeah just provide for me right take care of my family heal everybody make everybody
strong let's be bold let's advance the kingdom yeah sounds good Jesus excuse me I'm busy
I got to do this over here right now Jesus can't find time to read the Bible can't find
time to spend time with you can't find time to try to draw close to you nope can't do
it it's about his choice he revealed his identity by fellowship with those men they sat down
in fellowship with him and when they did lo and behold they knew him they walked the road
with a with a teacher was able to teach them how everything through the Old Testament pointed
to Jesus and still didn't get that it was Jesus and then when they fellowshiped with
him when they marked out time with him when they focused on him when they made it him
and him alone he was revealed to them and only then did they say wow you know it didn't
our hearts burn with us while we were walking on the road the truth that is revealed and
understand that Jesus is revect resurrected is he is available to you today he's able
to forgive sins he's able to make intervention once for always and always ongoing he's able
to do that he is available to you he is willing to do so he didn't go to the cross cuz he
had to he went to the cross for the joy that was set before him subjecting himself to death
even death on a cross he's willing and he is revealed in fellowship with him when you
spend time with him when you come to church when you sit in your prayer closet when you
get away from all distractions and practice silence and solitude when you read in your
Bible it needs to be about fellowship with Jesus it needs to be about who you're with
and who is in you even who is in charge you read the Bible all right guy has guy he was
cool oh you made some mistakes I don't want to make the mistakes he made that's got nothing
to do with it it's all about how you and Jesus are gonna walk forward after experiencing
the text about Hezekiah that's what it's all about you read Isaiah oh man he was a man
of sorrows he really suffered for me I owe him gratitude I should I should really submit
to him I should really do what he tells me to do so for that reason alone I'm not gonna
learn a lot of things that what he tells me to do because he's gonna be telling me to
do a lot of stuff and then I'm gonna have to do it and then my whole life it's like
Jesus will just take over my whole life I'll be some kind of Jesus freak or Bible thumper
or something he'll take over my whole life if I let him yep he will and it'll be the
best life you could ever have he came not to steal your life but to give you an abundant
life beyond that which you can currently imagine because why because your fellowship with him
has been limited if you're here today and you have not met the risen Savior you are
not saved now I don't mean stand in the room with him he's wearing three-piece suit or
know that he's there and suddenly he's revealed I'm not talking about a miraculous one-on-one
intervention in that sense but spiritually if your spirit has not come into contact with
Jesus then you're not saved and you need that you have to desire a relationship with Jesus
Jesus died on the cross to have a relationship with you he is resurrected he is available
to you he is willing he is revealed in fellowship come to Jesus choose to spend time with Jesus
and in his presence choose to spend time with Jesus and his and in his presence over all
alternatives over anything else that seems good sounds good tastes good looks good feels
good works good choose Jesus over that choose Jesus over your vehicle choose Jesus over
your TV choose Jesus over your relationships choose Jesus at all times and then you too
will be living out the thing that they figured out on the day why was Peter marvelling because
it meant something more than Jesus came back to life and went to heaven it meant something
more than the grave couldn't hold him those are all true things but they are only the part of the
picture they're like the border not yet filled in your life is about a relationship with God
through his son Jesus Christ now the interesting thing is that educated men may recognize the
difference without themselves opting into the program so you could be here and you could say
well I know quite a lot about Jesus or quite a lot about the Word of God or quite I've sat under
quite a few sermons in my day and you could say I know enough you could hear the scriptures in your
heart burns within you they said had before Jesus was revealed to them the scripture heart-burning
right they said that they looked back on it said when we were walking on the road road was not our
heart burning within us your heart could be burning within you right now as you realize Jesus is here
Jesus desires that appointment with you today Jesus has blocked out the time to spend time with
you today and your heart begins to burn to realize that's true so educated men men who understand
the basic knowledge of it they can recognize what we're talking about without themselves opting into
you could leave this place without saying okay Jesus it's you and me forever you could leave
this place and leave Jesus behind here if that's what you choose to do he came for the meeting
did you and John 6 beginning of verse 26 it says as follows Jesus answered them and said truly truly
I say to you you seek me not because you saw signs but because you ate of the loaves and were filled
do not work for the food which perishes but for the food which endures to eternal life with the
Son of man shall which the Son of man shall give to you for on him the Father even God has set his
seal they said therefore to him what shall we do that we may work the works of God and Jesus
answered and said to them this is the work of God that you believe in him whom he said not a message
about him not a verse about him but in him whom he has sent they said therefore to him what then do
you do for a sign that we may see and believe you see they were kind of it was a breakdown they
weren't quite getting it I would love to see Jesus do something awesome they were saying what work do
you perform our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness as it is written he gave them bread
out of heaven to eat Jesus therefore said to them truly truly I say to you it is not Moses who has
given you the bread out of heaven but it is my father who gives you the true bread out of heaven
but the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world you already
know what he's saying if you just listen to his words you understand what he's saying they said
therefore to him Lord evermore give us this bread and Jesus said to them I am the bread of life he
who comes to me shall not hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst but I say to you that
you have seen me and yet do not believe all the father gives me shall come to me and the one who
comes to me I will certainly not cast out let me read that verse to you again just in case you
didn't it could have been the title of the sermon right all that the father gives to me shall come
to me and the one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out for I have come down from heaven not
to do my own will but the will of him who sent me and this is the will of him who sent me that
of all that he has given me I lose nothing anything about memorizing the Bible now not that you should
you should why because in memorizing the Bible you will know Jesus better your appointments will
Jesus with Jesus will be more rich your appointments with Jesus will be more real they will be more
fulfilling right you should do that but did he say anything about that in this in this mathematical
equation of how to get where he's trying to take us no he says and this is the will of him who sent
me that all that he has given me of all that he has given me I lose nothing but raise it up on the
last day for this is the will of my father that everyone who beholds and Tuesday we studied that
word beholds what does it mean doesn't mean to look doesn't mean to see it means to look at to
focus attention on to look toward to put yourself at that thing right so we're concerned about those
who are concerned about looking at what at the word right at the preaching at the teaching at
the service at the given at the work at the schedule at the announcements no none of it but
this is the will of the father that everyone who beholds the son and believes in him may have eternal
life and I myself will raise him up on the last day and I myself well you know who you're trusting
in to get to heaven it's Jesus not I trusted in Jesus so I know I'm getting to heaven it's you
trust in Jesus today you trust in Jesus tomorrow you trust in Jesus next week you trust in Jesus
from now until you arrive in heaven and then he will make sure you get in that's the implications
of Jesus is resurrected the truth is revealed that it's Jesus Jesus and only Jesus and acts for the
disciples are traveling this is after Jesus has gone back to heaven and the Holy Spirit has been
sent and an amazing miracle occurs and they're challenged about it and so on and we'll begin
reading and verse 11 the disciples say acts 411 he is the stone which was rejected by you the
builders but which became the very cornerstone so they're accusing them the Jewish leaders of
being educated men who were in the presence of Jesus but did not recognize him did not realize
who he was that he was God in the flesh and that he had everything they needed and they didn't get
it from him but which became the very cornerstone and there is salvation in no one else but there is
no for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved
well that's plainly clear verse 13 now as they observe the confidence of Peter and John and
understood that they were uneducated and untrained men they were modeling and began to recognize them
as having been with Jesus you see the people in your life that you're dealing with ought to
recognize you as having been with Jesus if you're uneducated or untrained that's irrelevant the
question is have you sat with Jesus have you been with Jesus have you invested yourself and your
time and your resources and your desires in Jesus if anything else takes that place then you are at
best divided in your attentions and at worst you don't know him at all now as they observed the
confidence of Peter and John it says and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men they
were modeling they said whoa wait a minute and they began to recognize them as having been with
Jesus that's what we need church we need to stop talking about daily devotional times and start
talking about appointments with Jesus stop reading your Bible to see what it says and read your Bible
to spend time with Jesus stop praying to list your concerns to God and pray to spend time with
Jesus one more second Peter 3 and this is our last verses of the day second Peter 3 10 through 18
second Peter 3 beginning verse 10 Peter writes Peter let me emphasize Peter writes Peter the
guy who marveled Peter the guy who met Jesus Peter the guy who had what we are talking about today
revealed to him that he is the Son of God and God in the flesh and that salvation is accomplished
through him that he is resurrected he is available to you he is willing he is revealed in fellowship
time spent with Jesus that's when Jesus is revealed coming to Jesus Peter wrote what we read now but
the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and
the elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its works will be burned up since
all these things are to be destroyed in this way what sort of people ought you to be in holy
conduct and godliness looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God on account of which
the heavens will be destroyed by burning in the elements will melt with intense heat but according
to his promise we are looking for a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells
therefore beloved since you look for these things be diligent to be found by him in peace spotless
and blameless and regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation just as also our beloved
brother Paul according to the wisdom given him wrote to you as also in all his letters speaking
in them of these things in which are some things hard to understand which the untaught and unstable
distort as they do also the rest of the scriptures to their own destruction you therefore beloved
knowing this beforehand be on your guard blessed being carried away by the error of unprincipled
men you fall from your steadfastness but grow in grace and knowledge listen to this this
is this is it right here but grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ to him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity amen so let it be he's
resurrected he's available to you he is willing he is revealed in fellowship come to Jesus
come come spend time with him and in his presence over all our turn over all alternatives you
know our church a little bit you know at least enough about us to know that we're called new
heights fellowship our key verse is we have fellowship part of it is we have fellowship
with God the Father and his son Jesus Christ our motto is reaching new heights and it could
have been very well could have been the day that we wrote it and God led us to it that
it would have been reaching new heights that could have been the whole motto but it isn't
because God spoke up and he said no it's reaching new heights in Jesus it's not what you know
it's not what you figured out it's not what you've managed to apply not even if what you
manage to apply is of the scripture and biblical it's not what you've learned or what you've
studied or what you've experienced or what you stumbled upon that's not what the pastor
said that really affected you or your teacher said that really affected you even though
all of these things may might make your life better choosing to honor the Proverbs choosing
to follow the Ten Commandments those things will make your life better you could have
a better life by doing what it is that God wants you to do but salvation and being part
of the kingdom of God is not like that even though all of those things might make your
life better it's reaching new heights in Jesus it's not what you know but who you know someone
will say what I know has done me no good another will say it has done me remarkable good what
I know and both of them might be lost and going to hell someone will say what I know
has done me no good and someone else will say what I know of the scripture of the teaching
of wisdom Proverbs of common sense of whatever you want to call it what I know has done me
remarkable good and both of those two and everyone in between that's concerned about
what they know very well might be lost but someone else will say I know Jesus do I know
everything about Jesus no but I know him I've met him I've experienced him I've spent time
with him I practice the spiritual disciplines not to become more disciplined or at least
not only to become more disciplined but to spend time with Jesus do you have time Jesus
has appointments available do you have time do you have time to spend time with the risen
Savior I submit to you if you don't have time and you can't make time if it can't be your
highest priority to spend time with Jesus then you've missed the point that Jesus is
resurrected he is the son of God he is the ancient of days born into this present day
the ramification of those things are Jesus is now able to stand at the right hand of
the father and make intercession for you forever only Jesus not goats or rams not money given
or service rendered no sacrifices whatsoever could ever accomplish that but Jesus can he
began to and he can and always can in a poetic sense I submit to you that he did that even
before he was crucified before he was born that was his role they trusted God in the
way they would make it always the God would God would say the way would be Jesus when
you study your Bible I want you to think about Jesus is here with me Jesus is in me and what
do Jesus and I think about this scripture what do Jesus and I think we should do what
kind of people should we be because we know that eventually everything you have your cell
phone your car your hobbies your favorite foods everything all of its going up in smoke
it's all going to be burnt to nothingness including the stars that we look at and are
so amazed by all burnt to nothingness and then recreated in a new heaven and a new earth
in which you will have the perfect body and all of this depends on who you know will you
spend time with the risen Savior when we come together as a church we come together to spend
time we spend time with people who have spent time with Jesus so you have a responsibility
to be that so when other people come to spend time with people who have spent time with
Jesus that should be you and they should be able to go yeah you spent time with Jesus
she spent time with Jesus and also we come together to spend time with Jesus and in our
great blessing in our day by grace that we don't deserve God has indwelt this church
this people are full of Jesus but don't be a person that's full of Jesus but never spends
time moreover if you make an appointment and appointments are available make sure he is
the focus of that appointment too often we come to him with all of our problems and instead
of saying okay Jesus what do you want with me today who are we together who are you making
me to be as a reborn person we're still worried about old stuff all that stuff was put away
no more regrets and no more worries because Jesus is willing and I have a praise team
to come forward at this time and lead us in our closing hymn this is the last song devices
Everything is Everything and the song suddenly plays in my ears no, listen to this I have
ever in my life you would listen to the song of Jesus or the music of this inspectors still
be I continued on this this is thanks for watching we received a couple of divine resurrected
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