Dead men dont give history lectures luke 24 vv 13 35
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The two disciples walking to Emmaus were discussing the recent crucifixion of Jesus with a stranger who joined them. Although they did not recognize him, it was Jesus who rebuked them for their lack of faith and explained how the prophecies foretold his suffering. When he broke bread with them, their eyes were opened and they recognized him as the risen Lord before he vanished. They then urgently shared the news with the other disciples in Jerusalem.
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Dead men dont give history lectures luke 24 vv 13 35
- 2. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29
- 3. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14
- 4. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14 “Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.”
- 5. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14 – Puzzlement shared with the Lord, vv. 15-24 “As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognising him. 17 He asked them, What are you discussing together as you walk along?”
- 6. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14 – Puzzlement shared with the Lord, vv. 15-24 • Powerful prophet, vv. 17-19 “He asked them, What are you discussing together as you walk along? They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days? 19 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.”
- 7. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14 – Puzzlement shared with the Lord, vv. 15-24 • Powerful prophet, vv. 17-19 • Hope disappointed, vv. 20-21 “The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 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.”
- 8. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14 – Puzzlement shared with the Lord, vv. 15-24 • Powerful prophet, vv. 17-19 • Hope disappointed, vv. 20-21 “The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 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.”
- 9. Deuteronomy 21:22-23 & Galatians 3:13 • “If a man guilty of a capital offence is put to death and his body is hung on a tree,23 you must not leave his body on the tree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God's curse.” • “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 10. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14 – Puzzlement shared with the Lord, vv. 15-24 • Powerful prophet, vv. 17-19 • Hope disappointed, vv. 20-21
- 11. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 – Puzzlement shared with the puzzled, vv. 13-14 – Puzzlement shared with the Lord, vv. 15-24 • Powerful prophet, vv. 17-19 • Hope disappointed, vv. 20-21 • Amazing disappearance, vv. 22-24
- 12. Luke 24:22-24 “In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn't find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.”
- 13. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 “As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognising him. 17 He asked them, What are you discussing together as you walk along? They stood still, their faces downcast.”
- 14. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 – Rebuke, v. 25 “How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”
- 15. Luke 16: “… between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.' 27 He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' 29 Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.' 30 'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.' 31 He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.‘”
- 16. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 – Rebuke, v. 25 – Question, v. 26 “Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”
- 17. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 – Rebuke, v. 25 – Question, v. 26 – Explanation, v. 27 “beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”
- 18. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 – Rebuke, v. 25 – Question, v. 26 – Explanation, v. 27 • Moses and all prophets • All the Scriptures
- 19. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 – Rebuke, v. 25 – Question, v. 26 – Explanation, v. 27 “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”
- 20. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 • Recognised! (Response?) vv. 28-35
- 21. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 • Recognised! (Response?) vv. 28-35 “When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognised him, and he disappeared from their sight.”
- 22. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 • Recognised! (Response?) vv. 28-35 – Hospitality, vv. 28-29
- 23. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 • Recognised! (Response?) vv. 28-35 – Hospitality, vv. 28-29 – The moment of recognition, vv. 30-31
- 24. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 • Recognised! (Response?) vv. 28-35 – Hospitality, vv. 28-29 – The moment of recognition, vv. 30-31 – Response, vv. 32-35
- 25. Luke 24:13-35 • Introduction • Dazed disciples, vv. 13-14, 17, 18-24, 25-29 • Unrecognised Saviour, vv. 15-17, 25-27 • Recognised! (Response?) vv. 30-35 • Conclusion
Editor's Notes
- {Mormon on train}So what is it … truth or experience that makes the difference to people?You see, the Mormon, or the Jehovah’s Witness, or (as far as I know) the Zen Buddhist could tell you about their experience in their religion … but Jesus’s followers can point to both a genuine experience of God and a long standing body of truth that validates, authenticates and seals the reliability of their testimony about God.And that’s the example Jesus sets out in this passage.The dead don’t meet you on the road and give you a lesson about history (in this case salvation history) … but in this passage of Scripture, Jesus most certainly does.Let’s take a look first at the (by turns) disillusioned, desperately hopeful and confused pair of disciples Jesus met that first Easter on the road …
- The people Jesus deals with in this passage are bereaved, disappointed and now confused.They have been through a roller coaster ride of emotions in the last week, and now they are in need of spiritual guidance.
- In verses 13-14 we’re confronted with the sort of situation you may well have come across, where a ‘religious’ discussion consists in no more than the pooling of puzzlement.
- These two guys were having an unenlightened spiritual discussion about things they could see but did not understand and they really weren’t gong to get anywhere like that … except for seven miles distant Emmaus.You’ll come across conversations like that.The pooling of ignorance can be frustrating … but it was into just such a conversation as this that the Lord Jesus was able to come.And He was the One to take it further.
- We probably tend to think that if people could only see Jesus, they’d get it and all would be well.It’s not so.They need not just to see Him, but to recognise Him … and that will always be precisely the case.A lot of things go on in this world that have got Jesus Himself written all over them, but unless He is recognised on the road, then puzzlement and confusion remain.So He opens the batting with a question … what were you chatting about when I met you?Now they can start sharing their puzzlement with Him.(It’s a very good place to start!)So they say what they think they know about Jesus … a great way to draw someone out!
- These guys are obviously filled with sorrow and grief … their faces are downcast at Christ’s question.They’d thought Jesus a powerful prophet … a prophet they understood from the OT … but prophets powerful in both word and deed were rare.You’re really back to Elijah and Elisha for men who could be described in those terms.And that’s relevant.It’s relevant because genuine Christianity is powerful in both word and deed, but it’s also relevant because of what they say in v. 21 …
- There are two things here.They have two failures of understanding to cope with here:They saw a prophet powerful in word & deed and thought back to Elijah and Elisha.That led them to think of further OT prophecy about the coming of a prophet Elijah (a prophet mighty in word and deed) before the coming of the God in His Kingdom.Now, they were partially right … but partially right can be a terrible thing for anyone to be.Malachi 4:5-6:“5 See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.”Malachi’s prophecy is why they thought Jesus would be the One Who would redeem Israel … they thought He was that prophet and the prophet like Elijah was all there was to look for, and given the mighty in word and deed (as Elijah’d been) they thought this prophesied prophet was Jesus.With hindsight we can see that John the Baptist was that prophet (though not quite the way people thought of that prophet … which is why when asked John the Baptist denied he was THAT sort of Elijah), but Jesus was the Lord Who’d come in the flesh.There’s the first way their thinking’d got tangled, but an even bigger tangle is evident in the mix here …
- 2. They couldn’t CONCEIVE of a redeemer Who’d been crucified!Can you see that they’re saying on the one hand we’d hoped He was the One … but then we saw with our eyes that He was crucified, so He definitely couldn’t be the One!As Paul later points out, this was perfectly logical to minds that were steeped in 1st century Judaism.Galatians 3:13 quotes Deuteronomy 21:22-23.
- So in fact the thing they were getting confused by was the thing that would seal their salvation!Christ bore the curse of the Law … the reason they were rejecting Him as Saviour, but the very reason that He COULD be their Saviour!
- They’re still professing that their hope had been disappointed, because of the WAY Christ has brought about our salvation.They are offended by it.They are stumbled by it … simply because their understanding of the significance of the events that have happened at Jerusalem is lacking.And now it is all over because three days is the time they allowed for recovery, three days is the time when putrefaction was believed to have set in, three days was the point of no credible return.And yet … (here’s where they were definitely quite puzzled) …
- Now here’s where their confusion really takes off!They couldn’t conceive of a crucified (accursed) Messiah paying the price of sin by carrying sin’s curse, and they certainly couldn’t conceive of a third day physical bodily resurrection indicating that the full price of sin had been paid.They’d hoped He’d be the One to redeem Israel, but when He did exactly that they didn’t ‘get it’!They could see bewildering events, they knew it was true, but they just couldn’t see the significance of the things they were seeing!So these disciples were well and truly dazed.Why?They simply hadn’t recognised the Saviour.
- You see, Jesus is standing there with them, and they still don’t believe in the resurrection!How can such a thing come about?“… Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;16 but they were kept from recognising him.”Let’s be absolutely clear about this.When we’re speaking to people we address the intellect because we are dealing with rational beings created in the image of God.There’s no trickery.There’s no deception.We have renounced secret and shameful ways!But when we have done all we can do to open people’s minds to the truth about Jesus and persuade them of the truth of His claims, they don’t recognise Him and they don’t ‘get it’ … until the Spirit of God opens their eyes.So that which is plain, clear and obvious to US … they don’t find plain, clear or obvious themselves: until the Spirit of God opens the curtains.But lights on the Road to Emmaus is not where the Lord Jesus stats with these guys!
- In fact He starts out with a rebuke!Now this is ticklish.In the first place, our society doesn’t see the failure to place faith where faith ought to be placed as in any sense anything like culpable.We don’t BLAME people for not seeing the implications for life of the Bible.Jesus does – and that’s a point to be wary of.They knew well what it said in the prophets, so they SHOULD have known better about Jesus.Now, notice, Jesus isn’t here blaming the ignorant, but He is here rebuking these people for being:Foolish &Slow of heart to be believe all that the prophets have written.It has to be said, Jesus is pretty big on believing what the prophets have written … but the people of his own era, well, mebbe those people were not!Do you remember the parable in Luke 16, to do with the rich man and Lazarus?
- So the first thing is he rebukes them for foolishness, then the second is not believing what the prophets had written about Him, that He must suffer and then enter glory.It was in the Book.He’d told them about it all often enough.Then He’d let them see it all happening.And now they still cannot believe it.The unrecognised Saviour rebukes them, then draws them out into the truth with a question.
- Isaiah 53 would have led them to this conclusion … but they just hadn’t seen it that way.The Lord’s careful teaching in the weeks leading up to His death on the Cross would have led them to this conclusion … but their Sunday School teaching just got in the way.Jesus is going to HAVE to explain it again.(Notice, no flashes in the sky, He unpacks Biblical truth to their rational minds)
- The Hebrew Bible was divided into three sections … Law, prophets and writings.Moses is the first five books of the Bible attributed to the human authorship of Moses … the only books the party of the Sadducees (the priestly families and their followers) thought of as ‘Bible’.The prophets included the major prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah and the minor prophets like Micah and Obadiah, Joel and Amos.These looked forward to the redemption of Israel and to these Jesus took His hearers as they walked along together on the road.He might have taken them to the Deuteronomy passage we looked at earlier … cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree … and explained to them the imputation of sin on the Saviour.He might have taken them to Isaiah 53 (which passed between Phillip and the Ethiopian eunuch a little later) or to Psalm 22 and explained how the Christ must suffer and then enter His rest.He might have, but we simply aren’t told … except that in ALL the Scriptures the suffering of Christ and the glories that were to follow are to be found, unpacked and expounded.Expounded, because Christ not only cited Scripture but EXPLAINED it!
- They had the facts, these disciples, but the facts simply confused them, and they simply couldn’t recognise the Lord Jesus in it all.And revealingly Christ’s response wasn’t to show them a sign on produce the miracle of new birth, but to expound for them the Scriptures and call for faith.
- And THEN they recognised Him … once their minds were de-clouded …
- Notice first of all that it was hospitality that God used to open their eyes.
- Notice also that the moment of recognition was the moment of breaking the bread.“This is my BODY … BROKEN for you”And when their cognitive processes were appealed to with THIS, then the scales just fell clean from their eyes!As v. 35 puts it: “the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognised by them when he broke the bread.”
- Their response was a telling one.They went and TOLD … v. 35And THEN Jesus came and stood amongst them …