“Don’t force your Christianity on me!” Yeah, if you’re a Christian and you try to be faithful in sharing the Gospel, you’ve probably heard that a time or two. Christianity isn’t a religion of force but an invitation to relationship. We get that from Jesus Himself, the author and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). […]
Remembering that Jesus is speaking with the two men on the Road to Emmaus and showing Himself in the Scriptures (which at the time were Moses and the Prophets) here is another one to which Jesus may have pointed. Daniel 7:13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like […]
Scripture says, “[Jesus] said to [the men on the Road to Emmaus], ‘How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?’ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was […]
Another passage of Scripture to which Jesus likely pointed is often referred to as the Suffering Servant passage of Isaiah. Jesus’ fulfillment of this passage is noteworthy. Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, […]
In His resurrection appearance to the two men on the Road to Emmaus, Jesus is showing them all the places where Scripture pointed to Him all along. One of the things He likely taught them was that Jesus is the true Son of David, the One who inherits the throne forever. But He’d said that […]
Jesus stepped into a Jewish world full of expectations about who He should be and then displayed how He fulfilled everything. He was the prophet like Moses, “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.” (Luke 24:27) Why did He begin with […]
Lent Devotionals will resume tomorrowafter today’s Sabbath rest to reflect, refresh, and worship Him. “For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I […]
Jesus had already told them during His earthly ministry, but they didn’t understand. Jesus gently rebukes them in Luke 24:25 saying to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!” They thought they’d understood what the Scriptures said,after all, God speaks in plain language. His prophets spoke […]
Sometimes, the most lasting truths come by way of reminder. For example, the women who had come to the tomb and found it empty had been told (by the angels and Christ Himself) to REMIND the disciples (His brothers) of what He had previously told all of them. He told them. They didn’t get it. […]
Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself. Two faithful Jewish men, walking home from the Passover feast, have a stranger join their conversation. He treats them as neither apostates nor backsliders, but faithful men with whom He can reason. […]
