{"id":1647,"date":"2022-03-13T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2022-03-13T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T18:15:53","slug":"do-you-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/do-you-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you Understand?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cAnd they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?<\/strong>\u201d
Luke 24:32 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever had an event happen in your life that brought\ngreat sadness? Did that same event bring confusion as to the plan God had at\nthat time? One cannot help but remember an event from the Bible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus had been crucified. The disciples, scattered. After\nthree days, the tomb was empty. The soldiers, who had been placed guard over that\ntomb, were declaring that the disciples had stolen Jesus\u2019 body. The women who\nwent to the sepulcher with spices found the stone rolled away from an empty\ntomb. These same women saw two men with shining faces who declared Jesus was alive.\nWhen Peter and John ran to see the tomb, it was empty. There was much\nconfusion. No one knew what to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a couple of people walking from Jerusalem\non the road to Emmaus. \u201cAnd they talked together of all these things which\nhad happened<\/strong>\u201d (Luke 24:14). Understand that these two were followers of\nJesus who had witnessed His death in Jerusalem.\nRemember the following facts: the tomb was empty, Jesus\u2019 body was gone, some\nclaimed to have seen Him alive, and there was a \u201crumor\u201d being spread that the\ndisciples had stolen Jesus\u2019 body. Think of how they felt as they discussed the\nfact that the One in whom they believed and followed had died at the hands of\nthe Romans. Why did this happen? What were they to do? Where were they to go?\nWhat happened to Jesus\u2019 body? As they continue from Jerusalem\non their way to Emmaus, a man joined them. \u201cAnd it came to pass, that, while\nthey communed together<\/em> and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went\nwith them<\/strong>\u201d (Luke 24:15). This man was Jesus, whom they did not recognized\n(see Luke 24:16). He began to ask them questions about why they were so sad.\nThe two were surprised that He did not know what had happened. So they began to\ntell Him, \u201c\u2026 Concerning Jesus of <\/strong>Nazareth<\/strong>,\nwhich was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: 20.\nAnd how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to\ndeath, and have crucified him. 21. But we trusted that it had been he which\nshould have redeemed <\/strong>Israel<\/strong>:\nand beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done<\/strong>\u201d (Luke 24:19b-21). They proceeded to tell Him of the\nwomen who claimed to have seen angels who said Jesus was alive. They revealed\nwhat they understood (\u201ctrusted<\/strong>\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did Jesus (the man who had joined the two walking) say to them? As\nthey relayed the events that had transpired, recognize Jesus\u2019 frustration as He\nreplied, \u201c25. Then he said unto them,<\/strong> O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets\nhave spoken:<\/strong> 26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter\ninto his glory?<\/strong> 27. And\nbeginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the\nscriptures the things concerning himself<\/strong>\u201d (Luke 24:25-27). Fool<\/strong> in this verse means \u201clacking intelligence; one without the organ\nby which divine things are comprehended and known or ignored<\/em>.\u201d Jesus also\ntold them that they were slow of heart to believe. They should have understood,\nthereby believing, but because they did not, Jesus explained it to them. They\nshould not have been surprised that Jesus had been crucified on the cross, or\nthat His body was no longer in the tomb. If they had only believed what they\nhad been taught from the Old Testament, they would have understood. Take note\nthat Jesus preached to them the Gospel Message (Jesus\u2019 death, burial, and resurrection)\nfrom the Old Testament (Moses and all the prophets) of which they knew. They\nlacked faith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just imagine the blessing they would have missed if they had not invited this\nOne who had walked and talked with them to stay for the evening. For it was not\nuntil \u201che took bread, and blessed it<\/em>, and brake, and gave to them<\/strong>\u201d\nthat they recognized it was Jesus (see Luke 24:30-31). \u201cAnd they said one to\nanother, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way,\nand while he opened to us the scriptures?<\/strong>\u201d (Luke 24:32). It was a heart\nissue (see Romans 10:10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Think for a minute. Have you ever\nbeen disappointed when something did not happen as you thought<\/em><\/strong> it\nshould happen, \u201caccording to your plan?\u201d How did you respond in that situation?\nWere you angry? Did you ask questions? Wonder why it happened? Did you just quit?\nInstead of being a fool<\/em><\/strong>, \u201cone who<\/em> lacks the\nintelligence or comprehension<\/em>\u201d of what God is doing in this world and\nespecially in your life, do you read your Bible? It is in times like these that\nit is imperative to open and read the Word of God (your Bible) to understand\nGod\u2019s plan. Jesus explained to these two people what the prophets had spoken\nand had been recorded for all to read \u2013 right from God\u2019s Word. (See Romans\n10:17.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you a fool\n(lacking intelligence), or slow of heart to believe what is written in the\nBible?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does your heart burn within you as you read your Bible, encouraged in the Word of God?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever had an event happen in your life that brought great sadness? Did that same event bring confusion as to the plan God had at that time? One cannot help but remember an event from the Bible. Jesus had been crucified. The disciples, scattered. After three days, the tomb was empty. The soldiers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[383,901,419,898,353,245,622,125,80,643,899],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-believe","tag-confusion","tag-disciples","tag-emmaus","tag-faith","tag-fool","tag-gospel-message","tag-heart","tag-jesus","tag-scriptures","tag-slow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}