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A recent study in a gallup poll of Christians has demonstrated that what Christians desire most in the church these days is not music or lights and smoke but what they truly desire is preaching that explains the Bible.
For years the church growth movement has pushed an agenda of appealing to the felt needs of the people of the congregation and this has caused a watering down of the Scripture just to get people into the doors and present a gospel that is watered down.
The result has been church that provide concert and fun application driven messages that might teach point people to 7 Habits of a Happy Home, but at what cost.
These message are typically centered around a theme and not around the scripture and although Scripture can teach us how to have a happy home the passage that are used may not always be within the context of that particular book and it is also easy to make a sermon say what you would like.
For example let’s take a look at this verse here;
See ladies when your husbands come home from work you need to make sure you are attentive to their needs.
Make sure they come home and are able to relax.
This way you as the wives are really helping to have a happy home.
Now if you look at the text with a viable translation you learn something about this passage.
This passage has nothing to do with how a wife should treat her husband.
It actually has everything to do with how a wife was seducing another man and became angry when Joseph ran off and the cloak is Joseph’s not the husbands.
What the church needs is a clear explanation of Scripture and what is interesting is this isn’t new.
This was the basis of the Reformation in the 1517 and it was the focus of the church in the book of Acts and it is even how Jesus teaches.
The purpose and point of teaching Scripture and the purpose and point of going to Scripture, reading it and studying it, is to see Christ.
This morning we will continue our study on Scripture Correctly Reveals Jesus.
Scripture Correctly Reveals Jesus
Last week as we looked at our text in Luke’s gospel we focused on a particular human sense, sight.
We looked at natural sight in respect to the fact the disciples who were on the road to Emmaus were approached and joined by Jesus but God did not allow them to see Him physically.
These men had a little problem, they didn’t fully believe all that Jesus had said and done.
So because they lacked faith in the spiritual they were not able to see the physical Jesus.
These men had all the proofs they need to believe but they tried to rationalize what had happened and what it meant.
They were in a sense looking for an application without looking for God.
Even though they had the proofs they were lacking something deeper, a connection between what has happened and what has been written in God’s Word.
Let’s go ahead and continue our study of The Scripture Correctly Revealing Jesus.
We see this in Luke 24:13-35,
Last week we focused on the two men from Emmaus and how they responded to Jesus when He asked them “What are these words that you are exchanging with one another,” in verse 17.
This question Jesus asked was a test, it was a test of their faith in Him and in God’s Word.
The men failed the test.
The men were able to explain what had happened .
There explanation was seasoned with rationalism and intellectualism.
They were very focused on the passed and what had happened to Jesus, that is He was arrested, sentenced to death and buried.
So much so that they didn’t fully believe Jesus’ own prophetic words about His death burial and resurrection.
These men provided every proof there was to Jesus being resurrected but they still didn’t believe.
The problem with these men was they were trying to rationalize it.
Their discussion and their explanation to the stranger was in actuality an intellectual pursuit which keeps everything on a physical plain.
You can not rationalize truth because in order to believe truth you have to see the unseen and if you can’t see it you can’t rationalize it.
Rationalizing the truth is an escape from the Divine works and words of God.
Rationalization is a lack of faith which was their problem they lacked faith.
Their lack of faith caused them to focus only on the physical and so they were missing out on the spiritual.
When we come to the Word of God we need to look at the Word of God with spiritual eyes not physical eyes.
Jesus is about to let them know they have just failed the test He provided for them.
He responds to these men with a harsh rebuke, a very harsh criticism as we look at the criticism we will learn we need to seek with mind and heart.
Seek with Mind and Heart.
Let’s look at verse 25.
Luke writes for us, “And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!”
This rebuke here is one of disappointment.
Jesus isn’t angry with them He is disappointed.
Just like a parent who spends time teaching their children to make right decisions and to avoid the things in the world that will cause them to have a tarnished reputation.
The real emotion is disappointment in their lack of judgment.
Jesus is disappointed in His pupils in the same way a parent is disappointed in a child, it is in their lack of discernment in what the prophets have said.
I love how Jesus here points out that they are ‘slow of heart.’
The word heart is an interesting word with many different synonyms attached to it.
Even the Greek word Kardia has different meanings to it.
The heart is a physical organ and it is also the spiritual organ that God speaks to in the person.
The Israelites had a belief that the heart was the central organ of physical vitality.
Simply put it is what sustains life.
It relates to a physical part of the human body.
The heart, however, is also synonymous with something else.
the heart is the centre of the inner life of man and the source or seat of all the forces and functions of soul and spirit
So the way I look at this is Jesus is taking the physical organ and applying the spiritual to it.
True faith, deep faith deals with more then just a rational or intellectual approach to Jesus and who He is and what He has done.
It is more then just an intellectual pursuit of whether or not He existed or exists or if He died on the cross or was buried or even rose from the dead.
You might even say you can start there with the intellectual or the cognitive pursuit but it needs to move from there.
When Jesus talks about the heart here He is focusing on three elements that make up the human, it is the cognitive, the emotional and volition.
When they speak of the heart in the Scripture they are not only speak of emotions.
We always think of the heart as only emotions.
People are told to follow their hearts, do what your heart desires.
Jesus when He mentions heart He means the whole of the inner man, mind and soul.
He had to rebuke these men, He was disappointed in them because they were only focusing on the cognitive, on the intellectual and in order to truly see Jesus it takes the whole of the inner man not just the brain.
Belief in Jesus is much deeper then having physical evidence that you can see with your eyes and it is much deeper then trying to figure out what the evidence means.
Belief in Jesus is giving up the rational for the miraculous it is about explaining away what could have happened with what really happened.
Faith in Jesus is taking God at His word and not injecting you own ideas and thoughts into it.
That is what Jesus is telling these men they are “slow to heart to believe all that the the prophets have spoken!”
Now all that the prophets have spoken is Jesus’ way of saying all that God has said.
In the Old Testament God wouldn’t necessarily speak to people directly.
There are many occasions when He did but there were many different ways God would speak to His prophets.
They take bits and pieces, and isn’t that what many people like to do take bits and pieces of what God has said in the Scripture.
Hebrews 1:1 tells us
So God would speak to the prophets in many portions and many ways.
God didn’t just speak to people directly like He did with Moses.
With Moses He spoke to him face to face.
That is why Moses is the great prophet.
There are others like Daniel who saw visions and even other who God would speak to them in dreams like Joseph the son of Jacob.
Joseph not only had dreams but he was also gifted in interpreting dreams.
Each one of these men spoke for God.
That is what a prophet does they speak for God that is why false prophets where stoned.
The litmus test for false prophets was their prophecy had to be revealed or come true and if it did not they would be stoned.
Now prophecy was not just specific to any person although that did happen prophecy was specific to what God was doing and what He would do.
The prophecy Jesus mentions here is very specific to a very specific Person and to a very specific Work the Person will perform.
Jesus is speaking of the prophecy of Himself.
We see that in verse 26 when He says to them, “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” Isaiah 53 for example points to the suffering servant and Zechariah 13:8.
Not to mention these men themselves just declared to Jesus He is a prophet and they are slow in heart to believe even what He said about Himself.
That He must be handed over to sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise again.
The angels even repeated this in Luke 24:7 yet these men are slow to believe because there is the disconnect between the heart and the mind.
If all Christianity is to you is an intellectual pursuit then you will never see the divine spiritual work that goes on through out it.
You will either try to explain it away or you will take bits and pieces from it that you like and disregard the rest.
Truly encountering Jesus involves having our minds and our hearts open to hear what He has to say.
It involves more then sight it involves our hearing also.
We need to see with spiritual eyes and we need to hear the truth that points to Jesus.
Paul the apostle was very familiar with not seeing with spiritual eyes and not hearing the full truth even though he knew the Hebrew Scriptures.
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