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Luke 24 13-35 JESUS IS KNOWN IN THE SCRIPTURES 20 10Apr2022 Luke 24 32 Two-pronged awakening
📖 Luke 24:13-35
20 – 10Apr2022 – Two-pronged awakening - Luke 24:13-35 - JESUS IS KNOWN IN THE SCRIPTURES - Bible reading: Colossians 1:15-23
“Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You speak to us through Your word. In Your word and by Your word we are being healed and drawn closer to You. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.”
Jesus had broken bread with the disciples and He had vanished from their sight. We understand that the Christian life is a life of faith not of sight. We demonstrate our faith in Jesus by our obedience to Him. This is also the expression of our love for God.
Luke 24:32 And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
The two disciples now began to connect with one another. They were conversing with one another, at one time, but that conversation was hopeless. They were not building up each other. They were hurting and destroying each other with their negative and faithless words.
The Lord had brought about great healing in their lives. Their conversation with one another changed diametrically. They were now encouraging one another and building each other.
This is the purpose of the Scriptures. The study and understanding of the Scriptures must change conversations. As we meditate on the Scriptures, our conversations must be uplifting and raise up one another.
Hebrews 4:12-13 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (13) And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Each of us must allow the Word of God to penetrate our hearts, convict, heal and change us to be more and more conformed to the image of Jesus. These changes that we experience within us, cannot be kept only for ourselves. We must share this applied truth of His Word with others, learn from one another’s personal transformation and thereby build up the body of Christ. We are all growing together into the image of Jesus.
We must therefore come to the Scriptures, with an open heart, to allow the Holy Spirit to bring about the God-appointed changes in our lives.
Psalms 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; (24) And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
All of us carry hurts, anxieties, unforgiveness and guilt. These are the places, where the Word of God brings healing and growth.
There was a second reality that these two disciples encounter with Christ. The Lord had not only brought about in them burning of the heart but the two disciples also were given the large canvas of the ways of God.
This study of the Scriptures was two-pronged. On one side was the matter of personal conviction and healing and on the other side was the understanding of the grand narrative of God.
Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
We begin to see the centrality of Jesus. It is Jesus, who is being lifted up and magnified. He is the Lord, for each of us, and He is also the Lord of heaven and earth. Jesus is known in the Scriptures.
Colossians 1:15-23 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. (16) For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. (17) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. (18) And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. (19) For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, (20) and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. (21) And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled (22) in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— (23) if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Here, in these few words, Apostle Paul captures for us the enormity of Christ, how Christ strides across, overall. As we see Him, we begin to know Him. Having known Him we live in His habitat. Jesus becomes our environment, our shelter and our refuge. We are complete in Him.
Colossians 2:9-10 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; (10) and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
Praise God that these two disciples conversed with one another. They affirmed that they had been personally convicted and that they had also seen the glory of Jesus, spanning all of eternity.
Thought to ponder
Is this, two-pronged impact of the Scriptures, happening in you, every day?