Pastor Chris Enoch - April 16, 2017
Scriptures:
Matthew 27:62-66
The next day,
the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to
Pilate. “Sir,”
they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said,
‘After three days I will rise again.’ So give the order
for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples
may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from
the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”
“Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go,
make the tomb as secure as you know how.” So they went
and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
Luke 24:13-32
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. As they talked and
discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along
with them; but they were kept from recognizing him.
He asked them, “What are you
discussing together as you walk along?”
They stood still, their faces downcast. 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?”
“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. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to
death, and they crucified him; 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. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb
early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they
had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions
went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not
see.”
He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow of
heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to
suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all
the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures
concerning himself.
As they approached the village to which
they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther. But they urged him
strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So
he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with
them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then
their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their
sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he
talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
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