The Sermon Jesus Shapes Our Souls by Brad Price
Oct 02, 2011
Jesus Shapes Our Souls (29:02)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 24:13-35; Revelation 3:20
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Luke 24:13-35
13) Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.
14) They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.
15) It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.
16) But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
17) He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"
18) One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only one travelling in Jerusalem who doesn‘t know the things which have happened there in these days?"
19) He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
20) and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
21) But we hoped that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.
22) Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having been early at the tomb;
23) and when they didn‘t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
24) Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn‘t see him."
25) He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
26) Didn‘t the Christ have to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?"
27) Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
28) They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.
29) They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.
30) It happened, when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
31) Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
32) They said one to another, "Wasn‘t our heart burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the scriptures to us?"
33) They rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,
34) saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"
35) They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
Revelation 3:20
20) Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
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I all what I don't have one running order for next Sunday. Everything bought by disappointed manuscript because they've made a video, a how do you say their vision of what we do in youth and things that go on, but they put together over our last to Sunday nights on unfortunately, because of a long-running, I forgot to Wildwood in the next. So while we will play it. Okay, if you are liable worth a look at the screen of giving the option of just twenty four underrated from the. The NK JV which what was great was the missionary who spoke at Valley Forge Christian College Brogdon, he called the NK JV, he joke is that it was the nearest to King Jesus version so I don't make any claims quite audacious. I do like the new King James version. That's what I like to convert on another day of the Rabin was just amazing amazing guy. I met him in Phoenix, Arizona this summer during General Counsel and was a something Jeremy somebody and there's just something about them that absolutely draws you to them and you find out with the presence of God in their lives. This man is a very humble servant. He grew up the son of missionaries to Kenya was raising Kenya and he has since become missionary himself for the past twenty years, he's been in the Sudan. I believe mostly for maybe a few other places, and he is preparing to go back to the mission field is how my generating raising support and they're not saying where it is that he's going to which would normally when the assemblies does like that that means that it will be going to a nation that Christianity is not welcome to is probably heading to one of the Muslim nations in northern Africa, most likely, but they didn't say where they don't advertise this for his own sake of his life. And so while any help, he'll be a beheading heading there, but the guy was so in the end of been full of bracelets. He wrote a book called live dad and the whole idea of dying to self and I have a copy of book on Montebello yet but am a put up some work for him and wants to get a hold of it to get me a bracelet of other bracelets that live that on it and I gave it to Brian and his candidate. They goes full circle in your wee one of running into him at Valley Forge Christian College. You know, some two months later I thought was kind of neat and the message that he spoke was simple and very powerful enough to preach the message that he breached, though among a copy that, but I can officially work fine, but if you need city would like to, but this morning, which after twenty four cluster with first thirteen in the reading quick. So, while cancers can be trigger finger happy right alongside me. Whichever, twenty four, verse thirteen. This is case following Jesus 's crucifixion. Now were following Jesus resurrection. Now the older thirteenth of all two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus. This is the day that Jesus rose from the grave traveling to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And he talked together of all these things which happen everything that went down so it was while they converse reason the Jesus himself drew near and went with them, but their eyes were restrained, so they did not know him seven. What kind of conversation is missing your having with one another as you walk in our sad in the one whose name was cleared was answered and said to him, bringing the only stranger in Jerusalem and have you not known the things which have happened there in these days, and he said to them, what things so they said to him, the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him, but we were hoping that it was he who is going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today's the third day since these things happen just in certain women of our company who arrived to early astonished us. When they didn't find his body, they came saying that they also seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive and certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women said, but him they didn't see it. He said to them before Swanson, slow heart to believe in all of the profits is spoken are not the Christ to suffer these things into entering to his glory at the beginning and excuse me, and beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. The major here to the village where they were going and he indicated that he was going farther, but they constrain him, saying applied with us for disorder evening of the day is far spent, he went to stay with them. Now it came to pass, as he sat at the table with them, that he took bread broken blasts and broken and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew him and he vanished from their sight and they said to one another. Didn't our hearts burn within us while he walked with us on the road, and while he opened the Scriptures to us, so they rose up very hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, sing the Lord is risen indeed has appeared to Simon and I told about the things that happen on the road and how he was known to them in the breaking of bread is better on a seven mile walk from Jerusalem to a town called Emmaus to do the math. The average person takes about twenty to twenty five minutes to walk an hour. So were talking about roughly into two and a half hour journey right now. Some people walk faster than twenty minutes in an hour, but they say an average pace is somewhere around that. My per mile might put that on you. Yet the average person walks twenty minutes it takes the average person twenty minutes to walk a mile in those missed some, like I said, when pastor goes away the whole places falls apartments only a week earlier they had traveled from home to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover right, they probably do this every year of their lives ever since they were kids. It was a traditional thing to go to Jerusalem's overpass over and there was added excitement found not just because it was holy week in a big culmination of everything to do with all parts of their lives. But there is the added excitement of Jesus. This profit is this creature was in town and it was rumored that in Bethany, just a couple days ago, he raised somebody from the deck and he's in town. Any speaking and sharing, and the multitudes. The model paleness came with other story was celebrated Passover, they throw down on palm branches, so that Jesus and their cloaks, even riding on a donkey could enter into Jerusalem August one, and often missing because the end of the week, their Savior. The one who unexpectedly victorious King and political salvation ends and an spiritual salvation of Israel is that gone, tortured guilt laden tomb. Why get you die, why didn't you do something to stop it, and others. Another rumor floating around the summary stole Jesus by because they can't find it. And so here we are witnesses, unnamed friend walk along Emmaus Road and are joined by strangers were talking about what happened are probably very disappointed and are joined by the stranger and asks what was going on. Are you so sad haven't you heard no delimiter rock Hill, haven't you been out and about the no news is going on with this Jesus was whose children late in the grave, and the stranger asks questions that question was his guide, then he said, but he cared enough to say what things what's going on, and so they told him. And Jesus responded with Scripture as we solve because he was concerned about the shape of Cletus and his friends soul. He was concerned about their sole condition about us reach points were. We know that our soul needs a little shaping right. Why were here this morning 's laboratory. This morning, your our souls can be shaped by Jesus in every day travel versus thirteen through sixteen. Behold to a number traveling a sender to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles. We go through. We sell are talking another conversing in the reasoning and Jesus Junior didn't even realize it was him. That was with them. Their eyes were restrained the bottle says how is it that in an average walk God can shape somebody's soul Jesus gives me perspective when I'm bewildered you're been confused and bewildered about what's going on my. I think were all the different points in life there. But Jesus gives me perspective. First, seventeen, he said them. What kind of conversation is that you're having with each other as you're walking why are you sad. I'll think Jesus was being flip with them. I don't think he was being coy. I think Jesus was being direct as only he can, and was able to reach in to try to find out drawl out of them what's going on. The source of their confusion is a Jesus restores my hope when I'm in despair of what's taking place in my life verses nineteen to twenty one, he said them what things and they said in the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet mighty in data and word before God and all the people and how the chief priests, our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him, but we were hoping that it was he was going to redeem us redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these the renewal of the prophecy that he was arise. Three days later they were in despair and her hope was gone because their friend had been murderously executed, acknowledged bodies missing the most important event of their lives. And it's all been snatched away in turn, almost seemingly do nothing, there's one more thing along drawn here Jesus gives me clarity when I'm confused twenty one through twenty four. We were hoping it was he was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, there is a third agency things happen. Yes, and certain other women of our company who arrived the tomb early this morning astonished us when they didn't find his body. They can save it also seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive and certain of those who are with those wanted to found just what they said. And they didn't see Jesus. Jesus is in the meantime, lifting all this patiently, letting them talk right but between far. Yes, sometimes we need to just let people off so we can find out and discern what is going on in their lives if we just let them talk. There's always a time to answer is under there will always be time to answer, but there's time to listen and Jesus listened patiently. When Jesus finally breaks in the conversation. He picks up his end a puts all the pieces into the big picture, he showed them detail by detail, as Luke relates of how one had thrown them into bewilderment. What this farewell confuse them, and how it all made perfect sense if they would look at it and listen to it as a part of God 's larger plan so is clear. This is friend listen to Jesus relating Old Testament Scriptures, they realized they weren't dealing with their latest religious fad, but this was gods plan from way back they started to get the big picture. Their bewilderment was put in perspective because that's what Jesus does. Sometimes we need a dose of clarity right when you see things more clearly. So Jesus does. Sometimes we need to have hope reborn when were in despair will guess what would Jesus does with our lives, it brings these things about any hands it out, so we find out as we write already if I get home because of their destination. They were so wrapped up in it that they hardly even realize that they were home pages indicated that he was traveling farther he wasn't stopped in their tomb to half hours of fun by so quickly that they don't even realize it in the press him. They constrained him, it says in this version. I know another word that one person you called me importuning another words, name the essentially inconvenienced him to stay. They begged him with a friendly violence, if you will stay with them. I'd like to say this if we want the presence of Jesus in our lives if we want God 's peace versus right. If we want God 's provision. If we want God 's presence. We need to want it. They can be casual. Ask but we've got to constrain Jesus. We need to start a word we use normally importune him. We need to. It's not an inconvenience for him, but it's the idea that we need to inconvenience. Jesus, only to find out that it was never inconvenienced off with him, but we've got a wanted friends if we want God 's peace in our lives. We bought asked for it, and we've got to want it. Like we want it. Okay, if it ever looks to you like. Jesus is drawing away from you if it ever looks to you like your stop here and Jesus is still moving on somewhere away from you. I would dare say that it's only to get you to beg him and asked him for his presence in our lives to stay with us and believe me, I see my own seasons using yours. If you have a guess what you're going to okay on a Christian walk. If you haven't experienced a season where it seems like Jesus has left you in the dust in your somewhere on your own. You got and it's okay because God is still there, but we need to ask Jesus to stay with us like we want him to want to travel with us during the day, but the stay with us at night and what Jesus do this idea what they has in the new. Many came in Bill Revelation chapter three verse twenty oh seven for Kassie on the screen. The essential you said your standard or not, and what he opens it. I'm in, I'm in. Secondly, I think that our souls can be shaped by Jesus in the routine of daily meals. We said earlier, it was and it was in common travel with Jesus takes time to shape our souls here we are in the routine of everyday meals versus twenty eight and twenty nine villagers near to the village where they were going and he indicated that he would've gone farther. They constrained him, saying a Bible is first for the evening, and it is far spent, now came to pass, as he sat at the table with them, that he took bread, blessed and broke it and gave it to them. Okay, so you're clear, Mister Cleaver 's friend on what his friend 's name was that it feels important it really would you been called down, and even put a piece now the course of a couple hours worth of conversation was the last time you had a chance to sit and talk anybody for couple of hours. Just think about that as crazy as life gets sometimes over the last time you had a chance to sit and talk with somebody about something you need to talk about for a couple of hours if you haven't found the time lately. Make time with something side and find somebody to talk to Cletus and his friend are feeling normal again. They probably grabbed a loaf of bread from a vendor or something. I don't know you know that they gone for a week dog beds on debate anything that would had now for gone bad weeks time to have all the preservatives that we have today, but they just takes the bread I was a Protestant. Some, like this are some Hebrew for him. He wasn't something like this will provide an ILA know Malloch, how long most election in Howard's, which is a traditional Hebrew blessing over bread which is blessed are you or our God, King of the universe who brings forth bread from the earth. There was something familiar about what this guys doing this was a miraculous meal. Okay, the story of five loves to fish his right. That was miraculous, wasn't it. This was a miraculous. This was a sacramental meal like we observe this morning. Was it knows a common meal here Jesus is doing what he always does. He's teaching us to keep our relationship with God through Jesus in common and usual provision. This is not common and usual provision. This is sacrament that we take right about this afternoon to go home, or when you stop somewhere grab a bite to eat a lot of moments like that and got sugar sold a moment like that absolutely whenever, wherever we sit down, put Jesus as the head of the table, figuratively not saying they can receive your table on saying place Jesus at the head of your table figuratively take the food that you got to eat. That's blessed by him for us given the glory through it and be content whether it's a very precious subway or whether it's a canned spaghetti was okay. Some of these kids in college no college fair from the noodles and noodles and boxes of macaroni and cheese. I will never touch. Noodles ever again in my life. Friends of player right now, but all of a sudden in a commonplace. Jesus decided table is no longer just. He's the host all of a sudden things reflect turnaround run and you and I were singing the theme from the old something flipped turned upside down was at the fresh Prince of Bel Air and it's for the kids R was that the kids and young at heart and in what is not missed much. Trust me okay, but it's look around the gas is now the host any case, the bread and embrace it. It was traditional video bread. Back then, especially Passover because when ligaments that is not your darling wife reason Jewish family of my go to person or look to see what abundant one with one wrong. It entered into Passover, they get rid of all the young all the letter things to gauge things like that. Thank you and all the things that the flat bread, because a big right-click when they were getting out of Egypt when it was Passover time access time. God is good. Got to travel fast, no heat, so every year during Passover, they get rid of all the Lebanon house jacket and a baby make a visit. It's a big part of the ceremony and Passover Seder made sure the house is cleaned of all eleven and dumb so young breaks the bread every matzoh now it's like a cracker sort of you know, but the winners so much analogy in there, but that's for another time and are teaching anyhow, it breaks the bread is suddenly dawns on you know the picture up there is a nice baguette, I think, or something like that was the picture that I found but now that the bread and Passover Seder would've been different, but help him. All of a sudden, he realizes Jesus, he's a liar. And so what was Monday and what was original was ordinary like a walk in Jerusalem ordinary travel there, walking or riding style. Okay, but it was ripe with power to shape your souls. There is nothing more ordinary and everyday needs and down the lunch right personality supper or any more. Usually we grab breakfast on the run. The only prescription off in sheets or something like that but will be regarding her lunch bucket and job site or grab a month somewhere in your lunch with your work. Whatever the case is e-mail because we have to write me nutritionally all that but we also eat because we like it. Yes, I like to eat. They are now attending several things that he makes it absolutely made my day, one of which I've been begging her recently as she makes a liver spread from chicken livers that I just love that is starting to sound all that is great replace him, she makes it for crackers and I am telling you what certainly is the biggest tree in my life is an chilled short racial type that most males will wrap up your most tells most elderly are elaborate, are they knows we are elaborate, not like Thanksgiving dinner or something like that. Okay, but may have a friend for a cold soup or a sandwich to have a conversation with its nice to his and is good for us a clear person. His friend in the moment that Jesus breaks the bread all of a sudden down with dogs on them. If Jesus is here and he's alive. Listen quickly. Jesus said what I give him member with the right regular credit, he took the brighter they gave and he broke it again. Thanks he broke it and began against him. Then they open their eyes and realized it was him. I went back and looked at some other place where Jesus posted meals five Jesus. Jesus blesses what I give him five loaves and two fish simple meal, but a boy had spoken, blessed and broke it. Boom. It's more than enough for everybody. Jesus takes what I give him and he blesses it, any breaks. What I given it says how many times that he broke the meal Jesus breaks my offering to him. How does that make sense. But Jesus is able to give it back, and it's more than it ever was. Because what I had wasn't enough. What I bring to the table, friends isn't enough for me. Spiritually, I can't survive on my own. I get confused I get spare. I get bewildered I wind up without hope on my own. I get depressed. I need the presence of Jesus in my life, Jesus gives, in fact, he said his reds, oranges and in even less and twenty six twenty six. Taking this is my body and I had a video marauding the place today because there's not enough time to I will save for another Sunday pressure is America's preach, but afterward they talk about recently. After the meal was over, they said Jesus Raghu Reddy realized who he was and he was gone right okay so, I don't how Jesus did his thing weather was in the crowd is your number one even when he revealed himself to Thomas Romo said he was there a lot seen Jesus appears or disappears a puff of smoke. Okay, not same as what happened with James was able to get out fast. I is somebody put everyone to okay what is driving this is this Jesus God, and it's afterward. What are they going to do. They started to talk about it and they said that in our hearts burn within us. Dinner hearts burn within us while he was talking to was on the road and compare notes compared parts, friends go to compare hearts and we go to talk about our relationship with Jesus. We've got to, and we've got a talk about the things that were facing in our lives with somebody and we got to talk about them with Jesus because he cares about where you are and what's going on and if you're ever tempted to think for a minute that Jesus doesn't care out for yourself. He gave it all up for you if you were the only one. Jesus went on across just for you, just for you is that concern. We need to compare hearts toI all what I don't have one running order for next Sunday. Everything bought by disappointed manuscript because they've made a video, a how do you say their vision of what we do in youth and things that go on, but they put together over our last to Sunday nights on unfortunately, because of a long-running, I forgot to Wildwood in the next. So while we will play it. Okay, if you are liable worth a look at the screen of giving the option of just twenty four underrated from the. The NK JV which what was great was the missionary who spoke at Valley Forge Christian College Brogdon, he called the NK JV, he joke is that it was the nearest to King Jesus version so I don't make any claims quite audacious. I do like the new King James version. That's what I like to convert on another day of the Rabin was just amazing amazing guy. I met him in Phoenix, Arizona this summer during General Counsel and was a something Jeremy somebody and there's just something about them that absolutely draws you to them and you find out with the presence of God in their lives. This man is a very humble servant. He grew up the son of missionaries to Kenya was raising Kenya and he has since become missionary himself for the past twenty years, he's been in the Sudan. I believe mostly for maybe a few other places, and he is preparing to go back to the mission field is how my generating raising support and they're not saying where it is that he's going to which would normally when the assemblies does like that that means that it will be going to a nation that Christianity is not welcome to is probably heading to one of the Muslim nations in northern Africa, most likely, but they didn't say where they don't advertise this for his own sake of his life. And so while any help, he'll be a beheading heading there, but the guy was so in the end of been full of bracelets. He wrote a book called live dad and the whole idea of dying to self and I have a copy of book on Montebello yet but am a put up some work for him and wants to get a hold of it to get me a bracelet of other bracelets that live that on it and I gave it to Brian and his candidate. They goes full circle in your wee one of running into him at Valley Forge Christian College. You know, some two months later I thought was kind of neat and the message that he spoke was simple and very powerful enough to preach the message that he breached, though among a copy that, but I can officially work fine, but if you need city would like to, but this morning, which after twenty four cluster with first thirteen in the reading quick. So, while cancers can be trigger finger happy right alongside me. Whichever, twenty four, verse thirteen. This is case following Jesus 's crucifixion. Now were following Jesus resurrection. Now the older thirteenth of all two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus. This is the day that Jesus rose from the grave traveling to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And he talked together of all these things which happen everything that went down so it was while they converse reason the Jesus himself drew near and went with them, but their eyes were restrained, so they did not know him seven. What kind of conversation is missing your having with one another as you walk in our sad in the one whose name was cleared was answered and said to him, bringing the only stranger in Jerusalem and have you not known the things which have happened there in these days, and he said to them, what things so they said to him, the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him, but we were hoping that it was he who is going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today's the third day since these things happen just in certain women of our company who arrived to early astonished us. When they didn't find his body, they came saying that they also seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive and certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women said, but him they didn't see it. He said to them before Swanson, slow heart to believe in all of the profits is spoken are not the Christ to suffer these things into entering to his glory at the beginning and excuse me, and beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. The major here to the village where they were going and he indicated that he was going farther, but they constrain him, saying applied with us for disorder evening of the day is far spent, he went to stay with them. Now it came to pass, as he sat at the table with them, that he took bread broken blasts and broken and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew him and he vanished from their sight and they said to one another. Didn't our hearts burn within us while he walked with us on the road, and while he opened the Scriptures to us, so they rose up very hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, sing the Lord is risen indeed has appeared to Simon and I told about the things that happen on the road and how he was known to them in the breaking of bread is better on a seven mile walk from Jerusalem to a town called Emmaus to do the math. The average person takes about twenty to twenty five minutes to walk an hour. So were talking about roughly into two and a half hour journey right now. Some people walk faster than twenty minutes in an hour, but they say an average pace is somewhere around that. My per mile might put that on you. Yet the average person walks twenty minutes it takes the average person twenty minutes to walk a mile in those missed some, like I said, when pastor goes away the whole places falls apartments only a week earlier they had traveled from home to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover right, they probably do this every year of their lives ever since they were kids. It was a traditional thing to go to Jerusalem's overpass over and there was added excitement found not just because it was holy week in a big culmination of everything to do with all parts of their lives. But there is the added excitement of Jesus. This profit is this creature was in town and it was rumored that in Bethany, just a couple days ago, he raised somebody from the deck and he's in town. Any speaking and sharing, and the multitudes. The model paleness came with other story was celebrated Passover, they throw down on palm branches, so that Jesus and their cloaks, even riding on a donkey could enter into Jerusalem August one, and often missing because the end of the week, their Savior. The one who unexpectedly victorious King and political salvation ends and an spiritual salvation of Israel is that gone, tortured guilt laden tomb. Why get you die, why didn't you do something to stop it, and others. Another rumor floating around the summary stole Jesus by because they can't find it. And so here we are witnesses, unnamed friend walk along Emmaus Road and are joined by strangers were talking about what happened are probably very disappointed and are joined by the stranger and asks what was going on. Are you so sad haven't you heard no delimiter rock Hill, haven't you been out and about the no news is going on with this Jesus was whose children late in the grave, and the stranger asks questions that question was his guide, then he said, but he cared enough to say what things what's going on, and so they told him. And Jesus responded with Scripture as we solve because he was concerned about the shape of Cletus and his friends soul. He was concerned about their sole condition about us reach points were. We know that our soul needs a little shaping right. Why were here this morning 's laboratory. This morning, your our souls can be shaped by Jesus in every day travel versus thirteen through sixteen. Behold to a number traveling a sender to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles. We go through. We sell are talking another conversing in the reasoning and Jesus Junior didn't even realize it was him. That was with them. Their eyes were restrained the bottle says how is it that in an average walk God can shape somebody's soul Jesus gives me perspective when I'm bewildered you're been confused and bewildered about what's going on my. I think were all the different points in life there. But Jesus gives me perspective. First, seventeen, he said them. What kind of conversation is that you're having with each other as you're walking why are you sad. I'll think Jesus was being flip with them. I don't think he was being coy. I think Jesus was being direct as only he can, and was able to reach in to try to find out drawl out of them what's going on. The source of their confusion is a Jesus restores my hope when I'm in despair of what's taking place in my life verses nineteen to twenty one, he said them what things and they said in the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet mighty in data and word before God and all the people and how the chief priests, our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him, but we were hoping that it was he was going to redeem us redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these the renewal of the prophecy that he was arise. Three days later they were in despair and her hope was gone because their friend had been murderously executed, acknowledged bodies missing the most important event of their lives. And it's all been snatched away in turn, almost seemingly do nothing, there's one more thing along drawn here Jesus gives me clarity when I'm confused twenty one through twenty four. We were hoping it was he was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, there is a third agency things happen. Yes, and certain other women of our company who arrived the tomb early this morning astonished us when they didn't find his body. They can save it also seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive and certain of those who are with those wanted to found just what they said. And they didn't see Jesus. Jesus is in the meantime, lifting all this patiently, letting them talk right but between far. Yes, sometimes we need to just let people off so we can find out and discern what is going on in their lives if we just let them talk. There's always a time to answer is under there will always be time to answer, but there's time to listen and Jesus listened patiently. When Jesus finally breaks in the conversation. He picks up his end a puts all the pieces into the big picture, he showed them detail by detail, as Luke relates of how one had thrown them into bewilderment. What this farewell confuse them, and how it all made perfect sense if they would look at it and listen to it as a part of God 's larger plan so is clear. This is friend listen to Jesus relating Old Testament Scriptures, they realized they weren't dealing with their latest religious fad, but this was gods plan from way back they started to get the big picture. Their bewilderment was put in perspective because that's what Jesus does. Sometimes we need a dose of clarity right when you see things more clearly. So Jesus does. Sometimes we need to have hope reborn when were in despair will guess what would Jesus does with our lives, it brings these things about any hands it out, so we find out as we write already if I get home because of their destination. They were so wrapped up in it that they hardly even realize that they were home pages indicated that he was traveling farther he wasn't stopped in their tomb to half hours of fun by so quickly that they don't even realize it in the press him. They constrained him, it says in this version. I know another word that one person you called me importuning another words, name the essentially inconvenienced him to stay. They begged him with a friendly violence, if you will stay with them. I'd like to say this if we want the presence of Jesus in our lives if we want God 's peace versus right. If we want God 's provision. If we want God 's presence. We need to want it. They can be casual. Ask but we've got to constrain Jesus. We need to start a word we use normally importune him. We need to. It's not an inconvenience for him, but it's the idea that we need to inconvenience. Jesus, only to find out that it was never inconvenienced off with him, but we've got a wanted friends if we want God 's peace in our lives. We bought asked for it, and we've got to want it. Like we want it. Okay, if it ever looks to you like. Jesus is drawing away from you if it ever looks to you like your stop here and Jesus is still moving on somewhere away from you. I would dare say that it's only to get you to beg him and asked him for his presence in our lives to stay with us and believe me, I see my own seasons using yours. If you have a guess what you're going to okay on a Christian walk. If you haven't experienced a season where it seems like Jesus has left you in the dust in your somewhere on your own. You got and it's okay because God is still there, but we need to ask Jesus to stay with us like we want him to want to travel with us during the day, but the stay with us at night and what Jesus do this idea what they has in the new. Many came in Bill Revelation chapter three verse twenty oh seven for Kassie on the screen. The essential you said your standard or not, and what he opens it. I'm in, I'm in. Secondly, I think that our souls can be shaped by Jesus in the routine of daily meals. We said earlier, it was and it was in common travel with Jesus takes time to shape our souls here we are in the routine of everyday meals versus twenty eight and twenty nine villagers near to the village where they were going and he indicated that he would've gone farther. They constrained him, saying a Bible is first for the evening, and it is far spent, now came to pass, as he sat at the table with them, that he took bread, blessed and broke it and gave it to them. Okay, so you're clear, Mister Cleaver 's friend on what his friend 's name was that it feels important it really would you been called down, and even put a piece now the course of a couple hours worth of conversation was the last time you had a chance to sit and talk anybody for couple of hours. Just think about that as crazy as life gets sometimes over the last time you had a chance to sit and talk with somebody about something you need to talk about for a couple of hours if you haven't found the time lately. Make time with something side and find somebody to talk to Cletus and his friend are feeling normal again. They probably grabbed a loaf of bread from a vendor or something. I don't know you know that they gone for a week dog beds on debate anything that would had now for gone bad weeks time to have all the preservatives that we have today, but they just takes the bread I was a Protestant. Some, like this are some Hebrew for him. He wasn't something like this will provide an ILA know Malloch, how long most election in Howard's, which is a traditional Hebrew blessing over bread which is blessed are you or our God, King of the universe who brings forth bread from the earth. There was something familiar about what this guys doing this was a miraculous meal. Okay, the story of five loves to fish his right. That was miraculous, wasn't it. This was a miraculous. This was a sacramental meal like we observe this morning. Was it knows a common meal here Jesus is doing what he always does. He's teaching us to keep our relationship with God through Jesus in common and usual provision. This is not common and usual provision. This is sacrament that we take right about this afternoon to go home, or when you stop somewhere grab a bite to eat a lot of moments like that and got sugar sold a moment like that absolutely whenever, wherever we sit down, put Jesus as the head of the table, figuratively not saying they can receive your table on saying place Jesus at the head of your table figuratively take the food that you got to eat. That's blessed by him for us given the glory through it and be content whether it's a very precious subway or whether it's a canned spaghetti was okay. Some of these kids in college no college fair from the noodles and noodles and boxes of macaroni and cheese. I will never touch. Noodles ever again in my life. Friends of player right now, but all of a sudden in a commonplace. Jesus decided table is no longer just. He's the host all of a sudden things reflect turnaround run and you and I were singing the theme from the old something flipped turned upside down was at the fresh Prince of Bel Air and it's for the kids R was that the kids and young at heart and in what is not missed much. Trust me okay, but it's look around the gas is now the host any case, the bread and embrace it. It was traditional video bread. Back then, especially Passover because when ligaments that is not your darling wife reason Jewish family of my go to person or look to see what abundant one with one wrong. It entered into Passover, they get rid of all the young all the letter things to gauge things like that. Thank you and all the things that the flat bread, because a big right-click when they were getting out of Egypt when it was Passover time access time. God is good. Got to travel fast, no heat, so every year during Passover, they get rid of all the Lebanon house jacket and a baby make a visit. It's a big part of the ceremony and Passover Seder made sure the house is cleaned of all eleven and dumb so young breaks the bread every matzoh now it's like a cracker sort of you know, but the winners so much analogy in there, but that's for another time and are teaching anyhow, it breaks the bread is suddenly dawns on you know the picture up there is a nice baguette, I think, or something like that was the picture that I found but now that the bread and Passover Seder would've been different, but help him. All of a sudden, he realizes Jesus, he's a liar. And so what was Monday and what was original was ordinary like a walk in Jerusalem ordinary travel there, walking or riding style. Okay, but it was ripe with power to shape your souls. There is nothing more ordinary and everyday needs and down the lunch right personality supper or any more. Usually we grab breakfast on the run. The only prescription off in sheets or something like that but will be regarding her lunch bucket and job site or grab a month somewhere in your lunch with your work. Whatever the case is e-mail because we have to write me nutritionally all that but we also eat because we like it. Yes, I like to eat. They are now attending several things that he makes it absolutely made my day, one of which I've been begging her recently as she makes a liver spread from chicken livers that I just love that is starting to sound all that is great replace him, she makes it for crackers and I am telling you what certainly is the biggest tree in my life is an chilled short racial type that most males will wrap up your most tells most elderly are elaborate, are they knows we are elaborate, not like Thanksgiving dinner or something like that. Okay, but may have a friend for a cold soup or a sandwich to have a conversation with its nice to his and is good for us a clear person. His friend in the moment that Jesus breaks the bread all of a sudden down with dogs on them. If Jesus is here and he's alive. Listen quickly. Jesus said what I give him member with the right regular credit, he took the brighter they gave and he broke it again. Thanks he broke it and began against him. Then they open their eyes and realized it was him. I went back and looked at some other place where Jesus posted meals five Jesus. Jesus blesses what I give him five loaves and two fish simple meal, but a boy had spoken, blessed and broke it. Boom. It's more than enough for everybody. Jesus takes what I give him and he blesses it, any breaks. What I given it says how many times that he broke the meal Jesus breaks my offering to him. How does that make sense. But Jesus is able to give it back, and it's more than it ever was. Because what I had wasn't enough. What I bring to the table, friends isn't enough for me. Spiritually, I can't survive on my own. I get confused I get spare. I get bewildered I wind up without hope on my own. I get depressed. I need the presence of Jesus in my life, Jesus gives, in fact, he said his reds, oranges and in even less and twenty six twenty six. Taking this is my body and I had a video marauding the place today because there's not enough time to I will save for another Sunday pressure is America's preach, but afterward they talk about recently. After the meal was over, they said Jesus Raghu Reddy realized who he was and he was gone right okay so, I don't how Jesus did his thing weather was in the crowd is your number one even when he revealed himself to Thomas Romo said he was there a lot seen Jesus appears or disappears a puff of smoke. Okay, not same as what happened with James was able to get out fast. I is somebody put everyone to okay what is driving this is this Jesus God, and it's afterward. What are they going to do. They started to talk about it and they said that in our hearts burn within us. Dinner hearts burn within us while he was talking to was on the road and compare notes compared parts, friends go to compare hearts and we go to talk about our relationship with Jesus. We've got to, and we've got a talk about the things that were facing in our lives with somebody and we got to talk about them with Jesus because he cares about where you are and what's going on and if you're ever tempted to think for a minute that Jesus doesn't care out for yourself. He gave it all up for you if you were the only one. Jesus went on across just for you, just for you is that concern. We need to compare hearts to