28\u00a0<\/sup>So they drew near to the village to which they were going.\u00a0He acted as if he were going farther,<\/span>\u00a029\u00a0<\/sup>but they urged him strongly, saying, \u201cStay with us, for it is toward evening and\u00a0the day is now far spent.\u201d So he went in to stay with them.<\/span>30\u00a0<\/sup>When he was at table with them, he took the bread and\u00a0blessed and broke it and gave it to them.<\/span>\u00a031\u00a0<\/sup>And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And\u00a0he vanished from their sight.<\/span>\u00a032\u00a0<\/sup>They said to each other,\u00a0\u201cDid not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he\u00a0opened to us the Scriptures?\u201d<\/span>33\u00a0<\/sup>And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they\u00a0found the eleven and\u00a0those who were with them gathered together,<\/span>\u00a034\u00a0<\/sup>saying, \u201cThe Lord has risen indeed, and\u00a0has appeared to Simon!\u201d<\/span>\u00a035\u00a0<\/sup>Then they told what had happened on the road, and\u00a0how he was known to them in\u00a0the breaking of the bread.<\/span><\/p>\n The women of that time were not ones who were seen as being reliable in giving information. It was hard for men to listen to any news a woman had to share, let alone the important news of Jesus Christ being raised from the dead. Even when the went and saw the tomb with their own eyes, they still held a great sense of unbelief.<\/p>\n Jesus had repeated numerous times that on the third day, He would rise again. This was to be the basis of their hope and joy. This was something that He intended for them to hang on to as a means to endure His death and fully understand that He is the one, true living God and there is no power that can stop Him. Death was on the losing side of this battle and He conquered it and sin with one act on the cross.<\/p>\n As Christians today, we have the privilege of knowing the events that took place from start to finish. Our Faith is based on the firm truth of God’s word and the fact that when we look at our own lives, we can trace the hand of God leading and guiding us to where we are today. It is because of the resurrection that we can be freed from sin and live a life that is filled with His joy, peace and hope. Each morning when we wake up, we are able to face our lives head on knowing that God is walking with us and it is His Grace that is allowing for us to do so.<\/p>\n [Featured image: Michelangelo – Supper at Emmaus]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the Road to Emmaus Luke 24:13-35 13\u00a0That very day\u00a0two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles[a]\u00a0from Jerusalem,\u00a014\u00a0and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.\u00a015\u00a0While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.\u00a016\u00a0But their eyes were kept from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12227,"featured_media":15075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2280],"tags":[1900,7265,2344,7268,7266,7606,7605,7267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nObservations and Reflections<\/h2>\n
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Being told the events that had happened concerning Himself must have been interesting to hear. Jesus was not trying to be sneaky or cunning in not revealing Himself to these men. He simply wanted to test to see if they truly believed in the fact that He indeed did rise again and was alive! Understanding and believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is vital to accepting the message of the Gospel.<\/p>\n
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