March 15, 2025 • 59 mins
Dr. Robert Smith Jr. unpacks the Emmaus Road narrative from Luke 24, revealing how Jesus transforms disciples from discouragement to passionate witnesses through Scripture engagement.
• Moving from "slow hearts" to "burning hearts" happens through deeper Scripture engagement
• Jesus is present throughout the entire Bible, not just the New Testament
• True learning from Scripture should ignite passion and create yearning to share with others
• The purpose of Scripture is not just information but transformation
• God often reveals Himself gradually to create an appetite for more
• Sometimes Scripture that seems unpalatable at first is still profitable
• Understanding comes through struggle – Jesus could have revealed Himself immediately but chose the journey
• Our testimony should match Christ's teaching – He appears when we explain what He expounded
• We fight from victory, not for victory, because of Christ's resurrection
Most powerfully, Dr. Smith articulates three essential responses to Scripture: learning, burning, and yearning. Knowledge alone isn't enough – Scripture should ignite passion and create an urgent desire to share with others. "Learning and burning are not antithetical," he explains. "The more you learn, the more you ought to burn." When our explanation matches Christ's expounding, Jesus himself appears among us.
Ready to move from merely knowing about the Bible to truly experiencing its transformative power? Join us as we treasure God's Word and discover how Scripture can turn our slow hearts into burning hearts.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning.
I hope you're all doing wellthis morning.
I want to welcome you to FirstBaptist Church For any I don't
know.
My name is Taylor Guerin.
I'm the senior pastor here.
I am thankful for this day.
I'm thankful that, on a cloudyand extremely windy morning,
that you've made your way herefor a couple hours today that I
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think you will leave verythankful, very thankful that you
came.
I want to say a few thingsbefore I introduce Dr Smith, but
number one is this I want totake a chance to thank Pastor
Clark Whitney for just being sokind to share Dr Smith with us
this weekend.
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Dr Smith is here to preach atEmanuel tomorrow morning and I'm
looking forward to Emanuel.
I know you had him a coupleyears back maybe just a year
back, a couple years back and sohe is back to preach at Emanuel
To my church members.
If you're not here because youslept in, we may have a problem.
If you're not here becauseyou're sneaking to a manual, I'm
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honestly not even going to bethat upset with you.
Maybe come back next week.
I do want to see you again, butif you need to be there
tomorrow, I won't be overlyupset.
We have an absolute privilegethis morning to have Dr Robert
Smith Jr with us in this pulpit,in this room.
Dr Robert Smith Jr spent decadesas the Charles T Carter chair
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of preaching Christian preachingat Beeson Divinity School.
He was a professor there formany years.
Before that was at SouthernSeminary.
Before that he was in pastoralministry in the church.
But even when he moved from thechurch to the academy he never
left pastoral ministry.
He has been in churches allover our country, all over the
world preaching.
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Every student he has ever hadknows very well that he is a
pastor to students.
He has been a pastor to me andto Katie.
When I was at Beeson I rememberyou're there for three and a
half years or so and everybody'swaiting to get to year three.
When you get to year three youget to walk up to the third
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floor into the preaching lab andyou got to have Dr Robert Smith
Jr and it was a privilege andit was a treat.
It kept you on your toes.
I remember he did somethingcalled fishbowl.
What fishbowl was is there wasa bowl he would have and there
were 15 people in the class.
He'd have 15 sheets of paper.
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On 13 of them they werecompletely blank.
On one of them there was ascripture reference and on one
of them there was a little fishdrawn on there.
If you got the blank, you werefree.
If you got the scripturereference, you stood up and you
fish drawn on there.
If you got the blank, you werefree.
If you got the scripturereference, you stood up and you
read the scripture.
And if you got the fish, youthen stood up and you preached
on that passage of scripture.
Right then and there, in thatmoment, with Dr Robert Smith Jr
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watching you.
It was terrifying, it was nervewracking, but it made us, as
scripture, scripture said, to beready to preach the word in
season and out of season.
If, in this moment this morning, starts passing around a
fishbowl, maybe just walk out ofthe room.
You may.
I don't know if you want tohang around or not, but Dr Smith
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has been a gift to me, to Katie, a gift to churches all over
the world.
He's going to be a gift to me,to Katie, a gift to churches all
over the world.
He's going to be a gift to usthis morning, a gift to this
community, to Emmanuel, tomorrowmorning.
His wife, dr Wanda, is just anincredible individual in her own
right.
They are a gift and we arebeyond privileged to have them
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here.
We were going to do a teachingsession first and a preaching
session second.
Dr Smith said this morning thathe just felt like the Lord said
we're going to preach first andI'm thrilled so you don't have
to wait any longer to hear DrSmith preach, and so I would
love to.
As we think about what today isabout treasuring the word,
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that's what we'll be thinkingthrough over the next couple
hours.
I'd love to start with thescripture reading and just let
us pray together for just amoment before Dr Smith comes to
lead us.
Now I'm going to be in Psalm119, starting in verse 97, and
I'll read through 112.
And it says this as we thinkabout the word of God oh, how I
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love your law.
It is my meditation all the day.
Your commandment makes me wiserthan my enemies, for it is ever
with me.
I have more understanding thanall my teachers, for your
testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the age,for I keep your precepts are my
meditation.
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I understand more than the age,for I keep your precepts.
I hold back my feet from everyevil way in order to keep your
word.
I do not turn aside from yourrules, for you have taught me
how sweet are your words to mytaste, sweeter than honey to my
mouth.
Through your precepts I getunderstanding.
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Therefore, I hate every falseway.
In verse 105, accept my freewillofferings of praise, o Lord,
and teach me your rules.
I hold my life in my handcontinually, but I do not forget
your law.
The wicked have laid a snarefor me, but I do not stray from
your precepts.
Your testimonies are myheritage forever, for they are
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the joy of my heart.
I incline my heart to performyour statues forever, to the end
.
Would you bow your heads with meand Lord Jesus?
We do give you thanks for yourword, lord, the God-breathed,
god-inspired word that you havegiven to us.
You are a God who speaks, whocommunicates, and you have given
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us the privilege of getting tolearn about you through your
word.
Experience you through yourword.
Thank you that you haverevealed yourself to us.
I pray this morning that ourhearts will be open, that our
hearts will be ready to respond.
I pray for Dr Smith, god, thatyou would use him greatly.
Speak through him to us, lord,because we are ready to hear
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from you.
We pray this now in Christ'sname Amen Would you join me in
welcoming Dr Robert Smith Jr.
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Thank you even now, lord Jesus, even now, even now,
for I ask this in your name amen, god be praised, god be praised
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, god be praised, god be praised, god be praised.
What a joy, what a joy on aSaturday morning to have a
Sunday morning feeling and to behere with people that I'm
meeting for the first time.
And since that's the case, Ithought it would be a good idea,
since we we're going to spendeternity together, for us to get
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to know each other a littlemore.
Thank you, dr Geary.
I'm speaking anticipatorily,it's coming.
And to Dr Clark Whitney, thankyou for having me.
And to these churches that aregathered together in this place,
it's a real privilege torepresent Christ.
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I want to commend First Baptistupon the selection of Dr
Gearing.
You put on the right glasses,you look through the eyes of the
Lord.
He and his wife, katie, are, inmy opinion, two of the most
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beautiful jewels in God'spastoral ministry.
I'm speaking about what is nowand what is going to be.
It's been wonderful watchingyou grow.
Speaking about what is now andwhat is going to be, it's been
wonderful watching you grow froma children's slash youth
ministry to being a significanttheologian of the word, bible
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teacher, lover of people, towatch Katie in her growth.
She's not some kind of owner,but to make him look good.
She knows exactly who she is.
God has gifted her distinctlyand she's using that gift.
She understands that theministry of caring for children
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is a high ministry.
Being at home, well, I'm justno.
She's not just anything.
She's God's child and she'sperforming a great ministry, one
that Jesus says if you offendone of these little ones, it's
better for you not to be born.
If you were born to have amillstone put around your neck.
She understands her ministry.
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I'm proud of you.
I feel about you as I feelabout Pastor Whitney.
As Paul and Bonas werecontemplating going over plans
for the upcoming missionaryjourney their second according
to Acts, chapter 15, theythought about going back and
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visiting the brothers to see howthey were doing.
That's what this trip is about.
God has allowed me to live tobe able to see the witness, to
see the hearings, to see howthey are doing, and that's such
a privilege.
So thank you for letting me behere and I praise God for
allowing me to be alive, to seeyou again and to meet brothers
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and sisters that I shall spendeternity with.
I want to read Luke, chapter 24.
And I want to focus on thisteaching passage, this teaching
paragraph Verses 13 through 36.
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Luke 24, 13 through 36.
From tragedy to triumph, fromtragedy to triumph.
Hear these words from the wordNow.
That very day, two of them wereon their way to a village called
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Emmaus, about seven miles fromJerusalem.
They were talking to each otherabout all the things that had
happened.
While they were talking anddebating these things, jesus
himself approached and began toaccompany them, but their eyes
were kept from recognizing him.
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Then he said to them what arethese matters you are discussing
so intently as you walk along?
And they stood still, lookingsad.
Then one of them, named Clopas,answered him Are you the only
visitor to Jerusalem who doesn'tknow the things that have
happened there in these days?
He said to them what things?
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The things concerning Jesus theNazarene.
They replied A man who, withhis powerful deeds and words,
proved to be a prophet beforeGod and all the people.
They replied only this.
But it is now the third daysince these things happened.
Furthermore, some women of ourgroup amazed us.
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They were at the tomb earlythis morning and when they did
not find his body, they cameback and said they had seen a
vision of angels who said he wasalive.
Then some of those who werewith us went to the tomb and
found it, just as the women hadsaid.
But they did not see him.
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So he said to them you foolishpeople, how slow of heart to
believe all that the prophetshave spoken.
Wasn't it necessary for theChrist to suffer these things
and enter into his glory, thebeginning with Moses and all the
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prophets?
He interpreted to them thethings written about himself in
all the scriptures.
So they approached the villagewhere they were going.
He acted as though he wanted togo further, but they urged him
stay with us because it isgetting toward evening and the
day is almost done.
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So he went in to stay with them.
When he had taken his place atthe table with them, he took the
bread blessed and broke it andgave it to them.
At this point their eyes wereopen and they recognized him
when he vanished out of theirsight.
Then they said to each otherdidn't our hearts burn within us
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while he was speaking with uson the road, while he was
explaining the scriptures to us?
So they got up that very hourand returned to Jerusalem.
They found the eleven and thosewith them gathered together and
saying the Lord has risen andhas appeared to Simon.
Then they told what happened onthe road and how they
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recognized him when he broke thebread.
While they were saying thesethings, jesus himself stood
among them and said to thempeace be with you.
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Perhaps the greatest obstacle tothe knowledge of the Bible is
the knowledge of the Bible.
Perhaps what keeps us fromknowing more about the Bible
than we think we already knowabout the Bible is what we know
about the Bible.
So when we come to a passagelike this that is so pregnant
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with familiarity We've heard it,we've preached it, we've taught
it, we've studied it there isalways the propensity, the
tendency, the proclivity to putour minds on Cruz Crowe, because
we know this passage and we'velooked at the diamond of this
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passage so many times that weknow all of the facets and there
is nothing new and revelatoryabout this passage that we can
gain.
This morning I will say to youthat it is a mistake.
It is what DL Moody saidno-transcript.
It's how many times the Biblehas been through you.
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I wonder if we would look atthis passage like a child,
second naivete, climb up intothe cranium of Yahweh of God and
assume we've never been in thispassage before and say to him
sing it over again to me.
Wonderful words of life, let memore of their beauty see.
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Wonderful words of life.
Words of life and beauty.
Teach me faith and duty.
Beautiful words, wonderfulwords, wonderful words of life.
Judith Wirz wrote a children'sbook in 1972 that became a
musical and a Hollywood movie in2014.
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It was titled Alexander and theTerrible, horrible, no good,
very bad day.
I want to suggest today and itwas about her third son that she
piled up these negativeadjectives I would suggest today
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that in this text, theseexperiences that her son had,
these two disciples are havingit was a terrible, it was a
horrible, it was a no good, itwas a very bad day for them when
they left Jerusalem on theirway home.
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And so I propose to you thatJesus, who is the righteousness
of God, became sin, that we whoare sinners might become the
righteousness of God through thehorrible death on the cross,
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the glorious resurrection fromthe dead by the Spirit, in order
that we might live with him inholiness for eternity.
Jesus, who is the righteousnessof God became sin.
That we who are sinners mightbecome the righteousness of God
became sin.
That we who are sinners mightbecome the righteousness of God
through the horrible andterrible death on the cross, the
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glorious resurrection from thedead by the Spirit, so that we
can live in holiness with him ineternity.
They leave two disciples, onenamed Cleopas, the other is
anonymous.
We don't know his name, butthey are infiltrated with
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Sadness, dismay, discouragement.
They want to leave JerusalemBecause it's the place where
their hopes are dashed and thestars fall from the sky.
They could have gone east, butit was too dangerous.
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They knew back there in Jerichothat it was a dangerous place.
They knew about the parable ofthe Good Samaritan, that a man
left Jerusalem and went down toJericho and was beaten, robbed
and left half dead.
They didn't go back to Jericho.
They could have gone up northto Mount Ephraim, but perhaps it
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was too far.
They could have gone south toBethlehem, but it was probably
too painfully memorable.
That's where he was born.
So they decided to go west, toEmmaus, seven miles from
Jerusalem.
And as they walked they talkedand they communed one with
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another, and there was one whothey thought was a stranger.
He really is the Savior, butthey saw him as the stranger.
Their eyes are kept in such amysterious way from recognizing
who he is and he abducts theconversation.
He kidnaps the conversation.
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He takes over the conversation.
He kidnaps the conversation.
He takes over the conversationand he asked them in verses 17,
verse 18, what are you communingabout?
What are these sad things youare discussing?
And they were sad and theylooked at him and they asked and
said to him you must be astranger in these parts and you
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don't know what's happening andwhat has happened over these
past three days.
Jesus shows us how to treasurethe word by not giving the
complete story at once.
He's the only one who knowswhat's happening and he ain't
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talking because he asked thequestion what things?
He knew what things, but henever said it.
He does not want to spoon feedthem, he wants to create an
appetite.
So they want more and more andmore, as they discussed.
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If I was to contemporize thisand their response that they
give, I would say you must be astranger in America.
Don't you know what happenedDecember 7th 1941?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Don't you know what happened onNovember 22, 1963?
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The assassination of PresidentJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy in
Dallas?
Don't you know what happened onApril 4, 1968?
The assassination of MartinLuther King Jr?
Don't you know what happened onSeptember 11th 2001?
The implosion through theexplosion of the Twin Towers?
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How can you live in America andnot know that?
You must be a stranger fromMars or Venus or Jupiter or
Saturn.
You don't know these things.
Jesus said what things?
And they began to relate thethings they're talking about.
That has claimed their heartand crushed their spirits.
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How that Jesus the Nazarene, aprophet who was mighty in words
and deeds, was arrested by thechief priests, scribes and
elders and was crucified.
And we had hoped that he'd bethe one who would deliver Israel
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.
Take them from the tail to thehead, make them dominant overall
, help Israel to regain aposition of prominence.
And we were told that the womenwent out and said they went to
the tomb but it was empty.
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But they saw some angels.
But who trusts what a woman hasto say?
A woman can't even givetestimony in courts.
Their testimony is not tenable,their testimony is not credible
in that culture.
And then we were told that twoof our own, james and I mean
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Peter and John they went out,they saw the tomb, but it was
empty.
No one was in it and it's thethird day and, to our knowledge,
he's still dead.
He said he was going to get upon the third day.
It's what he said, but no onehas seen him to our knowledge.
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But no one has seen him.
To our knowledge.
Jesus listened to them talk,because that's really what you
do when you create an appetitefor the scripture.
You allow this to be a dialogueand not a monologue.
You create conversation space.
And Jesus says in verse 25 thisis what you and I cannot do,
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probably in a setting like this.
Oh fools, you're slow tobelieve all that the prophets
have spoken unto you.
You can't call fools you'reslow to believe all that the
prophets have spoken unto you.
You can't call fools, peoplefools, but watch it.
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He takes disciples who are slowof heart and in verse 31 and 32
, he moves them to have burninghearts.
That's the distance from slowhearts to burning hearts, so
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that you never give up on people, you never give up on your
children.
They start with slow hearts inJerusalem.
Seven miles later they haveburning hearts in Emmaus.
In fact, that may be the storyof some of you, slow of hearts,
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and that God, meticulously andmethodologically, and slowly and
intensely, brings you to thepoint that you have burning
hearts.
And you're like Jeremiah, whosaid in Jeremiah 20, verse 7,
and then moves to verse 9.
He says I said I would notspeak anymore in his name.
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He's frustrated.
He said in verse number 7, lord, you deceive me.
That's his word, and I wasdeceived.
That word for deceived in verseseven is the Hebrew word patah.
All it means is seduced.
And in Exodus, chapter 22,verse 16, that same word is used
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that if a man violates thevirginity of a young lady,
seduces her, he must marry herand pay her father a dowry.
You know what Jeremiah is saying.
Lord, you sovereignly seduce me.
Well, if you're standing nextto Jeremiah, you're going to
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move over, because you don'ttalk to God like that, do you?
And yet that is the problemthat we have.
We think it and yet we won'tsay it.
And I want to say God is notfragile, god is faithful, he can
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take it.
You say well, you know Iwouldn't say that to God.
Well, psalm 139, verse 2, sayshe knows our thoughts are far
off.
So while the thought is gettingto you, he intercepts it before
you even get it.
So, even though you don't sayit, he's got it.
Go on and tell him how you feel, if you're upset, if you think
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he's mismanaged your life, ifyou feel that he didn't show up,
tell him.
He'll give you the benefit ofthe first word, but he always
reserves the last word forhimself.
And he'll let you, job, startin chapter three and go to
chapter 37, five straightchapters, without interrupting
you, and let you talk and thenask you a question in chapter 38
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, verse 1.
Where were you, job, when Ilaid the foundation of the world
?
39, 40, 41, 42.
And in 42.
He'll say to you, job, what hesaid to you in verse 1 and verse
2.
Said to Satan, my servant, job,you're still my servant,
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regardless of what you said.
No parent who's worth his or hersalt will say to a child
there's some things you can'ttalk to me about.
God invites us to come andshare what's on our heart, since
he already knows it.
It's not for his benefit, butit's for ours.
Just to know that you can havea little talk with Jesus.
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Tell him all about yourtroubles.
He'll hear your faintest cry.
He'll answer by and by.
Feel a little prayer willturning, know a little fire is
burning.
Just a little talk,everything's all right.
Slow of heart to believe allthat the prophets have said, not
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just what James and John said,not just what the women were
saying, but what the inspiredprophets had talked about.
You're slow to believe that andslowed to believe all that I've
already shared with you.
I told you that I was going tobe arrested by the chief priests
, scribes and elders and I wasgoing to be crucified.
I told you that.
But I told you that on thethird day I was going to rise
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again, and so the women wereright.
They came to the tomb lookingfor the right man at the wrong
address, and the angel said tothem he is not here.
Why are you seeking the livingamong the dead?
This same Jesus has risen fromthe dead.
Why are you seeking the livingamong the dead?
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Why are you coming to aterritory that's known as
tombstone territory, verse 26.
A good tombstone territory,verse 26, a good communicator of
the word asked significantquestions.
What things now?
Yes, was it not necessary forChrist, the Christ the anointed
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one, to first suffer theology ofthe cross and then enter glory,
theology of glory?
It's a question that's arhetorical question.
Yes, it was necessary.
We need a theology of the crossand we need a theology of glory
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.
The problem today is we haveremoved the theology of the
cross because we are soinfatuated with the theology of
glory.
That's why prosperity theologyis so pervasive, because no one
wants to talk about theology ofthe cross.
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But you can't have Easterwithout having crucifixion.
And we don't need a theology ofprosperity, we need an
adversity theology.
Anybody can do well whenthey're prospering, but how do
you handle life when there isadversity?
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When you're experiencingprosperity, you can live and
believe in struggles, but whenyou're in the trenches and
you're walking through thevalley of the shadow of death,
it's not only what you maybelieve, it's what you have to
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believe, because you havenothing else and you never know
what you believe until it's timeto believe it.
Oh, I know, I know, I know wecan come up with a plethora of
scriptures and just quote them.
That's fine.
But do you really believe it?
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And you won't know until thatmoment hits you, that pink slip
hits you Three times diagnosedwith cancer.
I heard that.
Two times a stroke.
I heard that.
I know what it's like to be awidower.
I know what it's like to losetwo sons.
On and on and on, I've been tothe bottom.
But I want to tell you, thebottom is solid.
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Because he's at the bottom.
He's not only the bright andmorning star, but he's the lily
in the valley.
Yea, though I walk through thevalley of the shadow of death,
I'll fear no evil.
Why?
Because he's with me.
His rod, his staff help us andsometimes he gets more glory in
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sustaining us in danger thandelivering us from danger.
Because, after all, it's notwhat you, not what you are
trying to accomplish by gettingout of trouble, but it's what
you accomplish by what you getout of trouble.
What do you get out of trouble?
What do you learn?
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It's not God abandoning you atall.
It's that God has chosen tojust sustain you, so that people
can watch and see how God hasprotected you.
When everything around you isfalling, how in the world is
this person still standing?
She or he stands because God isholding him or her up and God
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has chosen to use you as proofthat he's able to keep you in
the midst of your struggle.
Was it not necessary?
Jesus asked in verse 26 for theChrist to first suffer and then
enter glory, and starting verse27 with Moses one third of the
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Hebrew Bible and then theprophets two thirds and in verse
44, the writings.
In other words, jesus took thewhole Bible, all three sections,
the writings, proverbs, psalms,et cetera, the law and the
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prophets.
And the Bible says he showedthem how all the things in
scripture were speaking abouthim.
Without going from Matthew toRevelation, he taught them from
the Hebrew Bible because that'sall they had.
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I think that in many ways wehave become contemporary
Marcionites.
Marcion was an old churchfather who was excommunicated
from the church in Rome in 144AD.
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Why?
Because he jettisoned, he threwoverboard the Old Testament.
He saw the Old Testament as aBible that God did not write,
because the New Testament talkedabout the love of God, the
mercy of God.
Old Testament dealt with thewrath of God.
He said so, he jettisoned itand they excommunicated him.
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Now we are not we're not Marcion, in that we don't believe in
the Old Testament.
We just don't talk about it, wejust don't read it, we don't
teach it and preach it.
See how the pages of Nahumstick together and Zephaniah,
zephan who Haggai, haggai Asidefrom Ezekiel and the dry bones,
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chapter 37.
He's kind of weird anyway.
But Jesus took an Old TestamentBible and said those things
that were written were writtenconcerning himself.
You're looking for Jesus.
Don't wait till you get toBethlehem.
In Matthew and Luke you canfind him all the way through
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here.
I wish I could have been onthat journey with Jesus to see
what text he actually used,because after all, he knew the
Old Testament, he wrote it.
I wish I could have been there.
I think that he must havestopped at Genesis, chapter 3,
verse 15.
What we call theProto-Evangelion, the first
gospel the seed of the serpentshall bruise the seed of the
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woman's heel to put him out ofaction.
But the seed of the woman shallbruise the seed of the woman's
heel to put him out of action.
But the seed of the woman shallbruise the seed of the
serpent's head to defeat him.
Because this is a mortal blow.
And on Friday Jesus was put outof action.
Friday, saturday, Sunday.
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But when he got up on Sundaymorning he gave a mortal blow to
Satan, so that Satan has lost.
If we ever get that in our head, that we fight from victory to
victory, we're not trying togain victory, we're more than
conquerors through him, wholoved us.
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I think he must have stopped atGenesis 49 and 10.
The scepter shall not departfrom Judah, nor lawgiver from
between her feet, until Shilohcomes.
That Christ is going to comethrough the line of Judah.
I think he must have stopped atIsaiah 9, 6 and 7.
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Unto us a child is born.
Unto us a son is given, and thegovernment shall be upon his
shoulder and his name shall becalled Wonderful Counselor, the
Mighty God, the EverlastingFather, the Prince of Peace.
Surely he stopped at Zechariah13, verse 1.
In Jerusalem there will be afountain that's open for sin and
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uncleanness.
And the hymn writer saw thesignificance of that text and
picked up his pen of inspirationand dipped it in the ink of
illumination and wrote there isa fountain filled with blood
drawn from Emmanuel's vein, andsinners plunge beneath that
flood, lose all their guilt andstain.
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All of that from the OldTestament and Peter preaches a
sermon just one sermon on theday of Pentecost and all he had
was an Old Testament and hepreached an Old Testament sermon
and 3,000 souls got saved fromone sermon, from the Old
Testament.
I wonder.
I just kind of think that thosewho will put the Bible together
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made a major mistake by puttingthis page between the end of
Malachi and the beginning ofMatthew.
I said this in a recent class Ilectured in and to my amazement
, a young lady just tore it out.
And to my amazement, a younglady just tore out just that
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blank page, because it gives theindication that there are two
Testaments, two books.
There is one.
Old and New Testament have thesame rank and the same value,
because the Bible ultimately isnot about the plan of salvation.
The Bible is about the man ofsalvation, jesus, who carries
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out the plan.
No man, no plan.
So we need to remarry both Oldand New Testament.
That's what Jesus here's, theconsummate fulfillment of both.
And there he is beginning, atMoses and the prophets and verse
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44, the writings.
He shows them how all of thosethings that were written were
written about him.
So the Bible is a hymn book,it's an H-I-M book, it's all
about him.
So when you teach and preachand communicate.
Until you really get to him.
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You don't know, as Paul Harveywould say, the rest of the story
.
He's the crown Jew.
You got to get to him.
Moses is a great man, but thelaw came by Moses, but grace and
truth came by Jesus Christ.
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Well, verse 28, 28, 28, 28.
They near the village of Emmausand the Bible says Jesus acted
as if he was going to go onfarther and the conversation is
going to be over, but he'screated such an appetite that
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they don't want him to leave.
They said abide with us.
The day is far spent, the nightis at hand.
Stay with us a little longer.
What you're talking about hasleft us with a desire for more
and more and more.
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He acted as if he was going togo on further and they made the
request that the benediction bedelayed because they wanted more
.
When you have an appetite forthe Word of God that becomes so
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increased that you desire itmore than anything else.
You want more.
Enough is never enough.
Then, after you get more, youwant much more.
Then, after you did that, youwant more than much more, and it
never stops.
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My mother we celebrated her sixyear death anniversary this week
.
She was one of God's greatcooks.
She was.
Hundreds of people would tellyou that.
I won't take up time to talkabout how she fed people from
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off the street and all that, butyou know, as good of a cook as
my mother was when I was growingup, there were some foods that
were not palatable.
And I said, once I get out ofher house and I can make my own
selections, because Mama didn'thave optional menus If you
didn't want this, then youselect another menu.
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Oh no, no, whatever she cookedthat night, that's what you ate.
If you didn't want to eat it,fine, you go to bed hungry,
that's it.
She didn't offer anythingoptional, but there were some
foods.
I said when I get out of yourhouse, I wouldn't tell her that,
but when I get out of yourhouse, you and my father's house
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, I ain't gonna ever that's whatI said I ain't gonna ever eat
black eyed peas, lima beans andsquash Never, because they
weren't palatable.
I wanted stuff that waspalatable French fries, onion
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rings, hot dogs, hamburgers, aswe call them but mama said they
may be palatable but they arenot profitable for a strong
bodily constitution.
So I'm going to take and keepgiving you that which is
profitable, in hopes that oneday that they will become
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palatable.
You hear Paul saying in Acts,chapter 20, verse 1 I have not
kept anything back from you thatwas profitable, but I've taught
you publicly and from house tohouse, because I'm interested in
profitability.
And Paul says in 2 Timothy,chapter 3, verse 16, all
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scripture is given byinspiration of God and it is
profitable For doctrine, forreproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousnessthat the people of God might be
complete, Fairly furnished untoall good works.
So mama just kept giving usthat which was profitable but
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not palatable.
And because she did that, whenI got out of her house got my
own family guess what became myfavorite foods?
Black-eyed peas I'm serious,lima beans Squash.
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When you're talking to beanssquash, when you're talking to
people, when you'recommunicating with people and
when you are studying scripturefor yourself, it's not always
going to be palatable.
There's some text that don'ttaste good, even today to me.
I don't think most of you readLeviticus for your devotion, but
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it's just as profitable asPsalms.
But keep feeding on the wordthat is not palatable but
profitable, so that one day thatwhich is unpalatable will
become palatable because italways been profitable.
Your children are not gonnalike devotions immediately.
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We used to get them up early inthe morning.
They won't do that.
Read the scripture.
What do they do?
Do it to their children.
Let the word of God reign andeven if it doesn't taste good,
because it's convicting me,because it's stretching me,
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because it's challenging me,because it won't let me have the
luxury of neutrality I make achoice between or between.
And as for me and my house, wewill serve the Lord.
And they said abide with us.
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The day is far spent, the nightis coming, it's dangerous out
here.
Come and let us show you somehospitality in our little home
in Emeas, and a goodcommunicator and teacher, love
of the word, will accept theinvitation Because the lesson is
not over and he comes intotheir abode.
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He's supposed to be guests, buthe becomes host Because he
always changes things.
He takes bread, blesses it,breaks it, gives it, and they
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recognize him in their sight.
And he disappears Because agood teacher, communicator,
makes herself or himselfexposable, dispensable.
You're not necessary.
You don't want people to becodependents.
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These two pastors are trying towork themselves out of a job.
That means they're trying towork themselves out of a job as
far as being a pastor, but whatit means is they want to mature
people.
So once they mature this groupor take care of this ministry,
they can move on to anotherministry, because these
individuals, if they havedisciples, know how to fight
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spiritual warfare.
They can go on vacation and amember will stub their toe and
not ask of a pastor to comevisit them, because they know
how to pray, they know how todeal with stuff.
Don't let people become sodependent upon you that you
become their Christ and Jesusdisappeared from their sight.
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And you know what they said.
We've got three things from thisOne.
We've got some learning.
Did not our hearts burn withinus while he talked with us, by
the way, and opened to us thescriptures?
Opened to us the scriptures.
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The Bible is not open justbecause I open it, and it's not
open just because I carried itwhen I preach.
That's fine.
I'm not talking about quotationand revelation.
I'm talking aboutinterpretation.
You are responsible for rightlydividing, cutting straight the
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word of truth, which means youhave to be in the word.
Ken Edwards, who teaches atBiola University just quickly,
when he was in Boston, he renteda car, turned it in and got on
after his lectures and got onthe transporter car, the van, to
be taken back to the Bostonairport.
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The driver knew everythingthere was to know about the
airport.
That's what Ken said.
Knew where all the airlinesflew out, from what gate to let
people out, knew the schedule,the whole bit.
And then Kent asked him so whatis your favorite airline?
And he had to admit, I've neverbeen inside of the airport,
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I've never flown a plane.
I just know all the facts aboutthe airport.
This is not enough just to knowfacts.
You gotta be in the book andthe books got to be in you.
You've got to experience whatwe call your exegesis.
You've got to experience it.
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So do you talk about what youknow?
So when you come to a place likethe blind man in John 9, verse
25, and these church bosses arecriticizing this blind man who
was born blind and had neverseen the lily of this crimson
splendid, nor the rose in thispurple purity, never seen his
parents, never seen anything.
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And they asked him how did youget your sight?
And he said a man by the nameof Jesus set up a pharmaceutical
practice on the side of theroad, spit in some dirt, put it
on my eyes and told me to go toSiloam and wash.
And I came back seeing theysaid, oh, that man's a sinner.
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You know what he said.
Whether he's a sinner or not, Idon't know.
He didn't go to Beeson DivinitySchool.
He didn't know whether this wasgood Christology or not.
Oh no, but he said this onething.
I know I was blind, but now Isee there's some things you got
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to know that.
You know that.
You know that.
You know Not because somebodyelse told you, because you've
experienced it yourself.
Get some learning.
Second of all, they got someburning.
Did not our hearts burn withinus while he talked with us, by
the way, and opened to us thescripture?
Learning and burning are notantithetical.
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Learning and burning areinextricably connected.
So the more you learn, the moreyou ought to burn.
I'm not talking about some kindof inexplicable exhibition of
emotion.
If that's how God works uponyou, fine.
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I have no problem with peoplewho run up the wall, as long as
they know why they went up thewall when they come down from
the wall, because God is logical.
But the more you know about theword, the more you ought to
burn.
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Taylor loves Katie.
Am I right, son Say it.
I love Katie, that's right.
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But you know what he just saidain't gonna do.
Katie, I love you.
I just think you're so adorableand you're kind.
I love the way that you livelife.
I love how you are orientedintellectually.
I love this, yeah.
But Katie's going to say thanks, taylor, put your arms around
me and kiss me.
I want to feel your love.
I don't want to just hear aboutyou giving me all of these
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platitudes.
I want to feel your love whenit comes to scripture.
Express how you feel about God'sword.
Oh, how I love Jesus because hefirst loved me.
Long.
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My imprisoned spirit lay fast,bound by sin and nature's.
Night, the eye diffused acrimson ray.
I walked the dungeon flame withlight.
My chains fell off.
My heart was free.
I rose, went forth and followedthee.
Amazing love.
How can it be that thou, my God, would die for me?
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You got to feel that.
Learning, burning and thenyearning.
Learning, burning and thenyearning.
They said now that we've seenChrist, the 11 have not.
We can't go to bed and go tosleep when the 11 need to hear
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that we have met Jesus.
We got to get up this samenight and go right back seven
more miles and tell them theLord has risen.
Indeed, jesus could have savedthem 14 miles.
He could have said to them atthe beginning of their journey
hey guys, it's me.
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Why take them seven miles up?
Reveal himself.
And they have to go seven moremiles back.
Save him 14 miles.
But that's when the word is sodeep that distance doesn't
matter.
You need to be called fool.
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Slow to believe, you need tograpple.
You need to be called fools.
Slow to believe, you need tograpple, you need to struggle.
The answers can't always be soeasy and the learning takes
place in the longevity of thejourney.
14 miles, you are dealing withburning questions that haven't
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been answered in your life yet.
There's still some questionsthat God has not explained to
you.
It's not All you can say isFather Long, we know all about
it.
Father Long, we'll understandwhy.
Cheer up.
My brother, my sisters Live inthe sunshine.
We'll understand it by and by.
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And you live that.
And when they got back toJerusalem and they saw the 11,
and I'm about done now, I'm notfinished, but I'm about done
they saw the 11 and verse 35,and you won't see this in
English, but in the Greek itsays that they told that word
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told.
There is the word exagunta andit connects in verse 27 with
what Jesus was teaching.
The air may noose it.
When he was expounding in verse27,.
They were explaining in verse35.
And when their explanationmatched his expounding verse 36,
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jesus showed up.
And he always showed up.
When we say what his word says,he doesn't say when I put my,
he doesn't show up.
Just because I give my opinions, he doesn't say when I put my,
he doesn't show up just becauseI give my opinions.
He doesn't show up.
When we give our fancifulillustrations that are cute, he
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shows up when his word isexplained, even if the
explanation convicts me.
It was a, it was a terrible,horrible, it was a no good, very
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bad day when they leftJerusalem, but when they came
back, it was triumphant.
I just can't imagine them goingback to Jerusalem with the same
gate, the same rhythm, samecadence.
I think this is what they didgoing to Emmaus.
They're sad, the Bible says,but when they're going right
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back to Jerusalem, I thinkthey're doing this because they
got to tell the disciples I knowit's dark, I know it's late,
but we got to tell them.
You don't need to feeldiscouraged.
Christ is risen.
I think when they went back,when they were going to Emmaus,
their faces are sad.
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But when they went back, eventhough the sun was down, their
faces are sad, but when theywent back, even though the Sun
wasn't it was down, their facesglowed because there's so much
joy, for Christ has risen.
Indeed, and one of these daysthere will be a time when Emmaus
will no longer exist.
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No more despondency, bible saysthe former things are passed
away.
No more sadness, no moremourning, no more death, no more
gloom and doom, and even thoughthere won't be a sun in the
city, there will be light in thecity because he will be light.
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I think that's what I want tosay.
Thank you.
Good morning.
I hope you're all doing wellthis morning.
I want to welcome you to FirstBaptist Church For any I don't
know.
My name is Taylor Guerin.
I'm the senior pastor here.
I am thankful for this day.
I'm thankful that, on a cloudyand extremely windy morning,
that you've made your way herefor a couple hours today that I
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think you will leave verythankful, very thankful that you
came.
I want to say a few thingsbefore I introduce Dr Smith, but
number one is this I want totake a chance to thank Pastor
Clark Whitney for just being sokind to share Dr Smith with us
this weekend.
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Dr Smith is here to preach atEmanuel tomorrow morning and I'm
looking forward to Emanuel.
I know you had him a coupleyears back maybe just a year
back, a couple years back and sohe is back to preach at Emanuel
To my church members.
If you're not here because youslept in, we may have a problem.
If you're not here becauseyou're sneaking to a manual, I'm
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honestly not even going to bethat upset with you.
Maybe come back next week.
I do want to see you again, butif you need to be there
tomorrow, I won't be overlyupset.
We have an absolute privilegethis morning to have Dr Robert
Smith Jr with us in this pulpit,in this room.
Dr Robert Smith Jr spent decadesas the Charles T Carter chair
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of preaching Christian preachingat Beeson Divinity School.
He was a professor there formany years.
Before that was at SouthernSeminary.
Before that he was in pastoralministry in the church.
But even when he moved from thechurch to the academy he never
left pastoral ministry.
He has been in churches allover our country, all over the
world preaching.
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Every student he has ever hadknows very well that he is a
pastor to students.
He has been a pastor to me andto Katie.
When I was at Beeson I rememberyou're there for three and a
half years or so and everybody'swaiting to get to year three.
When you get to year three youget to walk up to the third
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floor into the preaching lab andyou got to have Dr Robert Smith
Jr and it was a privilege andit was a treat.
It kept you on your toes.
I remember he did somethingcalled fishbowl.
What fishbowl was is there wasa bowl he would have and there
were 15 people in the class.
He'd have 15 sheets of paper.
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On 13 of them they werecompletely blank.
On one of them there was ascripture reference and on one
of them there was a little fishdrawn on there.
If you got the blank, you werefree.
If you got the scripturereference, you stood up and you
fish drawn on there.
If you got the blank, you werefree.
If you got the scripturereference, you stood up and you
read the scripture.
And if you got the fish, youthen stood up and you preached
on that passage of scripture.
Right then and there, in thatmoment, with Dr Robert Smith Jr
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watching you.
It was terrifying, it was nervewracking, but it made us, as
scripture, scripture said, to beready to preach the word in
season and out of season.
If, in this moment this morning, starts passing around a
fishbowl, maybe just walk out ofthe room.
You may.
I don't know if you want tohang around or not, but Dr Smith
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has been a gift to me, to Katie, a gift to churches all over
the world.
He's going to be a gift to me,to Katie, a gift to churches all
over the world.
He's going to be a gift to usthis morning, a gift to this
community, to Emmanuel, tomorrowmorning.
His wife, dr Wanda, is just anincredible individual in her own
right.
They are a gift and we arebeyond privileged to have them
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here.
We were going to do a teachingsession first and a preaching
session second.
Dr Smith said this morning thathe just felt like the Lord said
we're going to preach first andI'm thrilled so you don't have
to wait any longer to hear DrSmith preach, and so I would
love to.
As we think about what today isabout treasuring the word,
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that's what we'll be thinkingthrough over the next couple
hours.
I'd love to start with thescripture reading and just let
us pray together for just amoment before Dr Smith comes to
lead us.
Now I'm going to be in Psalm119, starting in verse 97, and
I'll read through 112.
And it says this as we thinkabout the word of God oh, how I
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love your law.
It is my meditation all the day.
Your commandment makes me wiserthan my enemies, for it is ever
with me.
I have more understanding thanall my teachers, for your
testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the age,for I keep your precepts are my
meditation.
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I understand more than the age,for I keep your precepts.
I hold back my feet from everyevil way in order to keep your
word.
I do not turn aside from yourrules, for you have taught me
how sweet are your words to mytaste, sweeter than honey to my
mouth.
Through your precepts I getunderstanding.
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Therefore, I hate every falseway.
In verse 105, accept my freewillofferings of praise, o Lord,
and teach me your rules.
I hold my life in my handcontinually, but I do not forget
your law.
The wicked have laid a snarefor me, but I do not stray from
your precepts.
Your testimonies are myheritage forever, for they are
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the joy of my heart.
I incline my heart to performyour statues forever, to the end
.
Would you bow your heads with meand Lord Jesus?
We do give you thanks for yourword, lord, the God-breathed,
god-inspired word that you havegiven to us.
You are a God who speaks, whocommunicates, and you have given
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us the privilege of getting tolearn about you through your
word.
Experience you through yourword.
Thank you that you haverevealed yourself to us.
I pray this morning that ourhearts will be open, that our
hearts will be ready to respond.
I pray for Dr Smith, god, thatyou would use him greatly.
Speak through him to us, lord,because we are ready to hear
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from you.
We pray this now in Christ'sname Amen Would you join me in
welcoming Dr Robert Smith Jr.
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Thank you even now, lord Jesus, even now, even now,
for I ask this in your name amen, god be praised, god be praised
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, god be praised, god be praised, god be praised.
What a joy, what a joy on aSaturday morning to have a
Sunday morning feeling and to behere with people that I'm
meeting for the first time.
And since that's the case, Ithought it would be a good idea,
since we we're going to spendeternity together, for us to get
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to know each other a littlemore.
Thank you, dr Geary.
I'm speaking anticipatorily,it's coming.
And to Dr Clark Whitney, thankyou for having me.
And to these churches that aregathered together in this place,
it's a real privilege torepresent Christ.
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I want to commend First Baptistupon the selection of Dr
Gearing.
You put on the right glasses,you look through the eyes of the
Lord.
He and his wife, katie, are, inmy opinion, two of the most
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beautiful jewels in God'spastoral ministry.
I'm speaking about what is nowand what is going to be.
It's been wonderful watchingyou grow.
Speaking about what is now andwhat is going to be, it's been
wonderful watching you grow froma children's slash youth
ministry to being a significanttheologian of the word, bible
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teacher, lover of people, towatch Katie in her growth.
She's not some kind of owner,but to make him look good.
She knows exactly who she is.
God has gifted her distinctlyand she's using that gift.
She understands that theministry of caring for children
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is a high ministry.
Being at home, well, I'm justno.
She's not just anything.
She's God's child and she'sperforming a great ministry, one
that Jesus says if you offendone of these little ones, it's
better for you not to be born.
If you were born to have amillstone put around your neck.
She understands her ministry.
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I'm proud of you.
I feel about you as I feelabout Pastor Whitney.
As Paul and Bonas werecontemplating going over plans
for the upcoming missionaryjourney their second according
to Acts, chapter 15, theythought about going back and
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visiting the brothers to see howthey were doing.
That's what this trip is about.
God has allowed me to live tobe able to see the witness, to
see the hearings, to see howthey are doing, and that's such
a privilege.
So thank you for letting me behere and I praise God for
allowing me to be alive, to seeyou again and to meet brothers
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and sisters that I shall spendeternity with.
I want to read Luke, chapter 24.
And I want to focus on thisteaching passage, this teaching
paragraph Verses 13 through 36.
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Luke 24, 13 through 36.
From tragedy to triumph, fromtragedy to triumph.
Hear these words from the wordNow.
That very day, two of them wereon their way to a village called
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Emmaus, about seven miles fromJerusalem.
They were talking to each otherabout all the things that had
happened.
While they were talking anddebating these things, jesus
himself approached and began toaccompany them, but their eyes
were kept from recognizing him.
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Then he said to them what arethese matters you are discussing
so intently as you walk along?
And they stood still, lookingsad.
Then one of them, named Clopas,answered him Are you the only
visitor to Jerusalem who doesn'tknow the things that have
happened there in these days?
He said to them what things?
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The things concerning Jesus theNazarene.
They replied A man who, withhis powerful deeds and words,
proved to be a prophet beforeGod and all the people.
They replied only this.
But it is now the third daysince these things happened.
Furthermore, some women of ourgroup amazed us.
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They were at the tomb earlythis morning and when they did
not find his body, they cameback and said they had seen a
vision of angels who said he wasalive.
Then some of those who werewith us went to the tomb and
found it, just as the women hadsaid.
But they did not see him.
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So he said to them you foolishpeople, how slow of heart to
believe all that the prophetshave spoken.
Wasn't it necessary for theChrist to suffer these things
and enter into his glory, thebeginning with Moses and all the
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prophets?
He interpreted to them thethings written about himself in
all the scriptures.
So they approached the villagewhere they were going.
He acted as though he wanted togo further, but they urged him
stay with us because it isgetting toward evening and the
day is almost done.
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So he went in to stay with them.
When he had taken his place atthe table with them, he took the
bread blessed and broke it andgave it to them.
At this point their eyes wereopen and they recognized him
when he vanished out of theirsight.
Then they said to each otherdidn't our hearts burn within us
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while he was speaking with uson the road, while he was
explaining the scriptures to us?
So they got up that very hourand returned to Jerusalem.
They found the eleven and thosewith them gathered together and
saying the Lord has risen andhas appeared to Simon.
Then they told what happened onthe road and how they
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recognized him when he broke thebread.
While they were saying thesethings, jesus himself stood
among them and said to thempeace be with you.
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Perhaps the greatest obstacle tothe knowledge of the Bible is
the knowledge of the Bible.
Perhaps what keeps us fromknowing more about the Bible
than we think we already knowabout the Bible is what we know
about the Bible.
So when we come to a passagelike this that is so pregnant
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with familiarity We've heard it,we've preached it, we've taught
it, we've studied it there isalways the propensity, the
tendency, the proclivity to putour minds on Cruz Crowe, because
we know this passage and we'velooked at the diamond of this
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passage so many times that weknow all of the facets and there
is nothing new and revelatoryabout this passage that we can
gain.
This morning I will say to youthat it is a mistake.
It is what DL Moody saidno-transcript.
It's how many times the Biblehas been through you.
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I wonder if we would look atthis passage like a child,
second naivete, climb up intothe cranium of Yahweh of God and
assume we've never been in thispassage before and say to him
sing it over again to me.
Wonderful words of life, let memore of their beauty see.
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Wonderful words of life.
Words of life and beauty.
Teach me faith and duty.
Beautiful words, wonderfulwords, wonderful words of life.
Judith Wirz wrote a children'sbook in 1972 that became a
musical and a Hollywood movie in2014.
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It was titled Alexander and theTerrible, horrible, no good,
very bad day.
I want to suggest today and itwas about her third son that she
piled up these negativeadjectives I would suggest today
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that in this text, theseexperiences that her son had,
these two disciples are havingit was a terrible, it was a
horrible, it was a no good, itwas a very bad day for them when
they left Jerusalem on theirway home.
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And so I propose to you thatJesus, who is the righteousness
of God, became sin, that we whoare sinners might become the
righteousness of God through thehorrible death on the cross,
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the glorious resurrection fromthe dead by the Spirit, in order
that we might live with him inholiness for eternity.
Jesus, who is the righteousnessof God became sin.
That we who are sinners mightbecome the righteousness of God
became sin.
That we who are sinners mightbecome the righteousness of God
through the horrible andterrible death on the cross, the
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glorious resurrection from thedead by the Spirit, so that we
can live in holiness with him ineternity.
They leave two disciples, onenamed Cleopas, the other is
anonymous.
We don't know his name, butthey are infiltrated with
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Sadness, dismay, discouragement.
They want to leave JerusalemBecause it's the place where
their hopes are dashed and thestars fall from the sky.
They could have gone east, butit was too dangerous.
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They knew back there in Jerichothat it was a dangerous place.
They knew about the parable ofthe Good Samaritan, that a man
left Jerusalem and went down toJericho and was beaten, robbed
and left half dead.
They didn't go back to Jericho.
They could have gone up northto Mount Ephraim, but perhaps it
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was too far.
They could have gone south toBethlehem, but it was probably
too painfully memorable.
That's where he was born.
So they decided to go west, toEmmaus, seven miles from
Jerusalem.
And as they walked they talkedand they communed one with
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another, and there was one whothey thought was a stranger.
He really is the Savior, butthey saw him as the stranger.
Their eyes are kept in such amysterious way from recognizing
who he is and he abducts theconversation.
He kidnaps the conversation.
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He takes over the conversation.
He kidnaps the conversation.
He takes over the conversationand he asked them in verses 17,
verse 18, what are you communingabout?
What are these sad things youare discussing?
And they were sad and theylooked at him and they asked and
said to him you must be astranger in these parts and you
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don't know what's happening andwhat has happened over these
past three days.
Jesus shows us how to treasurethe word by not giving the
complete story at once.
He's the only one who knowswhat's happening and he ain't
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talking because he asked thequestion what things?
He knew what things, but henever said it.
He does not want to spoon feedthem, he wants to create an
appetite.
So they want more and more andmore, as they discussed.
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If I was to contemporize thisand their response that they
give, I would say you must be astranger in America.
Don't you know what happenedDecember 7th 1941?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Don't you know what happened onNovember 22, 1963?
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The assassination of PresidentJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy in
Dallas?
Don't you know what happened onApril 4, 1968?
The assassination of MartinLuther King Jr?
Don't you know what happened onSeptember 11th 2001?
The implosion through theexplosion of the Twin Towers?
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How can you live in America andnot know that?
You must be a stranger fromMars or Venus or Jupiter or
Saturn.
You don't know these things.
Jesus said what things?
And they began to relate thethings they're talking about.
That has claimed their heartand crushed their spirits.
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How that Jesus the Nazarene, aprophet who was mighty in words
and deeds, was arrested by thechief priests, scribes and
elders and was crucified.
And we had hoped that he'd bethe one who would deliver Israel
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.
Take them from the tail to thehead, make them dominant overall
, help Israel to regain aposition of prominence.
And we were told that the womenwent out and said they went to
the tomb but it was empty.
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But they saw some angels.
But who trusts what a woman hasto say?
A woman can't even givetestimony in courts.
Their testimony is not tenable,their testimony is not credible
in that culture.
And then we were told that twoof our own, james and I mean
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Peter and John they went out,they saw the tomb, but it was
empty.
No one was in it and it's thethird day and, to our knowledge,
he's still dead.
He said he was going to get upon the third day.
It's what he said, but no onehas seen him to our knowledge.
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But no one has seen him.
To our knowledge.
Jesus listened to them talk,because that's really what you
do when you create an appetitefor the scripture.
You allow this to be a dialogueand not a monologue.
You create conversation space.
And Jesus says in verse 25 thisis what you and I cannot do,
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probably in a setting like this.
Oh fools, you're slow tobelieve all that the prophets
have spoken unto you.
You can't call fools you'reslow to believe all that the
prophets have spoken unto you.
You can't call fools, peoplefools, but watch it.
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He takes disciples who are slowof heart and in verse 31 and 32
, he moves them to have burninghearts.
That's the distance from slowhearts to burning hearts, so
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that you never give up on people, you never give up on your
children.
They start with slow hearts inJerusalem.
Seven miles later they haveburning hearts in Emmaus.
In fact, that may be the storyof some of you, slow of hearts,
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and that God, meticulously andmethodologically, and slowly and
intensely, brings you to thepoint that you have burning
hearts.
And you're like Jeremiah, whosaid in Jeremiah 20, verse 7,
and then moves to verse 9.
He says I said I would notspeak anymore in his name.
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He's frustrated.
He said in verse number 7, lord, you deceive me.
That's his word, and I wasdeceived.
That word for deceived in verseseven is the Hebrew word patah.
All it means is seduced.
And in Exodus, chapter 22,verse 16, that same word is used
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that if a man violates thevirginity of a young lady,
seduces her, he must marry herand pay her father a dowry.
You know what Jeremiah is saying.
Lord, you sovereignly seduce me.
Well, if you're standing nextto Jeremiah, you're going to
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move over, because you don'ttalk to God like that, do you?
And yet that is the problemthat we have.
We think it and yet we won'tsay it.
And I want to say God is notfragile, god is faithful, he can
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take it.
You say well, you know Iwouldn't say that to God.
Well, psalm 139, verse 2, sayshe knows our thoughts are far
off.
So while the thought is gettingto you, he intercepts it before
you even get it.
So, even though you don't sayit, he's got it.
Go on and tell him how you feel, if you're upset, if you think
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he's mismanaged your life, ifyou feel that he didn't show up,
tell him.
He'll give you the benefit ofthe first word, but he always
reserves the last word forhimself.
And he'll let you, job, startin chapter three and go to
chapter 37, five straightchapters, without interrupting
you, and let you talk and thenask you a question in chapter 38
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, verse 1.
Where were you, job, when Ilaid the foundation of the world
?
39, 40, 41, 42.
And in 42.
He'll say to you, job, what hesaid to you in verse 1 and verse
2.
Said to Satan, my servant, job,you're still my servant,
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regardless of what you said.
No parent who's worth his or hersalt will say to a child
there's some things you can'ttalk to me about.
God invites us to come andshare what's on our heart, since
he already knows it.
It's not for his benefit, butit's for ours.
Just to know that you can havea little talk with Jesus.
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Tell him all about yourtroubles.
He'll hear your faintest cry.
He'll answer by and by.
Feel a little prayer willturning, know a little fire is
burning.
Just a little talk,everything's all right.
Slow of heart to believe allthat the prophets have said, not
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just what James and John said,not just what the women were
saying, but what the inspiredprophets had talked about.
You're slow to believe that andslowed to believe all that I've
already shared with you.
I told you that I was going tobe arrested by the chief priests
, scribes and elders and I wasgoing to be crucified.
I told you that.
But I told you that on thethird day I was going to rise
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again, and so the women wereright.
They came to the tomb lookingfor the right man at the wrong
address, and the angel said tothem he is not here.
Why are you seeking the livingamong the dead?
This same Jesus has risen fromthe dead.
Why are you seeking the livingamong the dead?
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Why are you coming to aterritory that's known as
tombstone territory, verse 26.
A good tombstone territory,verse 26, a good communicator of
the word asked significantquestions.
What things now?
Yes, was it not necessary forChrist, the Christ the anointed
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one, to first suffer theology ofthe cross and then enter glory,
theology of glory?
It's a question that's arhetorical question.
Yes, it was necessary.
We need a theology of the crossand we need a theology of glory
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.
The problem today is we haveremoved the theology of the
cross because we are soinfatuated with the theology of
glory.
That's why prosperity theologyis so pervasive, because no one
wants to talk about theology ofthe cross.
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But you can't have Easterwithout having crucifixion.
And we don't need a theology ofprosperity, we need an
adversity theology.
Anybody can do well whenthey're prospering, but how do
you handle life when there isadversity?
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When you're experiencingprosperity, you can live and
believe in struggles, but whenyou're in the trenches and
you're walking through thevalley of the shadow of death,
it's not only what you maybelieve, it's what you have to
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believe, because you havenothing else and you never know
what you believe until it's timeto believe it.
Oh, I know, I know, I know wecan come up with a plethora of
scriptures and just quote them.
That's fine.
But do you really believe it?
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And you won't know until thatmoment hits you, that pink slip
hits you Three times diagnosedwith cancer.
I heard that.
Two times a stroke.
I heard that.
I know what it's like to be awidower.
I know what it's like to losetwo sons.
On and on and on, I've been tothe bottom.
But I want to tell you, thebottom is solid.
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Because he's at the bottom.
He's not only the bright andmorning star, but he's the lily
in the valley.
Yea, though I walk through thevalley of the shadow of death,
I'll fear no evil.
Why?
Because he's with me.
His rod, his staff help us andsometimes he gets more glory in
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sustaining us in danger thandelivering us from danger.
Because, after all, it's notwhat you, not what you are
trying to accomplish by gettingout of trouble, but it's what
you accomplish by what you getout of trouble.
What do you get out of trouble?
What do you learn?
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It's not God abandoning you atall.
It's that God has chosen tojust sustain you, so that people
can watch and see how God hasprotected you.
When everything around you isfalling, how in the world is
this person still standing?
She or he stands because God isholding him or her up and God
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has chosen to use you as proofthat he's able to keep you in
the midst of your struggle.
Was it not necessary?
Jesus asked in verse 26 for theChrist to first suffer and then
enter glory, and starting verse27 with Moses one third of the
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Hebrew Bible and then theprophets two thirds and in verse
44, the writings.
In other words, jesus took thewhole Bible, all three sections,
the writings, proverbs, psalms,et cetera, the law and the
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prophets.
And the Bible says he showedthem how all the things in
scripture were speaking abouthim.
Without going from Matthew toRevelation, he taught them from
the Hebrew Bible because that'sall they had.
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I think that in many ways wehave become contemporary
Marcionites.
Marcion was an old churchfather who was excommunicated
from the church in Rome in 144AD.
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Why?
Because he jettisoned, he threwoverboard the Old Testament.
He saw the Old Testament as aBible that God did not write,
because the New Testament talkedabout the love of God, the
mercy of God.
Old Testament dealt with thewrath of God.
He said so, he jettisoned itand they excommunicated him.
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Now we are not we're not Marcion, in that we don't believe in
the Old Testament.
We just don't talk about it, wejust don't read it, we don't
teach it and preach it.
See how the pages of Nahumstick together and Zephaniah,
zephan who Haggai, haggai Asidefrom Ezekiel and the dry bones,
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chapter 37.
He's kind of weird anyway.
But Jesus took an Old TestamentBible and said those things
that were written were writtenconcerning himself.
You're looking for Jesus.
Don't wait till you get toBethlehem.
In Matthew and Luke you canfind him all the way through
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here.
I wish I could have been onthat journey with Jesus to see
what text he actually used,because after all, he knew the
Old Testament, he wrote it.
I wish I could have been there.
I think that he must havestopped at Genesis, chapter 3,
verse 15.
What we call theProto-Evangelion, the first
gospel the seed of the serpentshall bruise the seed of the
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woman's heel to put him out ofaction.
But the seed of the woman shallbruise the seed of the woman's
heel to put him out of action.
But the seed of the woman shallbruise the seed of the
serpent's head to defeat him.
Because this is a mortal blow.
And on Friday Jesus was put outof action.
Friday, saturday, Sunday.
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But when he got up on Sundaymorning he gave a mortal blow to
Satan, so that Satan has lost.
If we ever get that in our head, that we fight from victory to
victory, we're not trying togain victory, we're more than
conquerors through him, wholoved us.
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I think he must have stopped atGenesis 49 and 10.
The scepter shall not departfrom Judah, nor lawgiver from
between her feet, until Shilohcomes.
That Christ is going to comethrough the line of Judah.
I think he must have stopped atIsaiah 9, 6 and 7.
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Unto us a child is born.
Unto us a son is given, and thegovernment shall be upon his
shoulder and his name shall becalled Wonderful Counselor, the
Mighty God, the EverlastingFather, the Prince of Peace.
Surely he stopped at Zechariah13, verse 1.
In Jerusalem there will be afountain that's open for sin and
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uncleanness.
And the hymn writer saw thesignificance of that text and
picked up his pen of inspirationand dipped it in the ink of
illumination and wrote there isa fountain filled with blood
drawn from Emmanuel's vein, andsinners plunge beneath that
flood, lose all their guilt andstain.
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All of that from the OldTestament and Peter preaches a
sermon just one sermon on theday of Pentecost and all he had
was an Old Testament and hepreached an Old Testament sermon
and 3,000 souls got saved fromone sermon, from the Old
Testament.
I wonder.
I just kind of think that thosewho will put the Bible together
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made a major mistake by puttingthis page between the end of
Malachi and the beginning ofMatthew.
I said this in a recent class Ilectured in and to my amazement
, a young lady just tore it out.
And to my amazement, a younglady just tore out just that
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blank page, because it gives theindication that there are two
Testaments, two books.
There is one.
Old and New Testament have thesame rank and the same value,
because the Bible ultimately isnot about the plan of salvation.
The Bible is about the man ofsalvation, jesus, who carries
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out the plan.
No man, no plan.
So we need to remarry both Oldand New Testament.
That's what Jesus here's, theconsummate fulfillment of both.
And there he is beginning, atMoses and the prophets and verse
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44, the writings.
He shows them how all of thosethings that were written were
written about him.
So the Bible is a hymn book,it's an H-I-M book, it's all
about him.
So when you teach and preachand communicate.
Until you really get to him.
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You don't know, as Paul Harveywould say, the rest of the story
.
He's the crown Jew.
You got to get to him.
Moses is a great man, but thelaw came by Moses, but grace and
truth came by Jesus Christ.
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Well, verse 28, 28, 28, 28.
They near the village of Emmausand the Bible says Jesus acted
as if he was going to go onfarther and the conversation is
going to be over, but he'screated such an appetite that
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they don't want him to leave.
They said abide with us.
The day is far spent, the nightis at hand.
Stay with us a little longer.
What you're talking about hasleft us with a desire for more
and more and more.
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He acted as if he was going togo on further and they made the
request that the benediction bedelayed because they wanted more
.
When you have an appetite forthe Word of God that becomes so
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increased that you desire itmore than anything else.
You want more.
Enough is never enough.
Then, after you get more, youwant much more.
Then, after you did that, youwant more than much more, and it
never stops.
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My mother we celebrated her sixyear death anniversary this week
.
She was one of God's greatcooks.
She was.
Hundreds of people would tellyou that.
I won't take up time to talkabout how she fed people from
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off the street and all that, butyou know, as good of a cook as
my mother was when I was growingup, there were some foods that
were not palatable.
And I said, once I get out ofher house and I can make my own
selections, because Mama didn'thave optional menus If you
didn't want this, then youselect another menu.
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Oh no, no, whatever she cookedthat night, that's what you ate.
If you didn't want to eat it,fine, you go to bed hungry,
that's it.
She didn't offer anythingoptional, but there were some
foods.
I said when I get out of yourhouse, I wouldn't tell her that,
but when I get out of yourhouse, you and my father's house
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, I ain't gonna ever that's whatI said I ain't gonna ever eat
black eyed peas, lima beans andsquash Never, because they
weren't palatable.
I wanted stuff that waspalatable French fries, onion
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rings, hot dogs, hamburgers, aswe call them but mama said they
may be palatable but they arenot profitable for a strong
bodily constitution.
So I'm going to take and keepgiving you that which is
profitable, in hopes that oneday that they will become
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palatable.
You hear Paul saying in Acts,chapter 20, verse 1 I have not
kept anything back from you thatwas profitable, but I've taught
you publicly and from house tohouse, because I'm interested in
profitability.
And Paul says in 2 Timothy,chapter 3, verse 16, all
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scripture is given byinspiration of God and it is
profitable For doctrine, forreproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousnessthat the people of God might be
complete, Fairly furnished untoall good works.
So mama just kept giving usthat which was profitable but
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not palatable.
And because she did that, whenI got out of her house got my
own family guess what became myfavorite foods?
Black-eyed peas I'm serious,lima beans Squash.
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When you're talking to beanssquash, when you're talking to
people, when you'recommunicating with people and
when you are studying scripturefor yourself, it's not always
going to be palatable.
There's some text that don'ttaste good, even today to me.
I don't think most of you readLeviticus for your devotion, but
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it's just as profitable asPsalms.
But keep feeding on the wordthat is not palatable but
profitable, so that one day thatwhich is unpalatable will
become palatable because italways been profitable.
Your children are not gonnalike devotions immediately.
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We used to get them up early inthe morning.
They won't do that.
Read the scripture.
What do they do?
Do it to their children.
Let the word of God reign andeven if it doesn't taste good,
because it's convicting me,because it's stretching me,
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because it's challenging me,because it won't let me have the
luxury of neutrality I make achoice between or between.
And as for me and my house, wewill serve the Lord.
And they said abide with us.
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The day is far spent, the nightis coming, it's dangerous out
here.
Come and let us show you somehospitality in our little home
in Emeas, and a goodcommunicator and teacher, love
of the word, will accept theinvitation Because the lesson is
not over and he comes intotheir abode.
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He's supposed to be guests, buthe becomes host Because he
always changes things.
He takes bread, blesses it,breaks it, gives it, and they
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recognize him in their sight.
And he disappears Because agood teacher, communicator,
makes herself or himselfexposable, dispensable.
You're not necessary.
You don't want people to becodependents.
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These two pastors are trying towork themselves out of a job.
That means they're trying towork themselves out of a job as
far as being a pastor, but whatit means is they want to mature
people.
So once they mature this groupor take care of this ministry,
they can move on to anotherministry, because these
individuals, if they havedisciples, know how to fight
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spiritual warfare.
They can go on vacation and amember will stub their toe and
not ask of a pastor to comevisit them, because they know
how to pray, they know how todeal with stuff.
Don't let people become sodependent upon you that you
become their Christ and Jesusdisappeared from their sight.
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And you know what they said.
We've got three things from thisOne.
We've got some learning.
Did not our hearts burn withinus while he talked with us, by
the way, and opened to us thescriptures?
Opened to us the scriptures.
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The Bible is not open justbecause I open it, and it's not
open just because I carried itwhen I preach.
That's fine.
I'm not talking about quotationand revelation.
I'm talking aboutinterpretation.
You are responsible for rightlydividing, cutting straight the
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word of truth, which means youhave to be in the word.
Ken Edwards, who teaches atBiola University just quickly,
when he was in Boston, he renteda car, turned it in and got on
after his lectures and got onthe transporter car, the van, to
be taken back to the Bostonairport.
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The driver knew everythingthere was to know about the
airport.
That's what Ken said.
Knew where all the airlinesflew out, from what gate to let
people out, knew the schedule,the whole bit.
And then Kent asked him so whatis your favorite airline?
And he had to admit, I've neverbeen inside of the airport,
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I've never flown a plane.
I just know all the facts aboutthe airport.
This is not enough just to knowfacts.
You gotta be in the book andthe books got to be in you.
You've got to experience whatwe call your exegesis.
You've got to experience it.
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So do you talk about what youknow?
So when you come to a place likethe blind man in John 9, verse
25, and these church bosses arecriticizing this blind man who
was born blind and had neverseen the lily of this crimson
splendid, nor the rose in thispurple purity, never seen his
parents, never seen anything.
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And they asked him how did youget your sight?
And he said a man by the nameof Jesus set up a pharmaceutical
practice on the side of theroad, spit in some dirt, put it
on my eyes and told me to go toSiloam and wash.
And I came back seeing theysaid, oh, that man's a sinner.
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You know what he said.
Whether he's a sinner or not, Idon't know.
He didn't go to Beeson DivinitySchool.
He didn't know whether this wasgood Christology or not.
Oh no, but he said this onething.
I know I was blind, but now Isee there's some things you got
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to know that.
You know that.
You know that.
You know Not because somebodyelse told you, because you've
experienced it yourself.
Get some learning.
Second of all, they got someburning.
Did not our hearts burn withinus while he talked with us, by
the way, and opened to us thescripture?
Learning and burning are notantithetical.
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Learning and burning areinextricably connected.
So the more you learn, the moreyou ought to burn.
I'm not talking about some kindof inexplicable exhibition of
emotion.
If that's how God works uponyou, fine.
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I have no problem with peoplewho run up the wall, as long as
they know why they went up thewall when they come down from
the wall, because God is logical.
But the more you know about theword, the more you ought to
burn.
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Taylor loves Katie.
Am I right, son Say it.
I love Katie, that's right.
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But you know what he just saidain't gonna do.
Katie, I love you.
I just think you're so adorableand you're kind.
I love the way that you livelife.
I love how you are orientedintellectually.
I love this, yeah.
But Katie's going to say thanks, taylor, put your arms around
me and kiss me.
I want to feel your love.
I don't want to just hear aboutyou giving me all of these
(52:51):
platitudes.
I want to feel your love whenit comes to scripture.
Express how you feel about God'sword.
Oh, how I love Jesus because hefirst loved me.
Long.
(53:12):
My imprisoned spirit lay fast,bound by sin and nature's.
Night, the eye diffused acrimson ray.
I walked the dungeon flame withlight.
My chains fell off.
My heart was free.
I rose, went forth and followedthee.
Amazing love.
How can it be that thou, my God, would die for me?
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You got to feel that.
Learning, burning and thenyearning.
Learning, burning and thenyearning.
They said now that we've seenChrist, the 11 have not.
We can't go to bed and go tosleep when the 11 need to hear
(54:01):
that we have met Jesus.
We got to get up this samenight and go right back seven
more miles and tell them theLord has risen.
Indeed, jesus could have savedthem 14 miles.
He could have said to them atthe beginning of their journey
hey guys, it's me.
(54:22):
Why take them seven miles up?
Reveal himself.
And they have to go seven moremiles back.
Save him 14 miles.
But that's when the word is sodeep that distance doesn't
matter.
You need to be called fool.
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Slow to believe, you need tograpple.
You need to be called fools.
Slow to believe, you need tograpple, you need to struggle.
The answers can't always be soeasy and the learning takes
place in the longevity of thejourney.
14 miles, you are dealing withburning questions that haven't
(55:06):
been answered in your life yet.
There's still some questionsthat God has not explained to
you.
It's not All you can say isFather Long, we know all about
it.
Father Long, we'll understandwhy.
Cheer up.
My brother, my sisters Live inthe sunshine.
We'll understand it by and by.
(55:28):
And you live that.
And when they got back toJerusalem and they saw the 11,
and I'm about done now, I'm notfinished, but I'm about done
they saw the 11 and verse 35,and you won't see this in
English, but in the Greek itsays that they told that word
(55:50):
told.
There is the word exagunta andit connects in verse 27 with
what Jesus was teaching.
The air may noose it.
When he was expounding in verse27,.
They were explaining in verse35.
And when their explanationmatched his expounding verse 36,
(56:14):
jesus showed up.
And he always showed up.
When we say what his word says,he doesn't say when I put my,
he doesn't show up.
Just because I give my opinions, he doesn't say when I put my,
he doesn't show up just becauseI give my opinions.
He doesn't show up.
When we give our fancifulillustrations that are cute, he
(56:36):
shows up when his word isexplained, even if the
explanation convicts me.
It was a, it was a terrible,horrible, it was a no good, very
(56:57):
bad day when they leftJerusalem, but when they came
back, it was triumphant.
I just can't imagine them goingback to Jerusalem with the same
gate, the same rhythm, samecadence.
I think this is what they didgoing to Emmaus.
They're sad, the Bible says,but when they're going right
(57:23):
back to Jerusalem, I thinkthey're doing this because they
got to tell the disciples I knowit's dark, I know it's late,
but we got to tell them.
You don't need to feeldiscouraged.
Christ is risen.
I think when they went back,when they were going to Emmaus,
their faces are sad.
(57:44):
But when they went back, eventhough the sun was down, their
faces are sad, but when theywent back, even though the Sun
wasn't it was down, their facesglowed because there's so much
joy, for Christ has risen.
Indeed, and one of these daysthere will be a time when Emmaus
will no longer exist.
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No more despondency, bible saysthe former things are passed
away.
No more sadness, no moremourning, no more death, no more
gloom and doom, and even thoughthere won't be a sun in the
city, there will be light in thecity because he will be light.
(58:27):
I think that's what I want tosay.
Thank you.
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