My wife has had a bad cold this week and wasn't feeling well enough to go to church today. Therefore we stayed home and watched a couple of broadcasts of John MacArthur's Grace to You television programs on her computer. The website allows you to watch, listen, or download his teachings for free.
The broadcasts we watched today were the first and second parts of "Christ: The Living Expositor" where John MacArtthur taught from Luke 24:13-32 about when the resurrected Jesus appeared to the two disciples on the road to Emaus.
Those two disciples were not members of the 11 chosen by Jesus to be apostles, but they had begun to follow the man they knew as Jesus of Nazareth.who they had known as a prophet. These two had hoped Jesus was the one who would redeem Israel. But since Jesus hadn't driven out the Romans and instead had ended up crucified, they had concluded he was not the messiah.
The trouble was that they did not understand what Scripture actually taught about the Messiah.. Therefore Jesus "beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." (Luke 24:37)
Like so many others, those two had their own ideas as to what the Messiah would be like and what He would do. Their rabbis had taught them what they believed to be true. What they really needed was to be taught by Jesus Himself. And that's what Jesus did.
Jesus also taught the others, as we read in the beginning of the book of Acts.
"1The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God."
The New King James Version. Nashville : Thomas Nelson Publishers., 1982, S. Ac 1:1
If we want to know what to believe about Jesus we need to go to what was written by those who were taught by Jesus, Himself.
If Jesus is the Lord of all Creation then it would make a great deal of sense to learn as much about Him as was possible. A good starting point for learning about Him would be the Bible.
If you have a Bible, I encourage you to read it and study it. Read it so you know what it really says and study it so you don't make the mistake of those two disciples who thought they understood what the Messiah would do when He came, but were quite wrong.
Read the Bible and study it with the help of good study materials, many of which are available online at no cost at websites such as Bible.org and the Blue Letter Bible.
Have a great day. If you enjoy my blog, feel free to come back anytime.
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