“God Reveals Himself to Man” Luke 24:13-35

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Date: August 20, 2023 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

On the last day of my first trip to Israel in 1998, the group had gathered in the ruins of the Church on the Road to Emmaus. Only as God could have designed it, I was asked to read Luke 24:13-35, where Jesus finally revealed Himself to the two men with whom he had been talking for hours. These men, two of Jesus’ disciples, were depressed and discouraged at what they had seen happen to Jesus, the man they had hoped would lead a revolution against the Romans and return Israel to its former glory. However, they had seen Him beaten, crucified, and buried in a tomb, and they were on their journey back home, sad, dejected, and without hope. But then, in Luke 24:25-27, Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” For some reason, that last verse seemed to jump off the page, and when I returned home, I began to trace the steps of Jesus – the Lamb of God – from Genesis to Revelation, and for the next few years, I preached over 150 sermons entitled, “Follow the Lamb!” We will introduce this updated sermon series on Sunday night, August 20, at 6:00 PM. This first sermon title is “God Reveals Himself to Man.”

On the last day of my first trip to Israel in 1998, the group had gathered in the ruins of the Church on the Road to Emmaus. Only as God could have designed it, I was asked to read Luke 24:13-35, where Jesus finally revealed Himself to the two men with whom he had been talking for hours. These men, two of Jesus’ disciples, were depressed and discouraged at what they had seen happen to Jesus, the man they had hoped would lead a revolution against the Romans and return Israel to its former glory. However, they had seen Him beaten, crucified, and buried in a tomb, and they were on their journey back home, sad, dejected, and without hope.

But then, in Luke 24:25-27, Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”

For some reason, that last verse seemed to jump off the page, and when I returned home, I began to trace the steps of Jesus – the Lamb of God – from Genesis to Revelation, and for the next few years, I preached over 150 sermons entitled, “Follow the Lamb!” We will introduce this updated sermon series on Sunday night, August 20, at 6:00 PM. This first sermon title is “God Reveals Himself to Man.”

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Old Testament Reading: Genesis 22:1-14 New Testament Reading: Acts 3:12-26

In his book, The Hiding God , Professor Raymond Scott outlined how God chose to reveal Himself, His character, His attributes, His Deity, His power, His passion, and His plan for man’s redemption through the Person and work of God the Son, whom we know as Jesus Christ.

Jesus revealed Himself to those who loved Him enough to take Him at His word and trust Him in faith without having the evidence to back that up.  Jesus even thanked God the Father for hiding His true identity from the wise and prudent and revealing them unto babes.

Two things about Christ that can only be understood by divine revelation:

Background to Luke 24:13-35:

Luke said their hearts were “on fire” because they had heard the truth of Scripture, but they were still unaware that they were listening to the Savior.

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