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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 06:38:50+00:00

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In accordance with the will of God His Father, the Lord laid down His life and rose again the third day.4 The resurrection of the Lord showed God’s complete approval of the life of His beloved Son, and His satisfaction with His finished work. Therefore, as believers we have full assurance of our salvation,5 through our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who ‘was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification’, Rom. 4. 25.
Did not our heart burn within us?
In Luke 24 we read that in the evening of the day of the Lord’s resurrection two sad, dejected disciples were walking from Jerusalem to a village called Emmaus, v. 13. Their hopes and aspirations had been shattered: they loved the Lord and He had been crucified and had died. The two disciples were not resting in, nor enjoying, the truth of the resurrection of their Lord and Saviour. As they walked, the Lord, who loved them, joined them, but they were prevented from knowing Him, vv. 15, 16. It was good that they were talking about the Lord and not about inconsequential trivia!
The two disciples told the Lord that they were sad because He had been crucified and was dead. They said, ‘We trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel’, v. 21. The Lord graciously explained to them that they were slow to believe all that the prophets had said concerning Him. He told them that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer before entering into His glory, vv. 25, 26. ‘And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself’, v. 27. The two disciples listened and were taught and blessed. Later they said, ‘Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?’, v. 32. They had not yet been enabled to recognize Him, but when they beheld Him in the Old Testament scriptures, their hearts were joyful. They urged the Lord to stay with them, v. 29. When the Lord was seated in their home, He ‘took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them’, v. 30. It was then ‘their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight’, v. 31. They no longer needed to see Him for now they knew He was alive.
The two, now joyful, disciples returned to Jerusalem and joined the Eleven and others and told them that they had seen the risen Lord. The Lord had already appeared to Peter, v. 34, and, even as they spoke, the Lord ‘himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you’, v. 36. They were filled with joy, v. 41, and then ‘opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures’, v. 45.
The disciples were glad because they had seen the risen Lord and they had been with Him, John 20. 20. Those of us who are believers are among those who are blessed, for, not having seen the risen Lord physically, we believe, having seen Him in the scriptures, John 20. 29. His sacrificial death and His resurrection are the sources of our joy, and should be the subjects of our praises and witness.
Matt. 17. 9; 20. 18, 19; Luke 9. 22.
‘With great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus’, Acts 4. 33.
John 3. 36; 10. 28, 29.
AUTHOR PROFILE: Cliff Jones is an elder in the fellowship at Heath Gospel Hall in Cardiff and has retired from his secular employment as a university lecturer.
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