Were I to tell you that hidden deep under the Oak tree near my old farm in Missouri lay a treasure so large that you would never have to worry again? In fact, you could enter a perfect peaceful rest, if only you went to claim it. Yet, if I did not tell you which oak tree nor give you an idea of where that farm was or how to obtain the right to dig on the farm, you would never be able to find it. Furthermore, you would be more forlorn than ever as you desired to know all the truth; because, partial truth only leads to more despair. No worries, there is no treasure hidden in my old farmland; but you get the idea.
The two disciples who were walking along the Emmaus road were in despair. They knew that scripture was true. Also, they believed in God. Furthermore, they knew the prophets foretold of a Messiah who would come to save His people from all their affliction, bondage and pain. With all they knew being truth, they were forlorn because they did not know all the truth. Believing with all their heart that Jesus was that Messiah. That is until the day the chief priests accused Him before the court, He was rejected, hung on the cross in utter humility and disgrace. How could they have been so fooled? Afterall it was now the third day, and even though the body was missing from the grave, He had not appeared in flaming Glory to sit up His throne. Hours had passed, it now was evening, and nothing had changed.
Oh yes, they knew a lot of truth; but they did not know all the truth. Knowing only part of truth is as perilous as not knowing any.
All the Truth
These two disciples had grown up learning old testament truths. They spent their life looking forward to the coming of Messiah in all His Glory. Theirs was a Glory theology. Christ was coming to set up His Kingdom in Jerusalem and save His people. All of that is true; but that is yet to come when He returns to establish His millennial reign on earth. But what they had missed in all their study was that He would first have to come to be the final sacrificial lamb to pay the penalty and price of sin in the world first. They knew truth. But they did not understand all the truth; although, it was clear throughout the Old Testament.
They wanted to believe the Glory and triumph. Yet, they did not want to believe all the truth: that before the Glory comes the suffering. Wasn’t that what Jesus responded? O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? ( Luke 24: 25-26). So, caught up in their own ideologies and preconceptions, they could not even see Jesus as He walked there beside them. Ah, but how kind a Savior who then opened their eyes to all the truth by teaching them from scripture. Beginning with Moses and throughout scripture He revealed the truth of the gospel message to them.
He reminded them that without the shedding of innocent blood there was no propitiation for sin. Wasn’t that the case from Adam on down through history? Yet, all the old testament sacrificial system was there to point forward to the one final sacrifice who could pay the price once and for all, Jesus Christ. Had not Isaiah spoke extensively of Him?
Concluding thoughts:
Next time we will begin to unfold scriptures in detail, examining many of the scripture Jesus may have used along this road to Emmaus. Furthermore, over the next weeks, I hope to take you on a journey of Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in Jesus’s birth, life, and death. That journey will reveal that Jesus is the only way, the truth and the life. It would have been impossible for so many prophecies and so many prophets could have gotten every detail right with such accuracy. Finally, with the help of the Holy Spirit, I pray to then reveal that the same way the prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus, there are more to come. Only by knowing all the truth, can we come to find our rest in Him. He is all we need to discover true abiding, steadfast joy regardless of the circumstances we face.
So, I return to the question I asked last time. “Who do you save Jesus is?”
DO YOU KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD?
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