1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 2: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in 6 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: your life. Enjoy the message. We're looking at the seven 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 2: last Words of Jesus Christ, what he said before he died. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: How it applies to our lives. 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: Taking some things that we might be very familiar with, 10 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 2: or may not have been familiar with at all, but 11 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: really owning them personally and incorporating them into our lives 12 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 2: of faith on our personal journey with Jesus. And it 13 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: is a journey. And sometimes on the journey you become 14 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 2: so familiar with things that you don't notice them. 15 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: They can just be right there. 16 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,959 Speaker 2: I grew up thirty miles from Charleston, South Carolina, and 17 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 2: I love going to Charleston with Holly when we want 18 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: to get away for a weekend. Typically we will sneak 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 2: away to Charleston. And by the way, if it's a vacation, 20 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 2: that means there are no kids. If the kids are there, 21 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 2: it's a family trip. Vacation is me Holly, a hotel 22 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 2: and some shopping, maybe some carbohydrates too. But we go 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 2: to Charleston a little bit, and it's only three and 24 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: a half hours from Charlotte. And she asked me one time, 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 2: the first time we went, She said, what was it 26 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: like growing up so close to such a historic and 27 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 2: beautiful place? I said, never thought about it when I 28 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 2: was a kid. It wasn't a thing. Just you know, 29 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: it was Charleston. We never really made it past North Charleston. 30 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: That's where the mall was. And I never really even 31 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: made it downtown, the place that I pay now to 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: go and spend the night, I. 33 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: Never even drove to. 34 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 2: It was almost too close to notice until I got 35 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: away from it. And even the other day, y'all, I 36 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: was eating with the family. We go out to eat 37 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 2: most Fridays, and we were eating at this a burger restaurant, 38 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 2: burger joint, as the young people say, and that what 39 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: the young people call it, a burger joint over at 40 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 2: the five and dime. And I'm gonna get to my 41 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 2: scripture in a minute. Man, it's Luke twenty four or 42 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 2: thirteen through thirty five. Don't worry, I'm going there in 43 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: a minute, you can meet me there. Lace up your shoes, 44 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: stretch your hamstrings, do whatever you got to do, because 45 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: we're going on a journey. Tell the person next to 46 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: you we're going somewhere. We're going somewhere. So we went 47 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 2: to this restaurant and the young lady who was serving 48 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: us was really nice, but she kept looking at me funny, 49 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 2: looking at me funny every time she come over. You're 50 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 2: looking at me funny. And she came up and said, 51 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 2: I just figured out who you are. You're the Facebook guy. 52 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 2: I said, am I? She said, me and your friends 53 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: send the clips of your Facebook preaching to each other, 54 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 2: my friends in California. I said, cool, that's great, you know, 55 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 2: and all of that. And she brought her fries and 56 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 2: came back another time and she said, they just told 57 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 2: me in the back that your church is here in Charlotte. 58 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 2: I said, well, yeah, it's two miles from here at 59 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: this restaurant where I preach from. We have churches in 60 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: other places, not just in Charlotte, but it's based in Charlotte. 61 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: Like two like we could probably throw a French fry 62 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 2: at it and hit it. And and she said, I 63 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: didn't even know it now she's two miles from the church. 64 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 2: You don't need to invite people more, is what I'm saying. 65 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: You are not doing your job. It's what that said 66 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 2: to me. But what it really reminded me because I 67 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 2: told her, you know, you can get it on Facebook 68 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 2: and there's little cliffs, but if you really want to 69 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 2: see what makes that special, you gotta get in the 70 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: parking lot, see the people there, get a hog from 71 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: a greeterer. Have you got kids, You need to drop 72 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 2: your kids off at eat kids and watch how we 73 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: teach him. I mean, you really need to get around 74 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 2: the people. This is your lucky day because you're gonna 75 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 2: be my special guest. And I gave her an invitation 76 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: and she still didn't come. But that's not the point 77 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: of the illustration. The point of the illustration is you 78 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 2: can be so close. Elijah, my oldest son. The other day, 79 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 2: I went to hand on my phone. He said, Daddy 80 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 2: wants said on your wrist. I said, on my wrist? 81 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 2: What's on my wrist? And he was talking about my scar. 82 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 2: I've had this scar since I was four. This scar 83 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 2: is my mom tells me from a childhood incident. She says, 84 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: I was playing with a dog bowl, and it was 85 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 2: made of glass. I dropped the dog bowl. The dog 86 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 2: bowl cut my wrist. She said she thought I was 87 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 2: gonna die. 88 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: I don't remember any of this. It's not traumatic for me. 89 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 2: But I've always had this little Harry Potter thing right 90 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 2: there on my wrists and. 91 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: Elijah noticed it. That's crazy. 92 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 2: These are the first hands that held his ungrateful butt 93 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 2: and wiped his ungrateful. 94 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: And he never even noticed. 95 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: I mean, how many times have I changed his diaper 96 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: with these hands? Probably not many, single digit probably. 97 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: But my point is it can be. 98 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 2: So close and remain unnoticed, so imminent and invisible to us. 99 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean it's not there. 100 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 2: Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. 101 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: Let's go on the road. Seven miles. Let's go. Are 102 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: you ready? 103 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 2: I probably shouldn't have worn my white sneakers today. 104 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: They're gonna get dirty. 105 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 2: Because we're going on this Amaeis Road loop. Jesus only 106 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 2: has forty days. He's risen from the dead. He is resurrected, 107 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 2: just like he said he would be. He has the 108 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 2: keys to death, hell and the grave. He gave the 109 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: devil a big black. 110 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: Eye when that stone rolled away, and. 111 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 2: Now all of Hell is trembling because the temple they 112 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 2: thought they had destroyed has rebuilt himself, just. 113 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: Like he said he would. He is resten, he is resin. 114 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 2: And the women went to the tomb, and it's Sunday morning, 115 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 2: and they brought some spices, but they would not need them, 116 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 2: because the Angel said to the women, why do you 117 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: look for the living amongst the dead? I want to 118 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: talk in this first installment of Seven Mile Miracle on 119 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 2: the subject reverse the search. Maybe we are missing the 120 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 2: presence and the power of God, the resurrection power of God, 121 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: the redemptive power of God, the restoration power of God, 122 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 2: the redeeming. 123 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: Power of God. 124 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: Because we're searching in the wrong places. They were looking 125 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 2: for the living among the dead. He is not here, 126 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 2: he's risen. What are you looking for a living God 127 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: in a dead place, a dead relationship, a dead text thread, 128 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 2: a dead Facebook page? Why are you looking for the 129 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: living God in dead religion? Dormant religion? Why are you 130 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 2: looking for the living touch? Somebody say, reverse the search? 131 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 2: He is alive and he is real, And the presence 132 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 2: of God is not meant to be an ad on 133 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 2: in or accessory. 134 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: But the operating. 135 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 2: System of the life of anyone who will choose to 136 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 2: believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that 137 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: Jesus Us as Lord and God has. 138 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: Raised him from the dead. And he's risen from the. 139 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: Dead, and he's gotta go, get the message out, get 140 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 2: on the road, because he's only got forty days. He's 141 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: about to be taken up to heaven and seated at 142 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 2: the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, from whence 143 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 2: he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. 144 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 2: And he's got to go, and he's got to show 145 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: the world that he's living, so they'll so they'll believe 146 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 2: the proof of the power of his resurrection. 147 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: And so he's got to go. What should he do first? 148 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 2: If he wants to reveal himself to the world and 149 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: let him know that the proof is that he is 150 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: the son of God in the fact that death. 151 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: Could not hold him in, the brave could not keep him. 152 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 2: And the tomb was borrowed because it wasn't needed for 153 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 2: very long. Where does he go? What does he do? 154 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: Perhaps we should perhaps we should host a resurrection reenactment event. 155 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 2: Maybe he can get Barclays, Maybe he can call Jay, 156 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 2: maybe he can maybe he can do it in a 157 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 2: cultural center. Maybe he ought to call Zuck. Maybe you 158 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: ought to put this on social Maybe he ought to. 159 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: Get it out. 160 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 2: Maybe he can go viral, maybe ought to make a Mean, 161 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 2: what does Jesus do on the day he defeats death? 162 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 2: You might be surprised, because what he does next is 163 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:07,839 Speaker 2: take a walk. 164 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: Come on, let's walk. 165 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 2: Will you walk with me? I don't even care if 166 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 2: you know where Luke is in the Bible. I just 167 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 2: want you to walk with me to this passage of 168 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 2: scripture where we join two travelers who as of yet 169 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 2: remain nameless. 170 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 1: What's that. 171 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 2: Jesus, on the day of his resurrection, with only forty 172 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 2: days to spare, to tell the world that he is 173 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 2: God and convinced them with many signs and proofs, appears 174 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 2: to two travelers whose names we have never seen. I mean, 175 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 2: at least go get Bartholomew. I've heard of him. But 176 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 2: these two travelers were watch this just like you and 177 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 2: me walking along, and they were headed toward a village 178 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 2: called Amaeis. 179 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: I've been there. Years ago. 180 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 2: We did an Easter presentation for our church by the 181 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 2: name seven Mile Miracle, and we decided to be cool 182 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 2: if we shot it there, but when we got there. 183 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 2: How many of you would love to go to Israel 184 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 2: one day if you could and see where Jesus walked. 185 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: How many of you are fine just. 186 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 2: To watch it on National Geographic and you don't need 187 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 2: all that, And you're like, well, thank. 188 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: You for your honesty. 189 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 2: But if you go, they'll tell you when you get there, 190 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 2: they'll say, hey, this is a Maus. And then if 191 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 2: you have a really honest guide, they'll say, I mean, 192 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: it's maybe a Mais. We don't know exactly where a 193 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 2: Maais was because it was such an insignificant place in 194 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 2: its day that there is no archaeological evidence that this 195 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 2: was definitely the place. Why would Jesus go to a 196 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 2: place that wasn't even significant enough in its day to 197 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 2: be known in modernity or pinpointed on a map. We 198 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 2: look for God in places that everyone recognizes. I mean, 199 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 2: we think that Jesus needs a shout out from Kim 200 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 2: or Kanye. We act like Jesus needs an oscar for 201 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 2: best resurrection. But instead he goes on this dirty road, 202 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: this a little road, real tiny road. 203 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: The one that they say he might have walked. I 204 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: walked in. 205 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 2: And he meets up with two people. And it's not 206 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 2: Zuck and it's not Trump. Now watch, they're walking toward 207 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 2: to Mais. Jesus died in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the place 208 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 2: where the Passover feast had just been celebrated. Jerusalem was 209 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 2: the place where the promised Holy Spirit was to come. 210 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 2: But Jesus leaves the place where the Spirit is coming 211 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 2: to follow two people, and we don't even know who 212 00:11:59,080 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: they are. 213 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: What kind of God is this? 214 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 2: Who would speak to you in a crowd of thousands 215 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 2: and would bring you to this place at this moment? 216 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 2: And these men are walking along on that same day, 217 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: the same day that Jesus got up from the grave. 218 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 2: So picture it now. Two things are happening. It once, 219 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 2: the eternal Word of God, who was in the beginning 220 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 2: with God, the fullness of his glory, full of grace 221 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 2: and truth, has trampled death, sin, hell, and the grave 222 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 2: made a mockery of Satan. And those who handed him 223 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 2: over are soon to bow down and worship him, and 224 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 2: every need will bow and tonge confess that Jesus Christ 225 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 2: is Lord to the glory of God the Father, and 226 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: God has exalted Jesus to the highest place, given them 227 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 2: the name that is above every name, that's happening, and 228 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 2: these two unnamed people most scholars say probably a husband 229 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 2: and wife. In a minute, we get the guy's name, 230 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: we don't get the woman's name because in Bible times 231 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 2: people didn't treat women too well. They were pretty overlooked. 232 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 2: But that's the kind of people Jesus life is, the 233 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 2: people who were overlooked. He would work a miracle with 234 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 2: the little kid's lunch. In their math, kids didn't count, 235 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: But in Jesus' math, that's where the multiplication was in 236 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 2: the hands of the one who everybody else walked past. 237 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 2: I'm just saying that because you might think you can 238 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 2: only go on this journey if you're perfect. 239 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: You might think you can only go. 240 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 2: On this journey if your life is profound, that God 241 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 2: can only use you if everybody knows you, because we 242 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 2: worship the idol of fame in this age, but the 243 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 2: famous one, the name above every name, meets with two 244 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 2: previously unnamed travelers. And only because he met with them 245 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 2: do we know that the name of the man was 246 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 2: Cleopus Jesus Christ and Cleo that's what his friend's call him. 247 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 2: And since we're going on this walk with him, we 248 00:13:54,040 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 2: should call him by his nickname Cleo. And they're walking 249 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 2: to a village called a Maaeas, a village that nobody 250 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 2: even knows where it really is today. I mean, they 251 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 2: can guess, but they don't. They're going toward a Maas. 252 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 2: Why would Jesus make one of his first resurrection appearances 253 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 2: headed toward a place away from where the Holy Spirit 254 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 2: was about to fall, toward a place that no one 255 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 2: would even remember. Could it be possible that we look 256 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 2: for God in the destination? But he is the God 257 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 2: of the detour. Can I preach on this for about 258 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:45,359 Speaker 2: fifteen or thirty minutes? He is the God of the detour. 259 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 2: I'm trying to tell you that the perfect, flawless Son 260 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 2: of God turned his back on Jerusalem, set out on 261 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 2: a road toward an unknown place, followed to people we've 262 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 2: never met before. Because he is not the God of 263 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 2: a rival. He is the God of the first step 264 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 2: and the second step and every step. He's with me 265 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: when I'm right, he's with me when I'm wrong. He's 266 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: with me when I'm going forward. 267 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: He's with me when I'm stuck. He's with me when 268 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: I'm high stepping. He's with me when I'm crawling. He's 269 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: with me when I'm strong, He's with me when I'm weak. 270 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: He walks with me, he talks with me. And they're 271 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: walking the wrong way. 272 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 2: Remember, they're walking the wrong way. If they really believed 273 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: he was going to raise from the dead, they would 274 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: have stayed in Jerusalem. 275 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: But they didn't, and God followed them to the wrong place. 276 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: Because grace will chase you down. 277 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 2: Some special is going to happen in this church today, 278 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 2: something special, something significant. 279 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 1: But it might start real small. 280 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 2: See, we look for God in the dramatic, but he 281 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 2: hides in the details. 282 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: Sit down, let's go for a walk. This is just 283 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: a setup week. Man, it's gonna be amazing. 284 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 2: It's gonna be seven last sayings of Jesus Christ before 285 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 2: he died last worse. We're gonna study them, apply them 286 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: to your life. 287 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: This is gonna be amazing, It really is. 288 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 2: We're gonna do a devotional on YouTube. 289 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: Facebook. 290 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 2: Did they tell you Instagram, everything, my Space. 291 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: I'll send a pigeon to your house with the devotion. 292 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. 293 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 2: We'll do whatever we have to do is digital discipleship, 294 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: so we can see Jesus in three D and the 295 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 2: first d is not destination, it's detour, because God will 296 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: meet you on the detour the parts of your journey. 297 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 2: You didn't ask for a plan for or pack for 298 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 2: feed these people. We didn't bring lunch. You didn't tell 299 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 2: us to. Jesus said one time, I need to go 300 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 2: through Samaria, and they were like, that's not the most 301 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 2: direct route. 302 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: See Jesus is or I don't mean this in an 303 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: insulting way, but I think you'll. 304 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:24,719 Speaker 2: Agree he's inefficient by human standards. It says in Proverbs 305 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 2: three five and six trust the Lord with all your heart, 306 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 2: lean not on your own understanding. When you try to 307 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 2: search for God with your understanding, and you say I'll 308 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 2: start my journey when I understand, you will never leave 309 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 2: earth of the Chaldeans Abraham, because it grows as you go, 310 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 2: with every step you see. And so he walks up 311 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 2: to them on the detour in the wrong direction, toward 312 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 2: a destination that has disappeared from our modern maps, because 313 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 2: it wasn't what happened when they got there, it was 314 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: what he revealed along the way. What if Christianity is 315 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 2: a journey, not a destination. What if salvation was a 316 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 2: starting block, not a finish line. 317 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: What if God's not done with you? 318 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 2: What if you don't have to find out to step out? 319 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 2: What if you don't have to know the reason to 320 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 2: stay on the road. That's all these two were doing 321 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 2: was walking. They didn't invite Jesus. They didn't pray to Jesus. 322 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 2: They didn't go to church. They didn't sing a helm, 323 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 2: they didn't pray a prayer, they didn't memorize a verse. 324 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,199 Speaker 2: They didn't even join any group. But you should, but 325 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 2: they didn't. All they did was walk. And as they're 326 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 2: walking along the road to a village called to Maaeus, 327 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 2: as I'm. 328 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: Walking through my life. 329 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 2: As I'm raising my kids, as I'm dropping them off, 330 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 2: as I'm smacking them as we go, tour to me 331 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 2: is a seven mile journey. I'm glad to put that 332 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 2: detail because that lets me know that He began a 333 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 2: good work in me, will be faithful to complete. Seven 334 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 2: in the Bible is a number of completion. God created 335 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. 336 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 2: He didn't rest because he was tired, He rested because. 337 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: He was done. You like that. 338 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 2: I love y'all so much. I love y'all so much. 339 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 2: I love sharing the word of God with you. The 340 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 2: Word of God is alive and active. It'll make you holler, 341 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 2: it will it'll make you scream when the word of 342 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 2: God is alive to you. When Jesus shows up on 343 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 2: the road and meets you in your sin and snatches 344 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 2: you from your sin, it'll thank you holler. You just 345 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 2: jump up. And they're they're going along the road. Touch 346 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 2: somebody say, I'm going somewhere. I'm going somewhere, and I 347 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 2: don't have to know the destination, because every detour he 348 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 2: will direct my past. That's what Proverbs three five and sixcess. 349 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 2: He will direct my paths. That means the straight ones 350 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 2: and the crooked ones, he'll bend them all together. That's 351 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 2: what grace is. Seven seven is the number of completions, 352 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 2: seven times around the walls of Jericho, and they fell. 353 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: Did you go to Bible school, you remember this? Seven miles, 354 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: seven miles. 355 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 2: They're walking Cleo and missus Cleo. They're talking with each 356 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 2: other about everything that had happened. How they hung the 357 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 2: one that they had hoped to be the redeemer on 358 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:49,719 Speaker 2: a tree, and how the Romans had crucified the one 359 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 2: that was supposed to deliver them from their oppression, and 360 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 2: as they look at verse fifteen with me, as they 361 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 2: talked and discussed these things, these events, the divorce, the 362 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 2: job loss, the struggle, the wasted relationship that you. 363 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: Didn't know how to handle. 364 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 2: As they talked about the death of what they had 365 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 2: set their expectation on. Right there in the middle of it, 366 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 2: Jesus himself came up, didn't politely ask to join them 367 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 2: on their journey, walked along with them. 368 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like God wouldn't leave you alone. 369 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 2: Even if you wanted him to, Like you tried to 370 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 2: disable your conscience and you still felt bad smoking it. 371 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: Come on, talk to me. Don't look at me like 372 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: you came in church riding in on a chariot, polish 373 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 1: a halo, I come at you, walk right up to you. 374 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: That's what he did. He walked up right up to him. 375 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 2: But they were kept from recognizing them. Have you been 376 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 2: kept from recognizing resurrection right in front of you because 377 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 2: we looked for God in the dramatic, but he shows 378 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 2: up in the details. He takes a walk. Jesuys, you 379 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 2: do not have time for this. Let me be his 380 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: press agent for a little while. Okay, we got forty days. 381 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 2: We got to meet with people, make things happen. We 382 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 2: gotta get this show on the road. He says, Yeah, 383 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 2: on the road with Cleo. I gotta meet with Clear, 384 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta show myself to Cleo. 385 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: But he was kept from recognizing. 386 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 2: It. Didn't say that he didn't recognize him. Something kept 387 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 2: him from recognizing. And resurrection begins in your life when 388 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 2: you ask the question, what is keeping me from recognizing 389 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 2: the presence of God that is right there, not only. 390 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: Beside me, but within me. Can I teach you about 391 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: this a little bit, just a little bit. 392 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 2: This is an opening week and it'll get better as 393 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 2: it goes, But you got to start somewhere. The journey 394 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 2: has to start somewhere, and every journey that is successful begins. 395 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: With the end in mind. 396 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 2: I know it seems kind of backwards that I want 397 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 2: to teach you a series on what Jesus said before 398 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 2: he died, and I'm starting with the spoiler alert that 399 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 2: he's already resurrected and. 400 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: On the road. 401 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 2: But when you begin with the end in mind, you 402 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 2: see that no matter what I go through in life, 403 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 2: the result is that God will use whatever I go 404 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 2: through to. 405 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: Reveal his glory. 406 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 2: I am convinced that the sufferings of this present time 407 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 2: are not even worthy to be compared with the glory that. 408 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 1: Will be revealed in me. Stay on the road. 409 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 2: See I don't understand all the reasons, but I'm. 410 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: On the road. 411 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 2: And they were kept from recognizing him. How many times 412 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 2: have I been kept from recognizing what God was doing 413 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 2: right in front of me? How many times have I 414 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,959 Speaker 2: been kept from recognizing ordinary moments of joy because I 415 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 2: was waiting on things to be perfect. How many times 416 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 2: have I missed a miracle because all I saw was 417 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 2: the mess? How many times have I missed the opportunity 418 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 2: to give something because. 419 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 1: I was so centered on myself? How I feel, what 420 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: I need? What I didn't get? 421 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: And God said, if you'll change the question and reverse 422 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 2: the search, maybe it's not about what is happening to you. 423 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: Maybe it's what I want to do through you. They 424 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: hung him hot. He didn't dump down. He had something 425 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: to do. 426 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 2: They didn't recognize I didn't recognize it. I didn't recognize 427 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 2: that my kids were growing up fast, so I didn't 428 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: make the time. I didn't recognize I didn't recognize the 429 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 2: good things about the person I said I'd spend the 430 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 2: rest of my life with. So I started focusing on 431 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 2: the things about them that were mildly annoying, and eventually 432 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 2: it became an insurmountable resentment. 433 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: I didn't recognize. 434 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 2: I didn't recognize that the people I was hanging out 435 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 2: with were doing some things that were going to stick 436 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 2: with me for the rest. 437 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: Of my life. 438 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 2: And it became an addiction, even though it just started 439 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 2: out as an attraction. I didn't recognize, and they were 440 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 2: kept what kept them from recognizing You can be kept 441 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 2: from recognizing the patterns that created your outcomes. You can 442 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 2: be kept from recognizing the behaviors that are leading you 443 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 2: to the destinations that you hate. 444 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: You know, you hate where you are, but you don't 445 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: know how you got there. 446 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 2: And they were kept from recognizing him. And he was 447 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 2: right there with him, like that dude who prayed God 448 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 2: would save him. And the helicopter came and he didn't 449 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: take the helicopter. You know this story, boat came, he 450 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 2: wouldn't get in the boat. He drowned and he died 451 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 2: and he said, God, ask you to save me. And 452 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: God said that helicopter was me, that boat was me. 453 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 2: That rejection was me. Yeah, even that pain, I let 454 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 2: it happen because I wanted to produce a. 455 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: Power in your life. And the only way I could get. 456 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 2: It through and open your eyes. And they're walking and 457 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 2: here comes Jesus like a stalker. Come on, It's kind 458 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 2: of weird, right, He just shows up in the middle 459 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 2: of him Cleo and Missus Cleo, and he asks him 460 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,640 Speaker 2: a question. Just sit right down beside him in church, 461 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 2: walk up on the road, and I love Jesus. 462 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: This is comical to me. 463 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 2: If you think the Bible is boring, I want to 464 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 2: challenge the fact that maybe it's you. 465 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: That is boring. And you huh. 466 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,479 Speaker 2: Huh, because watch this, This is some funny stuff. The 467 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 2: author of life, who knows all things, who lays bare 468 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 2: the intents of every heart, who created Cleo and Missus 469 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 2: Cleo before the foundations of the earth for an express purpose, 470 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 2: by whom and through whom and for whom all things 471 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 2: are created. That's Jesus, the Word made flesh full of 472 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 2: grace and truth. 473 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: Walks up to Cleo and says, what y'all talking about? 474 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: Like he doesn't know? And they stood still, their faces down. 475 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 2: Everything in this textings backwards to me, y'all, he's going 476 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 2: Tortimaeus away from Jerusalem. That doesn't make sense. He's talking 477 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 2: to people that don't seem important. That doesn't make sense. 478 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 2: He just got up from the dead. If you just 479 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 2: got up from the dead, would you want to hang 480 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 2: around happy people. I would want to find somebody who 481 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 2: could celebrate. Come on, we're gonna pop something. But Cleo 482 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 2: is sad because it didn't go the way he thought. 483 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,360 Speaker 2: It didn't end up the way he thought. Their faces 484 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 2: were downcast, and all. 485 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: Of a sudden they stopped walking. 486 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 2: My Bible says they stood still, their faces downcast, and 487 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:28,479 Speaker 2: they stop, and apparently Jesus stops with them, and they're sad, 488 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: and apparently he enters into their sadness, and they start 489 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 2: explaining to the one who created life how life was 490 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 2: supposed to turn out. I love the Bible. I'm fascinated 491 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 2: by this journey. See, if you read the Bible like 492 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 2: a magic rule book, you will never fully understand the 493 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 2: extent to which it is meant to speak to your 494 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: situation and guide your life. If you really get into 495 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 2: this thing with me, over the next seven I'm gonna 496 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 2: show you how God is not scared to walk right up. 497 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: In the details of your situation. 498 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 2: A bird falls out the sky and he counts it 499 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 2: and puts it on the ledger. And you think he 500 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 2: doesn't know about your loneliness, your tears, your heart break, 501 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 2: your question. You think he's intimidated by your skepticism. You 502 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 2: think your broken heart can chase him away. The Bible says, 503 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 2: a broken and a contrite heart, he will not despise 504 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 2: the only heart he can't get into, as the one 505 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 2: that is closed up through pride. But if you open yourself, 506 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 2: even with your face down cast, And Cleo said, hey, man, 507 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 2: are you this is Ironica. The host of Heaven has 508 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: come to earth. He died and rose again and lived 509 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 2: a perfect life. And Cleo says, are you the only 510 00:29:51,160 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 2: one visiting Jerusalem? Remember he made it. Reading the God 511 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: of the world like a guest is so funny to me. 512 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: How we get it twisted, How we get it out 513 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: of order? 514 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 2: We start we start thinking that God needs to consult 515 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 2: our blueprint of how our lives need to be built. 516 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 2: I can get this way as a pastor telling God 517 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: what he needs to do in my church. You get 518 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 2: this way as a parent what God needs to do 519 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 2: with your children. Cleo launches out on this long excuse me. 520 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 2: Clopus launches out on this long, long speech, telling Jesus 521 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 2: what happened to Jesus? 522 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: You find me. God has a sense of humor because 523 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: he lets him talk. 524 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 2: Cleopus gives him is his speech, and Jesus lets him finish. 525 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 2: Are you the only one who doesn't know what happened? 526 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 2: The one it happened to is standing there, and Cleo 527 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 2: wants to tell him what happened. What that happened was 528 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 2: Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet, powerful in word, indeed 529 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 2: before God and all the people. They are standing before 530 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 2: the Great I Am, and they start with he was, 531 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 2: and there he is, and they're stuck in he was? 532 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 2: Are you missing what is? Because you're stuck in what was? 533 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 2: We hoped he was the one, but it took a 534 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 2: turn for the worst. The chief priests and our rulers 535 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 2: handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they 536 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 2: crucified him. Jesus is nodding Verse twenty one, tell me 537 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 2: all about it. But we had hope, And had I 538 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 2: been Jesus, I'd have stopped you right there, cause hope 539 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: that is seen is not hope at all, And if 540 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 2: you had hoped and don't hope anymore, what you had 541 00:31:58,720 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 2: was in. 542 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: Real hope, because real hopes can hold on. And on Friday, 543 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: I had hoped, I had hoped. 544 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 2: To be over by now. I had hoped the medicine 545 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 2: would fix it. I had hoped they'd say yes. I 546 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 2: hoped they had asked. I had hoped. I had hoped. 547 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 2: Hope is standing in front of hopelessness. Christ and Cleo 548 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 2: and the Cross clashed with Cleo's expectation, and now his 549 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 2: experience has left him downcast. We had hoped that he 550 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 2: was the one. I thought i'd be further along by now. 551 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 2: Thought i'd be married by twenty six. I thought I 552 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,239 Speaker 2: hope they would be good to me and pay me 553 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 2: back and appreciate me after all I did for them. 554 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 2: I had hoped he was going to redeem me. I 555 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 2: had hoped he was going to heal me. Could it 556 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 2: be that we miss God because we look for him 557 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: in the dreams, but he is found in the disappointment. 558 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 2: Their faces were downcast, their hopes were dashed, and from 559 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 2: their standpoint, the story was over. Since I'm your tour 560 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 2: guide on the seven mile journey, let me give you 561 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 2: A professional travel tip, don't judge the journey before it's over. 562 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: I don't know who that was even for. 563 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 2: Don't judge the journey of seven miles when you had 564 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 2: any haven't been too yet. See what the end will be, 565 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 2: See what the end will be. If you trust his promise, 566 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 2: you have to trust the path. And it might be winding, 567 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 2: and it might lead to a cross, and it might 568 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 2: not feel good, and it might be confusing. 569 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,279 Speaker 1: But he is the god of the detour. 570 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 2: And it might not be spectacular, and he might not 571 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,800 Speaker 2: prove himself to you with signs that you can see 572 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 2: or sense or feel. And it might not be a 573 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 2: goosebump that proves his presence. He might show up in 574 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 2: the details, you know, the little things. It might be 575 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 2: in the little ways. He's right there on the road, 576 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 2: he's walking with him. They almost can't recognize him because 577 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 2: it's so common. What's happening is so common. He looks 578 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,719 Speaker 2: like just another guy. They are standing next to resurrection 579 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 2: and they don't recognize it. 580 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: And it's right there. He's right there. He is here now, 581 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: he is, he was, he is to come, and he's 582 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: with you in this moment. I hope he was the one. 583 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 2: And what is more, Cleo says, to make matters worse, 584 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 2: look at twenty one. 585 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: It's the third day. It's funny, Yellow know that's funny. 586 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm just a nerdy little pastor. I get 587 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,759 Speaker 1: kicks out of weird stuff. It's the third day. The 588 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: whole time he was on the. 589 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,839 Speaker 2: Earth, he said, this is gonna. 590 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: Go bad on Friday, but come Sunday. Don't look for 591 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 1: me in the tomb. They buried me, and I did 592 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:57,879 Speaker 1: not out here. 593 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,280 Speaker 2: And what they thought was the dead end was really 594 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,840 Speaker 2: just the beginning. You want to see him in three D. 595 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 2: Look for him in the detours. 596 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: You want to see him in three D. 597 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 2: Not this flat little coloring book Jesus with the lamb 598 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 2: on his lap. 599 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,240 Speaker 1: But the living, risen Son of. 600 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:31,840 Speaker 2: God under who's off feet things, still sit and standing strong, 601 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 2: seated at the right hand of God. You want to 602 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 2: see him like that. Don't look for him in just 603 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:43,760 Speaker 2: the dramatic. Look for him in the details, that little 604 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 2: little thing that God has been doing in your life. 605 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 2: You want to see the Son of God. You want 606 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 2: to see Jesus. How many of you want to see him? 607 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 2: How many of you want to see God? Active in 608 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,399 Speaker 2: your life. I mean with the eyes of your heart 609 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 2: to know him. 610 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,880 Speaker 1: He can be found at the dead. 611 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 2: Ends when you used to hope and now it's hard 612 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:15,279 Speaker 2: to hope. That's where he meets you on your Amais road. 613 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 2: I'm glad they can't find a Mais. I'm glad they 614 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 2: can't because that means we each get to have our own. 615 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:33,720 Speaker 2: That means I get to have my own Amais. 616 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,360 Speaker 1: You know, I'm on my own journey. 617 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,400 Speaker 2: I'm on my own path and I'm not alone. 618 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,279 Speaker 1: I don't even like walking very much. I don't have 619 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: a fitbit. 620 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,880 Speaker 2: Everything about this seems backwards, doesn't it. He spent his 621 00:37:53,960 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 2: whole life telling people follow me, and now he's following them. 622 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: He's come down out of heaven. 623 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,279 Speaker 2: Instead of people making their way to God, now God 624 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 2: has come to us. 625 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 1: He has reversed the search. 626 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,320 Speaker 2: You weren't even looking for him, and he was looking 627 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 2: for you. You weren't even seeking for him, and he 628 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:24,799 Speaker 2: was showing himself all along. And Cleopas said, we had 629 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,560 Speaker 2: hoped he was the one. And in addition, he said, 630 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 2: some of our women amazed us. They went to the 631 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 2: tomb early this morning. Wrong place. He's not in the tomb. 632 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 2: He's on the road. He's not in religion, he's in relationship. 633 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: Please help me prist us. 634 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 2: I need to know you're receiving it, because God told. 635 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: Me that some of you are going to come out 636 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,360 Speaker 1: of tombs, tombs of tradition and. 637 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 2: Really experience the presence of God. How many want to 638 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,320 Speaker 2: experience his presses? 639 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:13,560 Speaker 1: Find it on the road. 640 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,720 Speaker 2: Our women went to the tomb, they didn't find his body. 641 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 2: They came and told us that they had seen a 642 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 2: vision of angels who said he was alive. And then 643 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 2: some of our companions went to the tomb. This is 644 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:35,919 Speaker 2: still Cleo talking telling Jesus about Jesus, still not recognizing 645 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 2: what's right beside him. Some of our companions went to 646 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 2: the tomb and found it, just as the women had said. 647 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 2: But this most ironic verse in all the scripture. They 648 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:52,799 Speaker 2: did not see Jesus. He is telling Jesus about other 649 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 2: people who didn't. 650 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:59,800 Speaker 1: See Jesus, and he doesn't know it's Jesus. Have you 651 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,760 Speaker 1: ever realized how. 652 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 2: Easy it is to judge somebody. 653 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: Else's journey and not. 654 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,640 Speaker 2: Even recognize what God is doing in your own. 655 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,960 Speaker 1: Go better, stand up so I can close this message. 656 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,800 Speaker 2: Jesus said to them, how foolish you are and slow 657 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 2: to believe. 658 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:23,840 Speaker 1: That's the problem. 659 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 2: Look at me every location, watching on television, watching online. 660 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:29,360 Speaker 1: I want you to. 661 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,000 Speaker 2: Look at me. If you can't look at me, look 662 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 2: at the screen, look at me. It starts in the heart, 663 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 2: he said. You're slow to believe. You keep trying to 664 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,560 Speaker 2: make sense of things. 665 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,160 Speaker 1: In your life with your head. 666 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,640 Speaker 2: You keep trying to figure out the reason for what's 667 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,440 Speaker 2: happening to you. And when you can't figure out the reason, 668 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,799 Speaker 2: you want to jump off the road. You want to 669 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 2: stop following, You want to stop trusting when you can't 670 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:57,279 Speaker 2: figure it out. 671 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:05,239 Speaker 1: But if you would verse the search and believe in 672 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: your heart what you have not yet seen. 673 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,520 Speaker 2: With your eyes, and believe the goodness of God, who 674 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,360 Speaker 2: am I preaching to in the top level of Valentine, if. 675 00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:15,920 Speaker 1: You would get it. 676 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:28,879 Speaker 2: In here, this journey doesn't start with making sense. This 677 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,720 Speaker 2: journey starts with faith. 678 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:38,000 Speaker 1: Have faith in God. He's with me on this road. 679 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,920 Speaker 2: Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and 680 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 2: then enter in his glory? You keep wanting to see 681 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,480 Speaker 2: the glory, but you're only going to see it in 682 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,759 Speaker 2: the suffering. He is the God of the detour, He 683 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,560 Speaker 2: is the God of the detail. He is the God 684 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,000 Speaker 2: of your dead end, and he has brought you to 685 00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,960 Speaker 2: this moment today. The spirit of God is in this place. 686 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,560 Speaker 2: I am preaching out of my mind for somebody who 687 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 2: has been on the road watched this beginning with Moses 688 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,719 Speaker 2: and all the prophets. He explained to them. He took 689 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,640 Speaker 2: it all the way back to show them that the 690 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,400 Speaker 2: one that the prophets had looked forward to was standing 691 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:31,640 Speaker 2: right in front of them, and he explained to them 692 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 2: what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself. Man, 693 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,959 Speaker 2: he broke it down. He broke it down on the way, 694 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,880 Speaker 2: on the road. That's where you learn, is on the journeys, 695 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,560 Speaker 2: where you don't wait till you understand to get started. 696 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,279 Speaker 1: You grow as you go. You know as your goal. 697 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:58,600 Speaker 2: Keep walking, keep walking, keep walking, deep walking, keep walking. 698 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,400 Speaker 2: You all your stand you didn't better buy and five. 699 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,880 Speaker 2: Give it a chance, man, give it a chance to do. 700 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,880 Speaker 2: Give him a chance to show. 701 00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,560 Speaker 1: You who he is. Hold on to his unchanging hand, 702 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:17,000 Speaker 1: trust his. 703 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:22,440 Speaker 2: Heart, even if you can't trace his hand. God, I 704 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:27,840 Speaker 2: don't get this well, I'm going forward. It's a decision. 705 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:29,840 Speaker 2: It's a decision. 706 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: Can I give you. 707 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,400 Speaker 2: One more thing? I don't want to cheat you. Some 708 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,600 Speaker 2: people drove a long way to get here. How many 709 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 2: of you drove over an hour to be at church today? 710 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,400 Speaker 1: Over two, over. 711 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:48,880 Speaker 2: Three, over four hours, over five, six, seven hour, miracle, 712 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,760 Speaker 2: six hour energy whatever? 713 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,439 Speaker 1: Touch Seven people said, we're going somewhere. We're going somewhere. 714 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,840 Speaker 1: We're going somewhere. We're going somewhere. God didn't save us 715 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 1: to leave us like he found us. God save us 716 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:01,520 Speaker 1: to leave us like you found us. 717 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,840 Speaker 2: God didn't create me to stay suck in one place, 718 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 2: one frame of mind, one way of looking at things. 719 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:12,080 Speaker 2: And every step Eugene Peterson said, every step is in arrival. 720 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,400 Speaker 1: You got that every step. 721 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,080 Speaker 2: So by the time they arrived, they had already arrived, 722 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,080 Speaker 2: and what was revealed on the road was only recognized 723 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 2: in reverse. What was happening to them as they walked 724 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:33,399 Speaker 2: only made sense once they sat down. And the same 725 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,080 Speaker 2: one who got up from the grave, watch what he 726 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,719 Speaker 2: does next. They approached the village to which they were going, 727 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,480 Speaker 2: they got a lot more than they bargained for along 728 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:41,839 Speaker 2: the way. 729 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:44,279 Speaker 1: They didn't plan for this. 730 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,440 Speaker 2: They didn't wake up on that morning expecting a miracle, 731 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,200 Speaker 2: they were mourning the loss of what they had thought 732 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,120 Speaker 2: was the answer, and the answer walked up to them 733 00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,200 Speaker 2: and asked them a brand new question. 734 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,759 Speaker 1: I love it. I'm excited about this series. This is 735 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:12,280 Speaker 1: the beginning. This just the beginning. We we we we we, 736 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,000 Speaker 1: We got a lot of ground to cover. I want 737 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,920 Speaker 1: you online every day at seven am. 738 00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:24,000 Speaker 2: On in the car, treadmill, whatever, under the covers, eye boogers, whatever. 739 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, join the journey. Join the journey. 740 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,000 Speaker 2: You see, he's there all along in the little things, 741 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,759 Speaker 2: just the little little things. And and and they got there, 742 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,920 Speaker 2: to the to the place. Look at twenty eight again, 743 00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,040 Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty eight, twenty and they. 744 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 1: Approached the village, and Jesus continued on as if he 745 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:47,920 Speaker 1: were going farther. 746 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,919 Speaker 2: The journey starts where you are, but where it ends 747 00:45:55,080 --> 00:46:01,280 Speaker 2: depends on you, because they got there right, And Jesus 748 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,520 Speaker 2: is like, thanks for the company, I'll see you later. 749 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:06,319 Speaker 1: See you. 750 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:14,200 Speaker 2: Cleo, Yo, Cleo, I gotta go. Cleo got Peter to 751 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:15,480 Speaker 2: see things to do. 752 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,640 Speaker 1: Cleo said, hold on, hold on, hold, hold on. Look 753 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,000 Speaker 1: at verse twenty nine. They urged him strongly. 754 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:27,759 Speaker 2: Cleo said, although we've come to the end of the 755 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 2: amaeas road. Still, I can't let go. It's unnatural. You 756 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,759 Speaker 2: can't leave me now. You can't leave me. Now you 757 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,680 Speaker 2: started something, God, You've started something. 758 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,200 Speaker 1: In my life. Stay with me till it's sober. 759 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,720 Speaker 2: Stay with me, hold my head, walk with me, talk 760 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 2: with me. 761 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:59,279 Speaker 1: I mean you, every hour, stay with me. 762 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,440 Speaker 2: So he went in to stay with them, and they 763 00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:09,440 Speaker 2: sat down. Remember he's the same god who sent angels 764 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,600 Speaker 2: to a tomb. He's the god of the dramatic, but 765 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,360 Speaker 2: he's also the god of the details, because the Bible 766 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,719 Speaker 2: says while he was at the table with them, he 767 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:18,760 Speaker 2: took bread. 768 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:20,319 Speaker 1: He's always taken over. 769 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:26,239 Speaker 2: He takes over conversations, he takes over supper time. He's 770 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,440 Speaker 2: supposed to be a visitor, and he becomes a host, 771 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,640 Speaker 2: and he takes the bread. God wants to take your 772 00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,879 Speaker 2: life over today, don't you see it. You've been doing 773 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,240 Speaker 2: it on your own. 774 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:41,720 Speaker 1: You don't have to do it alone anymore. They invite 775 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:42,080 Speaker 1: him in. 776 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:49,480 Speaker 2: He takes over, takes the bread, breaks the bread like 777 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:50,280 Speaker 2: he was broken. 778 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:52,560 Speaker 1: Blesses it. 779 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:59,960 Speaker 2: Thank you Lord, he says, grace, and he breaks the bread. 780 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,680 Speaker 1: He gave him the bread that he had just finished breaking. 781 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,880 Speaker 2: And the Bible says that when he broke the bread 782 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,960 Speaker 2: to give it to them. I want to show you this, 783 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,359 Speaker 2: when he broke the bread to give it to them, 784 00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:15,120 Speaker 2: Verse thirty one. 785 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,320 Speaker 1: Then their eyes were open. 786 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,480 Speaker 2: What was revealed in the routine of the breaking of 787 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,080 Speaker 2: the bread that was not revealed all along the road? 788 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,759 Speaker 2: What did they see at that moment that they had 789 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:48,680 Speaker 2: not seen before? They saw it in his stars, They 790 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,480 Speaker 2: saw it in what he suffered. 791 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,480 Speaker 1: Do you see it? Do you see it? 792 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,960 Speaker 2: Sometimes you see him in the broken places more than 793 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,120 Speaker 2: when you see him in the blessed places. Sometimes you 794 00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:10,239 Speaker 2: have to see it in the scarf and the hands 795 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,160 Speaker 2: that had helped them all along revealed to them. 796 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,280 Speaker 3: When they saw his scars, then their eyes were opened 797 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:26,680 Speaker 3: and they recognized him. Open our eyes, Lord, open our eyes, 798 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:29,240 Speaker 3: open our eyes. 799 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,040 Speaker 1: Close your eyes. Quit focusing on what you got to 800 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,000 Speaker 1: do next. Close your eyes. Ask him. 801 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:40,000 Speaker 2: Open my eyes, Lord, out loud, Open my eyes, Lord. 802 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,840 Speaker 1: Ask him what the disciples asked him say, Stay with me, 803 00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:52,240 Speaker 1: tell them come on in going on a journey. 804 00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's with you in this journey. 805 00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:09,200 Speaker 4: Every mile, every detour, every detail, every dead end, every scar, 806 00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,960 Speaker 4: every struggle, He's with you. 807 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:17,640 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 808 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,400 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 809 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,960 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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