The Promised One: Week 1 The Road to Emmaus

Read Luke 24

As I am reading through one of the first things that strikes me is as Jesus is walking with the two gentlemen they do not know who He is. He has kept his identity unknown. So did Jesus look the same as always including the scares? What made Him different that they didn't know that it was indeed Jesus?

"Evidently God purposefully wanted to keep them from recognizing Jesus, perhaps so that they would not become so caught up in him actually being alive that they would not be able to think through what he had to teach them"

"We want our eyes to be opened to see Jesus in the Old Testament. We want our hearts to burn as this revelation kindles in us a fresh passion for Jesus and we want our minds to be opened so that we understand the Scriptures."

Tell some of what you remember thinking about the Bible from your childhood?
I remember the basic stories. Not that they are not important but the same basic stories retold. Noah and the Ark, Adam and Eve, Jonah and the giant fish. etc. The one thing I can pick out right now based off the introduction to this book is not once did they relate to the coming of Christ when told. They were all told as individual stories or lessons.

Imagine you are walking on the road to Emmaus, what have you just seen and heard and experienced in Jerusalem? What questions are in your mind and what concerns in your heart?
I guess immediately I think of sorrow of the loss of the man that many thought was the messiah. The confusion over who was this man and where does that leave us now? Think on the concerning news that the body can't be found. Where would the body go, why would someone steal it? Why would this man say He is one thing but turn out not to be? WHo is the messiah if not this man Jesus?

What do you think it must have been like to realize that there was something they had missed and to have Jesus take them through the Old Testament revealing how it pointed to him?
Well first my pride flares up a bit and it is a little difficult to be told you are wrong you didn't understand, especially seeing as the Torah was something they would have known well. And thought to understood well.  But I think as the lesson unfolded and I began to see what I had missed all along my tune would change. I would be amazed at the underlying story that I had been missing this entire time. I think to even now. I love to read the Bible but I haven't felt sucked into it like a typical romance novel, but maybe with these new lenses I will develop from reading this book I will find the heart throbbing love story I love to read.

Why am I partaking in this study? What do I hope to gain from this investment of time and effort? How do I want to be different after I read this book?
Initially I started this study because a couple friends were doing it and I had heard it is a fantastic book. But after reading only a few pages I realized that I am ecstatic to read this book. I am so looking forward to challenging my thinking and finding Jesus in the Old Testament. I want to be able to read through the Bible and see what God is teaching. one illustration in the book thus far is how Abraham took Issaic. While it is probably not wrong to think in terms of following hard after God and doing whatever He asks, it might also be as correct and thought provoking to think of it as God to will offer up His son, except there will not be a ram in the thickets, Jesus will breath a last breath before death for our sins.