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Let's go for a walk with Jesus to Emmaus -join for communion-Luke 24 30-35

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  8. through the links below. So they wanted to take care of

  9. him. So the one of the students goes

  10. in the morning and says, brother, what would you like for

  11. breakfast? He said only light, very light

  12. breakfast. So he said, so still what do you

  13. want for light breakfast? What?

  14. What do you like to have? Something light?

  15. Just two dozen bananas, two dozen eggs and one dozen

  16. oranges. And you know, the list was going

  17. on. This fellow said, if this is

  18. only light, what are you going to eat in a heavy meal this

  19. morning? I want to preach very light,

  20. only light. So I was thinking about it and I

  21. said, God, what is the Scripture that you want me to speak about?

  22. You know, all scripture is God inspired, inspired by the Holy

  23. Spirit. But we need something that is in

  24. season because resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth has

  25. happened 2000 years ago and it looks very, I mean very far back

  26. in time. What does it mean to us today?

  27. There has to be practical relevance today.

  28. What does it mean to me to celebrate the resurrection of

  29. Jesus? And basically, I did not want to

  30. do. Usually I refuse to do this

  31. apologetic part. You know why?

  32. We can believe that He rose again from the dead.

  33. But I thought, let me do it in a light way again, just three

  34. points #1 we can believe that Jesus rose again from the dead

  35. because there is something undeniable existing in Israel,

  36. an empty tomb. That empty tomb no one can deny.

  37. Whether you are a friend of Jesus or enemy of Jesus, you are

  38. going to acknowledge that the tomb is empty.

  39. That is something that we need to explain.

  40. And the only explanation is that heroes again from the dead.

  41. That is the only explanation. You cannot explain in any other

  42. way. So the empty tomb is undeniable

  43. and enemies of Jesus also accepted the empty tomb.

  44. They could not refute it but try to explain away.

  45. Even after he was crucified and buried, the high priest go to

  46. the pilot and say hey, when he was alive he said he's going to

  47. rise up again. So let's make sure that his

  48. disciples don't steal the body and spread the news that he rose

  49. again. So they asked for Roman God to

  50. be posted at the posted at the tomb and they put the Roman seal

  51. on it so that no human can ever go.

  52. And the Roman soldiers have very well known for their duty.

  53. If they fall asleep on duty, they head will go.

  54. That's very strict about it. So they have to guard the tomb

  55. with their life. And when that happened in the

  56. early morning of Sunday morning and there was an earthquake and

  57. there were Angel of God, he rolled away the stone and he sat

  58. upon it. The soldiers saw and they were

  59. shaking in their boots and then they were running for their life

  60. and then the body just disappears from there.

  61. And then they know that Jesus body is not in the tomb.

  62. So they go to the high priest and say hey, this is something

  63. happened. We cannot handle this.

  64. This is beyond our duty, beyond our explanation, beyond our

  65. power. How do we do it?

  66. They said, don't worry, take this money and say the disciples

  67. came and stole the body and whether when the news goes up to

  68. the governor, we will take care of you guys, protect you.

  69. So they tried to spread a false rumor that he his body was

  70. stolen. But it cannot be, it cannot hold

  71. hold in the sense it cannot be really be held with honesty,

  72. integrity, because those guys know that it is not stolen.

  73. And we look into the lives of the disciples, everyone of them

  74. was before the cross or during the crucifixion.

  75. They all ran away, most of them except John the disciple and a

  76. few women, most of them ran away for their life.

  77. So these people who are full of fear, insecure, and those kind

  78. of people, after the resurrection, they become very

  79. bold, so bold that they are able to preach in the same streets of

  80. Jerusalem. Jesus, this Jesus.

  81. Whom you crucified God. Raised from the dead Not long

  82. after they preached the same message on the day of Pentecost.

  83. Peter preached it 3000. People believed in this new good

  84. news and they were saved. If it was not true that Jesus

  85. rose again from the dead, they could have produced the body and

  86. the Christianity would die the same day.

  87. It would not have come to us today.

  88. They could not do it. They cannot do it.

  89. They could not do it because it is just not possible to do it,

  90. because he rose again from the dead and everyone of them died a

  91. martyr. They gave their life to this

  92. gospel to preserve it, to preach it, and to proclaim the power of

  93. the name of Jesus. That is the second proof.

  94. And Paul when was writing the letter to Corinthians, 1

    1 Corinthians 15 chapter mention

  95. Corinthians chapter 15, he gives a list of people who have seen

  96. Jesus, list of people. And among them, one of the

  97. things he says is that at one time more than 500 people have

  98. seen the reason Jesus. How many people 500 Some people

  99. think you know, you can have hallucination.

  100. Hallucination is like if a if a woman has become a widow, the

  101. husband dies and she's sitting in a corner taking of the

  102. husband, taking of the love he showed, how much he sacrifice,

  103. how he lived for the family all the time.

  104. She's grieving and then suddenly she will see the husband walking

  105. in the corner of the room. That's called hallucination

  106. because she's been thinking and thinking and thinking and she

  107. can literally see the man walking there and she would say,

  108. oh, I see my husband is back again alive.

  109. That's called hallucination. Hallucination can happen to one

  110. person, but if two people are hallucinating, they will be

  111. hallucinating two different things, not the same thing.

  112. And here you have got 500 people seeing the reason Jesus, and

  113. that is not hallucination, it is revelation.

  114. It is encountering a living Jesus. 500 people and Paul says

  115. some of them are still alive out of the 500, some are still

  116. alive. You think this is something that

  117. you're being duped you're being deceived by a news that Jesus

  118. rose again from the dead. You can go and ask these people

  119. because they're still alive those three I stopped there much

  120. more to say about apologetics. I'm not a guy who's a big fan of

  121. apologetic, but I studied it and I know what what it is all

  122. about. And so I was thinking about the

  123. scripture portion that will be relevant to us.

  124. We now know that he rose again from the dead.

  125. We can have, we don't have to commit an intellectual suicide

  126. to believe that Jesus rose again from the dead.

  127. One of the first things that I ever was exposed to when I was

  128. taught the gospel of Jesus Christ is, is it reasonable to

  129. believe that Jesus rose again from the dead?

  130. Can we give any kind of a defense of the argument?

  131. And when I heard the defense of the arguments in favor of

  132. believing that Jesus rose, rose again from the dead, one truth

  133. that came into my heart is that Jesus is not just dead and gone,

  134. but is alive. As a Hindu boy, 15 year old,

  135. when I hear the gospel, the first thought that I came to my

  136. mind is to say I-1 evening I went and sat on a rock by myself

  137. and said to Jesus, I hear that you are a living God.

  138. If you are a living God, prove you're a living God.

  139. In my life, I don't even know what to what prayer is, but I

  140. said those words and you know Jesus heard those words of mine

  141. and he has been proving to me for the last 48 years that He is

  142. a living Christ. And what I am trying to say is

  143. that we all can experience this living Jesus.

  144. All that we need to do is to ask him.

  145. So many times when I speak to people who don't believe in

  146. Jesus, I tell them one simple thing.

  147. See, you don't have to believe what I'm saying to you.

  148. You sit down in a quiet place, calm down your mind and speak to

  149. this Jesus. This Ramana told me that you are

  150. a living Christ, can you prove yourself living God in my life?

  151. Same thing I did, I tell them to do, but I have not come across

  152. anyone guy saying yeah you told me.

  153. I have done it. I know he is a living one.

  154. No one has come back because people are not honest.

  155. They are not really seeking Christ.

  156. They are not really seeking truth.

  157. When they do, they will ask the same question I asked when I was

  158. a 15 year old guy. We need to have the hunger.

  159. You need to have the kind of a desire to know the truth because

  160. the truth will set you free. Many people are dishonest with

  161. themselves. So there is a reason why we

  162. don't see or meet Jesus in our lives.

  163. So one of the things that very much impressed me is we all will

  164. be going through lots of problems.

  165. And when Jesus was crucified, the atmosphere in Jerusalem was

  166. not a jubilant 1. There were these disciples who

  167. were fearful, hiding and when the news reached them that Jesus

  168. rose again from the dead, they could not believe it.

  169. It was just few women who visit the tomb and then this where

  170. they were wondering who is going to roll away the stone for us.

  171. And when they arrived there, the stone was already removed.

  172. And they go in and see there is no body, but there were two

  173. angels sitting, one at the place where Jesus head was laid at

  174. rest and one at his feet. They said, why are you looking

  175. for the one who is the living One among the dead?

  176. He has risen. Go and tell the disciples and

  177. tell them that he is going to meet them in Galilee.

  178. You know, when you read all those kind of things, it really

  179. challenges us. My question is how much do you

  180. believe that Jesus rose again from the dead?

  181. How much can you put a number on it?

  182. On a zero to 101, 100%? Be honest, if you believe Jesus

  183. rose again from 100%, If you believe with your heart, you

  184. will see science wonders and miracles because there is power

  185. in that belief. There is power and if there is,

  186. you do not see power. I would ask you to examine how

  187. much you really believe. This is greatest challenge for

  188. me. Every day I ask God help me to

  189. believe 100%. If there is only one person

  190. missing, I want you to do something to change it.

  191. Because I want to believe 100% with all my heart, with all my

  192. soul, with all my mind, with all my strength.

  193. I want to believe, I want to preach it, I want to experience

  194. it. That is my desire.

  195. And if you have the same desire this morning, I believe He is

  196. going to visit you this morning. So there were two people who are

  197. walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus and when they were walking they

  198. were talking about what happened in Jerusalem.

  199. And when you look into their psychological condition, it is

  200. very surprising. Enjoy.

  201. In Luke chapter 24, we see there were people, basically it was 7

    Luke 24 chapter mention

  202. miles from MIS, was 7 miles from Jerusalem.

  203. It's a couple of hours of walk and these people were walking

  204. and talking about what happened in Jerusalem, how Jesus was

  205. crucified, how he was buried, all those things.

  206. They were talking and basically they were feeling very sad.

  207. And when they were having uncertainty, when they were

  208. having fear, when they are having doubts, when they are

  209. having kind of don't know what is life holding for us?

  210. This is something we expected. He's going to be the Messiah.

  211. We thought he is a savior. We thought he's going to restore

  212. Israel now and now he's dead and buried.

  213. What is going to happen to us? We thought we are following him.

  214. He is the worth following. We.

  215. We want to sell everything we have to follow him.

  216. We want to make him a master. And now he is.

  217. Dead and buried. Is there any hope Indiana their

  218. countenance? When you look into their face,

  219. do you see hope? Nothing.

  220. And when they were walking silently, Jesus joined them,

  221. they started he, they were walking two of them, and Jesus

  222. joined them and they were, he was walking along with them.

  223. Many times in our life, when we are in the lowest point, Jesus

  224. starts to walk with you and you don't know it.

  225. He joins your walk of faith and your doubt, your struggle, your

  226. pain, and he is stop walking with you.

  227. But you don't see that He is with you.

  228. And when this is happening to them, he asked them, what are

  229. you discussing together as you walk along?

  230. What are you guys talking, huh? Or is the only one in Jerusalem

  231. who is a visitor and you don't know what's happening here.

  232. And then they, they stood still first, their faces downcast.

  233. Now look at these people. There's no hope.

  234. Indiana them, they have no hope. They must have known Jesus for

  235. three years and the three years of listening to him, seeing the

  236. miracles, has not put any kind of faith in them.

  237. There is no faith. Their faces are downcast.

  238. One of them named Cleopas asked him, Are you only a visitor to

  239. Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there

  240. in these days? What things?

  241. He asked about Jesus of Nazareth, they replied.

  242. He was a prophet, powerful in Word and deed before God and all

  243. the people. The chief priests and our rulers

  244. handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified

  245. him. But we had hoped that he was the

  246. one who was going to redeem Israel.

  247. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took

  248. place. In addition, some of our women

  249. amazed us. They surprised us.

  250. What did? Why?

  251. What did they do? They went to the tomb early this

  252. morning but didn't find his body.

  253. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels.

  254. Who said he was alive? Everybody say he is alive.

  255. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it, as the

  256. women had said. But him they did not see.

  257. There's a time you are walking in fear, uncertainty.

  258. He's walking with you and you don't see it.

  259. And these people ran to see him where they expected him to find

  260. him. They don't see him why he's not

  261. there. They're looking in the wrong

  262. place. Tomb is not the place to look

  263. for a living. Jesus is not the place.

  264. And they did not find him because that's not the place.

  265. He is going to be forever there. He rebuked them.

  266. He said to them, how foolish you are.

  267. I am telling you every time you read the word, it speaks to you

  268. and me, and so many times it rebukes me.

  269. How foolish am I? How foolish, how foolish.

  270. Why it is the such strong word did Jesus use?

  271. You are slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have

  272. spoken. The word of God is very

  273. powerful. Anyone single sentence can

  274. change your life. One sentence from the Bible, if

  275. you believe it, it is going to change your life.

  276. It has got that power. I can't hide it.

  277. I cannot hide it. How many times I have been

  278. heard, I have heard the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking the

  279. Scripture and all the oppression of the enemy just lifts like

  280. that in one second. I have experienced it and I tell

  281. you there is power in meditation of the scriptures.

  282. And if you go through this chapter, Luke 24, you see three

  283. times the word Scriptures is used there three times once you

  284. see in verse 27. And beginning with Moses and all

  285. the prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the

  286. scriptures concerning himself. What will you find in

  287. Scriptures? Jesus?

  288. Did they know the Scriptures? Did they have the Scriptures?

  289. They did. Did they find Jesus?

  290. No. So He had to teach them the

  291. Scriptures again, beginning from Moses, all the prophets and the

  292. Psalms. Oh, I tell you, yesterday I was

  293. thinking about it and the question popped up in my mind So

  294. many times these days in when you go into social media like

  295. YouTube, you see so many videos that talk about Book of Enoch,

  296. Book of Jubilees, Book of Estras and this and that Gospel of

  297. Thomas, Gospel of so many different kind of pseudo kind of

  298. things. The answer is in Luke 24.

  299. Say it answer is in Luke 24. What is the answer in Luke 24?

  300. Jesus explained the scriptures to them.

  301. From where? Beginning from Moses.

  302. That means the first five books and the prophets, all the

  303. prophets, major and minor prophets, and the Psalms.

  304. He explained to them about himself.

  305. Now this is the Canon accepted by the Jewish people of the 1st

  306. century. They accepted this 39 books that

  307. you hold in your Bible as a final revelation of God in the

  308. Old Testament, which they believe.

  309. And you may have other books like Enoch and things, but like

  310. they are not part of the Canon. They are not part of the Canon.

  311. When Jesus was approving those 39 books when he mentioned these

  312. things, I was wondering why should I have this 39 books are

  313. not other books. And when I was reading this Luke

  314. 24 yesterday it struck me like a lightning.

  315. I do not need this extra books anymore.

  316. Why? Because Jesus said this is

  317. enough to know him. You do not need Enoch.

  318. You do not need Jubilees. You do not need one.

  319. Is the 2nd through address 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees None of

  320. these books that are in the Catholic Bible you need them or

  321. in the Ethiopian Bible. They have 82 books, not 66.

  322. You don't need them because Jesus did not approve them.

  323. Anybody with me? Can I see your hand?

  324. Amen. So in this end times, this

  325. everything to tickle your ear will come in in the social

  326. media, but you need to be grounded in the world, be

  327. grounded in the world, be unshakable in the world because

  328. this word that you have in your hands is enough to reveal Jesus.

  329. And Jesus did exactly that by talking to those two guys,

  330. explained about himself from the Scriptures.

  331. Prove that he is the Messiah. He should suffer and die and

  332. rise again from the dead. Don't you know these things are

  333. written already? Why are you slow of heart?

  334. Why are you so foolish? I tried to read those books.

  335. Basically I tried to read, you know, I tried to read other

  336. books. It did not make sense to me.

  337. I said, ah, we don't need them. You have this Bible with 66

  338. books is enough revelation for knowing God, knowing salvation

  339. and to have hope for the future and to reign with crush forever.

  340. That's enough. And another time, you see again

  341. in verse 32, they asked each other, were not our hearts

  342. burning within us while He talked with us on the road and

  343. opened the scriptures. That's the second time we the

  344. word Scriptures is used. And the third time you see again

  345. was 45. Then he opened their minds so

  346. they could understand the scriptures.

  347. What am I talking about here? You can be reading this Bible,

  348. but I tell you, you will not understand unless the Holy

  349. Spirit opens your mind. Unless it's the revelation of

  350. the Holy Spirit, you will only be reading the words in black

  351. and white but does not benefit your spirit.

  352. The ministry of Jesus is continued by the Holy Spirit

  353. now. So every time you open the

  354. Bible, every day, you got to ask this Holy Spirit and say Jesus,

  355. Holy Spirit, give me revelation, teach me your word, teach me

  356. your word, you know, in Omega. Why are we so focused on

  357. studying the word week after week in home groups?

  358. Because that's going to do something to you.

  359. It will change you, will impart life to you, put hope Indiana

  360. you and faith in you and to make you holy and so that you will

  361. become like Jesus one day. That's the purpose of the Home

  362. group, and some of us don't go there because they don't want to

  363. become like Jesus. I'm just too harsh force, but

  364. I'm just trying to exaggerate the situation.

  365. What I'm trying to say is go to some Home group where the Word

  366. is studied. Why?

  367. When you go to the Home group, you're giving an occasion, an

  368. opportunity for the Holy Spirit to speak to you and give you a

  369. revelation because that revelation is what is going to

  370. change your life. And now when they were all these

  371. things were happening, when the the approach the Emmaus, they

  372. wanted to stay for the night where they must be wanting to go

  373. somewhere else next day morning. And Jesus acted as if he's going

  374. farther. And they said, oh, please stay

  375. with us tonight. It's already late and you may

  376. not come back to another village for a few more hours.

  377. It's very, very dark already. Please come and join us.

  378. OK, Just sit down at the table. And he gives thanks to the

  379. bread, and he breaks the bread. And as they were watching the

  380. action of Jesus, their eyes were opened and they recognized that

  381. the guest who walked with them is Jesus himself.

  382. Jesus himself has walked with them for two hours.

  383. Because to explain about himself from the from Moses, through

  384. prophets, through the Psalms is going to take the two hours of

  385. time. And I think it is very, very

  386. short course. Three years of theology in

  387. modern day seminary may not, may not do anything compared to the

  388. two hours of walking with Jesus and hearing from Him.

  389. He did teach them and that changed their life.

  390. And when he broke the bread, when they saw his hands and the

  391. bread in his hand, their eyes were opened.

  392. Today, as we partake in the communion, I pray that the Holy

  393. Spirit will open your eyes. Open your eyes to see Jesus.

  394. I want the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to see Jesus.

  395. We it's not. You are eating a piece of bread,

  396. drinking a little bit of grape juice.

  397. That's not the purpose. The purpose is encounter Jesus

  398. through the communion. You are partaking.

  399. The bread stands for Jesus himself, His body.

  400. That's broken for us. And you learn to feed on the

  401. broken body of Jesus. You learn to feed on the death

  402. of Jesus. The effect of Jesus, the more

  403. you think about it, the more you mediate upon it, the more you

  404. feed upon it, the death of your flesh will occur, your flesh

  405. will die, and the Spirit will be imparted with life.

  406. It will be raised up with new life.

  407. Do you want that to happen today?

  408. So everything is symbolic then, full of deep meaning, because

  409. Jesus said I am the bread of life.

  410. And these Jewish people, they know that God Yahweh has fed

  411. their ancestors with manna from heaven.

  412. You neither sow nor reap, and you just have food.

  413. Every morning you go out and collect it and they were able to

  414. ferry it, bake it, cook it, boil it and eat it and never went

  415. bad. But anything they purposefully

  416. they leave it behind next day morning so rotting because they

  417. were told to collect only as much as they need for the day.

  418. And that manner rule has not changed.

  419. Has it changed? No, you read Bible today, not

  420. enough. That's only for today.

  421. You cannot survive tomorrow again on that, you need to read

  422. the Bible again tomorrow. Why?

  423. That is how God designed human beings to feed on Him every day

  424. and derive life from His word. Your design like that, It's like

  425. an aeroplane that cannot fly if there's no petrol in it.

  426. Oh, I filled the petrol. We have already were flying for

  427. the last 2000 kilometers and next 1000 kilometers it will not

  428. run. You have to fill it again.

  429. Same way we are designed to feed on the Word of God day daily,

  430. daily, daily. And then you derive your life,

  431. your strength, your hope, your everything, faith from that

  432. word. So then what happened?

  433. He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it

  434. to them. Then their eyes were opened and

  435. they recognized Him and He disappeared from their sight.

  436. They asked each other. Were not our hearts burning

  437. within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the

  438. scriptures? Has it happened to you anytime

  439. when you read the Bible? Did your heartburn anytime even

  440. once? It happens in your lifetime.

  441. That will change the way you read your Bible.

  442. Sometimes it's just a scripture flashes in your mind.

  443. I was reading a book by Martin Lloyd Jones.

  444. He was called Prince of Preachers.

  445. He was called Preaching on Fire, and he just quoted from Matthew

  446. 4. Man shall not leave a bread

  447. alone in brackets, not in the main text, in the brackets.

  448. And I was reading it, and strangely my heart became warm

  449. and that warmth flushed through my body.

  450. Man shall not leave my bread alone, but by every word that

  451. proceeds from the mouth of God. We had to learn to feed on this

  452. Word because that is the only way you can feed on Jesus.

  453. The Word and Jesus synonymous in the beginning was the Word and

  454. the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word

  455. became flesh and dwelt among us. We beheld His glory as of the

  456. only begotten Son, full of glory, with grace and truth,

  457. full of grace and truth. We have to learn to feed on this

  458. Word because when you read the Word, your fellowship with

  459. Jesus, when you believe the Word, you are believing in

  460. Jesus. And what trouble can stand

  461. before you when you carry Jesus in your heart?

  462. Like the priests of the Old Testament, when they were

  463. wanting to crossover the Jordan their their feet, they dipped

  464. into the water and stood there with the ark of the covenant

  465. held by them. And when the feet touched the

  466. water, the waters were cut off from a kilo mile or so more, and

  467. there was no drop of water flowing and more than 2 million

  468. people crossed on dry ground in shortest time possible.

  469. When you carry this presence of Jesus in your heart, when you

  470. carry the presence of Jesus in your heart, that River Jordan

  471. will stop. When you carry this presence of

  472. Jesus in your heart, that Red Sea is going to split open and

  473. give you the way. There will not be a trouble that

  474. will put you down. There is no ocean that is going

  475. to sink you down, and there is no trouble that is going to

  476. defeat you because you have God dwelling in you.

  477. And that's possible only by meditating on the Scripture,

  478. studying the Scriptures, believing it, obeying it.

  479. That is what God told. Joshua made it upon it day and

  480. night, not 5 minutes in the morning, not 5 minutes in the

  481. evening, day and night. So their hearts were burning

  482. because their eyes were open to Scripture.

  483. He opened the Scriptures and that brought that burning in the

  484. heart and they recognized Jesus. I tell you, this revelation has

  485. to come. And when the revelation comes,

  486. the life will be completely changed, completely changed.

  487. So I was just thinking about to tie it around, we need something

  488. because we are people who want something that we can feel,

  489. something we can imagine, something we can connect with,

  490. relate. So I was looking for a story

  491. that will help us remember these things.

  492. So the story is set in the Second World War.

  493. You know how Americans dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Nagasaki,

  494. the hydrogen bomb and completely Japan was surrendered and had to

  495. surrender. And the war was called up after

  496. that. Basically it came to an end.

  497. And there is a man who is an American pilot, his name is

  498. Jacob de Schezer. And he was captured even though

  499. they won the war, he was captured and he was rotting in

  500. Japanese jail for many years. And he they would torture him

  501. every day, torture, torture, torture.

  502. And ultimately he was set free. But when he was in the jail

  503. being tortured, he was given opportunity to read this Bible

  504. for three weeks, only three weeks.

  505. And those three weeks he read the Bible.

  506. He was hungry man. Every word.

  507. He was reading it 3-3 weeks, day and night, he read the Bible and

  508. something changed in his heart. He forgave his captors.

  509. He forgave the people who were torturing him.

  510. He forgave everybody. And when he was afterwards set

  511. free, he went back to America and then did some theological

  512. core training and he got married and then went back to Japan to

  513. preach the gospel. The same people who tortured

  514. him, he went back with the gospel of Christ.

  515. And he wrote a small pamphlet thing, 11 sheet of paper about

  516. his testimony, why he is preaching the gospel now, and

  517. that is distributed widely. And there was another man, a

  518. Japanese, and this man's name is Mitsuo Fuchira.

  519. Mitsuo Fuchira. He was involved in bombing of

  520. the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. And then he had different

  521. assignments. He arrived into Hiroshima,

  522. Nagasaki, 2 days after the bombing.

  523. So many times in between he was close to death.

  524. He would escape it only by a very little chance, and he never

  525. understood what is the purpose of life.

  526. After the war he went back home completely disillusioned,

  527. depressed, had no hope and didn't know why he was living.

  528. I tell you, what can war do to man?

  529. Man is not made to live with violence.

  530. No, the more a man is indulging in violence, the more his soul

  531. dies inside. And why so many soldiers have to

  532. be counseled, put into psychiatry wars when they go

  533. into war, because it does something, it devastates them to

  534. kill another man, divestes the man.

  535. Even the people who are sitting behind somewhere, somewhere in

  536. America and they are trying to put, I mean, bomb a place in

  537. Iran, they may be sitting here and controlling through

  538. computers and they are not directly involved in killing

  539. anybody, but they are causing those things to happen.

  540. And sitting in America, that man needs psychological treatment

  541. because he cannot imagine that he can sit here and push a

  542. button and the people are dead there.

  543. Buildings are collapsing. Many, much of much of a

  544. devastation is happening. Why?

  545. Why is man so fragile? And this man, Mitsuo Fuchiro

  546. Fuchira, was also a fragile man. He was broken completely and one

  547. day he got to read Jacob Deshazes testimony.

  548. He read that and then he he wanted to buy a Bible and he

  549. went and bought the Bible. He was reading it very, very

  550. carefully. And as he was reading he was he

  551. came to Luke chapter 23 and he saw Jesus hanging up on the

    Luke 23 chapter mention

  552. cross and he said those words. Father forgive them, for they

  553. don't know what they are doing when he read that.

  554. Words, I tell you, he heard the voice of God.

  555. He said this gospel is true. And he forgave the Americans

  556. because they came and bombed Japan.

  557. You cannot talk about these things without feeling.

  558. Emotional if I am dead. Inside I can read and not be

  559. affected. But I am a human being.

  560. I love people. I wanted to be saved and this

  561. man he met. Jacob D.

  562. In Japan they were enemies before the war, but now they are

  563. brothers in the Lord. They are preaching the gospel

  564. together. I want you to know that this

  565. Jesus is alive, the one who met Jacob Dsenger, the one who

  566. meets, meets you of Fuchida. He is the same one who wants to

  567. meet you today. And I want.

  568. Your eyes to be opened. When you eat that bread and

  569. drink that juice, I want your eyes to be opened.

  570. I want you to fellowship with this Jesus.

  571. I want you to know Him and His power of resurrection.

  572. My Friends, Life is incomplete if you don't know this Jesus in

  573. a dynamic way, if your heart is not burning, if your eyes are

  574. not being opened, you are eating a piece of bread and drinking a

  575. bit of juice. But I want you to do go beyond

  576. eating a piece of bread. I want you to partake in the

  577. living Jesus. I want you to feed upon the

  578. living Jesus. And I want you to fellowship

  579. with this Jesus. I want you to have walk in

  580. Revelation. I welcome you to walk with Jesus

  581. to MIS today. And in that, in where they

  582. stopped as he broke the bread, their eyes were open to

  583. recognize him. Today I want you to have that

  584. experience of meeting living Jesus.

  585. Not an idea, not a philosophy. It is a person who lived 2000

  586. years ago and allowed you and died for you.

  587. He rolls again from the dead. He's seated by the redhead of

  588. the Father, as he is there, you are there, not here, and he

  589. gives you power. To trounce down, to trample down

  590. snakes, carving all the power of the enemy and he.

  591. Wants to give you the. Power to open the eyes of the

  592. blind to make the deaf. Here don't speak lamb walk and

  593. then to raise the dead. Do you want to partner?

  594. And partake. In this Jesus, this.

  595. Morning we have two tables, feel free to pick up piece of bread

  596. and little bit of juice and come back to your seat and we will

  597. partake together. And you encounter Jesus as you

  598. eat his bread, as you eat his body and drink his blood.

  599. Can somebody play music when this is going on?

  600. Thank you, Jesus. Castre Barano, Mastakuroni,

  601. Shahastre Sarano, Rabasoni rehasse Karasandarano.

  602. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

  603. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

  604. Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus.

  605. I hear the Lord Jesus say now I have not held back, not even oh

  606. .001% on the cross. I didn't hold back myself.

  607. I had given myself to 100%. I have loved you 100% and I gave

  608. my life 100%. Not 99% receive that life.

  609. Let's give thanks for his broken body and the shed blood.

  610. Father, we thank you for your son Jesus.

  611. We thank you, Lord, for the broken body and the shed blood

  612. as we partake in this body and the bread of Jesus.

  613. Open our eyes to see Jesus, that we may recognize Him.

  614. That we may know Him, That we may fellowship with Him, That we

  615. may receive revelation of him. That we may encounter him from

  616. the Genesis to revelation as we read the Bible every day.

  617. That we may encounter him. That we may derive life from

  618. him. That we may feed upon him, be

  619. energized by him, be strengthened by Him being built

  620. on hope and faith To walk like Him, to love like him, to

  621. forgive like him. We thank you again for your Son

  622. Jesus, and the precious blood is shed as you partake in it.

  623. Make it a living encounter with Jesus through your Holy Spirit.

  624. Thank you Lord, for answering this prayer in Jesus mighty

  625. name, Amen. Let's partake together.

  626. Talk to him, talk to him, talk to Jesus, talk to him, talk to

  627. him. That He may open your eyes, that

  628. your hearts may burn when read the Word, that you may know Him

  629. and His power of resurrection in your daily life.

  630. The glory of His name. Father, we praise you again for

  631. feeding us with the body and the bread of Christ.

  632. Thank you for this experience today.

  633. We thank you Lord. May it not end today.

  634. We will continue every day to the glory of Your name.

  635. We worship your Father, we worship with Jesus, we worship

  636. you. Holy Ghost, thank you again for

  637. your word. Cause it to bear fruit to the

  638. glory of your name and Jesus Mighty name.

  639. We have asked and everybody says Amen.

  640. Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

  641. If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to

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