Road to Emmaus | Pr Matthew Chang

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I just want to start off by saying that things

can happen very quickly, you know, right, things can happen

very very quickly. How many of you cannot accept that

you are this all and such already. It's like I

woke up and I'm forty plus. I thought I was

still like fifteen and sixty. You know, things can just happen,

and when you wake up, your realize like, oh wow,

I didn't realize that. You know, I have a family ready,

you know, I didn't realize that. Theyn't realize that waking

up and not getting from my bed. It's a bit

harder readly, my my lower back is not responding as well.

That ah is like I thought I was still young,

you know, young and hard. But the body catching up, baha,

body catching up, you know. But I just want to

let you know that it's the same thing that's happening

on Friday, on Good Friday as well. Did you know

that that things happened very fast for Jesus, for the disciples,

and for the entire nation of Israel as well. Things

happened very fast. Right now, it's what time exactly eleven

twenty two, right, if Jesus yesterday, No, Jesus was betrayed

at twelve o'clock. By now you'll be seeing hanging on

the cross since nine o'clock. Ready, how many of you

were await since nine o'clock? Some of you were not

even awake? Did you know that Jesus was arrested by

twelve pm?

Last night?

Some of you already fell asleep, and when you wake up,

Jesus was already hanging on the cross. Did you know

that within nine hours he went through? How many trials?

Did you know that? How many trials did he went through?

At twelve o'clock he was captured? There? You know how

many trials that he went through? Six trials, not one,

six trials, three under Jewish court, although two of them

were illegal, one okay, official, one in the morning the

tool illegal at nine one, and then three under the

Roman court. Within the spend of nine hours, six trials

are and then that six hours, not just within that

night hour, not just six trials, but then flogging and

then crucifixion, worthy and sentencing. Can you tell me any

law in this whole beautiful world that has this kind

of law that allows you to go through six trials,

not just within twenty four hours, but within nine hours.

One if I tell you that Selena, you know, if say,

for example, hypothetically, okay that you like, say, you know,

God going to trouble with the police, Okay, like maybe

twelve o'clock midnight, do you think you'll be going through

six courts and then already sentence worthy in jail, then

by them by the morning we wake up already see

Selena on the newspaper, already done.

Ready, it's unheard of. One and all.

You must understand that things move so fast. The night before,

before Jesus was arrested, arrested, things were still going fine,

you know, no problem. You know, everybody was still welcoming.

But by the morning six seven o'clock, everybody was calling

to crucify him. You know it's like like you know,

you come to churcha everybody you just had supper with them.

But by this morning you wake up and you come

to you come to know, whatever you are, everybody is

calling to crucify you.

Already.

Things change very fast. If you read the details of

the gospel. That's how fast things change, you know, mm,

some of you you have no realization.

Isn't it so fast?

So fast?

That we know?

That's why when Jesus says, you know when when when

the day comes out, people won't even have time to

respond and know that's why, like the ten foolish Virgins are,

then you must always keep your oil with you because

when it happens, things happen so fast your life. You're

trying to respond to life, but you realize that because

you're not prepared, your heart is not even prepared to

respond to God. Things happen so so fast. Six trials, okay,

four of them were actually illegal, Okay, happened and before

you know it, Jesus.

Is already on the cross ready.

Everybody mocking him from nine o'clock in the morning all

the way until three o'clock. He died by three o'clock.

You know why he has to die. By the way,

when you crucify, you're not supposed to die very quickly.

One No, okay, you're not supposed to die very quickly.

And after you die, you're not supposed to get a burial.

One Jesus was the exception. Then you're not supposed to

get a burial one. Why because when you hang on

the cross, you're supposed to hang for days and weeks,

and then when your body is rotten as meley, no

burial side will receive you. So what they do they

take your nail bit because nails are very expensive. They

burn your body or the lady for the for the birds,

if they have not already finished with you. So burial

was not It's actually not the normal case. It is

an exception. And Jesus had died on the spot. They

were shot that he died on the spot. Okay, that

is why they two other robbers they actually stabbed to

kill them immediately. One okay, either that or they break

their legs. You know why they break their legs? Not

you know why they break their legs because normally when

you hang across, you die from exphyxiation. You know how

they nail your legs? One they don't a lot of times.

There are two ways when they crucify you. They can

overlap your legs on the beam and then they drive

through that. But rarely they do that. Most of the times,

if you study the history, if this is the beam,

they will put your leg on the side and on

the other side, and then they drive their nail on

the side, so you'll be like riding on the bicycle,

but then your legs are pin and you're hanging there,

and when you breathe, you are stepping on the bike

like that, but through the nails on your heat. Imagine

like peddling like that through your heel, just to breathe.

And then for days and weeks, but most of the

time they're by a few days, you're aready gone ready,

and they will put your cross out on the main highway. Okay,

if there's an LDP or there's any highway, you will

see that cross. They make sure you see it because

it's reserved for the worst offenders, and it's the Roman

way of telling you behave, really, really really behave now.

Jesus was buried, okay after at three o'clock they had

to remove the body because pass over Jerusalem cannot allow

anyone dying on the cross, anyone who is by that time,

they must be removed. So they were rushing for time.

That is why Jesus had to die by nine o'clock.

They were raising against time to prosecute him, to push

for a death sentence under the Roman law because the

Jewish colt cannot put death sentence. Only the Roman court can.

So from midnight until nine o'clock it was a rush

against time. It was it was like the bad guy's

mission impossible. Here I'm saying it was next next time,

when I have a chance that I would share you

how this mission impossible happened. It is a rush against

a rush against time. There were pushing and pushing. By

the time, I think about six seven o'clock, they were

already in the Roman cart with Ponchious Pilot already telling

him crucified, Crucifi and Pilot tree four times, try to

release Jesus. It was a fourth fan back, fourth fan

bad for fan back, the last thing that was trying

to say, I released a prisoner, so they exchange for

Jesus don't want Then I said, I flogged him. Flogging

is not part of crucifixion, by the way, you know,

when the Jesus was banned was with but he was

not part of crucifixion. Now they were flogging him so

that they can spare him the crucifixion. See, I flogged him. Really,

by the time when they're flogged him, he was unrecognizable.

You know what I'm saying because Flash was not just

torn from his bag, but from the front as well.

He was unrecognizable already. Okay, you say, don't say this.

They behold. Then they said, no, we want him dead.

The people, these people, they know what they want. Man.

They were rushing against time to get him killed.

So finally when they got over there one okay, Jesus

died by three o'clock, body removed, buried, And then you

must can imagine what will happen with all the disciples.

You must understand now, if you're a disciple, your follow Jesus,

you are shot or so on. Like I said, you

wake up this morning and you realize there's a dead

man hanging there, how.

Would you feel some days of his old spot?

Already you know, everybody is still is shocked, you know,

by what happened on Friday. And by Saturday morning. Okay,

you hear the most incredible thing. Women who gave their testimony.

They saw angels, they saw the tomb was empty. And

by the time you must understand now that society view

the women's testimony as not standing, as not not good valid,

as that the review their testamenty it's not worthy because

of the society system, and so people really didn't believe.

You know, people say, oh, the tomb is empty. You know,

some women say that they saw angels. You know what happened,

you know, and first people there were shocked to hear this,

and who were not the public were the Disciples, because

this information was only known to two people, the Disciples

and the Roman and the Jewish people. Okay, now I'm

going to go through maybe a few key obstacles that

people have regarding the resurrection. How many of you still

have problems rebelieving in the resurrection that Jesus is alive?

You know, you always believe. Yeah, I've seen Jesus before.

I believe easy, no problem, I've seen Jesus. Jesus is alive.

You go to anyone, uh really, non Christians, if you

ask them, they're okay with Jesus being a good teacher.

They're okay, Jesus is he healed and here helped my finances.

I'm okay Jesus died also, But if you tell me

Jesus rose from her dead, I have a big problem

with that.

I'm saying no to me.

Honestly, there was a big stumbling block in my life

as well, I really had a big trouble and time

believing that Jesus is alivee you, I'm saying not because

no one has ever seen. No one has ever seen.

And I've got a few problems as well, and people.

If people are gonna ask an evidence for me that

Jesus is alive, how am I going to produce it?

Okay?

So I'm gonna address some of these things with you, guys,

not from my own words. I'm gonna share with you

what the Bible teaches us, teaches the believers to respond.

How God addresses not just this question, but this generation.

You know, I'm saying, no, it's not just dealing with

a question, He's dealing with a generation. Okay, So how

do we What are some of the evidences of the

empty tomb?

So prepare slides here.

So how many of you people, how many of you

have heard before that people have said that Jesus disciples

stole the body? Yeah, I'm sure people have said, well,

Jesus disciples steal the body. And then another theory says

that Jesus didn't die, he actually survived the crucifixion. He

was flung and he hung there. And after that, when

they buried him. Okay, he somehow survived, and he pushed

the stone away. He left and he went up to

the northern France region. There there he stayed and lived

as a cottage until the day he died. And somehow

he has children, and somehow then we got the da

Vinci code. You know, No, that's what they said, you

know what I mean, right, they sent me that Jesus

somehow survived. Now you can you want the possibilities. There's

always possibilities. You come saying, not you somehow in the galaxy,

the Milky Way and beyond all the galaxy, you can

find another Joel as well.

There's a possibility, right, It is.

A possibility, as far as how difficult it is, it

is a possibility. Right, some someway somewhere, you know, we

can find exactly the same cloud in the far end

of the universe.

We can find possible as well.

We will still believe because our why why would we rather.

Take hold of that?

Because our hearts are not ready for a reason. Lord,

that's a problem. Our hearts are not ready. We cannot

imagine our lives ready to receive a reason.

Lord.

Because the day that there is a reason, Lord, your

life is no longer your own.

You come saying your life is no longer your own.

And that's a big problem because I've met plans, i

have dreams, I have my routines, examine right the day.

There is a reason lot I am accountable, and nobody

likes accountability. Talk about if you go on social media,

how many people love to talk about your rights, my right,

my right, my right, my right everything su su su

ai now makes it easy for you to sue another

person as well.

You know what I'm saying. So everybody loves to do that.

So people say, Jesus store his body and Jesus didn't die.

Let let's look at that. Start with the physical thing.

Let's look at that stone. You know how big is

that stone? And how heavy is that stone? Don't look

at I give the answer? Ready, Bo, you need me

and I need to fish, bamb I need to a sinker.

You need to you need to dance with me on

this bro. That's kidding, just kidding, and just skidding.

I'm just kidding.

Is getting It's not your fault. It's not your fault.

I didn't prompt you that, by the way, just now,

I was I was looking for the car Holn. I

was like, where's the stage or is the car? Where

is it coming from? And is it hiding behind the pillar? Yeah?

I realized that Tima, you're there, you know, waste tim wasting,

Oh the toilet now you so it's always hiding now

he played from the toilet.

I realized it was playing from there.

You were doing something and they're playing the multitasking very

well done anyway anyway, just yeah, don't give it to me,

I give it to him. Okay, okay, So you know

how how heavy the stone weighs. The stone that is

heavy and big for a reason, because it stinks and

the stench and.

It's not just just a smell.

And all the people in Israel, especially during Passover, they

have to make sure nothing dead will defile that day,

you know what I'm saying. No, they cannot go into

a gentiles place, They cannot touch a dead body, let

alone smell that body, you know what I'm saying. So

when they do a burial, they make sure that it's

properly sealed off and it's not just sell. And then

you know that stone, how much it wins one to two? Tanza,

how many have you participated in you know, there's a

strong man's competition, you know, the strong man.

You know, they take this.

Big thing and then then they're throwing up you and

then they don't carry these things. I'm pretty sure. I

think the heaviest way they actually even dead lifted. I

think it's about five hundred six hundred kilo that leave

only I just move a few inches of the grammar

when they drop radio. Let alone, now to push one

to two tons? A what Jesus, after scourging became extra strong?

Is it? Somehow the birds of adrenaline allow her? And

this is not down here, are up here because they

locked by making it down here, they lock it so

when you open it you have to push it up

here one on, not not a lot like gamming. Right,

that's how they locked it. They measure this locked down here,

you have to push it upwards one to two tons.

You know. The second problem is that the gods. You know, now,

when you crucify someone as the Roman, you must understand

crucifixion and death sentence is only done by the Roman people,

not by the Jewish people.

They don't have that right. Okay.

Capital punishment is only reserved for the Roman government. Okay,

and when they crucify someone, they make sure they send

a message and they make sure that you're really dead.

If they are very proud that they invented the crucifixion,

they're very proud about it, okay. In the Roman empiies

recorded that every day they rope, they will they they

actually probably say that they crucified a few people around

the empire one and know a few people, okay. And

even when there was a rebel, I think I think

that's the Spartacus rebellion, when it was Quella, they actually

crucified what There are a few thousands of them along

the Apian Highway, just so that when people walk around

the major highway into Rome, they will see all the

crucified people leading into Rome. As a reminder that Road

Missing Control actually visited the Epian Highway before past through

the gate. It's quite amazing. They're still heavy. You can

cat see, but not the cross like okay, pies.

Really, it's well known.

If they invented such a torture and the execution system

and the person survived, what do you think people will

think of it? You don't invent the cross for a

person to have the possibility to survive on, okay, and

just to make sure that Jesus is really there. The

priests and the leaders they ask for gods to watch

over the stone so that just in case the disciples

were still. Because the Romans and the priests and the leaders,

they are agendas are aligned.

You get me.

They have no interest to see Jesus walking out. And

the Jewish people have no interest to see Jesus walking

out because they just murdered him with improper trial. And

if they were, it's not that Jesus will survive. They

will ask people will ask why did Jesus even go

to the grave the first time?

If what he.

Says is true, then jesus resurrection will become a testimony

against their guilt. You I'm saying, no, no, These two

parties have no interest to see Jesus alive. So they

put soldiers after that in front of it. And not

only soldiers, but they put a seal, a Roman seal, okay,

a Roman seal that was put over it with ropes

and the wax. Okay, this Roman wax is to let

you know this this is guarded and nobody can remove it.

If you break it, you'll be the Roman people like

you put letters. You cannot simply open it because of

the seal. Instead, I'm saying, so nobody can do it

one and all and so because of all these things, right,

it's very hard for the for the Mission Impossible team

to go and really open up this thing. I don't know,

maybe even hun from Mission Ipossible already existed by the time,

but it's really, really, really hard. Now. Another issue arises, Okay,

where they put it, uh they came about this is

that if you talk about, uh, the disciples, right, you

must understand the condition they were in.

Okay.

They just saw their lord dying on the cross. They

just saw Judas hanging himself after betraying Jesus. They just

saw their leader, Peter denying Jesus three times.

Like I said, twenty four hours.

A lot of things have happened. They were pretty shocked, okay,

and out of nowhere. Can you really think about it that, Hey,

we got a big master plan, Peter Haddle know the

disciples to get everybody. Lets huddle together. I got a

big plan. What's a big plan? You know, we're gonna

steal the body? Yeah, and then what is that? What's

the next big plan? You're a fist Palma. We're gonna

tell everybody Jesus is a lie. Yeah, and then everybody's

gonna call us crazy, and then the Romans and the

Jewish people are gonna hunt us. Yeah, and then we're

gonna all die horrible deaths. You can you imagine, you know,

if that's what they really want. Then there was some people.

Actually there's a parody. There's a skid that did it,

and I thought it was quite cool, but I couldn't

find the skid. You know, if I show you, is

there any riches, any glory, any you know, position in politics? No,

next life maybe not this life, next life? Ah, What

a good contractor what a good contractor to sign up

for that are? It's it's quite hard to imagine that

people will actually sign up for that all. But yet

when you look at the transform Lives or the Disciples,

how far they are willing to go for that. Either

they are really mad. Okay, they are really really mad,

and not just they are manner. The enemies of Jesus

are mad because Paul was one of the main prosecutors

of the Disciples and Jesus one of the main prosecutors.

You know, this guy has been terrorizing all the believers are,

and he became a convert testifying that Jesus is alive.

You know, he's the last guy you will invite to

speak in church, you know what I'm saying. No, he

will be like one of those guys who probably have

prosecuted and from people somewhere, you know, in other countries.

They said, Oh, by the way, you know I've done

this before.

I admit that.

You know, these are all the listen names, and you

probably heard all the Instagram things about him. By the way,

can I speak in your church? You all would have

a meeting with your pastors and elders. You know, you

get what I'm saying. You know you will have a

meeting with a past are usually you want to invite

this guy. You know, I don't think he should be

coming into our country. You know you will have a problem.

But this guy really dedicated his life far to the

riches of the Anna to testify about Jesus. And so

we answer some of these things when we we talk

with our friends. Hey, you know some of these things

like the stone is too heavy, the Roman gods. You know,

you know about the disciples to your friends, how many

of you will do that?

I don't know that.

You know, you've got time with apologetics. But then your

friend asked this one ultimate question that most of us

finding how to answer. You know, what's that question? If

Jesus is alive, how come he never appear in front

of me?

True or not? True or not?

Simple answer, say, oh, this thing is fine. You give

me a history lesson, but people will answer. You said,

Jesus that how came we never appear in front of me?

Solve the problem withima? Appear in front of all the

bad people just by the you know, I mean Jesus. Ah,

I don't know he will do that, you know, but

he probably not. Not in the dark lab by probably

growing white light, you know, appear in front of the

priest there and pray in front of the people.

Go to Rome.

Know, maybe done, Jesus great, done a lot of things.

You know. I must understand that Jesus is not a museum.

Jesus is not a circus. We pay we extrac hey

see I say, yeah, don't want to see aye, or

you waste that lie. You know, Jesus is not a

circus in a museum. And I want to share with

you as I draw to my second half a very

powerful passage about how God actually works his appearance.

And his life in the life of believers.

You can't want you want to know that, so that

you will, you will, you will, you will understand the

evidence not based on the kingdom of the world, but

based on the Kingdom.

Of God, how it works. Okay.

So let's turn with me very quickly to liok okay Lilk,

chapter twenty four, and I'm going to read here from

verse thirteen to verse thirty four. Okay, how many of

you have held this passage the road to em Oh

my God, I love this story, really really love this story.

I'm going to read here from verse thirteen. Now it's

saying it's now behole. Two of them were traveling that

same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven

miles from Jerusalem. Is probably from here back to Batalinja. Yalla,

I know about their other day, okay. And they talked

together of all these things which happen. Whatever I'm talking

to you, They were talking about it as well. There's

all these things that happen. And so it was while

they converse and reason that Jesus himself drew near and

went with them. Okay, Now, they say it. I know,

I saw it in history before you know Archaelog They said,

this road images is just a very barren road, very

barren road. You know, it's you want. There's nothing, you know,

there's not that villages. It's a very very barren, very tricky,

very desert rope.

Okay. And suddenly one man appearing at.

It's very rare, either as a bandit or something else. Okay.

But Jesus just appeared to them, okay, and junior and

went with them. But their eyes, it says, were restrained,

so that they did not know him, okay. And he

said to them, what kind of conversation is this that

you have with one another as you walk and are sad?

Then one, then, the one whose name was Cleopers. Cleopers

answered and said to him, are you the only stranger

in Jerusalem?

My goodness?

Who are you? And where have you been? And have

you not known the things which happened there in these days?

And Jesus said to them, what things Jesus can play

along with you or so you know?

Okay?

And so they said to him the things concerning Jesus

of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty indeed, and word

before God and all the people. So what they're saying here,

they were going through their expectations, what they saw of Jesus,

okay in previous and what their expectations are. But then

it says that and how the chief priests and our

rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucify him.

This is unheard of us.

This doesn't happen every day or No, this is the

first time people actually did that to an innocent man.

You no, until now, they didn't know what they did.

The only thing was said. They blasphem and blastphem. You

don't get put to death one and all. You know

what I'm saying, You don't get put to death for

blessing because you don't have the power. And somehow they

work their politics. I said to Rome to get him

to be crucifying, but we were hoping that it was

he who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this,

today is the third day since these things have happened.

Why they say today is the third day, there's two reasons.

First of all, they remember Jesus said three days. And

there is a Jewish superstition that says that when a

person dies superstition. Now I'm not saying this is no superstition.

There's some believe that when the person dies there are

spirit lingers for three days, and now that the three

days that person is really dead. Said no, that is

why I believe. I'm not saying this is canon. That

maybe that when Jesus visited Lazarus after three days is

to let people know that Lazarus is really put ready,

really cut put ready after three days. That's why married.

That's why I was married, Martha said, Jesus, if you

have been here, Lazarus would have been alive. So even

when Leasus died, there was still wholeing based on superstition.

Somehow Jesus was still raising.

Okay, but Jesus wait for a thing to final, But

that does not have the final say. Jesus is the

final saying. Amen, Now let's move on here. Today is

the third day seeing this thing happened Verse twenty two. Yes,

and certain women of our company who arrived at the

tomb early astonished us when they did not find his body.

They came saying that they also had seen a vision

of angels who said he was alive. And certain of

those who were with us went to the tomb and

found it just as the woman has said, but him

they did not see. So now this two fellas is

in the same position as us as well. I just

told you all the reasons, but you still can't believe it.

The same position. Okay, same position, then, Jesus, after hearing

all this, what did he do that I review? I

am He didn't end them like you know, mission and

politic of the mask. Oh, okay, this is not Michu impossible.

I don't know why. I didn't plan to talk about

Mission Impossible today. I didn't plan. I didn't plan. Now

you want to go back and watch Mission Impossible again?

Huh No, I didn't plan.

Okay.

Now, then he said to them all, foolish ones or

strong words are foolish ones, you all and slow of

heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken.

He didn't say, don't you believe the miracles? He said,

have you not believed what all the prophets have speaken according.

To God's words?

Because God can see and you don't believe, and you

don't see and you don't understand. Then he said, are

not the christ to have suffered these things? And to

enter into his glory. These things happen not by coincidence.

The first thing I want to let you know that

you are if you are still thinking about Jesus' death,

I want to let you know it is not a coincidence.

For you to understand it before the resiraction, it must

understand his death is not a coincidence. If you believe

his death is a coincidence, everything will be. But his

death is not a coincidence, propheside. That's the very first thing.

And Jesus died for you, not because it is a coincidence.

He loves you, not because here is coincidence. He loved

you because he determined in his heart to die for you.

You know I'm saying no, Sometimes we don't believe in ourselves.

You know, I know we fail a lot of things.

But I want to let you know what you say

can pass away, but what Jesus has said and what

he did can never pass away. And our work and

our value it always rests on the work of Jesus. Amen,

and he says and Beginning and Moses, and all the

prophets he expounded to them in all the scriptures, the

things concerning himself, on the world. Jesus did a full

flenched Bible study with them, you all. Ah, so after

this is this how we're going to convert the world?

We tell them, hey, wait, it's so foolish, and so

to understand, let me go through a Bible study with you.

And then after that Bible study, you people believe you,

like not even me myself. You know, it's like it's

going to be hard. But listen for a bit further.

Let me finish this reading. Then the next part, he

says in verse twenty eight. Then they drew Neir to

the village where they were going, and he indicated that

he would have gone further. These are all very important details,

very important. But they constrain him means that they urged him,

or they resisted his no, whatever proposal he had. And

they asked him abide with us, for it is towards

evening and the day is fast spent.

And he went in to stay with them.

Now it came to pass, as he sat at the

table with them, that he took bread blessed and broke

it and gave it to them. Then their eyes were

open and they knew him, and he vanished from their site.

Oh so what's the secret recipe to help the world believe?

Give them bread? Break bread.

Oh, this is how you.

I will show you in a little while here, And

they said to one another, did not our hearts burn

within us while he talked with us on the road,

and while he opened the scriptures to us? So they

rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and

found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying,

the Lord is Reason. In their testimony has changer from

not just stating the clues. But now they've reached a conclusion.

The Lord is Reason, indeed, and has appeared to Simon.

And they told about the things that had happened on

the road, and how he was known to them in

the breaking of bread. Now, after all these things, I

got one question for you, guys. One question. The Bible

says their eyes were open. Let me ask you, when

did you Where do you think in this story did

the miracle begin? Where? In which part? Which step did

the miracle begin? Any candidates? When did the miracle begin?

Everybody's then when you disappear?

Okay?

Good?

Anyone else?

Any other candidates? When they break bread their eyes open?

Any other candidates?

Good?

Good?

No one else.

Seems like the obvious answer. Some of you are looking

at me like this is a true question. Again, it's

always it's always up to something, you know, tree question.

Can I draw you to some very important passage in

this verse which I feel holds the key and it

is some of the message that I want to give

to all of you here. It's in verse twenty eight,

and he says, after hearing all that Jesus taught them,

beginning from the prophets, what did they say? Then they

drew near to the village where they were going. They

were going somewhere. Okay, they were going somewhere. He said,

for example, if I'm from here for umbound, I'm headed

to PG and all you will forlong with me, and

we reach to PJ and then Joel says, but my

location is inclined cord up.

This is what is happening? And what did he say?

It says that Jesus indicated that he would have gone further. Yeah,

I reached PG with me, But then Joel said, I'm

going now, I'm gonna go to Klang.

That's not my destination.

So what do you do after hearing all these things?

I believe that This is the reason for the road

to email Us. A lot of us make plans to

go to where we are, and along the way we

meet Jesus. All that you hear, Jesus can explain to you.

He can burn your heart. But there's one thing there

we are called to do. That is to respond. You see,

Jesus is a gentleman. He will not force you to

open your door. He will not force you to believe,

even after all this evidence are so clear. He will

not say why you don't believe, And he will walk

and explain to you all this time, even whether you

believe or don't believe. He said, you reach your place ready,

I'm going to go forward. I don't want to bother you. Okay,

He's not going to ever trample your right. But then you,

as the person, have to decide whether you want Jesus

to stay. That's the reason for the road to emass.

See.

You can talk about the breaking of the bread, but

it is them saying abide with us that makes Jesus appear.

And this Sunday and this morning, it's the same road

to Amaeus for all of us, and every day as well.

Sometimes differentence evidences. You hear another preacher preaching another message,

another news. Something every day is a road to Amaians.

And sometimes we don't want to walk Jesus' path for Jesus,

but Jesus will still follow you. And you do follow

along your day and then where you stay. But then

sometimes there is that moment when you hear and you

realize something is burning, and you give up your comfort,

your excuses, and your reason for what, for what may

be eternal, and you say, for this one moment, I

choose to give room for eternity. And I don't know

what it is, Jesus, why don't you stay with us

that little bit of faith? That open door opens it.

He comes saying, you know, I don't know how, but

let me open it. And the open door opens Jesus

to not just continue, but because you invited, he comes in.

And now he is in your When you eat and

stay with someone, it is your personal life, and he

choose to break bread with you.

It's not just about communion.

You know, you start to realize when Jesus comes into

your life, you don't know what to expect. You begin

to see his hand over your life, that all this wow,

that Jesus has always been in front of you. That's

why when you come to conversion, I don't know about

you come to conversion. It's like, oh, Jesus, finally you appeared.

You know, we don't say these are Jesus. You have

always been here always. It's just we finally see. He come,

saying you, no, I told you, Jesus is not a

circus where we go whenever we want to go, not

a museum whenever we want to see. You know, Jesus

has always been with the world. He's always walking, but

he's waiting as the walls. Who will urge him. Why

don't don't just move Stay with me for a while, Stay,

and I tell you the day when we open our heart,

Jesus will not reject that offer. He I'm saying that

whoever comes to me, I will not let's chase them away.

You I'm saying not. This is the road to amayas.

You know that we think that we have to see

Jesus appear first, then we believe. But the Kingdom of

God works the other way that you believe, then you

will be blessed. He come, saying, not, it's the opposite.

You not with Thomas as well. Jesus said to Thomas.

Thomas didn't believe Jesus is it, didn't believe that the testimonies.

Then Jesus my nig appeared to him and show him

his hand and his side, and he said, oh Lord,

my God, it's you. And Jesus replied to him, Thomas,

now that you have seen I'm paraphrasing here, now that

you have seethed, you have seen me, and believe. Blessed

are those who have not yet seen, but believe. The

miracle of God working in our lives has never been

according to the principle of the world, but according to

the principle of the Kingdom of Heaven, that.

Jesus has always been there. We are not waiting for Jesus.

Jesus is waiting for us.

Oh, it's every day that we are alive.

It's a road to Emmaeus. You come say no.

Every day that we're alive is a road to Amaeus.

Every day.

And you before you sleep, Jesus says, okay, I'm gonna

go along. You're gonna go to sleep, Redire, I'm sure, okay, okay.

They Jesus will work alone. Then the night they say

he works with you again. Hey, hey, Elene, how are

you hey, No, I tell you, tell you we reach

your house ready, or what's your plan?

Okay?

You got your things are okay? Okay, I see you

tomorrow waiting for that one day. Some of you here

many aference also our family members.

Hey, wa'ts your plan tonight?

I don't know.

I want to watch my own Netflix and stuff. I know.

But then when you go to your troubled times, when

you are sick, when you're low, and you are to

and you said, Lord, I go no one is to

turn to. I don't even know you're real, But stay

with me, God, stay with me, and Jesus will come in.

And then you realize that he has always been walking

with you. That's my own combustion story. So I know

I've always gone to I come from a Methodist school,

you know, SMB Methodist, seboom, go to the there's some church.

Before I didn't understood it. I go to the I

mean sing the songs. I didn't really understood it until

I came to college in KL. I didn't want to

touch attend church on Sundays. The reason why I went

to church was because I like someone there for wrong

reasons again obviously you know. But then one day I

started asking something important in my own room, and I asked, God, God,

are you real. I don't want just to know what

I believe. I want to know why I believe. I

want to know that if you are real. I don't

want the God who's far away. I want a God

who's actually in my life. I want a relationship. But

I don't feel you. I don't understand you. You know,

I don't understand this love that you have. You say

you love me, but it's it's remote, it's distant. And

yet I have one choice to do, and I can

just like, yeah, just another day when you are self

depressed and not just emo, you know. But I chose

to do one thing. I don't know where the strength

come from. I just decide to get on my knees

and I put my tell God, if you're real, I'm

waiting or my in my room said I just got

on my knee and I said, God, if you're real,

speak to me. And I saw a vision of the

cross and of the Father, and he said, man, you

know why I love you. Not because you're smarter, not

because you're better, not because you're moral obedient. I love

you because you belong to me, and I am your father.

You come from me, and the scripture says it. You know,

we are the ship of his pasture. There's not another.

We belong to him father. The word father means source.

You understand, father means source. We come from him and

we belong to him. He loves us because we belong

to him and he is love. And there's nothing that

you can do to change that.

I'm saying.

No. You go when you have a child and you

give birth, you know when they when when a baby

comes around, they put you. They put the baby in,

you know, with the other babies, just for observation. You

get me, right, And when the first time when baby

comes out, I don't even know my baby looks at

every other baby. You want to know first time and

when there which one is my baby? Not that one

is like I'm looking to drink another baby's milk, you know,

I think that one's my baby, you know. But I

can tell you all the babies look cute, But I

only want one baby, my baby, because that baby belongs

to me.

No one else will do, no one else will do.

The baby didn't do anything. I know.

I don't know what the baby will turn out in

the future I don't know, But in this moment, that

baby belongs to me. If you try to take him

away or hur away, I'm gonna hunt you down. Don't

give me another baby that's better cut.

I don't think.

No, that baby is mine and mine alone. You see

what I'm saying and not That's why God loves you,

and you will never find that reason in you or

in the world. The only reason that God loves you

is found in Him and him alone. He is love.

And when you finally understood it and your life there

every everything that's good that makes you pour out that

love comes from that truth. Then you realize how much

and why he was saying Jesus to die for you,

because the truth you belong to him and you are irreplaceable.

There's only one of you, and you belong to him.

You know what I'm saying now, That's why, and that's why,

that's why the cross makes sense, because I understood if

that's my baby, I would do that as well. Of course,

I'm scared of the pain now, but I understand that love.

I understood that power, I understood that drive, I understood

the father heart. Right now, I'm saying not. But like

I said, but we come back to this place. God

loves us. And when he comes, and when when you

invite Jesus to stay with you, this amazing thing, you know.

You know I like draw to a close here. You see,

if we think about the bread, right, I was thinking,

is it because they remember communion? Oh?

Is it something about that bread?

You know? You see when he breaks, right, it's telling

us that something broken is being replicated again. When Jesus

was flawed, right, he was unrecognizable when he hung on

the cross. People hardly recognize him all. And Jesus said,

Jesus said to him, mother, this behold you, a woman,

this is your child, because they could ever recognize him.

You know, you know the way they will whip and

then torture unrecognizable. You know, I don't know how many

of you are like you like to eat fruits. You know,

when I was younger, very very young, I love to

eat papaya. And then when I one day and I say, papaya, Daddy,

where does papaya come from?

Oh?

I said, I come from this seed. Now look at this.

See it's like there's not papaya. They cannot be papaya.

Then I said, the whole fruit. There's papaya. That's the

real papaya.

But I don't.

I said, then no, you take this seed and you

go out to the rubbish bean there, and then why

is your rubbish beer? You see when every time we

take this rubbish bean when we go there, somebod the

papaya sea will drop on the floor, on the ground

and beside beside the rubbish beIN there the execually a

papaya tree. You know, you can't tell me if you

know that. Nowadays you don't understand because now you throw

the rubbish bean in your proper MPPG. You know, last

time I will be throw it out and then the

you know, in the open ground run and you know,

then sometimes you will follow because too much. Okay, there's

a gally papia tree and it's not just my tree house.

A lot of people house got papae tree when you

I'm talking about now, so I'm and I saw tree

that I couldn't recognized it when I was young. Then

after wow, I changed this just a tree. Then this

non papie tree that grows near the rubbisha started growing papaya.

I was like, oh, that's a papaya. Nothing looked like

the seed, you know, you know what I'm saying. Now,

the same thing with Jesus as well. You know, when

Jesus died on the cross, right, when he was floggner,

nothing of the papaya left, you know, the flesher was removed,

you know, completely consumed and eaten. What was only left

was the seed. You know, only the seed, you know,

and seed left. And but that is the key, you know.

And when Jesus scattered, you know, you know, And then

remember the parable of the soul and Jesus scattering, right,

the soul is always looking for what for the seed,

for the ground, good ground, good ground. He doesn't bring

hoho papaya. Okay, he brings the seed of the papaire.

Doesn't look like the papaire. The papaya is broken, ready,

flesh clean out, ready takes the seed and an open ground,

a person willing to open their heart just to say, Lord,

stay with us. And God plans that seed that you

cannot see, he said, where is Jesus? But he plants

that seed because you open up that small portion of it,

plants that seed covers it, and you choose to believe.

And something happens.

The seed dies, and the seed gives life.

And what you.

Cannot understand what the water weighs.

Papaia, That Papa is inside you.

And that is why you and I, if you really

believe in God, you cannot deny the life of Jesus

because his respiration is inside.

He come saying, now the.

World will not seeing where is the tree where a

papaya buys in the ground, It is birthing. Your transformation

is happening inside you. God is not using the reservation.

And see, hey, the world believes He now holds the

sea that Jesus has from his death and is walking

around the world walking in this morning as well. Any

ground that is open, I plant the seed. Any one

that is on his road to emailus. Are you open,

let me plant the seed. Are you going through a

very challenging time? Are you willing to open? Let me

plant the seed. And I say, and as you see

that seed dies, and as I break this bread, what breaks?

And what dies? Let's see life inside you and you

will witness the life and reservation of Him that is

Eastern people, and that God has continued to sow. And

so until to this day, when millions and billions of

believers are experiencing the death and the seed of Jesus,

the life of Jesus rising up, and then one day

the oh.

We'll not just have the seed, but trees very much higher.

You're saying, nah, I'm saying or not. That is the lie,

So don't give up. The world doesn't respond to the.

Kingdom of Heaven, but we are called for something higher.

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