Yielding The Peaceable Fruit Of Righteousness Unto Them Exercised Thereby - Part 2533

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not ..." (Galatians 6:9; Hebrews 12:3, 5))

After Jesus death, burial and resurrection, Jesus appeared to a number of people -- who did not recognize Him. On one of these encounters, Jesus comes alongside two men walking. One of them was Cleopas. They were grieving because Jesus had been crucified, whom they had trusted to be the. redeemer of Israel. And then the women who followed Jesus, after going to Jesus' tomb early in the morning, reported that Jesus was not there. 

As the scripture saith, "But Him they saw not!"

From Luke 24:

"And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know Him. And [Jesus] said unto them, "What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?" And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto Him, "Art Thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?" And He said unto them, "What things?"

And they said unto Him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and have crucified Him. But we trusted that it had been He which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; and when they found not His body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that He was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but Him they saw not." (Luke 24:15-25)

As we see here, none of the disciples believed that the Word of the Lord which spoke through the prophets from afore could have been accurate. But to their credit, they did acknowledge the prophecies plus Jesus' words concerning the temple -- that He would rebuild it in three days. For as the two said -- today is the third day since these things were done.

Had these anticipated Jesus raising from the dead, and were now disappointed because they had not seen Him.?And yet, in spite of their own astonishment of the vision of angels reporting that Jesus was indeed alive, they remained sad. It is no wonder Jesus had to respond in the way He did.

Then He said unto them, "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?" 

Is this not the resurrection message of salvation that had been proclaimed from the beginning? "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself." I'm sure in elaborating, Jesus reiterated that "the volume of the book is about Me." That there is no other Saviour than God Himself in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 9:6) 

"To wit, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself ..." (II Corinthians 5:17-19)

"And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and He made as though He would have gone further. But they constrained Him, saying, "Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." And He went in to tarry with them. 

And it came to pass, as He sat at meat with them, He took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him; and He vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, "Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures?"

And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." And they told what things were done in the way, and how He was known of them in breaking of bread." (Luke 2:16-36)

There is no denying that the greatest love story ever told is when the Good Shepherd laid down His own life for His sheep - the body of Christ church. (Acts 20:28)

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." (Hebrews 12:1-3)

Jesus -- both the author and the finisher of faith. 

Jesus -- both Lord and Christ. (Acs 2:36-41)

The risen Jesus, the Lord of glory!

"Who being the brightness of [His] glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high ..." (Hebrews 1:3; Matthew 16:19; II Corinthians 4:4)

It is for this reason that we are steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in he work of the Lord. (I Corinthians 15:58) 

Stand in the offering plate.