WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.040 Verse 13, now we know this is actually the day of the resurrection. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:17.039 Peter and John had went down and seen the ladies had come and said, "Hey, Jesus is not here." And so they go and find the tomb as empty. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:23.039 And while that's going on, there's these two disciples that are on the road to Emmaus. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:27.039 And so let's begin reading in verse 13. 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:35.840 "That very day, two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:40.479 And they were talking with each other about all the things that had happened. 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:47.840 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.240 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 00:00:52.240 --> 00:01:02.719 And he said to them, 'What is this conversation that you're holding with each other as you walk?' And they stood still, looking sad. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:36.159 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, 'Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?' And he said to them, 'What things?' And they said to him, concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet, mighty indeed, and worded before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and elders delivered him up to be condemned to death and crucified him. 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:41.920 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.760 Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:51.599 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. 00:01:51.599 --> 00:02:04.000 They were at the tomb early in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had seen a vision of angels who said that he was a lot. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:09.759 Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:17.039 But him they did not see. 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:29.039 And he said to them, 'O foolish ones, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken. 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:40.240 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? 00:02:40.240 --> 00:03:03.120 And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them and all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.' That's a moving passage, isn't it? 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.280 Let's continue reading. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.560 'So they drew near to the village to which they were going. 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:18.159 He acted as if he were going on further, but they urged him strongly, saying,'Stay with us. 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.639 Now still they don't know who it is. 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:25.759 Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent. 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.439 So he went in to stay with them. 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:37.520 When he was at the table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:42.560 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:47.599 And he vanished from their sight. 00:03:47.599 --> 00:04:03.360 They said to each other, 'Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?' And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:23.279 And they found the eleven, and those who were with them gathered together, saying, 'The Lord has risen indeed and has appeared to Simon.' Then they told what had happened on the road and how he was known to them in the breaking of bread.' Wow. 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:28.240 So did you catch those couple of things that were swell? 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:29.040 All of that. 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:37.680 But he said to them, 'O foolish ones and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:43.839 What did the prophets speak of?' We're talking about the cross from the prophets. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:52.319 Then he said, 'Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? 00:04:52.319 --> 00:05:06.480 And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted unto them all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself.' They were confused. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:12.720 We thought he was going to be the one who would redeem Israel. 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:14.480 Oh, he did. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:18.560 Just not in the way that they thought he would. 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:30.319 So he reveals to them from the Scriptures that the prophets spoke that he must suffer, that he must be crucified, that the cross must happen. 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.160 So he revealed himself to him. 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:36.959 He reveals himself to him when he broke bread and he vanished. 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.639 And then I like this phrase. 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:51.759 He said, 'Did not our hearts burn within us when he spoke with us in the way?' Now that's the kind of heartburn we should want, right? 00:05:51.759 --> 00:06:17.759 I mean, that's some burning of the soul, of the desires, our hearts burning over the gospel, igniting within us spiritual things, spiritual love and desires to love Christ more, to grow in his likeness, loving our brothers and sisters in light of the cross. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:32.560 Over these teachings on the cross and on Wednesday nights when we meet together, we're beginning to talk on the supremacy of Christ, the preeminence of Christ, the glory of Christ. 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:44.480 When we hear the things of the cross, when we hear the things of the gospel, when we hear things of Christ, should not our hearts burn within us? 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:45.680 Should it not ignite? 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.360 Does it not you? 00:06:47.360 --> 00:07:01.519 If you're a born again Christian, if you're a child of God, when you hear of Christ and the things of Christ and the cross and his glory and his majesty, it ought to burn within us. 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:17.279 When we think of the display of the cross from the prophets, our minds would probably go to Isaiah and in particular, chapter 53, right? 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.000 Oh, what a passage. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:29.040 Without question, it's the most descriptive picture of the cross of Christ given in the Old Testament prophets. 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:37.920 Clear and vivid are his images of the suffering servant of the Lord. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:42.480 What a glorious and even moving passage. 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:50.240 It truly burns within me when I read the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.000 Why don't we do that? 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.800 Isaiah 53. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:07.040 Now, I just read from the ESV and because I had copied it off the internet, but I didn't copy Isaiah 53. 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:12.399 So I'm going to read it from the King James at this point. 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:25.839 Who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:35.679 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.960 He hath no form nor commonness. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:46.559 And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:56.960 He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.840 And we hid as it were our faces from him. 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:09.480 And he was despised and we esteemed him not. 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:17.879 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:33.240 Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:38.559 He was wounded for our transgressions. 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:47.720 He was bruised for our iniquities. 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:53.159 And the chastisement of our peace was upon him. 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:58.440 And with his stripe, we are healed. 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:03.240 All we like sheep have gone astray. 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.320 We have turned everyone to his own way. 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:14.519 And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:19.919 He was oppressed and he was afflicted. 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.679 Yet he opened not his mouth. 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:32.200 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before his shears is dumb. 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.559 So he opened not his mouth. 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:40.240 He was taken from prison and from judgment. 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:43.519 And who shall declare his generation? 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:53.600 For he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:11:01.440 And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:06.559 Neither was any deceit in his mouth. 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:13.279 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, crush him. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.559 He has put him to grief. 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:23.279 When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed. 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.799 He shall prolong his days. 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.799 And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:35.000 He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.399 By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many. 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:44.360 For he shall bear their iniquities. 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:55.480 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoils of straw because he has poured out his soul unto death. 00:11:55.480 --> 00:12:14.679 And he was numbered with the transgressors and he bear the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors. 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:18.879 Doesn't get much clearer than that, does it? 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:35.440 You know, the Jewish rabbi, some say that the Jews are forbidden to read this, but some of them do and many of them have and many who have read it have been converted. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:40.600 But we know the scriptures are clear. 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:44.519 In the New Testament. 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:48.679 Who this passage is talking about. 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:54.879 You remember in Acts and there was this Ethiopian eunuch setting in his chariot. 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:00.320 And the Lord told Philip to go down and he went down and he was reading this passage. 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.799 And he asked Philip, who is he talking about this? 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.679 He talked about himself or someone else. 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:07.679 What's going on here? 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.000 And what does the scripture say? 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:16.759 That Philip took the passage and preached to him. 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:19.759 Jesus. 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:23.080 Jesus. 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:28.480 That's all about Jesus, isn't it? 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:34.759 Why do we and should we focus on the cross? 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.039 Why have these lessons on the cross? 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.480 Why preach on the cross? 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:58.799 John Flavell says that there is no doctrine more excellent in itself or more necessary to be preached and studied than the doctrine of Christ and him crucified. 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.159 Why teach on the cross? 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:02.879 Why preach on the cross? 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:04.639 Why see it throughout the Bible? 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:08.679 Why look for it in the Old Testament prophets. 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.000 First Corinthians one eighteen tells us something important about the cross. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.000 Does it not? 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:21.360 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:26.000 But what is it to us who are saved? 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.799 The power of God. 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.000 It's the power of God. 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:40.299 The cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is the ultimate display of his power. 00:14:40.299 --> 00:14:50.360 We can look at creation just the mighty power that it took to create all that there is. 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:58.200 We can look into creation and see the mighty powers that are displayed just within creation. 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:03.240 When we think of a thunderstorm. 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.720 A tornado. 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:08.240 An earthquake. 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:12.639 How many of you have experienced an earthquake Ben? 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:18.679 In that massive power you think whoa. 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:26.200 We had a few up in Greenbrier a few years ago and I remember that there was one like four point three or five or something. 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.799 I was like wow. 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:34.559 My God is awesome. 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:44.879 It's the power that's in all of creation. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:52.720 All of that power that we see in creation. 00:15:52.720 --> 00:16:03.919 It's not that there is a powerful being behind it. 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:10.399 But it is the being who has all power. 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:24.120 There is no power except that which derives from our Father the God of creation and all things there. 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:35.720 The scriptures are clear and telling us even those who hold power only have that power because it is given from God. 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:45.759 And another of my favorite discourses is when Jesus was before Pilate and he was he said do you not know. 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.360 That I have power. 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.399 To condemn you or to release you. 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.279 And Jesus said you have no power. 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.600 Except that which my father. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:59.960 Gifts you. 00:16:59.960 --> 00:17:14.920 When we think of that we can apply that to our very lives that there is nothing or no one that's going to do anything to us. 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:20.559 Except it be allowed by the father. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:30.619 No disease is going to take us. Except it be by the permission of the father. 00:17:30.619 --> 00:17:37.680 No one is going to harm us unless it be by the permission of the father. 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.839 He has all power. 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:51.920 But when he comes to the cross there's something much more powerful going on. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:59.839 God is flexing his mighty arm in all its glory. 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.799 At the cross. 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:11.839 This is the intent of the opening verses in Isaiah 53. 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:19.240 This report is the revealing of the arm or of the power of God. 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:20.480 His power. 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:21.559 His wisdom. 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:22.559 His love. 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:23.559 His mercy. 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:24.559 His grace. 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:25.559 His glory. 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:29.519 Is displayed in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:38.240 Through humility humbling himself to death. 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:50.039 Obedience unto death even the death of the cross. 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.720 Who can believe this? 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:59.640 Who have believed this report? 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:10.759 And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:14.119 What did 1 Corinthians 1 18 say? 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:16.839 Do you see the correlation there? 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:22.559 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.599 Who can believe this? 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:30.519 But who to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:38.240 But unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:42.519 Amen. 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.880 What I want to do in our remaining time. 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:46.960 I better hurry. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:51.640 Y'all ready for this? 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:56.319 I want to give you the detailed descriptions from this passage. 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:58.839 We've got two minutes. 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:02.599 I've got 21 things. 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:08.759 You don't think I can do it. 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:12.839 Watch this. 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:21.960 Verse 3 He's despised and rejected of men. 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:27.000 Verse 3 A man of sorrows. 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:36.160 Verse 4 Surely he hath borne our grief. 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:40.900 Verse 4 Surely he's carried our sorrows. 00:20:40.900 --> 00:20:48.279 Verse 5 He was wounded or pierced for our transgressions. 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:55.559 Verse 5 He was bruised or crushed for our iniquities. 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:01.880 Verse 5 With his stripes or his wounds we are healed. 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:09.599 Verse 6 The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:13.400 Verse 7 He is oppressed. 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:17.279 Verse 7 He was afflicted. 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:19.720 Yet he opened not his mouth. 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:25.640 Verse 7 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:34.440 Verse 7 And as a sheep before her shears is dumb he opened not his mouth. 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:45.720 Verse 10 Yet it pleased it was the will of the Lord to bruise him or to crush him. 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:52.799 Verse 10 He hath put him to grief. 00:21:52.799 --> 00:22:04.720 Verse 10 When you shall make his soul an offering for sin. 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:12.880 Verse 11 He shall see the travail or the anguish of his soul and shall be satisfied. 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:18.319 Verse 11 He shall bear their iniquities. 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:26.759 Verse 12 He hath poured out his soul unto death. 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:32.440 He was numbered with the transgressions. 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:45.359 He bear the sin of many and then made intercession for the transgressors. 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:53.599 There is more there but those 21 things speak so vividly of the cross. 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:58.519 There is power in the cross. 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:02.079 I said there is power in the cross. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:07.640 Power to save, redeem, justify, sanctify. 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:13.599 Power to sustain the strongest temptation, trial or trauma. 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:16.400 Oh there is power in the cross. 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:20.480 The cross floats us when we are sinking. 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:25.799 It encourages us when we are lofty and comforts us when we are crying. 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:28.480 Oh the power of the cross. 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:32.480 It is the song that sings to us safety. 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:34.480 Cradles us when we are weak. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.039 Corrects us when we are wrong. 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:43.319 Oh the glory and power of the cross. 00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:47.200 Father thank you for our time together. 00:23:47.200 --> 00:24:06.160 Thank you for what we have been learning over the past several Sunday mornings concerning the cross and the crucifixion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:25.400 What a plan! What a covenant that you have made and secured and accomplished through the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:35.319 We thank you that we can hear the gospel here and it is the power of the gospel that saves. 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:38.319 Thank you for saving us. 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:49.200 Thank you that you will continue to save for faith comes by hearing, hearing the glory of the gospel. 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:51.119 In Christ's name we pray. 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:51.599 Amen. 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:52.380 at right?