Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world so that all may know Christ. Join us now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church, located in Kernersville, North Carolina. The Gospel of Luke Chapter number Let's pick up, if we could, tonight. In verse number 28.
Luke, what chapter? And what verse? 20, all right. First word. Just seeing if y'all telling the truth.
Second work, no, just kidding. 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 tear with them. And it came to pass as he sat at meat with them, he took bread and blessed it and break and gave to them.
And their eyes were opened and they knew him and he was vanished out of their sight. 32 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? 33. And they rose up the same mountain, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed. Say amen if you believe that.
and hath appeared to Sam. And they told what things were done in the way. and how he was known. in breaking Of brand. Let the church say amen.
Father, in the name of Jesus, would you meet with us in a special way? I pray, God, as your vessel, that you'd cleanse me of sin. Empty me of self and fill with your spirit. Help me to preach with thus saith the Lord. use the Bible as only it can be used.
Tonight. to do what only it can do. Bind the forces of Satan, put a hedge of protection about this place that in no way the devil would hinder the work of the Holy Ghost of God. And oh, Father God, would you bless the rest of my family? While we're away, protect them, guide them, direct them, shield them.
And while we're here tonight, would you tabernacle with us? and do something in this service. God, we don't just want a revival meeting, we want revival. God, only you can bring it. And we'll give you the praise and honor and glory for it.
For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Thank you so much for standing. As I read through the Bible, some three or so times.
a year. I enjoy getting to the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and getting to the end of each of those books. Because as you come to the end of the Gospels, you come to the greatest story ever told, the story about he who knew no sin. Come on. becoming sin for us.
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Scarcely for a righteous man, some would die yet, peradventure, for good men, some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. And he is the propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world. Oh, we, like sheep, have gone astray.
We've turned everyone their own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And by his stripes, you are here.
Aren't you glad that when there was no rose red enough, there was no lamb white enough, there was no man good enough, had God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons? Oh, behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called sons of God. This is the record that God had given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life.
He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things. Things ever written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. Listen to me, there are a lot of stories being told in our world, a lot of books being written in our world. A lot of dramatic expressions being portrayed in our world, a lot of movies coming out in our world, a lot of autobiographies being written in our world, a lot of videos being made about somebody's life in our world.
But there is no greater story told than the one that tells us that Jesus hung and bled on the cross of Calvary for our sins, for your sins and my sins. God help us when we got to wait to Easter to talk about the cross. God help us when we got to wait to Easter to talk about the empty grave. God help us when we got to wait to the Lord's Supper to remember what He did on the cross. Every day ought to be a day when we remember that He died for me.
He rose again for me. He's coming back for me. I wish somebody on a Tuesday night would get happy that He's alive. And here we are in Luke 24. They come looking for him, they can't find him.
It's a simple answer to why they couldn't find him. He wasn't there. It's hard to find somebody if he's not there. Basically, the angel is saying, Why are you looking for him? Didn't he tell you?
Didn't he tell you? You can destroy this temple, but in three days I will raise it up again. Aren't you glad we don't serve some contender with all the other religious leaders of the day? Aren't you glad that Jesus stands head and shoulders above all the rest? He's the only one who died and got about the grave.
There they are looking for him. And of course, when they're told he's not here, he's risen as he said. These are the women that have come to the tomb to look for him. Immediately they went away and returned and told, verse number 9, these things unto the 11 and all the rest. And we'll find in scripture, verse number 11, their words seemed as idle tales and they believed them not.
Here come the women reporting, he's not at the grave. They say he's risen. He's not there like he said he was. And even though he'd said it, and even though the proof showed he wasn't there, their words seemed like idle tales. Verse 13, the Bible exposes us to two unnamed disciples.
Then on the road to Emmaus, And all of a sudden they are met. by Jesus, but they don't know it. Yeah, okay. I'm talking about the Jesus that died and rose again. If anybody tells you about another Jesus that didn't die and rose again, that ain't the Jesus we talking about.
They're met by him. He knows them. They don't know him. And all of a sudden, they're on the road to Emmaus, walking and talking, discouraged and downtrodden, till finally they arrive where they're headed. And of course he goes in with them and begins to fellowship with them and not long after spending time with them.
He's gone. It is the response, it is the reaction, it is the reality. of what was going on in them after being around him. that I'd like to talk about tonight. If you look in our text, the Bible says in verse 32, they said one to another, just to a.
So, in my mind, as vividly as my imagination is, I picture Jesus there and then gone. Two still remaining after he's left, and it's almost like one's looking at the other, and the other's looking at the one. And the one says, You feeling something? And the other say, Funny, you said that. I'm feeling something too.
And the other one said, Something going on in me. Funny you said that.
Something going on in me. Man, something happened. Yeah, I'm about to tell you the same. And man, I don't know what's going on, but I tell you what, whatever's happening wasn't never happening before. Yeah, man, you took the words right out my mouth.
Man alive, man alive. Did you hear what he said? Did you hear how he was talking? I mean, he was talking and something was happening. He was speaking and something was moving.
We were listening and something was going on. There was some, somebody was in the house that was different than anybody else being in the house.
Something was happening in us that was different than what else happens in us.
Something was going on that doesn't just go on.
Something was moving that doesn't normally move. Did not our heart burn within us while they talked with us, by the way, and while he opened to us the, please listen, please listen. It was their interaction, it was their fellowship, it was their experience, it was their encounter, it was the fact they had run into the resurrected Jesus, the one that they were just singing about. Arise, my love, the one that they were just talking about. The tomb is empty, praise be to God.
When these disciples got around him, Something started burning. Notice the text: Did not our heart burn? They didn't just say their foot was tapping and their hand was clapping. They didn't just say their head was bopping and their body was moving. They said, Did not our heart.
You got to understand when the Bible talks about heart, it's not talking about the organ that the cardiologist looks at when something doesn't seem in rhythm. It's talking about your mind, your intellectual center, your emotions, your emotional center, your will, your volitional center. It's talking about where your morality takes place, where your mind thinks, where you feel. It's talking about the place where God works. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
As in water, face answers to face, so the heart of man to man. See, at the heart of the matter, it is always a matter of the heart. And if God's going to do something with you, it's Got to do more than in your feet or in your head. God's got to do something with you in your heart. And these fellas said, whatever that man is and whatever that man did set something on fire in our hearts.
That's right. Yeah, you're right. We're having more services than we ever had. Yeah. Right.
Right. They're scheduling more conferences than we ever did. We got more how-to sessions than we ever have. We have more resources than the world has ever been privy to. We have more technology than America has ever known.
We have more access to stuff than mankind has ever had. The problem is stuff and access and technology and services and conferences and how-to sessions can never substitute burning in our hearts. And I want to ask you tonight. Is your heart burning? You say you want revival.
I'm asking you, is your heart burning? By the way, the burn right here is not some flicker that happens with that little lighter thing that you use to get something going, a candle going when your lights go out. No, that's an inferno going on in them. God help us to get some men, women, boys, and girls with an infernal going on in them. God give us some marriages with a fire going.
God give us some choirs with a fire going on in them. God give us some young people with a fire going in. I'm telling you, you can't get it from a church service. You can't get it from a preacher. You can't get it from getting your Bible signed.
You can't get it from going to some conference. You can't get it from getting your head slapped upside with a boom shaka locka locker. You can only get that burning from the resurrected Lord. I call a good old-fashioned holy heartburn. It's hard to find anymore.
When the last time you got around somebody said he's on fire.
Well, last time you got in a church and said, they're on fire. And by the way, fire is not just indicated by noise. I've been around some noisy people that didn't have no holy heartburn. Come on, just because a church is loud doesn't mean that's God. Just because somebody's energetic doesn't mean that's God.
Just because they're running the mound doesn't mean that's God. Just because they're screaming doesn't mean that's God. I'm telling you, when you have holy heartburn, it'll be more than just noise. There'll be something real that the world can't give, that the devil can't fake, that church can't manufacture, that Walmart can't sell. It only comes from being around the one who died, was buried, and rose again.
Look in the text today at these fellows with holy heartburn. I'll tell you where it came from. In Luke 24, I'll tell you what's going to come from tonight. First of all, it's going to come from a walk that's personal. A walk that's personal.
Please understand, these two unnamed disciples on the road to Emmaus in verse number 13 were disciples discouraged and in despair. Listen now, they're walking, if you would, kicking rocks and downtrodden. They're absolutely miserable. Here's why. Because everything they have wrapped their hope up in, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, is seemingly gone.
He was all they knew for three and a half years. They loved what they heard. They enjoyed the parables that he told. They were fascinated by the miracles he performed. They were endeared by his presence around them.
And yet, the Jews had turned him over and allowed him to be crucified. And there he was, taking his life away on a cross and then put in a borrowed tomb. And now these two disciples are basically saying, he's gone. He's left us. It's over.
All hope has been. Lost. Everything we trusted in has been snatched away from us. And all of a sudden, they're talking about this on the road to Emmaus. Look in the text, if you would.
Luke 24 says, They're walking, and by the way, this is three score furlongs. This is about seven or eight miles that they have to walk. And they talk together of all these things, verse 14, which had happened. This is talking about the crucifixion, talking about the killing of Jesus. Verse 15 came to pass that while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus Himself, say those two words, Jesus Himself, say it again: Jesus Himself drew near and went with them, but their eyes were holding that they should not know.
He said unto them, What manner of communication? What y'all talking about? These that ye have said to one another while you walk. Are ye sad?
Now listen to them talking to Jesus about Jesus. And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto them, Art thou the only stranger in Jerusalem and hast not you don't know, everybody else knows which are coming to pass in these days. He said unto them, what thing? And they said unto him, concerning Jesus of Nazareth, dumb as you're talking to him, which was a prophet, mighty indeed and worried before God and all the people. And now the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him.
But we trusted past tense that it had been past tense. He would have redeemed Israel. And beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Listen to them telling. They're doing, listen, watch this now.
They're doing some rehearsing. You don't know what's going on? Jesus of Nazareth, the one we actually thought was the Messiah. He, boy, I tell you, he had us all food. Man, he was doing stuff we never seen anybody do.
He was accomplishing stuff we've never seen anybody. Good gracious, a lot. He went to a wedding where they ran out of wine and turned water into wine. He looked at a leper and touched him. And instead of catching leprosy, the leper got cleansed.
He took a blind man, got him seeing. Took a deaf man, got him hearing. Took a mute man, got him speaking. Took a lame man, got him walking. Took a withered hand and restored him.
He took a lunch for one boy and fed 5,000 men beside women and children. He healed the sick of the palsy. He forgave sins. He took a woman's issue of blood away that touched the hem of his garment. He cast the demons out and sent him into the swine.
He called the 12-year-old back to life. Listen to me. He took Lazarus four days dead, wrapped in gray clothes and stinking, and told him to get up. And he listened. He really looked like he was the man, but they done killed him now.
Yeah. It's been three days. They're rehearsing. Watch this now. I said they're rehearsing.
And after all of this, all of this rehearsing. We can't find his body. Verse number 23. Certain of them went to the sepulcher and found out the women. And even so, as the women said, they can't find him, but they didn't see him.
Look at verse number 25. Then he said unto them, O fools. They're rehearsing to he's gone, he's gone, he's gone, he's gone. He looked at them and said, Oh, fools. After they're rehearsing, Jesus went into some rebuking.
Yeah, yeah. Which I'll talk about. We thought he had been. We trusted that he was. He seemed like he actually was going to be the one.
He looked like the Messiah and played it pretty good for three and a half years till they killed him and proved that he ridden what really wasn't real. And he stopped them in their tracks and said, Oh, fool. By the way, the next time you start rehearsing about your trials and you do, my prayers haven't been answered, and I can't get anything out of my Bible reading. And I've been coming to church, and it feels like God's so far away. He's left me.
I lost my job. I got a bad diagnosis. My marriage is on the rocks. My prodigal has left the house. Jesus isn't working in my life anymore.
It feels like he's dead. Just like he said to them, I say to you, old fool. They went from rehearsing to rebuking and from rebuking Two, reminding. Verse number 25. You fools and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have spoken.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his. What do you mean they killed him and we can't find him? Have you read your Bibles? He didn't come to sightsee Earth, he made it. He came to die.
The cross may bother you, but according to the scripture, the cross is right on schedule. Yeah. The next time you run into a dilemma and you act like God is dead, your dilemma may shake you, but in God's economy, it's right on schedule. Yes, he knew about your trial. He knew about the economy.
He knew about your job. He knew about your marriage. He knew about your prodigal. It may shake you up, but never shakes God up. He went from their rehearsing to his rebuking, to his reminding, and then to his revealing.
I like this verse. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. I'd have loved to hear him give that message. Go all the way back to Genesis. Y'all talking about he's dead after what the Romans and the Jews did to him.
Y'all must not know how long he's been around. Way back when, Genesis chapter one, in the beginning, God, Jesus was in that company. Amen. Way back in, way back when, when the serpent was going to bruise his heel and he was going to bruise the serpent, Jesus was in that. Way back when, when...
Job said, I know my Redeemer lives. He talked about Jesus way back when, when David said, The Lord is my shepherd. He talked about Jesus back then. Way back when, when Micah said he's gonna be born in Bethlehem, and Jeremiah pictures him as the weeping prophet, and Zachariah calls him the branch. And Isaiah said, A virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and he shall call his name Emmanuel, being interpreted God with us, for he shall save his people from his sin.
Y'all talking about he's been gone after the Jews got him, gone after the Romans got him. You must not know who Jesus is. He didn't just get here in the womb in Bethlehem with Mary. He has been and he always will be. And I say to somebody in the building tonight: if your trials have made you rethink whether he's still working, if your circumstances have made you doubt whether he's still on the throne, if your crises have made you question whether he's still in control, could I remind you of something?
He was doing what he was doing before you got here. He'll be doing what he's doing when you're gone. You can't snuff him out. You can't shut him down. You can't kill him.
You can't stamp him out. Oh no. Look what they're doing in the government. They're taking him out of the schools. They're taking the Ten Commandments down.
They won't let you say his name on TV. They blurt it out when an athlete mentions his name. Oh no, what's happening to America? You can't shut down the name of Jesus. Boy, I've been preaching Jesus for a long time, but I can't wait to get to heaven to hear Jesus preach Jesus.
This is all happening on the walk. Wow. The rehearsing and the rebuking and the reminding and the revealing.
Somebody says, my heart's not burning. Maybe it's not burning because you've been coming to church. You've been singing in the choir. You've been knocking on doors. You've been going to a bunch of meetings.
You've been doing a bunch of ministry, but you haven't been taking no walks with it. I fear that much of Christianity that's demonstrated in our circles today is all about what you do on stage. I know preachers today that can wow a crowd, but they can't walk with Jesus by themselves. God bless you for the song you sing with the choir in the service, but good gracious alive, can you sing it to him by yourself in your house? God bless you for all of the people that clap after you're finished and say amen while you're preaching.
But can you have a good talk with Jesus all by yourself?
Somebody's got to commit to take a walk with him. Because I'll tell you what's good about walking with him. When you go rehearsing nonsense, he goes rebuking some good sense. And after his rebuking, he goes to be reminding you. Don't you start telling me what you feel.
When you feel something crazy, you better fix it with the facts from the word of God. And when something happens in the world that makes you think he's gone, you better take the Bible and remind you. He said, I'll never leave you or forsake you. And when people make you think God told you a lie, you better go to Titus and remind yourself that God cannot lie. And when your circumstances look like they're so bleak and they're so difficult, you got to remind yourself that, Lord, God said, I'm going to walk with you through the valley of the shadow of death.
And when the devil acts like he's winning, you better remind yourself that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Quit living off your feelings and get back. That's why you got to walk with God because God slays the wacky era of your thinking. By reminding you, it may look like I'm dead, look like I'm gone, seem like I'm out the loop, but you must not know who I am. I have been and I will be, and I'm here in between today.
Holy heartburn comes from a walk that's personal secondly. Holy heartburn comes from a a wanting of his presence. Scripture says in verse 28, they drew nigh into the village. That means they got close to destination whither they went. They'd been walking seven or eight miles.
Look at the phrase in verse 28, and he made as though he would have gone further. It simply means Jesus was content to drop them off at their destination and keep on going. And then verse 29. interrupts That sequence with the word button. But they constrained him.
Yeah. One writer said constrained could be described as friendly violence. Yeah. They laid hands on him as politely as they could. In so many words, they said, Mister.
We're not trying to be rude, but we're just trying to be very, very candid with you. You can't leave. I'll tell you why most people don't spend much time with Jesus because they're fine with letting him leave. When your time with the Lord is confined to your Bible reading, when your time with the Lord ends at the amen of your prayer, when your time with the Lord is over after the service was over, when your chance at revival is over, when the scheduled meeting has come to an end, you've missed out on your relationship with Jesus. I wish he'd be so good at church that someone would say if it was that good with 300 people in an auditorium, it could be that much better one-on-one in the house.
I wish there'd be somebody that would say if the walk was that good for seven or eight miles on the road to Emmaus, then it'd be that much better in the house. It came with a wanting of his presence. No, if you would, it was a passionate wanting. They constrained him. And then into the house he comes.
It was a provisional wanting, if you would. He went into tear with them, 29, 30. It says, and it came to pass as he sat at what? Come on, as he said at what? As he said at what?
Yes, that's scriptural reference to prove that it's only a meal if it has meat. All of you vegetarians need to get shay. I tell our vegetarians, I tell our church, vegetarians may be healthier than the rest of us, but we all gonna die, right? We meat eaters are going to die of bad health, and the vegetarians are going to die of depression. Amen.
Because. Really? It ain't a meal if it doesn't have meat. He sat at meat with them, with them, sat at meat with them. Hey, aren't you glad?
Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad when Jesus comes in the house, he fixes the meal?
Somebody help me preach tonight. We've got some Christians in the building that have been doing all the cooking and it ain't going too well. You've been doing all the preparing and it ain't going too well. You've been whipping up what you can with what's in the pantry. You've been fixing what you can with what's on the recipe list.
You've been trying to make your life what you can make it all on your own. Could I tell you, you're never going to cook a meal like Jesus cooks a meal.
Somebody tonight, if revivals happens, has to invite him in the house and say, I'm tired of cooking. I'm tired of hosting. I'm tired of planning. I'm tired of preparing. I know it's my house, but I found out something about Jesus.
He cooks better than I do in my own kitchen. He finds stuff I didn't know I had in my pantry. He puts meals together I would have never put together. And when Jesus got in the house, he who was the guest instantly became the host, and they who were the host instantly became the guest. Maybe somebody comes to the altar.
Tonight and say, I'm tired of making the decision. I'm tired of running my business. I'm tired of running my marriage. I'm tired of choosing my life. I'm tired of deciding my purpose.
I'm tired of doing what I want to do. It's about time that my walk that is personal produced a wanting of his presence. When you passionately want him, you will provisionally receive him. And all of a sudden, getting him in the house allowed for him to fix the meal. Can I say it was a productive One thing.
And in our text, verse 30, the Bible says, It came to pass as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, blessed it, and broke it, and. Gave to them, verse 31. Their eyes were open and they knew him. Yeah. Okay.
They'd been walking seven or eight miles. They didn't know him. Goodness, listen. He preached a whole sermon from Genesis all the way until current time, and they still didn't know it.
Now you listen to Jesus preach a whole message on Jesus and you still don't know that Jesus is Jesus, there's something wrong about your knowledge of Jesus. And I submit to you there are people that go to church three times a week and still don't know him. They've read through their Bibles for 20 and 30 years, and they still don't know. I'm not saying they're not saved, I'm saying they don't know him personally and intimately. They've been around church.
Kids grow up in a Christian home. They graduate from high school and walk away from God and sin like they never knew God in the first place. How could these guys walk for seven or eight miles and not know him? How could they listen to him, preach a message about himself and not know him? Watch this now.
How could they sit down in fellowship with him and not know him? And yet, after he blessed, broke, and gave to them, they knew him. I'd submit to you. The words were good. The message was good.
Actually getting him inside the house was good. But I picture in my mind That when he took that bread And he blessed that bread. And he started breaking that bread. The Bible says he gave it to them. And I want you to picture as Jesus is sitting in the house of those two disciples breaking that bread and getting ready to hand it to them.
And I want you to picture the scene on their faces when Jesus took that bread and handed it to them like this. Yeah. I think they saw his hands. And I think when he handed that bread to them, they must have thought, good gracious, alive, those are the nail-pierced hands. Those are the hands that loved me and gave himself for me.
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