Scripture Post #599: *SLOW*

Luke 24:25: "Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:"

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Two of JESUS' Apostles were *SLOW*. You know those slow folks who just don't get it right away? Those people you have to explain and re-explain it to, over and over again? Christians are slow sometimes. I've been slow at times. It's silly when you really think about it. These Apostles were deeply saddened by CHRIST's death. Together, they talked about what happened to JESUS, with sadness in their hearts. And then they met JESUS in the middle of their discussion. But they didn't recognize HIM. They didn't realize that JESUS had been raised from the dead! For they were too concerned with their sadness. So they're having a conversation with JESUS, all the while not knowing it's JESUS they're talking to. Then JESUS says, "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?" And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he [JESUS] expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself (Luke 24:27). HIS Apostles were so slow, "slow of heart to believe," that JESUS had to show them the Old Testament Scripture-prophecies regarding HIS Life, for them to snap out of their slowness—for them to get it. JESUS CHRIST was right in front of their faces. Their sadness could've been removed if they'd just payed attention. The very thing to take their pain away stared them right in the eyes, without them even knowing it: the realization of JESUS CHRIST was the solution to their sadness-problem, and had they not been so slow, they would've come to that realization—the solution for their problems!! 

If we'd snap out of our slowness, look right in front of us, and believe JESUS, we'd come to the realization of JESUS CHRIST—the solution for our problems. 

Context:

Luke 23:13: "And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs."

V. 14: "And they talked together of all these things which had happened."

V. 15: "And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them."

V. 16: "But their eyes were holden that they should not know him."

V. 17: "And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?"

V. 18: "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?"

V. 19: "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:"

V. 20: "And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him."

V. 21: "But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done."

V. 22: "Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;"

V. 23: "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."

V. 24: "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."

V. 25: "Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:"

V. 26: "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?"

V. 27: "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."

Originally Published: Sun. 5/4/14