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In this message I explore a few of the key Old Testament passages which Jesus likely spoke about along that road. They are fabulous passages which speak clearly and powerful about the coming Messiah.
I find it fascinating, though, that even the teaching of the Master Teacher didn't open eyes that day! Jesus' friends remained blind to his identity until the moment when Jesus gave them a revelation that it truly was him, risen and alive, who sat and ate with them. At that point their blindness was removed instantly.
Teaching plus presence worked together to open blind eyes that day. Teaching plus presence were powerful partners then; they are powerful partners to us still.
We are spiritually blind until the Spirit of Christ reveals himself to us. Yet he opens blind eyes, marvelously and definitively, through the Scriptures, through his presence.
What has he revealed to you lately?
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"If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than...."
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Frederick Buechner
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