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The Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Hi, I'm Nathan W Bingham, host of Renewing Your Mind, and I hope you'll join us along with thousands

of other Christians in Orlando this May.

Over three days, we'll consider the person and work of Jesus Christ.

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visit Ligonier.org slash 2024. This week we've been reflecting on things unseen on the resurrection and we can't do that surely without wishing we could

have been a little bird flying behind the two disciples who walked to Amaeus on

Easter Sunday. Or maybe their pet dog if he or she was able to understand the Aramaic

they probably spoke. They are dispirited because they'd hope that Jesus was the Messiah and they're confused because they've heard a rumor

among the disciples that Jesus is not in fact dead but alive. And then the unrecognized

Jesus joins them and explains that the Messiah had to die and rise again.

The prophets had said as much.

And for an hour or perhaps more he interprets their Hebrew Bible to show them how that was true.

But they still don't recognize him.

It's probably dark when they reach Emmaus, so they interpret it. recognize him as a

as they invite Jesus to stay with them for a meal.

And at this meal Jesus seems to become the host or at least they invite him to act as host, and as he breaks the

bread they recognize him. And just as mysteriously as he appeared on the road, he disappears again.

The two disciples are so excited, they get up and they make the return journey to Jerusalem.

They burst into a room where the other disciples are gathered.

And they're about to say we met Jesus

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