Hey, I'm Judah. You're about to hear a message about Jesus. Thank you so much for joining

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Hey, welcome to church. My name is David and we are in the incredible city of Chicago, Illinois.

Today, we're going to share a few moments talking about the person of Jesus, his love, his care

for you. And I think you're going to be encouraged today. Specifically today, we're going to talk

about emphasis, emphasis. And why are we going to talk about emphasis? Because I think what we

decide to emphasize in our lives, and not just what I think, the evidence, the overwhelming evidence

of both neuroscience and even what we see within the Holy text of Scripture, show us that

won't be emphasized has a significant impact on the life that we live. As we go to the Scriptures,

we see a great example of this in Luke chapter 24, where there's two disciples. One of them has a

name. Cleopas, they both have names. The Bible only names one. And they're walking along the road.

And this is shortly after Jesus has been crucified as buried. And a few women have seen him

resurrected from the dead. And so they're walking along. And these two disciples, they're sad.

They're sad because they're predominantly emphasizing the difficult bad news that Jesus,

who they believe to be the Messiah is now dead. As they're walking along the journey, Scripture says

that Jesus himself comes up alongside of them and begins to walk with them. Now it does say

something really unique in the fact that God actually prevented them from seeing who it was. So he

was journeying with them and he asked them, what are you talking about? They turn to Jesus and say,

haven't you heard about the events of the day? And they go along in a conversation where they

tell Jesus about Jesus's death. Jesus plays along with them. And in his graciousness, he actually

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