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Welcome, we're talking about Luke 24 today. My name is Josh. I'm Mish. I'm Kirsten. And I'm Deepo. And we are talking resurrection, y'all. My son, my son sent me, my son who lives in New York sent me the day after Easter, he sent me this meme. It was like this quasi Jesus on skateboarding. And it says he is risen. My response was that was yesterday, dummy. I don't know why I said that sweet images of Jesus like so my next tattoo, maybe it's going to be Jesus. Don't do it. Don't do it. No, just hear me. You know, that picture of Ali standing over Frazier? Oh, yeah, that's a good one. It's Jesus standing over death. It's sick. It's sick. We'll talk about it. Oh, man. Okay. I don't know how to feel about that. I'll show you. It's sick. Oh, yeah. You'll see. You'll see.

Okay. I don't know. I just did that. Oh, Wayne's World. Do you guys are all of you are too young to remember Wayne's World? I don't know. Wayne. Luke 24 resurrection. I have hot takes, but I want to hear your thoughts. Yeah. What stuck out? I mean, it's the resurrection. Come on. Mm hmm. This is this is the linchpin for us. This morning I was reading actually in John about the resurrection. Yeah. And the thing that stuck out to me there was so in this in Luke, it talks about Peter rose up and ran. And John says he ran with like there's another disciple that ran with him. And that does in that disciple actually outran Peter and got there first. And I don't know. My mind just went to like this certain level of levity, not competition out there, like they both just need to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They both just need to sprint as fast as they could. Yeah. Their friend.

Yeah. I don't know. It's just beautiful. Yeah. I just can't wrap my head around the fact that they just didn't know that it was Jesus. But then they like knew it was Jesus. It was like, yeah. Like where does that still happen today? I don't know. There are people telling crazy stories of like, yeah, this person came out of nowhere. And I don't know. I have a friend, like we have a coworker that had a watch bought for her fiance at a watch shop just because they were looking for a wedding watch. And he was like, I'll buy that for you. Like a nice watch and like then disappear. Yeah. In cash. Like, like, no. Like. And they're gone. Yeah. And then gone. It just kind of feels very like angel-y, you know, that's like the vibe I get. All right. Do you want my autograph? Yes. Always. Okay. So the road to Emmaus, let's let's sort of anchor ourself. We got these two fellas walking, Jesus is there.

And it says they were unable to see him. So to your point, like Jesus did, Jesus must have done something or, but they could not recognize him. And so they, they spend all this time together, they get to, they get to Emmaus. They're so moved by this guy who they don't know is Jesus. They were like, don't leave us, come eat. And they eat. And the entire time he's telling them about the scriptures and eventually they, they're able to see, they're able to recognize it as Jesus. And then they're like, of course, it's Jesus. It's when he broke the bread, I don't know if that's special at all, but. It is when it broke the bread, yeah. It has to be, it has to be special. So Jesus, the way he taught them was so moving before they knew it was him. Like he offered them this comfort and then he, they recognize it's him. And it's like, weren't, weren't we so moved in his teaching? Weren't we so moved? And so a question that I, what I'm thinking about is like, how am I missing Jesus right now? Like in this moment, how do I miss Jesus? And I'm not talking about like, that story is great. Like the guy buying the watch, but like practically day to day, how am I missing Jesus? Yeah. What's your hot take? No, it's not much of a hot take. It's more of a question like, yeah, that's the big letdown. It's a good question. Not so much a hot take, but like my day to day. How do I miss Jesus? Right.

Like, how is Jesus walking with us? And clearly like we want more of him, we want to invite him to our dinner table. How is he walking with us that we're not clearly? Yeah. Like we don't have Jesus now, so we have the Holy Spirit and Jesus said, it'll be better that I go. You have the Holy Spirit. We have the scriptures, so we have all of this, we have all of this stuff, and still I seem, I find myself missing him. Why, why do we miss him? What you said, Kirsten, about the breaking of the bread is interesting, because that's part of communion, you know, and I think the significance of communion is remembering who he is and what he's done. And I think, for me, the times that I miss Jesus is when I forget that, when I kind of forget the main point of all of this, which is that Jesus died for me, and he rose again for me and for us, and actually partaking in that, and sitting and remembering, or when I shift my eyes off of that, I think I miss it, I miss it in my day-to-day. So I think it's like a daily remembrance of communion and partaking in that, and remembering the sacrifice that he's done, and making it personal for myself every day. Right, because otherwise it becomes a distant story. It just becomes a, oh, it's a nice thing I celebrated on Easter.

Yeah. I think I was reminded when they were like, didn't we feel some way? Like, I'm reminded when I feel nudges and what I now call holy spirit shakes, and I just decide not to do anything about it. I feel like those are moments that I'm just missing something that Jesus had for me, or I should turn my ears on to pay more attention to what's happening, because the times that I do respond, and I'm like, oh, I think Jesus is doing something. It could even be in conversation, and I'm feeling this thought that's like, say this, say this, say this, and I think that's kind of what that reminds me of, is just almost Jesus was making this connection between him and the spirit that now lived in them, and I guess so freaking cool. Very tangibly for me right now, it's with my mom. My mom is staying with our family, my wife and our kids right now, which has actually been, actually, it's the wrong word, has been amazing. It's been such a blessing. She's been not just an extra hand, but our kids love her, and I've had not a difficult relationship, but a complicated relationship with my mom, mainly just because, candidly, she annoys me a lot sometimes, and so there's a level of patience

that I don't have with her. I know in the past, I've had times where I'm going to her house, and I'm asking God, give me some patience, give me some patience, and I leave, and I'm like, I had zero patience. There was no grace shown, and so I don't know. I'm reading the scripture, and I'm like, Jesus, I know you're walking with me right now, and I know, also, after, my mom might go back to, she's staying with us, but she still has her house. She goes back to her house, and I have this burning of, what could I have done differently? There was something you were speaking to me, but did I recognize you in the midst of it, and so I don't know if I have a, again, I haven't been doing this well. I want to do it better, but that's what's coming to mind. Yeah, yeah. The thing that, what you said, Debo, about the breaking of the bread hits you, and the thing that, so I'm dealing, back up a little bit. So all of, everyone in that time was suffering, so the guys on the road to Emmaus, they were going through suffering. This man, this great man who they loved is gone, and for them, the story was over, even though Jesus has been saying, this is what's going to happen. It was prophesied in the Old Testament, and still, they're in the middle of,

they're just suffering, and so I'm thinking about my father-in-law right now, who I love, who I didn't, wow, I just got emotional. I didn't realize how much I loved my father-in-law until he got sick, and so he is, he is just in and out of the hospital, and he lost the ability to walk, and I find myself in the midst of suffering, forgetting all the promises Jesus has made, forgetting all the ways he has been faithful, I think with the breaking of the bread, that moment, it is just this reminder. It's like all of it culminates. Don't you remember all the things I've said? Like, read the prophecies about me. Read all, it's all been said, I told you about it. And like for me right now, what I'm a little ashamed of, not ashamed, I'm not ashamed, but like how quickly I go to despair. In this instance, to my father-in-law. And I think, I think it's gratitude. It's gratitude that gets us back. It's remembering, even for those, I just think about those two poor guys, those two poor guys. Everything they believed in was gone. And Jesus meets with them and they're not allowed to know it's him. What, what?

But like, I think for us in the here and now, it's like we fight that suffering. We fight those things by being grateful. And that sounds so simple, but it's like, it is the one weapon we have this side of heaven to combat that suffering and that loss. Those things that we experience. So I think like, I think for me, it's, it is a reminder that things like the breaking of the bread, they exist for me to remember the goodness that has been. And like, and I'm just so, I'm just so easily drawn into this despair. So it's gratitude for us. I mean, that is like, that is the great, that is the great weapon for us. And we pray in gratitude. Yeah. Yeah, why don't you do it? Okay. What's your father-in-law's name? Dennis. Dennis. God, thank you. Thank you that you chose to break your body and shed your blood and take a place of a criminal as an innocent man, God created flesh on the cross. And I just am so grateful. And I know my friends here are grateful for you doing that. And not only that,

but choosing to make yourself known to us again by walking alongside these two poor guys who were grieving and to really bring it home that you are actually with us through it all. You never leave us and you never will. That is what you verified by your death and resurrection on the cross, especially in the midst of suffering. And Lord, we are grateful for that. And we ask for the ability to remember that. And Lord, just be with Dennis and Josh and Jen and his family as they just remember all that you've done and the life that you've given them and the breath that they've breathed however long that there is reason to be grateful and to celebrate the life that you walk with them. We love you, Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Yeah. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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