 Let's turn to Luke chapter 24 love your topic Ignite the rekindle heart That's first thing I do when somebody asked me to speak. I go which topic I have to love the topic to say yes I don't go out that much, but I love any topic in the Bible. I even love the ones where they're just talking about names I like to find out who all those names were and what they did for the Lord and And this is one of my favorite favorite subjects ever this portion of scripture of chapter 24 of Luke It's after the resurrection. Let's pray Lord, I ask you right now that you would Encompass this room that you would encompass our hearts that you would dwell in our hearts that you would reign in our hearts and That you would cause yourself to be known in a deeper and more passionate way than we have ever known you in Jesus name Amen So what does it mean to have a heart that is a blaze for God? I looked up ignite and I looked up all these words that mean ignite and one of them is the blaze Some of you might not ever have had a burning heart or a passion for God I remember when I didn't I remember when Ralfers got saved and he wanted to go tell the whole world About Jesus and I'm sitting there thinking wait a minute. This is wrong. I'm the Christian and And and he's the heathen that just got saved and he's telling everybody about Jesus and I'm not Something's wrong, and I literally sat with my Bible and cried and I told the Lord. I am so sorry I don't know you my husband knows you and he's a new believer his heart's a blaze for you and mine isn't Some of you may have had a passion for God But now you've lost it Maybe you desired him, but now you've lost it and now you're here because you're longing for him So how do you get this passion back? How do you maintain this constant flow of God? God's tender spirit moving in our hearts and Ascending back to the father and back to the son and on to the lost world. How do we get that? Well today you have come to the right place because Marie and the women in this church have sought God on Your behalf and he has put this topic on your hearts. You know God puts topics People's hearts, and then you can't get him out I'm gonna be going Tuesday to speak at the pastor's wife retreat and when they asked us when we got there What's on your mind? And I said persecution that is all that's on my mind America is suffering persecution. I have Said's picture where I brush my teeth every day and comb my ear And that's on my mind. So that's all I can think about that's all I can speak on Because God puts those topics and he put this topic on Marie and the women's hearts Exactly what we need to hear exactly what I need to hear before I go speak on persecution God is pursuing all of you right now. He's pursuing me. He wants to ignite our hearts He wants to fuel that spiritual flame He made us a spirit within us and he wants to awaken that spirit with God's passion He wants to stir that dormant heart. Maybe you're here, and you're just a heart's just dormant from Trials and horrible things that are happening in life, and you're just like numb and you need to be ignited He wants to dead detonate. That's another one of words Detonate that fire within us. He wants to light the candle of Your heart within you the Bible says that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord He wants to light that candle. He wants to rekindle that fire that's gone out You know rekindles when you take some little pushes in your Rubbing two stones together making a spark To rekindle that fire an ignited heart for God I'm gonna put a few descriptions that I wrote down just off the top of my heart last night I wrote him down of what it means to me to have an ignited heart for me an ignited heart for God means to have an insatiable hunger to know God in All his divine character right now as I'm going through the Bible And I started reading the one-year Bible about 15 years ago Because I wanted to read every word not just go to my special passages Which I normally do and now what I'm doing is every name of God that I read I write it at the top of my one-year Bible because I want to know every name I want to know who he is a heart that's passionate for God longs to hear his voice Always and know his will for their life always a passionate heart for God drives us to live the crucified life So that we can be an obedience to him in all things so that his will will be accomplished in our lives. I Know that my heart is a flame for God Because I follow him closely and earnestly and with a pure and truthful heart I know when it's a flame because it's not well. I gotta read today Have to sit with God today. I better do it after all. I'm a pastor's wife or I'm speaking this week I better get right with God in a week or they'll know the spiritual people out there. They will know True When I walk in perfect harmony and communion with Christ with the intent of becoming Transformed into his image my life ignites with passion because I sense his life in me. He ignites my heart a Life that's in passion for Christ will die for Christ That he may live through them and I know about what Said's doing and prison right now and many other Christians all around the world Is they're dying they're willing to give their life so that people will see Christ and they are seeing in Christ It's to be a blaze for God to be consumed with his holy passion and what is Christ's holy passion? Have you ever thought of that? It's the salvation of souls. That is it. It's not my will It's his will in me saving souls for eternity In our theme scripture, it's Luke 24 32 one of my favorite scriptures in the whole Bible This whole chapter is one of my favorite chapters. I was looking last night at how many times I've taught it quite a few love it It's did not our hearts burn within us while he Jesus talked with us on the road And while he opened the scriptures to us to discourage disciples met Jesus on the road to nowhere and he He ignited their hearts and their hearts burned as Christ opened the scriptures And that's how our heart is ignited is when we spend time with Jesus Today's theme scripture is embedded in a story of two disciples of Christ that lost their passion for Jesus He had been crucified. He was missing from the grave Where he had been risen he was just gone he had resurrected, but they didn't know they were who took him who stolen Where is Jesus? Disciple is a follower of Jesus. They had followed him. They were not of the 12 Disciple, of course, we know now there's only 11 because Judas betrayed him They were of the outer circle all these other disciples hundreds of them that followed Jesus yet on resurrection morning They walked away from the cross discouraged Jesus met them on their journey away from him walking away. He had said wait for me He had told him I will resurrect and wait for me and I will meet you and wait for the Holy Spirit Yet they went home discouraged and when he met them he rekindled their hearts and they're distressed Jesus drew near to them And he said the hearts of flame with the most instructive Inspiring intimate moment with him every morning when I get up I have my table where I do devotions and I look and I look out To the hills and I grab my cup of coffee and I go Lord. I'm here meet me talk to me. I Need an intimate moment with you. Sometimes it's just a word that I read That's just that word that I needed for the day or that instructed me It's a story of Jesus going out Doing his the reason why he came to this earth He's going out to the highways and he's going out to the byways and he's presenting the gospel and a natural and Loving and miraculous way this long piece was probably written after Matthew mark and John Does it not the Gospels Jesus visited Jerusalem on three different occasions maybe four This is one of them and it is the most vivid and well recorded It was recorded by Luke and no one else recorded and he just was so intense and the way he did it Let's see how Jesus met these disciples the scripture reference is 24 now in Luke 24 went through 12 we have the resurrection morning and In if we read that I think I'll just read it real quick It says now on the first day of the week very early in the morning day and certain other women With them came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb and they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus and It happened as they were greatly perplexed about this and told two men stood by them in shining garments And we know those were two angels these women had prepared these spices They had seen where Jesus had been laid and they came back and they're ready to serve them the way they had always done Then as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth. They said to them these angels Why do you seek the living among the dead? He's not here, but he has risen remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee Saying the son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise again so they They reminded them and they remembered his words they remembered then they returned from the tomb and told these things to the 11 and to all the rest It was Mary Magdalene Joanna Mary the mother of James and other women with them The first ones to take the message of the risen Christ were these women who told these things to the apostles and the words just seemed as idle Tales have you ever Experienced that oh, you don't know what they're talking about and they did not believe them But Peter rose and ran to the tomb and stooping down. He saw the linen closing Clothed lying by themselves and he departed marvering to himself at what had happened and John goes on to tell us that John also went in John 20 and He went with To the tomb and he saw that the tomb is empty and he believed so all this excitement is going on but these two disciples they've walked away and we read that in verse 13 and We see here that now behold two men were traveling the same day to the village of Emanus Which was seven miles from Jerusalem now Jesus had resurrected and he was appearing a lot of people will say well We don't know that he really rose from the dead well Yeah, he was appearing all over the place the first appearance was to Mary Magdalene and that was that's in mark 16 in John 20 The second was to the other women disciples in Matthew 28 The third was to Peter right here and Luke 24 34 We will see that he appeared to him the fourth is to these two discouraged disciples So he's not just in Jerusalem appearing, but he says oops to my disciples walked away I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna get him. He appears to them then he appeared to all the disciples and To multitudes before his ascension So it says these two disciples two of them two of Christ's disciples of the second group Not of the 11 that were in Jerusalem, but another group and they're on their way to Emaeus. Well, where is Emaeus? It's not on the map. We've tried to find it They took us to a little town once that was about the same distance from Jerusalem and they think that's Emaeus and there's a synagogue there and I got my picture taken there But nobody knows where he may have switched I think is interesting that it's a secret It's not towards Jericho that road is very mountainous and dangerous and rocky and it's too far It's not towards Bethlehem That was a reminder of what they wanted to forget that Jesus this man who said he was king of kings had Lived for them told him that he was going to rise again and now he's missing they didn't go that way It's not towards Ephraim. That was not a day's journey. That was a very long journey These two disciples were on their way to no man's land Did they live there? Have you ever been so discouraged? You're just walking. You're just driving And you don't know where to go. You're just kind of lost because you're so discouraged That's what Emaeus means. It's a place where you go when you're discouraged Where they return until their old lives It's the road where you go after you have been with Jesus after you have witnessed Golgotha the cross It's the place of death after enduring Perplexing sorrow and pain. You're just so down so discouraged. You're numb I remember one time when I was just came to me I was it was after all got saved and I'm tasting bad things too And raw was still kind of an aggressive guy and and and I'm just sitting there. I've had it I thought when you got saved he was gonna be immediately perfect I'm leaving. I am leaving. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm leaving So Emaeus was my couch that day and all of a sudden my mother who was very inspired by the Holy Spirit comes walking in the room She had a key to my house, but she always knocked this day. She didn't knock. She just stormed in I'm laying there on the couch called Emaeus and she says I just want you to know one thing and That thing is that the most important thing in life. It's not you. It's not your marriage It's the will of God and she walked out And I thought the will of God What about me? It's the road that we take when we can't go on think about what is your Emaeus when discouragement has caused us to lose Hope purpose vision our passion for Christ and we We want to just forget the cross We want to forget what we just went through Emaeus is where Christ meets us That's a good thing after we've had a dark night of the soul. Have you been there? I have name it Emaeus can be a car. It can be a place around the corner of the house Where we just sit and veg out and get depressed and think that life is over Are you there now? Maybe you're there now The Lord Jesus knows that you're there now and he's here to meet you Discouragement robs us From our passion for God Gotta get a hold of myself. I know someone who's going through this right now. That's why I'm emotional not a bit. I'll be fine Unfulfilled dreams Empties you from that hope that you want that you once had for life that you once had in Christ and It turns to this Hopeless discouragement this emptiness that causes you to doubt God Think I thought Jesus left me I thought he had a plan and then it can turn to absolute unbelief So we can't go there Then the passion that you once had for God vanishes Okay back no don't clap Okay, I'll get nervous Now we're gonna read 14 to 17. I'll be fine. Trust me and They talked together of all these things these two disciples which had happened and you already know He walked with us. He taught us. He fed us. He healed the sick He he opened the blind eyes. They beat him. They mutilated him. They crucified him It's the third day. He's not here. They talked about all these things So it was while they conversed and reasoned that Jesus himself drew near and went with them So he goes Jesus leaves Jerusalem and you see what kind of God he is instead of exalting himself here I am I've risen. He goes wait a minute. I'll be right back. I'm going to you may as course He's just appearing here and there and all over the place He drew near to them, but their eyes were restrained so that they did not know him And he said to them What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another that you walk and you are so sad now? This is time of the Passover millions of observant Jews of the Roman Rome in this Roman Empire were there Millions of people were traveling pilgrims walk the roads. It's like the freeways today except in Instead of being in cars They're walking the roads and they have their bags and their tents and all the stuff They carried in with them to go to the Passover and it wouldn't be uncommon as you're walking that somebody walks up Do you where you guys from? What are you doing? So it's normal. He walks up a what are you doing? It's a festive time and why are you so down and out and You know what Jesus is thinking Christ's pursuit of us rekindles our passion for God isn't it exciting to know that Christ is pursuing you I tell people all the time. Hey that are walking to we may as He's after you and he's gonna get you so just stop and talk to him so It says while they come in together Jesus true near and he went with them their hearts were aching They were wondering how everything belong for had vanished wasn't he gonna set up the kingdom? Jesus knows where we are at all times Even if we're not in the inner circle. Isn't that exciting even if we're Unimportant and we don't even know their names Jesus knows and Even if you're confused and even if you're going in the wrong direction Away from Jesus when he has been so crystal clear that he would rise in three days James 4 8 says draw near to God and he will draw near to you and their eyes were restrained They had not been able to recognize him because now Mortality had put on immortality. He was in his resurrected state. We will be like that one day They were walking with Jesus talking about Jesus, but they didn't know that it was him Do you remember a time when God drew near to you and you didn't know it? You didn't know it. He was just talking to you and directing you and then later you go. Oh That was the Lord. I was at the right place at the right time That was the Lord. That's what was happening to them. Christ draws near to me unknown to me my heart ignites That's how I recognize him. I just get this excitement. Sometimes. I don't even know what it's about But I just think he's there He's there. He's meeting me. He's walking with me the Sabbath was over and they were free to leave Jerusalem Their master was dead their hopes are crushed. They could just talk freely on the road About what had just happened when Christ Meets us at our lowest point. He rekindles our passion for him. He says what manner of communication is this? What are you talking about? Why are you so sad now? They thought this was very strange Jesus sets them up. He gives them. He's going to give them a most in-depth study that they've ever heard about himself What all the seers and the prophets of old had longed to hear these two little unknown unnamed disciples Well, one of them we know is Cleopas Cleopas who? He's gonna give them intense study. I don't know that he ever gave anybody such an intense study They were despondent strain puzzle the one they believed in the promised desire a messiah was gone How could this be they thought we loved him? We believed on him. We gave him our hearts in our lives We followed him. How could he do this to us? It says they were disciples, which means they followed They were learners. Maybe they sat on the front row. He did not did he not fit the Old Testament predictions of the coming one Did he not declare that he was the son of God sent from God? Why then did he save himself when he saved others? Where were all the disciples from the inner circle? What would they do now? They who believed on him Who could they possibly believe in now? Who would be the messiah? Who was he would he ever come? There'd been 400 years of silence They didn't know if this man could cast out demons and heal the sick and do all this and be such a man before God If and now you're telling me he's not the Redeemer of Israel, we believed it Are you today confused about who God is? Have the circumstances of life caused you to doubt him. That's what Satan does He throws so much at us that we just think God doesn't love me. He does not love me Maybe you're asking I thought I brought up children in the ways of God and If and if I did that they would follow him. I asked myself that I had my younger son Ryan And my oldest who didn't follow God for many years and I mean I remember we're all saying this is very puzzling I didn't grow up with the Lord and I have the Lord and my boys grew up with the Lord And they don't have the Lord and Satan starts working at you so that you doubt God And I never doubted that my boys would not come to the Lord Even if it was on their deathbed because of the promises of God. I thought I knew God I thought I knew God you might ask I Thought I knew I knew what God wanted for my life and now my life is a turmoil I thought my marriage would get better as I serve the Lord I thought the Lord would provide more abundantly and we have all these I thought I thought I thought we're trying to put God in a box of what we wanted God to do in our lives When he has a perfect plan He leads us in guides as if we walk that straight narrow path Into his plan and everything he wants for us comes right into that path. We don't have to go out looking for it It's right in front of us Christ's pursuit for those of us from the outer circle the unnamed Rekindles our passion for him as I shared Now we're gonna read from 18 to 21 then one of those whose name was Cleopas You know his name answered and said to him are you the only stranger in Jerusalem? Have you not known the things that happened in these last days? This is where are you coming from that? You don't know what's been happening and he said to them what things? He wanted them to talk sometimes God asked us questions about God You know you know what I'm going through what things so they said to him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth who was a prophet mighty indeed and who and Word before God and all the people and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and Crucified him, but we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel Indeed, I'm gonna keep reading besides all this today. It's the third day since these things happened So when I read that years ago, I go hello. It is the third day He has risen. Why are you in Emmaus? Why are you not back in Jerusalem looking for him? There so we see that the other disciple is a name. We don't know who he was People have thought was this dr. Luke is this why he wrote it was Luke one of the ones that walked away. We don't know Jesus knows our name and How many hairs are on our head, he knows everything about us He numbers our days and he has ordained for each one of us whether we're known or unknown or unnamed He knows everything about us and he has a plan for us. So he leaves the name of one of them out Maybe it was Luke. I like to think it is, but I don't know Because it's written. I mean every detail is in the story The other one Cleophas. Well, there's a woman at the foot of the cross whose husband was Cleophas Maybe it was him. We don't know but we know that they were disciples Dispondency robs us from our passion for God They go, are you only a stranger that you don't know There were around a million people in Jerusalem and there was only one thing Everybody was talking about the death and passion of Jesus the man who had claimed to be savior of the world was dead The one who pilot had written King of the Jews is dead Everybody knew Jesus was not insignificant. That's why they're wondering. What are you talking about? Jerusalem had heard about him since his humble birth How did they hear? Well, he was in a manger But there was these angels these shepherds that said that these angels appeared to them The priest inscribes in Herod's palace had confirmed the scriptures that yes Indeed a king would be born and Bethlehem The Herod had asked them everybody knew what was going on with Herod in his court and the chief them priests. It was well known That by the time Jesus was two years old these wise men Kingmakers came from the east. They were the astrologers. They were the doctors They were the ones that studied the prophecies of old They had come of all things following a star and they had found Jesus lying in a manger everybody knew Jesus continued to allow himself to be known. Well, how do you know that Sharon? Well Everyone knew because Herod when he found out he went out and had when he found out There was a newborn ruler he went out and had all the children killed in Rama, which is the Bethlehem area While Jerusalem the Bible says trembled with fear Everybody knew about this man many hated him with a passion others loved him with a passion But now the passion is gone because this man that we knew so much about is dead And they had said you can see here how they had lost their hope. They had lost their trust in Jesus They said oh, well, didn't you hear about Jesus of Nazareth? Well, Nazareth is like saying Jesus from nowhere Nazareth was a forsaken town. It was despised Pontius Pilate had put on the cross Jesus from Nazareth Jesus from a nowhere town not from a king not from a palace not from Jerusalem Not Jesus the son of David, but Jesus from Nazareth king of the Jews a Philip had told Nathaniel can any good thing come over Nazareth so we know it was pretty despised Christ identified with us at birth didn't he he came to Nazareth in a manger lowly And he was raised as a carpenter throughout his life Notice they didn't proclaim him to say well Jesus Christ the savior of the world is missing Jesus the son of David King David is missing Jesus the promised Messiah Jesus the son of God Jesus the but Jesus From the despised town and a lot of times we go well Jesus and not my king the Lord of lords is the one and They said he said all these things, but look at their testimony to this unknown man Well, this guy Jesus that seemed to be a prophet Notice what they said so we see their heart there when Jesus asked Peter Who he thought Jesus was Peter had passionately declared? Thou art Christ the Christ or the coming Messiah the promised Messiah the son of the living God He said he was a prophet mighty indeed Well, there were a lot of prophets from the beginning of time Perhaps they had not known truly known the crucified one intimately The scripture says Paul wrote I want to know him in His suffering I want to get to know him not only in his resurrection We want to know him then but I want to know him in his suffering He was a lot more than that and they were soon Going to find out He was going to be the redeemer of Israel they said They were first century believers and the scriptures had taught them that the Messiah would come one day and rule as a monarch From Jerusalem and bring peace to the world and that is true He will come he will rule the world But also the scriptures had taught that he was Messiah the suffering servant in Zechariah 9 9 He would come lowly and writing as a donkey It was hard for them to believe that Christ would come that way and Isaiah 53 He had it had been declared that he would be stricken smitten of God afflicted wounded for our transgressions But it was hard to believe that the Messiah would come so lowly and So beat up So were there two messiahs the ruling monarch on the suffering servant most people wanted the ruler Dullness of hearing his word Robbs our passion from God now a lot of people are down on the when-year Bible because they feel like they have to And then you're dull in the word and I'm not pushing the when-year Bible I think everybody needs for me. It was important because I've read through 15 times I love that my grandma had she'd always say I'm on my 48th time of reading through the Bible and I'd think Okay, Graham. I'm gonna catch up one day But no matter how you're reading the Bible whether it's the one, you know, don't don't go by the you know Just go slow if you get stuck on a word stay there Don't be dull of hearing we need to hear what he says and apparently they had be dull They had been dull appearing and they said and now it's the third day and then in verses 22 through 24 I'll read it real quick Yes in certain women of the company certain women not certain women The disciples that had followed him and taken care of his needs who arrived at the tomb early astonished us So they had already heard When they did not find the body they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels They didn't say a vision. They said we toss we saw two men in shining garments they'd seen angels who said he was alive and Certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found that it was just as the women It's that but him they did not believe so here they're confessing that the women had seen these two Men in shining garments that had said he's why are you seeking? We read it here Why are you seeking the living around the dead and they astonished but they were dull of hearing? Maybe they didn't want to hear it was too miraculous. It was too big They had their facts confused and they had walked away from Golgotha The women had lingered at the tomb where are they gonna put him will be back We will continue taking care of Messiah not understanding We will continue but remembering That when the angels saw them that he did say he would rise again They had lingered we need to linger with Christ with the word when we don't understand and They became the first to witness the Lord To witness the story of the Lord and they were the first to go and To take the message to the disciples So they didn't find his body now. We're going to go from 25 to 27 then he said to them Oh foolish ones and slow the heart Whoa, does the Lord talk like that to us? Yes I've told the Lord many times. Okay, just let me have it. I'm ready and then he comes back lovingly and other times He just tells me off royal What are you doing? Oh foolish ones? Yes We're absolute fools when we're not listening to first of all what he had said and then to wait and linger at the tomb The only reason the women didn't stay all night is because it was the Sabbath Otherwise they would have just sat there and waited to watch him raise from the grave slow of heart To believe all that the prophets had spoken. They had just said he was a prophet mighty indeed They didn't believe all that the prophets had spoken Not the Christ the Messiah the coming one your anointed one have suffered these things and to enter into his glory The suffering servant was he not to come and suffer and he's talking to them like you know better You followed me you heard the messages you heard when I told you I was the son of God and I would rise in three days and beginning Moses and all the prophets he expounded to them and all the scriptures the things concerning himself Now that's the Calvary Chapel verse right there because what do we do at Calvary Chapel? We and not only us many other denominations around the world and people read the Bible line upon line and Study it and meditate on it So he went from the prophets and gave him the most amazing study and I'm hoping that one day I get to hear that Study, I hope it can be repeated. He exhorted them. He first rebuked them for their unbelieving hearts He healed their six souls he took time to hear them out first And then he expounded all these events that had happened to him He healed their soul he drew them to himself watch how he does it he restored their passion for him knowing their hearts He ministered to their most intimate need now notice the way he does it in such a natural ways walking along like everybody else He questions them they start telling them what their problem is and then he rebukes them You're foolish. You should have listened and they probably immediately said Yeah, we were foolish we didn't listen he will chasing us in order to keep us close to his heart We don't like when we're chasing the exposition of his word makes our heart ablaze for him Jesus used The title he said Messiah had not ought not the Christ To have suffered he used he didn't use one of his manhood titles boy Baby son of man friend brother Galilee and Nazarene and those are his titles But he used the title That they knew about that he was the coming Messiah He expounded all the scriptures and the things concerning himself. That is amazing He expounded systematically the way things were written in the Bible to them now will go 28 to 33 Then they drew near to the village where they were going so they were getting close to Emmaus and he indicated that he would have gone farther He said well, okay, you guys I'm not going to Emmaus. He doesn't go to Emmaus. He takes us out of Emmaus I'm not gonna go lay on the the couch and and be a couch potato and let you feel sorry for yourself Because I'm gonna go further, but they constrained him saying abide with us For it is toward evening and the day is spent and he went in to stay with them Not came to pass as he sat at the table with them that he took bread Blessed and broke it and gave it to them Then their eyes were open and they knew him and he vanished from their sight and they said to one another Here's our thing verse did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on the road and what he opened the scriptures to us So they rose up that very hour notice what happens immediately first. They're depressed walking to Emmaus now They jump up that very hour and they return to Jerusalem and Found the 11 and those who were with them gathered together This is what meeting with God does to us it resurrects us it makes us it ignites our hearts and we get up He took time to tarry with them and break bread and I've always wondered what did he do in that breaking of bread that they They recognized him. He made he let them recognize him Where to be like Christ and take time to spiritually dying With him and not only with him But with those who are losing their passion for Christ where to sit and take time with them and Expound to them the scriptures Sometimes we get impatient as Christians. Oh, I've told her a million times about Jesus You know, I'm not gonna tell her again. I'm over it I'm done. Let Jesus reach her. That's good. He will and you won't get used We are to be like Christ and take time Move by her passion for God I want to bring in Kay came at us year after year on that narrow path and She left footprints clearly marked for us to walk and she sat and feasted with us in the word This is Pastor Chuck's wife Kay for those of you may not know She has set my heart ablaze for Christ time and time again And I had a mother that did it in a grandmother that did it in a neighbor that did it Revelation 3 20 says behold I stand at the door and knock if any men hear my voice and open the door out come Into him and I will suck with him Some 27 8 then you said when a case favorite scriptures was seek my face when you said seek my face My heart responded to you and said Lord, I will I face will I seek? Jesus will draw near to us as often as he needs as he needs to as it takes to prepare our spiritual life in Order that he can use us in order that we can have that His passion for souls and he can use us to tell others the days are coming to a close I don't know if you watch the news. I watch the news every day I sit down even if it's before I go to sleep I'll I'll sit down and I watch and we are living in terrible days Persecution is now in America as you will know Just yesterday. I'm working on my study for persecution for the pastor's lives just yesterday a murderer in Oregon went into a school and with he had three or four guns with him and he had more at home and he told The kids in a room well They were adults and and young kids and he said if you believe if you're a Christian I want you to stand up and they would stand up and he'd shoot him in the head and He shot nine of them in the head and seven were wounded So I don't know if they just didn't say in anybody who wasn't a Christian He would shoot him in the leg so he was filled with hatred, but he had Demond demons in him not Satan that he knew he wanted to kill Christians in the head Persecution is here. I'm not gonna get into that because I could But we better be ready and the only way we're gonna make it through is to draw close to Jesus It says their eyes were open. He then disappeared our resurrected body will be like that when we are corruption It's on incorruption One glimpse of him is all we need to set our hearts on fire with passion for him And give eternal hope and understanding he will give us that eternal hope and understanding in the deepest and most intimate chamber in our hearts They said did not our hearts burn When we take time for Jesus and walk and talk with him He our hearts will burn now many times. You're just reading and you just read nothing happens But then you see yourself walking in the right direction. You see yourself Sharing with the Lord you see you know that you have spiritual understanding of things that others don't When we spend time with him he will become the consuming fire burning away our fears and Unbelief he will become the light of the world and lightning Our darkened path we walk in darkness until he lights our path He will become the bright morning start that will guide us to our eternal home He he is that torch from heaven that leads us onward He is the love of our life drawing us to him Divine encounters with the resurrected Lord will give us passion for souls And that's in the closing couple scriptures 33 to 35 now they rose up that very hour They had walked all day. I think it was like seven miles to Emmaus All day they had walked and they returned to Jerusalem and found the 11 and those who were with them gathered together So they were there waiting. What do we do now? They killed him. They're gonna kill us I mean you can imagine what the conversation was. He said he was gonna rise will we see him will we know? saying and then Because we know that was happening before but here in 34 it says and they were saying the Lord has risen indeed and He's appeared to Simon so after he appeared To these you may as or before to these two guys He had appeared to Simon Peter and they told about the things that it happened on the road to Emmaus And now he was known to them in the breaking of bread. So there was something about this is my body broken for you This is I've always wondered how amazing that time was now when we take communion It just seems so normal in the church We take the bread put and then the wine and it just seems so mechanical one thing I've learned to do to really make me think about Communion with Christ as I take that bread and I crush it in my hand and I go like this I think people around me probably think she's Looney Tunes, but I do and I say to myself I Broke his body and Then I drink as the cup and I go I caused him to bleed. I Try to remember but there was something about the way he did it I don't know how he did it that they recognized him in that breaking of bread They turned back from their unbelief their fears their questioning their hearts were ignited for him Now they were with the other disciples. They were excited. They were talking about Jesus They went back to Jesus believing in him They went back to Jerusalem where he told them to wait to their spiritual home. They went back to the cross They went back to the tomb Which were those eternal symbols of the gospel They found the 11 and they were saying guess what he appeared to Peter They all began to fellowship and to speak to one another the great things that God the things he had done Well, remember when he said this remember when he said that I didn't know if I should believe him But now I know how he was the Christ the Messiah the Son of the living God how he had fulfilled the prophecies concerning himself They were Exclaiming the gospel to each other as you read through the Old Testament in the New Testament God will reveal things to you. The other thing I'm doing on my page is this year is I'm whenever I see the father God the father and the son of the Holy Spirit in the same verse I write triune God even though it doesn't say they're trying God, but they're all listed. It's all over the place It's all over the place that talks about the triune God when our hearts burn with passion for Christ We unite with believers worldwide in one sole purpose and that is to bring glory to God When our hearts are consumed with passion for Christ we become one with him We walk with him we talk with him we share with him and become one with his holy passion for souls I get tired of traveling, but I go to South America I go to Columbia and I go out to the jungles and it's hot. It's uncomfortable. There's bugs and When I'm planning a trip, I'm usually kind of I have to do this I can't believe that God's coming to do this, but I can't stop it. There's this passion in me that just Makes me go. I can't think of not going and when I get there I can feel that he's walking with me as we're sharing the gospel in South America Jesus longs to have a personal encounter with you when you're on your road to nowhere He wants you to sense his awesome presence and fled your heart with the sacrificial love He died on the cross and he has set you free from death and hill and he's gonna pursue you So he sets your heart ablaze for him. That is what he longs to do do the scriptures He wants to answer all your questions because they testify of him a Moment with the Lord is gonna raise you up from that road of Desperation and confusion and emptiness and nothingness He's going to set your feet on the highway of holiness the highway that leads to his eternal home where we will be with him forever So today don't be discouraged Look for him everywhere. I look for him on signs on trucks on license plates on in the sky You know everywhere. It's where are you Lord? I go out and I look at the stars and I go It's that thing with Jerusalem or is it that over there? Where is it? Look for him everywhere. Let him exhort you Commune with him always 24-7 and you'll be loving one another and you'll be fulfilling his calling your life Which is the salvation of souls. I like you to bow your heads right now. I know that God has spoken to you Through his Holy Spirit That's what he uses to speak to us You know what area he has touched I want you to give that to the Lord right now if you're on that road to may us right now Tell me he knows it already, but acknowledge it Lord. I am any may us. I am on the couch. I Am Vegging I am down Lord Meet me make yourself known to me uncover my eyes. I know you're here, but I haven't seen you make yourself known to me Please I need you This last year when I was younger I Would not that I don't do this now, but I don't do it as much. I would have these long Involved prayers and a lot of more about me This last year my prayer has gotten very short. It's Lord help Just help me Help my sons help the world Help the non-believer just help and I thought Am I singing by having such a short prayer and then you read through the Psalms and David is always help Help help help He was always crying out help And I'm not telling you to just to pray that prayer, but we really need help don't we? We need help to come out of unbelief doubt. We need to help with our families with our husbands and The time is coming in America when we need help and somebody might put a gun in front of us Say are you a Christian because if you are I'm gonna shoot you right now And you're gonna declare yes, I am I know Christ You