Friday, April 12, 2013
Luke 24:25-26 Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"
FOOLISHNESS IS NOT BELIEVING IN ALL THAT [THE LORD THROUGH] THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN
He wasn't the first blowhard to express the sentiment. Jesse Ventura, former entertainer and governor of Minnesota once said: "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." There have been, and will be others, who will call us foolish for believing what the Scripture says.
When the risen Savior Jesus first spoke the above quoted words to the Emmaus disciples, He was a stranger to them. He called them foolish ones, without understanding and perception, because they were slow to believe all that the Old Testament prophets had foretold by inspiration. Far from making the Old Testament obsolete, the resurrection of Jesus ought to lead us to search those Scriptures anew.
For the Prophets foretold the office of the Christ. They foretold His suffering and death (Isaiah 53). They foretold that (like the Passover Lamb) not a bone would be broken (Psalm 34:20; John 19:36). They foretold that His body would not decompose (Psalm 16:10) in the grave. The Prophets foretold that the Christ would suffer these things and enter into His glory.
Foolishness, Mr. Ventura, is not receiving and searching the Word of the Living God.
Christ is Risen!
Hallelujah!
