Pastor Pete Hartwig

After Easter 2018.3

SLIDE:  RISE

40 days:  Easter

SLIDE:  Road To Emmaus

Only CLOPAS. (YOU)

CHS – CHO 7 miles

SLIDE:  READ The Road To Emmaus Pg. 859

2 Disciples =  reminiscing about what happened!

Highs and Lows!

Military Community.  Next Sunday

Crucifixion:  King of the Jews!  The Messiah!  Save yourself!

SLIDE: They stood still their faces downcast

UVA’s loss first round.

Painful, the plan… Gone.  Future shot.

What I thoughts was… isn’t

Disappointment:  We called off our engagement.

SLIDE:  They Crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.

What Jews at that time thought of JESUS

SLIDE:  He took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.  Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized Jesus.  Luke 24:30-31. Pg. 859

Communion!

SLIDE: The road to Emmaus = the distance between a God who starts things and Jesus of Nazareth.    

(a distant God and a personal God)

Resurrection: 

SLIDE:  Genesis 3:6-7. She gave some to her husband and he ate it. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked.

SLIDE:  “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” -Jesus.  John 6:29  Pg.866

COMMUNION:  Here WE are.

We hold the emblems of Jesus’ body