DAILYWORD JULY 12 then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His Glory? (Lk. 24:25–26). Verses 13 through 53 are peculiar to Luke. He Who walked on the road to Emmaus was “this same Jesus” (Acts 1:11), but “in another form” (Mk. 16:12). It is impossible for us to realize what were the powers of the Lord’s Glorified Body after the Resurrection. Like Joseph’s action with his brothers, so the Lord did not discover himself to these two Disciples until He had brought them into a fitting condition of soul. When Jesus used the words, “Ought not,” it meant “Was it not necessary, because it was predicted?” This emphasizes the word “all” in Verse 25. These two Disciples had confined their Bible study to that which the Scriptures promised respecting the Messiah’s Glory and Kingdom, but they had been blind to the multitude of types and Prophecies foretelling His Sufferings as an Atoning Saviour. Jesus then directed these two men to the Bible, which then was the Old Testament. In a sense, He divides it into two parts, “the Law” and “the Prophets.” This makes the Bible, because it is inspired, the supreme authority as to Faith and Doctrine. Its subject is the Sufferings and Glories of Christ—His Sufferings as Sin Bearer, i.e., Sin Offering (Phil. 2:6–10); His Glories as Sin Purger (Heb. 1:3). The story of the Bible is the story of Jesus Christ and Him Crucified. If we understand it as we should, we will see that everything ultimately points to Him and His Sacrifice of Himself. Concerning all of this, it might well be said that Christ went, Bible in hand, into death, and that He came out, Bible in hand, from among the dead. He insisted that it predicted His Death and Resurrection in relation to sin and its judgment. So, immediately prior to His Death and immediately subsequent to His Resurrection, He made more than thirty quotations from the Inspired Word. If the Word was the Light to Christ, it most definitely must be our Light as well (Ps. 119:105).
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