*TWO MEN GOING TO THE VILLAGE CALLED EMAUSI* Part 1c – *Their Eyes Opened When the Bread Was Broken* https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbAU9dB1t90jjJSstw3E Luke 24:14 – They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 – As they discussed these things, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but their eyes were kept from recognizing Him. Luke 24:30 – When He was at the table with them, He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, and He disappeared from their sight. 32 – They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” 33 – They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 – Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when He broke the bread. --- Why Were Their Eyes Closed? ▪️ The men were spiritually blind. They spoke of Jesus but did not know Him. Jesus was preached to the blind. This blindness is the very condition Christ came to heal. Sin blinds the heart. Every sinner is spiritually blind. --- The Mission of Christ Luke 4:18–19 – “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Jesus declares: I was sent that the blind may see. He is the Word of God (John 1:1,14; Revelation 19:13). The Word was anointed and sent so that the blind may see. --- Spiritual Blindness 2 Corinthians 4:4 – The god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. This “god of the world” is Satan (John 12:31; 16:11). The blind are known by: - Unbelief in the Word of Christ. - Clinging to false gospels and traditions. - Practicing evil. - Mocking the living God. - Being antichrists, preaching against the truth. --- God’s Love Revealed The two men recognized Jesus when He broke the bread. Luke 24:30–35 shows that the breaking of bread opened their eyes. Compare with Matthew 26:26 – While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to His disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” --- Meaning of the Bread - The blessed bread is righteousness (Acts 3:26). - The bread is His body – the Church (Colossians 1:18). - The Church is the body, the bread, the food that opens blind eyes. When the two men ate the bread, they were enlightened. They ate the Church – the blessed body – and were opened to salvation. --- Jesus the Living Bread John 6:35, 50–51 – “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” --- What Did Jesus Mean? - “I am the Church (the body-bread) living from heaven.” - “I am the Church that gives eternal life.” The two blind men lived when they ate this bread from heaven. Their eyes were opened, they entered the Church, and they knew the living God. Now you too may be among the blind, but if you hear the Word and believe, you will be saved. Amen.🌱 Let’s grow together in faith, wisdom, and grace of JesusChrist. 👉 Click to join our whatsaap Channel now:  https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaEKxaVG3R3exEJg2b1D