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Luke 24:13-35
That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Broken hearts become hearts that burn. Hearts that burn become hearts that behold.

Come and Break
Come and Burn
Come and Behold

COME AND BREAK

What Breaks Your Heart?

One of the greatest threats to the church is our own satisfaction. God is not yet satisfied, but we have little desire for God to return, dwell among his people, and receive His inheritance… Jesus suffered more than any man and willingly chose a horrific death to receive an inheritance, and He has been waiting nearly 2,000 years for that inheritance. Does that even move you? Or is your satisfaction and sense of success in this age enough for you? This age desperately needs the witness of a church who is a demonstration of longing and dissatisfaction in an age so satisfied with lesser things.
Samuel Whitefield

The tragedy of our time is that the situation is desperate, but the saints are not.
Vance Havner

Psalm 51:16-17
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

COME AND BURN

Leviticus 6:12
The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.

Revelation 1:5-6
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 5:19
Do not quench the Spirit.

Through neglect, the burning heart is quenched.

Luke 24:32
Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?

We have an unprecedented opportunity to deeply meditate on the Word of God, and we must seize the opportunity. God leads history, and He is flooding the world with the Bible because he has a very specific purpose in mind. The Lord wants this generation to behold Him in His Word in a way no previous generation has been able to. Many do not recognize the value of what we have been given, but it is time for a people to recognize and take full advantage of it. The digital revolution is not about Netflix, Facebook, and YouTube- it is about free access to the Word of God.
Samuel Whitefield

Weeds are easier to grow than grass. Newspapers are easier to read than the Bible is to study. The curse of labor is not magically removed simply because our task is the study of Scripture.
RC Sproul

May the truth in this book disclose its inmost sweetness to me, grip me, and mould my life. May I treasure it in my heart by patient brooding and spread my soul out to receive its transforming power.

God’s word to us, especially his word spoken by his Spirit through the Bible, is the very ingredient that feeds our faith. If we feed our souls regularly on God’s word, several times each day, we should become robust spiritually just as we feed on ordinary food several times each day, and become robust physically. Nothing is more important that hearing and obeying the word of God.
David Watson

2 Timothy 3:15-17 (MSG)
There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.

Matthew 12:20
a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench…

COME AND BEHOLD