Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 24:26
DISCOURSE: 1589THE NECESSITY OF CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS AND EXALTATIONLuke 24:26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?AN ignorance of the Scriptures is far more injurious to us than we are apt to imagine; for it lies at the root of all our errors both in faith and practice. The infidels of old denied the doctrine of the resurrection, “not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God.” The Jewish rulers crucified their Messiah, because they were ignorant of the... read more
Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 24:17
Luke 24:17 The modern world contains not a few of the disciples of Christ in name, downcast and sad, who are leaving Jerusalem as if on the point of giving Him up; and He, as of old, joins them once and again, in another form, so that their eyes are holden and they do not see Him. He comes to them in His Church, which is in their eyes only a human institution; or in His Scriptures, which seem to them but a human literature; or in His Sacraments, in which they can discern nothing more than mere... read more