1. Seeing Jesus clearly Luke: 24 13-31 The road to Emmaus

2. The two disciples were kept from recognising Jesus Why? Is our vision blurred when it comes to Jesus? Do we sometimes not recognise Him properly?

3. You can know a bit about a person and think you know all about them What they would or wouldn’t do.... Who went camping in the Arctic circle? You can have expectations of a person – that they don’t meet!

4. 4 things which can get in the way of us seeing Jesus clearly Despair Disappointment Doubt Not knowing Him very well

5. Despair - real for these disciples Horatio Spafford

6. Disappointment - they thought He might have been the Messiah Things hadn’t gone the way they expected Do we do this sometimes?

7. Doubt - is He the Messiah or isn’t He Is He all powerful or isn’t He? Does He care or doesn’t He?

8. The remedy... Reading the Bible -Jesus big emphasis on all the scriptures Tuesday nights Welcome His presence “stay with us”. The Holy Spirit R T Kendall In community

9. The 4 th problem... Not knowing Him very well If you only know Him inside church then you don’t know Him very well Some stories The fields are white – ready for harvest now

10. What was the cross for? Did Jesus die to get you into heaven?

11. Jesus died to get heaven into you What are you going to do with that? What are the gifts of the Holy spirit for? We need to be intentional with the gospel outside