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Nobleton Community Church
29084 Sentinel Street PO Box 224
Nobleton, Florida 34661
Rev. Paul V. Lehmann, Pastor
813-389-8683
Nobletoncommunitychurch.org
info@nobletoncommunitychurch.org
OUR VISION IS:
To experience SPIRIT-FILLED WORSHIP AND PRAYER
To be involved in EVANGELISM, DISCIPLINING AND TRAINING PEOPLE
To use our SPIRITUAL GIFTS
To SERVE AND REACH PEOPLE FOR CHRIST, BOTH
“ACROSS THE STREET AND ACROSS THE WORLD”
Nobleton Community Church
Date May 24, 2026
Text Luke 24: 13-32
Pastor Paul Lehmann
What is the most important thing that I can do for you? What one thing, more than any other, do you need from me? My question is not, “what do you want from me?” It is, “What do you need from me?
God’s truth! That’s it- God’s perfect, pure, unchanging, and holy truth. It doesn’t matter how long I remain as your pastor, or who your next pastor will be, –If the one who stands before you is committed to preaching and teaching the word of God without compromise, then he will be bringing you God’s truth. And if he does that—consistently and faithfully, he will be giving you what you need.
My desire is to have your next pastor preach and teach God’s truth .
God’s Word is true, it is righteous, and it is eternal. And He has called me to communicate it. Psalms 119:16 says, “I delight in your decrees, I will not neglect your word.” Verse 160 says, “All your words are true, all your righteous laws are eternal.”
The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous ordinances are everlasting.
James 1:18 “in the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be (as it were) the first fruits among His creatures.” Colossians 1:5…because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel.”
2 Timothy 2:15 “Be diligent to present yourself approved to god as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling the word of truth.”
John 17:17; “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
The results of teaching the truth are illustrated in our text this morning. Luke 24:13-32 In this passage, we meet two believers, true believers—different from the 11 who were left of Jesus’ disciples, but they still were disciples of Christ, who find themselves in the grip of doubts, fears, and confusion. But when they’re taught the Scriptures by Jesus, everything changes. The greatest service a pastor can do is to prayerfully and carefully preach and teach God’s truth.
The results of doing that are illustrated in our text,
But it also shows that these two disciples reflected what they had been taught by their Rabbi. It is the same today among Jews. They are not taught what the prophets foretold about the Messiah. Many won’t even try to explain Isaiah 53, or they misinterpret it. In verses 4-6 we read: “Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted, But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
. Jesus was crucified and died on Friday. His body was placed in the grave just before sunset on Friday evening when the Jewish Sabbath began. He remained in the tomb throughout the day on Saturday (the Sabbath). Sometime after the Sabbath was over (at sundown on Saturday) and before sunrise on Sunday morning, Jesus was resurrected from the dead. On that morning, some of the faithful women and Peter and John went to the tomb, found it empty, and Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. Later that same day, he appeared to the other Mary, Salome, Joanna, and Peter.
Now it’s the late afternoon on Sunday, the day of the resurrection, and that brings us to our text. Luke 24:13-32
Two followers of Jesus are walking home. They are distraught over all that has happened. They have heard a “rumor.” About the empty tomb. . Jesus comes along and walks beside them. They don’t look up, and even if they did, they didn’t recognize him.(They were walking into the setting sun.) Jesus asks them what they are talking about. They tell him and are amazed that anyone could be anywhere near Jerusalem and not know what has happened in the past few days. They explain what they know. Then Jesus began to teach them the Old Testament scriptures. They didn’t understand that the Messiah had to suffer and die for our sins, and then rise from the dead. Jesus loves these two believers, but in the next few verses, his frustration with them comes out. They suffer from a common malady among God’s people—a staggering ignorance of his written Word. That ignorance leads to a lack of faith. That lack of faith leads to unbelief. Not the hard -hearted unbelief of the lost, but what you might call “the believers’ unbelief, “ that’s the unbelief that you and I struggle with in our daily lives.
We don’t struggle with the fact that Jesus had to suffer and die for our sins, but we wonder why he doesn’t always heal or answer our prayers, the ones we think are so logical. That’s kind of the unbelief these men had. We can relate to that. Jesus said to them. “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory? And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, he explained to them the things concerning himself in all the scripture of the Old Testament.
In verses 28-32, they approached the village where they were going, Emmaus (it was about 7 miles west of Jerusalem). Jesus acted as though He would go further. Verse 29 And they urged him, saying. “Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over.” And He went in to stay with them. When they sat down to “break bread,” and he served it to them, “their eyes were opened” and they recognized Him, and He vanished from their sight. They said to each other, “ Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while he was explaining the Scriptures to us?”
Perhaps today, as we think about how it applies to us. Are we sometimes assailed by doubts, fears, and confusion? Could the problem be that even though you believe the Scriptures, there are some things about them you just don’t understand? I would suggest that this is a major problem in the Church of Jesus Christ today. Too many true believers are struggling with things they shouldn’t be struggling with at all. Sometimes it is because pastors haven’t explained or taught about things plain enough, but we must remember that it is the Holy Spirit that helps us to understand the scriptures. Each one of us can read the scriptures and ask the Holy Spirit to help us understand what he would like us to know.
Today is Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost was 50 days after the resurrection. It was the coming of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was given to give us power to witness, to lead us, and to teach us all things, if we open ourselves up to him and allow him to do just that.
Cleopas and his friend were no longer ignorant. They were no longer filled with doubts, fears, and confusion. Jesus opened the eyes of their hearts as he spoke to them.
And that is precisely what his written word—the Bible will do for you. It can make you wise. It can change your life. But it will do so only if you read it. It will do so only if you believe it. This was Paul’s point when he mentored young Timothy 2 Timothy 3:14-17 “You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them. And that from childhood, you have known the sacred writings (for Timothy, that’s the Old Testament), for us the whole Bible, which is able to give us the wisdom that leads to faith which is in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof for correction, for training in righteousness. That the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
I wish I could set every one of your hearts on fire for the truth. But I cannot. All I can do is give you the match. You have to strike it. Why not get the fire going with the Bible, a book about which you may know very little?
Just read something in the Word. At the bottom of the page of the Daily Word, it gives you about 4 chapters to read every day, and then you will read it through in a year. Also, I would encourage you to come to our Adult Bible Study every Sunday morning at 9:20 am.
Let the truth of The Word of God dispel your doubts, your fears, your concerns, and your confusion. It will set your heart on fire.