Explaining God’s Special Messages

Read for This Week’s Lesson

Matthew 5:17–48; Isaiah 65:17–20; 1 Corinthians 16:20; Genesis 3:1–5; Matthew 4:1–11; Luke 10:25–28; Luke 4:16–30; Luke 24:25–27, 44–49.

Memory Verse “Jesus then began to explain to them what Moses and all God’s prophets [messengers] had taught. He [Jesus] showed them what they wrote in the Bible about himself” (Luke 24:27, EASY).

After Jesus woke up from the dead, He appeared to two of His followers. They were sad because they didn’t expect Jesus to die. They said, “ ‘But before that we had hoped that he would save the people of Israel. We hoped that he would make us free again’ ” (Luke 24:21, EASY). The followers expected the Messiah to come save the Jews from the Romans. Their ideas came from a false understanding of special messages about the Savior in the Old Testament.

Jesus helped His two followers correctly understand these special messages. He also explained to them other Bible truth about Himself (Luke 24:25–27). Jesus’ explanation of the Old Testament helped them understand. They got excited when they finally understood these Bible truths about Jesus (Luke 24:31, 32). Later, Jesus appeared to a big group of His followers in Jerusalem. Jesus helped them to understand the special messages about Himself, too (Luke 24:45; also read Luke 24:33, 36, 44–49).

These experiences teach us why we must have a correct understanding of Bible truth. A false understanding can cause spiritual disaster in our lives.