The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Luke 24:44-48, “Now He said to them, ‘These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with

you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms

must be fulfilled.’

45Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

46and He said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the

third day;

47and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations,

beginning from Jerusalem.

48’You are witnesses of these things.’”

“Where on earth did I put them? Where did I leave my keys?” Have you ever said that or words to that effect? Of course, you have! I’m confident that everyone who has keys to anything has said that more than once. A friend of mine in Australia always left his keys on the floor immediately in front of the living room door. That way, he never had to hunt for them in the morning.

In our verses above, Jesus is meeting with His disciples. He has already risen from the dead and is reminding them how His death and resurrection were a fulfillment of the Law of Moses. Perhaps He sensed that they were not really grasping all He intended; thus, “He opened their minds to understand

the Scriptures.”

We have the same trouble today. There are passages of Scripture that we hurry by because they don’t immediately have meaning to us. We just shouldn’t “hurry by.” We should pray and ask the LORD to “open our minds” to their meaning. Preachers often neglect passages they don’t quickly understand. It would do us all well to remember that “they were written for our instruction” (Rom. 15:4; I Cor. 10:11). Thus, they ought to be savored like a delious, juicy steak.

Look now at Jesus’ final words in verse 48 above: “You are witnesses of these things.” What a privilege they had to have been witnesses of His Resurrected Life! Now, what? What would you have

done? The privilege of a witness is both to see and to tell. To be sure, there are many scriptures that

we have difficulty understanding. But, we know what He has done in our lives, and we can and must share that with others. Will you endeavor to do that today? There are lost souls who are waiting for your witness.

And if you yourself have never trusted Jesus Christ, let Him open your heart and mind to Him today.

Ask Him to forgive your sins and open your mind to spiritual things –things that really matter. You will never regret having Christ in your life!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom