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O foolish people slow of heart

Luke 24:27 - And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

After the women saw the tomb of Jesus empty they ran back and told the disciples of Jesus about it. They immediately came running to confirm what the women saw. As the two people who were walking towards Galilee spoke this to Jesus, Jesus got upset and told them 'O foolish men and slow of heart'. Jesus said that not only to them but all for they did not believe everything God said.

One may not find these insults very harsh in the English language but when we get into the Greek meanings we will understand how upset Jesus was.

The Greek word 'anoetos' translated as fool / foolish is the negative of the word Alpha which is used for God. This word does not really mean just an unintelligent person but means a person who ungodly or unlike God.

The Greek word 'bradus' translated as slow towards a heart / inner-man talks of the inner-being being inactive. It does not only specify a person that does not think. We need to understand our inner man is made of 5 parts. When we say mind we actually refer to two parts, one is our memory and the other is our thinking or the working table of our mind. The other 3 parts include our will, our senses which connect to our physical body and our conscience / discernment which connects to our spirit. So when Jesus said slow of heart He referred to all these parts not working or not been used properly. That means other than we not thinking, it means we do not remember all scriptures but pick and choose what pleases us. We do not put God and His Kingdom as the top agenda or seated on the throne of our hearts and keep some worldly desires over God. We do not use our senses well, like we see what we want to see and do not register what we do not want to see. We hear what we want to hear and show a deaf ear to the things we do not want to hear etc... It also means we do not discern things in our spirit.

It is very sad even after 2000years yet our Church lacks proper understanding of scriptures. It is not that God is not revealing the truth to people about His Kingdom. He does reveal the truth about His Kingdom to some who truly love His Word / Instructions, but the world does not want to hear them. They push them aside and like to hear things that bridge this world to the Kingdom of God, since they want to enjoy this world at the same time want eternal life. They do not like to hear things that tell them to reject the things of this world - the understandings of this world, the pleasures of the world and relationships of this world. They want to have 2 masters - the Lord and the pleasures of this world (money is a means of buying the pleasures of this world).

Today again the Lord is telling us Old Testament and New Testament does not mean the Old Word and the New Word. It does not mean everything or anything the Prophets wrote before Jesus is invalid. It just means before the invitation to Heaven via receiving of the Holy Spirit was only for a few and those who accepted and abided in the Holy Spirit saw the glory of God but after Jesus came the invitation went to all mankind and whosoever accepted could now see the glory of God by their faith in Jesus Christ, their receiving of the Holy Spirit and their abiding in His Instructions.

Let us not be ungodly people but be people who project their Father in Heaven (that nature which was manifested in the natural in Jesus Christ). Let us not be slow in heart but let us meditate on His Word day and night keeping Him and His Kingdom about all things and at the same time use our senses effectively, blocking not good things that tell us about Him, His Kingdom and of being led by His Spirit but blocking things that make us worldly, carnal people filled with pleasures of the flesh. Let us exercise our discernment more and more according to the leading of the Spirit.