The Gospel of Luke is widely believed to have been written to the Gentiles and is most probably written by a Gentile as well. Luke was a doctor, and does seem quite interested in the way Jesus Christ moved through healings. The way that Jesus told men to present themselves to the priests and abide by the law of God was not the main focus of Luke’s writings. Instead, Luke seems focused on the way Jesus healed and helped people. Luke highlights the early life of Jesus
and emphasizes His humanity while also presenting Jesus’ divinity and perfection. He highlights the cost of discipleship and the reality of personal life changes as we follow Christ. Luke spends time tracing back the lineage of Christ to the first man in Luke chapter 3. This was a different path than the gospel of Matthew chose. Luke would have known this and so his deviation is deliberate, it reminds us that the blood of Christ, and His ministry, is for all people.
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Temptation; Luke 3-4
Temptation is a powerful force that threatens to trip us up in our minds and bodies. It is all too easy to give into temptation and then blame God for allowing us to be tempted in the first place. However, the Bible tells us that, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; ...
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The Disciples; Luke 5-6
In the gospel of Luke we see Jesus dealing with the ideas of the people around religion and rules of righteousness. Some of these rules were designed to govern the Sabbath. The Sabbath day is first mentioned in the book of Genesis 2:1-3, “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, ...
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The Ministry; Luke 7-8
The ministry of Jesus Christ was a central point in God’s redemptive history. Never before had God been so clear in His presentation of what it means to be a child of the Kingdom. Jesus, as the Only Begotten Son of God, was uniquely positioned to show and explain the Kingdom to us. It’s interesti...
