 Good morning and welcome to BC103 New Testament Survey. Last class we studied on the facts from the Gospel of Luke. So how much do we remember from the Gospel of Luke? Anyone can just unmute and share a few details about the Gospel of Luke that stood out and that you learned about this book. Yes, Sean, you can unmute and speak into the mic. Ma'am, I think the Gospel of Luke is very detailed Gospel. So Luke asked around a lot of people not to get the right accurate information to put in when he's writing each and every passage in this book. So it's much more detailed Gospel than the rest of the Gospel. And he was also a historian. So that's why. Okay. Thank you, Sean. Okay. Thank you, Sean. Giving that information. Anyone else? Yes, the Gospel of Luke is much more informative and detailed, as Sean said. Yes. Gospel of Luke, it's written by, we know that it's written by Luke. And it's like he didn't read Jesus, even though he read about Jesus many things. He used to go with Paul the Heart and he write. And this is where he writes songs in all and it's written for like Gentiles and Greeks. Thank you. Thank you, Chira. Yes. Luke was not the eye with us and it was written to the others, the Gentiles and the Greeks. Thank you so much. Anyone else would like to add on? Anyone else? One more person. Luke is talking more about Jesus rather than his preaching, his actions, what he has done. Okay. Luke is talking about the actions. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Today I'll just take you through a story format of the Gospel of Luke, where we'll be covering the complete Gospel of Luke and you can remember. Let me share the screen with you. Not much. It's the same. I'm just sharing it so that we keep it interesting. Okay. So we all know the author of this book is Luke. Is Luke the author of only the Gospel of Luke? Or yes, he's also the author of the book of Acts. He is a physician. The writing style is very different, very informative, and it's in detail. Any other thing that you would like to add on to the author who Luke was? He was also a close companion of Apostle Paul, who was with him in most of his journey. This would make Luke the only Gentile. He was the only Gentile to write the Gospel of Luke at Acts. Okay. So what's the big idea? Have you any time thought what's the big idea of the Gospel of Luke? We all see that the Gospel of Matthew would raise Jesus as the King. And Gospel of Mark would raise Jesus as the servant. And Gospel of Luke, yes, it is a yes. Okay. Yes. Thanks, Jack. And she said, perfect, ideal man. Yes. Gospel of Luke gives a unique perspective of Jesus as the Son of Man, as the perfect, ideal man. So here you see the phrase, Son of Man was Jesus. Okay. So Luke, you know, about him, we all know that he was a physician. He was a Paul's traveling companion. And in Luke's Gospel, we see there's a lot of takeaways. There's a lot of takes and views of Jesus. So the Gospel, like we see in this Gospel, we see Jesus as a teacher, preacher, a friend and a leader. And also we see him as a powerful healer. So Luke presents them all in one. It's a biography of Jesus Christ, which has about 24 chapters. He has written in detail. And this can be divided into four moments. Just give me a minute. Please give me a minute. One second. I don't want to go into the presentation. Yes. Just giving the presentation, which has these four points. Okay. One minute, please. Okay, you can note down these points. Okay, everyone can see that in your screen, right? You can see it. So the Gospel of Luke has 24 chapters and we can, which is divided in four movements. The first one is the preparation. Second, it is also called as the four Ps. Preparation, power, parables and passion. So the preparation part, it talks about who Jesus is. The preparation part talks about who Jesus is. The second part, when we discuss the power, it talks about what Jesus did. The signs, wonders, miracles. Okay. The third, the parables talks about what Jesus said. What Jesus said about the kingdom of heaven for us to understand. And the fourth part talks about the passion is about what Jesus accomplished for each of us on the cross. You all got it? The four points. The preparation, the power, the parables and the passion. So do we know what is the preparation is? Can anyone say? The preparation is who Jesus is. The power talks about what Jesus did. Okay, now let's go. How about the parables? Yes, what Jesus said and the passion, what Jesus accomplished. Well, this is, you know, the Luke portrays, as we know, it talks about Jesus has a man or the son of man. He portrays Jesus as rabbi, teacher, preacher. Who's having this compassion to teach, preach and to comfort and heal the sick, heal the suffering. So here in the first part, the preparation, we see Luke writes to a man named Theophilus, who may be a Roman official, and he's aiming to give him an orderly account of Jesus' life in detail. So that's why we see in this book, this book is so studious and focused on Jesus' teaching, because of this aim to give an orderly account. So he gives an extra information like the circumstance about the birth of John the Baptist was Jesus' cousin. And he also goes ahead and mentions about how John the Baptist's dad, Zechariah, was muted because of his unbelief. And also, this is not mentioned in the other book. So he also mentions about the birth of Jesus. Jesus been born in a barn in the presence of the animals. A detailed picture how the situation was, that's why he gives a complete narrative, the information for you and I today to understand. Now the cattle shed that we have in our time, what we see may not be the same because they are dead. It may be like a den, we don't know. Definitely it may not be like what we see in our time. It is very different. And we also see further, he also narrates about how Mother Mary was felt by the power of the Holy Spirit and how she sang a song, the Magnificat, a wonderful song of commitment and faith. And also we see the baby Jesus been presented at the temple and there were two old wonderful people who were present there. Who are those two wonderful people? Yes, Simeon and Hannah. They both knew exactly who this baby Jesus was when the parents came and presented him with a child dedication at the temple. And in the book of Luke, we get the only story of Jesus' childhood has been recorded. Where his family was in Jerusalem for a Passover and they left him there by mistake. They would have thought, okay, he's gone with the cousins because they all usually travel with family. They travel, the huge gang travels together. So they thought, okay, maybe Jesus with somebody else. But later between the journeys when they realized that Jesus is not with them. And then they had to come back to Jerusalem and they found him in the temple sitting with all the other elders, asking questions and answering the people at the temple. And this was amazed. And when they got him there, they asked him what happened. And he's like, I'm about to do my father's business. He had to remind his mom and dad, his parents about he's been sent to fulfill other's business. So this is one of the reminder of Jesus' childhood is mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. We also see Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, preaches, prepared the way for Jesus as per the prophecy of Isaiah. And also in the book of Malachi, which has been foretold about the foretold. And also in the Gospel of Luke, we see Jesus' genealogy addressing back to Abraham and back to the first man, Adam. It is only in the Gospel of Luke where his genealogy goes back to the first man, Adam. As a final story of preparation, Jesus defeats the temptations while he also records about Jesus fasting for 40 days and 40 nights in the desert. And through a quotation scripture about, you know, how Jesus overcame the temptation. In the Gospel of Luke, he mentions how Jesus overcame. Yes, they have listed only three, but they may be more temptation. But here in the Gospel of Luke, he has listed three temptations and how Jesus overcame those temptations with scripture. And let's move on to the second part. What is the second part? The power. So when we talk about the power, we see Luke narrating classic stories that people think of when they think of Jesus. So when we think, just imagine we in the class, what do we think when we think about Jesus? The stories of Jesus, like he, you know, he preached to a big, large crowd. Just imagine, there was no mic system there. How he could preach. Every time I go on a mountain top, this will come to my mind. How did Jesus preach to 5,000 people? How did he preach? How was he audible? And also we see Jesus healed. Everyone who came to Jesus were healed. Everyone. There may be many sick people there, but not everyone Jesus walked up and went and healed. But one thing we can be assured, everyone who came to Jesus were healed. And even the unclean spirit, the lepers, the paralytic, some people on the Sabbath's day, they were healed. So we see and even the widow's son were raised from the dead and he healed the centurion servant. And all of these healing shows Jesus's power. Jesus had power for sickness and disease. He also did some big miracles like calming the storm by speaking to it. The very word, the very word, the storm was calm. He fed 5,000 people with one lunch just with two fish and five loaves of bread. He fed 5,000 people. Can I finish this point, Sean? I'll address it. And he also transfigured himself on the mountain. So during the transfiguration, who are the two people who appeared along with Jesus? Moses and Elijah, they showed up. And Jesus, did Jesus call all the twelve disciples and he transfigured? Or did he call only, sorry, only three disciples? Okay, who are those three disciples? Peter, James and John. What are these three disciples called? They're called as inner circle. Most of the places, Jesus had only these three disciples with him and he performed the miracle. Even when he was raising the girl back to life, Tabitha, you know, he, along with the girl's parents, he allowed Peter, James and John. During the transfiguration, we see Peter, James and John. Even at the Garden of Gethsemane, they were disciples. He brought these three little further and he made them sit and he said, you sit, I mean, you all pray here and I'll go little further. Many instances that Jesus had these three disciples very close to him. And they are called as inner circle. Yes, with that, we will ask, yes, Sean. It's not more of a question. It's not more of a question. It's more like I want to add a point when I think of Jesus. The one story that comes to mind is that he peaches near the beach where the crowd is too big. So at one point, he had to go into the boat and push it up quite far from the shore. And from there, he had to preach. So I just wondering how he would preach, you know, with the waves crashing. You know, it's such a large people at a distance between them. So how would we be able to preach message in that those conditions? Yeah. Thank you. Yes, see, if you see all these instances, again, there's a question like how people would have heard Jesus even near the beach like what Sean said. Jesus just moved his boat little further and he spoke. He addressed a huge crowd. One thing the Bible says wherever Jesus was, there was a huge crowd pressing toward him. Sorry. We also see that during the time of the medical gyros, when he was on his way to heal child's daughter and this woman who had the problem with the men with the blood for 12 years, she had this problem. And you see there, you see the whole passage when you read, you see the narrative that says like, you know, the crowd was pressing, but she was not bothered about the crowd. But she made a way to read Jesus to touch the hand of the garment. So yeah, what we see is there was a crowd pressing toward Jesus, huge crowd. And that is how it is like whenever Jesus stepped out to preach and teach to people, there was a huge crowd following Jesus. So in this huge crowd, definitely the crowd will be silent. Isn't it? How did everyone get to hear Jesus? That itself is a miracle, isn't it? I feel that when there's a thirst within us to know him. I think our spirit gets connected no matter how far he is, what he says we could hear. We could understand. You see on the day of Pentecost when there were 3,000 people, when Peter preached his first sermon, everyone could hear him and also understand in their own language. So that was the Lord's doing, isn't it? Same thing. Same thing. The Lord enables us to understand. Even though our scripture has been written in our own language, when people read it, they don't understand it. Unless and until the Holy Spirit reveals it to them, unless and until the Holy Spirit illuminates the word, we cannot understand what it says. So the understanding comes from God. So Jesus also calls us disciples and he preaches in the synagogue and accepts the women, accepts the women. And you see there's a cross culture. He never said that only the men can preach and teach, not the women. He allowed the women to be part of his ministry. And we also see John the Baptist among his disciples. We see John the Baptist. Disciples also joined the disciples of Jesus like Peter and Andrew were part of John the Baptist disciples. And he sent out parcels to preach and heal. And there are many more stories when we read the Gospel of Luke. Also, the stories that show Jesus' power. And Jesus also teaches about the fasting breaches, a full sermon with similar content of the sermon on the mouth. But this time he is preaching on a field. So he begins this parable. We are talking about the parables, the third part. So he begins the parables to foretell of his own death and the other teachings. And once again, he is actually teaching and allowing only certain people to understand the parables. When he is sharing the parables, why is Jesus teaching in parables? What is parables? Can anyone say what is parable? Anyone from the class can unmute? It's basically short stories, which is easy for people to understand. It's basically short stories for people to understand. And he did it in such a way so that people can understand what he is trying to say, what he is trying to preach. Because when you read the Bible, you don't understand what the passage is like. Only when you read and you try to understand, you know, it's in a story format, people understand much better. But in particular news, you just say it like that as it is. When you tell a story format, people can understand what you are trying to tell much better. I think that's why he preached in parables and that's the purpose of the parables. Anyone else? Good job. Anyone else? Anyone from online? What are parables? Why did Jesus tell stories in a parable format? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? In parables. Hello, can you hear me? From the class. Am I audible? I am just seeing. Am I audible? I can't say any chat. Nina said something, is it? Or she typed on the chat. Yeah, I can't say I'm audible. So it was actually examples from daily life, but with a spiritual lesson. When he wanted to communicate a spiritual point, he used a parable so that it is understandable. So that was from daily life. Examples from daily life which we can relate to. But there was always a spiritual lesson behind it. Thank you. Thank you, Nina. Everyone understood what Nina was saying. Okay, Nina was trying to say. It is a story. Sorry, Nina. We actually couldn't hear you the first part when you said. We will hear now. Can you hear me now? Yes. Yes. Okay. So I said examples from daily life. Used things from which everybody can relate to. But there was always a spiritual lesson behind it that he wanted to communicate. And that is why he used those things to reveal that spiritual truth. Were you able to hear this time? Yes, this time we heard you. Thank you. Yes, it is a spiritual story to reveal the heavenly truth. That's right. Yes. Yes, parable is a story which is an heavenly story. It has a heaven kingdom of God. It involves the kingdom of God. The heavenly story which reveals the spiritual truth. We also see the story. Parables is something that has been said on the few set of people who can understand and it also hides from the others. The unbelievers who do not believe Jesus. Yes, sure. Go ahead. We also try to say that parables how they relate to our daily lives. That's it. Are you going to hear? I was trying to say that when Nina started talking about parables she said how it relates to our daily life also. When she said the first name, that's what she said. Yes, thank you. That's right. Yeah. In this Gospel of Luke we see a large amount of parables been shared. Which is not there in any other Gospel. Luke says that Jesus turns his face to Genesis and teaches and tells the stories on a long journey there. Jesus also teaches a lot on this journey about the past of following him. He teaches about the prayer, the sign of Jonah, the evil deeds of the Pharisees ove to the Pharisees and much more things he shares through the parable format. So we also find a more narrative moment on the journey of Jesus when he's sending out the 72 followers on a mission. He also thought Mary and Martha about the difference. The role of Mary and Martha when they invited Jesus home you see the difference in their role. One was very busy in cooking and making all the other arrangements whereas Mary just sat at the feet of Jesus and heard him through. And when Martha was annoyed you see what Jesus said Martha don't disturb Mary because she has chosen the better place. So through this parable Jesus is asking us to being in his presence is much more better than doing anything else. That is the best place. So he brings a difference between being and doing things and as this is the Gospel of as Luke would raise his Gospel as Jesus as the son of man we see him giving more importance towards the human the human side of the factor. We also see that only in this Gospel we see that you know how we narrate Zacchaeus being a short man and he brings out a moral story from the life of Zacchaeus. He writes that there was a most famous man about Zacchaeus. He says he was rejected by the other Jewish people. He was a very short man he wanted to see Jesus because he could not see what Zacchaeus did. We all know the story isn't it he climbed up on a tree to look at Jesus among the crowd. So as though there was a huge crowd around Jesus Jesus took attention on the Zacchaeus was on the tree and Jesus approached to a rim and he called him down and you know Jesus ended up having a me led Zacchaeus place including the other tax collector friends. So what happened? The Pharisees were upset with Jesus the outcome of that but then what happened? That was not the only outcome. You see the good side of it exactly is he repented. Repented and not only he repented he also showed it in action. So whenever I need to repay I will repay him four times. So Jesus responded in transforming the people around him. He went toward the sick. That's why he also said the sick needs the doctor. So Jesus was here for the sinners when the Pharisees question Jesus you don't know about them they all are sinners but Jesus said that sick needs the doctor and he was when they he went he met the prostitute and he changed her life he met the tax collectors he changed their life you see whenever Jesus met he brought a transformation in their life he healed the sick he transformed the sinners he healed the lepers he brought the word of salvation into their life. So the reason of this section called the parable is because the main focus here was Jesus he was an iconic storyteller he got some of his best ones here in this gospel is the rich fool who died before he could enjoy his selfish earnings he also went ahead and shared about the victory that bed no fruit so it's burnt he also shared about the mustard seed mustard seed it could be as small it is but it had when it is planted it had the power to break the rock and grow into a massive tree turned out to be a blessing to many a parable about choosing the basis of humility way to sit in this gospel it has been narrated story about a man with like really lame friends who wouldn't go to his party and so he invited the poor the beggars on the street were invited to the party instead he also shared about the story of a lost sheep story of a lost coin the story of the prodigal son who wanted his son's back to him a story about a dishonest and a shrewd manager a rich man in hell and the poor man in the heaven in the heaven another one about a widow who won't stop bothering a judge until he gets justice so he also gives a picture of the persistent prayer he also shares about a story of the Pharisees who prays prideful prayer in the temple whereas a tax collector prays humbly for God saying I'm not even worthy to look at you he also shares a story about a money been given to a servant to make more money for the master the story of the talent another one about the wicked tenant this is the largest section of Jesus story telling anyway in the Bible it got some of its best known and least known for known stories Luke is also showing Jesus as a teacher, as a rabbi who uses creative methods to tell about heaven coming to earth in the fourth part with this we'll move on to the fourth part that's the passion so in this final week on the earth Jesus trial is been narrated in this book where he's been tortured to kill Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey while the people yelled ozana and he weeps over the city of Jerusalem he makes heads roll at the temple by flipping tables he's so upset because they change the temple into a money lending place a marketplace so Jesus also thought during his final week about the destruction of the temple and what will happen in the last days he also thought a lesson from a withered victory and teaching on taxes we also see that with his intellectual and social battle with the Pharisees and the scribes and lawyers you also you know try to try to defend them with the truth and this offended these Pharisees and scribes so they went behind Jesus and planned a plot to kill him we also see Jesus own disciple Judas betrayed Jesus while he was praying in the garden of not only Judas what did Peter do what did Peter do? Peter denied Jesus when he was on trial it's not only about Peter and Judas most of the time we highlight them isn't it what about the other disciples they ran away they ran away in leaving Jesus you know there was a time and they all were talking who's going to be next who's going to be next with Jesus who's going to sit on his right hand left hand everyone wanted that position isn't it but now an actual time came the time of trial no one want to be there in fact James and John said we can be there we can do what you are trying to do you know we can drink the same cup so Jesus said you can when Jesus said that he's talking about when the Holy Spirit comes upon each and every disciple they'll endure to death but at this point at this point they could not because they were all filled with fear they ran away they fled from Jesus so now Jesus is alone he's been tortured beaten and Jesus stood before Pilate who's a Roman leader Pilate found no guilt on Jesus and he was sent to Herod and now Herod looks at Jesus and Herod also finds no problem no guilt but then what happened Jesus's own people Jewish Jewish people screamed louder say crucify him crucify him the own people for whom he came they pointed out Jesus and said crucify him so the soldiers led him away and he was so weak when he was carrying that cross he was so weak that the soldiers had to take help from the crowd one man to come and help to carry the cross they thought even before do you know what if Jesus dies even before we could crucify him so they brought a man from the crowd to carry the cross for Jesus so that he may die on the cross so Jesus was crucified on the cross and we know what happened on the cross what happened on the cross what are the seven words that Jesus spoke on the cross I had a video there were seven words that Jesus spoke on the cross but the last one what was the last one yes Jesus screams with a loud voice on the cross saying Sada into your hands I come with my spirit by saying that Jesus actually quotes from Psalms 31 and he died he was a great teacher preacher of the world was betrayed and killed by his own people on a Friday but the biography doesn't end there the third day okay he rose again and his followers went to his tomb and they witnessed that Jesus was not there that Jesus was not there and then what happened they only witnessed an empty tomb and the angel of the Lord gave them a message saying that we will leave and meet him there and then on the way to the imams the disciples were walking and in this gospel we see that Jesus joined these two disciples but they did not realize it was Jesus and Jesus pointed out certain things there was a strange man who joined and started to explain to them about the Old Testament and the Pentateuch everything that was taught to them Jesus and when the strange man disappeared suddenly or he vanished then they realized it was Jesus the strange man was Jesus so the disciples were perplexed so it was the final teaching from the greatest rabbi in israel's history so at the end of the book we see some of his disciples were having dinner and Jesus appeared to them and even he ate with them that was the transfiguration this is on the road to imams and here we see that Jesus was with his disciples and he had dinner with them he ate fish and Jesus we see he lift up his hands on the last day I'm not too sure if I have that video no I don't have that video okay I don't have a picture for that but it was on the it was on the last day Jesus you know lifted up his hands and blessed them we see the last chapter of Luke and he was lifted up into heaven to be with his father so the book of Luke ends to be continued in the book of Acts so if we say the Gospel of Luke is a biography of Jesus we can say the book of Acts is a biography of his followers so being said that being said that what is our learning from the Gospel of Luke what is our learning what is the application that we can carry from this Gospel anyone so we see that the Gospel of Luke portrays Jesus as a profound implication for our relationship with God today gives lot of teaching lot of stories where we can relate we can build a relationship with God Jesus walks us through the Gospel of Luke illustrating this deep abiding care for us people we can see the compassionate heart of Jesus to each of us it is just not for the people who live there but to each of us the compassionate heart towards us so do we believe that God loves us no matter what we have done in our past we believe that the fact that the eternal Son of God stooped down to this lower or he humbled himself to be a human and be one among us he took the form of human flesh and made himself subject to the human limitations he left away the godly glory and he took away the human limitations and here we also see that you know how much God cared for each of us and he he moved with compassion he showed himself whenever Jesus moved with compassion we see there are signs, wonders and miracles he was there for people he paid attention to the least he paid attention to the poor he paid attention to the tax collectors he gave them a new life he was there for those who were rejected he also showed he illustrated himself saying that I am here for them, for the lost that was one of the reason through the parables he spoke about the lost call the prodigal son the lost sheep he left the 99 and he came for the one by illustrating all that Jesus saying if I can do it, you can do it can you go behind the lost can you be there to comfort someone can you be there as a strength when somebody is weak can you be a companion for those who are rejected that's the one of the reason why Jesus gave us a new command saying love your neighbor as you are saying love your God with all your heart strength along with it he said love your neighbor as yourself we all have our self as a priority but then your God is saying give that to another God love others, love your neighbors do good to them don't return evil to an evil but return good this is what Jesus this is what Luke illustrated Jesus for us to learn and take it so that we can apply all these qualities in our life so class that's the end of the Gospel of Luke can I request you all to please unmute your mic add your side of the story add your learning so that we all can journey together there stop sharing yes please feel free to unmute and share your learning if there's anything that you would like to add on um I want to say that where's other what I wanted to say is that where Luke shows where other books show what he preaches this miracle and all that Luke shows Jesus when he's not doing this miracle you know when we he shows how we should be when you're preaching and you're not preaching also he shows both sides to it you know whereas as we as people we can learn from this like we only stay good when you're preaching to people you're like telling people what to what not to do as preachers we act as a certain when you're preaching but when you're not preaching when you're like ourselves we most of the time forget those rules we keep telling people those rules when you're preaching but you don't follow them ourselves when you're not preaching so Jesus shows that perfectly whether he's preaching or not preaching how he should be so it's more relatable Luke shows Jesus to a more relatable person to us you know how we too can be like that's what I understood thank you, thank you Sean thank you for sharing that we also see Jack in as opposed to the comment I set an example for us to follow in every way yes he was tempted he was betrayed by his own he loved people knowing who they are he was with them he prayed with them he sacrificed and went through the suffering so we can live today thank you Jack in thank you so much and also we see Shiv Kumar sharing about the parables he has shared parables are the story which has an inner truth about spiritual lessons anyone else would like to share please go ahead you can either post it on the chat okay because of the time we will end the session with the word of prayer can I request one of you all to please unmute and so that we can close the session anyone from the class Sean would you like to pray we have any father thank you very much for guiding us on here for this lovely class any father thank you very much give us a good understanding about the gospel of Luke any father thank you very much learn new things any father and thank you for leading us mighty and learning about the gospel of Luke and thank you very much I would like to thank you very much using the mighty to learn new things any father and please can you do some more of the classes to come any father in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you so much for joining in today's session see you all tomorrow God bless thank you