 Welcome back everyone. So we are starting class on New Testament Survey. Would someone please open us in prayer before we begin? Let's pray. Gracious loving Heavenly Father we thank you for this beautiful day of Lord. We pray as we resume back to this New Testament survey that you will speak to us through the lessons. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So I had posted on Google Classroom is everyone seen and prepared to share on your chapter and look online in person. I yeah I'm not sure everyone's on Google Classroom right? All of you yeah. Sister I did chapter 20 on Luke. Okay. Yes chapter Luke is continuation of chapter Luke 20 continuation of Luke 19 where Jesus had you know got rid of all those who are buying and selling in the temple and says this is the house of my prayer, prayer house. And please. Sorry. You don't have to share right now. Sorry. You can be what we'll do is we'll go from the beginning of Luke. I think we may not get to Luke chapter 20 today. We'll see how much we can cover and then whatever we are not able to cover today we'll continue into on Thursday. Okay sister. Thank you. So what we'll do is we'll just finish covering the background of Luke now and then we'll start going through the book of Luke itself. So I haven't put the outline on the presentation since each of you will be sharing. We can just have our Bibles open and be ready to share one after the other based on whichever chapter has been assigned to you. Okay. And if you didn't get any chapter in Luke the next book that we are looking at will assign chapters from John to the rest of the class. Okay. We'll see how today goes also Okay. So let's just continue. We won't do a recap in this class because there's a lot of content we need to cover. So we can't go back to last week's content. We'll just continue from where we stopped last week. So Luke we were looking at some of the things that the Gospel of Luke emphasizes compared to the other Gospels. One of the things that Luke also focuses on is the journeys that Jesus makes as he's ministering. So we see in Luke 8 1 Jesus went from Nazareth to every town and village of Galilee. So Galilee is up here on the map. You can see Nazareth there. So Jesus ministered a lot in Galilee during in what Luke has recorded about Jesus's ministry. Then 9 51 to 1941 is Jesus's journey from Galilee. So down to Jerusalem. Okay. And then 23 chapter 23 is where he goes from the judgment hall to Calvary. Then 24 we see the journey to Emmaus. So Jerusalem to Emmaus is there. You travel a bit west and then Jesus's heavenward journey. So one of the thoughts is that because Jesus ministered so much in Galilee in Acts 1 8 when he's sending out the disciples, he says he sends them to Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth. He doesn't mention Galilee specifically. Although I'm sure they did go there and did minister there. So what's also amazing is that Jesus's heart for Samaria still doesn't change like we talked about. I think we talked about it in our other class in interpreting scripture. We talked about the background of Samaria. The Jews kind of disowned the people of Samaria not recognizing them as in any way related to the Jews. They viewed them as people who were apostate who had rejected the true God and the true faith. But Jesus was very much concerned about the Samarians in his ministry and also as he sends them out, sends the disciples out, he mentions Samaria specifically. So although the Jews didn't have that heart for the Samarians, Samaritans Jesus definitely still viewed them as people that he wanted to reach and restore to faith in him. So we also see in Luke there's a lot of contrast between different groups of people between the rich and the poor. Especially we talked about this in other examples between Jesus and John the Baptist between Mary and Martha, Pharisee and the tax collector. This is in the parable of them praying. The rich man and Lazarus, another parable between Peter and Judas and between the thieves on either side of the cross. So Luke, while we talked about the fact that he focuses a lot on people in his gospel, he's also bringing out certain characteristics of people and contrasting them with other groups of people. So how people respond to Jesus. Luke also emphasizes prayer. So we see a list of different places in which Jesus prays at his baptism after the day of miracles. Maybe we can just open that Luke 5, 15 and 16. Someone can read that for us please. Yes, Sastarit. Luke 5, 15 and 16. However, the report went around concerning him all the more and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their informities. So he himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed. Thank you. And then we see other records. So before he chose the 12 disciples, before he first predicted about his suffering, before teaching the Lord's prayer to his disciples at his transfiguration, then he prays for Peter. Before Peter denies Jesus, Jesus says, I've prayed for you because Satan is going to test you and the other disciples in Gethsemane and then on the cross itself. So lots of examples of Jesus praying in Luke. There are two parables also on prayer. The friend at midnight. So this is the friend who knocks on the door of his friend and asks for bread because he has visitors. And then Jesus says, even if your friend doesn't give you the bread because you're his friend, the reason he'll give it because you are audacious enough to go in the middle of the night to ask for bread. So this is how we should pray. We should persist in our prayer and we should not be afraid to ask of certain things when we need it. So that is one parable on prayer. The other is the unrighteous judge. So the widow who keeps going back to a judge for justice and the judge, although he may not care about justice, gives in to her because of her persistence. And Jesus says, this is how we should pray as well. The Pharisee and the public and so this is where the Pharisee and the tax collector are praying in the temple and how God responds to their prayers. Emphasis on the Holy Spirit. So we see a lot of mention of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of Luke, which is also a little bit, we don't see that as much in the other Gospels where the Holy Spirit is being mentioned. This may be because from your Luke also goes into the Book of Acts, talking much more about the Holy Spirit. So we see Holy Spirit mentioned that Jesus's conception when Zacharias is, Zacharias I think responds, let's just open at Luke 1.67. Luke chapter 1.67. And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied saying, bless be the Lord of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people. Thank you. So this is after John the Baptist is born. After Zechariah is able to speak again, he prophesies here. Then we have Simeon who is mentioned who sees Jesus at the temple and prophesies. We have John the Baptist being filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus at his baptism, Jesus at his temptation, Jesus at the beginning of his ministry, then Jesus in his prayer and then the disciples are instructed to wait for the Holy Spirit. So lots of mentions of the Holy Spirit. There's also an emphasis on joy. So in the beginning and end of the Gospel, we see where Jesus's birth is prophesied about. Let's read these 1.14 and 47. Luke chapter 1 verses 14 and 47. And then Luke 24 we'll also read from there. So we will have joy and delight today. I am moving the verse across this book. Next one comes from. Sorry. We were not able to hear very clearly. If you read Luke, did you read the first verse or Luke 14? Luke 1.14. You can go ahead. He will give joy and delight to you and many will rejoice because of his birth. Thank you. And you can read verse 47 as well. My Son glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior. Thank you. And Luke 24, 52 and 53. Luke 24, 52, 53. And they worshiped him and written to Jerusalem with great joy and will continually in the temple blessing God. Thank you. So we see right at the start of the Gospel, Jesus's birth being prophesied about and the joy that is spoken about at Jesus's birth. And then Luke 24, the disciples' joy after Jesus's resurrection and ascension. Then we see parables about rejoicing over the lost being found. So chapter 15 has various parables on the lost being found, the lost coin, the prodigal son, the lost sheep. So each of these parables that is rejoicing in heaven over the lost being found. And then the story of Zacchus as well where Luke 19, 6. I'll just read that for us. So Zacchus came down from the tree and welcomed Jesus gladly. So stories about how Jesus brings joy to people. Then we look at the author of the book of Luke. Now we know that Luke traveled with the Apostle Paul. Okay, so Luke in Colossians 4, 14 is said to be a physician or a doctor. And probably also a Gentile based on that same verse. So if he is a Gentile, then he's the only Gentile who actually wrote in the New Testament. Everyone else is a Jew or to write any part of scripture, in fact. Luke was interested. So some people say that it is in his interest in medical matters that he records certain things in the Bible about Simon's mother-in-law having a fever about another person who's healed and about their sickness, he describes it. And Luke was also very attentive to details. So he gives a lot of historical detail when he's recording stories about who was in power, what was the political situation at that time. Luke, we know, traveled with Paul. So we see records about that in Paul's letters. Second Timothy 4, 11, maybe we can just read these two verses. Second Timothy 4, 11 and Philemon 1, 24. Second Timothy 4, 11. Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry. Thank you. And Philemon 1, 24. Philemon 1, 24. As do Mark, Aristarchus, Deimos, Luke, my fellow laborers. Okay. So we see a Luke walking or traveling with Paul on his missionary journey. So like we talked about with the book of Mark being Peter's recollection of Jesus' ministry, Luke would be highly influenced by Paul in his writing. So as a physician, Luke would have been well educated. So we see that in his writing, the Greek that's used is one of the best uses of Greek in the New Testament. So Luke and the book of Hebrews, Luke, Acts and Hebrews are supposed to be very literate Greek compared to the rest of the New Testament. And also Luke and Acts together are the longer than all of Paul's letters written together, all of the episodes together. So Luke has contributed a lot to the New Testament. So who is he writing to? We see in Luke 1, 3, that Luke is addressing somebody named Theophilus. So I'll just read that he says, okay, that's in the middle of the verse. So he says, I too decided to write an orderly account for you most, most excellent Theophilus. So while he may have been writing to somebody named Theophilus, he was not writing just a private work. The size of this letter Luke and Acts was written on a standard scroll size. So it would have been written so that it could be published and sent out to other people. So he's writing, when the writers were writing, they would take into account how much space do we have to write because it was not very in terms of monetary investment, it was quite expensive to write on these scrolls. So Luke has written on a full scroll that would be the size of something that would be published or would be sent out to other people. So when he's using most excellent, that would refer to someone who is of a higher status, usually a Roman officer. And he may be also addressing a larger group of people who are associated with Theophilus. So he's writing to people of a higher status, people in authority. But he's also writing to the church at large, specifically to two Gentiles, not two Jews. Then we see here the date of writing. So again, with all of the gospels, there are different views on when the gospel was written. 70 to 90 AD is when majority of scholars say the book was written. A small number of scholars say it was written in the 60s. And much fewer scholars say it was written after 90 AD. So why is it given the 70 to 90 date is because, like we talked about, Luke uses Mark as a basis for writing. And Mark is usually dated around 64 AD. So Luke would have been written after that. And also Luke refers to the temple's destruction, almost like it was a past event. And the temple was destroyed in 70 AD. So usually, so one of the readings, one of the scholars I was reading was putting it mostly at early 70s is when the book of Luke is written. Because he also talks about certain riots that happened in Acts. In the book of Acts, he talks about certain riots that happened. And that seems to be pretty close to when the riots actually happened, that he's writing about it. So based on that, the dating is given. And place of writing probably Rome. The key verse from Luke chapter 19 verse 10, for the son of man came to seek and to save the lost. So the son of man being something that Luke focuses on a lot and on saving the lost, like we saw in all of those parables as well. So comparing this with other books, in Ezekiel, the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel is someone who represents Israel. And we see the son of man used up to 90 times in the book of Ezekiel. In Luke, Jesus is that son of man. And he is God's representative. So Ezekiel is the representative of Israel. In Luke, Jesus is God's representative to Israel. Compared to the book of Matthew, Matthew talks about Jesus, the Messiah being rejected. Whereas Luke talks about Jesus, the son of man being gladly accepted by the people. The synoptics, Luke used Mark as one of his sources. But still we see more than half of Luke is not found in any of the other gospels. So a large part of that journey to Jerusalem, that Luke records is not in any of the other gospels. So he does a lot more detailed study of Jesus' life and ministry than the other gospels. So Luke also contains a much more complete account of Christ's family background, birth, childhood than the other gospels. And we can look at Luke as the first part of a trilogy. So like a three-part writing. Luke talks about Christ's earthly ministry. Acts talks about Christ's ministry through his church. And Hebrews talks about Christ's high priestly ministry in heaven. So Hebrews is not written by Luke. He is suggested as one of the authors, but may not really be one of the authors of Hebrews. But just to put into context that this the different focuses of each book where Luke focuses on his earthly ministry and acts focuses on Christ's ministry through the church. And then Hebrews on Christ's high priestly ministry. So with this we come to the end of the background of Luke. We can go into the actual gospel. Maybe I can just open up the list of people who we've assigned chapters to. But if you know that your whichever chapter you're doing, you can go ahead and cover your chapter please. I'll just post this list on the Google chat. I think we're starting with Abhishek and Luke 1. Okay it's Abhishek and we are going to look at Luke 1. So if you just want the outline we can divide in the parts. From Luke from verse 1 to 4 it's dedication to Theophilus. I'm not specifically sure that Theophilus is a person or it's a referring to but the it's a Greek word and the the main of Theophilus is loved by God. Second one is from verse 5 to 25. John's birth announced to Zechariah and from verse 26 to 38 Christ's birth announced to Mary 39 to 45 Mary meet to Elizabeth and 46 to 56 the song of Mary 57 and 66 birth of John the Baptist and 67 to 80 Zechariah's prophecy. So we can see this Luke chapter 1 of the fulfillment of two prophecies which is one of John the Baptist and second one is our Jesus Christ. The prophecy of John the Baptist's birth is mentioned in Malachi 3.1 and the prophecy of Jesus' birth is mentioned in Isaiah chapter 7.40. Thank you Abhishek. We can go into Luke chapter 2. Okay I'm not sure if he is here. So I'll discover Luke 2 and Luke 3 as well. Andrew's not here. So in Luke 2 we have the birth of Jesus recorded. So this happens when the David and Evan Joseph and Mary have traveled to Bethlehem for the census. Luke records the census for us. So again giving us the general historical timeline, the historical background for when Jesus was born and Jesus is born and then the angels go to the shepherds in the field and announce to them that the Savior is born. The shepherds then go and find Jesus in the manger and they rejoice and go and share with others about the Savior who has been born. After this we have the recording of Jesus presented in the temple. Now here we see that there repeatedly Luke talks about how Joseph and Mary were following the Old Testament law. So as per the Old Testament law, as per Jewish law, they dedicate him on the eighth day and and they also take the sacrifice that is due for every first born male which is a pair of doves or two young pigeons as per the law. And while he's being presented in the temple, we see Simeon and Anna. Simeon is someone who had been waiting for the messiahs coming and Anna was a prophetess. Both of them in the temple who meet the family and prophesy about Jesus's ministry and Anna then goes and begins to tell other people about Jesus. So then we see the record of Jesus at 12 years of age when the family travels for the Passover that he stays back in the temple and his parents go back and find him three days later talking to the people, to the religious leaders and discussing matters with them and people are amazed at his knowledge of the scriptures. So in two places in this chapter we see about how Jesus grew in wisdom, in stature, in strength, so a record of Jesus's childhood. Then in Luke we have an introduction of John's ministry. So again we have a little bit of a background of who was in power in government and the high priests who were appointed at that time. So again giving us a very clear historical timeline of when these things were happening. So John went to baptize people and it has a record of what was John's message. He started to preach about the kingdom calling people to repentance. Then Jesus goes to him. Jesus is baptized by John and we see the record of the Holy Spirit coming on Jesus and the declaration that Jesus is the Son of God. Then we have a genealogy of Jesus right from Jesus Joseph to Adam. So this genealogy is very different from Matthew's genealogy. Matthew is trying to prove Jesus as a descendant of David, Jesus as a descendant of Abraham because he's writing to Jews. But Luke wants to show that Jesus is in the line of Adam. He's the Son of Man but Son of Adam, he ends with Son of Adam, the Son of God. So Jesus is the Son of Man and the Son of God. That is Luke's genealogy of Jesus. With that we can go into Luke 4. Is Angeline here? No. Okay, we'll go into Luke 4. So the Holy Spirit from Jesus's baptism leads him into the wilderness where he's tested like we talked about last week. I didn't go into this in detail but Jesus's wilderness testing can be compared to the Israelites in the wilderness because all the three temptations are directly related to the Israelites in the wilderness. The provision of food. So man shall not live by bread alone. Do not test the Lord your God is related to the Israelites testing God in the wilderness questioning how is God going to provide when they're thirsty, when they're hungry. They are testing God. They don't trust God even though God has provided. And then the third one worship the Lord your God. So all these are from Deuteronomy. Two of them from Deuteronomy 6, one from Deuteronomy 8. And then we see Jesus rejected in his hometown Nazareth. So that's up in Galilee when we're looking at the map. Jesus goes there and he gives the two examples of from the Old Testament of people that Elijah and Elisha minister to who were non-Israelites. And so he talks about how prophet is rejected by his own people. And this is why Elijah and Elisha ministered to non-Israelites because the Israelites themselves were non-receptive to God. Then we have a record of Jesus healing a demon possessed man. Here we see him silencing the spirits who know who he is and want to want to reveal his identity to people. And then there's a record of Jesus healing people from various sicknesses, laying his hands on them, healing demon possessed people and then going to a place where he can pray, so spending time in prayer at the end of that. So we're at the end of Luke 4. Luke 5 is, sorry, I lost my chat. Pastor, is it any good? Yes, you can go ahead. Yes. I'm reading Luke chapter 5. I just read of the summary of this chapter. A chapter focused on the mercy of the Lord and his advocate to confuse sins on others. And on the following of his possible disciples, Simon, Andrew, John, James and Robert. So if we look at Luke 5 verse 1 to 3, Jesus teaches the multitudes on the shores of the lake of Galilee out of Simon's. Luke 5 verse 4 to 7, Simon shows blind faith and humble character when the Lord Jesus instructs him to go out in the patch. His future disciples have seen Jesus covered and authority when by obedience, miraculously they caught a multitude of fish. Luke 5 verse 8 to 11, Simon shows his humble character when he makes a clear distinction between himself as a sinful man and Jesus as the man. This fisherman are all amazed at the miraculous catch of fish and they all respond immediately to Jesus' call to follow him. And 5 verse 12 to 14, Jesus feels, Jesus feels that man full of leprosy. Can we see the humble heart of this poor man? He sees first the wind of the Lord in his face. And 15 to 26. The Lord's pains spread and Jesus mainly have their infirmities by showing his mercy towards humans. Jesus feels a man that is sick with paralysis showing the authority on earth of the beloved Son of God in human form to follow Jesus. 5 verse 27 to 30, the oldest of the society, Levy receives a call to follow Jesus. Levy follows the Lord and happily gives a feast. 5 verse 33 to 39, Jesus asks the question about the Lord also, the person who gives the parables of the new God in the new God. Thank you, sister. Luke 6. Luke chapter 6, here we can see Luke chapter 6 verse 125, Jesus accuses of breaking Sabha the Rela and Jesus and his disciple picking and eating head of the grains. Parish says, come and say, Jesus breaking Sabha the Rela. In verse 5, Jesus answered that the Son of the Man is also Lord of the Sabha. It happened again in the same chapter, verse 6 to 11. Here we see Jesus again healed a man on the Sabha the day. Then Parish says, come and say, you are working on the day of Sabha. So Jesus is clearly mentioned again. And in verse 6 to verse 12 to 16, Jesus went to mountain, prayed at all night, and Jesus selected the tall man as apostles. The last we have looked at was 17 to 49, last one. Here Jesus teaches about the characters of the citizens of the kingdom of God. Love your enemies, don't return evil for evil. Avoid unjustties, judgments, good people, bears good fruits, bad people, bears bad food. And last conclusion, Jesus concluded that teaching about the man building his house with good foundation and the bad foundation. Thank you. Luke 7, his sponic face there. No, okay, I'll cover Luke 7. When Jesus had, so we see after Jesus is teaching that there's a centurion who's servant is sick and he calls, he sends some people to call Jesus to heal his servant. So here the centurion talks about Jesus being someone in authority. So he says, you don't need to come to my house. You can just say the word from where you are. And I believe that my servant will be healed. And Jesus is astonished by the faith of this is gentile, not a Jew. And he says, I've not seen such faith even in Israel. Then Jesus raises from the dead. There's a widow who has lost her only son. And Jesus sees the funeral procession as they're exiting the city. And so Jesus has compassion on them. He reaches out and touches the mat on which they're carrying the dead son. And the dead son rises from the dead and is able to return to his mother. We then see John the disciples, John's disciples being sent to Jesus to ask if he is the Messiah that they had been waiting for. John sends them and Jesus sends them back with the message of what have you seen. You've seen people, the blind heal, the lame walk. You've seen the poor being ministered to. The dead are raised. And so go back and tell John the Baptist that this is what you're seeing happen. So John the Baptist is in prison at this time. And so he's in a place of wondering why Jesus has not yet redeemed him or redeemed Israel. So is he the real Messiah? And then Jesus testifies about who John is as John who is greater than any of the prophets of the Old Testament. But then he says, but anyone who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than John the Baptist. So the kingdom being greater than everything that is declared in the Old Testament, the kingdom of God is greater than that. And then Jesus is invited to a Pharisee's house and there's a sinful woman who anoints him. So the Pharisee questions if Jesus is a true prophet because he doesn't know he's allowing the sinful woman to touch him. But Jesus talks about how the love of one who has been forgiven much is greater than the one of the love of someone who is forgiven a little. And he ends with telling the woman, your faith has saved you. Go in peace. So telling this woman that she is now accepted by him. Her sins are forgiven. Luke 8, Charles, I think he's not here either. So Luke 8, we see the parable of the soul. We covered this in detail in our previous in our other book on interpreting scripture, but the word is sown in people's hearts and based on the status of their heart and how they receive God's word, the fruit, you can see the fruit of that word being sown in people's hearts. Jesus declares that his mother and brothers are those who receive the word and do the word of God, who follow the word of God. Then we see the record of Jesus calming the storm and rebuking the disciples for their lack of faith. We see Jesus going to the land of the garrisons and freeing the demon-possessed man, sending the legion of demons that have possessed him into pigs and those pigs then running down the cliff. So the people there are afraid and they send Jesus away, but Jesus sends that man who has been freed from the demons back to his people to tell them about what God has done for them, done for him. We then see a story about Jairus who's a synagogue leader. He calls Jesus to heal his daughter who's very sick, but on the way there's a woman with the issue of blood who touches him, who receives healing. As Jesus is talking to her, Jairus's daughter dies, but Jesus tells them to have faith and then he goes and raises her from the dead. And we end with that, where he raises her from the dead and he gives her something to eat and says, don't tell anyone about this. Okay, I think we still have a little more time. Luke 9, Cyril, are you ready to share about Luke 9? Okay, we'll cover Luke 9 and we'll close with that for today. I'll just do it for us. So Jesus sends the 12 out, gives them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases. He sends them with the instruction to not carry anything with them. So no bags, no money, nothing. And then he says, when you go into a town, preach to them. If they don't receive you, shake the dust off your sandals and leave them to receive the judgment that is due to them. Now, in this chapter, we see the question about who Jesus is a rise. So Herod is hearing testimonies about Jesus's ministry and is wondering if John the Baptist has come back to life. Other people think that he is Elijah, other people think that he is a prophet who was prophesied about in the Old Testament, the prophet that is to come. And so they think that this is Jesus. Then we see the record of Jesus feeding the 5000. This is not given in too much detail in Luke 9, like the other Gospels. Then we see, before this, we see the question of Herod wondering who Jesus is and what other people are saying about Jesus. Now we see Jesus asking the disciples, who do people say I am? And they say the same things that we've read previously in the chapter. And then he says, who do you say I am? And Jesus says, you are God's Messiah. Right after this, Jesus starts to talk about his death. And he says that whoever is his disciple will take up their cross and follow him. Whoever wants to save his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. And then whosoever is ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of them when I come in my kingdom. So Jesus talking about the demands of discipleship while he's talking about his own suffering. After this, we see the transfiguration. So again on the identity of Jesus, right? So we're talking about Jesus being Elijah who was prophesied about or the prophet who was supposed to come. And now we see in the transfiguration that Moses and Elijah are there with Jesus. And Jesus is declared as greater because the Father's testimony is there about who Jesus is. And so Jesus is declared as one who's greater than the prophets. And then they come down from the mountain after the transfiguration and there's a boy who was demon possessed. Jesus healed that boy who the disciples were not able to heal. Again, Jesus predicts his death. And then we see some opposition that's coming in from the Samaritans. They don't want Jesus to go through their villages because he's on his way to Jerusalem. So the disciples want to call down fire on the Samaritans like Elijah did. But Jesus says we're not going to do that. Then Jesus talks about the cost of following him. And he calls people to follow him. And he talks about the fact that you should be willing to follow me no matter what. So you don't turn your, once you put your hand to the plow, you don't turn back. And then one person who gives the excuse of burying his father, Jesus, let the dead bury their own dead. So with that, we come to the end of Chapter 9. We'll continue from Chapter 10 on Thursday. So if you've been assigned one of these chapters, please be ready to share on Thursday. If you're not going to be there on Thursday and you know in advance, please post on Google Classroom so we can be prepared. Thank you all for being here. See you on Thursday.