 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session. I hope each one of you had a great weekend So said did you have a good weekend? Yes, ma'am. I had a really good weekend. We missed you last class said what happened? Actually, ma'am. I was going through a sickness in in Delhi. There is a very severe cold and climate change Okay, okay Okay, so how are you feeling now? Now I am completely fine ma'am. Oh, yes, we can see that you're refreshed and strong Good, thank you. And I'm glad to know that you're recovered and doing better Okay. Yeah, this session has been recorded. So even before we could start with our session Can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Sing Can you lead us in prayer? Yes, ma'am, come let's pray Father we come to the throne of grace Lord. Thank you for the day you have given us Lord Whatever we are going to learn from your new testament Lord your living word that Lord this wish not just a word But Lord every word in this Bible is truth Lord is going to happen and it has happened Lord The word we are going to learn Lord it should be not just kept in our heart But Lord the prophecy the promise you have done in the Bible Lord that should become true life and Lord It should be put freely in our hearts Lord in our daily life Lord Thank you for this our word what we are going to spend learning about your word Lord that it should not be wasted But it should be become a tree Lord a full fruit for everything Lord. Thank you for this day Thank you for the sir. Thank you for all the students and the teacher Lord in Jesus name. We pray amen So today we're going to study on the third book of the new testament that is the gospel of Luke Okay, so can we turn our Bible To the gospel of Luke. So how many chapters are there in this gospel? 24 24 chapters and who's the author of this book? Anyone The doctor professor himself Yes, yes. Yes. Thank you so much. So um so far. Uh, we have covered two gospels That is the gospel of Matthew and gospel of mark. So what did the gospel of Matthew potray? Jesus has And what did mark potray? Jesus has anyone from the class Make a note. Please make a note so that you know the more we repeat this in every class So we remember them better Matthew potrayed Jesus has the king And mark potrayed Jesus has the servant the humble servant And we'll see Luke potraying Jesus has the man The way they introduced Jesus has Matthew introduced behold your king and mark said behold your servant And here we see Luke saying behold the man And we also see uh the characteristics of resemblance of the uh, you know in each book as Matthew potrays as the king and mark as the prophet and Luke as a priest And also we see uh this these books are written to a different set of audience. So Who did Matthew write to? The Jews Yes, you're right and mark Mark wrote to the Romans And we are going to see Luke writing to the Greeks. Okay. Let's remember Matthew wrote to Jews mark The audience was a roman Can we remember that Matthew to Jews mark to romans and Luke to the audience of Greeks Okay, so with this You know, we can move on to study the gospel of Luke. So we see the author The author of this book is Luke where he portrays Jesus as the perfect man So what do we know about this author? He is the only gentile right of the Bible Exactly. Thank you. Anyone else? Anyone else? What do we know about Luke his background? Let's say he was a physician or doctor Yes, a well-learned man, right Anyone else would like to add to it? Okay. Apart from Luke being a physician uh Doctor Or a well-learned man. He was also Yes, a Gentile The only Gentile who has written a book A gospel of Luke and he was also a traveling companion to Paul whenever Paul visited Near Philippi the hometown. Okay of Luke. He was traveling with Paul And there's little bit controversy over the facts that the author of this book was Luke This can be clearly demonstrated when they read the book of Acts. So When when we read the gospel of Luke and when we read the Book of Acts both are very similar and when we can make sure the author Is Luke when we read through the book of Acts it clears the scholar says clearly It has been identified the author of the gospel of Luke and The book of Acts is Luke And yes Luke being a learned man the writing style also adds as an advantage for him You know a lot of technical words the way He the style of his writing is seem to be very good Lot of medical languages he used and you know the technical vocabulary carries Makes this book a very Well-learned very well Written book. So we see there are about 50 common words In these two books that is in the book of Luke and in the book of Acts and Luke was a Man of compassion He he was a very good intimate friend of Paul And yes, we know Paul was also a learned man. So they both made a good companion. They both Shared a lot of learnings and a lot of interest. So they made a good friendship and you know, they were good friends with each other so Luke traveled With Paul most of the time for his journey, especially in the second missionary journey It traveled whenever Paul visited his hometown on very Close places to Philippi. So Philippi was a hometown of Luke With that we also see A little bit of Luke's background. He was born in Antioch of Syria Uh, at least where his parents decided and he was not a Jew He was a Greek from his background and he was the only Gentile who wrote the book and he was well educated in science of medicine and yes Uh, yeah, he was possibly uh He was actually ministered by Paul And later his life was transformed and because of his transformation Uh, and the intimate uh Fellowship with Jesus. He started supporting Paul in the ministry and uh, he though Luke was not an eyewitness Of Jesus of Christ in his earthly ministry, but then the words that Paul shared Touched him and transformed his life where he was converted and then we also see that uh, you know, um traveling to many places and he was also Well, uh, Luke was also part of with Paul in his last missionary journey when he was traveling to Rome He was also part of the shipwreck journey and uh, many other hardships along with Paul Yes, witnessed himself. So it was easy for him to document it clearly in the book and he was He was a he was a trained and discipled by Paul in the ministry Um, yeah, this is what we see uh the background of Luke We also see that the the scholars say that he was never married He was not married because there's no other information about him. And uh, yeah, they believe that you would have had a natural cause of death in the place called Bethania But then uh, yeah, some other people say maybe he was martyred at the age of 80 But there's no fact no proven fact like he was martyred. So the scholars go ahead saying that uh, he may have had a natural death So this book was written the gospel of luke was written in uh, 59 to 63 ad And this book was written to the greek to the greek audience So the gospel of luke is especially specifically to a person By the name theophilus now who was this theophilus? Because it has been addressed when we see uh, the first chapter we see in verse three He says I write a right to you and orderly account most excellent theophilus the very uh, the writing itself shows and addressing to a roman official such as a Governor because most excellent has been addressed to some officials. Yes. I see lubega hand been raised You'd like I have just withdrawn my hand faster. Thank you Okay, you want to share about the roman official of theophilus Yeah, I think luke as a book was written as a defense You see both both the first and the second Look because we know luke one is the gospel and luke two is the acts. So they were all written as defense Uh in in defense of jesus christ in the first place and the second one was in the defense of uh Paul Okay, okay. Good. Thank you. Thank you lubega for adding that. Yes. It was written as a defense Well, uh, now we were talking about the theophilus uh roman official Now what is the background of him? Who is he? He was a person who's a roman official standing in the influence who was sought by paul's trial as well And uh, he was a magistrate who was due to Hear paul's case when we read the book of acts We will get to know more about that and he was also a person of nobility who was the Pattern of luke and who founded the production of this book Some of the scholars say that he supported him to Produce this gospel of luke. Well, the gospel of luke was written in a general sense to the greek world We see that the greek where Those people who pursued an idea of the perfect man so we study Luke the gospel of luke as written focusing on the art Religion literature and it is so obviously seen when we read through this book And we also see there's an idle man not as same as the official Uh, uh roman officials But then the idle man here we see uh denoting at Jesus the man of beauty the man of wisdom or carried his ministry with lot of grace We also see that though luke was a greek he he he concentrated To write this book as a gentile writer and to uh, he wrote this book so that anyone The greek or the other audience from the world when they read they could understand the man Jesus as the perfect and uh, yes luke Travelled and he spent a lot of his time after encountering Jesus He spent a lot of time with paul in the ministry specifically among the greek world because we also see that paul had this passion To uh to share the gospel to the gentiles and here we see to like-minded people joining together and Heading toward the ministry So, uh, what is the purpose of this book? Can anyone see? What is the purpose of this book? Can one of us read Luke chapter one verse one to four Luke chapter one verses one to four Many have undertaken to draw up an account of things that have been fulfilled Among us just as they have handed handed down to us those who From the first word I witnesses and servants of the world Therefore since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning It seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you Most excellent thelophists thelophists So that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught Thank you. So here we see luke, uh unfolding to purpose That is to set forth the well researched and an orderly account of the life of christ The second point we see is to strengthen the faith of the believers in Jesus With an affirmation of the faith rested on the solid historical facts So with that purpose so what are the things that mark this book As the perfect man or denotes Jesus as the perfect man Well, we see uh, luke is writing to the greek world And portraying jesus as the perfect and the ideal man first we see that the genealogy of jesus In luke chapter 3 verse 38 luke chapter 3 Can we turn to luke chapter 3 verse 38? See we see from 23 luke chapter 3 verse 23 to 38 we see the genealogy uh genealogy back to the first adam and then the second point we see that the emphasis Is on jesus as a normal human experience where the gospel of luke gives us the fullest description of Jesus birth his infant his childhood And the human development how we had not only about jesus luke also describes about john the baptist and jesus infancy Which no other gospel has been shared We also see uh luke portraying jesus has an humble human birth Like in luke chapter 2 verse 6 to 7 Can I request one of us to read luke chapter 2 verse 6 to 7 While they were there the days were completed for her to give birth And she gave birth to her firstborn son And she wrapped him in clothes And laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn So as we read this you know with the clear detailed Information luke is portraying how jesus was born Even when we read about john the baptist you also says how john the baptist was conceived and how he was born You know what happened when uh Elizabeth and mary together when they met the song the beautiful song we'll come to that later but then here in this verse we see that the humility and the human birth of jesus Can I request one of us to turn to luke chapter 2 verse 42 The child continued to grow and become strong increasing in wisdom And the grace of god was upon him So here we see The natural human the childhood of jesus how You know the child grew your luke writes the child grew and became strong in spirit Filled with wisdom and the grace of god was upon him You know he he shows the human childhood how jesus grew And third can I request one of one of us to read verse 49 same chapter verse 49 Luke chapter 2 verses 49 Why were you for me? He asked didn't you know I had to be in my father's house In my father's business some of the virgin says father's business when we read from 46 to 50 we understand that how jesus was reasoning in the temple And look at the hunger for the knowledge So as a man he was growing he was reasoning We see that and can I request one of us to read verse 51 from the same chapter Of 52 also 51 and 52 I can go Yes Jesus went back to Nazareth with his parents and obeyed them his mother kept on Thinking about all that had happened Jesus became wise and he grew and he grew strong God was pleased with him and so were the people So here we see his subjection his obedience his submission to his human parents and we see him Develop into a full manhood he developed intellectually that is in wisdom The worst talks about the last verse 52 talks about that how Jesus developed intellectually In wisdom and he also developed physically in stature And he developed spiritually that is in favor of god and he developed socially with favor Favor with man favor with god and favor with man Well, we also see in Luke chapter 3 verse 23. Can I request one of us to read? Luke chapter 3 verses 23 Now jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry. He was He was the son So it was thought of joseph Yeah, thanks. So here we see luke mentioning Jesus himself began his ministry at about 30 years of age at 30 years of age. So here we see the Fully grown jesus, okay the age of 30 and this is only mentioned in the gospel of luke and not in the Other gospels and with that we also see that how luke portrays jesus as man of prayer But more than any other gospel He focused he portrays jesus saying that he was a man of prayer and he focused on that Can I request one of us to turn to? Luke chapter 3 verse 21 Luke chapter 3 verses 21 When all the people were being baptized jesus was baptized too and he was praying heaven was opened Yes Yes, we see Heaven was open at the time of jesus baptism We also see after the day of miracles in chapter 5 verse 15 and 16 Can I request one of us to turn to chapter 5 verse 15 and 16? chapter 5 Verses 15 and 16 Yet the news about him spread all the more So the crowd of the people came to hear him and to be healed of his sickness of their sicknesses But jesus often withdrew to lonely place and place and prayed Yes, we saw how jesus withdrew himself he took time to pray He took time to pray so that means what prayer was a very Very vital in the life of jesus very important in the life of jesus So it should be for us if it was important for jesus himself How much more important it should be in our life? We also see in chapter 6 verse 12 chapter 6 verse 12 Can I request one of us to please turn to chapter 6 verse 12? Now it came to pass in those days. He went out to the mountain to pray and continue all night in prayer to god Thank you. So when we look at 12 and 13 in continuation We see that uh jesus prayed even before he could start choosing the 12 disciples You know in chapter 9 verse 18 we see even before the first prediction of his passion he prayed And uh chapter 11 verse 1 can I request loop chapter 11 verse 1 can I request anyone any of us to please turn to chapter 11 verse 1 And it came to pass That as he was praying in a certain place When he ceased one of his disciples said unto him lord teach us to pray as john also taught his disciples Amen, and we see how jesus taught them The model prayer of our father what in heaven. So here we see again jesus teaching the model prayer Prayer was very important Even at the transfiguration we see there was a prayer prayer for peter You know when peter was tempted jesus saying take heed peter i've prayed for you And we also see even before um he was been arrested by the roman soldiers We see jesus getting into the garden of gethsemane and what did he do he prayed He prayed there and very well Luke narrates the whole atmosphere like how jesus He sweat sweat was as similar to the blood And look at the tension that jesus went through at that time and how he was comforted by the angels, you know Luke records all this clearly And how jesus prayed on the cross in a loop 23 34 We see how jesus prayed even at the time of his death jesus prayed and we also see the There are other things that luke focuses on jesus ministry that is Luke focuses on jesus need to eat as a human as a man. He was hungry. He was thirsty You know, he sat near the Well of jacob to meet the samaritan women and he said i'm thirsty. Can i get some water? As a man he was tired walking from place to place. He was tired So jesus sat You know the emphasis as jesus has been a fully man You know luke put rays very clearly in that and also look emphasis on Empowering of the ministry of the holy spirit in the individuals including jesus in this gospel He also showcases that jesus was a Had a good relationship with people. He was compassionate over people Yes, we also see that matthew been writing like whenever jesus moved with compassion There was miracle among the people and here we also see luke Recording that the emphasis that jesus was filled with compassion for people We also see luke depicting of the angel ministering to jesus as the garden of gethsemane We also see how um, luke portrays or emphasizes on jesus Angerizing in the garden of gethsemane as i just said about the sweat drops of blood You also see that luke records the centurion's declaration You know when jesus was at the cross it's a centurion the roman god who declared Saying jesus has the righteous man. We see that in luke chapter 23 verse 47 Can i request one of us to please turn to luke 23 47 please luke chapter 23 verses 47 The centurion seeing what had happened praise god and said surely this was a righteous man See the centurion has been declaring that This was a righteous man And we also see luke record jesus commending his spirit to the father Father i commend my spirit into your hand We also see luke records some of the distinct features in this book. So um, yes in times of The volume of text luke stands out So only luke records the four songs that became part of the liturgy of the historic church That is the magnificat the song of mary which is recorded in luke chapter one So these luke chapter one and two has many songs But the song of mary is recorded in luke chapter one verse 39 to 45 Okay, we don't have time but then you can make a note in your bible saying that there's a Magnificat the song of mary that she sang, you know, uh, she sang Uh when she met elizabeth And then uh in reply we also see the benedictus or the song of zekariah That is from luke chapter one verse 67 to 79 The third song we see is the gloria in excelsis Or it is also known as the song of angels. It is in chapter two verse 13 13 and 14 Where the angels sing gloria to god in the highest and on earth peace goodwill toward men And in luke chapter two verse 28 to 32 Luke chapter two verse 28 to 32 is the fourth song the nun Demetrius or the song of simian when he saw the messiah When he saw the messiah this song was birthed in simian So luke very clearly You know as Recorded all these four songs and we also see Higher emphasis on the women luke has shared many emphasis on the women poor children In his book One of them is i'll just get the scriptures. Will you just give me a Yes We see that luke has mentioned about 13 women 13 women and uh It is not mentioned elsewhere in the other gospel But then he shows particular interest about including the story of a Immoral women the women who supported with the gifts for the ministry. We also see when Jesus was carrying the cross and walking to the mount calvary We see the women weeping lamenting over him on the way of the cross and we also see women very Very prominent figure he's been writing it about them The story like after The death at the at the tomb, you know, mary magdaline who came there You know very clearly he been mentioning about the importance of prominence for the women is given in this gospel And all these speak about The gentle service of women to the society and to god and how passionately they were following jesus And also we see jesus was also interested in the children and uh Look portrays that how the childhood You know Jesus showed interest over the children is he told the disciples do not hold the children from coming to me And he also This is the only gospel where the childhood the infancy of john the baptist and jesus is also mentioned. We also see look Clearly portrays a social relationship that jesus had with different people at that time that is with the Pharisees and With zekai is these people where actually the outcast people You know with the sinners He had with the prostitutes Many other people who way uh who way betrayed way Outcast who considered to be the outcast with those people but then jesus You know he he did not hold himself from being with them Tax collectors he made a relationship with them. He treated everyone equal And he also Shows that how he had the social relationship with you know by many Parables like the lost coin the many making at the return of the prodigal sound or the Inkeeper tending the wound, you know the social relationship what people can have through many parables Look was also interest in the theology. So Uh In the theology so he also presided jesus christ as a savior of the world that is savior to the lost Sinners he also showed that how the samaritans Uh, they uh samaritans hated Jews. They were completely Opposite of each other. They hated so much But then your jesus come comes and he says listen Um, the universalism is portrayed like, you know, uh, I die for both I need both samaritans and Jews are on the same level ground So he emphasized on the universal blessing is based for everyone And uh, look also portray saying that, you know, there's a very evangelistic Uh, uh letter we could also say by saying that the day of salvation is near Uh, he emphasizes on the word called now and today You know, there's more focus on now and today. So when we read the gospel, we see there's a the day of salvation is near So we need to accept jesus as a lord and savior because it's only through him We can receive this free gift of salvation And we also see the joy of salvation gospel has been uh shared in this book There's a lot of gladness joy the word called rejoicing occurs 21 times more than any other gospel and also as I said the four songs has been recorded Only in the gospel of luke And also luke is interested on the poor and the oppressed luke records on Seven of his parables either concerns about the poverty the wealth or the economic need of the people who were living there at that time So he records all this and he also pays attention to the praise and the glory of god through the song of what may be praised and zekariah and the Angels how they were glad and praising Uh praising the birth of jesus to the shepherd announcing the good news to the shepherds and how shepherds praised how simon at the very uh site of carrying the baby jesus as He had the revelation of ease the son of god ease and messiah and the way he praised god all has been clearly Recorded in this gospel Yeah, we also see in the gospel of luke a lot of contrast Uh he he because he's a learned man The way the he has written brings a lot of understanding a lot of revelation a lot of insight in this book like He brings a contrast between Yes, even when he shares the parable like you know, he brings a A contrast in the parable or Explaining a situation explaining people the two types of people. There's always a contrast that is between the rich and the poor Between jesus christ and the john the baptist when he wrote about them We see, uh, even when he's narrating the story of how mary and martha like jesus how You know how hospitality they were when jesus came to the home The issue is a different character of mary and martha the characteristics of Pharisees and the public in we also see the rich man and the lazarus We also see peter and judas And lastly, we also see the two thieves on the cross The difference between the two thieves one mocks jesus and one says one receives jesus has the saviour And he's asking him if you can remember me on the paradise. So there's always a Contrast and this gives us a clear picture of different type of people who lived in that season and uh There's a key verse can we turn to the key verse in this book luke chapter 19 verse 10 Luke chapter 19 verse 10. Yes Luke chapter 19 verses 10 for the son of man came to seek and To save what was lost? Amen So the son of man has come to seek and to save which was lost So this is the key verse the ultimate message that the son of man Here luke put ring jesus as the son of man He has come to seek and to save That which was lost That which was lost. He has come to seek and save us from this world We also see uh The book of the gospel of luke been compared with other gospel that is with the gospel of matthew matthew Is a gospel of sad rejection of jesus as the messiah, but then luke put raise it as glad acceptance of jesus as the son of man When we compare the three gospel that is matthew mark and john luke contains The most complete account of jesus uh family background the birth and the childo Also, some of the scholars say luke would have been the author Of the book of hebrew. So along because of the writing style, it's not proved But then they just consider because of the writing style. He was a learned man. He wrote a gospel of luke acts He may have written hebrew, but still now it is anonymous But then because of the writing style, they say that Because luke in the gospel of luke, he put raise jesus earthly ministry In gospel in the book of acts. He put raise jesus ministry through his church And the book of hebrew talks about his High priestly ministry. So we are not sure but then this is out the scholar The jesters maybe he could have been one of the author and some of them say that paul Could have also been one of the author But then we do not have any fact towards the author of the book of hebrew But then it is a good message talks about the high priestly ministry of jesus with that We also see the outline of the book of luke. I request you to please go through your notes Don't know more about the outline of the book where the ministry of the son of man has been dated By the parables and many miracles that has been there and also we see the rejection of the son of man in the book And part for the crucification and the resurrection of the son of man And this is one of the book which includes the birth of jesus and the ascension of jesus In this book, we also see the ministry of the holy spirit as a supplement in this book and also judging others and The emphasis on prayer has been clearly mentioned in the book so that we also know that if jesus could emphasize and Pray how much more you and I should focus on having a prayerful life So with that we conclude the gospel of luke and I keep this time open To add or share something on the gospel of luke Class it's open. So you can add or share something That you would like to share on this gospel of luke Is there something new that we learned from this book? Other than we know that he was a doctor. He was a physician. Anything new that we learned or Which refreshed our thoughts? Okay, any questions from this book? I request you all to please go through The notes so that we can have a clear understanding along with that I request you to please read the gospel of luke to know the good news of jesus christ So with that we will end the session And we'll end this We shall dismiss with a word of prayer. Can I request? Zellie if you can pray, please And dismiss us Thank you We thank you for the gospel of luke whatever we have learned or holy spirit will continue to minister to us and Give us the input and as we Love or go through the book of luke luke you speak to us Hallelujah father as we disperse from this place down. I pray that you continue to guide us leaders You bless our pastor and also and bless each one of us learn in jesus name amen Amen amen. Thank you so much for joining in today's session. See you all tomorrow With the gospel of john request you all to please go through the notes and the word Thank you. God bless. See you all tomorrow