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FOUNDATIONS CLASS 17, Section 2 Pages 203-211
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FOUNDATIONCLASS NUMBER 17SECTION TWOTHE GOSPEL OF LUKE • The OUTLINE of LUKE. • The differences between LUKE, MATTHEW and MARK. • The angle and position of Luke compared with the rest of the gospels.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s OUTLINE• The Gentile gospel is designed in 7 pockets of information for the readers. • The details in these pockets of information is very different than the other gospels.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s OUTLINE• THE PROLOGUE - 1:1-4 a preliminary discourse that could be in the form of a greeting or a poem or some other literary device.
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FOUNDATIONLUKE, STRUCTURE LUKE1:1-4
Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a
narrative of those things which have been
fulfilled among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning
were
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eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to
us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having had perfect
understanding of all things from the very first,
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FOUNDATIONLUKE, STRUCTURE LUKE1:1-4
to write to you an orderly account, most excellent
Theophilus, 4 that you may know the certainty of those
things in which you were instructed.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s OUTLINE• 2) THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST and JESUS (1:5 – 2:52).• 3) PREPARATION FOR MINISTRY (3:1-4 - 4:13).• 4) THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST IN GALILEE (4:14 -9:50).
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s OUTLINE• 5) JESUS’ JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (9:51 - 19:44).• This is the longest section of Luke, and covers several features that are not included in the other gospels. Pay attention in this section.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s OUTLINE• 6) JESUS IN JERUSALEM (19:45 - 21:8).• 7) JESUS’ CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION (22:1 -24:53).
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s INTEREST• Luke goes his own way when speaking of the RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ. • He emphasises the seven mile walk from Jerusalem to the small city called Emmaus.
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FOUNDATIONLUKE’s INTEREST LUKE 24:13-35
Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which
was seven miles (60 Strada) from Jerusalem.
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14 And they talked together of all these things which had
happened.15 So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus
Himself drew near and went with them.
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But their eyes were restrained, so that they did
not know Him.17 And He said to them, “What
kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as
you walk and are sad?”
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FOUNDATIONLUKE’s INTEREST LUKE 24:13-35
18 Then the one whose name was Cleopas (kla-a-pas – of a renowned
father [John 19:25]) answered and said to Him, “Are You the only
stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not
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known the things which happened there in these days?”
19 And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him,
“The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
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who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before
God and all the people, 20 and how the chief priests and our
rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death,
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and crucified Him. 21 But we were hoping that it was He
who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this,
today is the third day since these things happened.
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FOUNDATIONLUKE’s INTEREST LUKE 24:13-35
22 Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished
us. 23 When they did not find His body, they came saying that
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they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.24 And certain of
those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as
the women
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had said; but Him they did not see.” 25 Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that
the prophets have spoken!
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26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” 27 And
beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures
the
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things concerning Himself.28 Then they drew near to the
village where they were going, and He indicated that He would
have gone farther.
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29 But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the
day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them.
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30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that
He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to
them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew
Him;
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and He vanished from their sight.
32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart
burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the
Scriptures to us?”
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33 So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem,
and found the eleven and those who were with them
gathered together, 34 saying,
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“The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 And they told about the things that
had happened on the road, and how He was known to them
in the breaking of bread.
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FOUNDATIONKEY POINTS:• Their eyes were restrained because they knew Jesus as a prophet and a teacher but not as the SON OF GOD. • Jesus used scriptures to prepare them to see Him.
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FOUNDATIONKEY POINTS:• Their HEARTS BURNED WITHIN THEM when the SCRIPTURES were used to EXPLAIN Jesus Christ. • Their eyes were opened when they broke bread with HIM.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s CONNECTION• Acts, also a work of LUKE, can be considered the same book as LUKE. • H.J. Cadbury’s “THE MAKING OF LUKE AND ACTS”, is so brilliantly worked that it shifted the scholars’ view to consider them one.
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FOUNDATIONLUKE & ACTS ACTS 1:1-3
The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which
He was taken up, after
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He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the
apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also
presented Himself alive after
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His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom
of God.
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FOUNDATIONKEY POINTS:• Luke and his readers have the present day witness of Jesus Christ still alive when the gospel was written so that they could see the infallible proofs of Jesus Christ.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s CONNECTION• Language, style and theology connect the books of LUKE and ACTS.• Theology is a GOOD INDICATOR of considering books of the cannon by the early CHURCH.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s CONNECTION• The prologue indicates that LUKE was not an eye witness to the ministry of JESUS CHRIST but an eye witness of the people who had been radically impacted by JESUS CHRIST.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s CONNECTION• LUKE was an educated man who wrote very good GREEK. • The opening of LUKE is written in the classical style of Greek. The rest of the two chapters have a strong Semitic cast.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s CONNECTION• The rest of LUKE was written in strong HELLENISTIC Greek that constantly reminds the reader of the SEPTUAGINT – Greek Old Testament.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s CONNECTION• The last half of the book of Acts contains a lot of “we” passages and written in the first person, Luke being the companion of Paul who was pounded down by Jesus on the road to Damascus.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s SECRETS• What is one very strong hint in one of Jesus’ healings that LUKE was a doctor?• Luke calls the fever of Peter’s mother-in-law a “HIGH FEVER”, whereas Mark 1:30 and Matt. 8:14 only call it a FEVER.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s SECRETS• Early Church father “TERTULLIAN” calls LUKE “a summary of Paul’s gospel…” • TERTULLIAN, originally from Carthage, was a pagan who converted to Christianity in A.D. 197.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s SECRETS• TERTULLIAN lived from A.D.160-225. • He was trained in the law and was one of the foremost Christian apologists of his day. • He was a vigorous opponent of Gnosticism.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s SECRETS• TERTULLIAN in his “APOLOGY” argued that Christianity should not be seen as a threat to the state.• His AGAINST PRAXEAS presents an early exposition of the Trinity.
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FOUNDATIONS •LUKE’s SECRETS• TERTULLIAN was a strong promoter as SCRIPTURE ALONE to develop one’s RIGHT and RIGHTEOUS theology. • TERTULLIAN saw ACTS and LUKE as one book, written by the companion of Paul.
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FOUNDATIONLUKE’s UNIQUE P.O.V. LUKE 5:1-11
So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of
God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,
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2 and saw two boats standing by the lake; but
the fishermen had gone from them and were
washing their nets. 3 Then He got into one of the boats, which
was
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Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and
taught the multitudes from the boat.
4 When He had stopped
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speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the
deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 But Simon
answered and said to Him,
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“Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing;
nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” 6 And
when they had done this,
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they caught a great number of fish, and their net was
breaking. 7 So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them.
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And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began
to sink. 8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at
Jesus’ knees, saying,
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“Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” 9 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish
which they had taken;
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10 and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be
afraid. From now on you will catch men.”
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11 So when they had brought their boats to land, they
forsook all and followed Him.
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11 So when they had brought their boats to land, they
forsook all and followed Him.
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FOUNDATIONS • LUKE helps us to understand Peter and Jesus’ response to all the Peters’ of the world.
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FOUNDATIONMATTHEW 16:21-23From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and
suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
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FOUNDATIONMATTHEW 16:21-2322 Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You,
Lord; this shall not happen to You!”
23 But He turned and said to Peter,
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FOUNDATIONMATTHEW 16:21-23 “Get behind Me, Satan! You
are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the
things of God, but the things of men.”
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FOUNDATIONS •PETER SAID “DEPART FROM ME, I AM A SINFUL MAN”
JESUS SAID“GET BEHIND ME…”
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FOUNDATIONS CLASS 18, Section 2 Pages 211-219LUKE 9-11
