Our Bibles contain four different accounts of the time of Jesus on earth.
Matthew was a Jew who worked as a tax collector. His Jewish heritage would have taught him to expect the child Isaiah had prophesied. (Isaiah 9:6,7) When he wrote his account he presented Jesus, the king of the Jews.
Mark wrote an account that tells us about the things Jesus did. Mark presents to his readers throughout history, the works and the authority of the One who came not to BE served....but to serve and give His life.
John wrote an account presenting Jesus as the Son of God. God in flesh, revealing the Father to all of us who have read his inspired words down thru the ages.
Luke emphasizes the humanity of Jesus, feeling what we feel, facing all we face as human beings. Luke takes us thru the days Jesus in a consecutive order. Luke was a physician, he writes in a very organized way, presenting the fulfillment of prophecy.
There are 24 chapters in the gospel of Luke, one chapter for every day of December leading up to Christmas.
Join me in reading the chapters of Luke one chapter as a time as we begin the month of December. Let us prayerfully ask God to reveal to us in a new and fresh way,both the humanity and the the deity of Messiah Jesus.
As I begin, I praise God for the man Luke.
Luke was probably a Gentile believer. He was not one of the twelve but could have been one of the seventy he writes about in chapter 10. Although Luke may not have witnessed the things he writes about, he made it his purpose to document the eye witness accounts of his day. Luke knew and spoke to people who did witness what he writes about.
I thank God Luke placed importance on the details, and especially that Luke was obedient as God used him to document for me, all that I learn from his writings.
