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• Luke Chapter 1 Luke 1:1-4 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you i...
• They went about telling a sin-laden world that the Son of God had come down to earth, and lived for us, and died for us, and has risen again. The Gospel, at its first publication, was far more simple than many make it now. It was neither more nor less than the history of Christ.
• Let us aim at greater simplicity in our own personal religion. Let Christ and His person be the sun of our system, and let the main desire of our souls be to live a life of faith in Him and daily know Him better. This was Paul’s Christianity. For to me, to live is Christ (Philippians 1:21).
• Luke draws a beautiful picture of the true position of the apostles in the early church. He calls them eyewitnesses and servants of the word. There is an instructive humility in this expression. There is an utter absence of that man-exalting tone which has so often crept into the church. Luke gives the apostles no flattering titles.
• Luke describes his own qualifications for the work of writing a Gospel. He says that he had investigated everything carefully from the beginning.