An Outbreak of the Spirit in Luke
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How does Luke introduce the Holy Spirit in the birth narratives of John and Jesus?
Welcome to Bible Project Podcast. We're halfway through a series on the Spirit of God. In Hebrew, it's the word ruach. It's the invisible, personal, life-giving energy of God that sustains and empowers everything. Today, we turn to the scrolls in the Bible written in Greek. And in Greek, there's a word that perfectly translates the Hebrew word ruach. That's the word namma. Now, I learned to pronounce this word pneuma with a silent P, but there's a lot of new evidence that it was pronounced pneuma or even pnevma. But however you pronounce it, it's the Greek way to talk about ruach.
Pnevma has the same range of meaning as the Hebrew ruach, meaning wind or breath, or personal energy of uh human.
Or of a deity. So we can take everything we've discussed up till now about God's Ruach and bring it with us into the New Testament. We will begin our journey looking at the Spirit of God in the Gospel of Luke.
And the Spirit is mentioned more in Luke and Acts than in any of the other narrative accounts in the New Testament. So this is the place: the Gospel of the Spirit.
In Luke, an angel tells Mary that she'll give birth to Israel's Messiah. And Mary asks, How will this be since I'm a virgin? And the angel responds, that the holy penuma will come on you and the power of the most high will overshadow you.
That word overshadow you, it's used of the glory cloud of God that comes to settle over the tabernacle and then fill it up with divine presence. The Holy Spirit is filling Mary to bring about a union of divine and human. And the yeah.
In the Hebrew Bible, we only encounter a few characters filled with God's Spirit. But as the Gospel of Luke opens, there's a lot of spirit going down. John the Baptist is filled with the Spirit while still in the womb. His mother, feeling John kick, is filled with the Spirit. His father breaks out in a spirit-filled song, and a man named Simeon, filled with the Spirit, meets baby Jesus in the temple. And this is all in the first two chapters. Chapter.
Luke's pulling out all the stops and just trying to say everything about Jesus of Nazareth, his conception, all his family members. It's an outpouring of the
Spirit. This outpouring of the Spirit continues, leading Jesus into his public ministry. And then the Spirit spills out from Jesus to his disciples. We'll look at a story where Jesus sends out 72 of his followers and they come back rejoicing, telling Jesus that they've been able to do the same things that Jesus does, proclaim the good news, heal the sick, and cast out demons.
The Spirit is moving out through the one Jesus out to the many. Even before Pentecost it was starting.
It's pretty wild. And in response to their joy, Jesus starts rejoicing in the Spirit as he prays to the Father.
Jesus is saying, This is what you love to do, Dad. You reunite heaven and earth, but in people and in ways that nobody would have ever predicted or saw coming.
Today Tim Mackey and I explore the Spirit of God in the New Testament, beginning with the Gospel of Luke. Thanks for joining us. Here we go. Hey Tim. Hi John. Hello. Hello. We're talking spirit of God and we get to now move into The New Testament. Yes. Yeah. And we're gonna look at the Gospel of Luke. Yes, we are. And we're gonna look at how the Spirit of God shows up in the Gospel of Luke. Mm-hmm.
Yes. In the last conversation we had a surprise, which are my favorite surprises, is when a whole conversation unfolds that we didn't know was gonna happen. Yeah. But we recapped in the last episode all the themes and main ideas that we traced about spirit of God in the Hebrew Bible. So I don't think there's a need to recap here. What we said is we want to now dive into the New Testament and then specifically The portrait of the spirit's role in the story of Jesus in Luke and then in the story of his followers in Acts, 'cause it's a two volume work. And the spirit is mentioned more in Luke and Acts than in any of the other narrative accounts in the New Testament. So this is the place. Yeah. The gospel of the Spirit.
It's one way to think about the gospel.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How does Luke introduce the Holy Spirit in the birth narratives of John and Jesus?
0:05–7:29
2
What does the angel’s message to Mary reveal about the Spirit’s role in conception?
7:29–13:56
3
How is the Holy Spirit present in the lives of John the Baptist and Elizabeth?
13:56–21:49
4
What is the significance of the Spirit at Jesus’ baptism and the voice from heaven?
21:49–29:57
5
How does Luke portray the Spirit empowering Jesus’ public ministry and the sending of the seventy‑two?
29:57–38:49
6
In what ways does the Spirit empower Jesus’ healings and exorcisms throughout Luke?
38:49–46:33
7
What does Jesus’ final breath on the cross tell us about the Spirit and the resurrection?
46:33–52:59
8
How does Luke’s vision of the Spirit set the stage for the Acts of the Apostles?
52:59–1:01:53