Luke Series Chapter 1 (EP 55)
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What is the Luke Christmas challenge?
What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And in today's episode, this is the first of 24 back to back to back podcast episodes for the Luke Christmas challenge. The whole month of December, we were reading a chapter of Luke every day on the podcast, whether you're watching or listening verse by verse breakdowns. So by Christmas Eve, you will have read the entire book of Luke. It's amazing. And guys, if you go to our ministry website, jesusinthestreet.org slash Luke, you can actually download a PDF for free or you can put it in your photos and it's just a calendar with the days and you can check off that you read Luke for yourself and that you watched or listened to the episodes here.
But basically what we're going to do is we're going to read through each chapter of Luke verse by verse and we're going to break it down. What's going on in Luke? What's the context? What is happening? We're going to do it. Before we get into it, guys, visit JesusInTheStreet.com to get you some lovely merch and some hoodies for the holiday season. Now, let's get into it. Now, this is beautiful.
Who is the author of the book of Luke?
We need to understand the author of the book of Luke is Luke, okay? And he is a doctor. Now, we're going to find out what exactly, why he's writing it, what is his purpose of, what's going on in Luke, and then we're going to break down the substance of it, okay? So let's read the first couple of verses here. He says, Okay, so we learned a couple things here.
In the first two verses, Luke is mentioning the prior accounts of Jesus Christ, particularly the book of Matthew and the book of Mark. And he's saying, look, the reason I'm writing this book myself, Luke here, he acknowledges that Matthew and Mark have written accounts. But he says, look, I'm about to write the most comprehensive gospel that we have on account. I'm going to write from the announcement of John the Baptist, from the announcement that that Elizabeth and Zacharias get from the angel Gabriel up until Jesus's ascension. He's writing the most comprehensive gospel that we read today. And then we have to understand what's going on in Luke.
What makes the Gospel of Luke unique?
is one of the most interesting when it comes to the roles of women, children, and social outcasts concerning people and Jesus. It's one of the most interesting Gospels when it comes to prayer. There are seven different references of Jesus and prayer throughout this Gospel. This is also one of the most emphasizing Gospels on the Holy Spirit and joy. It has a huge emphasis on preaching the good news as well. It's so interesting in the book of Luke, the term good news referring to the gospel, preaching the gospel is used 10 times in the book of Luke, where it's only used once in every other gospel. And then that term is also used in the book of Acts like over 15 times. And a lot of people read the book of Luke and then immediately the book of Acts because they flow right together. I mean, you've got Jesus' ascension and then boom, Acts 1. It's such a beautiful flowing of Luke from a gospel to Acts. I think it's beautiful. But we have to understand what we're about to read here when we read Luke.
What is the significance of Zechariah's role as a priest?
We're about to read a lot of interesting things about the life of Jesus. Okay, so this is what Luke's saying. He's like, look, I'm writing this to give you a comprehensive gospel to understand the life of Jesus here, is what he says. Here we go in verse 5. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. But they had no child because Elizabeth was barren and both were advanced in their years. OK, so we need to understand something here really quick context. Again, this is going to be important to understanding stuff. Zacharias was a priest back in this time period. There were about 20,000 priests that existed. OK, there were a whole lot of priests. So it is they. So the reason that they cast it a lot to find out who would serve on which days is because they had 20,000 priests.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Luke Christmas challenge?
0:00β1:00
2
Who is the author of the book of Luke?
1:00β2:21
3
What makes the Gospel of Luke unique?
2:21β3:18
4
What is the significance of Zechariah's role as a priest?
3:18β6:00
5
What was the angel Gabriel's message to Zechariah?
6:00β9:17
6
How does God respond to our prayers?
9:17β10:38
7
What does the Nazarite vow signify for John the Baptist?
10:38β14:55
8
What was Zechariah's response to the angel's message?
14:55β24:02
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