This is a great question to ask anyone who is selling something “what does it cost?”
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
Luke 5
This is a question everyone who has followed Jesus knows the answer to, it costs you everything… but it’s worth it!
When you are tempted, what helps?
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit… was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil.
Luke 4
What helps is knowing that we are all tempted and there’s a way out (1Cor 10:13). Jesus has been there too, he was tempted in every way we are, yet he didn’t sin (Heb 4:15). We don’t have to sin just because we are tempted, and we’re all tempted. We’ve all been there, even Jesus, and we will all be there again (except Jesus). He knows, he’s there for you… lean on him.
Yesterday we looked at when Jesus was born… about AD8. Not everyone agrees on that, but that’s what I think is correct (at least currently). This is not a “core issue” simply interesting…
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Luke 3:1-3
Luke does a beautiful job of adding all kinds of detail. This is one of the most convincing reasons as to why the Gospels are NOT myth, legend, or any kind of fiction.
The Gospel of Luke records this…
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
Luke 2:1-2 ESV
or does it???
Are they history books? Are the legend? Are they the records of a philosophical school of thought?
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
Luke 1:1-4
No. They are Gospels.
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