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Introduction
Brief Series Introduction
“Behold My Hands” comes from the final chapter of Luke, and the phrase is a good summation of Jesus’ ministry as presented in Luke (Luke 24:39).
Jesus is truly the Son of Man.
Here is how I have divided up the book: Luke 1-3; 4:1-9:51; 9:51-13:22; 13:22-19:28; 19:28-24:12; 24:13-53.
Focus in Luke this week is Luke 1-3.
Unique aspects of Luke 1-3.
Four hymns of praise to God in Luke.
Mary’s, Zacharias’s, Simeon’s, and possibly the angels to the shepherds.
The only story of Jesus’ youth.
Outline story of Luke 1-3?
Announcement to Zechariah (1:5–25)
Announcement to Mary (1:26–38)
Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth (1:39–45)
Mary’s praise: the Magnificat (1:46–56)
Birth of John (1:57–66)
Zechariah’s praise: the Benedictus (1:67–80)
Birth of Jesus (2:1–7)
Reaction to the birth (2:8–21)
Witness of the Simeon and Anna at the temple (2:22–40)
Search for Jesus (2:41-52)
The ministry of John the Baptist.
The one who goes before (3:1-20)
Jesus’ Baptism (3:21-22)
Jesus’ genealogy.
Son of Adam, Son of God (3:23-38)
Opening text:
The message of Luke 1-3…
God entered human history to bring salvation to all people.
1. Jesus came to a world of people.
Jesus came to a world of people.
2:31 - “Which thou has prepared before the face of all people;”
3:16 - “…but one mightier than I cometh…”
In many ways in these opening chapters, Luke was answering the question…
Was Jesus a real person?
And Luke’s emphatic answer is, “Absolutely!”
Luke places Jesus inside world history.
Chapter 1, 2, and 3 all begin with clear historical signals about the events of Jesus’ life.
When the angel came to Zacharias.
Herod was king.
But we also know the week.
According to 1 Chron 24:10, the course of Abia would serve two one-week periods each year.
He was eighth in the list (but all priests were present for feasts).
When Mary gave birth…
Written on the walls of a temple in Ankara is an autobiographical account of the public life of Augustus written in Latin and Greek.
On this Caesar Augustus wrote…
“The whole people of Rome honored me in a empire-wide census in the thirteenth year of my rule.”
[Res gestae divi Augusti on the Monumentum Ancyranum at Ankara.]
When Jesus’ ministry began...
Very few places in all of ancient documents provide this many historical and chronological signals as Luke 3:1-2.
Tiberius Caesar was in his fifteenth year as emperor.
Pontius Pilate was prefect over Judea.
Herod Antipas was ruling over Galilee.
Philip, the Tetrarch was ruling over Ituraea.
Lysanias, the Tetrarch was ruling over Abilene.
Annas and Caiaphas were both High Priests.
Jesus is about 30 years old.
What was Luke doing?
Luke was telling us that
Jesus Christ, God the Son, is a real person
who came to the world
during real events of human history.
Matthew frames Jesus inside Jewish history.
Line of David.
John frames Jesus inside divine history.
Jesus is God.
Luke frames Jesus inside human history.
Jesus is man.
Was Jesus a real person?
The Bible says, Absolutely!
In the 60s to 90s it was pretty common for liberal scholars to deny that Jesus was a historical figure.
That is, that Jesus really did live on earth as a human person.
Many of you have probably heard of the Jesus Seminar in which scholars debated the truth of every story in the Gospels about Jesus and concluded that most of it was fabricated myth.
On the contrary…
For almost 2,000 years, the Gospel written by Luke has been declaring...
Jesus came inside human history.
Jesus came to a world of people.
But even more than that, Luke wants us to understand that…
Jesus came to a world of lost people.
Jesus came to a world of lost people.
Yes, Jesus came inside world history.
But, It was a dark history.
It was a painful story.
It was a world wrecked by sin.
Our world was a world lost in sin.
Our history was a history that needed to be redeemed.
We needed to be helped.
We needed to be saved.
Some people think that we can fix our problems and bring meaning to our lives with better technology.
But the Romans Empire was one the most technologically advanced societies in 3000 years.
And the Bible stilled wrote that that era was lost in darkness.
In fact, thousands of years of human history has taught us that we cannot help ourselves.
Jesus came to a world of lost people who needed to be saved.
In 2:32, we needed “A light to lighten the Gentiles...”
In 1:79, we were those who “sit in darkness and in the shadow of death...”
So Jesus came to give us light for our darkness.
Jesus came to give us peace for our pain.
The Repeatedly Lost Sheep
In a YouTube video, a young boy comes across a small sheep stuck headfirst in a long narrow trench which has been dug beside a road.
The boy uses his hands and a belt around the leg of the sheep to rescue the trapped sheep.
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