THE AMEN OF LUKE I. We generally hear Amen

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THE AMEN OF LUKE
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I. We generally hear Amen 'at the end.
A. Sometimes it is scattered through an
address . _ "
B. Most of time it signals a lone end o:t;
prayer.
C. Startlingly Luke puts it at the be
ginning.
II. He has just commended the writings &
factual works of others.
Luke 1: 1-2
III. he is ready to add his individual
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contribution.
A. "It seemed good to me also."
1. His own story--:not second-hand.
2. Real religion is a personal discovery
(Barclay)
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3. You must know what you individually:l:
believe.
B. Having had perfect understanding.
1. Having investigated everything
carefully from the beginning.
(ASV)' & (NIV)
2. Having followed all things closely
for sometime past" (RSV)--margin
followed accurately.
3. He closely follows all things.
4. He wants every truth he can garner
on every facet of the story--Ilsum
of thy word is truth" spirit.
Ps. 48: 12-13 "Walk about Zion, & go round"
5. Revisit the foundation.
6. His work, will proclaim the accuracy .
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7. Know perfectly--fully.
8. PARAl{OLOUTHEO ::: to follow with
the mind to trace, to investigate.
9. Claims an accuracy.
a) Mentions 32 countries, 54 cities,
9 Mediterranean Island wi 0 a
mistake.
b) Uses 19,000 words--971 coming
exclusively in his gospel.
C. Grasp "All Things"
1. Did his homework--traced all he said:
to their source.
2. Holy Spirit was not using a lazy
man!
3. He'll go back farther than any
gospel to present Jesus.
4. Claims not based on self-assertion
or feelings.
5. Root of it all--to proclaim Jesus
Christ.
6. This our same task.
7. Covers every major fact.
8. Worked hard to produce his gospel.
D. Now He's Ready to Write
1. Believed what he wrote.
2. Not ambivalent.
3. "All biographies of Jesus are certain
It was the language of decisive
belief based upon absolute certainty
of fact.K(Speakers)
4. Each apostle plants his feet on the
solid rock of fact.
5. Not one line of uncertainty.
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Ascension
g) Prayer life--murderer. cross
6, Speaks often of Isaiah
a) Most quoted OT book.
b) 540X quoted.
7. Exalts womanhood
F. Wrote to Theophilus
1. One who loves God
2. Wants to present exonerating facts.
3. Wants to win him to the faith.
4. Was he a man of wealth & rank?
5. One heart was important to the
Doctor--just as today individual
perscriptions.
G. Know the Certainty
1. To know is to thoroughly know.
2. Tho we pass through many climates
& cultures these are things accurate
to receive.
4.
6.
7. so
Have You Not Tasted
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the finality OfJ!€SOlS. Yet as with (j)tber ,...~" __ -,,,,,,
truths, is .p0Slsi)ble to interpret it ina;
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narrow way that -;distorts it's meaning. "
Orthodoxy has sometimes borne itself as
though its duty was to define what has been
rather than to prodaim what can be, It has
been so closely concerned to recognize _
nothing except what Jesus said in his career,
on earth seems to authorize that it has been '.
blind to the wider implications of the living,
spirit of Christ. It has refused to see, for
example, that the Christian gospel ought to",
have a message for the economic and sociail
of modern civilization even "
~plexities
fu6ugh Jesus Himself said no directwru:cL __ "
concerning these --since obviously they di(l
not exist in the century in which He liv.ed.
It has preached a false finality for the
message of Jesus, confining this to the liter
limits of His recorded word, elr even
reducing it to the shrunken preoccupation b
the indi vidual with his own soul, and €allin
this the "pure gospel." Jesus is final in t
the grace of God which came. inNim can n ,
be transcended. But the real finality of wh
the gospel of Luke thinks as having been
once and for all accomplished is the gift .of
Him in life which has irifinite fertility. The
)rn1plications of what He was and what Her·).
brought to life go on expanding-and ripening

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II. address.
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Know more than I did
Yet have not retreated one
from what I've always believed.
a) Saved by grace thru Faith.
b) Jesus is God's Son.
c) There are sacred ones.
iEph. 4: 4-6 "There is one body & one spirit"
d) This preceded by
:Eph. 4: 3 "Endeavoring to keep the unity"
e) The avenues of worship.
f) The scheme of redemption is
an inspired word.
g) Resurrection--Just a Christian
h) The return of Christ.
IV. To me Luke demonstrated the proper spirit
as beautifully as I can find it.
Lu. 1: 1-4 ''Forasmuch as many have"
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or Acts
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CoL 4:9-14 . &; Demas"
24 Luke,my
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c)
Acts 16:10-17
Acts 20:
Acts 27: 1-28 (Voyage to Italy)
2. We see the distinctiveness his
writings.
a) Luke &; Acts longer than Paul's
13.
b) Virtually 1/4 of NT.
c) Dates vary AD 67-80 vs
AD 56-58.
d) Matthew &; Mark earlier
e) Never expressed disapproval of
what he saw in earlier MMS.
3. Was he?
a) One of 70--he tells this only.
b) Gentile Doctor--yet assumed no
greatness.
c) Never uses Rabbi.
d) Did not claim to be an eye
witness.