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Luke 6:12-19 The Lord Jesus prayed all night before he named his disciples . Here is a precedent for the Christian life. Before any great decisions be made spend time in prayer. If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God. The Lord Jesus never lacked wisdom, but still he prayed all night before he named his disciples. He waited upon the will of his heavenly Father. This is our example. Prayer comes...

Luke 6:1-5 The Lord Jesus and his disciples went through fields and ate produce. This was on a Sabbath day so they were criticized by the religious leaders. The religious leaders said they were breaking the law because they picked up food from a field on the Sabbath day. This might seem ridiculous to us today but it was a serious accusation then. People were stoned to death for breaking the Sabbat...

Luke 5:27-39 The Lord Jesus called the publican Levi to follow him. This same Levi was Matthew. He immediately left everything and followed the Lord Jesus. He invited the Lord Jesus to his house and threw a party for him and his friends. These friends were publicans and sinners. The Lord Jesus sat down with them and no doubt some came to faith in Christ. However, religious folk criticized the Lord...

Luke 5:12-16 The background of leprosy in the Bible can be found in Leviticus 13 and 14. God provided instructions for Israel on how to deal with this problem. There were examples in the Old Testament of people who were infected with this disease and healed by God. Naaman the Syrian and Miriam the sister of Moses were infected with leprosy and healed by God. This disease was seen by people as God'...

Luke 5:1-11 The crowd was so great that the Lord Jesus resorted to a boat and preached from the water. The boat belonged to Simon, a fisherman, who confessed that he fished all night and caught nothing. At the word of the Lord Jesus, however, he put down his net and caught more fish than he could haul in. He requested help from his fellow fishermen to haul in the great catch. As a result, Simon kn...

Luke 4:38-44 The Lord Jesus went into the house of Peter's mother-in-law. He healed her of a fever and she immediately got up and served others. We see a pattern when the Lord Jesus touched a person's life. When a person is saved, healed, delivered, and set free they serve others. This is an automatic response to the influence of the Lord Jesus Christ on a person's life. The person who meets the L...

Luke 4:31-37 The Lord Jesus demonstrated his authority to drive out demons. The Lord Jesus went to Capernaum and taught them on the Sabbath days. The people were amazed because his word was with power. There was a man in the church who had a demon and cried with a loud voice. The Lord Jesus rebuked the demon and drove it out of the man. Everyone was amazed and the word spread all over the country....

Luke 4:14-30 The beginning of the ministry of the Lord Jesus was met with complete rejection from his family and hometown. After the temptations in the wilderness the Lord Jesus returned to the town where he grew up. In Nazareth he went to the synagogue and read from the prophet Isaiah. He quoted a prophecy which was fulfilled that day in the Lord Jesus. He was and is the fulfillment of prophecy....

Luke 4:1-13 The Lord Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness for forty days. During this time the Lord Jesus was tempted by the devil. Forty days reminds me of the forty years that Israel was in the wilderness and tested. There are a lot of parallels in scripture like this. This is one way the Holy Spirit teaches us spiritual lessons. Testing and walkin...

Luke 3:1-38 I'm taking this whole chapter at once because most of the second half of this chapter is a list of the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ. This genealogy is important but I'm not going to focus much on that in my notes here. Instead, I will focus on the ministry of John the Baptist in the first half of the chapter. Just as Gabriel and Zacharias prophesied the baby John grew up to becom...

Luke 2:22-40 In these scriptures we see angels from the Lord announcing the arrival of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Angels appeared to Zacharias, Mary, and to shepherds. Here we see the proclamation of the Son of God was given to two prophets who were in the temple when Joseph and Mary brought the child there to present him to the Lord. The first prophet was Simeon. He was glad to see the c...

Luke 2:1-7 The account of the birth of Jesus Christ was contained within a historical context. Luke recorded the names of Caesar Augustus, and Cyrenias. He described the Roman tax edict which forced people to relocate temporarily to their hometown. Through this movement of the government the Lord fulfilled his word that the Lord Jesus would be born in the city of Bethlehem. The King of kings and L...

Luke 1:46-56 Mary's response to the greeting of Elizabeth was to give praise and honor and glory to God. From her innermost being she gave praise to God and rejoiced in the Lord. She acknowledged it was the Lord who chose her and that she had done nothing to commend herself to God. It was the Lord who singled her out for the blessing of being the mother of the Messiah. She realized that all genera...

Luke 1:26-38 Six months after Gabriel appeared to Zacharias at the temple he also appeared to Mary. He told her that she would have a son and his name would be called Jesus. Gabriel told Mary that Jesus would be great and would be called the Son of the Highest and that the Lord God would give him the throne of his father David. He would reign over the house of Jacob and his kingdom would have no e...

Luke 1:1-4 Luke dedicated this historical record of the life of Jesus Christ to his friend Theophilus. From the way this dedication was worded we assume Theophilus was an important person. Evidently he was a Christian and knew Luke in some capacity. Luke wrote this account of the life of Jesus Christ to help Theophilus and also provided a document which was included in the canon of the Holy Bible....

The Resurrection – Mark 16 The gospel of Mark is an abbreviated synopsis of events which were further expanded on in Matthew and Luke. The Lord Jesus first appeared to Mary out of whom he he had previously cast out demons. He appeared to this Mary of Magdalene. She then related to the disciples that the Lord Jesus was alive. The disciples did not believe her testimony. The Lord Jesus appeared to t...

The Crucifixion, Death, and Burial of Jesus – Mark 15 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, " For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures " After the unlawful trial the Lord Jesus endured he was handed over to Pilate by the religious leaders....

Betrayed, Arrested, Denied – Mark 14 Mark 14:27-28, " And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee. " In this chapter the Lord Jesus was betrayed by Judas, he was arrested, and he was denied by Peter. The Lord knew these thing...

The Last Days – Mark 13 The disciples thought the buildings were a big deal and pointed it out to the Lord Jesus. His reply was that all the buildings would be destroyed. This inspired the disciples to think about about the end of the world because they questioned him about this. The Lord Jesus responded to them and went into great detail. Some things he covered included symptoms of the last days...

The Lord Jesus Examined – Mark 12 The Lord Jesus told a parable the Pharisees could understand. It was a parable that they guessed correctly that the Lord Jesus implied that they were villains. The villains in the story were thieves and murderers and this was what the Lord Jesus thought about the religious leaders. The religious leaders had some trick questions for the Lord Jesus. They questioned...

Have Faith In God – Mark 11 The Lord Jesus went to Jerusalem and Calvary. Up until this specific time whenever the Lord Jesus healed people he told them not to tell others. He kept things private as possible and seemed to move around undercover when he could. He didn't want to attract attention. Now this changed as he headed toward Jerusalem and Calvary. The common people and children were happy t...

Son of David – Mark 10 The Lord Jesus corrected people on several areas and situations which arose as they traveled. These subjects included divorce, God's attitude toward children, and those things which hinder a person from having a right relationship with God. The Lord Jesus said divorce was wrong and said in the beginning God created a man and a woman to be together for life. There was no divo...

The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ – Mark 9 Could it be possible the Heavenly Father allowed this transfiguration to encourage the Lord Jesus? It seemed that shortly thereafter he was very focused on what was coming up. He told his disciples point blank what would happen. He told them he would be betrayed and killed and rise again the third day. They did not understand what the Lord Jesus said an...

Taking Up The Cross – Mark 8 Yeast represented the mixing of sin and unbelief with external religious practice in contrast to a heartfelt faith and obedience to the Lord. The disciples saw powerful miracles the Lord Jesus did such as the feeding of thousands with only a few loaves and fish. However, they had difficulty applying the truth behind these miracles to their lives. The parting of the Red...

Confronting The Religious Leaders – Mark 7 The religious leaders tried to correct the Lord Jesus. They said his disciples did not follow the religious traditions of washing hands before eating. The Lord Jesus turned the tables on them and corrected them for following the traditions of men rather than God's commandments. The religious leaders worried because the followers of Jesus did not wash thei...