Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

Have you ever looked at four portraits of the same person, taken from different vantage points, giving you different perspectives?

Well, that's what you have when you come to the first four books of the New Testament.

Now, they are four portraits, if you will, of the same person, and that person is the Lord Jesus Christ.

They are variety in unity. Now, they are different. Matthew writes

primarily to the Jewish mind. Mark writes to the Roman mind. Luke writes to the Greek mind.

John really writes to everybody, to all of mankind. The first three gospel records,

Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are commonly referred to as the synoptic

gospel records, because they give a synopsis.

You see the whole thing, a comprehensive view.

And basically, these three books cover the same ground.

John, who writes the fourth and final gospel record, writes much later, and his record is

more interpretive he gives

a great deal of spiritual insight on many of the events and records found in the first three gospel

records now why have four well it would be like looking at four sides of a pillar they all stand

together to support one main character which which is the Lord Jesus Christ.

You remember that four is the number of the earth. There are four points of the compass and four

dimensions and four seasons and four parts of the day and four material elements and four basic

members of the family unit and on and on we could go. The point is, four is the number of earth,

and these four gospel records give us a view of Christ during his earthly life and ministry.

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