Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus.

Welcome back everyone to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is

Stephanie Boyle's and I get the privilege of being your companion through

the Book of Luke. Today we are going over chapters 1 through 3. In the very first

paragraph of chapter 1, we get a lot of background information. It's a prologue of sorts. Luke, the author, addresses the person he's writing to, a man named Theophilus, and he tells Theophilus that he was going to give an orderly account of Jesus's life and ministry. You may be wondering, who is Theophilus?

Considering Luke addressed him as most excellent, it is highly likely that Theophilus was a Roman

Dignitary who was also a follower of Jesus.

Luke tells Theophilus that he is compiling a narrative of the things that were done in and

through Jesus.

The information was a compilation of words given from eyewitnesses,

primarily the Apostles. Luke may not have witnessed every single event in this account

himself, but we know that his words are infallible because

ultimately these are God's words. Luke was divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit.

So with that, let's look over the events in chapters one through three.

If you stand back and consider the contents in chapters one through three,

you'll notice a few things. First, you'll notice that the focus is on two people, John the Baptist and Jesus.

In chapter one we see a sort of parallel sequence between the two.

First is the enunciation or the announcement of the conception of John the Baptist by the angel Gabriel.

Zachariah, John's dad, was a priest and he was selected by lot to enter the

holy place to tend to the incense. There the angel tells him that his wife Elizabeth, though old and

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