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Well, I was thankful for your presents.

This morning were thankful that we can take the opportunities to think about Jesus, probably in ways.

We have not imagined before.

But we're going to do that through this program that we have going to be a year-long discussion about Jesus and his life and hope that you will come and learn more about Jesus.

Hope that you can bring your friends and your neighbors.

Even young ones to learn more about Jesus.

I know that.

there's many, many children today are ignorant of Jesus because they have never been to church.

And they've never understood who Jesus was and what he came to do for each and every person.

So it would be good to have young children.

Come to learn more about Jesus.

And so as we think about this particular story or thinking about The Greatest Story Ever Told, I think, when it comes to around Easter time, they usually have the Ten Commandments and they call that the greatest story.

But this is The Greatest Story Ever Told and it concerns Jesus, the Christ Jesus, the Christ.

Jesus and Christ is not his last name.

That's a description.

He's the Messiah.

The anointed one is what that word.

Really means Jesus the anointed.

And so, we think about Jesus, we think about all that he's done for us, and we've been studying this morning in Bible class his life prior to his ministry.

Remember he had a three-year Ministry it when she had to accomplish all that.

He could accomplish to get men and women ready for the new hero, which would be the Christian era and or the gospel era and the era of the church church would be established.

And then it would be the responsibility of the church to Proclaim Jesus the Christ.

And the church is not this for walled area.

It's you and me and each of us have a responsibility to share the gospel message with others, and to keep sharing that message.

And so when we teach them, hopefully they'll begin to learn and I'll be able to teach others also is Paul says in 2nd, Timothy Chapter 2 and verse two.

And so that's the way the church was designed to grow and eat successful generation has that responsibility.

So as you think about The Greatest Story, Ever Told, we're thinking about the idea that it's great.

It's great.

Because first of all, it's about Jesus.

It's great because the message that is an eternal message has impact on our eternity until therefore.

It's a great, great message.

It's a great story and we need to understand just how significant it really is.

And so it will be looking at from the Gospel of Luke this morning.

Luke is representative.

If you will of the four gospels, each one, being a little bit different and that Matthew Mark and Luke are called the synoptic gospels in that, they maintain basically the same information of with a little difference among each of them.

But job, the Gospel of John is a book that is quite different than the other three.

So the synoptic gospels, share the same information.

So we'll just be looking at Luke this morning to make things a little bit easier for us.

But as we think about the gospel, let me think about its many facets to it.

Think about what Paul said in 1st Timothy Chapter 3 beginning and verse 16, You said, God was manifested in the flesh.

He was justified in the spirit.

He was seen by angels.

He was preached among the Gentiles.

He was believed on in the world and was received up in glory.

And if you will, that's the summary of the gospel.

Paul just gives this that wonderful summary that we can take the hard, but there's a lot of points in between that we're going to be filling in as we go through this particular study.

And as we begin this morning, we're going to taking a look at the beginning of the Book of Luke.

Luke chapter 1 beginning and verse 1 through 4. It's called a prologue.

Is prologue.

Is the beginning Point, basically.

Look the setting up what he's going to ride about and to whom he's riding.

And so he supplies this information for us, Lucas a position.

He's a Christian.

He's a worker or a servant of Jesus Christ.

He's not an apostle, but he is a servant of Christ and he was called upon to write this particular the pistol.

So here's what Luke record.

He says, as much as many have taken in hand, to set an order, a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled Among Us.

Just as those who from the beginning, where I witness Witnesses and Ministers of the word delivered them to us.

Having had perfect understanding of all the things from the very first to ride to you and orderly account.

Most excellent Theophilus that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed as we pointed out in the beginning of our Bible class.

This was the point of for his writing, this book about Jesus, and as he's riding the prologue, he's pointing out some things.

I think that are important for us to understand At the time of his riding, you were many who took to writing about the events of Jesus Christ and about the events of the growth of the church.

And so Lucas riding after all, after the fact he's writing some years after even the establishment of the church.

And so he's not riding at the time that these events took place after.

So while Jesus had already been resurrected, had gone back to heaven, the church was established and it was on your way people took to writing.

And so if you or a member of the Jerusalem Church and many there in the city of Jerusalem, were scribes, those who took to writing about different things.

Many people took journals and wrote about those.

In fact, we have manuscripts written by scribes and just simply from people who Attending church services.

Let tell us things about the first-century church and about the first century people.

And so all of this was going on and evidently there was some error involved with some of the writing, it caused some confusion, among the Christians, and so Luke decides that he's going to write this in an orderly manner.

Chronologically.

And so he's going to say an orderly account.

And he's riding this to a man, by the name of Theophilus.

Literally, the name means lover of God, and he's writing to him because he has a little bit confused because he understands what the apostles are saying, but then, he's been reading the material that's been circulating for a number of years.

Put out by many Brethren and some of the things don't match up.

So he's confused and I'm sure he's been in a discussion with Luke.

So Luke decides to write an orderly account for him.

But he's writing to him but for us.

It's all the sacred scripture of Luke.

It's certainly part of the cannon, part of the scripture or what we call the sacred writings.

So, this is the reason why he's putting forth this particular letter that you may know that certainty of these things.

Now he's research this, he's 10.

He's looked at some of the, the writings of the people.

And he's gone back and he's talked with some of the Apostles.

Remember, he said that he was going back to those who were eyewitnesses of these things that who were Ministers of the word and those were the apostles.

And so he's getting the information from them and he's getting information from what was written and he's putting it all together in this letter and he does so in an orderly fashion.

So as we look at what we just read, there's a basic body of beliefs available to all the first century church that were written down by individuals individuals like you.

Get all, you may come here, some people come and they take notes and and when they died those notes fell to the ground or we're in some container and then two thousand years later somebody, stumbles across this container and they find your nose.

It's so those notes.

Give a glimpse of the church in the first century.

And so, a lot of the writings that are found are those types of writings, in addition to the manuscripts of the books of the Bible.

So it gives us a lot of information.

So at the time there was riding that was going on.

And some of those people would, they didn't have recordings video recordings, that didn't have CDs, DVDs, didn't have two sets.

Two didn't have record players.

They didn't have all of that.

So they had to rely upon people riding.

And these scribes would write down just about everything.

And then he talks again about the eyewitnesses and servants were ministers.