Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the group Third Day singing the old hymn … Blessed Assurance … poignantly and powerfully declaring the reality of a faith in Christ which we can trust as fact … not fancy.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Luke 1:3-4 [NLT] …
3 Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write an accurate account for you, most honorable Theophilus, 4 so you can be certain of the truth of everything you were taught.
… Luke, being a physician, knew of the importance of careful observation and documentation of the historical facts; and he so recorded them in his gospel journal and in the historical writings in the book of Acts for all who came after him to read the truth about Jesus as THE CHRIST!
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Highlight Passage [context]: Luke 1:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Luke wrote his gospel account as a letter to a friend so that this man, and all who came after him, would know of the FACTS and TRUTH about Jesus, the Christ.
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Reference Passage #1 [NLT] : … Acts 1:1-3 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… The journal in the book of Acts, which was written as a letter to the same friend as Luke’s gospel account, was the Physician’s careful attempt to document the spread of Christ’s gospel throughout the known world.
Reference Passage #2 [NLT] : … 2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … … The Apostle Paul declares and documents the accuracy of known Scripture for the young preacher, Timothy, and for all of us as well. Scripture is truth for us to know how it helps us in living our lives. the way God intended.
Reference Passage #3 [NLT] : … 1st John 5:13 [NLT] …
13 I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.
… The Apostle John wrote his letter to Christians to help them KNOW, beyond a doubt, that they could be confident in their salvation thru belief in King Jesus. Take in the linked song declaring that confidence.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Tim Gustafson, related a rather fanciful, but personal, tale of his early childhood, … a story about his tricycle being parked over a poisonous cobra. Go figure!! But later Gustafson writes of his tale being corroborated by a family letter. So, fancy became fact in relating this tale to others. You can read about it in the link to today’s ODB [linked in the Blogger Note below].
For the Gospel writer and historian, Luke, it was important that the accounts of Jesus, as THE CHRIST, be transmitted accurately to his friends and fellow Christians. He was a physician, who knew of the importance of an accurate record of true accounts (see photo of a medical record). And so, he wrote a journal of the historical FACTS about Jesus; and we have that accurate record in the books of Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, … documentation of the gospel facts about Jesus.
Other New Testament writers also set out their documentation of the accuracy of Scripture (involving both Old and New Testaments) to help Christians following them to know that belief in Christ as King Jesus was no fanciful faith, but rather accurate and believable facts (see 2Tim. 3:16-17 and 1st John 5:13). As Christians, we don’t have to have a “blind faith.” No, … our faith is based on historical and accurate accounts of the Son of God, coming to save mankind from our own sin.
And we’re so indebted to men like the Gospel writers and called ones, like the Apostles, who documented TRUTH in the New Testament, … which BTW, these accounts have never been refuted by a historical or archeological evidence.
Brothers and Sisters, reading here … our Bible is the REAL DEAL!!!
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … We are blessed by a faith in You as the true Son of God … our Savior and Lord. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled Our Daily Bread, distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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