The Heart of God | Who Is Jesus
The most important question you can ask if you’re considering or reconsidering faith in Jesus: Is Matthew, Mark, Luke OR John a RELIABLE account of ACTUAL events?
Luke is documenting Jesus’ paradigm-shifting, culturally offensive, liberating, dignifying, hope-giving, TEACHING and MIRACLES.
Luke 15:1-31 (pg. 1,623)
v.1: “Now the TAX COLLECTORS and SINNERS were all GATHERING around to HEAR Jesus.”
v.2: “But the PHARISEES and the TEACHERS of the law muttered, this man WELCOMES sinners and EATS with them.”
Both groups are CONFUSED about what GOD is like.
v.4: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and LOSES one of them.”
v.8: “Or suppose a WOMAN has ten silver coins and LOSES one.”
v.11: “There was a man who had TWO SONS.”
v.12: “The younger one said to his father, Father, GIVE ME MY SHARE of the estate. So he DIVIDED his property between them.”
v.17: “When he came to his SENSES he said, How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!”
Jesus is about to explain:
WHAT God the Father is like.
WHO God the Father, likes.
v.18: “I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have SINNED against HEAVEN and against YOU.”
This is WHY Jesus came.
Not so that we would have ANSWERS to all our QUESTIONS about God.
So we could KNOW enough to have a RELATIONSHIP with the living God.
v.24: “For this son of mine was DEAD and is ALIVE again; he was LOST and is FOUND.”