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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 1)

November 1, 2025 | 30:10

Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 1)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 1) | November 1, 2025
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  • Andy stanley: hi, everybody, welcome to "your move" where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley and i'll be your guide, and today's episode
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  • Is for those of you who have lost your faith and you miss it
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  • And you'd like to get it back.
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  • If that's you, i think i can help.
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  • Stick around.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: here is what might be an uncomfortable question for some
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  • Of us and an interesting and maybe even helpful and
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  • Surprisingly honest question for others of us.
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  • When it comes to knowing if there is a god, and if there is
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  • A god, what god is like, and when it comes to trying to
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  • Figure out who god likes, does it really come down to the bible
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  • Tells us so?
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  • Or any other religious literature tells us so?
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  • I mean, we're modern people, rational people.
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  • Are we really expected to believe what we believe or
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  • Believe anything based on a collection of ancient
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  • Manuscripts written by potentially dozens of men only,
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  • Who didn't even know each other, over the course of hundreds and
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  • Hundreds of years, in a world without science in the way that
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  • We think of modern science, and in a world where everybody
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  • Believed in the gods or some kind of god?
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  • I mean, let's just be honest, all right?
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  • Weren't they just making stuff up?
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  • I mean, weren't they just guessing?
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  • Should we really be surprised that modern people, it seems
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  • More and more, are kind of dismissing faith in general or
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  • Deconstructing their faith, the terminology that we use now, and
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  • We begin to ask really hard questions or what seem to be
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  • Hard questions about faith and realize we don't really
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  • Have answers?
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  • And it's not that we're sure that we're right, that religion
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  • Is wrong, but because we're not sure that religion is right, we
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  • Just kind of step back and it's like i'm just--i'm not sure
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  • About that anymore.
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  • I mean, should we be surprised more and more people are doing
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  • That or to make it personal, should we be surprised that
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  • Perhaps that's where you are, or are you surprised that that's
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  • Where you are?
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  • That maybe you're in the process of walking away or you just have
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  • So many questions you're starting to lean away or maybe
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  • You're listening or watching today and honestly, nobody in
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  • Your family knows this yet, but you have your hand on
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  • The doorknob.
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  • I mean, you're about to step away and outside of faith, and
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  • You're not sure how your family's gonna respond, your
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  • Friends are gonna respond, maybe even your employer is gonna
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  • Respond, but you're just kind of leaning that way.
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  • And if, you know, all there is to this is the bible tells us
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  • So, then we shouldn't be surprised, and you should be
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  • Honest with yourself.
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  • I mean, if in fact, the christian faith balances
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  • Precariously on the edge of ancient declarations of
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  • Superstitious men, well then, why not?
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  • Why not?
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  • But as it turns out, christians are not expected to believe what
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  • We believe based on a collection of ancient manuscripts written
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  • By men who never met each other over the course of hundreds of
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  • Years in a time when everybody was superstitious and everybody
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  • Believed in the gods and there was no modern science--
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  • That the foundation of our faith, and we talk about this a
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  • Lot here.
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  • The foundation of our faith is far more substantial than that.
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  • It's far more sustainable than that.
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  • It's even, as we're gonna discover, it's
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  • Even investigable.
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  • Investigable, which means we are invited to kick the tires.
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  • And you're invited to ask those hard questions, and as those of
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  • Us who are christians, we don't have to look the other way and
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  • Shrug and go, i don't know, it's a mystery.
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  • You know, as soon as we start talking about faith, we just
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  • Have to take it by faith, but the christian faith does not
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  • Rise and fall based on the accuracy or the inerrancy of 66
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  • Ancient documents that we call books of the bible.
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  • It rises and falls on the identity of a single individual,
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  • Jesus of nazareth.
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  • So if you're curious about faith and you're moving in the
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  • Direction of faith, or you're curious about faith and you're
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  • Returning to faith, or you find that you're kind of losing
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  • Faith, or you're losing your interest in faith, here's the
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  • Question that you should wrestle with.
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  • And the question to wrestle with is not, is there a god or is the
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  • Bible true?
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  • The question to ask when it comes to "is christianity
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  • Something even worth taking seriously or even worth
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  • Considering?" the question is this: is matthew, mark, luke,
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  • Or, not and, or john, a reliable account of actual events?
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  • This is the issue.
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  • This is the question when it comes to christianity.
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  • Is matthew, the gospel of matthew, mark, luke, or john,
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  • Any one of the four, a reliable account of actual events?
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  • Because if any one of these four is an actual account, or
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  • Reliable account of actual events, then what they say about
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  • Jesus of nazareth is true.
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  • And if what they say about jesus of nazareth is true, game on,
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  • Faith on.
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  • You should press on.
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  • You should lean in.
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  • For those of you who are jesus followers, your faith is not
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  • In vain.
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  • Now, the reason that this is so confusing for so many of us is
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  • The way that the bible was first introduced to us.
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  • And so to help you understand that, i need a timeline.
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  • But i can't draw.
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  • So anyway, so i asked my friend joel thomas if he would come and
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  • Draw one for me.
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  • Okay, so this is super-important, okay?
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  • Here is, and if you don't hear anything else today, okay,
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  • Remember if you need something on a chalkboard, joel thomas--
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  • No, if you don't hear anything else today, this is the story of
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  • The christian faith in a nutshell, okay?
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  • There was an event, we talk about this, the resurrection of
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  • Jesus, and immediately following the resurrection of jesus, there
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  • Was a new movement.
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  • It was called a nazarene sect.
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  • It was called the way.
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  • It was the ecclesia or the gathering of jesus that
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  • Eventually was called the church.
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  • And immediately upon these events happening, people who
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  • Were involved in the story actually documented the events
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  • For us.
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  • This is where we get the gospels of matthew, mark, luke, john,
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  • And the book of acts.
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  • And all of this happened in the first century.
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  • In fact, all of this it could be argued, i would argue
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  • Persuasively, that all of this happened before 70 ad, before
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  • The temple in jerusalem was destroyed.
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  • So within 35 years or 40 if you stretch it, from the time of
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  • Jesus, something happened, it started a movement, and the
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  • Movement was documented, you know, as in written down,
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  • Documented, by the people who were part of the movement.
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  • And then 300-plus years later, the first bible was assembled.
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  • Now, the reason, and we'll talk more about this in just a
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  • Minute, the reason this is important is this.
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  • The story of jesus is not a bible story.
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  • The story of jesus or the narrative or the life of jesus
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  • Is why there is a bible.
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  • Jesus is the reason for the bible.
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  • So when we were growing up, somebody gave us the bible, and
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  • There's all kind of story about david and goliath, and that's so
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  • Cool, and then a story about a red sea, that's so cool.
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  • And then you get to the parts about jesus, and i'm not even
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  • Not sure i understand that, but the miracles, you know, that's
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  • So cool.
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  • And before we know it, the story of jesus is a bible story, it's
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  • A story in the bible.
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  • You need to understand, if there had been no resurrection, there
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  • Would have been no church, and if there was no church, there
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  • Was nobody to document the story of the resurrection because the
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  • Resurrection never happened.
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  • Apart from the resurrection of jesus, there is no bible, and as
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  • We're gonna see, the bible only became a collection of these
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  • Extraordinary ancient documents because of what happened in the
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  • Church in the 300 years following the first century.
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  • So if even one of--if even one of the gospels or the accounts
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  • Of jesus's life is true, then you need to lean in.
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  • Okay, enough of that.
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  • It's making me jealous.
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  • All right, here we go.
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  • You can take that.
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  • So here's the point.
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  • Here's what we're gonna do.
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  • For the next few weeks, we're gonna explore one of those
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  • Accounts of the life of jesus.
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  • We're gonna explore the gospel of luke.
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  • It was named for its author, luke.
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  • Luke was not one of jesus's disciples, but as we're gonna
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  • Discover, he knew jesus's disciples and had conversations
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  • With jesus's disciples and james, the brother of jesus.
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  • And the reason i introduced the whole series and the message the
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  • Way i did is because when we open the gospel of luke, this is
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  • Kind of how luke introduces his audience to the life in this
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  • Account of jesus.
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  • Now, we don't know how many times luke wrote and rewrote the
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  • Introduction to his account of the life of jesus, but some of
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  • You are writers and i'm a writer, and when you're writing
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  • Something important, that first line is so important, isn't it?
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  • So here is the first chapter, the first verse, and the first
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  • Word of the gospel of luke.
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  • He writes, "many."
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  • Many.
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  • Now, how many is many?
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  • Four?
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  • Is four many?
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  • Four doesn't seem like many.
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  • Forty?
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  • Well, it depends on what we're talking about, right?
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  • Listen to how he begins his gospel.
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  • This isn't once upon a time, this isn't a fairy tale, this
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  • Isn't something he made up.
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  • This is certainly not how you begin a lie.
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  • He says, "many have undertaken to draw up an account of the
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  • Things that have been fulfilled among us."
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  • He says, now what i'm about to tell you, i'm not the first
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  • Person to try to get this out right.
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  • Many people have endeavored to draw up an account of the things
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  • That have, literally, happened or been fulfilled right here
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  • Among us.
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  • Quick question, don't answer this out loud.
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  • Do you know how many will undertake to draw up an account
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  • Of your life?
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  • Not--not many.
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  • That's how many, okay?
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  • The only people that are gonna even know you existed or knew i
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  • Existed after our grandkids are not many, unless you do
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  • Something extraordinarily great or extraordinarily
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  • Horrible, okay?
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  • But not many people are gonna write up an account of our life
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  • And luke tells us, he's like, "hey, i'm starting this thing
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  • Out, but you need to know i'm not the only one doing this.
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  • Many people have endeavored to get this down in such a way that
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  • People can understand and experience through what's
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  • Written, what has happened right here."
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  • Now listen, check it out.
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  • There are not many--not many people even undertook to draw up
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  • The accounts of the lives of famous people from ancient times
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  • Or especially the first century.
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  • I mean, tiberius caesar, who was, you know, caesar during the
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  • Life of jesus, we--there's not a storyline.
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  • You have to piece it together.
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  • Pilate, there's virtually nothing.
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  • Even herod the great, who, you know, josephus gives us a
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  • Storyline and, you know, almost a moment by moment account of
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  • The life of herod the great, but other than josephus, that's it.
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  • And herod the great did extraordinary things, but
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  • There's just one.
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  • But that should cause us to ask a question: why in the world
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  • Would luke bother?
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  • I mean, he's a busy guy, lots going on, okay?
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  • I mean, food is scarce.
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  • This is the first century.
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  • Why in the world would he bother to bring us a detailed account
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  • Of a galilean day laborer turned rabbi that was executed by rome
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  • Who was, again, rejected by his own people and rejected by
  • 00:11:18.162 --> 00:11:21.198
  • The empire?
  • 00:11:21.198 --> 00:11:22.533
  • Why even tell us the story?
  • 00:11:22.533 --> 00:11:24.034
  • Why is that even a story worth telling?
  • 00:11:24.034 --> 00:11:26.670
  • And why would others try to tell us that story as well?
  • 00:11:26.670 --> 00:11:30.908
  • Going back to the first word of his gospel, why so many?
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  • Why would one even tell us the story?
  • 00:11:35.479 --> 00:11:37.681
  • Why would there be four?
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  • Why would there be many?
  • 00:11:39.049 --> 00:11:40.751
  • And the answer is simple, because something extraordinary
  • 00:11:40.751 --> 00:11:45.156
  • Happened, something that had implications for
  • 00:11:45.156 --> 00:11:48.159
  • Future generations.
  • 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.427
  • But it wasn't just extraordinary.
  • 00:11:50.427 --> 00:11:52.496
  • Something good had happened.
  • 00:11:52.496 --> 00:11:55.666
  • Something good had happened on behalf of not just the people in
  • 00:11:55.666 --> 00:11:59.069
  • Judea and galilee.
  • 00:11:59.069 --> 00:12:00.437
  • Something had happened that was good for--on behalf of people
  • 00:12:00.437 --> 00:12:03.174
  • For the whole world, and somebody had to tell it.
  • 00:12:03.174 --> 00:12:09.146
  • He writes, "many--many have undertaken to draw up an account
  • 00:12:09.146 --> 00:12:11.949
  • Of the things that have been fulfilled among us."
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  • Not among them.
  • 00:12:14.552 --> 00:12:16.320
  • This happened--this is why you gotta pay attention.
  • 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.756
  • This happened in his lifetime.
  • 00:12:18.756 --> 00:12:21.392
  • Ancient history was often written by people who lived long
  • 00:12:21.392 --> 00:12:24.895
  • After the events, and they would cobble together the different
  • 00:12:24.895 --> 00:12:27.598
  • Writings and quotes and try to put together, you know, an
  • 00:12:27.598 --> 00:12:30.000
  • Account of what happened.
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  • But very, very rarely do we have anyone who actually lived during
  • 00:12:31.902 --> 00:12:35.706
  • The time of the person they write about.
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  • Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address a growing
  • 00:12:38.776 --> 00:12:41.612
  • Crisis in america.
  • 00:12:41.612 --> 00:12:42.947
  • Did you know that nearly 75 million americans have no
  • 00:12:42.947 --> 00:12:46.250
  • Religious affiliation, none whatsoever?
  • 00:12:46.250 --> 00:12:48.619
  • Most of us know some of these people.
  • 00:12:48.619 --> 00:12:50.054
  • Many of us are related to some of these people.
  • 00:12:50.054 --> 00:12:52.056
  • So for us, they aren't statistics, they're people we
  • 00:12:52.056 --> 00:12:54.892
  • Love and would love to see return to faith in jesus.
  • 00:12:54.892 --> 00:12:58.062
  • So at "your move," we are committed to reaching people
  • 00:12:58.062 --> 00:13:00.998
  • With the teaching of jesus right where they are and when they
  • 00:13:00.998 --> 00:13:04.268
  • Least expect it.
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  • We use a research-backed digital strategy that's already making
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  • A difference.
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  • So if you'll stick around after today's message, we would love
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  • To tell you more about it or visit the website or call the
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  • Number on your screen to learn how you can be a part of this
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  • Revolutionary approach to introducing and reintroducing
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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: luke, as we're gonna discover, and if you read the
  • 00:13:24.355 --> 00:13:26.123
  • Book of acts, he actually knew the men and women who played key
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  • Roles in the story of jesus.
  • 00:13:29.226 --> 00:13:31.495
  • He goes on.
  • 00:13:31.495 --> 00:13:32.830
  • "many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that
  • 00:13:32.830 --> 00:13:34.598
  • Have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to
  • 00:13:34.598 --> 00:13:37.735
  • Us by those," ready for this, "who from the first," in other
  • 00:13:37.735 --> 00:13:41.572
  • Words, when this thing first began, "were eyewitnesses and
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  • Servants of the word."
  • 00:13:44.808 --> 00:13:46.143
  • In other words, luke says, "what i'm about to tell you, i got
  • 00:13:46.143 --> 00:13:48.979
  • From the eyewitnesses.
  • 00:13:48.979 --> 00:13:50.614
  • I talked to the people who were there," and sure enough, read
  • 00:13:50.614 --> 00:13:53.017
  • The book of acts.
  • 00:13:53.017 --> 00:13:54.351
  • He knew peter, he knew john, he knew james, the brother
  • 00:13:54.351 --> 00:13:55.886
  • Of jesus.
  • 00:13:55.886 --> 00:13:57.254
  • He said, "i have interviewed everybody i can because i wanted
  • 00:13:57.254 --> 00:13:59.690
  • To make sure there's at least one account that covers all
  • 00:13:59.690 --> 00:14:02.860
  • The bases."
  • 00:14:02.860 --> 00:14:04.194
  • Then he says this: "with this in mind--with this in mind, since
  • 00:14:04.194 --> 00:14:06.764
  • I myself have carefully investigated."
  • 00:14:06.764 --> 00:14:10.067
  • Parakoloutheo, one greek word, "carefully investigated."
  • 00:14:10.067 --> 00:14:14.605
  • In other words, it means having carefully followed along or
  • 00:14:14.605 --> 00:14:18.275
  • Having closely paid attention to the events.
  • 00:14:18.275 --> 00:14:21.712
  • I myself have done all the research i can, talked to
  • 00:14:21.712 --> 00:14:25.182
  • Everybody i can.
  • 00:14:25.182 --> 00:14:26.517
  • "i too have investigated everything from the beginning."
  • 00:14:26.517 --> 00:14:30.587
  • This is not once upon a time.
  • 00:14:30.587 --> 00:14:33.090
  • This is not a bible story.
  • 00:14:33.090 --> 00:14:35.926
  • This is luke telling us what happened in his lifetime, and it
  • 00:14:35.926 --> 00:14:39.396
  • Had to be told.
  • 00:14:39.396 --> 00:14:41.031
  • He says, "with this in mind-- with this in mind, i myself have
  • 00:14:41.031 --> 00:14:43.701
  • Carefully investigated everything from the beginning, i
  • 00:14:43.701 --> 00:14:46.770
  • Too," along with many others.
  • 00:14:46.770 --> 00:14:48.806
  • "i too decided to write an orderly account for you."
  • 00:14:48.806 --> 00:14:55.079
  • Again, here's my point.
  • 00:14:55.079 --> 00:14:56.413
  • This is a point for the day, but it's such a big, big, big, big
  • 00:14:56.413 --> 00:14:59.283
  • Deal, especially if you're struggling with faith or moving
  • 00:14:59.283 --> 00:15:01.552
  • In the direction of faith or you're about to turn your
  • 00:15:01.552 --> 00:15:03.554
  • Back, okay?
  • 00:15:03.554 --> 00:15:05.089
  • Luke is not writing the bible.
  • 00:15:05.089 --> 00:15:09.326
  • Luke didn't have any idea there would ever be a "the bible."
  • 00:15:09.326 --> 00:15:14.131
  • Luke didn't know if his document would survive the first century.
  • 00:15:14.131 --> 00:15:17.601
  • Luke had no idea if anyone would read it other than the person
  • 00:15:17.601 --> 00:15:21.672
  • He's writing it for.
  • 00:15:21.672 --> 00:15:23.374
  • He's not writing the bible.
  • 00:15:23.374 --> 00:15:25.009
  • The gospel of luke isn't part of the bible.
  • 00:15:25.009 --> 00:15:27.144
  • The gospel of luke is something that, as we're gonna discover in
  • 00:15:27.144 --> 00:15:30.014
  • A few minutes, was included in the collection of documents that
  • 00:15:30.014 --> 00:15:33.050
  • Was eventually titled the bible because of what this story
  • 00:15:33.050 --> 00:15:36.920
  • Contained when it was written, who wrote it, and what it said
  • 00:15:36.920 --> 00:15:40.124
  • About jesus.
  • 00:15:40.124 --> 00:15:42.059
  • Luke was documenting the life and teaching of jesus, which
  • 00:15:42.059 --> 00:15:46.497
  • Means, it's important, we shouldn't take luke seriously
  • 00:15:46.497 --> 00:15:50.334
  • Because it's in the bible.
  • 00:15:50.334 --> 00:15:52.369
  • We shouldn't take the gospel of luke seriously because it's in
  • 00:15:52.369 --> 00:15:55.372
  • The bible.
  • 00:15:55.372 --> 00:15:56.707
  • Luke's account--luke's account of the life of jesus was written
  • 00:15:56.707 --> 00:15:59.476
  • 300 years before the bible was assembled, as we said a
  • 00:15:59.476 --> 00:16:02.646
  • Minute ago.
  • 00:16:02.646 --> 00:16:04.014
  • So luke's account, this is important, his account of the
  • 00:16:04.014 --> 00:16:05.783
  • Life of jesus didn't become reliable when it was placed in
  • 00:16:05.783 --> 00:16:09.953
  • The collection of documents we call the bible.
  • 00:16:09.953 --> 00:16:13.424
  • Luke's account--luke's account of the life of jesus was
  • 00:16:13.424 --> 00:16:16.260
  • Included in the bible, because luke's account was considered
  • 00:16:16.260 --> 00:16:19.530
  • Reliable, this is so important, when it was written.
  • 00:16:19.530 --> 00:16:24.268
  • Let me illustrate it this way.
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  • When you go--when you travel and you stay in a hotel, you
  • 00:16:26.003 --> 00:16:28.238
  • Decide to go out to eat, and you've got some jewelry, you got
  • 00:16:28.238 --> 00:16:30.307
  • Your ipad, you got your watch, you know, you got some stuff
  • 00:16:30.307 --> 00:16:32.676
  • That's important and you find there's a safe in the closet in
  • 00:16:32.676 --> 00:16:35.245
  • The hotel room.
  • 00:16:35.245 --> 00:16:36.847
  • This is not a trick question, don't answer out loud because
  • 00:16:36.847 --> 00:16:38.849
  • It's gonna sound like a trick question.
  • 00:16:38.849 --> 00:16:40.184
  • Do you put things in that safe to make them valuable?
  • 00:16:40.184 --> 00:16:45.055
  • Or do you put things in that safe because they're valuable?
  • 00:16:45.055 --> 00:16:50.060
  • You put them in there because they're valuable.
  • 00:16:50.060 --> 00:16:53.564
  • The safe doesn't make them valuable.
  • 00:16:53.564 --> 00:16:55.432
  • The fact that you put them in a safe is evidence of the fact
  • 00:16:55.432 --> 00:16:58.035
  • That you consider them valuable.
  • 00:16:58.035 --> 00:17:00.170
  • So here's the point.
  • 00:17:00.170 --> 00:17:01.772
  • Luke's account, this 1st century account of the life of jesus,
  • 00:17:01.772 --> 00:17:05.776
  • Was considered valuable the moment it was written.
  • 00:17:05.776 --> 00:17:10.914
  • And it was eventually placed in the collection of books we call
  • 00:17:10.914 --> 00:17:14.685
  • The bible, not to make it valuable and not to make it
  • 00:17:14.685 --> 00:17:18.155
  • True, but because it had been considered valuable and true
  • 00:17:18.155 --> 00:17:21.592
  • From the moment it was written because of when it was written
  • 00:17:21.592 --> 00:17:24.394
  • And who wrote it.
  • 00:17:24.394 --> 00:17:27.698
  • So, as you struggle, or if you're struggling with faith, or
  • 00:17:27.698 --> 00:17:30.567
  • If you ever struggle with faith and you're like, how could god
  • 00:17:30.567 --> 00:17:33.003
  • And evil in the world, and all those big questions that we
  • 00:17:33.003 --> 00:17:35.472
  • Should all be bothered by, we should all ask, again, we don't
  • 00:17:35.472 --> 00:17:38.342
  • Ever have to look the other way and just pretend and god's just
  • 00:17:38.342 --> 00:17:40.878
  • Gonna work it all out, but you know, i dare not look over there
  • 00:17:40.878 --> 00:17:43.347
  • And see what's going on with them.
  • 00:17:43.347 --> 00:17:44.715
  • When you find yourself in all of that, or if you're considering
  • 00:17:44.715 --> 00:17:48.118
  • Christianity, maybe the--for the first time or the first time
  • 00:17:48.118 --> 00:17:50.854
  • In a long time, it really comes down to this.
  • 00:17:50.854 --> 00:17:54.625
  • Is luke lying?
  • 00:17:54.625 --> 00:17:57.427
  • Is he lying?
  • 00:17:57.427 --> 00:17:59.062
  • Okay, he can't be mistaken.
  • 00:17:59.062 --> 00:18:00.898
  • This is when people say, "oh, he's mistaken."
  • 00:18:00.898 --> 00:18:02.299
  • No, no, no, that's what you say if you've never read the gospel
  • 00:18:02.299 --> 00:18:04.535
  • Of luke or the book of acts.
  • 00:18:04.535 --> 00:18:05.869
  • You read the gospel of luke and the book of acts, you may come
  • 00:18:05.869 --> 00:18:08.438
  • Away with all kinds of theories, but he was mistaken.
  • 00:18:08.438 --> 00:18:11.275
  • You can be mistaken about an event, and you know, you can be
  • 00:18:11.275 --> 00:18:14.978
  • Mistaken about a conversation.
  • 00:18:14.978 --> 00:18:16.880
  • You can't be mistaken about the story arc of an entire life and
  • 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:20.484
  • What happened for the next 20 years after that story ended.
  • 00:18:20.484 --> 00:18:25.355
  • He wasn't mistaken.
  • 00:18:25.355 --> 00:18:27.524
  • It comes down to this.
  • 00:18:27.524 --> 00:18:29.226
  • He either carefully investigated everything from the beginning or
  • 00:18:29.226 --> 00:18:34.498
  • He didn't.
  • 00:18:34.498 --> 00:18:36.233
  • And when you read the gospel of luke, and if you read the book
  • 00:18:36.233 --> 00:18:38.902
  • Of acts, you know what's clear?
  • 00:18:38.902 --> 00:18:40.938
  • Luke believes what he's written.
  • 00:18:40.938 --> 00:18:43.740
  • Luke is absolutely confident that what he documents actually
  • 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:48.879
  • Took place, because it's based on his conversations with the
  • 00:18:48.879 --> 00:18:53.083
  • People who were there.
  • 00:18:53.083 --> 00:18:56.019
  • Back to luke.
  • 00:18:56.019 --> 00:18:57.354
  • He says, "with this in mind, i myself have carefully
  • 00:18:57.354 --> 00:19:00.791
  • Investigated everything from the beginning, and i too decided to
  • 00:19:00.791 --> 00:19:03.160
  • Write an orderly account for you, most excellent theophilus."
  • 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.730
  • Theophilus was probably a wealthy believer who was like,
  • 00:19:06.730 --> 00:19:09.766
  • "okay, you know, i believe jesus is messiah, and i keep hearing
  • 00:19:09.766 --> 00:19:13.971
  • All these stories.
  • 00:19:13.971 --> 00:19:15.305
  • Would somebody kind of put it all together for me?"
  • 00:19:15.305 --> 00:19:17.307
  • And luke apparently wrote the gospel of luke, not for us and
  • 00:19:17.307 --> 00:19:21.111
  • Not for the world, but apparently, so this one
  • 00:19:21.111 --> 00:19:23.247
  • Gentleman he knew could read the whole thing and say, "okay, now
  • 00:19:23.247 --> 00:19:25.849
  • I think i've got it."
  • 00:19:25.849 --> 00:19:28.418
  • "i too," he says, "i too decided to write an orderly account for
  • 00:19:28.418 --> 00:19:30.988
  • You, most excellent theophilus," and this is so powerful.
  • 00:19:30.988 --> 00:19:34.625
  • And if you're wrestling with faith, you know, i get it.
  • 00:19:34.625 --> 00:19:36.827
  • I don't claim that i'd be able to answer your questions, but
  • 00:19:36.827 --> 00:19:39.062
  • This next statement is so powerful.
  • 00:19:39.062 --> 00:19:41.331
  • He said the reason i took the time to get this down, the
  • 00:19:41.331 --> 00:19:44.668
  • Reason i wrote this, is "so that you may know the certainty."
  • 00:19:44.668 --> 00:19:49.740
  • In other words, he says, i want you to know the certainty.
  • 00:19:49.740 --> 00:19:53.677
  • I want you to be secure in your knowledge "of the things that
  • 00:19:53.677 --> 00:19:57.481
  • You have been taught."
  • 00:19:57.481 --> 00:20:00.317
  • Because theophilus was a believer and he had been taught,
  • 00:20:00.317 --> 00:20:03.453
  • And luke is like, i wanna come in behind the things you've been
  • 00:20:03.453 --> 00:20:05.789
  • Taught and i wanna give it context because i want you to
  • 00:20:05.789 --> 00:20:08.859
  • Have certainty.
  • 00:20:08.859 --> 00:20:10.560
  • So that he wouldn't be left with the impression and so that you
  • 00:20:10.560 --> 00:20:13.230
  • Wouldn't be left with the impression and so that you
  • 00:20:13.230 --> 00:20:15.232
  • Wouldn't be left with the impression that christianity is
  • 00:20:15.232 --> 00:20:17.567
  • All about faith and faith.
  • 00:20:17.567 --> 00:20:19.303
  • We just gotta have faith, said not jesus, okay?
  • 00:20:19.303 --> 00:20:22.506
  • We just gotta believe stuff, said nobody who followed jesus
  • 00:20:22.506 --> 00:20:25.742
  • After the resurrection--
  • 00:20:25.742 --> 00:20:27.611
  • That christianity isn't faith and faith, and luke takes the
  • 00:20:27.611 --> 00:20:30.514
  • Time to document the life of jesus so that people in the
  • 00:20:30.514 --> 00:20:33.317
  • First century during the time when these events happened,
  • 00:20:33.317 --> 00:20:35.519
  • Would know with certainty what had happened because their faith
  • 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:39.222
  • Would be anchored to an event and ultimately to a person--
  • 00:20:39.222 --> 00:20:45.095
  • That luke wanted to ensure that our faith was anchored to that
  • 00:20:45.095 --> 00:20:50.200
  • Event, the resurrection of jesus, that as we saw earlier,
  • 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:54.137
  • Would launch the movement, the church.
  • 00:20:54.137 --> 00:20:57.341
  • And then, this was so fascinating, this is such
  • 00:20:57.341 --> 00:20:59.476
  • Fascinating history, when it was safe and when it was legal, the
  • 00:20:59.476 --> 00:21:04.214
  • Bishops came out of hiding and they put together the very first
  • 00:21:04.214 --> 00:21:08.285
  • Bible, and this is amazing to me and i, again, there's just--i
  • 00:21:08.285 --> 00:21:12.356
  • Don't even know how to put words around this.
  • 00:21:12.356 --> 00:21:14.091
  • Think about luke.
  • 00:21:14.091 --> 00:21:15.425
  • He had no idea that of all the many that were written and all
  • 00:21:15.425 --> 00:21:19.596
  • The many that were attempted to be written, that his would be
  • 00:21:19.596 --> 00:21:22.399
  • One of four that would survive.
  • 00:21:22.399 --> 00:21:25.168
  • And not only would it survive, here's what happened to it.
  • 00:21:25.168 --> 00:21:27.771
  • It was meticulously copied and then it was distributed to
  • 00:21:27.771 --> 00:21:33.110
  • Christians and little ecclesias, and some people memorized this
  • 00:21:33.110 --> 00:21:37.414
  • Entire document and then, as the years passed, it was demonized,
  • 00:21:37.414 --> 00:21:42.986
  • It was collected with other christian literature, and it
  • 00:21:42.986 --> 00:21:45.956
  • Was burned.
  • 00:21:45.956 --> 00:21:47.324
  • Toward the end of the 3rd century, the very beginning of
  • 00:21:47.324 --> 00:21:49.126
  • The 4th century, emperor diocletian, he was the last
  • 00:21:49.126 --> 00:21:51.695
  • Emperor to launch--in fact, he was really the first emperor to
  • 00:21:51.695 --> 00:21:54.164
  • Launch a, really, an empire-wide persecution of christians at the
  • 00:21:54.164 --> 00:21:59.236
  • Deepest level.
  • 00:21:59.236 --> 00:22:00.604
  • And here's what diocletian realized.
  • 00:22:00.604 --> 00:22:01.938
  • He realized the reason we can't get rid of these crazy
  • 00:22:01.938 --> 00:22:04.207
  • Christians and the reason we can't get the pagan, i mean, get
  • 00:22:04.207 --> 00:22:07.310
  • Our gods to be happy with us is because the christians aren't
  • 00:22:07.310 --> 00:22:09.880
  • Making sacrifices and now the gods are angry, but we'll never
  • 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:13.116
  • Get rid of the christians until we get rid of their literature.
  • 00:22:13.116 --> 00:22:16.086
  • So he decided not only are we gonna arrest the bishops, not
  • 00:22:16.086 --> 00:22:19.456
  • Only are we gonna shut down these little house gatherings,
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  • We're gonna collect anything that looks like religious
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  • Literature and we're going to burn it.
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  • And part of what was collected and burned were copies of the
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  • Gospel of luke.
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  • But these brave, brave, brave jesus followers in the late 3rd
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  • Century, early 4th century, they would risk and in some cases
  • 00:22:39.075 --> 00:22:43.880
  • Lose their lives, not simply over what they believed, but to
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  • Protect the sacred, sacred literature that would eventually
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  • Become part of your bible.
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  • But by the end of the 3rd century, this literature had
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  • Been so broadly distributed that even diocletian with the power
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  • Of rome could do away with all that christian literature
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  • And then something remarkable happened.
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  • Constantine became the emperor, and he allows the christians to
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  • Come out of the shadows and worship publicly.
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  • And when they come out of the shadows to worship publicly, and
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  • Their bishops and their scholars come out of the shadows, they
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  • Are able to bring for the first time in human history, this
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  • Literature that has fueled this movement that accomplished so
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  • Much in the first 300 years of christianity.
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  • And they're able to bring out copies of the gospels and copies
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  • Of the letters of paul and copies of the letter of james
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  • And in some cases they'd already been bundled together.
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  • And they'd bring these out and the empire that crucified jesus
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  • Finances--finances the assembly of the very first bible and the
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  • Very first bibles.
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  • And so now you've got the wealth of the empire, you've got the
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  • Best scholars bringing not hundreds, thousands and
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  • Thousands of these manuscripts together.
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  • And they compare and they compare and they compare and
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  • They compare and they authorize and they decided which of these
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  • Documents are more authentic and where are the differences and
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  • They put together the very first bible.
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  • You see, the stories in the bible about jesus, they're not
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  • Bible stories.
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  • The story of jesus, it's the story, it's the whole thing.
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  • If any one of the gospels reflects the reality of jesus's
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  • Life and jesus's teaching, that's enough for us to sit up
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  • Straight and pay attention because at the end of all four
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  • Gospels, jesus is crucified by rome and buried.
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  • And seen, and he rises from the dead, and it's why if you're
  • 00:24:40.564 --> 00:24:44.167
  • Starting to deconstruct your faith, i'm telling you all the
  • 00:24:44.167 --> 00:24:46.803
  • Things that have fascinated you that you've now lost your
  • 00:24:46.803 --> 00:24:49.739
  • Fascination with when it comes to faith, it really comes down
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  • To the gospels.
  • 00:24:52.375 --> 00:24:53.710
  • It comes down to one gospel and for the next few weeks, it's
  • 00:24:53.710 --> 00:24:56.313
  • Gonna come down to the gospel of luke.
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  • So, as we wrap up this first in the series, i wanna leave you
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  • With this.
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  • If you choose, and it's your choice, if you choose not to
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  • Follow jesus because it's inconvenient, i get that because
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  • It is.
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  • Following jesus will require something of you, and following
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  • Jesus will require something from you.
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  • It's gonna require you to forgive people who don't deserve
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  • To be forgiven.
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  • It's gonna require you to forgive people and you're gonna
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  • Feel like you're giving them a gift after they've already taken
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  • Something from you.
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  • Following jesus is gonna require you to be less selfish, less
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  • Full of yourself.
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  • It's--there are times when it's gonna be so
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  • Extraordinarily inconvenient.
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  • So it's gonna cost you some money.
  • 00:25:41.658 --> 00:25:44.027
  • Jesus said more about money than just about anything, way more
  • 00:25:44.027 --> 00:25:46.329
  • Than he said anything about heaven, because jesus knew that
  • 00:25:46.329 --> 00:25:48.632
  • Where your treasure is, that's where your heart is, and jesus
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  • Is after your heart.
  • 00:25:50.333 --> 00:25:51.701
  • But if it's too inconvenient, i get that.
  • 00:25:51.701 --> 00:25:54.037
  • That is somewhat of a valid reason not to follow jesus.
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  • But please, please, please don't choose not to follow jesus
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  • Because you don't think there's anything to the story of jesus.
  • 00:26:06.583 --> 00:26:10.754
  • Because, in spite of what you heard in college, and in spite
  • 00:26:10.754 --> 00:26:14.357
  • Of what you've heard in culture, there is.
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  • If you read it, and you read the book of acts, you may
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  • Be convinced.
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  • You may be convinced of this--
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  • That 2000 years ago, something extraordinary happened,
  • 00:26:27.203 --> 00:26:33.309
  • Something extraordinary for you and for your family and for us
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  • And for our culture and for our country and for every
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  • Single generation.
  • 00:26:41.685 --> 00:26:44.154
  • The story of jesus had to be told and luke chose to tell it.
  • 00:26:44.154 --> 00:26:52.562
  • And we will pick up his story of the life of jesus next time in
  • 00:26:52.562 --> 00:26:56.399
  • Part two of "investigating jesus: how we know and why
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  • We follow."
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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  • No religious affiliation.
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  • On a personal note, perhaps you found it nearly impossible to
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  • Believe that your son or your daughter or perhaps a grandchild
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  • Drifted away from faith as part of that number.
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  • This is a crisis culturally and perhaps for you it's a
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  • Crisis personally.
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  • At "your move" we are committed to addressing that crisis, we
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