LUKE: FROM BELOVED PHYSICIAN to GOSPEL HISTORIAN
The Eye to Observe. The Heart to Serve. The Pen to Preserve.

LUKE
THE MAN GOD CHOSE TO RECORD IT THE TWO-VOLUME WORK HE LEFT US
Physician · Gentile · Traveler · Historian One Continuous Story · Gospel and Church Colossians 4:14 · 2 Timothy 4:11 THE WITNESS WHO WROTE IT DOWN Luke 1:1–4 · Acts 1:1–8

1. THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN 1. THE GOSPEL OF LUKE · 24 CHAPTERS
• Paul’s own title: “the beloved physician” (Col 4:14) • A Savior for all people — traced back to Adam (3:38)
• Trained to watch closely, examine, and record
HE NEVER WALKED • Good news for the poor, outcast, women, Samaritans
• Writes of sickness and healing with a doctor’s eye WITH JESUS… • “The Son of man is come to seek and to save” (19:10) but he searched out the truth, AND GAVE THE WORLD
CERTAINTY.
2. THE GENTILE AMONG THE WRITERS 2. THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES · 28 CH.
• Set apart from those “of the circumcision” (Col 4:11) • The Spirit poured out, the church born (2:1–4)
• The only Gentile author in all of Scripture • Jerusalem → Judaea → Samaria → the earth (1:8)
• Early tradition places his home in Antioch • Ends with the gospel preached in Rome (28:30–31)

52 CHAPTERS · 2,158 VERSES
About a quarter of the New Testament — more than
any other writer, Paul included
3. PAUL’S FAITHFUL COMPANION 3. BOTH ADDRESSED TO THEOPHILUS
• Joins Paul at Troas — the “we” begins (Acts 16:10) • “Most excellent Theophilus” opens the Gospel (1:3)
• Sails to Jerusalem and on to Rome (Acts 21:1; 27:1) LUKE’S CHARACTER • “The former treatise have I made” (Acts 1:1)
• “Only Luke is with me” at the end (2 Tim 4:11) • Vol. one: what Jesus began. Vol. two: what He continues.
Observation Integrity

Diligence Loyalty
4. THE CAREFUL HISTORIAN 4. WHAT ONLY LUKE PRESERVED
Compassion Humility
• Traced all things accurately from the first (1:3) • Gabriel, Elisabeth, the shepherds, Simeon (1–2)
• Drew on eyewitnesses and ministers of the word (1:2) • The Good Samaritan (10) and the Prodigal Son (15)
• Wrote “in order” so faith rests on certainty (1:4) WHY HE WROTE WHY HE KEPT WRITING • Zacchaeus (19) and the walk to Emmaus (24)
“That thou mightest know the
certainty of those things, “Of all that Jesus began both to wherein thou hast been do and teach…” instructed.”
TOOLS OF HIS CALLING – Luke 1:4 – Acts 1:1
FRUIT OF HIS FAITHFULNESS
Observation · Investigation · Order · Accuracy Certainty · Compassion · Mission · History
Diligence · Compassion · Loyalty · Endurance Joy · Witness · The Church’s Own Story

HE WATCHED. HE ASKED. HE WROTE. GOD GAVE THE WORLD CERTAINTY. | “Ye shall be witnesses unto me… unto the uttermost part of the earth.” – Acts 1:8