Just a short note to let you know that the Unchanging Word

has placed an outline of Dr. Mitchell’s notes for the book

of Luke on our website, the first 6 chapters free for

download at unchangingword.LIFE.

Our study in the Gospel of Luke continues in chapter 5

verse 9.

Dr. Mitchell briefly overviews the previous few verses where

Jesus directed the large catch of fish and called the

disciples to follow Him.

In our passage before us, Luke presents Jesus healing a man

who had a full case of leprosy. The man was not in doubt as

to the power of Jesus to heal, but he does doubt that

the Lord would heal. It was not a matter of could Jesus

heal him but would Jesus heal him.

Let’s turn to Luke 5:9 with Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging

Word Bible Broadcast.

Having launched out into the lake from the shore, Jesus sat

down to teach the people on the shoreline. We are in Luke 5.

Jesus having finished teaching the people, told Peter

to launch out into the deep waters of the Lake of Galilee.

Dr. Mitchell reveals the test of obedience in verses 1-4.

The command of Jesus guarantees a catch. He notes that the

promises of God are sure to be fulfilled because He is God.

Upon Jesus’ command, Peter obeys the Lord and launches out into the deep. Here is the difference between personal

experience and personal faith in God’s Word.

Prov.3:5-6, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean

not on thy own understanding in all your ways acknowledge

Him and He will direct your paths.

Let’s join Dr. Mitchell in Luke 5:4 on the Unchanging Word

Bible Broadcast.

In this study, we see Luke writing another two pictures

in the life of our Lord. Each picture manifests Jesus’

authority. We are in Luke 4:38 to begin.

Here Jesus is pictured as the one having power over disease.

He healed Simon Peter’s mother-in-law who was ill from a

high fever. Jesus healed her so much so, she immediately

arose and served the Lord and his disciples.

The next picture Luke gives to Theophilus and to us is Jesus

demonstrating His power over men. Luke 5:1-3.

Here our Lord is seen on a boat owned by Simon Peter and

teaching from his boat out across the water to the people on

the shoreline.

Let’s turn to Luke 4:38 with our teacher, Dr. Mitchell on

the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast to behold the savior

as revealed in the gospel of Luke.

Luke now writes to Theophilus that Jesus left Nazareth to

go down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. Jesus

continues teaching in the synagogue there on the sabbath.

Luke shows there - a man there who had a spirit of an

unclean demon. Luke 4:33-34

Dr. Mitchell then points out that there is no doubt in hell

nor in Heaven who Jesus is but only among the people of this

earth.

It is man who has the most difficulty in believing in the

person of the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is indeed the

Holy One of God, who is so because He is God in the flesh.

The demon knew Jesus as a man being from Nazareth,

the city where Jesus was raised from a youth.

Jesus doesn’t allow demons to proclaim who He is.

Dr. Mitchell proclaims Jesus, on the Unchanging

Word Bible Broadcast, Luke 4:31.

Jesus spoke to those in the synagogue in Nazareth,

His hometown. Those who heard Him become very

angry to the point of rejecting Jesus and an

attempt to kill the Lord.

These attitudes and actions reveal our Lord’s word which

He spoke in verse 24 of Luke 4, “Truly, I say

to you, no prophet is acceptable in His hometown.”

What did Jesus expose to them from the Word of God that

revealed their unbelief in Him?

He told them, that He Himself fulfills this prophecy from Isaiah.

He then sited two examples from the Scripture of Gentiles

outside Israel who WHO DID HAVE FAITH in God’s prophets,

Elijah and Elisha.

Peter writes, “We have the more sure word of prophecy to

which you do well to pay attention to...” 2 Peter.1:19

Here is Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast,

Luke 4:19.

In this study, Luke writes of Jesus’ return to Galilee in

the power of the Spirit and coming to his home town of

Nazareth, Jesus both read the Word of God and spoke to the

people.

Dr. Mitchell discusses Jesus’ exposition of Isa.61:1-2.

The application of this Word of God by Our Lord, through

this method, later exposes the unbelief of the

hometown people and on the other hand, the faith of two

Gentiles who lived outside of Israel.

However, here Jesus announces that He Himself is at that

very day and hour fulfilling this prophecy spoken and

written by Isaiah. This prophecy revealed the ministry of

the Messiah and Jesus is that Messiah.

Dr. Mitchell shares that you and I can continue the ministry

of our Lord today.

Here is Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast,

Luke 4:14.

In Luke 4:1-13, we read and hear the words of Luke as his

writes of the temptation of our Lord Jesus.

Jesus is tempted by the devil on the same 3 grounds that

Eve was tempted which are the same 3 grounds on which you

and I can be tempted.

Dr. Mitchell brings out how the Lord Jesus Christ repelled

these temptations from the devil with the Word of God,

specific Scriptures which dealt with the exact temptation at

hand.

How well do you and I know the Word of God to be able to

respond to temptation with God’s word? When you read and

study the Word and place it in your heart, you have a weapon

the Holy Spirit can use to help you in that hour of testing.

Let’s learn more from Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging Word

Bible Broadcast, Luke 4:1.

In Luke 3:23-38, Luke presents the genealogy of our Lord

Jesus from Mary all the way back in time to

the first man, Adam, who also is called the Son of God. Adam

was the son of God by creation, Jesus is the Son of God as

eternal Deity. And here in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is the God-man, virgin born son, eternal deity and sinless humanity in one undivided person.

That Jesus was a real man, Luke gives to Theophilus His

genealogy tracing his family lineage from Mary all the way

back to the beginning of time when God created the first

man, Adam.

Matthew’s genealogy, on the other hand, begins with Abraham and comes forward thru time to Joseph to reveal Jesus as the virgin born son of Mary.

As a man, Jesus was to be tested.

Here is Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast,

Luke 3:23.

Luke continues in writing to this most excellent Theophilus

by recording the baptism of Jesus by John the baptist in the

Jordan river. We are in Luke 3:21-22.

Jesus was praying. While He was praying, God the Holy

Spirit descended upon Him and God the Father spoke to Him. He was commending Jesus as His Son, and saying, "In you I am well pleased."

Here is a revelation of the Triune God. Here is the One true

God revealed in three persons. Jesus the Son of God, the

Holy Spirit of God and God the Father Himself. The tri-unity

of God is revealed here in Scripture.

Jesus is God’s real man on earth being the beloved Son of

the Father, the God-Man, sinless and perfect.

Let’s turn to Luke 3:21 with Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging

Word Bible Broadcast.

In this lesson, we will be hearing of the ministry of John

the baptist, Luke 3:1-20.

Luke is careful to fully document the time frame in which

John appeared in the wilderness as found in Luke 3:1-2.

In the next 3 verses, we hear his message, where he

preached, and what he preached.

Luke writes that John fulfilled the specific prophecy of

Isaiah 40:3-5. John gave the people warnings and

exhortations.

It is most notable that John gives a personal testimony

concerning the Lord Jesus in verses 16-17. Here he exalts

the preeminence of the savior and His coming work of

separating the true Jewish believers in Christ from out of

the nation of Israel at a future time.

Let’s turn to Luke 3 with our teacher, Dr. Mitchell on the

Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast.