The Gospel According to Luke

Outline

• I. Introduction
• II. The preparation of the Man-Savior in His humanity with His divinity
• A. His forerunner's conception
• B. His conception
• C. His forerunner's birth and youth
• D. His birth
• E. His youth
• 1. Circumcised and named
• 2. Presented and adored
• 3. Growing and advancing
• F. His inauguration
• 1. Introduced
• 2. Baptized
• 3. Anointed
• 4. His status
• 5. His test
• III. The ministry of the Man-Savior in His human virtues with His divine attributes
• A. In Galilee
• 1. Proclaiming the jubilee of grace
• 2. Carrying out His fourfold commission — teaching, casting out demons, healing, and preaching
• 3. Attracting the occupied
• 4. Cleansing the contaminated
• 5. Healing the paralytic
• 6. Calling the despised
• 7. Breaking the deformed sabbatical regulation for people's satisfaction and liberation
• 8. Appointing twelve apostles
• 9. Teaching His disciples the highest morality
• 10. Curing the dying one
• 11. Showing pity to the weeping widow by raising up her only son
• 12. Strengthening His forerunner
• 13. Forgiving sinners
• 14. Ministered to by women
• 15. Teaching with parables
• 16. Identifying His real relatives
• 17. Quelling the storm
• 18. Casting out a legion of demons
• 19. Healing a woman with a flow of blood and raising up a dead girl
• 20. Sending the twelve apostles to spread His ministry
• 21. Feeding the five thousand
• 22. Recognized as the Christ
• 23. Unveiling His death and resurrection the first time
• 24. Transfigured on the mount
• 25. Casting a demon out of a man's son
• 26. Unveiling His death the second time
• 27. Teaching concerning humility and tolerance
• B. From Galilee to Jerusalem
• 1. Rejected by the Samaritans
• 2. Instructing people how to follow Him
• 3. Appointing seventy disciples to spread His ministry
• 4. Portraying Himself as the good Samaritan with the highest morality
• 5. Received by Martha
• 6. Teaching concerning prayer
• 7. Rejected by the evil generation
• 8. Warning not to remain in darkness
• 9. Rebuking the Pharisees and lawyers
• 10. Warning to beware of the Pharisees' hypocrisy and concerning the denial of the Man-Savior
• 11. Warning not to be covetous
• 12. Teaching to be watchful and faithful
• 13. Longing to be released through His death
• 14. Teaching concerning the discernment of time
• 15. Teaching concerning repentance
• 16. Healing a bent-double woman on the Sabbath
• 17. Teaching concerning the kingdom of God as a grain of mustard and as leaven
• 18. Teaching concerning the entrance into the kingdom of God
• 19. Journeying uninterruptedly toward Jerusalem
• 20. Healing a man of dropsy on the Sabbath
• 21. Teaching the invited and the inviting one
• 22. Teaching concerning the acceptance of God's invitation
• 23. Teaching how to follow the Man-Savior
• 24. Unveiling the saving love of the Triune God toward sinners
• a. By the parable of a shepherd seeking a sheep
• b. By the parable of a woman seeking a coin
• c. By the parable of a father receiving his son
• 25. Teaching to be prudent stewards
• 26. Teaching concerning the entrance into the kingdom of God
• 27. Warning the rich
• 28. Teaching concerning stumbling, forgiveness, and faith
• 29. Teaching concerning service
• 30. Cleansing ten lepers
• 31. Teaching concerning the kingdom of God and the rapture of the overcomers
• 32. Teaching concerning persistent prayer
• 33. Teaching concerning the entrance into the kingdom of God
• a. Humbling oneself
• b. Being like a little child
• c. Renouncing all and following the Man-Savior
• 34. Unveiling His death and resurrection the third time
• 35. Healing a blind man near Jericho
• 36. Saving Zaccheus
• 37. Teaching concerning faithfulness
• IV. The Man-Savior's presentation of Himself to death for redemption
• A. Entering into Jerusalem triumphantly
• B. Lamenting over Jerusalem
• C. Cleansing the temple and teaching in it
• D. Passing through the final examinations
• 1. Of the chief priests, scribes, and elders
• 2. Of the Pharisees and Herodians
• 3. Of the Sadducees
• 4. Muzzling all the examiners
• 5. Warning against the scribes
• 6. Praising the poor widow
• E. Preparing the disciples for His death
• 1. Telling them of things to come
• a. The destruction of the temple
• b. The plagues between His ascension and the great tribulation
• c. The persecution of His disciples in the church age
• d. The great tribulation and His coming
• e. The disciples' redemption and the overcomers' rapture
• 2. Teaching daily in the temple
• 3. His opposers conspiring to kill Him and a false disciple plotting to betray Him
• 4. Instituting His supper that the disciples might participate in His death
• 5. Teaching the disciples concerning humility and foretelling what will happen to them
• 6. Praying concerning the sufferings of His death and charging the disciples to pray
• V. The death of the Man-Savior
• A. Arrested
• 1. (Denied by Peter)
• B. Judged
• 1. By the Jewish Sanhedrin
• 2. By the Roman rulers
• C. Crucified
• 1. Suffering the persecution of men
• 2. Suffering the judgment of God for sinners to accomplish a vicarious death for them
• D. Buried
• VI. The resurrection of the Man-Savior
• A. Discovered by the women
• B. Investigated and confirmed by Peter
• C. Appearing to two disciples
• D. Appearing to the apostles and those with them and commissioning them
• VII. The ascension of the Man-Savior