Devotions

 

Take Your Pick – You Have Four Choices

I love the background of the four gospel writers and I really love it when they all try to tell the same story.  Now we have 66 books in the Bible and 40 different authors.  So you have people writing multiple books.  But when you get to the Gospels you don’t’ have one guy writing multiple books you have multiple guys writing one story.  Let me illustrate it this way.  Let’s say a fight broke out at Church Sunday.  For whatever reason Charlie got into it with Jimmy.  So the Times Mail sends a reporter and the reporter interviews people and says tell me what you saw.  

Let’s say the reporter spoke to someone who is a wrestler.  They may say – Ol Charlie put a choke hold on him, then a half nelson, then a pile driver.  Let’s say the reporter talks to one of our Doctors in the Church – The Dr. says well there was a contusion on his forearm and head trauma to the upper homaglublia (yeah I just made that up).  Maybe the reporter talks to one of our teens and asks – and they say it was awesome – Charlie with those big mitts of his and with a smile on his face said I’m going to enjoy doing this in the love of Jesus – then he clocked that other dude.   Different perspectives about the same event – It’s why you should study all four gospels – and really get into the story of Jesus.

  • 2/5ths of Matthew’s Gospel is devoted to the final week of Jesus life
  • 3/5ths of Mark’s Gospel is devoted to the final week of Jesus life
  • 1/3rd of Luke’s Gospel is devoted to the final week of Jesus life
  • Almost ½ of John’s Gospel is devoted to the final week of Jesus life
  • There are 89 chapters written altogether in the 4 Gospels of the Bible
  • Of those 89 chapters – 4 cover the first 30 years of Jesus life
  • While 85 chapters cover the last 3 and a half years of Jesus life, and 29 of those 85 cover His last week here

Four authors writing about Jesus – and the bulk of their story has to do with why He came to be among us.  The majority of the words they wrote speak to the fact that Jesus came to die for our sins.  The lion share of their writing speaks to the meaning of the word Gospel – it is the good news.  It’s all about Jesus death, burial, and resurrection.  Read all about it – you have four choices.  

Marks Sig