The Gospel Of The Messiah Part 3

INTRO: Our subject is the four Gospels of the New Testament. These four accounts form the first four books in the New Testament. We are going through them in a chronological fashion so as to get an overall picture of the life of Christ, Jesus, the Jewish Messiah. In our last message we introduced the writer Luke and his account of the life of Christ. We saw from Luke that he had set out to write to Theophilus, a man who seems to have been a catechumen, or one who is instructed in the basics of the life of Christ. Luke wanted him to know the certainty of the things of the life of Christ he had been instructed in.

We then introduced the writer John, of the Gospel of John. John was the beloved disciple of the Lord. He may have been a close relative of Jesus Christ. John may have been from the upper strata of society. He is one of the sons of thunder, the man Zebedee, a successful business man in the fishing industry on Galilee.