John Sullivan (FBC Trustee & Deacon) - Luke (Luke 1:46-55; 3:10-11; 4:16-19; 19:11-27; 22:25-30; Acts 4:32-35)

 

Jesus and Paul both faced nearly-identical Roman trials at the end of their stories in Luke-Acts, with very different strategies.

What was Luke trying to tell us when he wrote these two accounts?

 

The Trials of Jesus & Paul
Week 1: The Upside Down Kingdom

 

Resources:

Video

The Birth of Jesus: Luke 1-2

Quotes

1. "There is a people on earth that wages wars for the freedom of others, at its own expense, its own toils and risk—and stands firm not just for those at its borders, or peoples in its near vicinity, or those joint by connecting lands, but crosses the seas so that there would be no unjust rule in the world and justice, and divine and human law would everywhere prevail."

2. "Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are greedy; if he be poor, they seek to control him; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make the world a wasteland and then tell us that they gave us peace."