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Additional Features

• Prayer – There are seven prayers that are unique to Luke’s record.
• Parables – There are 11 parables found only in his Gospel.
• Poverty – Luke stresses the marks of Christ’s poverty in ch.2.
• Power – Six miracles are unique to Luke’s account.
• People – Luke is the Gospel of widows (five), and of devoted women.
• Person of the Spirit of God – Note the prominence of the Spirit of God in Luke.
• Salvation and Savior – We get the first mention of “Savior” in Luke.

David Oliver Tribute Continued from p. 165

More than all the shame and pain He’s the Lord, the great I AM,
He must silently sustain, Glory crowns the wounded Lamb,
Was the storm of holy wrath that He Lifted to the highest throne, supreme
must bear. acclaim.
God’s almighty stroke fell there, Every saint will praise His Name.
Anguish no one else could share, Every age His worth proclaim,
By His God, forsaken on that cruel tree. But we never will forget that cruel tree.

He’s the Lord, the great I AM, David W. Oliver
Crowned with thorns by hateful man, For those who wish to hear how This
Lifted on a cross for all to see His shame. Cruel Tree can be sung, please use the QR
From above, the holy flame, codes below. The first is a piano-only ver-
Fueled by Justice’s righteous claim, sion (with lyrics on the screen) performed
Fell on Him Who bore sins on that cruel tree. by David Oliver, while the second is by his
grandson David Nesbitt singing two of the
God’s dishonor from all sin, verses a cappella.
Man’s rebellion deep within,
All – and more – the lowly Lamb alone
could pay.
“It is finished,” He would say,
And death’s chains He’d tear away
In that garden tomb near to that cruel tree.

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