1. The Gospel of Luke
1:1-4
“Careful Now”

2. Luke 1:1-4
Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,  so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

3. Luke 1:1-4 Apply Ourselves To The Word
:3 I myself have carefully investigated everything 

4. Luke 1:1-4 Apply Ourselves To The Word
:3 I myself have carefully investigated everything
Deut 11: Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

5. Luke 1:1-4 Apply Ourselves To The Word
:3 I myself have carefully investigated everything
Joshua 1:8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

6. Luke 1:1-4 Apply Ourselves To The Word
:3 I myself have carefully investigated everything
Prov 2:1-5 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

7. Luke 1:1-4 Apply Ourselves To The Word
:3 I myself have carefully investigated everything
Matt 13: “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.  When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

8. Luke 1:1-4 Apply :3 I myself have carefully investigated everything
Ourselves To
The Word

9. Luke 1:1-4
Apply The Word To Ourselves
:4 so that you may know

10. Luke 1:1-4 Apply The Word To Ourselves :4 so that you may know
John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

11. Luke 1:1-4 Apply The Word To Ourselves :4 so that you may know
Deut 11: Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds… Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 
:22 If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him

12. Luke 1:1-4 Apply The Word To Ourselves :4 so that you may know
Matt 7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
James 1:22,25 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says… But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it…

13. Luke 1:1-4 Apply The Word To Ourselves :4 so that you may know
2 Kings 22:18-19 ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard: Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken… and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

14. Luke 1:1-4 Apply The Word To Ourselves :4 so that you may know
2 Kings 22:19 Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken… and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. 22:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul

15. Luke 1:1-4 Apply Ourselves To The Word
:3 I myself have carefully investigated everything
Apply The Word To Ourselves
:4 so that you may know
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp for my feet,     a light on my path.
Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.