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Welcome back!
A very happy New Year to you all
James and Richard
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2.1 19 th January Overview of the New
Testament, Baptism and
Communion
2.2 26 th January
2.3 2 nd February
The Four Gospels
Matthew and Mark
2.4 9 th February
2.5 16 th February
2.6
HALF TERM
2 nd March
Awayday Saturday 5 th
2.7
2.8
2.9
March
9 th March
16 th March
23 rd March
Luke and Acts
John
Galatians
The Normal Christian
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Life – Romans
1 & 2 Corinthians
Other Epistles
Revelation
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(Some images from “The Christ we Share” pack)
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The Pharisees
•added to the Law of Moses,
•considered their own laws more important
•Christ’s railed against their hollow legalism and lack of compassion.
The Sadducees
•represented the aristocrats and the wealthy.
•wielded power through the Supreme-Court-like Sanhedrin,
•rejected all but the Mosaic (first 5) books of the Old
Testament.
•Did not believe in resurrection
The Synagogue
•Developed by Jews during exile
•place for community affairs,
•a place of worship,
•centre for religious teaching.
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From the Thirty-Nine Articles of
Religion of the Church of England
Article VI. Of the Sufficiency of the
Holy Scriptures for salvation
Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be. believed as an article of the
Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church.
Of the Names and Numbers of the
Canonical Books…
<list of the Old Testament books>
(as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine; such are these following:
The Third Book of Esdras.
The Fourth Book of Esdras.
The Book of Tobias.
The Book of Judith.
The rest of the Book of Esther.
The Book of Wisdom.
Jesus the Son of Sirach.
Baruch the Prophet.
The Song of the Three Children.
The Story of Susanna.
Of Bel and the Dragon.
The Prayer of Manasses.
The First Book of Maccabees.
The Second Book of Maccabees.
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 The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between the years 1947 and 1956.
 The Scrolls can be divided into two categories —Biblical and non-
Biblical. Fragments of every book of the Old Testament have been discovered except for the book of Esther.
 The Isaiah Scroll, found relatively intact, is 1000 years older than any previously known copy of Isaiah. In fact, the scrolls are the oldest group of Old Testament manuscripts ever found.
 In the Scrolls are found never before seen psalms attributed to King
David and Joshua.
 The Scrolls are for the most part, written in Hebrew, but there are many written in Aramaic.
 The Dead Sea Scrolls were most likely written by the Essenes during the period from about 200 B.C. to 68 A.D. The Essenes are mentioned by Josephus and in a few other sources, but not in the
New Testament.
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Matthew
Luke
Mark
John
Acts
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Paul’s letters
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AD70 Titus captures
Jerusalem: temple
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Dates for the
Gospels and
Acts indicate the period covered, not the date of writing
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Revolt of Jews in provinces
132-135 Jewish revolt: sack & renaming of
Jerusalem
Paul’s 3 rd
Missionary
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Paul in prison in Caesarea
Roman Rule
Augustus
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Claudius 41-54
Nero
Caligula 37-41
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Vespasian 69-
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Otho 69
Galba 68-69
Domitian 81-96
Titus 79-81
Trajan 98-117
Nerva 96-98
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Hadrian 117-138
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 Gospels -
 History
 Apocalyptic Writing
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Discussion
•Read together Paul’s letter to Philemon
•How is the structure of the letter similar/ different to a letter we would send today?
•What you think the letter is about?
•what you think the main themes are?
•What points are relevant today?
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
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 Christianity is an almost religion-less faith – in the New Testament we find
 No rituals
 No priestly caste
 Nothing we have to do to win approval by God or earn our place in heaven
 A relationship with the Father through the Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit
 But Jesus gave us two ‘sacraments’
 Baptism – washing
 Communion – eating and drinking
 No detailed instructions
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 Why did Jesus ask us to do these things?
 How vital are they to believers?
 Why washing (once), eating and drinking
(repeated)?
 Why water then wine?
 How do we ensure that we perform these actions correctly?
 How have different parts of the church viewed them through the centuries?
 What is your understanding of Baptism and
Communion?
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 Jesus’ command
 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mat 28:19)
 …and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.“ (1 Corinthians 11:24-25)
 Jesus’ example,
 “Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by
him”. (Mat 3:13)
 Apostles teaching
 "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus
Christ so that your sins may be forgiven;” (Acts 2:38)
 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. (1 Corinthians 11:26)
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 Baptism represents:
 A cleansing of our sin – this is John’s ‘ baptism of repentance ’
 An identification with Jesus in his death, burial and resurrection so clearly described by Paul:
 A prayer for Jesus to baptise us in the Holy Spirit, to do for us what John the Baptist promised.
• John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah
• Elijah was involved with a ‘baptism in water’ on Mt. Carmel, when he ordered that the sacrifice should be drenched with water three times
• Elijah prayed and fire descended from heaven on the sacrifice
• On the Day of Pentecost, the fire from heaven fell on the disciples.
This was when they were baptised in the Holy Spirit[
• Our bodies are to be ‘ living sacrifices ’, water baptism is therefore an act of preparation before we are baptised ‘ with the Holy Spirit and with fire ’

Baptism is a symbolic token. It effects nothing.
Baptism signifies the entitlement to God’s gift of grace. This gift must be received by faith before, during or sometime later after baptism.
Baptism is a opportunity for God to bestow he gift of grace
Baptism automatically and unconditionally conveys God’s grace. Anyone who is baptised
(especially an infant) is automatically ‘saved’ and ‘reborn’ and receives the gift of the Holy
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 Baptism – water externally, Communion – bread and wine internally
 Water  wine = Jesus’ first miracle (water for purification  wine for new life)
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (Romans 6:3-4)
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the
Lord’s death until he comes. (1 Corinthians 11:26 )
 Baptism and communion re-enact the burial of Jesus
 in baptism we are identified with Jesus (Romans 6:3-4)
 In communion Jesus is buried in us, so that he can be resurrected in us
(body and blood re-united)
 Communion is a prayer that we may be transformed into Jesus’ likeness (‘you are what you eat’)
 Baptism speaks of ‘Us in Christ’, Communion speaks of ‘Christ in
Us’
 We become the re-presentation of Jesus on earth
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 Infant or believers only?
 Full immersion or sprinkling?
 Anyone or only after instruction?
 Rebaptism?
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 Do we need someone to ‘preside’?
 How often?
 What words should be used?
 What actually happens at communion?
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1) Read the whole of Mark’s Gospel
(preferably in a single sitting)
 Try and approach it as though it is a new story to you.
 Make a note of anything that strikes you
 What are the important stories or themes?
 Is Mark a good story teller? (is is an unput-downable book to read or a chore?)
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Glean as much as possible about each author and his contact with witnesses, etc.
 Group 1, Mark
 Mark 14:15, 14:52
 Acts 12:12-17
 Acts 15:37-39
 Philemon 23
 1 Peter 5:13
 Group 2, Matthew
 Matthew 1
 Matthew 2
 Matthew 5
 Matthew 27:62, 28:2-4, 28:11-15
 This is material that is unique to Matthew’s Gospel; what does it tell us about the author’s perspective?
 Group 3, John
 3:23
 4:4
 5:2
 10:22,23
 19:13
 Group 4, Luke
 Luke 1:1-4
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Colossians 4:14
 Acts 13:1
 Acts 21:18
19:35
20:2, 8
21:20-25
Luke 1
Luke 2:1
Luke 3:1,2
Luke 24:13-35
2:20
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 Shortest of Gospels
 Probably first to be written (AD65-70) – could be earlier
 For non-Jewish Audience Explains Jewish customs (Mk 7:2-4, 15:42)
& translates Aramaic words (3:17, 5:41)
 Tradition that John Mark was the writer
 Wrote it in Rome from what he heard directly from Peter.
 Mark’s mother had a house in Jerusalem where Jesus’ followers met (Acts 12:12)
 Cousin to Paul’s companion Barnabas (Colossians 4:10)
 Mark deserted Paul’s first missionary journey at Perga (Acts 13:13)
 Caused a split between Paul & Barnabas, but Barnabas gave him a second chance (Acts 15:36-39)
 Mark was restored to Paul’s favour (2 Timothy 4:11 )
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 Limited vocabulary -1,270 different words

Transliterating Latin words into Greek

Influence of Aramaic (mother tongue)
 Forceful, fresh vigorous style
 “immediately” occurs 41 times
 Impression of on the spot reporting

Eyewitness style details
 eg reaction of crowds,
(1:27, 2:12)
 emotional repose of Jesus,
(1:41, 3:5, 7:34)
 reactions of disciples (9:5-
6, 10:24)
 Interaction with readers
 Eg Directly addressing them
(2:10, 7:19)
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 Probably written before the destruction of the temple in AD70)
 For a Jewish Audience
 shows that Christianity was rooted in Judaism.
 Bridge connecting Jesus with what had happened in the past
 Jesus presented as the long awaited Messiah
 Tradition that Matthew (Levi) the tax collector was the writer
 Wrote it in Antioch – Greek speaking city with large Jewish population
 Matthew 10:3-Matthew referred to in a self-deprecating way not found in Mark or Luke.
 son of Alphaeus therefore probably brother to James son of
Alphaeus
 Had a party for Jesus (Matthew 9:10)
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*Ernest Renan on Luke’s Gospel
 Author: Luke the doctor, a companion of Paul (Colossians 4:14, Philemon
1:24, 2 Timothy 4:11) – see the ‘we’ passages in Acts
 The anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Third Gospel (between A.D. 160 and 180):
" Luke was an Antiochian of Syria, a physician by profession. He was a disciple of the apostles and later accompanied Paul until the latter's martyrdom. He served the Lord without distraction having neither wife nor children, and at the age of eighty-four he fell asleep in Boeotia, full of the Holy Spirit. While there were already Gospels previously in existence-that according to Matthew written in Judaea and that according to Mark in Italy-Luke, moved by the Holy Spirit, composed the whole of this Gospel in the parts about Achaia. In his prologue he makes this very point clear, that other Gospels had been written before his, and that it was necessary to expound to the Gentile believers the accurate account of the [divine] dispensation, so that they should not be perverted by Jewish fables, nor be deceived by heretical and vain imaginations and thus err from the truth.”
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 Very different picture of Jesus to The Synoptic Gospels
 Thought for many years to be a late book c. AD120
 now placed between AD 70 &100, probably post AD85
 Appears to have been written by an eyewitness/ based on eyewitness testimony
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Possibly for a group of mainly Gentile Christians who needed encouragement, support and sound teaching
 Christians expelled from the synagogue after Jewish council in AD90
 John refers to Jesus opponents as ‘The Jews’ – yet Jesus himself was a Jew
 Jesus’ followers being ‘put out of the synagogue’
 Tradition that was written by John son of Zebedee, brother of James
 Written in Ephesus
 Gives a good reason why John’s name is not mentioned in the Gospel
 Reference’s to the ‘beloved disciple’ – Makes sense for this to be John
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Gospels in probable order of writing
Mark
Written for????
The Gospel starts with…
Romans Baptism of Jesus
Matthew Jews
Luke
John
Birth of Jesus
Greeks Conception of John the
Baptist
Christians ‘In the beginning…’
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 Jesus’ pre-existence:
 John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.
 John 10:30 “I and the Father are one.”
 Colossians 1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
 Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.
 Revelation 22:13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
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 Shortest of Gospels
 Probably first to be written (AD65-70) – could be earlier
 For non-Jewish Audience
 Explains Jewish customs (Mk 7:2-4, 15:42) & translates Aramaic words
(3:17, 5:41)
 Tradition that John Mark was the writer
 wrote it in Rome from what he heard directly from Peter.
 Mark’s mother had a house in Jerusalem where Jesus’ followers met (Acts 12:12)
 Cousin to Paul’s companion Barnabas (Colossians 4:10)
 Mark deserted Paul’s first missionary journey at Perga (Acts
13:13)
 Caused a split between Paul & Barnabas, but Barnabas gave him a second chance (Acts 15:36-39)
 Mark is restored to Paul’s favour (2 Timothy 4:11)
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 Limited vocabulary -1,270 different words
 Transliterating Latin words into Greek
 Influence of Aramaic (mother tongue)
 Forceful, fresh vigorous style
 “immediately” occurs 41 times
 Impression of on the spot reporting
 Eyewitness style details
 e.g. reaction of crowds, (1:27, 2:12)
 emotional repose of Jesus, (1:41, 3:5, 7:34)
 reactions of disciples (9:5-6, 10:24)
 Interaction with readers
 E.g. Directly addressing them (2:10, 7:19)
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 Christology (view of who Jesus was)
 Jesus was Son of God
 The Messiah
 Son of Man
 Messianic secret (Jesus asks, his disciples, those he heals, demons to keep his identity secret)
 Kingdom of God
 Future expectation
 Present reality (“Let little children come to me”)
 Discipleship
 Failure of disciples to understand
 Hardship and cost of being a disciple
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 Prologue (1:1-15)
 Part 1: Jesus’ Public Ministry (1:16-8:26)
 Jesus’ authority (1:16-3:12)
 over sickness, sins, evil, conflict with religious leaders
 Jesus’ teaching (3:13-6:6) –Kingdom of God –words & actions
 parable of sower, mustard seed
 Jesus and mission (6:7-8:26) –widening effect of Jesus’ ministry
 sending out of 12, feeding of 5000, Syro-Phoenician women
 Part 2: Jesus’ Death (8:27-16:8)
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Jesus foretells his own death and resurrection (8:27-10:52)
 Jesus in and around the temple (11:1-13:37)
 Last supper, arrest, trial, crucifixion,
 burial & resurrection (14:1-16:8)
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 Read Mark 2.1-12
 Try to imagine the scene from the point of view of the person/ people you have been allocated (Jesus, The crowd, The invalid,
The four friends, The scribes, )
 Imagine what the room might have been like
 the atmosphere
 Where were you in the room?
 What might you have expected?
 What might you have thought felt, at the time/ afterwards
 Share back with rest of group
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 Three Main versions of the end of the gospel
 16:1-8
 The shorter ending (not in all translations eg NIV)
 The longer ending 16:1-20
 If 16:1-8
 Seems unfinished
 Where is the Good News promised at the beginning
(finishes with women being afraid)
 Verse 8 finishes in Greek “they were afraid for” – doesn’t make sense
 If 16:1-20
 Doesn’t read the same as rest of Gospel
 Textual criticism
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 Compare all the early manuscripts of Mark –what is most common ending
 Not found in earliest manuscripts
 Early theologians doubted its authenticity
 Is the style and vocabulary similar to the rest of the
Gospel?
 Style and vocabulary more similar to Luke –better Greek
 Third of words not used elsewhere in Gospel
 Link between v8 & 9 very abrupt
 Does the content and theology fit with the rest of the
Gospel?
 Mary Magdalene introduced for first time (16:9)
 Jesus’ severe rebuke to his disciples (16:14)
 Immunity from snakes and poisons (16:18)
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 Crafted Gospel with specific structure
5 blocks of teaching –
each finished with “when Jesus had finished saying all these…”
-Interspersed with narratives (What Jesus does)
 Systematically arranged
 Good quality Greek
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 Christology (view of who Jesus was)
 Jesus Son of David –Jesus is the Messiah from line of
David
 Lord –used frequently
 Son of God
 Prophecy and fulfilment.
 How Jesus fulfils OT prophecy
 Kingdom of heaven
 uses Jewish term heaven rather than God
 Discipleship:
 Importance of changing behaviour
 The Religious Leaders
 Heart for his people (Jews) but frustrated by their leaders
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 Prologue: The Origin and Birth of Jesus the Christ (1:1-
4:23)
 Genealogy, Infancy, Baptism
 Teaching 1: The Gospel of the Kingdom (3:1-7:29)
 The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ Miracles of healing
 Teaching 2: The Kingdom Extended (8:1-11:1)

The Mission charge,
 Teaching 3: The Gospel of the Kingdom (11:2-13:53)
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Rejection of John the Baptist and Jesus by the Jews
 Teaching 4: Progressive Polarization (13:54-19:2)
 Controversies with Pharisees, Peter’s confession,
Transfiguration
 Teaching 5: Judgement and the end of the world (19:3-
26:5)
 Jesus goes up to Jerusalem and teachers
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 Read Matthew 16:13-23
 Why this extreme contrast?
 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven” vs . “Get behind me, Satan!”
 Things of God
 Come from revelation
 Require a step of faith
 Things of Men
 May come from human compassion or reasoning
 Ignore the power and love of God
 God’s way
 Wait for revelation – step out in obedience and faith – give
God the glory
 Otherwise: do nothing
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 Read Mark’s Gospel (preferably at one sitting)
 What do you think of it as a peace of writing?
 How would you describe the nature of Jesus?
 Are we really following Jesus in the way:
 lived his life?
 exercised his ministry?
 related to other people?
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The Evangelist’s Gospel
• Summaries of Luke and Acts
•Exercise: Evangelistic summaries of the gospel
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*Ernest Renan on Luke’s Gospel
 Author: Luke the doctor, a companion of Paul (Colossians 4:14,
Philemon 1:24, 2 Timothy 4:11) – see the ‘we’ passages in Acts
 The anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Third Gospel (between
A.D. 160 and 180):
" Luke was an Antiochian of Syria, a physician by profession.
He was a disciple of the apostles and later accompanied
Paul until the latter's martyrdom. He served the Lord without distraction having neither wife nor children, and at the age of eighty-four he fell asleep in Boeotia, full of the
Holy Spirit. While there were already Gospels previously in existence-that according to Matthew written in Judaea and that according to Mark in Italy-Luke, moved by the Holy
Spirit, composed the whole of this Gospel in the parts about Achaia. In his prologue he makes this very point clear, that other Gospels had been written before his, and that it was necessary to expound to the Gentile believers the accurate account of the [divine] dispensation, so that they should not be perverted by Jewish fables, nor be deceived by heretical and vain imaginations and thus err from the truth.”
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 1:1-4 > Introduction
 1:5-2:52 > Birth and infancy of Jesus
 3:1-4:13 > John the Baptist, baptism, genealogy, temptation
 4:149:62 > Jesus’ Galilean ministry (Nazareth, calling of disciples, healing, teaching, parables,
Transfiguration)
 10:1-24 > Sending out the 72
 10:25-19:27 > Jesus moves towards Jerusalem
(teaching, parables, healings, etc.)
 19:28-21:38 > Jerusalem ministry from Palm Sunday
 22:1-23:56a > Passion (betrayal, arrest, trial, crucifixion)
 23:56b-24:53 > Resurrection (empty tomb, walk to
Emmaus, in Jerusalem, commissioning of disciples,
Ascension)
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 Birth narrative from Mary’s perspective
 Emphasis on the work of the Holy Spirit, examples:
 Luke 1:35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God…”
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Luke 2:25-27 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the
Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required,
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Luke 4:1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert,…
 Luke 10:21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children…”
 Luke 11:13 “…If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask him!”
 Luke 12:12 “…for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”
 Famous Parables: The Good Samaritan and The Two Sons
 The Walk to Emmaus
 The Ascension (also in Acts)
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 1:1-26 > Ascension and waiting
Focus on Peter
 2:1-47 > The Day of Pentecost
Focus on Paul
 3:1-5:42 > The Jerusalem Church
 6:1-8:1a > Growth and persecution (deacons appointed,
Stephen’s martyrdom)
 8:1b-9:43 > Into Samaria and beyond, Paul’s conversion
 10:111:18 > The ‘Gentile Pentecost’
 11:19-30 > Antioch
 12:125 > Herod’s attack
 13:115:35 > Paul’s 1 st Journey (including the Council in
Jerusalem)
 15:3618:23a > Paul’s 2 nd Journey
(including entry into Europe)
 18:23b21:16 > Paul’s 3 rd Journey (in Asia)
 21:1728:31 > Paul’s arrest and journey to Rome
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 Acts 1 – The Ascension
 Acts 2 – The Day of Pentecost: the Baptism in the Holy
Spirit and the birth of the church
 Acts 3 – First healing by Apostles
 Acts 7 – Martyrdom of Stephen
 Acts 9 – Conversion of Saul/Paul
 Acts 10 – The ‘Gentile Pentecost’
 Acts 15 – The Council in Jerusalem
 Acts 21 – Paul arrested in Jerusalem
 Acts 27 – Paul shipwrecked on Malta
 Acts 28 – Paul under house arrest in Rome
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13:1-15:35)
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15:36-18:23a)
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18:23b-21:16)
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1.
Luke 24:19-27
2.
Acts 2:22-39
3.
Acts 3:11-26
4.
Acts 4:8-12
5.
Acts 10:34-46
6.
Acts 13:26-41
7.
Acts 17:22-31
8.
Acts 23:3-21
9.
Acts 26:2-23
Read these passages and write down a ‘necessary and
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 Q: Who wrote John’s Gospel?
John 21:20…25 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom
Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is going to betray you?")… This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true. Jesus did many other things as well.
If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
 A: The ‘Beloved Disciple’
 A: the most likely candidate is the Apostle John, son of Zebedee, brother of James
 He is never mentioned by name in John’s Gospel
 John the Baptist is referred to as ‘John’
 The author knew Palestine well and seems to have been an eyewitness to the events
 Early Christian writers agreed: Theophilus (c180AD), Irenaus quoting
Polycarp (who knew John), Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian
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 Q: When did he write the Gospel?
John 21:20-23 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is going to betray you?") When Peter saw him, he asked, "Lord, what about him?" Jesus answered, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.“
Because of this, the rumour spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?"
 A: Towards the end of his life
 Q: What was John’s major problem in writing the Gospel?
John 21:25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
 A: Choosing what to include from his memories of Jesus life and words.
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 Q: Why did he write the Gospel? What criteria did he use to chose his material?
John 20:30-31 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
 A: That the reader may believe that Jesus is the
Messiah, God Incarnate, and through faith in him have life (more on this later)
 Q: Who is he writing for?
 A: Not the people who saw Jesus’ miracles, but those who came later, including us
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 John wrote his Gospel
1.
To introduce us to Jesus and to give us the details of his life, death and resurrection
2.
To help us to put our faith in him and to receive his life
 He chose his material mainly for point 2
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Prologue:
 Revelation of the Word (Logos) (1:1-18)
Part I: The Book of Signs:
•The Public Ministry of the Word (1:19-12:50)
 The witness of John the Baptist (1:19-34)
 Controversy & conflict
 The Private Ministry of the Word (13:1-17:26)
 The Last Supper (13:1-30)
 Jesus prayer for his disciples (17:1-26)
 The Passion of the Word (18:1-20:31)
Epilogue (21:1-25)
 The Appearance at the Sea (21:1-14)
 The Reinstatement of Peter (21:15-23)
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1 - Calling of the Disciples +
Water into wine
2 - Jesus clears the Temple
11 - The raising of Lazarus
12 - Jesus anointed + Palm
Sunday
4 - The Samaritan woman at the
13 - Jesus washes the well + healing of official’s son disciples’ feet
5 - Healing at the pool
6 - Feeding 5,000
18 - Jesus betrayed, arrested and tried (Peter’s denials)
7 - At the Feast of Tabernacles
19 - Jesus sentenced, crucified and buried
8 - Woman caught in adultery
9 - Healing of man born blind
20 - The Resurrection appearances to Mary
Magdalene, Thomas, etc.
21 - The appearance by the
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1 - Prologue + John the
Baptist speaks about
Jesus
3 - Jesus and Nicodemus
+ John the Baptist testifies about Jesus
5 - Life through the Son
6 - Jesus the bread of life
8 - Debates with the Jews
10 - The good shepherd
12 - Jesus predicts his death
14 - Jesus the Way + the
Paraclete (the Holy Spirit)
15 - The Vine and the
Branches
16 - The work of the Spirit + the joy to come
17 The ‘High Priestly’
Prayer
21 - Jesus commissions
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John 20:31 …by believing you may have life in his name.
 In New Testament Greek there are three words translated ‘life’
 bios : duration, manner or means of life
 psuche : soul, natural life
 zoe : the life of God
 John uses zoe and psuche consistently
 The gift of zoe is a major theme of John’s
Gospel
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We are not begotten by God, we are only made by Him: in our natural state we are not sons of God, only (so to speak) statues. We have not got Zoe or spiritual life: only
Bios or biological life which is presently going to run down and die. Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always has existed and always will exist. Christ is the
Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has —by what I call “good infection”.
Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.*
* C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity , Book IV, Chapter 4
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It is not a question of a good man who died two thousand years ago. It is a living Man, still as much a man as you, and still as much God as he was when He created the world, really coming and interfering with your very self; killing the old natural self in you and replacing it with the kind of self He has. At first, only for moments. Then for longer periods. Finally, if all goes well, turning you permanently into a different sort of thing; into a new little
Christ, a being which, in its own small way, has the same kind of life as God; which shares in His power, joy, knowledge and eternity.
*
* C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity , Book IV, Chapter 7
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 John 1:4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
 John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, {Or his only begotten Son} that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
 John 4:14 “…but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
 John 5:21 “For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life “to whom he is pleased to give it.”
 John 5:24 "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”
 John 5:26 “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.”
 John 5:39-40 “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the
Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.”
 John 6:27 “ Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
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 John 6:40 “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
 John 6:51 ”I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
 John 6:53-54 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
 John 6:68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
 John 10:28 “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; noone can snatch them out of my hand.”
 John 12:25 “The man who loves his life (psuche) will lose it, while the man who hates his life (psuche) in this world will keep it for eternal life”.
 John 15:13 Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life (psuche) for his friends.
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Jesus said:
John 14:18-20 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see* me any more, but you will see* me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realise* that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you .”
 * The word translated ‘see’ means ‘perceive’, e.g. John
4:19
 * The word translated ‘realise’ means ‘know’
 We have the potential to live as Jesus did, with his life in us
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(6:35)
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(8.12)
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(10:9)
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(10:11)
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(11:25)
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(14:6)
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(15:1)
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John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
 John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
 John 10:9 “…I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.
He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life (psuche ) for the sheep…”
 John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;…”
 John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.
Noone comes to the Father except through me.”
 John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener….”
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 53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth,
 unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you have no life in you. Jesus is speaking here of his life, the abundant life, the new life, the eternal life, which we can have by allowing him in.
 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day. We need to go on receiving more of Jesus throughout our lives to have an assurance of eternal life.
 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Food sustains us and becomes us, gives us life, energy and substance.
 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me,
and I in him. If we are willing to feed on him, we can carry him with us wherever we go.
 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the
Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. If we actively go on receiving Jesus into ourselves we can live in the same way that Jesus did.
 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread
will live for ever.” The physical bread of communion is nothing more than just that; but when we receive it with faith and understanding – as an acted-out prayer – then we have the
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 John 5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the
Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does…”
 John 6:40 “…For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
 John 10:30 “…I and the Father are one.”
 John 14:11 “…Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves…”
 John 17:1 After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your
Son may glorify you.
2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent…”
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 John 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognise him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God – 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among [in] us.
We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and
Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
 Can only those who ‘received’ Jesus while he was on earth become children of God?
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 Master – servant
John 12:26 “Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honour the one who serves me…”
 Friend – friend
John 15:15 “… I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
 Parent – child
John 20:17 “I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
 Bridegroom – bride
John 3:29 John the Baptist said, “The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.”
You in Christ
John 14:18-20 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me any more, but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realise that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.”
 Christ in you
John 17:26 “…I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
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Us in Christ and Christ in Us
Preliminary Itinerary
• 10:00 Introduction and worship
• 10:15 Teaching (1)
• 11:00 Coffee
• 11:15 Quiet Time
• 12:30 Lunch
• 2:00 Teaching (2)
• 2:30 Quiet Time
• 3.15 Eucharist
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The United Reformed
Church, Church
Stretton. Tea and coffee will be available during the day.
 The car park at the
United Reformed
Church has has about
12 spaces.
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 Hellenistic upbringing
 Roman citizen by birth
 Jewish legal training
 Pharisee
 Earned his own living, a tent-maker
 See him first in Acts 7.58 & 8.1
 against the Christians, followers of the Way
 Conversion on the road to Damascus
 Acts 9
 Wrote Romans – Philemon (some dispute about
1&2 Timothy, Titus)
 Did not write Hebrews
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 Followed the letter writing style of his day
 Rhetoric was an important subject in its own right
 Salutation
 letter writer’s name and recipient
 greeting
 Thanksgiving
 Main body of letter
 doctrinal
 ethical
 practical
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 personal news or greeting
 exhortation or blessing
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A. No Other Gospel (1:1-12)
B. Paul Called by God (1:13-2:10)
C. Justification by Faith (2:11-3:5)
D. The Law and the Promise (3:6-3:25)
E. Freedom in Christ (4:21-5:6)
F. Life in the Spirit (5:7-26)
G. Boasting in the Cross (6:11-18)
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 Key verse
1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 7 which is really no gospel at all.
 Are there many gospels? Can we make up our own? Is Paul’s gospel different from
Jesus’?
 Compare
1:3 …the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age…
 with
Mark 10:45 “…For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
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Compare
2:15 "We... 16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in
Jesus Christ.
 with
John 6:29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
 Compare
5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
 with
John 8:35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it for ever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
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 Paul’s Testimony
 Key verse:
1:15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his
Son in me so that I might preach him among the
Gentiles,…
 All true Christian ministry reveals Christ working through us
 Key verse:
2:77 …they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews. 8 For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles.
 God calls each one of us to specific ministries
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 Key verses:
2:15 We who are Jews by birth and not `Gentile sinners' 16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
3:2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?
 Paul gets very hot under the collar at the thought that the Judaizers want to add something to the gospel:
 Jesus + law = nothing
 Jesus + church = nothing
 Jesus + good works = nothing
 Jesus + anything = nothing
 Jesus = everything
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 The relationship between law and grace, between the Old and New Covenants, is one of the great themes of the New Testament
 The Book of Galatians see this as God’s necessary progressive revelation to humankind:
23 Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. 24
So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.
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 Five kinds of Slavery
 Slavery to another person, open and concealed (e.g.
Hagar)
 Self-imposed slavery to a principle, cause, religion, etc.
(e.g. legalism)
 Slavery of children (for their own protection)
 Slavery to illness and disability
 Slavery to sin (see John 8:33)
 Jesus sets us free from all kinds of slavery
5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
 From the Book of Common Prayer:
 ‘O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us thy humble servants…’
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 Key verses:
13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature…
16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
 Or in the Authorised Version
16 This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
 If our daily life is in communion with the Holy Spirit then we become fruitful and transformed to be like Jesus:
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 Key verse:
14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
 Pride is a sin, except our pride in Jesus
Jeremiah 29:23 This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the
LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares
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Ephesians 1:22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fulness of him who fills everything in every way.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 4:19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,..
 Remember what Jesus said:
Matthew 28:20b “...And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
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 Imagine we are doing a sermon series on
Galatians
 Each pair select a passage
 After studying the passage, ask yourself these questions:
1.
What is the main ‘argument’?
2.
Which are the key verses?
3.
What would we like our hearers to go away understanding?
4.
What response would we like them to make?
5.
What other Bible passage(s) or quotations could we use?
6.
Do we have any personal illustrations, things in the news, etc. that would help our hearers?
 Be prepared to share your answers
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A. 12:1-6: The Trinity manifested through the church
B. 12:7-11: Varieties of spiritual gifts
C. 12:12-27: The church as the body of Christ
D. 12:28-31a: Distribution of gifts and ministries in the church
E. 12:31b-13:3: Gifts without love
F. 13:4-8a: The nature of love
G. 13:8b-13: The eternal nature of love
H. 14:1-22: Prophecy and tongues compared
I.
14:23-40: Gifts and order in the church
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1 Corinthians 12:7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
 This could be translated as ‘Now to everyone a manifestation of the Spirit is being given, for the common good’.
 In ministry, to be effective for God, we must use the gifts he has given us
 This means that we need to:
 Discover our gifting
 Grow in confidence and ability
 Exercise our gifts in the church and the world
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 Jesus exercised the gifts of the Spirit (1
Corinthians 12:8-10)
 message of wisdom (e.g. Matthew 7:28)
 message of knowledge (e.g. John 4:18)
 faith (e.g. John 14:12)
 gifts of healing (e.g. Matthew 4:23)
 miraculous powers (e.g. Luke 8:24)
 prophecy (e.g. John 12:50)
 distinguishing between spirits (e.g. Mark 5:8)
1 John 2:6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
 See also Romans 12:4-8, Ephesians 4:11,
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 In the Book of Acts
 message of wisdom (e.g. Acts 6:9-10)
 message of knowledge (e.g. Acts 5:3)
 faith (e.g. Acts 3:16)
 gifts of healing (e.g. Acts 28:8)
 miraculous powers (e.g. Acts 20:9-10)
 prophecy (e.g. Acts 21:10-12)
 distinguishing between spirits (e.g. Acts 16:18)
 Discovering your gifts – the Modified Houts
Questionnaire
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1 Cor 12 : 4 -14
Word of Wisdom
Word of Knowledge
Faith
Healings
Working of miracles
Prophecy
Discernment of spirits
Speaking in tongues
Interpreting tongues
1 Cor 12 : 27 – 30
Apostles
Prophets
Teachers
Miracles
Healings
Helps
Administration
Tongues
Rom 12: 6-8
Prophecy
Ministry
Teaching
Exhortation
Giving
Leading
Showing mercy
Eph 4 : 11
Apostles
Prophets
Evangelists
Pastor/teachers
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17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the
Spirit.
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1 Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2 Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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5 For we do not preach ourselves, but
Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
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8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of
Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
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 Read Revelation 1-5
 Read Revelation 21-22
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 Introduction, 1
 Letters to the Seven Churches, 2-3
 Vision of the Heavenly Throne Room, 4-5
 Seals, trumpets and bowls, 6-16
 Interludes, Glimpses of the Church and Its
Conflicts,
7; 10.1-11.13; 12-14
 The City of the Antichrist and the City of
God, 17.1-22.5
 Epilogue, 22.6-21
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 Ephesus, 2.1-7
 You have abandoned the love you had at first, v.5
 Smyrna, 2.8-11
 Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life, v.10
 Pergamum, 2.12-17
 Tolerating wrong teaching, Balaam and
Nicolaitans, v.14-5
 Thyatira, 2.18-28
 Tolerating wrong behaviour, Jezebel, v.20
 Sardis, 3.1-6
 Spiritually dead, v.1
 Philadelphia, 3.7-11
 Just encouragement
 Laodicea, 3.14-22
 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither mouth, v.16
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John’s Song
Revelation 1:5-7
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and
Father —to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him.
So shall it be! Amen.
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The Promises of Jesus (1)
Revelation 2:7
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:11
He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.
Revelation 2:17
To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it.
Revelation 2:26-28
To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations — ‘He will rule them with an iron sceptre; he will dash them to pieces like pottery’— just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.
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The Promises of Jesus (2)
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white.
I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
Revelation 3:11-12
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.
Revelation 3:21
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with
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Song of the Four Living Creatures
Revelation 4:8
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.
Song of the Twenty-Four Elders
Revelation 4:11
You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.
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The New Song of the Twenty-Four Elders
Revelation 5:9-10
You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.
The Song of Countless Angels
Revelation 5:12
Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise!
The Song of All Creatures
Revelation 5:13
To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honour and glory and power, for ever and ever!
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The Cry of those Slain for Christ
Revelation 6:10
How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?
Song of the Redeemed
Revelation 7:10
Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.
The Angels’ Song (2)
Revelation 7:12
Amen!
Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength
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Loud Voices in Heaven
Revelation 11:15
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.
Song of the Twenty-Four Elders
Revelation 11:17-18
We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.
The nations were angry; and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great —
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The Loud Voice in Heaven
Revelation 12:10-12
Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.
For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.
The New Song of the Redeemed
Revelation 14:3
No-one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
The Angel of the Eternal Gospel
Revelation 14:7
Fear God and give him glory,
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Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.

The Song of Those Victorious over the Beast
Revelation 15:3-4
Great and marvellous are your deeds,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the ages.
Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.
The Song of the Angel of the Waters
Revelation 16:5-6
You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged; for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.
Song of the Altar
Revelation 16:7
Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments."
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Song of the Multitude
Revelation 19:3
Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.
A Voice from the Throne
Revelation 19:5
Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both small and great!
Multitude Like the Rushing Waters and Peals of Thunder
Revelation 19:6-8
Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear. (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)
Voice of an Angel
Revelation 19:9
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Loud Voice from the Throne
Revelation 21:3-4
Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them.
They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
Invitation of the Spirit and the Bride
Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
Closing Invitation of John
Revelation 22:20
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
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