New Testament Survey
Presented: By Dean Morgan
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1 Corinthians
The Book Of Gifts
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1 Corinthians
• Theme: The letter revolves around
the theme of problems in Christian
conduct in the church. It thus has to
do with progressive sanctification,
the continuing development of
holiness of character.
• When and Where Written: A.D. 55, in
Ephesus, at the close of Paul’s threeyear ministry.
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1 Corinthians
• Key Chapters:
1. 13; Love – the way of Christian
living
2. 15; Resurrection – victory over
death
• Key Verse: 1:10 (NIV) “I appeal to
you, brothers, in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you
agree with one another so that
there may be no divisions among
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1 Corinthians
• Key Word: Wisdom
• Key Phrase: Let all things be done
decently and in order: 14:40
• Key Thought: Church order.
• Spiritual Thought: Come to Him for
all gifts.
• Christ Is Seen As: The firstfruits of
the dead: 15:20.
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2 Corinthians
The Book Of The Ministers Heart
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2 Corinthians
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It contains more autobiographical
material than any of his other
writings.
Things About His Life
Found Only Here
1. His escape from Damascus in a
basket (11:32,33).
2. His experience of being caught up to
the third heaven (12:1-4).
3. His thorn in the flesh (12:7).
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2 Corinthians
• When and Where Written: A.D. 56,
on Paul’s third missionary journey,
probably from Philippi, after the
events of Acts 19:23-20:3.
• Key Chapter: 5. Promise of
immortality.
• Key Verses: 4:5; 5:17; 5:20
• Key Word: Boast, or glory.
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2 Corinthians
• Key Phrase: The signs of an apostle:
12:12.
• Key Thought: Paul’s defense of his
ministry.
• Spiritual Thought: My grace is
sufficient for you: 12:9.
• Christ Is Seen As: Our Sufficiency:
3:5.
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Galatians
The Book Of Liberty
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Galatians
• Galatians is the Christian’s “Magna
Charta”, or Declaration of
Independence.
• Subject: The gospel as the power of
the life of the believer.
• Key Chapter: 3. Justification by faith.
• Key Verse: 2:16
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Galatians
• Key Word: Liberty.
• Key Phrase: Stand fast in the liberty:
5:1.
• Key Thought: Redeemed from the
curse of the law: 3:13.
• Spiritual Thought: Come to Christ for
liberty and power.
• Christ Is Seen As: Our Liberator: 1:4;
5:1.
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Ephesians
The Epistle Of Fullness
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Ephesians
• The Greek work for church is ecclesia,
which means an assembly of called-out
ones.
• Subject: Calling, conduct, and conflict of
the church.
• Key Chapter: 1 – The believer in Christ
• Key Verse: l:3 – “Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in
the heavenly places in Christ”.
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Ephesians
• Key Word: Fullness
• Key Phrase: In Christ – in the
heavenlies: 2:6.
• Key Thought: Our blessings in Christ in
the heavenlies: 1:3.
• Spiritual Thought: Come to Him for
fullness of life.
• Christ Is Seen As: The Head of the
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Church: 1:22; 5:23.
Philippians
Paul’s Joy Letter
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Philippians
• The theme of joy in Christ is echoed 16
times in the four chapters of this letter.
• Subject: Christ our Life, Example, Goal,
and Strength.
• Purpose: Written for the joy and
progress of our faith (1:25), and to
teach the Christian that his experiences
are not shaped by outward
circumstances but by the life of Christ
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within.
Philippians
• Key Chapter: 2. Christ, the believer’s
Pattern
• Key Verse: 2:5 – “Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus”.
• Key Phrase: Rejoice in the Lord: 4:4.
• Key Thought: Christian experience
• Spiritual Thought: The mind of Christ;
esteeming other better than self: 2:3,5.
• Christ is seen as: Our strength: 4:13. 20
Colossians
Christ Preeminent
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Colossians: The Colossian
Heresy
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Ceremonialism
Asceticism
Angel Worship
Depreciation of Christ
Secret Knowledge
Reliance on human wisdom and
tradition
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Colossians: Christ Is All In All
• In His deity – The image of the
invisible God (1:15)
• In creation – Sovereign Creator of
the universe (1:15-16)
• In preeminence – Before all things
(1:18)
• In redemption – Reconciling the
universe through His blood (1:2022)
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Colossians: Christ Is All In All
• In headship – Over all
principalities and powers (1:18;
2:14)
• In His church – The Head of the
body (1:18; 2:19)
• In His indwelling presence – The
Christian’s hope (1:27).
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Colossians
• Key Chapter: 1. The indwelling Christ.
• Key Verses: 2:9, 10 – “For in Him
dwells all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily; and you are complete in Him,
who is the head of all principality and
power.”
• Key Word: Fullness.
• Key Phrase: With Christ.
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Colossians
• Key Thought: Christ preeminent.
• Spiritual Thought: Crown Him Lord
of all.
• Christ Is Seen As: The fullness of
the Godhead: 1:19; 2:9.
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Colossians
The rule that governs my life as this
one man says, “Anything that
dims my vision of Christ, or takes
away my taste for Bible study, or
cramps my prayer life, or makes
Christian work difficult is wrong
for me, and I must, as a Christian,
turn away from it.”
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First Thessalonians
The Epistle Of The Rapture
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1 Thessalonians: Purpose
• Paul wrote this letter (1) to vindicate
his own character (2:3-9); (2) to
encourage them to loyalty in spite of
persecution (2:13-16); (3) to confirm
these young Christians in truth
already taught (3:1-4:2); (4) to exhort
them to holiness of life (4:3-8); and (5)
to comfort them concerning those
already asleep in Jesus (4:13-5:11).
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The Believers At Thessalonica
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Received the Word: 1:6b; 2:13
Were saved from wrath: 1:10
Turned from idol: 1:9a
Presented their bodies a living
sacrifice: 2 Corinthians 8:1, 5
5. Followed God: 1:6a
6. Served the living and true God: 1:9b
7. Suffered persecution; for living godly:
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1:6; 3:3,6, 7
The Believers At Thessalonica
8. Were joyful in the Spirit: 1:6c
9. Had works of faith and love: 3:6, 7
10.Were examples to others: 1:7, 8
11.Supported missions: 2 Corinthians
8:3, 4
12.Prayed for missionaries:2
Corinthians 8:3,4
13.Were looking for the second coming
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of Christ: 1:10
1 Thessalonians: Christ Return
1. Wait for His Son from heaven: 1:10
2. In Christ’s presence at His coming:
2:19
3. At the coming of our Lord: 3:13
4. To meet the Lord in the air: 4:17
5. Unto the coming of the Lord: 5:23
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1 Thessalonians
• Subject: The coming of our Lord for His
church.
• Key Chapter: 4. The Rapture
• Key Verses: 1:9,10 – “For they
themselves declare concerning us what
manner of entry we had to you, and how
you turned to God from idols to serve the
living and true God, and to wait for His
Son from heaven, whom He raised from
the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from
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the wrath to come.”
1 Thessalonians
• Key Word: Coming.
• Key Phrase: in Christ –hopeful: 4:1318.
• Key Thought: Waiting for His Son from
heaven: 1:10.
• Spiritual Thought: He is surely coming
again.
• Christ Is Seen As: Our Coming Lord:
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1:10; 4:16,17.
Second Thessalonians
Christ’s Second Coming
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2 Thessalonians
• Paul wrote this second letter to
reassure them of Christ’s coming to
vindicate their cause (l:5-12); to explain
that certain events must first come to
pass before Christ’s return (2:1-12);
and to exhort them to lead a quiet,
sober, and industrious life (3:6-15).
• Theme: Like 1 Thessalonians, this letter
deals extensively with eschatology.
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2 Thessalonians
• Subject: The coming of Christ to judge
those who obey not the gospel: 1:7-9.
• Key Verses: 2:13,14 – “But we are bound
to give thanks to God always for you,
brethren beloved by the Lord, because
God from the beginning chose you for
salvation through sanctification by the
Spirit and belief in the truth. To which
He called you by our gospel, for the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus
Christ.”
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2 Thessalonians
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Key Word: Waiting.
Key Phrase: In Christ – glorified
Key Thought: The Day of the Lord.
Spiritual Thought: Wait and work
till He comes
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The Pastoral Epistles
First And Second Timothy And Titus
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First Timothy
Advice To Ministers
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1 Timothy
• Timothy means “God-honoring”.
• “St. Paul writes this epistle as a
model for all bishops, what they shall
teach, and how they shall rule the
Christian Church in all
circumstances, so that they need not
guide Christian men by their own
human darkness.”
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1 Timothy
• Subject: The teaching and conduct
which is becoming in the church of God.
• Purpose: To give caution and guidance
to every servant of God in this
dispensation.
• Date: 1 Timothy was written sometime
after the events of Acts 28 (c. 63-65), at
least 8 years after Paul’s three year stay
in Ephesus (Acts 19:8,10; 20:31).
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1 Timothy
• Key Chapter: 1. Legalism and false
teaching rebuked.
• Key Verses: 3:14,15 – “Things I write to
you, though I hope to come to you
shortly; but if I am delayed, I write so
that you may know how you ought to
conduct yourself in the house of God,
which is the church of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth”.
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1 Timothy
• Key Word: Charge.
• Key Phrase: In Christ – faithful.
• Key Thought: Order in the house of
God: 3:15
• Spiritual Thought: Guard the
gospel.
• Christ Is Seen As: The Mystery of
Godliness: 3:16.
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1 Timothy:
A Heart For Knowing God
1. Constantly nourish yourself
on the Word of God
2. Relentlessly avoid error
3. Discipline yourself for the
purpose of godliness
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Second Timothy
Paul’s Final Message
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2 Timothy
• Subject: The unchangeable
authority and power of God’s Word in
the last days.
• Purpose: To show why Scripture
has been given to man: 3:16, 17.
• Key Chapter: 3. The believer’s
resource for apostasy.
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2 Timothy
• Key Verse: 2:15 – “Be diligent to present
yourself approved to God, a worker who
does not need to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth”.
• Key Word: Charge.
• Key Phrase: In Christ –exultant.
• Key Thought: Guard the witness.
• Spiritual Thought: Guard the witness!!
• Christ Is Seen As: Our righteous Judge:
4:1.
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Titus
Advice To Pastors And Churches
Titus
• Crete: The fourth largest island of
the Mediterranean.
• In N.T. times life in Crete had sunk
to a deplorable moral level.
• Subject: The good works
becoming Christian believers.
• Key Chapter: 2. Direction for
doctrine and conduct.
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Titus
• Key Verses: 1:5; 3:5. 1:5 – “For this
reason I left you in Crete, that you
should set in order the things that are
lacking, and appoint elders in every city
as I commanded you”.
• 3:5 – “Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to
His mercy He saved us, through the
washing of regeneration and renewing
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of the Holy Spirit”.
Titus
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Key Word: Profitable.
Key Phrase: In Christ – ministering.
Key Thought: Set things in order.
Spiritual Thought: Adorn the doctrine.
Christ Is Seen As: Great God and
Savior: 2:10, 11; 3:4,6.
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Titus: Life With A Capital L
• Leave the old life.
• Live the new life.
• Look for that blessed hope and
glorious appearing of Christ.
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Titus: Good Works
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A pattern of good works – 2:7
Zealous of good works – 2:14
Ready to every good work -3:1
Careful to maintain good works -3:8
Maintain good works for necessary
uses – 3:14
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Philemon The Original
Emancipation Proclamation
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Philemon
• Philemon, to whom this letter was
written (vs. 1-13), was a member of the
church at Colosse.
• He was a man of considerable means, a
possessor of slaves, and a benevolent
believer (vs. 5-7).
• His name means, “affectionate”
• Apphia was probably his wife;
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Archippus his son.
Philemon
• Subject: Salvation and restoration of a
runaway slave.
• Key Verse: 16 – “No longer as a slave
but more than a slave – a beloved
brother, especially to me but how much
more to you, both in the flesh and in the
Lord”.
• Key Word: Receive.
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Philemon
• Key Phrase: In Christ – a
Brotherhood.
• Key Thought: Christian servitude.
• Spiritual Thought: Be kind to all for
Christ’s sake.
• Christ Is Seen As: the Payer of our
sin-debt.
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General Epistles
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The General Epistles
• The “General Letters” are those
writings in which the author designated
the recipients in general terms rather
than with a specific location.
• They discussed problems the church
faced in its later growth and expansion.
• All the writers presented a picture of a
Savior whose strength could sustain
them (Heb. 4:14-16).
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Hebrews
The Book Of
Shadows And Substance
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Hebrews: Occasion
1. To stress superiority of Christ over
Judaism: 1:1-5:10
2. To check apostasy: 3:6, 14
3. To encourage and stimulate faith:
6:1-12
4. To show that the O.T. system, in
spite of all its pomp and glory, was
only a shadow: 8: 1-9:10
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Hebrews: Occasion
5. To show that O.T. sacrifices were
already abolished by Christ’s sacrificial
death: 9:11-10:39
6. To urge these believers to live up to
their privileges – “go on to perfection”:
6:1; 11; 1-13:17
7. To show Hebrew Christians that they
had to quit being Hebrews.
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Hebrews
• This book has been called the fifth Gospel.
• This book was written to strengthen the
faith of wavering Christians.
• Subject: Christ as Someone Better Than,
and His work Something Better Than
anything in Judaism.
• Purpose: To draw the Hebrew Christians
back from Judaism to Christ and His work,
and to draw believers today unto Christ
from a life formality and mere profession 64
Hebrews
• Key Chapters: 9 and 11. Shadows
give way to Reality.
• Key Words:
1. Better, used 13 times
2. Heaven, or heavenly, used 15 times
3. Once, or once for all, used 9 times
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Hebrews
• Spiritual Thought: He is our Intercessor
at God’s throne: 1:3; 7:25.
• Christ Is Seen As: The Apostle and High
Priest of our profession: 3:1.
• Theology: The Letter to the Hebrews
emphasizes the person of Christ.
• Hebrews also emphasizes the finality of
Christ’s work.
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James
The Book Of Practical Christianity
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James
• Someone has called James the
“Proverb” of the N.T.
• When and Where Written: A.D. 45, in
Jerusalem.
• Key Chapter: 2. Test of faith.
• Key Verses: 2:20 – “But do you want to
know, O foolish man, that faith without
works is dead?”
• 2:26 – “For as the body without the spirit
is dead, so faith without works is dead
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also”.
James
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Key Word: Works.
Key Phrase: Be ye doers of the Word.
Key Thought: The practice of faith.
Spiritual Thought: Prove your faith in
your life (Phil. 2:12, 13)
• Christ Is Seen As: The Lord who
draws near: 4:6-8.
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James
• James reminds us in a forthright
way that faith involves doing.
• We cannot just say we are
believers; we must show it in our
lives.
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First Peter
The Book Of Christian Discipline
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1 Peter
• After Pentecost he is seen as the “dean” of
the apostles.
• He sought to give them hope as strangers
on earth, but with an inheritance in heaven.
• Peter has been called the “apostle of
hope”, Paul, the “apostle of faith”, and
John, the “apostle of love”.
• Peter also probably wrote to show his
support of Paul’s teaching (2Peter 3:15-18).
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1 Peter
• Subject: The pilgrim’s pathway of
suffering.
• Purpose: To encourage us when tried
in order that we may be perfect,
established, strengthened, and settled:
5:9, 10.
• Key Chapter: 1. Assurance and
promises for believers.
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1 Peter
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Key Word: Suffer (used 15 times).
Key Phrase: Pilgrims and strangers.
Key Thought: The Christian’s hope
Spiritual Thought: He is precious: 2:7.
Christ Is Seen As: The suffering Lamb:
1:19; 2:21.
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Second Peter
The Book Of Christian Diligence
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2 Peter
• Peter’s letters, to strengthen the
believer, are twofold: the first to
encourage them to keep their faith in
the midst of suffering—perils from
without; the second to encourage
them to know truth in the face of
mounting heresies and apostasy—
perils from within.
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2 Peter
• “It is not so much how you start in the
faith but how you continue.”
• Subject: Last things—eternal kingdom,
second coming, judgment of the wicked,
day of the Lord.
• Purpose: To help us grow in grace:
3:18.
• When and Where Written: A.D. 66 or
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67, probable in Babylon.
2 Peter
• Key Chapter: 2. Warning concerning
apostate teachers.
• Key Verse: 3:2.
• Key Word: Knowledge.
• Key Phrase: Full knowledge of God:
1:2.
• Key Thought: Be mindful: 3:2.
• Spiritual Thought: Never stop
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growing.
First John
The Epistle Of Knowledge And
Assurance
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First John
• John wrote to combat false teaching:
1. That they cherish the truth that Jesus
did come in the flesh (4:1, 2).
2. That they could not practice sin and at
the same time walk in God’s truth and
light.
3. That they may know that they have a
superior knowledge of God and His
truths.
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First John
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The licentious principles and
practices John condemned are:
a. That believers had no sin in them
(1:8);
b. That they could love the world, the
flesh, and the devil, and still be
Christians (2:15);
c. Idolatry (5:21).
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First John
• Subject: The family of God at home.
• Purpose: To reveal truth concerning
fellowship (1:3), and that we may know
that we have eternal life (5:11-13).
• When and Where Written: A.D. 85-90,
probably in Ephesus, where he was
bishop of the church there after the
death of Timothy.
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First John
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Theme: Three criteria for testing the
Christian profession of teachers and
individual Christians:
1. Professing Christians needed to present
righteousness as the right behavior (2:3-4).
2. They must demonstrate love as the correct
attitude of Christian living (4:8).
3. They needed to hold to the correct view of
Christ as the proper teaching of Christians
(4:3).
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First John
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Key Chapter: 5. Faith for overcoming.
Key Verse: 5:13
Key Word: Fellowship.
Key Phrase: “if we say.”
Key Thought: Stand in the truth.
Spiritual Thought: He is the Life.
Christ Is Seen As: The Son of God.
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First John
• Why John Wrote:
a. That we might have salvation: John
20:31
b. That we might have satisfaction: 1:4
c. That we might have sanctification: 2:1
d. That we might have safety: 2:26
e. That we might have security: 5:13
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First John
• Worldliness: 2:15-17
a. Lust of the flesh—to experience
something
b. Lust of the eye—to have something
c. Pride of life—a desire to be
something
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Second John
The Epistle Of Love And Truth
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Second John
• Occasion of Writing: To warn against
the corrupting influences of false
teachers denying the reality of Christ’s
humanity and to encourage Christians
to “love in the truth.”
• Character: Family Epistle
• Subject: The Truth as it is in Christ.
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Second John - Theme
• First, he urged his readers to
practice love with one another (2
John 5).
• Second, he called them to practice
truth in affirming the correct
doctrine about Jesus (2 John 7-11).
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Second John
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Key Verse: 6
Key Word: Love.
Key Phrase: Abide in the doctrine.
Key Thought: Walk in the Truth.
Spiritual Thought: Preserve the
Truth.
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Third John
The Epistle Of Christian Hospitality
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Third John
• Subject: Humility—a characteristic
becoming an elder or pastor in a
church.
• Purpose: To teach us God’s place
for us as witnesses of the truth and
to warn against self-exaltation and
self-assumption in the ministry.
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Third John
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Key Verse: 4, 8
Key Word: Truth
Key Phrase: Fellow
Key Thought: Spread the Truth.
Spiritual Thought: He is the Way.
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Jude
The Epistle To Remedy Apostasy
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Cardinal Doctrines
1. The triune God: vs. 1, 20
2. The historicity of the Old Testament:
vs. 5-11
3. Existence of angels: v. 6
4. Satan’s existence and power: v. 9
5. Judgment and retribution: vs. 6, 7, 13,
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6. Christ’s second coming: vs. 14, 15
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7. Christ’s Deity: v. 25
Jude
• Purpose: To keep us from falling and to
present us faultless before His
presence: v. 24.
• Key Verse: 24
• Key Word: Kept
• Key Phrase: Earnestly contend
• Key Thought: Present faultless
• Spiritual Thought: He is able.
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Revelation
The Book Of Final Consummation
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Apostolic Theology
1. The events accomplished by God,
particularly as they pertain to the
person of Jesus Christ, have all been
done in fulfillment of Scripture.
2. God has powerfully acted for our
salvation especially through the death
and resurrection of Jesus.
3. This same Jesus is now the exalted
Lord.
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Apostolic Theology
4. All who believe and confess the person of
Jesus Christ will experience the salvation of
God.
5. God’s Spirit has been poured out on all
those who name the name of Christ.
6. Commitment to God through Christ means
participation in a fellowship of worship and
instruction.
7. This same Jesus will come again to rescue
those who have confessed Him in
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faithfulness.
Revelation
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Key Chapter: 19. Christ’s coming in
glory.
Key Verse: 1:19
Key Word: Overcometh
Key Phrase: He that hath an ear let
him hear: 2:7.
Key Thought: The Revelation of Jesus
Christ: 1:1
Spiritual Thought: Read the Word of
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God: 1:3