LESSON TWELVE – THE SUBJECTS OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

2 Pet. 1:20-21 — Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one’s own interpretation; for no prophecy was ever borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God while being borne by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew: The gospel of the kingdom— proving that Jesus Christ is the King Savior.

Mark: The gospel of God—proving that Jesus Christ is the Slave-Savior.

Luke: The gospel of the forgiveness of sins—proving that Jesus Christ is the Man Savior.

John: The gospel of  life—proving that Jesus Christ is God the Savior coming as life to propagate Himself.

Acts: The propagation of the resurrected Christ in His ascension, by the Spirit, through the disciples, for the producing of the churches—the kingdom of God.

Romans: The gospel of God—to make sinners sons of God to constitute the Body of Christ, which is expressed as the local churches.

1 Corinthians: Christ and His cross as the solution to all problems in the Church.

2 Corinthians: The new covenant ministry and its Ministers.

Galatians: Christ replacing the law and being versus religion and tradition.

Ephesians: The church—the mystery of Christ, the Body of Christ as the fullness of Christ, becoming the fullness of God.

Philippians: Experiencing Christ—taking Christ as our living, pattern, goal, power, and secret.

Colossians: Christ—the all-inclusive One, having the first place in all things as the mystery and embodiment of God, as the Head and constituent of the church, as the allotted portion, life, constituent, and hope of the saints, and as the body of all positive things.

1 Thessalonians: A holy life for the church life—serving the living God, conducting ourselves in a holy manner, and waiting for the Lord’s coming.

2 Thessalonians: Encouragement and correction concerning the holy life for the church Life.

1 Timothy: God’s economy concerning the Church.

2 Timothy: Inoculation against the decline of the Church.

Titus: The maintenance of order in the church.

Philemon: An illustration of the believers’ equal status in the new man.

Hebrews: Christ being superior to Judaism and everything related to it, and the new covenant which He consummated being better than the old covenant.

James: Practical Christian perfection.

1 Peter: The Christian life under the government of God.

2 Peter: The divine provision and the divine Government.

1 John: The fellowship of the divine Life.

2 John: Prohibition against participation in heresy.

3 John: Encouragement to the  fellow workers in the Truth.

Jude: Contending for the faith.

Revelation: Christ as the center of God’s administration according to God’s eternal economy.

Reference: Recovery Version of the Bible

I’VE FOUND THE ONE OF PEERLESS WORTH

Experience of Christ— As Everything – 510

• I’ve found the One of peerless worth,
  My heart doth sing for joy;
  And sing I must, for Christ I have:
  Oh, what a Christ have I!

• My Christ, He is the Lamb of God,
  Who full salvation brings;
  He is the Sun of Righteousness,
  With healing in His wings.

• My Christ, He is the Tree of Life
  With fruit abundant, sweet;
  My hunger He doth satisfy;
  Of Him I daily eat.

• My Christ, He is the smitten Rock
  Whence living waters burst;
  He is the fountain in my heart
  Which quenches all my thirst.

• Christ is my life, my light, my way,
  My comfort and my health,
  My peace, my rest, my joy, my hope,
  My glory and my wealth.

• Christ is my wisdom and my pow’r,
  My boast and righteousness,
  My vict’ry and redemption sure,
  My truth and holiness.

• Christ is my Savior, Shepherd, Lord,
  My Advocate above,
  My Counsellor, my Father, God,
  My Brother, Friend, and Love.

• Christ is my Captain and my Guard,
  My Teacher and my Guide,
  My Bridegroom, Master and my Head;
  In me doth He reside.

• Christ is my Prophet, Priest, and King;
  My Prophet full of sight;
  My Priest that stands ‘twixt me and God,
  My King that rules with might.

• Christ is the Author of my faith,
  And its Perfecter too,
  My Mediator, Guarantee,
  And faithful Witness true.

• Christ is my everlasting home,
  My all-sufficient land;
  My fortress, tower, hiding-place,
  And my eternal stand.
• 12. Christ is my Sabbath and new moon,
  My morning and my day,
  My age and my eternity
  That ne’er will pass away.

• Christ is my trust and my desire,
  In comeliness replete,
  My satisfaction and delight,
  Who all my need doth meet.

• My Christ, the all-inclusive One,
  My Christ what shall I call?
  He is the first, He is the last,
  My Christ is All in all.

• Since such a treasure I possess,
  My heart doth sing for joy;
  And I must sing, and sing again;
  Oh, what a Christ have I!