Bible Doctrine 1

… A Quick Start of
Basic Bible Doctrines

Divine Attributes

 

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©Dr. Tod Kennedy, 2003; revised June 2010, minor editing 2021. knowbelieveapply.com; todkennedy.com

Bible Doctrine 1

Contents of Book

Introductory Information 5

Introduction to This Book 7

Good News 9

Where to Begin 17

Where to Begin 19

Eternal Salvation 20

Eternal Security 21

Assurance of Salvation 22

Church 23

Basic Techniques of the Christian Way of Life 25

Occupation with Christ – Love God 27

Knowledge of the Word of God 29

Faith Rest 30

Confession of Sin for Fellowship 31

Spirituality – Living by the Holy Spirit 32

Prayer 34

Ministry and Love 35

Basic Bible Doctrines 37

Assurance 39

Attributes of God 40

Basic Techniques of the Christian Way of Life 42

Church 44

Confession of Sin for Fellowship 46

Dispensations 48

Divine Guidance 50

Equipping the Believer 52

Eternal Salvation 54

Eternal Security 56

Evangelism 58

Faith Rest 60

Fear of the Lord 62

Good Works 65

Grace 67

Knowledge of the Word of God 68

Love 70

Man 72

Ministries of the Holy Spirit 74

Ministry and Love 76

Occupation with Christ – Love God 78

Physical Death 80

Plan of God 82

Position in Christ (Positional Truth) 84

Prayer 86

Relationships Among Believers 88

Revelation, Inspiration, Illumination, Communication 90

Sin Barrier 92

Spiritual Blessings 94

Spiritual Gifts 96

Spirituality – Living by the Holy Spirit 98

Suffering 100

Trinity (Tri-Unity) 102

Zones of Spiritual Conflict 104

Old Testament Chapter Titles 107

New Testament Chapter Titles 139

Introduction to This Book

Introductory

Information

Many people are familiar with quick start instructions for computers and computer programs. They help new users to quickly begin to use the computer. Once the user gets started he can go to the longer manual for more detail.

Bible Doctrine 1 contains brief summaries designed to be a quick start to foundational Bible doctrines for the Christian life. Each doctrine is given in summary form and is a condensed version of the final step in the exegetical process (Bible study). The final step is the point at which categories and principles of doctrine, which derive from the Bible study, are recorded in an understandable form. Therefore, the treatment in this book does not attempt to be complete in main points, details, or scripture verification. Bible Doctrine 1 is a quick start, an overview, to help you better understand and live the Christian life. Furthermore, this book provides basic spiritual food for the growing believer. It is not meant to take the place of the believer’s pastor-teacher and local church ministry.

This book will better serve its purpose if you will use it as a study and reference book. Think your way through each doctrine and the Scripture references. As you do,

• Make notes in the margins and text.
• Ask questions of the material.
• Look for key words and phrases.
• Define important terms.
• Sort ideas and relate them to each other.
• Try to integrate the doctrines into the entire flowing body of truth that God has given to us.
• Make decisions to apply the Word of God in every circumstance.

Good News

The beginning of the beginning is the good news that God has sent His Son to become man and to be judged on the cross for your sins and for all the sins of the entire world. You can have forgiveness, eternal life, a relationship with God, and a purpose in God’s plan because of the gracious work of Jesus Christ, who died in your place. You gain this free gift by believing in Jesus Christ to forgive you and give you eternal life. No works are involved – ever. Good News is for you.

Good News!

What is the Christian message? Is it possible for individuals to have a personal and eternal relationship with God?

This section will briefly consider these questions:

1. God: What is He like?
2. Man: Why was he created?
3. Sin: How does it affect man and God?
4. Christ: Who is He? What did He do for man?
5. Grace: Can salvation be earned or deserved?
6. Faith: How can I have eternal life with God?
7. Future: Where will I spend eternity—under blessing with God or under judgment separated from God?

God is perfect and is worthy to be honored and served by His creation.

“Ascribe greatness to our God! The Rock! His work is perfect, for all His ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He” (Deuteronomy 32:3-4).

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being” (Revelation 4:11).

Man was created by God to reflect His glory.

“And God created man in His own image…” (Genesis 1:27).

“Shout joyfully to the Lord all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness…. Give thanks to Him; bless His name. For the Lord is good…” (Psalm 100:1-5).

But does man reflect God’s glory? Does man naturally love God and desire to serve Him in His way?

No, because man has chosen to sin and to go his own way. The “best” person who ever lived has sinned.

“All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way” (Isaiah 53:6).

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
(Romans 3:23).

Sinful man does not reflect God’s glory, nor does man love God or serve Him in ways acceptable to God.

“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us…”
(1 John 4:10).

Because man sinned there is a barrier between man and God.

“But your iniquities have made a separation between you and
your God, and your sins have hid His face from you”
(Isaiah 59:2).

Because God is perfect and righteous, He must judge all sin. This judgment will result in eternal separation from God.

“For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23).

GOD

Perfect

Honorable

Steadfast

Gracious

MAN

Sinful

Unthankful

Disobedient

Self-Pleasing

The Barrier of Sin

GOD

Perfect

Honorable

Steadfast

Gracious

MAN

Sinful

Unthankful

Disobedient

Self-Pleasing

The Barrier of Sin

The Barrier of Sin	Man	B A R R I E R	God
	Sinful Unthankful Disobedient Self-Pleasing		Perfect Honorable Steadfast Gracious

“And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

All mankind is under God’s righteous judgment.

This is not Good News! However…

God, in His great love, sent His Son, Christ Jesus, into the world to become a man so He could take the judgment for our sin upon Himself.

“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through Him” (John 3:17).

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners…those who would believe in him for eternal life.” (1 Timothy 1:15).

“Christ also suffered for you… Who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth… and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross…” (1 Peter 2:21-24).

Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sins by His death on the cross. After that He was raised and returned to heavenly glory.

“That Christ died for our sins… and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures”
(1 Corinthians 15:3-4).

“Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather was raised, who is at the right hand of God” (Romans 8:34).

Believing in Christ is the only way we can be saved from God’s judgment and have eternal life with Him.

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me'” (John 14:6).

Christ is the only way of salvation.

Man		God
	Christ

“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven…by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

God offers this salvation to us by grace. This means it is a free gift. It is not given as a reward for any good that we may have done…such as morality, good deeds, reform, religious duty, etc.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

Faith is the only way you can receive the free gift of eternal life. Faith means to believe, trust, and rely on Christ to save you.

“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved…”
(Acts 16:31).

Man		God
Believes in Christ to save him		Gives Salvation by Grace

This is the Good News!

Until a person has, by faith, placed his complete and sole reliance upon Jesus Christ as his Savior, he is still under God’s judgment.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life… He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18).

Let us review…

God: Righteous, to be honored and served.

Man: Created to reflect God’s glory and to love and serve Him.

Sin: All have sinned, are separated from God, and are under His judgment.

Christ: The God-man who came into the world to die for our sins.

Grace: Salvation is a gift that must be accepted by faith, not a reward.

Faith: Believe in Christ, trust Him to save you.

Future: Where will I spend eternity—under blessing with God or under judgment separated from God?

The only way for sinful man to have a relationship with God is to believe in Christ – trust Him to save you.

Have you ever made the decision to trust completely in Jesus Christ as your Savior?

If not, is there any good reason why you cannot do so right now?

This prayer may be used now, or at any time, to express your faith in Christ as your Savior to have eternal life with God:

God, I understand I am a sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ took my place and died for my sins and rose again. I am now believing in Christ, trusting Him as my Savior.

Amen

 

If you have accepted Jesus Christ by faith as your personal Savior, you can be sure you have eternal life right now, and can never lose it.

“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13).

“And I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand” (John 10:28).

You are also now a member of God’s family.

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12).

God wants you to:

1. Talk to Him through prayer. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God” (Philippians 4:6).
2. Get to know Him through the Bible. “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ…” (2 Peter 3:18). “All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).
3. Become actively involved in a Bible-teaching church. “And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11-13).

Where to Begin

Where to Begin

After you understand and believe that Jesus Christ has given you eternal life, you should continue on and learn about God Himself.

What is He like? The Doctrine of Divine Attributes will give you a start.

How can I gain eternal life and a relationship with God? The Doctrine of Eternal Salvation will get you started on this.

Can I be assured that I am actually a child of God? The Doctrine of Assurance of Salvation answers that question.

Is there some way that I can lose my eternal salvation? The answer is no, you cannot. The Doctrine of Eternal Security covers that subject.

Next, study the Doctrine of the Church. Every believer in Christ is a member of Christ’s body, the church, and every believer needs to be equipped to live the Christian life. God designed the local church for this purpose. Participate regularly in a Bible-teaching and evangelistic-minded local church.

Now you should begin to think about living the day to day Christian life. There are certain biblical truths that are necessary to properly do this. We can call them basic techniques of the Christian life or the basic tools you need to live day to day. There are at least seven: Occupation with Christ, Knowledge of the Word, Faith Rest, Confession of Sin for Fellowship, Spirituality, Prayer, and Ministry.

These “Where to Begin” doctrines are in two places: the front of this book for your ease of use and alphabetically in the main body of the book.

Eternal Salvation

1. Salvation is the deliverance from God’s condemnation (John 3:16-18; 1 Timothy 1:15).
2. God is absolutely righteous. He is holy and perfect
   (Psalm 99:9; 1 John 1:5). (Also see the doctrine of the Attributes of God.)
3. God created man in His own image. God wants man to believe Him and to serve Him (Genesis 1:27-28;
   Psalm 8:3-6).
4. Man rebelled against God and became sinful. All people are sinners and under God’s condemnation
   (Genesis 2:16-17; 3:1-7; Isaiah 59:2; Romans 3:9; 6:23).
5. God provided the righteous substitute, Jesus Christ, God the Son, to be judged instead of man (John 1:29;
   1 Peter 2:24; 1 Timothy 1:15).
6. Salvation is by grace. God freely offers eternal life to man as a gift (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 6:23).
7. A person accepts God’s gift of salvation by believing (faith) in Jesus Christ for eternal salvation (John 1:12;
   John 3:16-18; Ephesians 2:8-9).
8. Our Future is blessing or judgment. Man will be judged by God if he refuses to believe on God’s Son to save him (John 3:18; Hebrews 9:27).

Eternal Security

1. Security means that when a person believes in Christ as Savior, he can never lose his eternal life. The Bible clearly teaches that once we believe in Jesus Christ as Savior, our eternal destiny is fixed and secure. We are secure in our salvation whether we feel secure or not.
2. The Bible teaches that the believer is clearly declared to be secure in a number of passages.

• The believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit
  (Ephesians 1:13).
• The believer is in God’s hand (John 10:28-29).
• Nothing can separate us from God’s love (Romans 8:38-39).
• The believer is in the plan of God (Romans 8:28-30).
• Salvation is by grace (Ephesians 2:8-9).
• The believer is a new creation in relationship with Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).
• Jesus, our advocate high priest, saves forever (Hebrews 7:25).
• Jesus, our advocate high priest, has satisfied every claim against believers (Hebrews 9:24; 1 John 2:2).

1. Confidence about eternal security allows the believer to concentrate on the Father’s plan for him (2 Timothy 1:8-14).
2. Eternal security looks at eternal salvation from God’s viewpoint while assurance looks at eternal salvation from our viewpoint.

Assurance of Salvation

1. Assurance means that the individual believer has confidence that he is in the family of God and therefore has eternal life. Assurance is man’s confidence of personal salvation, while eternal security is a fact, whether one has assurance or not. God wants all believers to have assurance of their salvation (1 John 5:13).
2. The issue in assurance is not how you feel, or whether you have gone forward in some previous meeting, or whether you have signed a decision card, but whether you have ever or you are now trusting in Jesus Christ as your Savior
   (John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 John 5:13).
3. Primary confidence is based upon what the Bible, the Word of God, says (John 5:24; Hebrews 4:12; 1 John 5:13).
4. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit indwells every believer and bears witness with a believer’s human spirit that he is a child of God (Romans 8:16).

Church

1. The church is the body of Christ – Christ’s spiritual body composed of those who have believed in Him as Savior from the day of Pentecost until the rapture (Ephesians 1:22-23).
2. The church began on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came to indwell all believers in Christ (Acts 1:5;
   Acts 2:1-4; 11:15-16; 1 Corinthians 12:13).
3. At the moment one believes in Jesus Christ as Savior the Holy Spirit baptizes him into the body of Christ, the church. This is a real and spiritual baptism, not a ritual baptism with water (1 Corinthians 12:13).
4. There are three levels of the church:
   • The universal church – all believers worldwide
     (Ephesians 1:22-23).
   • The geographical church – believers in a region
     (1 Corinthians 1:2; 14:34; 1 Thessalonians 1:1).
   • The local church – a specific local assembly (Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 14:34).
5. The primary activity of a local church is to equip believers leading to their individual and corporate ministry. God wants our regular participation (Ephesians 4:11-16; Hebrews 10:19-25).
6. Essential features of a local church when assembled are
   • The pastor-teacher teaching the Word of God to equip the congregation (Ephesians 4:11-16).
   • The individual believer’s ministries through spiritual gifts and godly love (1 Peter 4:10).
   • The celebration of the Lord’s Table and water baptism (1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Matthew 28:19-20).
7. God wants believers to tell others about forgiveness and everlasting life that is only found in Jesus Christ, and then teach the Bible to those new believers (Matthew 28:19-20; 1 Peter 3:15).

Occupation with Christ—Love for God

Basic Techniques of the Christian Way of Life

1. Occupation with Christ means that Jesus Christ is the center of our attention and love. We focus on Him – our Savior, advocate, and head of the church. We love God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Hebrews 12:2; Galatians 2:20; 1 John 5:1-3; Luke 10:27).
2. The Christian life, as Paul wrote in Galatians 2:20, emphasizes the day to day walk by faith in Jesus Christ. Hebrews 12:2 speaks of this as “fixing our eyes upon Jesus.” Romans 8:28 says “those who love God.” Occupation with Christ is a short way to identify this day by day walk by faith in Christ and love for God.
3. The believer occupied with Jesus Christ is exercising true loyal love for, imitation of, and conscious faith-dependence on Jesus Christ and His provision.
4. Occupation with Christ is the dominant and unifying technique for the church age believer (Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 12:1-2; Romans 8:28).
5. The fear of the Lord emphasizes this same faith walk. Occupation with Christ, then, is similar to what the Old Testament called living in fear of the Lord
   (Deuteronomy 31:12-13; Psalm 19:7-9; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Acts 9:31; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 5:21).
6. Jesus Christ merits the believer’s loyal love, imitation, and faith-dependence for a number of reasons:

• His person (John 1:1; 1:29).
• His incarnation (John 1:14-18; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
• His session at the right hand of the Father
  (Ephesians 1:20-23).
• His provision for the Christian way of life
  (John 13-17).
• His provision for the believer’s future (John 14:2).

1. Occupation with Christ is God’s will (Colossians 3:1-2) and should be the believer’s desire (Philippians 3:8-10).
2. The believer needs to continue learning the Word of God so we may know more about him in order for occupation with Christ to increase and strengthen (John 8:31; 2 Peter 3:18).
3. Paul is an illustration of a believer occupied with Jesus Christ (Galatians 2:20; Philippians 1:12-30).

Knowledge of the Word of God

1. The Bible is God’s Word (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21).
2. The Bible is the believer’s spiritual food (Matthew 4:4, spiritual bread;1 Peter 2:2, spiritual milk).
3. Knowledge of and confidence in the Word of God is absolutely essential for normal growth in the Christian life
   (2 Peter 3:18; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 1 Peter 2:2;
   Hebrews 5:11-14).
4. True learning of Bible doctrine has results (James 1:22-25;
   2 Timothy 3:16-17; Colossians 1:9-10):

• The believer lives Bible doctrine.
• The believer grows to spiritual maturity.

1. Moses (Deuteronomy 6:1-6), the Psalmist (Psalm 119), Daniel (Daniel 9:1-3), Jeremiah (Jeremiah 36), Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 24:44-48), and Timothy
   (2 Timothy 3:15-17) demonstrate and illustrate the importance of learning and using God’s Word, the Bible. Edit 3.11.21

Faith Rest

1. Faith rest means believing what God has said in the Bible and therefore relying upon God and resting instead of worrying ( Hebrews 4; Hebrews 11:6).
2. Faith rest requires a knowledge of Bible promises so one has God’s word to believe (Psalm 119:49-50;
   Lamentations 3:19-26).
3. When pressure comes, the believer trusts God’s promises. When this is true, the believer is not worrying; is not upset; is not trusting himself, others, or circumstances
   (2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 15).
4. Faith rest is illustrated in the story of Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 13-14):
   • Caleb and Joshua were part of a reconnaissance force of twelve sent into Canaan.
   • The mission was to gather intelligence on Israel’s enemy.
   • Caleb and Joshua trusted and rested in God’s Word. This gave them courage to give a favorable report.
   • The remaining ten were fearful, rejected God’s promises, and gave a bad report to Israel.
5. There are many Bible promises to learn, believe, and in which to rest, including Romans 8:28; Philippians 4:6-7;
   1 Peter 5:7; Matthew 6:33; Proverbs 3:5-6;
   Hebrews 13:5-6; 1 John 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13;
   Hebrews 4:15-16; Philippians 4:19; and Psalm 16:8.
6. Believing God honors God and brings blessing to us (Hebrew 4 and 11).

Confession of Sin for Fellowship

1. The believer is no longer under God’s judgment for sin (John 3:16-18), but he will commit personal sin even though he is a believer (1 John 2:1-2).
2. Personal sin breaks the believer’s fellowship with God, but his family status is unchanged (1 Peter 1:15-16;
   1 John 1:5-6).
3. A believer recovers his fellowship with God by confessing his known personal sin to God (1 John 1:9).
4. Confession means to acknowledge, admit, to agree with God that something is sin, to name the sin to God.
5. The reason God forgives and cleanses is because Jesus Christ has already paid the penalty for the sin (1 John 2:1-2).
6. David, a believer in the LORD, sinned. Second Samuel 11-12 narrate the events. Psalm 32 and 51 record the effect on David after the sin and after his confession. David’s fellowship with God was restored, but discipline remained and this discipline later brought blessing.

Spirituality—Living by the Holy Spirit

1. Spirituality refers to the believer’s right relationship with the Holy Spirit enabling him to live the Christian way of life. Spirituality emphasizes function or doing, whereas fellowship emphasizes the friendship relationship with God.
2. Though the Holy Spirit lives in every believer, a believer is not always spiritual. Paul in Romans 8:1-2, says that we believers now can live under the power of the Holy Spirit instead of under our sinful human nature. Do we want to live each day by our sinful human nature and fail God, or do we want to live each day by the Holy Spirit and please God (Galatians 5:5, 13-26 and Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 5:17-20)?
3. Spirituality is referred to as walking by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16; Galatians 6:1).
4. Walking by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16) is the condition when the indwelling Holy Spirit lives God’s kind of life inside the believer (1 Corinthians 6:19).
5. When the believer is in fellowship with God personal sin is not interfering with the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and so the believer is walking by the Holy Spirit (1 John 1 with Galatians 5:16-25). Paul, in Ephesians 5:18, calls it “filled with the Spirit.”
6. The opposite condition from being filled with the Holy Spirit is carnality, which is control by the sinful nature or living by the flesh (1 Corinthians 3:1-3; Galatians 5:16-17). John calls it walking in darkness (1 John 1:6).
7. The spiritual believer is one:
   • In fellowship by confession of sin when necessary (1 John 1:9).
   • Not grieving the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30).
   • Not quenching the Holy Spirit
     (1 Thessalonians 5:19).
   • Consciously depending by faith upon the Holy Spirit to control and enable him (Galatians 3:2-5).
8. The fruit of the Spirit is a product of spirituality (Galatians 5:22-23).
9. The Bible illustrates many times the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Three illustrations:
   • Zerubbabel needed the Holy Spirit to oversee rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem (Zechariah 4).
   • Jesus, in his humanness on earth, lived by the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit (Luke 4).
   • Paul instructed believers to live by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:5, 13-26 and Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 5:15-18).

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Prayer

1. Man communicates with God through prayer
   expecting that God listens and answers (John 16:23-24).
2. Sometimes God’s answer is not exactly what we expected, and sometimes God’s timing is different from ours.
3. Prayer demonstrates the believer’s dependence upon God and is a way of life for the believer (Ephesians 6:18-19; Colossians 4:2-3; 1 Thessalonians 5:17).
4. The persons involved in prayer are
   • The believer, who prays (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
   • The Father, to whom prayer is addressed
     (Ephesians 3:14).
   • Jesus Christ, in whose name the believer prays
     (John 16:23-27; Ephesians 5:20).
   • The Holy Spirit, who controls and enables the believer (Ephesians 6:18).
5. The principle of effective prayer is found in John 15:7. The believer should be in fellowship with the Lord by confession of sin when necessary, and by learning and applying the Word of God.
6. Basic promises regarding prayer are found in John 15:7 compared with 1 John 5:14-15:
   • Pray when in fellowship.
   • Pray according to the Word of God and therefore
     according to the Father’s will.
   • The Father answers prayer.
7. Prayer is part of the believer’s spiritual armor and an important way to support believers (Ephesians 6:18-19).Ministry and Love
8. Ministry and love refer to serving God and people. Ministry and love are the Christian way of life—loving believers (John 15:12-13; Ephesians 5:1-2; 1 Peter 4:8-11; 2 John 5-6) and serving God and others (Ephesians 4:12-16; 1 Corinthians 12:4-7; Colossians 3:17 and 23).
9. Ministry and love require three things: God’s love working through us (1 Corinthians 13:1-7), God’s plan (Ephesians 2:10), and spiritual gifts (1 Peter 4:10-11).
10. In order for the person ministering—serving—to participate in the blessing and to receive reward, he must be serving in love — God’s love produced through the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:1-2; 1 Corinthians 13:1-7; Galatians 5:22-23).
11. God has a production plan for each believer, and that plan forms the basis for his ministry (Ephesians 2:10). David is an illustration of serving God’s purpose (Acts 13:36).
12. God gives a spiritual gift to each believer and spiritual gifts provide the specialized ability for the ministry of each believer (Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12; 1 Peter 4:10-11).
13. Ministry and love are results of proper spiritual equipping for Christian service (1 Corinthians 12:12 through 13:7; Ephesians 4:12-16; Hebrews 5:12-14).
14. Effective ministry is dependent upon

• The preparation of the believer in the Word of
  God by the evangelist and pastor-teacher
  (Ephesians 4:11-13; 1 Peter 4:10-11;
  2 Timothy 3:16-17).
• Walking by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-6:1;
  Ephesians 5:18).
• Fellowship with Jesus Christ (John 13:1-10; 15:1-5;
  1 John 1:1-9).

1. We participate in the blessings of ministry when we

• Abide in fellowship with Jesus Christ (John 13:3-10; John 15:4-5).
• Walk by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16, 22-23,
  25-26).
• Serve with divine love (1 Corinthians 13:1-7).

1. God will reward believers for fruitful and productive service (1 Corinthians 3:14-15; 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:9-10).

Assurance of Salvation

Basic Bible Doctrines

1. Assurance means that the individual believer has
   confidence that he is in the family of God and therefore has eternal life. Assurance is man’s confidence of personal salvation, while eternal security is a fact, whether one has assurance or not. God wants all believers to have assurance of their salvation (1 John 5:13).
2. The issue in assurance is not how you feel, or whether you have gone forward in some previous meeting, or whether you have signed a decision card, but whether you have ever or you are now trusting in Jesus Christ as your Savior
   (John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 John 5:13).
3. Primary confidence is based upon what the Bible, the Word of God, says (John 5:24; Hebrews 4:12; 1 John 5:13).
4. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit indwells every believer and bears witness with a believer in his human spirit that he is a child of God in accordance with the Bible (Romans 8:16).

Attributes of God

Assurance of Salvation Memory Verses:

1 John 5:13. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.

John 3:36. “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

Romans 8:16. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

1. God is a spirit person (John 4:23-24; Genesis 1:26).
   • He thinks (Psalm 139:1-6).
   • He decides (Psalm 115:3).
   • He responds (Psalm 103:6-14).
2. The nature of God is composed of intrinsic attributes or characteristics. The attributes of God explain God to man.
3. The attributes of God are equally shared by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (See “Trinity.”)
4. Attributes of God:
   • Sovereign: He has the will and right to make decisions (Psalm 135:6).
   • Holy: He is perfect righteousness (Psalm 99:9).
   • Just: He is always fair and righteous toward His creation (Psalm 9:8).
   • Love: He desires His will and therefore His best for mankind (1 John 4:8).
   • Eternal: He has always existed and will always exist (Psalm 90:2).
   • Omniscient: He knows everything past, present, and future (1 John 3:20).
   • Omnipotent: He is able to do anything
     (Psalm 147:5).
   • Omnipresent: There is no place where God is not present (Psalm 139:7-10).
   • Immutable: He is always the same (Malachi 3:6)
   • Veracity: What He says is certain, correct, and dependable (Titus 1:2).

Attributes of God Memory Verses:

Psalm 135:6. Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

John 4:24. “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Psalm 139:7-10. Where can I go from Thy Spirit? Or where can I flee from Thy presence? If I ascend to heaven, Thou art there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Thy hand will lead me, And Thy right hand will lay hold of me.

Basic Techniques of the Christian Way of Life

1. The objective for the believer in his day to day life is to have a friendship relationship with God.
2. As a friend of God, the Christian will
   • Serve God.
   • Accomplish God’s will.
   • Make God and His glory known.
3. The basic techniques are the essential foundational skills and methods that God has given to the believer so that he may fulfill this objective.
4. The methodology to live the Christian Way of Life is

• Planned and given to the believer by God.
• Discussed with the disciples by Christ (John 13-17).
• Explained in the New Testament epistles.
• Taught and illustrated in many other portions of the Bible.

1. There are seven basic techniques of the Christian Way of Life.

• Occupation with Christ – Love god (Hebrews 12:2).
• Knowledge of the Word of God (2 Peter 3:18).
• Faith Rest (1 Peter 5:7).
• Confession of Sin for Fellowship (1 John 1:9).
• Spirituality – Living by the Holy Spirit
  (Galatians 5:16).
• Prayer (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
• Ministry and Love (1 Peter 4:10).

1. See each specific technique in “Foundational Bible Doctrines” booklet and in “Basic Techniques of the Christian Way of Life” (Umbrella booklet).

Basic Techniques of the Christian Way of Life Memory Verses:

Occupation with Christ – Love God

Hebrews 12:2. Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Knowledge of the Word of God

2 Peter 3:18. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Faith Rest

1 Peter 5:7. Casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.

Confession of Sin for Fellowship

1 John 1:9. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Spirituality – Living by the Holy Spirit

Galatians 5:16. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Prayer

1 Thessalonians 5:17. Pray without ceasing.

Ministry and Love

1 Peter 4:10. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Church

1. The church is the body of Christ – Christ’s spiritual body composed of those who have believed in Him as Savior from the day of Pentecost until the rapture (Ephesians 1:22-23).
2. The church began on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came to indwell all believers in Christ (Acts 1:5;
   Acts 2:1-4; 11:15-16; 1 Corinthians 12:13).
3. At the moment one believes in Jesus Christ as Savior the Holy Spirit baptizes him into the body of Christ, the church. This is a real and spiritual baptism, not a ritual baptism with water (1 Corinthians 12:13).
4. There are three levels of the church:
   • The universal church – all believers worldwide
     (Ephesians 1:22-23).
   • The geographical church – believers in a region
     (1 Corinthians 1:2; 14:34; 1 Thessalonians 1:1).
   • The local church – a specific local assembly (Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 14:34).
5. The primary activity of a local church is to equip believers leading to their individual and corporate ministry. God wants our regular participation (Ephesians 4:11-16; Hebrews 10:19-25).
6. Essential features of a local church when assembled are
   • The pastor-teacher teaching the Word of God to equip the congregation (Ephesians 4:11-16).
   • The individual believer’s ministries through spiritual gifts and godly love (1 Peter 4:10).
   • The celebration of the Lord’s Table and water baptism (1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Matthew 28:19-20).
7. God wants believers to witness and teach the Bible to those outside the church (Matthew 28:19-20; 1 Peter 3:15).

Confession of Sin for Fellowship

                

Ephesians 1:22-23. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 3:10. In order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

Colossians 1:18. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything.

1 Corinthians 16:19. The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

Colossians 4:15. Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea and also Nympha and the church that is in her house.

Hebrews 10:25. Not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.

1. The believer is no longer under God’s judgment for sin (John 3:16-18), but he will commit personal sin even though he is a believer (1 John 2:1-2).
2. Personal sin breaks the believer’s fellowship with God, but his family status is unchanged (1 Peter 1:15-16;
   1 John 1:5-6).
3. Recovery of fellowship is through the believer confessing his known personal sin to God (1 John 1:9).
4. Confession means to acknowledge, admit, to agree with God that something is sin, to name the sin to God.
5. The reason God forgives and cleanses is because Jesus Christ has already paid the penalty for the sin
   (1 John 2:1-2).
6. Illustrations: King David (2 Samuel 11-12, Psalm 51.1-13. Palm 32.1-5; Jonah ( Jonah 2; communion ritual (1 Corinthians 11.28-32); foot washing of the disciples (John 13.7-12).
7. Confession of sin recognizes that Christ died for all our sins and therefore faith in Christ works; that God’s justice has been satisfied by Christ’s death for sins; that we depend upon Christ’s death and resurrection; that we want to have fellowship with God.

Dispensations—the administration of God’s household

Confession of Sin for Fellowship Memory Verses:

Psalm 32:5. I acknowledged my sin to Thee, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; And Thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah].

Psalm 51:4. Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done what is evil in Thy sight, So that Thou art justified when Thou dost speak, And blameless when Thou dost judge.

1 John 1:9. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1. A plain reading of the Bible teaches us that God directs His message to certain groups of people during certain historical periods, and He works differently through people to accomplish His overall plan.
   • Gentiles and Israel.
   • Believers and unbelievers.
   • Israel and the church.
   • Israel in the future.
2. Dispensations are God’s distinguishable and chronological economies or administrations of human history during which He progressively reveals His plan by giving new Scripture, and He accomplishes His plan (John 1:17;
   Acts 1:6-11; Ephesians 1:10; 3:1-12).
3. The word “dispensation” comes from the Greek word oikonomia which means

• Management of a household (Luke 16:2-4;
  1 Corinthians 9:17; Colossians 1:25;
  Ephesians 3:2, 9).
• Arrangement, order, plan (Ephesians 1:10; 3:9).

1. Another word that has been translated age, world, and dispensation is aion (Matthew 13:39, 40, 49; 28:20;
   Hebrews 9:26; 11:3).
2. Time, or human history, is divided by God into basic administrations, economies, or dispensations. There are four main dispensations:

• Age of the Gentiles (Genesis 1-11).
• Age of Israel (Genesis 12, Gospels and Revelation 4-19).
• Church Age (Acts-Revelation 3).
• Millennium, the rule of Christ on earth (Select Old Testament scripture such as Isaiah 11; Psalm 72;
  Daniel 2:44-45; and Revelation 20).

1. There are three hallmarks of dispensationalism:

• A plain or normal interpretation of the Bible.
• The distinction between Israel and the church.
• God’s glory is the purpose of history.

1. Dispensational theology is based upon a plain or normal interpretation of the Bible.

• Read the Bible as you would any book.
• The author means what he says.
• God speaks to specific people, places, and events.

1. Israel and the Church are two prominent groups of people through whom God works.

• In the church economy God recognizes three kinds of people: racial Jews, racial Gentiles, and the Church (1 Corinthians 10:32).
• The church is Christ’s spiritual body
  (Ephesians 1:22-23).
• Believing Israel is God’s covenant nation
  (Genesis 12:1-3).

Dispensations Memory Verses:

Ephesians 1.10. with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth.

Ephesians 3.9. and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things.

Colossians 1.25. Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God.

 

Dispensations Memory Verses:

Ephesians 1:10. With a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth.

Ephesians 3:9. And to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things.

Colossians 1:25-26. Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God … that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints.

Dispensations Memory Verses:

Ephesians 1.10. with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth.

Ephesians 3.9. and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things.

Colossians 1.25. Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God.

Divine Guidance

1. Divine guidance addresses the question, “What is God’s will for me?”
2. Divine guidance assumes that God has a will for the believer and He wants us to know what His will is.
3. The thought, will, and the plan of God are different from the thought, will, and the plan of man.
4. We need to learn how to recognize God’s will for us
   (Isaiah 55:8-11; 1 Corinthians 2:11).
5. The objective statement of God’s will is the Bible
   (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Revelation 1:1-3).
6. The discovery of God’s will is demonstrated in Acts 10:1-35 compared with Acts 11:1-17. The important factors are

• The Word of God (Acts 10:10-16 and 11:5-10).
• Prayer (Acts 10:9 and 11:5-10).
• Circumstances or events (Acts 10:17-18 and
  Acts 11:11, 15).
• The Holy Spirit (Acts 10:19-20 and 11:12).
• Discussion with others (Acts 10:21-22, 29-38 and
  Acts 11:13-14).
• Thinking of Bible doctrine that may apply
  (Acts 10:17, 19, 34-43, and 11:16-17).

1. The three primary factors for determining God’s will are

• The Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17;
  Hebrews 4:12).
• Events or circumstances (Acts 10:19-22; Jude 3, 4).
• The inner compulsion of the Holy Spirit
  (1 Corinthians 9:16; Galatians 5:18; Jude 3).

1. Acts 10-11 and Jude 3 and 4 illustrate the recognition of God’s will.

Divine Guidance Memory Verses:

Psalm 119.105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path.

Proverbs 3.5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.

Galatians 5.18. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

Equipping the Believer

1. The believer must be prepared, equipped, and trained to correctly and effectively serve God (Ephesians 4:11-16).
2. God uses four factors to prepare or equip believers, all within the setting of the local church:

• Gifted Men
• The Word of God
• The Holy Spirit
• Faith

1. Gifted Men: God gifts certain believers (especially the pastor-teacher) to teach and shepherd believers
   (Acts 20:17, 28-31; Ephesians 4:11-12).
2. The Word of God: The Word of God is that which is communicated. It is the spiritual food essential to the growth or preparation of the believer (Matthew 4:4;
   1 Peter 2:2; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 5:11-14).
3. The Holy Spirit: The ministry of the Holy Spirit is necessary to enable the believer to understand the Word of God (John 14:26; John 16:13; 1Corinthians 2:12-13).
4. Faith: The Christian life is a life lived by believing God and His Word. Without faith there is no spiritual growth or pleasing God (Hebrews 11; 2 Corinthians 5:7;
   Ephesians 3:17).
5. The local church is the framework that God has established through which the primary preparation of the believer is accomplished (Ephesians 4:11-16; Colossians 4:15-16; Hebrews 10:25).
6. The results of the equipping of the believer include (Ephesians 4:12-16; James 1:22-25; Colossians 1:9-12;
   1 Peter 4:10-11):

• The accomplishment of individual and corporate ministries.
• The building up of the church.
• The glorification of God.

Eternal Salvation

Equipping the Believer Memory Verses:

Ephesians 4:11-12. And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ.

Ephesians 4:16. from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Colossians 1:28-29. And we proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ. And for this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.

1. Salvation is the deliverance from God’s condemnation
   (John 3:16-18; 1 Timothy 1:15).
2. God is absolutely righteous. He is holy and perfect
   (Psalm 99:9; 1 John 1:5). (Also see the doctrine of the Attributes of God.)
3. God created man in His own image. God wants man to believe Him and to serve Him (Genesis 1:27-28;
   Psalm 8:3-6).
4. Man rebelled against God and became sinful. All people are sinners and under God’s condemnation
   (Genesis 2:16-17; 3:1-7; Isaiah 59:2; Romans 3:9; 6:23).
5. God provided the righteous substitute, Jesus Christ, God the Son, to be judged instead of man (John 1:29;
   1 Peter 2:24; 1 Timothy 1:15).
6. Salvation is by grace. God freely offers eternal life to man as a gift (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 6:23).
7. A person accepts God’s gift of salvation by believing (faith) in Jesus Christ for eternal salvation (John 1:12;
   John 3:16-18; Ephesians 2:8-9).
8. Man will be judged by God if he refuses to believe on God’s Son to save him (John 3:18; Hebrews 9:27).

Eternal Security

Eternal Salvation Memory Verses:

Acts 16:31. And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”

John 1:12. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name. . . .

Ephesians 2:8-9. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

1. Security means that when a person believes in Christ as Savior, he can never lose his eternal life. The Bible clearly teaches that once we believe in Jesus Christ as Savior, our eternal destiny is fixed and secure. We are secure in our salvation whether we feel secure or not.
2. The Bible teaches that the believer is clearly declared to be secure in a number of passages.

• The believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit
  (Ephesians 1:13).
• The believer is in God’s hand (John 10:28-29).
• God’s love (Romans 8:38-39).
• The believer is in the plan of God (Romans 8:28-30).
• Salvation is by grace (Ephesians 2:8-9).
• The believer is a new creation in relationship with Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).
• Jesus, our advocate high priest, saves forever (Hebrews 7:25).
• Jesus, our advocate high priest, has satisfied every claim against believers (Hebrews 9:24; 1 John 2:2).

1. Confidence about eternal security allows the believer to concentrate on the Father’s plan for him (2 Timothy 1:8-14).

Evangelism

Eternal Security Memory Verses:

John 10:27-29. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

Romans 8:38-39. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 1:13. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.

1. Evangelism or witnessing is the communication of eternal salvation gospel information to the unbeliever. This results in an understanding that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15) and “whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
2. The believer is the agent God uses to communicate
   salvation gospel information (2 Corinthians 5:11-21).
3. Jesus Christ, in Matthew 28:18-20, commissioned believers to make disciples. He authorized witnessing and teaching as the two ways in which we are to make disciples.
4. The correct mental attitude toward evangelism is expressed by Paul in Romans 1:14-16:

• I am under obligation.
• I am eager.
• I am not ashamed.

1. The “weapon” used in evangelism is the Word of God
   (Romans 10:17; 2 Timothy 3:15; 1 Peter 1:22-25).
2. The content or the core message is found in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4: “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”
3. The Holy Spirit is the convincer, the one who makes the gospel clear to the unbeliever (John 16:8-11;
   2 Corinthians 4:4).
4. The response to the gospel that provides eternal salvation is faith in Jesus Christ as Savior (John 3:16; 20:31;
   Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8-9).
5. All right results in evangelism come from God
   (1 Corinthians 3:6-7; 1:10).

Faith Rest

Evangelism Memory Verses:

Matthew 28:19-20. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Romans 1:14-16. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. Thus, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1 Peter 3:15. But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

1. Faith rest means believing what God has said in the Bible and therefore relying upon God and resting instead of worrying.
2. Faith rest requires a knowledge of Bible promises so one has God’s word to believe (Psalm 119:49-50;
   Lamentations 3:19-26).
3. When pressure comes, the believer trusts God’s promises. When this is true, the believer is not worrying; is not upset; is not trusting himself, others, or circumstances
   (2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 15).
4. Faith rest is illustrated in the story of Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 13-14):

• Caleb and Joshua were part of a reconnaissance force of twelve sent into Canaan.
• The mission was to gather intelligence on Israel’s enemy.
• Caleb and Joshua trusted and rested in God’s Word. This gave them courage to give a favorable report.
• The remaining ten were fearful, rejected God’s promises, and gave a bad report to Israel.

1. There are many Bible promises to learn, believe, and in which to rest, including Romans 8:28; Philippians 4:6-7;
   1 Peter 5:7; Matthew 6:33; Proverbs 3:5-6;
   Hebrews 13:5-6; 1 John 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13;
   Hebrews 4:15-16; Philippians 4:19; and Psalm 16:8.

Fear of the Lord

Faith Rest Memory Verses:

Psalm 34:7. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them.

Psalm 115:11. You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord;

He is their help and their shield.

Lamentations 3:21-23. This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. The Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Thy faithfulness.

Romans 8:28. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Philippians 4:6-7. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 5:7. Casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.

1. Fear of the Lord summarizes the believer’s godly way of life in relationship with the Lord – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It is prominent in the Old Testament but also found in the New Testament (Deuteronomy 31:12-13; Psalm 19:7-9; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Acts 9:31; 2 Corinthians 7:1).
2. Fear of the Lord means an awe-inspiring reverence, not a fearful terror.
3. The fear of the Lord is a learned (intelligent and based upon revelation), volitional (decisions are necessary), faith (believe more than your sensory perception may encounter), commitment (first priority, reason for living) to the Lord.
4. The believer living in fear of the Lord (illustrated in
   Psalm 76) acts in

• Submission (orientation to the Lord’s preeminence, authority, and person).
• Obedience (says “yes” to His will).
• Acknowledgment (takes Him into account).
• Reverence (honor).
• Active love response to the Lord.

1. The believer fearing the Lord focuses on the Lord and away from evil (Proverbs 16:6).
2. The fear of the Lord is based upon true learning about God, which requires positive faith decisions (Psalm 34:11;
   Deuteronomy 17:18-20; Proverbs 2:1-5).
3. Man learns about God and the fear of the Lord through what God creates and does, and through what God says, which is now found in the Bible (Exodus 14:26-31;
   Psalm 19; 2 Timothy 3:16).
4. There are many characteristics, benefits, and by-products in the life of the believer who fears the Lord. This is the theme of Psalm 112.
5. Examples noted in other scripture passages include

• Foundation of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7).
• Beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10).
• Indication of positive volition toward God
  (Acts 10:1-2).
• True praise, honor, and appreciation of God
  (Psalm 86:11-13).
• Inner confident mental attitude (Proverbs 14:26).
• Strong tangible faith rest (Psalm 33:18-19).

1. The fear of the Lord emphasizes the sovereign plan of the personal Lord God in both pre-incarnation and post-incarnation history. The incarnation sharpens the focus of this fear of the Lord relationship and directs it especially upon Jesus Christ (called occupation with Christ) because of His uniqueness.
2. Occupation with Christ is similar to the Old Testament fear of the Lord. Both emphasize the believer’s day to day walk. Occupation with Christ is the theological name for this walk that comes from Hebrews 12:2: “Fixing our eyes on Jesus….”
3. Occupation with Christ means that the believer is exercising true loyal love for, imitation of, and conscious faith dependence in Jesus Christ and His provision in his day to day walk by faith in Jesus Christ (Ecclesiastes 12:13; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 5:21; Hebrews 12:2).
4. The fear of the Lord is the larger concept and the all
   inclusive way of life for the believer
   (Deuteronomy 31:12-13; Psalm 19:7-9; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Acts 9:31; 2 Corinthians 7:1).

Good Works,

Fear of the Lord Memory Verses:

Deuteronomy 31:12. Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, in order that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law.

Ecclesiastes 12:13. The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

Psalm 34:11. Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 1:7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 14:26. In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, And his children will have refuge.

2 Corinthians 7:1. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Acts 9:31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and, going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase.

1. Christian service produces good works or divine good by serving God in God’s way (Ephesians 2:10; Colossians 1:9-10; Titus 2:7). God’s way is to serve following the Bible instructions, by the Holy Spirit’s power, and when in fellowship with God. The opposite of Christian service is man working or serving apart from the Bible, the Holy Spirit, and fellowship with God resulting in human works or human good, which is man’s work done in the man’s way, or even God’s work done in man’s way. Human good can be moral, religious, and even legal good but still not receive credit from God.
2. God’s good service must be founded on God’s Word, God’s power, and for God’s glory (1 Peter 4:10-11;
   John 15:5; Romans 8:8). Attitude, motivation, and humility are important.
3. God the Father has designed an individual Christian service plan for each believer. We can call the works fruit or good works, or even God’s good or divine good (Ephesians 2:10; John 15:1-5; 1 Corinthians 12:4-7; James 2:22).
4. A believer’s special area of production is based upon his spiritual gift (1 Peter 4:10-11; 1 Corinthians 12:4-7; Romans 12:1-8; Ephesians 4:11-12).
5. Believers participate with God in producing God’s good or fruit when God’s love is working through them
   (1 Corinthians 13:1-7; John 13:8; 15:5).
6. The sources for God’s good:

• The Father and His plan (Ephesians 2:10).
• Christ, the Vine and Head of the church
  (John 13:1-11; 15:1-8).
• The Holy Spirit, who gifts and enables
  (1 Corinthians 12:11; Galatians 5:16-6.1).
• The Word of God (John 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Colossians 1:5-10).

1. The believer’s production will be evaluated at the judgment seat of Christ. Only God’s good will pass the test and be rewarded (1 Corinthians 3:14-15; 4.5; 2 Corinthians 5:9-10).
2. Review the what? why? How?

Good Works Memory Verses:

Ephesians 2.10. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

1 Corinthians 3.7-8. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 3.12-14. Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward.

Good Works Memory Verses:

Ephesians 2:10. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

1 Corinthians 3:7-8. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 3:12-14. Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward.

Grace

1. Grace means that God freely favors man because of who God is and because Jesus Christ removed the sin barrier between God and man.
2. God treats man based on His character, not based on man’s character (Ephesians 1:6-8).
3. The plan of God for man is a grace plan (Romans 8:28-39; Ephesians 1:1-14; 2:10).
4. Eternal Salvation is given to man by grace (Romans 6:23;
   Ephesians 2:7-9).
5. The Christian way of life is lived through grace
   (1 Corinthians 15:10 service; 2 Corinthians 12:9 testing).
6. The believer is to grow in grace and live in grace
   (2 Peter 3:18; 2 Timothy 2:1).
7. The believer is to treat other believers graciously
   (Ephesians 4:2, Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:12-13; 4.6).
8. Grace for suffering and testing (1 Peter 5.10; 2 Corinthians 12.1-10).

Knowledge of the Word of God

Grace Memory Verses:

Living & Service

1 Corinthians 15:10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Eternal Salvation

Ephesians 2:8-9. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

Foundation & Living

2 Timothy 2:1. You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Grace Memory Verses:

1 Corinthians 15.10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Ephesians 2.8-9. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

2 Timothy 2.1. You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

1. The Bible is God’s Word (2 Timothy 3:16 with
   1 Timothy 5:18; 2 Peter 1:20-21).
2. The Bible is the believer’s spiritual food (Matthew 4:4;
   1 Peter 2:2).
3. Knowledge of and confidence in the Word of God is absolutely essential for normal growth in the Christian life
   (2 Peter 3:18; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 1 Peter 2:2;
   Hebrews 5:11-14).
4. True learning of Bible doctrine has results (James 1:22-25;
   2 Timothy 3:16-17; Colossians 1:9-10):
   • The believer believes and applies Bible doctrine.
   • The believer grows to spiritual maturity.
5. Moses (Deuteronomy 6:1-6), the Psalmist (Psalm 119), Daniel (Daniel 9:1-3), Jeremiah (Jeremiah 36), Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 24:44-48), and Timothy
   (2 Timothy 3:15-17) demonstrate and illustrate the importance of learning and using God’s Word, the Bible.

Love

Knowledge of the Word of God Memory Verses:

Matthew 4:4. But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Colossians 1:9. For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Hebrews 4:12. For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Peter 2:2. Like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation.

2 Peter 3:18. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity.

1. Love for God is loyal appreciation for and obedience to God. This includes fear of the Lord and occupation with Christ (Deuteronomy 6:4-5; Matthew 22:37;
   Philippians 1:20-23; Jude 21).
2. God wants to produce His kind of love in and through believers. We can call this divine love. Divine love in a believer desires God’s best for another: the will of God in and for another (Matthew 22:39; 1 John 4:11).
3. Divine love (agape) is God’s love expressed through believers to others and is summarized by Paul in
   1 Corinthians 13:1-7:
   • God commands believers to love one another with divine love.
   • Divine love does not depend on the merit of the one loved.
   • Divine love is for all believers.
4. The Holy Spirit produces divine love in and through believers. It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).
5. Friendship love (philos) is another kind of love.
   • Friendship love is based upon likes and dislikes or things in common.
   • Friendship love is directed toward a few.
   • God does not command believers to love all believers in this way (1 Samuel 18:1-3;
     John 11:30-36; 20:2).
6. Marriage love is divine love (agape) directed toward the wife by the husband.

• God singles out the husband and commands him to love his wife in this way.
• Divine love in marriage will protect the man’s authority from becoming oppression and will ensure responsible leadership, responsible protection, and responsible care.
• God commands the wife to recognize her husband’s headship and authority in order to protect against rebellion.
• God commands the husband and wife to practice divine love as a part of the Christian way of life
  (Ephesians 5:22-33; Colossians 3:18-19;
  1 Peter 3:1-7).

Man

Love Memory Verses:

Psalm 42:1. As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for Thee, O God.

Matthew 22:37. And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7. Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Philippians 1:9. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.

1. God directly created man, and man is God’s image (Genesis 1:26-27). He created the body, the material part, and the soul and human spirit, the immaterial part
   (Genesis 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:23).
2. When God created man God commanded him to rule earth creation. This is the dominion mandate (Genesis 1:28-30; Psalm 8).
3. Sin entered the world when Adam and Eve sinned. Satan tempted Adam and Eve to reject God’s authority and will. They both obeyed Satan and disobeyed God. This the “fall of mankind.” (Genesis 2:16-17; 3:1-8; Romans 5:12-14).
4. The results of the fall include

• Spiritual and physical death (Genesis 2:16-17;
  Ephesians 2:1-3).
• The acquisition of a sinful nature (Genesis 3:7;
  Romans 7:17-25).
• Satan gained a human kingdom and broadened his strategic objectives (Genesis 3:15; John 12:31;
  2 Corinthians 4:4).

1. The sin barrier between God and man was removed by Jesus Christ through His death, resurrection, and ascension. His sacrifice solved the sin problem made by the fall of man (Genesis 3:15; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Ephesians 2:1-10).
2. Anyone may have forgiveness and eternal life by believing in Jesus Christ as one’s Savior. Salvation is by grace through faith (John 1:29; John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-9).

Ministries of the Holy Spirit

Man Memory Verses:

Genesis 1:27. And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Psalm 8:4-6. What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man, that Thou dost care for him? Yet Thou hast made him a little lower than God, And dost crown him with glory and majesty! Thou dost make him to rule over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet,

Romans 5:12. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.

1 Thessalonians 5:23. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1. The ministries of the Holy Spirit describe the work of God the Holy Spirit on behalf of man.
2. The ministries of the Holy Spirit can be divided into three phases:
   • The pre-salvation ministry operates before a person believes in Christ.
   • The salvation ministry occurs at the time a person
     believes in Jesus Christ.
   • The post-salvation ministry refers to all that the Holy Spirit does in the life of the believer from salvation to physical death.
3. The pre-salvation ministry of the Holy Spirit includes conviction about sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8-11) and breaking through Satan-caused spiritual darkness (2 Corinthians 4:4).
4. The salvation ministry of the Holy Spirit includes

• Regeneration (Titus 3:5).
• Indwelling (1 Corinthians 6:19).
• Baptism into the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13).
• Sealing (Ephesians 1:13).
• Giving spiritual gifts to believers (1 Corinthians 12:11).

1. The post-salvation ministry of the Holy Spirit for the
   believer includes

• Glorifying Christ (John 16:14).
• Giving assurance of salvation (Romans 8:16).
• Praying for the believer (Romans 8:26-27).
• Providing the ability to live the Christian way of life (Galatians 5:16-6:1).
• Teaching the believer the Word of God (John 14:26).
• Guiding the believer (Romans 8:14).
• Producing divine good through the believer
  (Galatians 5:22-23).

Ministry and Love

Ministries of the Holy Spirit Memory Verses:

John 16:8. And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin, and righteousness, and judgment.

John 16:13. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

John 16:14. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you.

1 Corinthians 12:13. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

1. Ministry and love refer to serving God and people. Ministry and love are the Christian way of life—loving believers (John 15:12-13; Ephesians 5:1-2; 1 Peter 4:8-11; 2 John 5-6) and serving God and others (Ephesians 4:12-16; 1 Corinthians 12:4-7; Colossians 3:17 and 23).
2. Ministry and love require three things: God’s love working through us (1 Corinthians 13:1-7), God’s plan (Ephesians 2:10), and spiritual gifts (1 Peter 4:10-11).
3. In order for the person ministering—serving—to participate in the blessing and to receive reward, he must be serving in love — God’s love produced through the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:1-2; 1 Corinthians 13:1-7; Galatians 5:22-23).
4. God has a production plan for each believer, and that plan forms the basis for his ministry (Ephesians 2:10). David is an illustration of serving God’s purpose (Acts 13:36).
5. God gives a spiritual gift to each believer and spiritual gifts provide the specialized ability for the ministry of each believer (Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12; 1 Peter 4:10-11).
6. Ministry and love are results of proper spiritual equipping for Christian service (1 Corinthians 12:12 through 13:7; Ephesians 4:12-16; Hebrews 5:12-14).
7. Effective ministry is dependent upon

• The preparation of the believer in the Word of God by the evangelist and pastor-teacher (Ephesians 4:11-13; 1 Peter 4:10-11; 2 Timothy 3:16-17).
• Walking by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-6:1; Ephesians 5:18).
• Fellowship with Jesus Christ (John 13:1-10; 15:1-5;
  1 John 1:1-9).

1. We participate in the blessings of ministry when we

• Abide in fellowship with Jesus Christ (John 13:3-10; John 15:4-5).
• Walk by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16, 22-23,
  25-26).
• Serve with divine love (1 Corinthians 13:1-7).

1. God will reward believers for fruitful and productive service (1 Corinthians 3:14-15; 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:9-10).

Occupation with Christ—Love God

Ministry and Love Memory Verses:

1 Peter 4:10. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:11. Whoever speaks, let him speak, as it were, the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so as by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 4:15-16. But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

1. Occupation with Christ means that Jesus Christ is the center of our attention and love. We focus on Him – our Savior, advocate, and head of the church. We love God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Hebrews 12:2; 1 John 5:1-3; Luke 10:27).
2. The Christian life, as Paul wrote in Galatians 2:20, emphasizes the day to day walk by faith in Jesus Christ. Hebrews 12:2 speaks of this as “fixing our eyes upon Jesus.” Romans 8:28 says “those who love God.” Occupation with Christ is a short way to identify this day by day walk by faith in Christ and love for God.
3. The believer occupied with Jesus Christ is exercising true loyal love for, imitation of, and conscious faith-dependence on Jesus Christ and His provision.
4. Occupation with Christ is the dominant and unifying technique for the church age believer (Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 12:1-2; Romans 8:28).
5. The fear of the Lord emphasizes this same faith walk. Occupation with Christ, then, is similar to what the Old Testament called living in fear of the Lord
   (Deuteronomy 31:12-13; Psalm 19:7-9; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Acts 9:31; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 5:21).
6. Jesus Christ merits the believer’s loyal love, imitation, and faith-dependence for a number of reasons:

• His person (John 1:1; 1:29).
• His incarnation (John 1:14-18; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
• His session at the right hand of the Father
  (Ephesians 1:20-23).
• His provision for the Christian way of life
  (John 13-17).
• His provision for the believer’s future (John 14:2).

1. Occupation with Christ is God’s will (Colossians 3:1-2) and should be the believer’s desire (Philippians 3:8-10).
2. The believer needs to continue learning the Word of God in order for occupation with Christ to increase and strengthen (John 8:31; 2 Peter 3:18).
3. Paul is an illustration of a believer occupied with Jesus Christ (Galatians 2:20; Philippians 1:12-30).

Physical Death

Occupation with Christ – Love God Memory Verses:

Hebrews 12:2. Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Galatians 2:20. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.

Colossians 3:1. If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Philippians 4:11-13. Not that I speak from want; for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

1. The primary meaning of death is separation. Physical death means the separation of the immaterial soul and human spirit from the material body, as in Acts 5:5-10.
2. All mankind must face physical death (Hebrews 9:27).
3. The reason mankind must die physically is that physical death is part of the penalty for sin which entered the human race at the fall of man in Genesis 3 (Romans 5:12-14).
4. When the unbeliever dies, the body goes to the grave and the immaterial person – the soul and human spirit – goes to Hades where they await the second resurrection followed by the second death (Luke 16:19-31; Revelation 20:13-15).
5. When a believer dies, the body goes to the grave, and the believer – soul and human spirit – goes to be with the Lord in heaven where he awaits the first resurrection in which he will be joined to his own resurrection body. He will then live with the Lord forever (1 Corinthians 15:50-58; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 3:20-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).
6. God is sovereign over physical death. Therefore, the
   believer can have confidence that he will die at God’s right time (Philippians 1.21-25; 2 Timothy 4:6-8).
7. The correct mental attitude towards death for the believer is anticipation without fear or regret (Philippians 1:20-21; Psalm 23:4).
8. As righteous believers become aged they can continue to serve the LORD and be productive (Psalm 92:12-15).

Plan of God

Physical Death Memory Verses:

Psalm 23:4. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.

2 Corinthians 5:8. We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:51. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. . . .

2 Timothy 4:6-7. For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. . . .

1. The plan of God explains what God is doing, why He is doing it, and the way He is doing it. God is re-establishing His rightful rule over His creation through redemption
   (Genesis 3:15; 1 Corinthians 15:24-28).
2. There are three main parts in God’s plan: the Angelic Conflict, the Theocratic Kingdom Program, and Dispensations.
3. The Angelic Conflict is the result of Satan’s attempt to substitute his kingdom in place of God’s kingdom
   (Matthew 4:1-11; Ephesians 6:10-12).
4. The Theocratic Kingdom Program specifically deals with the re-establishment of God’s rightful rule over His creation. God has chosen the nation Israel and His Son Jesus Christ to reestablish this rule (Genesis 3:15; 12:1-3; John 12:31; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 24-28).
5. Dispensations are God’s distinguishable and chronological economies or administrations of human history.
6. For each dispensation God gives
   • Revelation
   • Privilege
   • Responsibility
7. The revelation, privilege and responsibility God gives may be different in each economy or administration.
8. Each dispensation has unique people, administration, and events (Ephesians 1:10; 3:1-12).
9. There are four dispensations:

• Gentiles (Genesis 1-11).
• Israel (Genesis 12:1-3; John 1:17).
• Church (Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 1:24-27).
• Millennium (1 Corinthians 15:24-28;
  Revelation 20:1-7).

1. The Plan of God includes the four divine institutions. They were established by God for the entire human race in order to provide a framework for the benefit of mankind and to provide for a maximum faith response to God
   (Nehemiah 4:7-15; Acts 17:24-27).
2. The four divine institutions are

• Volition (Genesis 2:16-17).
• Marriage (Genesis 2:20-25).
• Family (Genesis 4:1-4).
• Individual nations (Genesis 9-11).

1. Understanding God’s plan gives the believer stability,
   orientation to history, purpose in life, and appreciation for and love response to God.

Position in Christ (Positional Truth)

Plan of God Memory Verses:

Genesis 3:15. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.

Acts 17:26-27. And He made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

1 Corinthians 15:24. Then comes the end, when He delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

1. Positional truth, described by the phrase “in Christ,” means that the believer is in union (unchangeable family relationship) with Jesus Christ (John 14:20; 1 Corinthians 1:2;
   2 Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 1:2; Philippians 1:1).
2. This personal union or family relationship begins at the moment a person believes in Jesus Christ as Savior through
   the baptism of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:13;
   Galatians 3:26-29; Ephesians 1:1).
3. Union with Jesus Christ results in each believer being a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17; 2 Peter 1:4) with a

• New relationship with God.
• New life—God’s kind of life.
• New capacity—to know God, to fellowship with God, to grow in the Christian life, and to serve God.
• New means of living.

1. This position includes the fact that each has retroactively died, arisen, and has been seated with Christ, is currently living with Christ, and has a future destiny with Christ believer
   (Romans 6:6-13: Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:6-7;
   Colossians 3:1-4).
2. Position in the family of God brings many benefits
   including:

• Security (Romans 8:28-39).
• Spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1:3).
• Membership in Christ’s body, which is the church
  (1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 1:22-23).
• A plan for each believer’s life (Ephesians 2:10).

Prayer

Position in Christ (Positional Truth) Memory Verses:

2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

1 Corinthians 12:13. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

John 14:20. In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

1. Man communicates with God through prayer
   expecting that God listens and answers (John 16:23-24).
2. Sometimes God’s answer is not exactly what we expected, and sometimes God’s timing is different from ours.
3. Prayer demonstrates the believer’s dependence upon God and is a way of life for the believer (Ephesians 6:18-19; Colossians 4:2-3; 1 Thessalonians 5:17).
4. The persons involved in prayer:
   • The believer, who prays (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
   • The Father, to whom prayer is addressed
     (Ephesians 3:14).
   • Jesus Christ, in whose name the believer prays
     (John 16:23-27; Ephesians 5:20).
   • The Holy Spirit, who controls and enables the believer (Ephesians 6:18).
5. The principle in effective prayer is found in John 15:7. The believer should be in fellowship with the Lord by confession of sin when necessary, and by learning and applying the Word of God.
6. Basic promises regarding prayer are found in John 15:7 compared with 1 John 5:14-15.
   • Pray when in fellowship.
   • Pray according to the Word of God and therefore
     according to the Father’s will.
   • The Father answers prayer.
7. Prayer is part of the believer’s spiritual armor and an important way to support believers (Ephesians 6:18-19).

Relationships Among Believers

Prayer Memory Verses:

John 15:7. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.

1 John 5:14-15. And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

1 Thessalonians 5:17. Pray without ceasing. . . .

Colossians 4:2. Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. . . .

1. Oneness is the principle for relationships among believers. The oneness in the body of Christ is greater than any differences (John 17:11; 20-22; Ephesians 4:4-6;
   Colossians 3:14).
2. Graciousness is the rule. Treat others as you desire God to treat you, in grace (1 Corinthians 13:4; Ephesians 4:1-3; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:12-13).
3. Separation from believers is the exception (Romans 16:17-18; 1 Corinthians 5:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:6).
4. Bible compromise is wrong. Stand firm for Bible doctrine, not prejudice or speculation (John 17:17; 2 Timothy 1:13; Jude 3).
5. Divine love, summarized in 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, is commanded for all believers (John 15:12, 17;
   1 Corinthians 13:4-7; Galatians 5:22; 1 John 4:11).

• It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
• It is produced by the Holy Spirit and through believers.
• It does not depend upon the object of the love; it is for all.

1. Give people freedom to live their lives before the Lord
   (2 Thessalonians 3:11; 1 Timothy 5:13; 1 Peter 4:15).

• Do not interfere in what is not your concern, right, or propriety.
• Privacy promotes friendliness, courtesy, and personal interest in others.

1. Do not gossip, malign, or run down people, or spread trouble by what you say (1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Galatians 5:15; James 3:2-12; 1 Peter 2:1).
2. Forgive others as often as necessary (Matthew 18:21-35; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13). Not forgiving others is not doing what we want God to do for us. Not forgiving others becomes like a festering wound that is painful, breaks open and contaminates others and hurts oneself. God severely disciplines the one who refuses to forgive.

Relationships Among Believers Memory Verses:

John 17:22-23. And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as Thou didst love Me.

Romans 14:10. But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.

Colossians 3:13-14. Bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. And beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

Revelation, Inspiration, Illumination, Communication

1. The thought, will, and plan of God are different from the thought, will, and plan of mankind.
2. Man needs to learn the thought, will, and plan of God (Isaiah 55:8-9; 1 Corinthians 2:9-11).
3. Revelation (1 Corinthians 2:9-10; Galatians 1:12;

2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20; 3:15-18):

• Describes the act by which God makes Himself and His will known to man.
• Is either general or special.
• The written Word (Bible) is the only special revelation available today.

1. Inspiration (Luke 24:44; John 17:17; 1 Timothy 5:18;
   2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21; 3:15-16):

• The process by which God chose certain parts of special revelation to be recorded.
• This record is the written Word, the Bible.
• The written Word is exactly as God wanted it, down to the very words and letters, and is without error in the original languages.

1. Illumination (John 14:26, 1 Corinthians 2:12-13,
   2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Peter 3:16;
   1 John 2:27):

• Coming to understand the one correct meaning and the many applications of the written Word through the ministry of the Holy Spirit combined with man’s study.
• The written Word comes from God, and God must illuminate and make clear and interpret and apply it.

1. Communication (Ezekiel 2-3; 1 Corinthians 12:28-31; Ephesians 4:11-12; Hebrews 5:11-14):

• The process by which God transfers His message.
• The transfer is from the page of the Bible to the soul and human spirit of man.
• God uses man (especially gifted communicators) in this process.

The Sin Barrier

Revelation, Inspiration, Illumination, Communication Memory Verses:

Isaiah 55:8-9. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

1 Corinthians 2:10. For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

2 Timothy 3:16-17. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 4:2. Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

1. The sin barrier refers to the spiritual wall or separation that exists between God and man as the result of the fall of man (Genesis 3:1-8; Isaiah 59:2).
2. The barrier is made up of five areas:

• Sin (Romans 3:9).
• Penalty for sin, which is death (Romans 6:23).
• Physical birth and spiritual death, because man is born physically alive, but spiritually dead
  (John 3:5-7; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
• God’s perfect righteousness and man’s relative righteousness (1 John 1:5; Romans 3:23).
• Man’s position in Adam (1 Corinthians 15:22).

1. Reconciliation is the doctrine that describes the removal of the barrier between God and man through Christ’s death and resurrection (2 Corinthians 5:18-21; Colossians 1:20;
   1 Timothy 2:3-6).
2. Christ’s substitutionary death made reconciliation possible (John 1:29; Romans 5:8; Ephesians 1:7).
3. A person benefits from Christ’s work by believing in Him as his or her personal Savior (John 1:12; 3:16-18;
   1 Corinthians 15:22; Ephesians 2:1-10).

Spiritual Blessings

The Sin Barrier Memory Verses:

Isaiah 59:2. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

Romans 3:9. What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin.

2 Corinthians 5:21. He [God the Father] made Him who knew no sin [God the Son] to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

1. Spiritual blessings refer to the non-physical wealth and benefits which originate in heaven that God gives to every person who is “in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3-8;
   2 Corinthians 8:9; Revelation 2:10).
2. Every person who believes in Christ in this present age is “in Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 12:13; Colossians 1:2).
3. Spiritual blessings are based upon the sovereignty, will, and grace of God (Ephesians 1:4-6).
4. There are seven categories of spiritual blessings found throughout the New Testament:
   • Being in God’s eternal plan (Romans 8:28-30).
   • A solution to the sin problem (Ephesians 1:7).
   • A new home and citizenship (Colossians 1:13).
   • A new relationship (1 John 3:1-2).
   • A new position (2 Corinthians 5:17).
   • The provision for living the Christian way of life
     (Galatians 5:16).
   • A future (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17).

Spiritual Gifts

Spiritual Blessings Memory Verses:

Ephesians 1:3. 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.

2 Peter 1:3. Seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

Revelation 2:9. I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

1. A spiritual gift is the special ability given by God to each believer for ministry within the body of Christ
   (1 Corinthians 12:4-7, 11-19; 1 Peter 4:10-11;
   Romans 12:6-8; Ephesians 4:11).
2. There are different spiritual gifts (Romans 12:6).
   • Each gift benefits the body of Christ
     (Ephesians 4:16).
   • There are temporary and permanent gifts
     (Romans 15:19; 1 Corinthians 13:8-13;
     2 Corinthians 12.12; Hebrews 2.3-4).
3. The three dimensions of the Christian way of life under spiritual gifts are found in 1 Corinthians 12:4-7, 11:
   • The gift is given by the Holy Spirit.
   • The areas of ministry of that gift are directed by Christ.
   • The objective production is planned by the Father.
4. Three categories of spiritual gifts are in use today:

• Public Communication (Pastor-Teacher, Evangelist, Teacher).
• Operations (Leadership, Administrations, Service).
• Individual (Helping, Showing Mercy, Encouragement, Giving).

1. In order to help identify your spiritual gift, ask yourself the following questions and apply the dimensions of the Christian way of life regarding spiritual gifts as found in
   1 Corinthians 12:4-7 to yourself:

• What is your desire in ministering?
• What do you find yourself doing?
• In what area are you a consistent blessing?

Spiritual Gifts Memory Verses:

Romans 12:6. And since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let each exercise them accordingly; if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith.

1 Corinthians 12:4-7. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. And there are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

1 Corinthians 14:12. So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church.

Spirituality—Living by the Holy Spirit

1. Spirituality refers to the believer’s right relationship with the Holy Spirit enabling him to live the Christian way of life. Spirituality emphasizes function or doing, whereas fellowship emphasizes the friendship relationship with God.
2. Though the Holy Spirit lives in every believer, a believer is not always spiritual. Paul in Romans 8:1-2, says that we believers now can live under the power of the Holy Spirit instead of under our sinful human nature. Do we want to live each day by our sinful human nature and fail God, or do we want to live each day by the Holy Spirit and please God (Galatians 5:5, 13-26 and Galatians 6:1;
   Ephesians 5:17-20)?
3. Spirituality is referred to as walking by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16; Galatians 6:1).
4. Walking by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16) is the condition when the indwelling Holy Spirit lives God’s kind of life inside the believer (1 Corinthians 6:19).
5. When the believer is in fellowship with God personal sin is not interfering with the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and so the believer is walking by the Holy Spirit (1 John 1 with Galatians 5:16-25). Paul, in Ephesians 5:18, calls it “filled with the Spirit.”
6. The opposite condition from being filled with the Holy Spirit is carnality, which is control by the sinful nature or living by the flesh (1 Corinthians 3:1-3; Galatians 5:16-17). John calls it walking in darkness (1 John 1:6).
7. The spiritual believer is one:
   • • In fellowship by confession of sin when necessary
       (1 John 1:9).
     • Not grieving the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30).
     • Not quenching the Holy Spirit
       (1 Thessalonians 5:19).
     • Consciously depending by faith upon the Holy Spirit to control and enable him (Galatians 3:2-5).
8. The fruit of the Spirit is a product of spirituality
   (Galatians 5:22-23).
9. The Bible illustrates many times the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Three illustrations:
   • • Zerubbabel needed the Holy Spirit to oversee rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem (Zechariah 4).
     • Jesus, in his humanness on earth, lived by the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit (Luke 4).
     • Paul instructed believers to live by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:5, 13-26 and Galatians 6:1;
       Ephesians 5:15-18).

Suffering

Spirituality – Living by the Holy Spirit Memory Verses:

Galatians 5:16. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Ephesians 4:30. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Ephesians 5:18. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:19. Do not quench the Spirit.

1. Suffering refers to severe pain and pressure upon the soul and physical body of the believer. This suffering may be real or imagined.
2. Some of the Scripture passages that teach about suffering are Job, Romans 8, 2 Corinthians 1, Philippians 1,
   1 Peter 1, 1 Peter 4, and Revelation 2.
3. There are many features of suffering:
   • Suffering is a privilege (1 Peter 4:14).
   • There are categories of suffering (e.g., slander, Revelation 2:9).
   • There are many reasons for suffering (e.g., to demonstrate the grace and power of God)
     (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).
4. Help during suffering comes from

• God (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
• The Word of God (Psalm 119:23, 24, 28, 49).
• Other believers (2 Corinthians 1:4).

1. Suffering should not interrupt the believer’s Christian way of life. During suffering, the believer has many potentials to exploit such as

• Learning the Word of God (1 Thessalonians 1:6).
• Maintaining an active ministry (2 Corinthians 6:3-13).
• Possessing inner happiness (Philippians 4:11-12).
• Glorifying God (1 Peter 4:16).
• Receiving blessing from God (1 Peter 4:12-14).

1. God limits the suffering to the capacity of each believer
   (1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Peter 2:9).
2. How the believer should face suffering:

• Do not be afraid of or be occupied with the suffering (Revelation 2:10; Philippians 4:6).
• Become faithful or occupied with Christ
  (Revelation 2:10; 2 Thessalonians 1:4).
• Keep holding onto the Word of God
  (2 Thessalonians 2:15).
• Remember that what you believe is more real and important than how you feel (Psalm 13).

Trinity (Tri-Unity)

Suffering Memory Verses:

2 Corinthians 1:3-4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; who comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Peter 4:13. But to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing; so that also at the revelation of His glory, you may rejoice with exultation.

Revelation 2:10. Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

1. The one God exists in three distinct persons
   (Deuteronomy 6:4-5; James 2:19; Matthew 28:19;
   2 Corinthians 13:14):

• Father
• Son
• Holy Spirit

1. One God means that the members of the trinity all have one nature or essence composed of divine attributes.

• This is not an equal division of the nature of God into three persons or categories.
• It is the undivided nature belonging equally to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (John 10:30).

1. The Father is God (1 Peter 1:2), the Son is God
   (John 1:1, 14), and the Holy Spirit is God
   (1 Corinthians 3:16).
2. Each member of the Godhead accomplishes specific things in God’s overall plan.

• The Father established the plan (Ephesians 1:1-4).
• The Son carried out the plan; He became man and died on the cross to reconcile the world (Colossians 1:20-22; 1 John 4:14).
• The Holy Spirit reveals the plan and enables the
  believer to accomplish the plan (1 Corinthians 2:9-10; Galatians 5:16).

Zones of Spiritual Conflict

Trinity Memory Verses:

Deuteronomy 6:4-5. Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

2 Corinthians 13:14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

James 2:19. You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.

1. Zones of spiritual conflict refer to the major theaters of spiritual war in which believers find themselves in day to day life.
2. There are three primary zones of conflict:

• The Angelic Conflict.
• The World View or Doctrinal Conflict.
• The Old Sin Nature Conflict.

1. The Angelic Conflict refers to the believer’s battle with
   Satan and his demons. For this battle the believer needs the armor of God (1 Peter 5:8; Ephesians 6:10-18).
2. The World View or Doctrinal Conflict refers to the battle with the doctrine, the thoughts, the will, the plans, and the things of the world system. For this conflict the believer needs to learn and apply the Word of God
   (2 Corinthians 10:4-5; Jude 3, 17-25; 1 John 2:15-16).
3. The Old Sin Nature Conflict refers to the battle with our own sinful nature which occurs within each one of us. To fight this battle we need to

• Walk by the Holy Spirit (also called the filling of the Holy Spirit) (Galatians 5:16-17).
• Reckon or believe that our old self died, so our new self in Christ does not have to submit to the authority of our sinful nature (Romans 6:6, 11-12; Galatians 5:16-17; Ephesians 5:18).

Genesis Chapter Titles

Zones of Spiritual Conflict Memory Verses:

Galatians 5:16-17. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

Ephesians 6:11. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

1 John 2:15-16. Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Jude 3. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Old Testament Chapter Titles

Section 1, Adam to Babel, Genesis 1-11

Creation six days

Creation of Adam and Eve

Fall of mankind

Cain and Abel

Adam to Noah

Noah – build the ark

Flood over the earth

Flood recedes

Noah covenant

Table of nations

Tower of Babel

Section 2, Abraham, Genesis 12-20

Land, nation, and blessing promise

Lot chooses land

Abraham rescues Lot

Lord’s covenant with Abram

Ishmael born

Covenant through Isaac

If ten righteous in Sodom?

Lord destroys Sodom and Gomorrah

Abraham and Abimelech

Section 3, Abraham and Isaac, Genesis 21-24

Isaac born

Isaac offered as sacrifice

Sarah dies

Isaac marries Rebekah

Section 4, Isaac, Jacob, and Esau, Genesis 25-27

Abraham dies – Jacob and Esau birthright

Lord’s covenant with Isaac

Isaac blessed Jacob

Section 5, Jacob and Esau, Genesis 28-36

Jacob’s ladder dream

Jacob marries Leah and Rachel

Jacob’s spotted and speckled lambs

Jacob returns to Canaan

Jacob wrestles with the Angel of the Lord

Jacob reunited with Esau

Jacob’s sons revenge Dinah

Jacob named Israel; Isaac and Rachel die

Esau’s descendants

Section 6, Joseph, Genesis 37-50

Joseph sold to Ishmaelites going to Egypt

Judah and Tamar

Potiphar’s wife accuses Joseph

Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker in jail

Seven productive years and seven famine years

Joseph’s brothers’ first visit; leave Simeon

Joseph’s brothers’ second visit; all eat together

Joseph’s silver cup in Benjamin’s pack

Joseph reveals himself

Joseph’s family goes to Egypt

Joseph’s famine policy in action

Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh

Jacob blesses his sons, then dies

Joseph’s final days

Exodus Chapter Titles

Section 1, Moses’ Preparation, Exodus 1-6

New pharaoh and midwives

Moses born, taught, Midian

Burning bush revelation

Staff, hand, blood, Egypt

Make more bricks

Moses, tell Pharaoh

Section 2, Plagues and Exodus, Exodus 7-18

Staff, serpents, Nile blood

Frogs, lice, flies

Disease, boils, hail

Locust, darkness

Predicts death

Passover, death, exodus

Section 3, Plagues and Exodus, Exodus 7-18

Sanctify firstborn

Red Sea deliverance

Moses’ song, bitter water

Manna and quail

Rephidum, no water, Amelek

Jethro advises Moses

Section 4, Priest Nation and the Law, 19-24

Mt. Sinai, holy priest nation

Ten Commandments

Slaves, personal injury

Laws, restitution, loans

Justice, Sabbaths, conquest

Book of the Covenant, stone tablets

Section 5, Tabernacle, 25-40

Tabernacle

Tabernacle

Tabernacle

Priest uniform

Consecrate tabernacle and priests

Altar, money, laver, oil, incense

Builders, Sabbath, tablets

Golden calf

Moses face to face with the Lord

Ten Commandments and shining face

Freewill offerings for Tabernacle

Excess offerings, curtains, boards, veil

Mercy seat, table, lampstand, altar

Brass altar, laver, court

Priests’ clothes, inspection passed

Set up and anoint tabernacle, Lord’s glory

Leviticus Chapter Titles

Section 1, Five Sacrifices, Leviticus 1-7

Burnt offering

Grain offering

Peace offering

Sin offering

Sin and trespass offerings

More on sin and trespass offerings

More on sin and trespass offerings

Section 2, Priestly Mediators, Leviticus 8-10

Dedication of the priests

First priestly service

Nadab and Abihu

Section 3, Clean and Unclean, Leviticus 11-15

Clean and unclean

1. Clean and unclean
2. Clean and unclean
3. Clean and unclean
4. Clean and unclean

Section 3, Day of Atonement, Leviticus 16

Day of Atonement

Section 4, Holy Living, Leviticus 17-25

Blood, life, death

Sexual sin and perversion

Regulations for life – be holy

Death penalty sins for God’s separated people

Regulations for priests – defilement

Regulations for priests – offerings, annual feasts

The Holy Place, blasphemy, and justice

Sabbath and jubilee years

Section 5, Blessings or Cycles of Discipline, Leviticus 26

Blessings or cycles of discipline

Section 6, Free Will Offerings of Dedication, Leviticus 27

Free will offerings of dedication

Numbers Chapter Titles

Section 1, Preparation at Sinai, Numbers 1-9

Census at Sinai

Camp arrangement

Levites’ camp and duties

Levites’ census and duties

Unclean, sin, law of jealousy

Nazirite vow

Offerings at tabernacle dedication

Levites in place of firstborn

Passover; cloud and fire

Section 2, Failures, Wanderings, and Kadesh-Barnea, Numbers 10-20

Two trumpets; leave Sinai

Grace in spite of complaining–quail

Miriam and Aaron jealous of Moses

Spies to Canaan

Will not enter Canaan

Offerings and punishment when in Canaan

Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; God judges

Aaron’s rod budded

Priests and Levites: duties and support

The red heifer and cleansing

Moses hits the rock; Edom; Aaron dies

Section 3, Plains of Moab, Balaam, and Idolatry,
Numbers 21-24

The bronze serpent; Amorites and others

Balaam, the Angel, and the donkey

Balaam blesses Israel – prophetic proverbs 1-2

Balaam blesses Israel – prophetic proverbs 3-7

Section 4, Plains of Moab, instructions before crossing the Jordan, and Joshua, Numbers 25-36

Idolatry with Moabites and Midianites, and judgment

Census of the new generation

Passing the Mantel to Joshua

Offerings, sacrifices, feasts

Offerings, sacrifices, feasts

Vows

Midian’s defeat and the spoil

Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh’s land

Egypt to the Jordan—a review

Borders, leaders, and lands

Levite cities; murder

No inter-tribe land transfer

Deuteronomy Chapter Titles

Section 1, Moses reviews God’s wilderness blessings, Deuteronomy 1-4

Recap—Sinai to Kadesh

Recap—Edom to Moab to Sihon of Heshbon

Recap—Og of Bashon, and Gilead

Israel, watch yourselves—blessing or cursing

Section 2, Moses reviews God’s statues and ordinances, Deuteronomy 5-26

Moses recalls the Horeb Covenant

Listen, fear, obey, love the Lord

Remove the Canaanites

Remember the Lord your God

God’s grace, not Israel’s righteousness

Fear, walk, love, serve, keep

Blessing or cursing in the land

The central sanctuary

Capital punishment for idolatry

Clean and unclean; tithe

Seven year loans; poor; servants; firstborn

Annual feasts; judges

Idolaters, trials; king

Levites, omens, a prophet

Cities of refuge; witnesses

Warfare

War bride; double portion; incorrigible son

Good neighbors; boundaries on sex

Regulations on people, foreign slaves, loans

Divorce, loans, poor

Court case, brother’s wife, weights and measures

First of produce; tithe to Levites; His people

Section 3, Moses charges Israel to keep God’s commandments, Deuteronomy 27-30

The law, Mt Ebal, and Mt Gerizim

Blessings and cursings

Lord’s covenant with Israel

Choose life and live

Section 4, Moses’ Final Words & Death, Deuteronomy 31-34

Joshua, the song, the law

Moses’ song is Israel’s life

Moses blesses Israel

Moses dies, Joshua leads

Joshua Chapter Titles

Section 1, Israel Crosses into Canaan, Joshua 1-5

Prepare to cross the Jordan

Two spies and Rahab

The ark, priests, and Jordan

Crossing and two 12-stone memorials

Circumcision, manna stops, captain of Lord’s host

Section 2, Military Conquest in the Central, South, and North, Joshua 6-12

Jericho falls

Failure at Ai

Victory at Ai

Gibeonites plot for survival

Sun stood still and victory over five kings

Victory over Hazor and the rest

Victory recap

Section 3, Joshua distributes the land, Joshua 13-22

East of Jordan—Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh East

West of Jordan—Hebron for Caleb

West—Judah and Caleb

West—Ephraim

West—Manasseh West

West—Benjamin

West—Simeon, Zebulum, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, Dan; Timnath Serah for Joshua

Cities of Refuge

Levite’s cities and lands

East tribes’ altar—a witness

Section 4, Joshua challenges Israel, Joshua 23-24

Joshua challenges and warns Israel

Choose to serve the Lord—Shechem Covenant

Judges Chapter Titles

Section 1, Canaanites are left in the land, Judges 1-2

Only Judah, Simeon, and Joseph destroyed the Canaanites

Thorns and snares and judges

Section 2, Cycles (pagan influence🡪 apostasy🡪 oppression🡪 God delivers) and Judges, Judges 3-16

Othniel, Ehud and Eglon, and Shagmar

Deborah, Barak, Sisera, and Jael

Deborah and Barak’s song of praise

Gideon, Baal, and the fleece

Gideon’s victorious 300

Gideon’s victory and the ephod

Bloody Abimelech

Philistines, Ammonites, other gods

Jephthah, his daughter, and the Ammonite defeat

Ephraim’s anger and defeat by Gilead

Angel of the Lord and Samson’s parents

Samson marries a Philistine, and the riddle

Samson’s 300 foxes, the jawbone, and 1000 dead Philistines

Samson, Delilah, and Samson’s final battle

Section 3, Flashback, Apostasy and Fratricide, Judges 17-21

Micah mixes religious beliefs, and the Levite

Danite’s idolatry and war on Laish

Rape at Gibeah by Benjamites and 12 pieces of her body

Israel takes vengeance on Benjamites

600 wives for Benjamites

Ruth Chapter Titles

Famine, death, and loyalty

Ruth gathers grain

Ruth at Boaz’ feet

Boaz redeems Ruth

1 Samuel Chapter Titles

Section 1, Samuel’s Ministry, 1 Samuel 1-8

Hannah dedicates Samuel

God will judge Eli’s family

Lord established Samuel a prophet

Philistines capture God’s ark

God judges Ashdod, Gath, Ekron

Philistines send the ark back

Lord routs and subdues Philistines

Appoint a king for us

Section 2, Saul, Israel’s First King, 1 Samuel 9-15

Donkey chase leads Saul to Samuel

Samuel anoints Saul at Mizpah

Saul’s victory over Jabesh and coronation

Samuel introduces Saul and challenges Israel

Saul acted foolishly

Saul’s foolish oath; Jonathan’s honey

Lord rejects Saul. “To obey is better than sacrifice.”

Section 3, David, God’s King in Waiting, 1 Samuel 16-20

Lord chooses David

David kills Goliath

Jealous Saul fears David

Jonathan, Michal, and Samuel protect David

Jonathan warns David by arrows

Section 4, Saul Pursues David, 1 Samuel 21-31

David to priest Ahimelech, then to King Achish of Gath

Saul kills priests of Nob; Abiathar escapes

Saul chases David at Keilah, Ziph, Maon

Saul’s robe in the Engedi cave

Samuel dies; Nabal, Abigail, and David

Mount Hachilah, Saul’s spear and bottle

David at Philistine Ziklag

The medium at Endor

Philistine commanders reject David

Ziklag, David, and Amalekites

Philistine’s victory; Saul dies

2 Samuel Chapter Titles

Section 1, David gains political, spiritual, and military victories, 2 Samuel 1-10

The Amalekite’s announcement

Abner for Saul vs Joab for David

Joab murders Abner

Rechab and Baanah murder Ishbosheth

Elders anoint David king over Israel

The Ark to Jerusalem

Davidic Covenant

David defeats Philistia, Moab, Zobah, Aramea, Edom

David restores Mephibosheth

David defeats Ammonites and Arameans

Section 2, David sins, confesses, is forgiven and disciplined,
2 Samuel 11-12

David, Uriah, and Bathsheba

David’s discipline and confession

Section 3, David experiences revolution, bloodshed, sorrow, and return, 2 Samuel 13-20

Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom

Joab brings Abalom

Absalom conspiracy

Absalom takes Jerusalem

Absalom plans war

Joab kills Absalom

David crosses the Jordan

Sheba the Benjamite rebels

Section 4, David reestablishes his authority, 2 Samuel 21-24

Hanging, bones; Philistines

David’s hymn of praise

David’s military Hall of Fame

David’s military census

1 Kings Chapter Titles

Section 1, Solomon and his great kingdom, 1 Kings 1-11

1. David makes Solomon king
2. David commissions; Solomon established
3. Solomon requests wisdom
4. Solomon’s peace, prosperity, wisdom
5. Temple building materials
6. Temple built, 966-959 BC
7. Temple furnishings
8. Ark, prayer, challenge, sacrifice
9. Lord charges Solomon; building projects.
10. Queen of Sheba
11. Wives, idolatry, Ahijah, death

Section 2, Divided kingdom—idolatry, chaos, and bloodshed,
1 Kings 12-22

1. Rehoboam vs Jeroboam
2. The man of God
3. Abijah, Jeroboam, and Rehoboam die
4. Abijam and Asa of Judah; Nadab and Basha of Israel
5. Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, Ahab of Israel
6. Elijah at Cherith and Zarephath
7. Elijah and Baal’s prophets; rain
8. Elijah, the juniper, Horeb’s cave; Elisha
9. Ahab of Israel, Ben-hadad of Aramaea
10. Naboth and his vineyard
11. Ahab dies in his chariot

2 Kings Chapter Titles

Section 1, Apostasy and wars lead to Assyria defeating and exiling the Northern Kingdom, 2 Kings 1-17

Ahaziah (Israel, 853-852 BC), Elijah, and fire

Elijah’s whirlwind; mantle on Elisha

Jehoram (Israel, 852-841), war against Moab (Moabite Stone)

Oil, Shunammite, Stew, Bread

Naaman, leprosy, and lessons

Chariots of fire

Flour and Barley for a shekel

Hazael, King of Aram; Jehoram (Judah, 848-841); Ahaziah (Judah, 841)

Jehu (Israel, 841-814) kills Joram, Ahaziah, Jezebel

Jehu (Israel, 841-814) destroys Ahab’s family and Baal worship

Athaliah (Judah, 841-835); young Joash made king of Judah

Joash (Judah, 835-796) repairs temple

Kings Jehoahaz (Israel) and Jehoash (Israel); Elisha dies

King Jehoash (Israel) defeats King Amaziah (Judah). Azariah (Judah). Jereboam II (Israel)

Many kings (790-731); Assyria strikes

Ahaz (Judah, 731-715) of the virgin prophecy copies the altar at Damascus

Assyria (722) exiles the Northern Kingdom

Section 2, Apostasy and wars lead to Babylon destroying the temple, Jerusalem, and exiling the Southern Kingdom,
2 Kings 18-25

Sennacherib of Assyria challenges King Hezekiah (Judah, 715-686)

Hezekiah (Judah) asks Isaiah; Angel of the Lord slays 185,000 Assyrians

Hezekiah (Judah) cured, treasures, dies

Manasseh (Judah, 695-642) super wicked; Amon (Judah, 642-640)

Josiah (Judah, 640-609) finds Law

Josiah’s reforms; Jehoahaz (Judah, 609); Jehoiakim (Judah, 609-597)

Nebuchadnezzar defeats Jehoiakim in 605 and Jehoiachin in 597

Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem, exiles people, appoints Gedeliah

1 Chronicles Chapter Titles

Section 1, The Historical Connections from Adam to David,
1 Chronicles 1-9

Adam through Esau (Edom)

Judah (Jacob [Israel] to David)

David and Solomon

Judah and Simeon

Reuben, Gad, Manasseh

Levi

Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Asher

Benjamin

Workers in Jerusalem; Saul

Section 2, David’s spiritual leadership and reign, 1 Chronicles 10-29

Saul fell on his sword

David at Hebron and Jubus; his mighty men

Soldiers join David

The Ark, Uzza, Chidon

David’s victories and fame

Levites take Ark to Jerusalem

The Ark, celebration, and thanks

Davidic Covenant

David defeats Philistia, Moab, Zobah, Aramaea

Aramaea and Ammon revolt

War with Philistines and giants

David’s sinful census

David charges Solomon

Levites assist in temple

Levites in 24 groups serve

Musicians serve in temple

Gatekeepers, treasurers, judges

Standing army

David: “Build the temple”

Consecration, Offerings, Benediction

2 Chronicles Chapter Titles

Section 1, Solomon’s reign, temple, fame, and wealth,
2 Chronicles 1-9

1. Wisdom and knowledge
2. Plans and materials for temple
3. Builds the temple
4. Temple utensils and furniture
5. Ark into the temple
6. Blessing and prayer
7. Dedicating the house of God
8. Builds cities, organizes officers and Levites
9. Queen of Sheba; death

Section 2, The twenty kings of Judah, spiritual failure, and the resultant destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, and national exile, 2 Chronicles 10-36

1. Rehoboam rebels and divides the kingdom
2. Rehoboam’s three good years
3. Rehoboam forsakes the Lord
4. Abijah blames Jeroboam
5. Asa does good and right
6. Asa’s partial reform
7. Asa’s spiritual regression
8. Jehoshaphat’s reforms
9. Jehoshaphat allies with Ahab
10. Jehoshaphat seeks God
11. Jehoshaphat does right and some wrong
12. Jehoram does evil
13. Ahaziah does evil; Athaliah
14. Jehoida anoints Joash king
15. Joash good and evil
16. Amaziah doesn’t not listen
17. Uzziah smitten with leprosy
18. Jotham does right
19. Ahaz unfaithful to the Lord
20. Hezekiah cleanses temple
21. Hezekiah celebrates national Passover
22. Hezekiah destroys idols and restores contributions
23. Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the water tunnel
24. Manasseh’s great evil, partial repentance
25. Josiah removes idols, repaired temple, found the law
26. Josiah celebrates national Passover
27. Last kings, Jerusalem destroyed, Cyrus’s decree

Ezra Chapter Titles

1. Cyrus’s decree
2. Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel lead first return
3. Temple foundation laid
4. Tattenai, Darius, Artaxerxes stop work
5. Tattenai complains to Darius
6. Darius decrees for work; temple completed
7. Artaxerxes decrees for Ezra and work
8. Ezra leads second return
9. Ezra prays
10. Divorce pagan wives

Nehemiah Chapter Titles

1. News and prayer
2. Return and reconnaissance
3. Repair ten gates
4. Prayer, leadership, weapons
5. Stop economic extortion
6. Wall completed: Leadership, courage, and persistence
7. Zerubbabel’s census compared
8. Ezra teaches Torah
9. Repentance and praise
10. Allegiance to Torah
11. Live in Jerusalem
12. Census and dedicate the wall
13. Reform priesthood, sabbath, marriage

Esther Chapter Titles

1. Replace Queen Vashti
2. Esther chosen; Mordecai reveals a plot
3. Decree: Kill the Jews
4. Mordecai asks Esther to help
5. Esther invites Xerxes and Haman
6. Xerxes honors Mordecai, not Haman
7. Esther’s banquet; Haman hanged
8. Counter decree: Jews can defend themselves
9. Jews kill enemies; Purim
10. Greatness of Mordecai

Job Chapter Titles

1. Satan: Does Job fear God for nothing? (Job 1:9)
2. Satan: Skin for skin; Lord: Only spare his life (Job 2:4,6)
3. Job curses his birth (Job 3:1)
4. Eliphaz: Now it has come to you (Job 4:5)
5. Eliphaz: Don’t despise God’s reproof (Job 5:17)
6. Job: How have I erred? (Job 6:24)
7. Job: Have I sinned? (Job 7:20)
8. Bildad: If you are upright (Job 8:6)
9. Job: God is not a man (Job 9:32)
10. Job: Let me know why (Job 10:2)
11. Zophar: God knows false men (Job 11:11)
12. Job: Lord has done this (Job 12:9)
13. Job: You are worthless physicians (Job 13:4)
14. Job: Man is short-lived (Job 14:1)
15. Eliphaz: Your mouth condemns you (Job 15:6)
16. Job: You are sorry comforters (Job 16:1)
17. Job: The grave is ready for me (Job 17:1)
18. Bildad: You hunt for words (Job 18:2)
19. Job: God has struck me (Job 19:21)
20. Zophar: Triumph of the wicked is short (Job 20:5)
21. Job: The wicked live on (Job 21:7)
22. Eliphaz: Your great wickedness (Job 22:5)
23. Job: When He has tried me…gold (Job 23:10)
24. Job: God ignores folly (Job 24:12)
25. Bildad: How can man be just with God? (Job 25:4)
26. Job: These are the fringes of His ways (Job 26:14)
27. Job: My integrity…you act foolishly (Job 27:5,12)
28. Job: Where is wisdom and understanding? (Job 28:12,28)
29. Job: As in months gone by (Job 29:2)
30. Job: Taunt and byword, dust and ashes (Job 30:9,19)
31. Job: If I have…, then let him weigh me (Job 31:5-6)
32. Elihu: Elihu’s anger burns (Job 32:2-3)
33. Elihu: God is greater than man (Job 33:12)
34. Elihu: God will not act wickedly or pervert justice (Job 34:12)
35. Elihu: The case is before God (Job 35:14)
36. Elihu: More to be said in God’s behalf (Job 36:2)
37. Elihu: Consider the wonders of God (Job 37:14)
38. Lord: I will ask you, and you instruct Me! (Job 38:3)
39. Lord: Do you know? (Job 39:1)
40. Lord: Gird up and instruct me (Job 40:7)
41. Lord: What about Leviathan? (Job 41:1)
42. Job: I repent and retract (Job 42:6); Lord restores fortunes

Psalms Book Titles. Chapter Titles in next edition

Book 1: Psalms 1-41 ends with “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel” (Psalm 41:13)

Book 2: Psalms 42-72 ends with “Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel” (Psalm 72:18)

Book 3: Psalms 73-89 ends with “Blessed be the Lord forever (Psalm 89:52)

Book 4: Psalms 90-106 ends with “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel” (Psalm 106:48)

Book 5: Psalms 107-150 “Praise the Lord” (Psalm 150:6)

Proverbs Chapter Titles

Section 1, Proverbs of Solomon about wisdom, Proverbs 1-9

1. Beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7)
2. Deliver from evil (Proverbs 2:12, 14)
3. Trust, fear, honor, accept the Lord (Proverbs 3:5, 7, 9, 12)
4. Beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 4:1, 5, 7, 11)
5. Reject the adulteress (Proverbs 5:3, 8, 20)
6. Co-signer, sluggard, adulteress (Proverbs 6:1, 6, 24)
7. The adulteress and the ox (Proverbs 7:5, 10, 22)
8. Wisdom better than all (Proverbs 8:1, 5, 11, 12, 14)
9. Wisdom calls (Proverbs 9:1, 10)

Section 2, Proverbs of Solomon about right living,
Proverbs 10-24

1. Wise and foolish (Proverbs 10:1, 14)
2. Righteous and wicked (Proverbs 11:5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 18, 23, 31)
3. Righteous and wicked (Proverbs 12:3, 5)
4. The mouth, wealth, and poverty (Proverbs 13:2, 8, 23)
5. The wise, sensible, and evil (Proverbs 14:1, 8, 15)
6. The tongue (Proverbs 15:1-4, 7, 1), and the heart (13-15)
7. Plans and motives (Proverbs 16:1-4, 9, 23)
8. Tranquility and strife (Proverbs 17:1-2, 13, 19); the tongue
   (7, 27, 28)
9. Fools, wise, and humble (Proverbs 18:1-2, 6-7, 12, 15)
10. Integrity, knowledge, poor, scoffers (Proverbs 19:1-2, 4, 7, 17, 22, 25, 29)
11. Wine, king, sluggard, plans, gossip (Proverbs 16:1, 2, 4, 5, 18, 19)
12. The king’s heart, man’s ways, contentious woman, tongue (Proverbs 21:1, 2, 9, 19, 23, 28)
13. A good name, humility, train a child, trust in the Lord, do not… (Proverbs 22:1, 3, 6, 19, 22)
14. Consider carefully, envy, heavy drinkers, harlot
    (Proverbs 23:1, 17, 20, 27)
15. Evil men, wise men, partiality, the sluggard (Proverbs 24:1, 5, 23, 3)

Section 3, Proverbs of Solomon about relationships,
Proverbs 25-29

1. Kings, neighbors, enemies (Proverbs 25:2, 8, 21)
2. The fool, the sluggard, and the meddler (Proverbs 25:1, 13, 17)
3. The boaster, a friend, a prudent, the naïve, the shepherd (Proverbs 26:2, 6, 12, 23)
4. The wicked, righteous, poor, rich, faithful and foolish (Proverbs 28:1, 3, 6, 11, 25, 26)
5. The righteous, wicked, wise, rod and reproof, slaves
   (Proverbs 29:2, 9, 15, 19)

Section 4, Proverbs of Agur and King Lemuel’s lessons, Proverbs 30-31

1. Agur’s wise and witty sayings
2. King Lemuel’s lessons; the capable woman

Ecclesiastes Chapter Titles

1. Section 1, The problem: Our fleeting life is meaningless without God, Ecclesiastes 1-2
2. Life is empty when based upon human wisdom
3. Life is empty when based upon pleasure and hard work
4. Section 2, Man’s attempt to understand life, Ecclesiastes 3-11
5. There is a time for everything; Do what you can with your time
6. Oppression, rivalry, wealth, people
7. Religious ritual, power and wealth, eat, drink, enjoy
8. Wealth, children, long life, wisdom, words
9. Wise sayings, excess, man cannot master wisdom, women
10. Man’s wisdom has limitations
11. Everything is in God’s hand, so live fully
12. Wisdom and foolishness: wisdom is better
13. Live, rejoice, do not worry
14. Section 3, The answer, Ecclesiastes 12
15. Fear God and keep His commandments

Song of Solomon Chapter Titles

1. Romantic beginnings
2. Growth of the romance
3. The wedding
4. The wedding night
5. Apathy in the marriage
6. Restoration of closeness
7. Mutual affection
8. The strength of love

Isaiah Chapter Titles

1. Section 1, Judgment on the nations, Isaiah 1-35
2. Israel: dumber than a donkey
3. The Lord and His Kingdom in the last days
4. Rebellion against the Lord produces a culture crisis
5. The Lord will cleanse and protect Israel in that day
6. Spiritual culture crisis produces a savage society
7. Isaiah responds to God’s greatness
8. Virgin birth of the deliverer
9. Assyria invades and Judah chooses the wrong help
10. The Son rules from David’s throne; arrogant Israel suffers
11. Arrogant Assyria; a remnant of Israel
12. The shoot and branch will rule the gathered people
13. Song of thanksgiving
14. Lord judges Babylon, Assyria, Philistia
15. Lord judges Babylon, Assyria, Philistia
16. Lord judges Moab
17. Lord judges Moab
18. Lord judges Damascus
19. Lord judges Ethiopia
20. Lord judges Egypt
21. Lord judges Egypt
22. Lord judges Arabia
23. Lord judges Judah and Jerusalem
24. Lord judges Tyre
25. Day of the Lord Judgments
26. Day of the Lord blessings
27. Day of the Lord peace and prosperity
28. Day of the Lord regathering
29. Gentile languages announce judgment
30. Jerusalem gets judgment and restoration
31. Egypt and Assyria cannot help
32. Egypt and Assyria cannot help
33. The righteous King blesses
34. Deliverance from Assyria; the King will reign
35. The Lord’s judgment on all nations
36. The Glory of the Lord—deliverance and blessing
37. Section 2, Historical transition from Assyria to Babylon, Isaiah 36-39
38. Assyrian Rabshakeh challenges Hezekiah
39. Hezekiah prays; Lord strikes Sennacherib’s 185,000
40. The Lord gives Hezekiah 15 more years
41. Hezekiah wrongly shows the temple riches to Babylon
42. Section 3, Sure hope for the future, Isaiah 40-66
43. The Lord—the sure future hope
44. Israel’s God will deliver Israel
45. Messiah-Servant will deliver
46. Lord will return Israel
47. No God besides Israel’s God
48. Cyrus used by God; Israel’s creator is the Lord
49. God’s purpose will be established
50. Babylon will fall
51. Stubborn Israel, if only you had listened to me
52. Messiah-Servant will restore Israel
53. Messiah-Servant is trustworthy
54. Israel, listen to the Lord
55. Israel, redeemed without money
56. All our iniquity fell on Messiah-Servant
57. Lord’s compassion and lovingkindness on Israel
58. Come, listen, seek, and call on the Lord
59. Lord’s salvation is coming
60. Lord will judge idolaters
61. Lord wants righteousness, not hypocrisy
62. The redeemer from Zion for sinful Israel
63. Israel—acknowledged, righteous, blessed
64. The anointed Messiah and restored Israel
65. Zion—your salvation comes
66. Lord judges enemies; Israel prays
67. Prayer for deliverance; Israel confesses sin
68. Repentant servant Israel; new kingdom, heavens and earth
69. Peace, blessing, and glory in Jerusalem

Jeremiah Chapter Titles

1. Section 1, Lord appoints Jeremiah
2. God appoints Jeremiah
3. Section 2, Prophecies about Judah, Jeremiah 2-45
4. The two sins
5. Faithless Israel, Treacherous Judah
6. Partial destruction
7. Why pardon you?
8. Destruction from the north
9. Jeremiah’s temple message
10. No man repented
11. Ruin, scatter, sword
12. LORD is God; Idols are worthless
13. Disobey the covenant and punishment
14. Uproot then compassion
15. The waistband and wine jug
16. Sword, famine, pestilence
17. Death, sword, famine, captivity
18. Double payment for sins
19. Cursed, blessed, deceitful heart, listen
20. The potter and the pit
21. I will break the potter’s jar
22. Jeremiah rejected and persecuted
23. King of Babylon will conquer
24. Shallum, Jehoiakim, Coniah
25. Good and bad prophets; Righteous branch
26. Good and bad figs
27. Seventy years in Babylon
28. Riot against Jeremiah
29. Serve the king of Babylon and live
30. Hananiah, the false prophet
31. The Lord has plans for welfare
32. Jacob’s distress, then Jacob’s fortunes restored
33. Lord will be God of Israel; New covenant
34. Captivity soon, later restoration
35. Restoration; the righteous branch of David
36. Release to the sword, pestilence, famine from Babylon
37. Rechabites obeyed forefather, Judah did not
38. Jeremiah’s scroll—burned and rewritten
39. Jeremiah arrested, beaten, jailed
40. The cistern; surrender to Babylon
41. Jerusalem destroyed; Zedekiah blinded
42. Jeremiah freed; Johanan warn Gedaliah
43. Ishmael assassinates Gedaliah; Johanan rescues some
44. Do not go to Egypt In Judah, blessing; in Egypt death
45. They went to Egypt; Nebuchadnezzar will conquer
46. Judah did not learn, therefore destruction in Egypt
47. The LORD will protect Baruch
48. Section 3, Prophecies about the nations, Jeremiah 46-51
49. The LORD will conquer Egypt
50. The LORD will conquer the Philistines
51. The Lord will conquer Moab
52. The LORD will conquer Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Arabia, and Elam
53. The LORD will conquer Babylon
54. The LORD will conquer Babylon
55. Section 4, Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem, Jeremiah 52
56. Siege, destruction, exile

Lamentations Chapter Titles

1. Jerusalem, lonely and desolate (Lamentations 1:1, 3, 17)
2. The Lord’s anger, wrath, and destruction (Lamentations 2:1, 3, 4)
3. Jeremiah’s affliction, hope, and prayer (Lamentations 3:1, 21, 55)
4. Sin causes unspeakable suffering (Lamentations 4:1, 6, 10, 11)
5. Jeremiah prays because joy has ceased (Lamentations 5:5, 15)

Ezekiel Chapter Titles

Section 1, Preparation of Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1-3

1. Vision: Living Creatures
2. Preparation of Ezekiel
3. Preparation of Ezekiel

Section 2, Judgment of Judah, Ezekiel 4-24

1. Brick, side
2. Razor, hair
3. Idolatry judged
4. Sword, famine, plague
5. Abominations in temple
6. Executioners
7. Vision: Glory moving
8. Vision: Glory departs
9. Baggage, bread, proverb
10. Foolish prophets
11. Self-responsibility
12. Vine wood
13. Prostitute queen
14. Eagles, cedar
15. Repentance desired
16. Lamentation on kings
17. Panorama
18. Yahweh’s sword
19. Blood, dross
20. Two sisters
21. Cooking pot

Section 3, Judgment of Nations, Ezekiel 25-32

1. Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia
2. Tyre, Sidon
3. Tyre, Sidon
4. Tyre, Sidon
5. Egypt
6. Egypt
7. Egypt
8. Egypt

Section 4, Prophesies of Future Kingdom, Ezekiel 33-39

1. Watchman dwellers
2. Shepherds
3. Mount Seir
4. Restoration, regeneration
5. Bones, sticks
6. Gog invasion
7. Gog invasion

Section 4, Future Kingdom temple, priesthood, sacrifices, and land, Ezekiel 40-48

1. Temple detail
2. Vision: Glory returns
3. Zadok priesthood
4. Priestly land, offerings
5. Offerings
6. Land divided

Daniel Chapter Titles

Section 1, Daniel Enters Babylon, Daniel 1

1. The Hebrew captives pass the test

Section 2, Nebuchadnezzar’s Period, Daniel 2-4

1. Dream of the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and iron and clay statue
2. The gold image and the fiery furnace
3. Nebuchadnezzar’s testimony about the tree vision

Section 3, Belshazzar to Cyrus Period, Daniel 5-6

1. Belshazzar’s party and the handwriting on the wall
2. Jealousy and the den of lions

Section 4, Daniel’s Visions about Future Kingdoms and Rulers, Daniel 7-9

1. The four beast dream, (Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome)
2. The ram and the goat (Medo-Persian and Greek empires)
3. National confession and the 70 weeks

Section 5, The Angel Teaches Daniel about Events in the Last Days, Daniel 10-12

1. Introduction and the angelic conflict
2. Future rulers and wars
3. Resurrection, three and one-half times, and the end

Hosea Chapter Titles

1. The prophet and the prostitute
2. Unfaithful Israel—judged, forgiven, restored
3. Hosea redeems his prostitute wife
4. Indictment—Israel is a prostitute and idolater
5. Verdict—God condemns Israel
6. Loyalty and knowledge, not sacrifice and burnt offerings
7. Lord would heal and redeem, but Israel continues to sin
8. Israel sows the wind and reaps the whirlwind
9. Israel—wanderers among the nations
10. False prosperity brings pride and problems
11. Israel, God’s son, rebels
12. Ephraim and Judah sin, though the Lord has been their God
13. Israel sins more and more
14. Return to the Lord your God; He will heal and love you

Joel Chapter Titles

1. The locust invasion day of the Lord
2. The prophetic day of the Lord is coming
3. The Lord will restore the fortunes of Judah

Amos Chapter Titles

1. God indicts the nations
2. God indicts Israel and Judah
3. Israel, chosen and responsible
4. Israel, you have not returned to me
5. Israel, seek me that you may live
6. Judah and Israel will go into exile
7. Locusts, fire, plumb line, Jeroboam
8. Basket of summer fruit; famine for words of the Lord
9. The Lord will shake Israel and later restore Israel

Obadiah Chapter Titles

1. Obadiah—God will judge Edom and will restore Israel

Jonah Chapter Titles

1. Jonah disobeys, Yahweh disciplines
2. Jonah prays, Yahweh delivers
3. Jonah preaches, Nineveh repents and God does not judge
4. Jonah complains, God explains His compassion

Micah Chapter Titles

1. The Lord is coming to judge
2. Sins are many and varied
3. Condemnation of rulers, prophets, priests
4. The Lord will reign in the last days
5. Ruler from Bethlehem
6. The Lord’s case against Israel
7. Micah will watch and wait

Nahum Chapter Titles

1. Sentence of Nineveh’s destruction
2. Description of Nineveh’s destruction
3. Explanation of Nineveh’s destruction

Habakkuk Chapter Titles

1. Habakkuk’s two questions and the Lord’s first answer
2. The Lord’s second answer
3. Habakkuk’s praise psalm

Zephaniah Chapter Titles

1. Day of the Lord judgment, future and near
2. Seek the Lord during judgment
3. Day of the Lord judgment, near and future, then restoration

Haggai Chapter Titles

1. The command and work on the temple
2. The glory and blessings of the temple

Zechariah Chapter Titles

1. Vision 1, the rider and four horses and vision 2, four horns and four craftsmen
2. Vision 3, Surveyor, wall of fire, and Lord returns
3. Vision 4, Joshua cleansed
4. Vision 5, the lampstand, olive trees and branches, and the Holy Spirit
5. Vision 6, the flying scroll and vision 7, the woman in the basket
6. Vision 8, the four chariots; Joshua crowned
7. Question: Ritual fasts without reality
8. Promise: The Lord will return to Jerusalem in the present and future
9. First burden oracle: Judgment on nations; deliverance of Israel
10. First burden oracle: The Lord gathers and blesses
11. First burden oracle: Judgment in preparation for Messiah
12. Second burden oracle: The Lord rescues Jerusalem
13. Judgment for the false prophets and unbelieving Israel, restoration for the remnant
14. The Lord’s second coming, King of the earth, worship at Jerusalem

Malachi Chapter Titles

1. Evil people, priests, and sacrifices
2. Judah acts treacherously against the Lord and each other
3. Tithes, arrogance, and judgment
4. The day of the Lord, healing, and judgment

Matthew’s Gospel

New Testament Chapter Titles

Section 1, Jesus Christ and His Kingdom, 1-11

1. Genealogy of Christ
2. Infant; Child; and Herod
3. John the Baptist and Jesus
4. Temptation and Proclamation
5. Sermon on the Mount: blessed; the Law; anger; reconciliation; adultery; divorce; vows; revenge; love
6. Sermon on the Mount: alms; prayer; fasting; money; worry
7. Sermon on the Mount: judging others; sense; prayer; treat others; narrow gate; wise and foolish
8. Miracles: leper; paralytic; fever; wind and sea; demons
9. Miracles: paralytic; publican; dead daughter; disease; demons
10. Disciples are taught and sent
11. John in Prison; my yoke

Section 2, Opposition and Rejection Builds, 12-15

1. Pharisees criticize; Jonah sign
2. Kingdom of Heaven parables
3. Loaves; Fish; Walk on Water
4. Wash hands

Section 3, Preparation of the Disciples, 16-20

1. Leaven; Keys; On to Jerusalem
2. Transfiguration
3. Children; Forgiveness
4. Divorce; Rich Man
5. Landowner; Jesus nears Jerusalem

Section 4, Opposition and Rejection Climax, 21-25

1. Jesus enters Jerusalem
2. Wedding Feast; Pharisees and scribes silenced
3. Woe to Scribes, Pharisees, and Jerusalem
4. Sign of Jesus’s coming; sign of the end
5. Christ return; Judges nations

Section 5, Cross, 26-27

1. Supper; Arrest; Trials
2. Trials; Cross

Section 6, Resurrection, Commission, 28

1. Resurrection; Commission

Mark’s Gospel

Section 1, Public Ministry, 1-13

1. Jesus’s baptism, temptation, and early ministry

2. Jesus heals and forgives the paralyzed man; Levi

3. Jesus’s authority over illness and demons; calls His disciples

4. Sower and mustard seed; Jesus’ power over the storm

5. Jesus’s authority over swine, demons, illness, and death

6. Jesus sends His disciples in pairs; Herod flashback; feeds 5000

7. Pharisees’ traditions over scripture; the Syrophoenician woman; the deaf mute

8. Jesus feeds the 4000; Peter says, “You are the Christ”

9. The transfiguration; Jesus predicts His death and resurrection

10. Divorce; children; “with men salvation is impossible”

11. Jesus enters Jerusalem and curses the fig tree

12. Vineyard; taxes; resurrection; the main commandment; Son of David; pride; giving

13. Events around Jesus’s return to earth

Section 2, Jesus’s Private Ministry, Arrest, Death,
and Resurrection, 14-16

14. Last Passover meal; arrest; illegal trials; Peter’s failure

15. Pilate interrogates Jesus; the Jews crucify Him

16. Jesus rises from the dead

Luke’s Gospel

Section 1, Jesus Christ is Born, 1-2

1. Angels announce two births; John is born; Zacharias’s prophecies

2. Jesus’s birth, dedication, and first 12 years

Section 2, Jesus’s Early Ministry, 3-6

3. John baptizes Jesus; Jesus’s geneology

4. Jesus’s temptation; power of the Holy Spirit; Jesus’s public ministry

5. Catching men; healing sick; Levi

6. Jesus calls the twelve, then taught the Sermon

Section 3, Doctrine, Miracles, Opposition, 7-19

7. The centurion’s faith; John’s question; perfume

8. The sower; storm and faith; demons and swine; Jairus’s daughter

9. Jesus sends the twelve; feeds 5000; transfiguration; demons; disciples

10. Jesus sends the seventy; the good Samaritan; Martha

11. The Lord’s prayer; kingdom divided; Jonah

12. Leaven of Pharisees; sparrows; grain barns; ready stewards

13. Repent or judgment; the kingdom of God

14. Sabbath trap; self-promotion; hospitality; my disciples

15. One hundred sheep; ten coins; two sons

16. The fired steward; the Pharisees; Lazarus

17. Stumbling blocks; ten lepers; days of Noah

18. Persistent prayer; two men; children; young ruler; Jesus predicts His death

19. Zaccheus; the nobleman; Jesus enters Jerusalem

Section 4, Opposition Hardens, 20-21

20. Religious leaders challenge Jesus’ authority; vine growers; Caesar; resurrection; David

21. Jesus predicts persecution; Jerusalem’s destruction; tribulation; second coming; fig tree

Section 5, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, 22-24

22. Lord’s Passover; arrest; Peter; trials

23. Crucifixion after more trials; burial

24. Resurrection; Jesus in the Old Testament; ascension

John’s Gospel

Section 1, Public Ministry, 1-12

1. Living Word
2. Cana Wedding
3. Nicodemus
4. Samaritan Woman
5. Lame Man Healed
6. Bread of Life
7. Tabernacles
8. Abraham’s Descendants
9. Blind Man Healed
10. Sheepfold-Shepherd
11. Lazarus
12. Enters Jerusalem

Section 2, Private Ministry, 13-17

1. Foot washing
2. Way, Truth, Life
3. Vine/Branches
4. Christ to Depart
5. Lord’s Prayer

Section 3, Cross, 18-19

1. Arrest; Trials
2. Death for Sins

Section 4, Resurrection, 20-21

1. Resurrection
2. Sea of Tiberius

Acts Chapter Titles

Section 1, Church begins, 1-2

1. Christ ascends; disciples wait
2. Pentecost

Section 2, Church scatters and adjusts, 3-12

1. Not gold, but health
2. Peter and John on trial
3. Apostles must obey God
4. Seven table-servers
5. Stephen goes in glory
6. Saul’s inquisition; Philip’s ministry
7. Saul’s salvation
8. Cornelius and Peter
9. Peter’s Gentile report
10. James killed; Peter freed

Section 3, Paul travels, witnesses, and teaches, 13-21

1. First trip: Pisidian Antioch
2. First trip: Paul stoned
3. Jerusalem council
4. Second trip: Philippi
5. Second trip: Thessalonica, Berea, Athens
6. Second trip: Corinth
7. Third trip: Ephesus
8. Third trip: Miletus
9. Third trip: Jerusalem arrest

Section 4, Paul arrested, yet still serving, 22-28

1. Paul’s first defense
2. Jerusalem conspiracy
3. Caesarea prison: Felix
4. Caesarea prison: Festus
5. Caesarea prison: Agrippa
6. Shipwreck, Malta, and Rome
7. Two year house arrest

Romans

Section 1, God’s Righteousness and Man’s
Unrighteousness, 1-3

1. Positive and negative volition at work

2. Judging others is being self righteous

3. All people are sinful

Section 2, God Gives His Righteousness through Faith, 4-5

4. Righteousness through faith

5. Justification gives benefits

Section 3, Living the Christian Way of Life Is Possible, 6-8

6. Union with Christ makes the Christian way of life possible

7. The Old Sin Nature inside

8. The Holy Spirit inside

Section 4, God’s Plan for Israel, Romans 9-11

9. Mercy through believed promise

10. Israel needs faith righteousness

11. Always a grace remnant

Section 5, Day To Day Christian Living, Romans 12-16

12. A new kind of priesthood

13. Authority orientation and the Christian way of life

14. Give freedom instead of judgments and obstacles

15. Onward and upward

16. Personal notes and greetings

1 Corinthians

Section 1, Foundations for Church Life, 1-2

1. Sanctified in Christ; foolishness and wisdom of the cross

2. God revealed and now teaches through the Holy Spirit

Section 2, Carnality in Church Life, 3-11

3. Carnality, production, and God’s temple

4. Faithful stewards; the church needs them

5. Separation from believers characterized by consistent and well known sin

6. Lawsuits; sin patterns; and the temple of the Holy Spirit.

7. Sex, marriage, and the status quo.

8. Knowledge and love; sacrificial food and the weak believer; the law of liberty and the law of love

9. God’s communicator should be well paid, but the ministry, not money, must motivate him

10. Israel an example; idols and demons; the law of liberty and the law of profitability

11. Headship and authority; order; the Lord’s Table in church assembly

Section 3, Edification in Church Life, 12-14

12. Spiritual gifts, service, and the church

13. Love that God produces

14. Communication gifts are to edify the church

Section 4, Resurrection, Victory for the Church, 15-16

15. Christ’s resurrection ensured the believer’s resurrection

16. Orderly giving; ministry instructions; and greetings

2 Corinthians

Section 1, Paul wants to remove misunderstanding, 1-2

1. Comfort during suffering

2. Forgive, comfort, and reaffirm your love

Section 2, Paul describes the apostolic ministry, 3-7

3. The Holy Spirit’s New Covenant ministry

4. Clay jars hold God’s glory

5. Live by faith because we are reconciled

6. Servants of God; unequal relationships

7. God refreshes us during spiritual battle fatigue

Section 3, Grace Giving is God’s kind of giving, 8-9

8. Grace giving of ourselves, then our wealth

9. God multiplies our grace gifts

Section 4, Paul the apostle wants to build up the
Corinthians, 10-13

10. Spiritual warfare requires God’s weapons and God’s authority

11. Beware of spiritual counterfeits

12. Thorns in the flesh bring grace support

13. Christian life checkup

Galatians

1. One grace gospel

2. Challenges to grace

3. Abraham’s faith, not law’s works

4. Sons and heirs, not slaves

5. Grace, through the Spirit, by faith

6. The spiritual believer’s opportunities

Ephesians

1. Blessings in Christ

2. By grace through faith

3. The mystery of Christ

4. Equipping the saints

5. Imitate God

6. Spiritual warfare

Philippians

1. Paul exploits pressure

2. Live out your own salvation life

3. Pursue knowing Christ

4. Stability, contentment, and joy

Colossians

1. Christian growth; Christology; Paul’s stewardship

2. Live in Christ, not religion

3. In Christ attitude and challenges

4. Prayer; witness; and fellow workers

1 Thessalonians

1. God’s message taught God’s way yields God’s results

2. Paul and his team chose to please God, not to please men

3. The Thessalonians’ spiritual growth encouraged Paul

4. Reminder to apply doctrine daily

5. The Day of the Lord; authority orientation; and other commands

2 Thessalonians

1. Spiritual growth and undeserved suffering

2. The Day of the Lord and the lawless man

3. The undisciplined believer

1 Timothy

1. Instruct men in Bible doctrine

2. Pray for leaders; godly women

3. Overseers and deacons

4. Warn against demon doctrine

5. To the elderly, widows, and elders

6. Sound doctrine and godliness

2 Timothy

1. Kindle afresh your ministry

2. Entrust, remind, and charge faithful men

3. Last days have difficult times

4. Preach the Word; fulfill your ministry

Titus

1. Organize the churches on Crete

2. Teach sound doctrine: speak; exhort; reprove

3. Authority; good deeds; foolish controversies

Philemon

1. Paul appeals for Onesimus

Hebrews

Section 1, Christ the Son, 1-4

1. The Father speaks through the Son
2. The Father honors the Son
3. Christ, the faithful Son
4. Faith in the Son produces rest

Section 2, Christ the High Priest, 5-10

1. Jesus Christ is our high priest
2. Trust Christ alone
3. Melchizedek priesthood of Jesus Christ
4. Jesus Christ is the high priest mediator
5. Jesus Christ is the mediator of the New Covenant by death
6. Jesus Christ, the high priest, benefits believers

Section 3, Therefore Live the Faith Life, 11-13

1. Approved by faith
2. Live occupied with Christ
3. Selected instructions

James

1. Tests; temptation; and doers of the Word

2. Christian life faith delivers the goods

3. The tongue and wisdom from above

4. Friend of the world or friend of God

5. Money; patience; prayer

1 Peter

1. Foundations of our faith

2. Royal priesthood and authority orientation

3. Husbands and wives; blessing others; a ready defense

4. Suffering as a Christian

5. The shepherd pastor; spiritual warfare

2 Peter

1. Everything for life and godliness
2. Judgment of false teachers and rescue of the godly
3. Mockers cannot hinder Christ’s return

1 John

• • 1. Jesus Christ, God’s nature, fellowship
    2. Knowing God, worldliness, antichrists
    3. Children of God, God’s seed, God’s commandment
    4. Test spirits, God is love, abide
    5. Victory, assurance, prayer. sin

2 John

1. Walk in truth and love one another

3 John

1. Gaius, Diotrephes, and Demetrius

Jude

1. Earnestly contend for the faith

Revelation

Section 1, Jesus Christ, God and King, 1

1. Jesus Christ revealed

Section 2, Letters to the seven churches, 2-3

2. Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira

3. Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea

Section 3, The Tribulation, 4-19

4. Father on the throne is worshipped

5. Lamb takes the scroll

6. Seals 1-6

7. 144,000 sealed

8. Seal 7, Trumpets 1-4

9. Trumpets 5-6

10. Strong angel, thunder, and book

11. Two witnesses, Trumpets 1-7

12. Woman, Child, and Dragon

13. Dragon, 2 Beasts

14. Lamb on Zion, 6 angels

15. Seven angels, Bowls

16. Seven bowl judgments

17. Harlot, first beast

18. Judgment of Babylon

19. Living Word on the white horse

Section 4, Millennium and Eternity, 20-22

20. Millennial reign

21. New Heaven, new earth, and New Jerusalem

22. Eternal life

©Tod Kennedy, knowbelieveapply.com; todkennedy.com

Spokane Bible Church

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Phone: (509) 467-9206

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