LESSON TWELVE

THE SUBJECTS OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

2 Pet. 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one’s own interpretation;

21 For no prophecy was ever borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God while being borne by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew The Gospel of the Kingdom—Proving That Jesus Christ Is the King-Savior.

Mark The Gospel of God—Proving That Jesus Christ Is the Slave-Savior.

Luke The Gospel of the Forgiveness of Sins—Proving That Jesus Christ is the Man-Savior.

John The Gospel of Life—Proving That Jesus Christ Is God the Savior coming as Life to Propagate Himself.

The Acts The Propagation of the Resurrected Christ in His Ascension, by the Spirit, through the Disciples, for the Producing of the Churches—The Kingdom of God.

Romans The Gospel of God—To Make Sinners Sons of God to Constitute the Body of Christ, Which Is Expressed as the Local Churches.

1 Corinthians Christ and His Cross as the Solution to All Problems in the Church.

2 Corinthians The New Covenant Ministry and Its Ministers.

Galatians Christ Replacing the Law and Being versus Religion and Tradition.

Ephesians The Church—The Mystery of Christ, the Body of Christ as the Fullness of Christ, Becoming the Fullness of God.

Philippians Experiencing Christ—Taking Christ as Our Living, Pattern, Goal, Power, and Secret.

Colossians Christ—The All-inclusive One, Having the First Place in All Things as the Mystery and Embodiment of God, as the Head and Constituent of the Church, as the Allotted Portion, Life, Constituent, and Hope of the Saints, and as the Body of All Positive Things.

1Thessalonians A Holy Life for the Church Life—Serving the Living God, Conducting Ourselves in a Holy Manner, and Waiting for the Lord’s Coming.

2 Thessalonians Encouragement and Correction Concerning the Holy Life for the Church Life.

1 Timothy God’s Economy Concerning the Church.

2 Timothy Inoculation Against the Decline of the Church.

Titus The Maintenance of Order in the Church.

Philemon An Illustration of the Believers’ Equal Status in the New Man.

Hebrews Christ Being Superior to Judaism and Everything Related to it, and the New Covenant Which He Consummated Being Better Than the Old Covenant.

James Practical Christian Perfection.

1 Peter The Christian Life under the Government of God.

2 Peter The Divine Provision and the Divine Government.

1 John The Fellowship of the Divine Life.

2 John Prohibition against Participation in Heresy.

3 John Encouragement to the Fellow Workers in the Truth.

Jude Contending for the Faith.

Revelation Christ as the Center of God’s Administration according to God’s Eternal Economy.

References: Holy Bible Recovery Version.