Okay, and then it says parents are to demonstrate to their children God's pattern for marriage.
So that means man and woman should be married and they should stay married as they parent their children.
Ideally, that is the way God wants it to be.
And then parents are to teach their children spiritual moral values and to lead them through consistent lifestyle examples.
That means as parents, you have a responsibility to show your children how to love God, how to serve God,
how to follow God's design.
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And so then it says that we should lead them to make choices based on biblical truth.
An example of that is the Baptist Faith and Message.
People long before us examined scripture and asked the question, okay, how does this line up?
What do we know about this?
The beauty of it is they didn't just say this is what it says, and there's been a lot of that in the church's history.
It's not such a good thing.
You just say this is what it says without showing you where it says it at,
but the Baptist Faith and Message instead shows you exactly where it says it because you know.
A big long list, a whole paragraph of verses that speak of that.
So one of the coolest things about the Baptist Faith and Message is you could literally spend years studying it and learning on these various topics,
and it will give you everything you need to know from the scripture.
Not from the paragraph, but from the scripture.
It will give you everything you need to know on that particular topic.
Okay?
And then it says, the last part is, listen up.
Are you listening? Are you ready?
Children are to honor and obey their parents.
And so to honor someone is different than to obey them.
To obey them is to do what they say.
They tell you what to do, and you do it. That's to obey.
Okay?
To honor them is to do what would be best for them or what they would want you to do, even if they're not there to tell you.
Okay?
So this is God's design for the family, and there's much, much more in the Baptist Faith and Message.
I want to point that out to you.
Probably the one that speaks most to us is that, as adults, is that part where it says from the conception of a child.
That we have a responsibility.
And the one that speaks most to the kids is that we're to honor and obey our parents.
So praise God, we have people with God before us who broke those things down.
But the truth is, we have the most important thing, which is the Holy Bible.
To teach us how to live and how to be the best people we possibly can be.
And you couldn't be as good as you can be without Christ.
Christ is the one who makes us. Jesus is the one who makes us able to choose.
He makes us free. He sets us free.
So we're going to pray together, and then we'll have one more song.
And then we'll introduce the kids and the church to the last prayer.
Let's pray.
Father in heaven, I recognize you as the perfect Father.
A just and righteous God.
I also recognize you as a gracious and merciful Father.
And the truth is, I had a pretty good dad.
Provided a roof over my head, took care of me and helped and all that kind of thing.
But in all the times that I lived with my dad as I was growing up, he never taught me about use.
Never taught me about Scripture, even though I know he knew.
Because when he was a young man, he accepted Christ.
And then when he got to be a teenager, he kind of walked away from you.
And in the years that he was raising me, it wasn't about you.
And then he did come back to you a long time after you saved my soul.
And so I'm grateful for my dad. I know he was a gift to me.
And I know that sometimes we don't always get the parent that we exactly want.
Because a lot of parents make a lot of mistakes.
And I'm one of those. I've made a lot of mistakes.
But the most important thing is to look to you that you could lead us, that you could guide us.
To accept Jesus Christ as Lord. That means he told us what to do when we do it.
And as Savior, which means we paid the price for our sins.
And then to follow him the best we know how on any given day.
That's basically what it means.
And so we just thank you Lord that that's possible.
But there's still people who care.
Still people who are willing to share that truth with us.
Still people who are serving and working with God to deliver the truth about Jesus.
And we pray that it will be like that.
That there's somebody in this room who doesn't know Jesus.
We pray that they will not leave the church building today without telling somebody,
I want to live for Jesus.
I want to be what Jesus wants me to be.
And we pray Lord that you'll bless the remainder of our time together.
Both worshiping and studying.
That we can learn and we can grow and reach new heights in Jesus.
And we pray all this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Thank you very much.
The stars and sea, oh it's green and green.
Now the child of God, yes I am.
Nothing in the last thing that's left of me is really still alive.
The stars and sea, oh it's green and green.
Now the child of God, yes I am.
All righty, at this time we'll release the children of Andrew.
The children of Andrew, the children of Andrew.
The mess you've made, they're not leaves, but anywhere you are.
Something to follow away, that's freedom from your scars.
The passion you've made, forgive us, the memories you raised.
Baby, that's the beauty of grace.
Tell me what is left, I'll never hold you to me.
The things you made that hurt, you saved me, what do I?
You're my arms, there's no space.
Something to follow away, that's freedom from your scars.
The broken sky, the broken sky, the broken thing you have.
All righty.
All right, so last week we started piling our way through the books of the Bible.
We talked a little bit about the books themselves and we made it through the Old Testament.
And so today, as you can see, we are looking at the New Testament.
All right, so a lot of this is overview and it's just kind of like helping you to know what's there.
And for some of you who have been studying your Bibles for years, I can't always say that, but studying your Bible for years,
it's going to seem like old hat, you're going to rattle it off, it's going to be no problem.
But realize that we all have a varying level of knowledge, varying level of information, and so we're going to work through it.
And then also last week, I told you that I am trying to work through the candy that I have stored.
And so I was tossing candy, ooh, don't put it on there, it's alive, it's alive.
Anyway, so I was tossing candy to adults and young people alike.
And so I will do that. If you don't want candy, after you answer a question, just go like that and I won't toss it to you.
Or you can always collect it and give it away.
You can toss hamburgers.
I don't have any hamburgers. Also, I think the mess that we would have to clean up afterwards would be atrocious.
What's acceptable? Bratwurst.
Bratwurst, okay. We'd have to put them in baggies. That's the only way we could actually do that.
All right, so here we go. We are starting at the top center box.
So as you can see, there are five boxes.
And the five box, there's more than five, but the five main boxes in the middle there kind of scattered around are the sections of the New Testament.
So last week we did the sections of the Old Testament, now we're talking about the sections.
And that does not mean like, for example, the books that come close together or the books that are stuck together like that.
But their example might be a type, think of it like a type of book if you want to look at it that way.
So we'll do the first one and then you'll see what I mean. Does anybody know what the B stands for?
Take a stab at it. I bet you can name the books.
Say it again. No, but that's a good word.
Nope. So this is a section, a kind of books that are in the New Testament.
Nope, not before Christ. Nope.
Okay, so the word is biography.
Okay, and then you can tell me what the four books are under it right away. They are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
That's right. Okay, so it's biography and it's Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Okay, all right. So the first four books are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Okay, and some of those are disciples of Jesus who were alive with him during his day and some are not.
Can anybody tell me which are which?
Luke is not. That's correct. Good job, Josh.
Luke was not, he was alive, but he did not know Jesus. He did not travel with Jesus.
The other three were not actually. One more. Mark. That's correct. Mark was not.
Okay, so Mark and Luke were not.
If we know who he was, we'll get that.
Yeah, so okay. There is talk. You're right about that.
So he was not named. How about that? Okay, and so it's Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Okay, so now this latter part here tells what they're about.
Does anybody want to take a stab at starting with the D?
No. So Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
David, I think, might be named in one of like Jesus is speaking or whatever like that,
otherwise he doesn't appear because these are all after Jesus's birth, right?
So this is all New Testament stuff. After Jesus was born, as he grew up,
and very little about when he grew up, and then as an adult in his public ministry,
all the things that happened.
Nope. That is not a plus, by the way. That's a T. That's my bad.
I made it kind of look like a plus.
Yeah, suspiciously like a plus. But it's a T.
So if it's a T and it's a short word, it's probably the, right?
Okay, so we've got the. So a word starts with a D, then the, and then a...
Describe the life of Jesus.
Okay. Okay, he's got it all the way through Jesus.
Okay, describes or details, either one, the life of Jesus.
Say it again.
Different perspectives.
Perfect. Well done to both of you. That is exactly right.
So these books describe the life of Jesus in different perspectives.
Okay, why does that matter that they're in different perspectives?
Share everything that might be. Adds credibility.
Okay, it definitely adds credibility. That's true. Why else?
It may help people understand this thing.
Like multiple people are seeing the same thing in different ways.
And the way that they describe it and account it may help different people understand it.
Good, exactly. So the writers who are different, sort of different perspective.
Let me give you one example. Matthew was a Jew.
Okay, he comes out of a Jewish background and they even think that he may have written parts of the book of Matthew in Hebrew,
which was their original language, right? Or Aramaic or both.
And so he was writing to people who come out of a Jewish background.
And so when they read that, they very well might get the gospel.
Whereas if they read, like Luke, for example, who is essentially a Greek doctor.
I mean, I don't think he was actually Greek, but he was a doctor schooled that way.
They're not going to get it the same as they would get it from Matthew, who's one of them.
Right? So that's good. That's very good.
Also, if you find something that looks like a contradiction and you drill down on it,
what you will find is that they are both right except for perspective.
So there's one particular time, for example, where it tells the story that the disciple,
Jesus and the disciples were coming out of a town and they ran into a man who was sitting on the side of the road.
The other disciple says they were going into town and are coming out of a different town.
Let me get this right. Yeah, coming out of a different town.
And they ran into the guy on the road.
And so we can nail down where that encounter happened within 90 feet.
Because there was a place where you would be considered coming out of this town.
And there was a place to be considered coming out of this town.
And it's within 90 feet.
So they can nail down where he healed that guy within 90 feet on the road.
That's powerful to be able to do that after thousands of years.
It's unheard of, right?
We don't know where most major events in history happened down to feet.
We know states. We know towns. We know miles maybe.
But rarely ever that nailed down.
So there's some really good detail that you can get that way too.
All right. So in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
these books detail or describe the life of Jesus from different perspectives.
Okay. So we're going to go to the left.
Down to the left.
We're going to stop by that little diagonal thing there where it says NHFBC.
You all know what that stands for, right?
New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church, right?
Okay. Key verse.
And it says 1. And then there's a blank.
1-3. And it is John. So you put John in there.
Our key verse is 1 John 1-3.
Okay. And it is of course located in the New Testament
in the letter written by John in the first chapter in verse 3.
Okay. So then right under that you should have a big box that has an H.
No. Remember these are sections, types of books.
We're looking for a type of book.
And I'll tell you that...
Nope. History. History is correct.
Okay. So the type of book is history.
And there's actually only one.
So of the books of the New Testament, there is one book that is a book of history and it is?
Acts. That is correct.
You have Caleb, a small candy bar.
Just a little over your head there, bud. Sorry.
Thanks, Trina, for the help.
Okay. So history, the book of Acts.
Okay. So everything else that's in this box is about the book of Acts.
Starting with a T. Anyone want to take a stab at it?
Tells about the feats of the church.
Pretty good. So it tells about the...
Not the feats, but the...
What happens to the church in the book of Acts?
Tales?
It starts with an F.
The forming or formation.
Be okay to. Forming or formation.
So there is a particular event.
That is supposed to go to Holly.
So, we'll help, we'll help.
So Acts tells about the forming, formation, the facts of the church.
And then now this is going to say something more about the book, a different point.
You want to take a stab at it? WBL.
Bible scholars know this, whether they know the letters or not.
Wisdom?
Nope.
Wait for... Lamentations?
Actually, it's way after Lamentations.
Although there will be plenty of Lamentations after Jesus comes back again.
Because there will be all those people lamenting that they didn't listen.
So if you got a capital L about the book of Acts, you would expect it to be...
Nope.
Word?
Nope.
While?
While being?
Nope.
Who wrote it?
Luke.
That's the man.
So the L is Luke and the rest of it is written by Luke.
Good job, sir. Coming in.
Yes, you were.
Well, somebody had Lamentations in there, so...
Written by Luke.
Okay.
We got one more thing here.
This one's tricky.
You might not get it without a little help.
Nope.
Okay.
So the book is in two sections.
So the next two words are two sections.
And most people don't actually realize that.
But once I tell you what the two sections are, then you'll go, oh yeah, that kind of makes sense.
If you know the book of Acts a little bit.
Okay, so it's in two sections.
The T is two, T-W-O, and the S is sections, S-E-C-T-I-O-N-S.
And so the remainder tells us what the two sections are.
No, but Pentecost actually does not divide the book.
It's very much at the beginning. It's in chapter two.
There are two significant players.
Paul or Peter?
That's right.
So it's actually Peter and Paul.
The first 12-ish chapters are Peter.
And after that, it follows Paul the whole time.
So, and what was Peter doing that was so significant?
Why did the book of Acts follow Peter for 12 chapters?
Because he was doing what?
Leading the church.
Leading the church. That's right.
He was the leader of the church.
And then it follows Paul from that point on because Paul was doing what?
What did Paul do for the whole rest of the book of Acts?
Say it again.
Teaching in the church.
I mean, that's kind of true, but can you give me just a little bit more detail?
Preaching the gospel.
Yeah, preaching the gospel.
So he was taking it out into the world, right?
And there was a...
I should have warmed up.
Okay.
Anyway, there was an event that takes place where Paul gets saved, right?
And then there's some like a little gap there where he's still kind of getting ready.
God's getting him going and they're trying to kill him off before he ever gets started.
And then from that point on, it follows him as he takes the gospel to everywhere.
And they call it the missionary journeys of Paul.
So he's taking the gospel to everywhere.
So the reason I gave you kind of give you the idea of leading the church is because Peter still maybe continued to lead the church in Jerusalem.
There's a question about when he stopped doing that.
But the church began to be everywhere, right?
Paul planted in Corinth, he planted in Ephesus, he planted all over the place, right?
And Pentecost, they spread out from there.
They went all over what's called the diaspora, all back up to all the Jewish society, all over the place with people from all different backgrounds and stuff.
And they took back the gospel and they told people about how the Holy Spirit had come on that day and all those kinds of things that happened.
So the events of Christianity that sparked the church were not done in a corner and they were not done in a closet or out in the back alley.
They were done in front of the world.
They were done at a time where people were coming from all over the known world to Jerusalem.
So when Jesus is crucified, there were people probably representing every major city.
Maybe not some like in deep Egypt or places like that, but every major city around the Mediterranean, right?
That were there to know that Jesus was crucified.
The rumor had begun to circulate that he was alive and some of them actually did know that he was alive.
And then they took the truth of that back to everywhere.
And some of them were still there at the time of Pentecost and then they took the truth of that back to everywhere.
It definitely was not done quietly.
So the remaining two groups, three groups, we're going to skip the biggest and go to the box on the right that starts with a P.
Because this one we should know a little bit already.
So there's a box on the right that's labeled with a P and it is a kind of book.
And it is, no Peter is not a kind of book. Prophecy.
It is prophecy. Was that what you were going to say Caleb?
No, okay. Honest man. I like honest men. Okay. Prophecy.
Prophecy is a kind of book. We saw that in the Old Testament, right?
We broke it down between the major and the minor prophets.
The prophecy is a person who speaks on behalf of God and they often tell the future or,
and this is really important in this case, they tell what is happening in the spiritual realm that we can't necessarily see.
So God was revealing something to the author and the author was revealing the truth of what was already going on elsewhere and what will eventually go on.
And this book is called? Revelation is correct. No, Revelation is correct.
Ruth is Old Testament. We had her last week.
That's a very confusing book.
It's very confusing. What is it? Revelation? Yeah.
Actually it's not as confusing as people tend to make it out.
We did a study on it on Tuesday nights back when you were having youth group on Tuesday nights opposite us so you missed it.
But we went through it chapter by chapter by chapter and it makes a heck of a lot more sense when you do it that way.
When people try to take pieces out and look at it, it really doesn't fit together and it's hard to understand but we did pretty good with it.
I have that study if you want to do it or if you wanted to do it with the youth.
Although I would say, I would warn that it is tough subject matter nonetheless.
Even though it's not complicated once you do it that way, it's still difficult to think about what's going on elsewhere and what's going to go on.
And by the way, the book name was what again? Somebody say it.
Revelation. Reve-ley-shun.
Not revelations. There is no S.
People will name the books of the Bible and they say revelations. It's not revelations, it's revelations. There is no S.
You can check your own Bible and believe me it's true. There is no S.
Why is it called Revelation?
Because it is a revelation to John and then John to us.
We will see his name here coming.
Describe it. It is A and the word there is A.
What? A vision of John. That is exactly right.
Tough competition when the adults are getting candy too.
Also I'm going to be chasing people out of the front. They're not going to sit in the front.
Maybe they will. Maybe they'd rather be able to catch it.
Okay, so it's a vision of John, but that doesn't finish it. The sentence continues or phrase continues.
It's a vision of John of? Not which? Say it again.
Google it again. That's in there, but much more is in there than that. You're right, that is in there.
It does, yep.
Nope.
I mean again, that's in there, but the whole book is a vision of what's going on in heaven and what's to come.
Remember he sees the vision of the angels surrounding the throne of God singing, Holy, Holy, Holy.
That's not really a vision of God's wrath. It's not a vision of anything that was going on at the earth at that time.
Or anything that was going to go on at the earth later even.
But they do stop singing eventually and they stop singing when the lamb comes forth to open the seal and wrath of God does come.
So it's different pieces and there's some letters in there that are written to the churches warning Leiaz.
For example, about being lukewarm and like that.
So it's more than the book is about quite a few different things about what's going on in heaven and what's to come.
So God was making that known to him and then he in turn made it known to the churches and they kept it and we get it.
It is designed to speak directly to us and we'll come back to that idea in a moment.
So let's go from there. We're going to go left to the middle.
I can't put the arrows on here but we're figuring it out.
LBP.
Letters by Paul.
That is right. Letters by Paul.
Are we citing?
No.
Oh, that's what it is.
So these are going to be the books that are under letters by Paul.
So it's Romans is the first one.
Caleb, what's the next two?
After Romans.
Five seconds.
Four.
Say it again.
Corinthians.
That's right. First and second Corinthians. Nailed it.
Kishon, what's after that?
Starts with a G.
No, man. We're in the New Testament.
Galatians.
No.
Somebody stole it from him. We said it.
I'm so sorry, Caleb. That was a terrible throw.
That was an awesome throw.
That was a good throw. It hit right there in the shoulder.
Okay. So it's Romans first and second Corinthians. Galatians.
Ephesians.
Philippians.
Colossians.
Be careful. First and second Thessalonians.
First and second Timothy.
And Philemon.
So why does it get messed up at the end there?
Because he didn't write his books saying what do we put them in the bottom?
Actually, yeah, we don't know actually even what order he wrote them in.
There's some guesses about that, but that's not really why it's messed up.
It's messed up because these are the books that he wrote.
He did not write some of the books that go in the gap.
So these are the letters by Paul.
So that's why it's messed up.
And then I'll give you this one this time because you wouldn't guess it.
They're written by, in, these are the words, written by, in, from, and to.
So it's written by, in, from, and to the early church.
So this is one of the greatest arguments.
And really it is, it's the only one you need when someone says,
I believe in the Bible, but I don't need to go to church.
The Bible was written by, from, in, and to the early church.
You almost cannot interpret what the Bible says unless you interpret it in the context of a church.
So if people say they don't need to go to church, they just believe the Bible,
they are throwing the baby out with the bath water at least because they're saying,
I believe this book.
Yes, ma'am.
The P was prophecy.
Oh, no, no.
Paul.
Letters by Paul.
Oh, the last P. Philemon.
It's a weird spelling, that's why.
It's P-H-I-L-E-M-O-N.
Like Phil-E-Mon.
Okay, so it's first and second Corinthians.
Okay.
And then later you get Colossians and then first and second Thessalonians
and then first and second Timothy.
Okay, so anyway, so basically if you're saying, I believe this book,
which was written by, which was written in, right, which was written to the church,
but I don't believe in the church, that's not very logical.
Right?
So then some of the things he says, for example, even some of the teachings of Jesus,
like love one another, one another, which is a certain Greek word that's interpreted one another, right?
That phrase always refers to in the church.
There is nowhere in the Bible where he says love one another and he's including lost people.
Now, does it mean we shouldn't love lost people?
No, we should, right?
You can go so far as to say love your enemies as yourself, right?
So we should love them.
But when it says love one another, that is written to the church that we should love one another.
In fact, we know that very clearly because you see he says,
and by this they will know that you are my disciples in that you love one another.
Right?
So these writings are written in the church, by the church, from the church, to the early church.
Now, why didn't I put of?
I love the preposition of, but why isn't of on the list?
Because it wouldn't make sense.
Okay, why?
Of the written list?
Well, it could if the books were written of or of can be substituted for about,
if they're written about the early church.
That's true, they're not history books, that's true.
It's because they were not written of the early church, they're written of the church in general.
Okay, so for example, like the book of Philippians, they got the book of Philippians,
which was a letter, right, to Philippi, and then they put that letter everywhere, sorry, everywhere.
And as new churches were started, guess what they read?
That letter too.
And then a new church we started and they got the letter, a new church we started and they got the letter.
And then after about 3, whatever that was, 350 BC or AD, 380 AD after the canon was locked down,
and they said these are the letters, every time a new church got started, guess what they got?
All the letters of Paul, right?
So these were not written just for those, not just of those churches that were the New Testament churches,
they were meant to be enduring words of God to his people, and you could say about his people,
but for every time, all the way through present day.
So it doesn't really fit to say they were written of that time,
because then we'd be saying they only applied to the church at Ephesus, and that's not true.
They have applied to every church since then. It just happened they got them first.
Okay?
Alright, now we're going to go up to the one box that we have left.
If somebody can get this, I'll give you two pieces of candy.
Letters non-Pauline.
Letters non-Pauline, that's right.
Was that what you were going to say too?
I'll give you both.
Oh, you've got the whole thing filled out?
Yeah.
Okay, well then you just have to be quiet.
Can I just get four pieces of candy and I'll shut up?
I'll give you two.
I can't eat it, but you can give them away.
Plus it's fun to throw them.
Somebody hit me on the face.
One like this.
Okay.
Some of them are just taken so they can give them to you afterwards anyway.
Okay.
So letters non-Pauline, to say something is Pauline means it was originated or written by Paul.
Right?
To say they're non-Pauline, that means that were letters that were not written by Paul.
It's not complicated.
Okay?
And then, Kishan, what's one and two P not written by Paul?
Can you do it?
Yep.
It starts with a P. Peter, yeah.
It can't be John because it starts with a P.
Okay, and then the next one is first, second, third John.
Right?
And by the way, who are the books that at first and second Peter written by?
Peter.
Peter and first, second, third John written by?
John.
Right, yeah.
So notice the difference between the Pauline letters and the non-Pauline letters, how they're labeled.
Do you see it?
They're always written, the ones that Paul wrote are always who he wrote to.
Right?
And then only one of these is kind of not over here and that's Hebrews.
Right?
Which is not labeled to who he wrote to.
He did not write it to Hebrew.
That's not a place, it's not a people that live in a place.
Right?
But it is about that topic.
It is to help them deal with the fact that they're Hebrews who are now supposed to be Christians.
Right?
So, Peter, first, second, third John, Jude, James.
Yeah, I'm going to talk about that in a second.
Hebrews, okay.
All right, so we'll come back to talk about that in a second.
James and Jude, yeah, Jude and James, whatever.
Okay.
And then, does anybody have the rest of it?
Do you have the rest of it?
Yeah, written by, in, from, to the early church.
Right?
Same as the other one.
Notice how it's kind of colored in gray.
Same as the other one.
Very good.
Written by, in, from, to the early church.
Okay.
So, RJ pointed out and I was going to talk...
Hebrews.
Yep.
And RJ pointed out about the book of Hebrews that we do not know the actual author for
sure of the book of Hebrews.
Do you know?
No, I wrote it.
Oh, you wrote it?
No, you didn't.
Okay.
So, there are two leading theories.
Does anybody know what the two leading theories are?
Yeah, because...
One of them is, yeah, one of them is it's a woman, right?
And so, there could be a question and it might be a problem and they lean toward maybe like
Yodia or one of the women that Paul mentions elsewhere as being a leader in the church
in that day that she may have written it and that might be why the church did not identify
that it was written by a woman because women didn't really have rights and it would have
been looked down on in societies where they wouldn't have thought, well, it was written
by a woman and they would kind of disparage it or whatever.
And then the other one is Paul.
Paul, because of the description of the Jewish culture.
Yeah, so he had the knowledge and there are parts of it that sort of follow the patterns
that he used when he was writing.
There are patterns that you can see in his writing.
But there's one main reason why it almost certainly was not written by Paul.
Do you know what it is?
No, he was...
Well, he was probably alive.
That would do it, but he was probably alive.
The main reason is because it doesn't say it was written by Paul.
And all the other ones say he wrote it.
He says, I, Paul, in almost all of them.
And so if he wrote the book of Hebrews, there's a good chance he would have said, I, Paul.
And he had that kind of authority.
People would listen to him because he was clearly an apostle and miraculously testified
to by God.
So if he wrote it, he probably would have said, I, Paul, and we would know it was written
by him.
Which means it probably wasn't him, but we just don't know.
We don't have that information.
Yes?
In my study Bible, in the beginning of it, Luke's description of Apollo since 1824-28
was perfectly fixed the profile of an octopus.
Yep, so there's another theory of it.
So there are several theories.
The two leading theories are Paul and Iodio or whichever one of those women it was.
I was getting confused.
And she just brought up another one that might not have jumped in my head had you not said
so, which is Apollo's.
And that, by the way, Apollo's, there was a woman that was with him.
That's the woman.
And I can't think.
I'm not positive about what her name was, but.
Aquila?
Aquila.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, because they were both based on that.
Yeah.
Aquila and Apollo.
Okay.
So now we're going down to the bottom box.
So if you were here last week or if you already kind of know these things, then this will
go pretty easy.
The first one is 40 plus authors.
Right?
So there are 40 plus authors involved in the Bible.
And part of that reason why we don't know if it's 40, 41, 43 is because some of the
books we don't know who wrote them, like Hebrews, for example.
So that could be one extra author or it could just be Paul again, right?
So 40 plus authors.
1600 plus years, right?
1600 plus years.
Okay.
Which is a long stinking time.
She's like dodging.
She's like, I'm not going to catch that.
Okay.
1600 plus years.
Okay.
And there's one theme and that theme is redemption in Jesus.
So from the very beginning, all the way back to the Garden of Eden, which was in Genesis,
which was handed down verbally and then eventually written down probably by Moses or around that
time.
Right?
So the theme of redemption in Jesus starts at the very beginning.
It goes through the entire 66 books.
Okay.
Then the people that wrote them come from all kinds of careers and it goes from left
to right, it goes shepherds.
You could do farmer or fisherman, whichever one there.
And then the two F's are farmers and fishermen or fishers, which is just a fun word.
I just like saying the word fishers.
Okay.
The K is kings.
Then the P is priests.
The D is doctors and the O is officials.
Like government officials work for the government basically.
Tax collector.
Matthew was a tax collector.
Yes, he was.
Okay.
Then we're finishing up this two part lesson, Old Testament, New Testament.
Who's got their Bible with them?
You have an electronic phone.
Okay.
Trina, would you look up Psalm 12.6?
Deacon Tony, would you look up 2 Timothy 3.16?
Assuming you can't do it from memory.
It's been a long time, I'm sure.
2 Timothy 3.16.
Who else had it?
Caitlin, you want to get Revelation 22, 18 through 21.
Need another one.
Who else has the Bible?
RJ, 2 Peter 1.21.
And one left.
You might know that one, Psalms 1.19.11, Tony.
You kind of know that one probably.
All right.
We're going to read them in order, left to right on the page.
So the Psalms 12.6, that's what goes in there.
Got it?
All right, go ahead.
The words of the Lord are two words that shall be tried and first and third, hereby
seven.
Beautiful.
Tony?
2 Timothy 3.16.
All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize
what is wrong in our lives.
Corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us what teaches us to do what is right.
Amen.
Revelation 22, 18 to 21.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book.
If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away
from them the words of the prophecy of this book.
Amen.
All right.
If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away
his share of the tree of life and the holy city which are written about in this book.
He who testifies about these things says, yes, I am coming soon.
Amen.
Come Lord Jesus.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with everyone.
Amen.
Second.
18 to 21.
This is Revelation 22, 18 to 21.
And 21 is the last verse.
So when you say Genesis through Revelation, if you want to say Genesis 1, 1 through Revelation
22, 21.
I always forget it's 21.
I'm reminding myself as I'm saying that.
21, 21, 21.
I'm trying to remember.
Okay.
Second Peter 1, 21.
The prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke
from God.
Amen.
And Psalm 1, 19, 11.
Are you going to read it or are you going to do it from memory?
I'm ready to do it.
I've hidden your word in my heart so that I may not sin against you.
Nice.
Do it again.
Say it again.
I've hidden your word in your heart so that I may not sin against you.
Okay.
All right.
There you go.
And so the value of God's word is immense.
And most of the time we'll dig into various pieces, but this was just an overview so you
can see how it all goes together.
Now when we play that game where you got to name those, there's a letter name, you got
to name the book.
If you study the books, you'll be able to name the name of the book faster.
That's what that's all about.
I don't actually, as I was studying this myself, I came up with a card game that I'm going
to try to make that's going to help learn that.
But there are two little boxes on here that I want to point out just before we're done.
The one is upper left hand side says Pentecost.
That's where you'll find the story, Acts chapter two.
Really interesting piece that you can connect in your head.
In Pentecost, in Acts chapter two, Peter is preaching and he quotes somebody, a prophet,
who talks about the things that were happening in Peter's day.
Does anybody know who it is?
Tony Tate knows who it is.
It's Joel.
Okay.
I'd say well.
All right.
So Acts chapter two, he preaches and he uses the very words of Joel, which are coincidentally
recorded in Joel chapter two.
Yep.
So you can mirror those together.
Pentecost, Acts chapter two, he quotes the prophecy of Joel, which you'll always be able
to find in Joel chapter two.
It talks about how the young men will dream dreams and the Holy Spirit comes on and like
that it's all in there.
And then the other one, which is also hugely important, which is the other box on the right
hand side goes across between the two books.
It's gray.
It says sermon on the mount, Matthew five to seven.
So if you want to know, that's where the beatitudes are.
The Lord's prayer isn't there.
There's a lot of stuff in there.
And that's when Jesus got the big, what was probably the biggest crowd he ever had.
That's the things he chose to talk about.
So that's important, right?
So in the New Testament, if you, if you wanted, if you go like, what should I read today?
Go read the sermon on the mount again, because when he had thousands of people gathered in
a huge amphitheater to talk to, that's what those are the things he chose to talk about.
So those are useful, useful pieces.
And I hope, I hope it was fun.
I don't know.
I enjoyed it.
Okay.
So we're going to pray in closing.
Amen.