Welcome to One Minute Through the Bible. In today's
episode, episode four, we'll be discussing a
brief outline of the books and epistles that
make up the New Testament. So if you have your
Bibles, open up to the New Testament section
of your Bible. And immediately as you open up
the New Testament section of your Bible, you
will see you will begin with the four gospels.
So in the four gospels, the four gospels in the
gospel category, consists of Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John. Now, Matthew, Mark, and Luke are often
called synoptic gospels. Then it kind of leaves
John all alone to himself. And after the four
gospels, next up in its own category is the Book
of Acts, often titled Acts of the Apostles. Now,
I think that the Book of Acts should be called
Acts of the Holy Spirit, because the Book of
Acts describes how the Holy Spirit superintended
the development of the early church, which leads
to another title. You can put the book of Acts
in by itself, which is of record of early church
history. Divided in the New Testament further,
we have the Pauline epistles or the writings
of the apostle Paul to the individual local Christian
communities that he helped. Now, Paul wasn't
writing to one particular church in Rome or one
particular church in Galatia. He was writing
to a group of local Christian communities in
those regions. Galatians, Romans, 1st and 2nd
Corinthians, 1st and 2nd Thessalonians, Ephesians,
Philippians, Philemon, Titus, 1st and 2nd Timothy.
Then we have the Apostle Peter's letters, 1st
and 2nd Peter's. Going further we have the John's
writings, John's letters, first, second, and
third John, and we have the Apostle John's prophetic
writings of the book of Revelation. Now, we end
the New Testament with James' letter, who's written
to Christians everywhere, or Christian Jews of
the Diasporia, and finally the unknown Christian
author that wrote the book of Hebrews. Now, I
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