THE GOSPEL OF PEACE A Bible Study Course Bible Study Course The Gospel of Peace The Gospel of Peace Welcome to the Gospel of Peace! This series of study classes is designed to help you determine for yourself the message in God’s Word. We consider this of ultimate importance, because the Bible claims to provide a way in which normal people can find everlasting life. A bold claim! Can that be true, or is it just a comforting delusion? Find out for yourself! Syllabus Classes last 1.5-2 hrs with all scriptures read. For a shorter class of 1-1.5 hrs, just use the underlined ones. Who’s Who, What’s What? (Focus on Concepts and Characters) 01 I Am the Lord and There Is No Other Who is God, What can we learn about his Character? Isaiah 45; Exodus 3; Romans 11; Deuteronomy 6; Exodus 33-34; John 4; 1 John 4 02 Son of God and Son of Man Who is Jesus Christ and what did he achieve? Isaiah 53; Luke 1 & 2; Psalm 22; Matthew 26 & 27; John 1 & 3 & 10 & 17; Philippians 2 03 For Dust Thou Art… What is man? What is a soul? Where does sin come from? Genesis 1; Genesis 2; Genesis 3; Ezekiel 18; Psalm 104; Genesis 6; Mark 7; Psalm 119; James 1; Romans 7 04 We Will All Be Changed What are Heaven and Hell? Is there an afterlife? If so, who experiences it, how and why? Psalm 115; Matthew 18; Job 11; Matthew 11; Jeremiah 7; Matthew 10; Acts 2; John 5; 1 Corinthians 15 05 Crouching at Your Door Who tempted Christ in the wilderness? Who or what is the devil? Matthew 3 & 4; John 3; James 1; Hebrews 4; Matthew 16; John 6; Luke 22; Hebrews 2 06 He Took Up Our Infirmities The Gospel Message Concerning Demons Isaiah 53; Matthew 8-12; Mark 5 i Bible Study Course The Gospel of Peace Classes last 1.5-2 hrs with all scriptures read. For a shorter class of 1-1.5 hrs, just use the underlined ones. Timeline of God’s Plan (Focus on Biblical Timeline) 07 In the Image of God (Adam) The Creation, Fall of Man, Flood Genesis 1-4 & 6-9 08 Heirs According to the Promise (Abraham) Israel God’s Chosen Nation; Covenant with Abraham; Spiritual Israel Genesis 12 & 15 & 17 & 21 & 22; Romans 4; Galatians 3 09 The Letter and the Spirit (Moses) Law to Moses; The completed Law in Christ; The Law in our discipleship Exodus 3 & 13-14 & 19-20; Matthew 5, 6 & 22 10 God’s Chosen People Israel (David) Israel the Monarchy, David the Good King, Division; Captivity; Prophecy 1 Samuel 8 & 15-16; 2 Samuel 7; Psalm 23 & 119; Ecclesiastes 5; Jeremiah 25; Isaiah 9; Ezekiel 37 11 This is My Beloved Son: Hear Him! (Jesus Christ) Teaching, Parables and Miracles of Jesus Christ; Crucifixion and Resurrection Matthew 3 & 5 & 8 & 13; John 9; Matthew 26-28 12 Temple of the Living God (The Present Church) Practices of the 1st Century Church; How to emulate/find true Christianity Acts 2, 8 & 9; 1 Corinthians 11; 2 Corinthians 6; 1 Timothy 3-4 13 I Am Making All Things New (The Future Kingdom) Signs of Christ’s Return; The Kingdom of God; The End Matthew 24; 1 Corinthians 15; Romans 2; Isaiah 11 & 35 & 65; Revelation 20 & 21 & 22 What About Me? (Focus on Discipleship design) 14 Living with God Personal aspects: What is the disciple’s attitude/lifestyle before God? Genesis 1; Matthew 22; Micah 6; Genesis 3; Philippians 2; Romans 11; Genesis 4 Acts 2; Romans 6; 2 Corinthians 6; Matthew 9; 1 Thessalonians 5; James 1; 1 Timothy 4 15 The Bride of Christ Communal aspects: Living together as a Church; New Citizenship status Hebrews 10; 1 Corinthians 11; John 13; Philippians 2; Revelation 19 2 Corinthians 6; Romans 13; Ephesians 2; 1 Peter 2; Hebrews 11 16 I Believe Faith, Works and Grace; What I Believe; Preparation for baptism Hebrews 11; James 2; Matthew 7; Ephesians 2; Isaiah 59 ii I Am the Lord and There is No Other The Gospel of Peace: Session 01 Who’s Who, What’s What? (Focus on Concepts and Characters) I Am the Lord and There Is No Other “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3) What information can we compile from the Bible about who God is and what His character is like? Here is some essential Bible reading on the subject: ISAIAH 45 5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, 6 so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other. 7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things. 8 "You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have created it. 9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'? 10 Woe to him who says to his father, 'What have you begotten?' or to his mother, 'What have you brought to birth?' 11 "This is what the LORD says- the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? 12 It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts. 13 I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the LORD Almighty." 14 This is what the LORD says: "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans- they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, 'Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.' " 15 Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel. 16 All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together. 17 But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting. 18 For this is what the LORD says- he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he 1 I Am the Lord and There is No Other The Gospel of Peace: Session 01 founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited- he says: "I am the LORD, and there is no other. 19 I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob's descendants, 'Seek me in vain.' I, the LORD, speak the truth; I declare what is right. 20 "Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save. 21 Declare what is to be, present it- let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me. EXODUS 3 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in- law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight-why the bush does not burn up." 4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am." 5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." 6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. 7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey-the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.