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St. Paul School of Leadership & Discipleship Lesson 148 - BITS OF WISDOM FROM AN OLD WARRIOR (PART 2) By Frank Eiklor and the Shalom Team Memorizing Bible Basics—New Testament
Today’s church is filled with many Christian “chocolate soldiers.” Chocolate melts in the heat. Many Christians do the same when trials and persecution come their way.
Why does this happen? I believe it is because the Word of God does not abide in their hearts. During the first year of knowing Jesus as Savior—when “first love” is still fresh—I push disciples to have a daily devotion of Bible and prayer with the Lord. Added to this is memory work—memorizing Bible basics including the books of the Bible and around 50 important scripture verses they will need to defeat the devil and be faithful to Christ. This all happens in the first year.
That is what I am doing with you. Last lesson, you memorized the 39 books of the Old Testament. Now it’s time to memorize the 27 books of the New Testament. That makes 66 books in all. Review them daily until you know them like your name and address. Here they are.
Matthew Philippians 1 Peter Mark Colossians 2 Peter Luke 1 Thessalonians 1 John John 2 Thessalonians 2 John Acts 1 Timothy 3 John Romans 2 Timothy Jude 1 Corinthians Titus Revelation 2 Corinthians Philemon Galatians Hebrews Ephesians James
Next lesson we go to work on memorizing basic Bible verses. Not to know them is really to remain a baby Christian. It’s time to grow up!
"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I Corinthians 11:1)
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new one makes perfect sense. The splitting of the atom turned many skeptics into believers.
After all, look what man himself is capable of doing with the atom and hydrogen bombs. Now
the fear is that nuclear weapons are being placed in the hands of madmen who wish to annihilate
their enemies. God has blessed man with incredible genius. We stand in awe as we watch men and women in a room full of computers and high-tech instruments guiding and landing spacecraft on distant planets. At that moment, we appear invincible. But then a mammoth tornado comes—or a terrifying hurricane—or rains that flood whole regions and never listen to our shouts to “Stop!”—or the shake that removes from under our feet any confidence or pride we carry, and leaves us numb with hardly enough breath to even utter the paralyzing word “EARTHQUAKE!”. And man is helpless in the face of it all! |
