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1. New Testament
Survey
BIL102
Glenn Johnson

2. New Testament
Survey
BIL102
Welcome & Intros
-Name
-Who are your people
(family/work/, etc)
-Spiritual Upbringing
-Hopes/Apprehensions
about this class

3. New Testament
Survey
Devotion & Prayer
"For God so loved the world that
he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him will
not perish but have eternal life.
God did not send his Son into the
world to condemn it, but to save it.
"There is no judgment awaiting
those who trust him. But those
who do not trust him have already
been judged for not believing in
the only Son of God.”
-John 3:16-18, NLT

4. COURSE/SYLLABUS REVIEW
• Quick Tour of BIL 102 in Brightspace (Workshops/Honesty Policy)
• Syllabus Review (Brightspace)
• Discussions: Mostly Done In Class
• Indicated Assignment Times: Not Exact
• QUIZZES: Almost entirely from JIL text
• LECTURES IN BRIGHTSPACE: Supplemental
• Review of Assignments/Reading List by Workshop on Syllabus

5. New Testament
Survey
DISCUSSION ZONE
First Orientation
5 Minute PRE TEST
-Not for a grade
-No name
-Not collected
1) What is your earliest memory of
God/Bible?
2) What are some ways (bizarre or
otherwise) you’ve heard people
explain where the Bible comes from?

6. BREAK
7:30-7:45

7. NEW TESTAMENT BACKGROUND: How It
All Came To Be
Ongoing STORY About:
-People of Faith
-Jesus Christ & His Unique Place and Message
In History
-First Century Movement: Christianity
-Things Yet To Come…

10. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND:
How It All Came To Be
-400 Silent Years between
OT & NT
-Gap In Biblical Record
-Silence of Prophetic Voice

11. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND:
How It All Came To Be
Alexander the Great
-B.C. 334
-Master of the Middle East
-Died at 33 of Pneumonia
-”When Alexander saw the
breadth of his domain, he wept
for there were no more worlds to
conquer”

12. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND:
How It All Came To Be
Spread of Hellenism
-Gave Rise: Hellenist Jews
-Greek: Common Language
-Pharisees & Sadducees
Born

13. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND:
How It All Came To Be
Jews Return From Exile
-Rebuilt Temple B.C. 450
-B.C. 175: Syrians Beat
Egypt & Were Dominant
-Pharisees & Sadducees
Born

14. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND:
How It All Came To Be
Antiochus
-Syrian King: B.C. 168
-Offered Greek Pig On
Jewish Altar, the
“Abomination of Desolation”

15. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND:
How It All Came To Be
Judaism?
-Almost Died
-Mattathias: Birthed
Maccabean Revolution
-Vs. 300 Elephants & 20K
Syrians
-Got Elephants Drunk on
Wine and Won Battle

16. NEWTESTAMENT BACKGROUND:How It AllCame To Be
-“Alas! Why was I born to see this, the ruin of my
people, the ruin of the holy city, and to live there when
it was given over to the enemy, the sanctuary given
over to aliens? Her temple has become like a person
without honor; her glorious vessels have been carried
into exile. Her infants have been killed in her streets,
her youths by the sword of the foe? What nation has not
inherited her palaces and has not seized her spoils? All
her adornment has been taken away; no longer free,
she has become a slave. And see, our holy place, our
beauty, and our glory have been laid waste; the Gentiles
have profaned them. Why should we live any longer?
Then Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, put on
sackloth, and mourned greatly.”
(1 Maccabees 2:7-14)

17. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND: How It All Came To Be
-ROME BATTLED
AND WON THE
WORLD UNDER
CAESAR
AUGUSTUS (B.C.
27)
-Expansion By
War to Expansion
By Peace

18. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND: How It All Came To Be
-Unity of Roman
Empire=Spread of
Christianity
-ROADS

19. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND: How It All Came To Be
HEROD THE GREAT
-Rebuilt the Temple
-Jealous Guy: Killed
3 Wives and 2 Sons

20. NEW TESTAMENTBACKGROUND: How It All Came To Be
-A.D. 70……Destruction of Temple
-No Jewish State Until 1948

21. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

22. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
MATTHEW
-Tax Collector
-Very Jewish Picture of Jesus
-First Birth Stories
-First Typical Sermon
-5 Women In Lineage
-Skillfully Organized
-Only Writer W/3 Wise Guys

23. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5-7
-Heart of the Kingdom of God
(KOG)
-Very Strong Words
-Strive For Perfection
-Views: Absolutist
-Views: Modification
-Demands of the KOG: very
radical; cause of unease
-New “Law” Given To Jesus’
Disciples

24. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5-7
-Poetic Literary Style: Uses
Parallelism (One Line is Related
To Another)
-7:2- Synonymous: Same Idea
Repeated for Emphasis
-6:14-15- Antithetic: Contrast
Between 2 Lines
5:17- Step: Point Stated, Then
Builds
7:3- Synthetic: Correspondence In
Rhythmic Form; 2nd Extends
Meaning

25. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
MARK
-Most Unique Gospel
-Often Ignored
-”Maverick” Gospel
-No Beginning/Ending
-No Xmas Story
-”Tells it like it is”
-First Gospel
-Gospel of Action; “Immediately”
-Respected Disciples: Appear Dull/Dense
-”Epitimao”=Physically Censor, Rebuke, Rap On
Knuckles..Appears 9x to Demoniacs, Oceans, Seas,
Disciples, Even Jesus

26. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
MARK
-Markan “Sandwich”: Unique Literary Device Where
One Story is Split Apart & Another Inserted As
“Meat”…Outer Stories Interpret Inner
Stories…Always Have “Toothpick” To Connect Them
-6 Mini Gospels
-Is Only Place Where Jesus Calls Someone “Satan”
-Insiders Are Outsiders & Vice-Versa
-”Messianic Secret”
-Role of the Sea: Place of Wilderness, Separation,
Evil
-No Sermons In Mark
-Author John Mark from Acts 15:36-41

27. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
MARK DISCUSSION
• Who Is Jesus?
• What would the world at that time have known
about a “Messiah?”
• Mark 1:1
• What could have been wrong with the world?
• Mark 1:23-24
• Mark 3:11-12
• Mark 5:7
• What parallels or application can we draw from
what we know of Mark’s proclamation of who
Jesus is and his confrontation with the powers of
darkness?

28. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
LUKE
-Only Gentile (Non Jewish) Writer in NT
-Purpose: “Orderly Account” (1:1-4)
-Same Author As Acts
-Longest Gospel
-Was M.D.
-FOCUS: Social Outcasts
-Smelly Shepherds: First to Know of
Jesus Birth

29. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
LUKE
-No Room At The Inn?
-”Proper Place”
-Born In Cave Outside of Inn
-350+ Poems Written Attacking
Innkeeper

30. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
LUKE
-Only One To Record Good
Samaritan
-Stresses Women Throughout
-Stresses Role Of Children:
Mentioned 3x In Connection
w/Jesus
-Luke 19:1-10: Lost People
Matter To God

31. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
JOHN
-Written by Apostle John, “the
disciple whom Jesus loved”
-From Galilee
-Simple Approach: Light and
Darkness Theme
-”Problem Child of the NT”
-Beautiful Literary Style: Moves
Like a Symphony

32. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
JOHN
-Only Gospel Introduced With a
Hymn
-No Birth Stories, Parables,
Exorcisms
-Jesus Given Name “Logos”
-More Sayings of Jesus From
Cross & Graphic Depiction of
Resurrection Story

33. CHRIST IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
JOHN
-Jesus said, “I am the bread of life.
He who comes to me will never go
hungry, and he who believes in me
will never be thirsty.” (John 6:35)
-KOG: Is NOW, but Not Yet a Reality

34. BREAK
8:45-8:55

35. HAVE A TERRIFIC WEEK!