More than A Collection of Books 8

 




Titus like 1st and 2nd Timothy is another pastoral epistle
This time highlighting godliness and good works,
Paul suggests there is a misapprehension of true grace
If the believer from godliness and good works would shirk.

Philemon is another book of just a single chapter
About the slave Onesimus who fled from his slave master,
Philemon was that master who was sought after by Paul
To receive Onesimus back since he was a brother after all.

Hebrews is an enthralling book about the faithful crew
But it starts out with Jesus the Son from the Father’s view,
Later on he’s shown to be a better priest that Aaron
And the initiator of a better covenant; not the old but the new.

James places great emphasis on the testing of one’s faith
Declaring a faith with out any works must be considered dead,
He talks about the tongue and wisdom: the true and the false
And gives an exhortation on patience as the way we should be led.

1st Peter deals especially with suffering in the Christian’s life
Including slander, ridicule and the prospect of prison and death
Relationships between believers and others are highlighted
As well as the acceptance of the gospel by which we are blessed.

2nd Peter raises the issue of the increasing false prophets
Already bringing in destructive heresies and licentiousness,
They mocked the idea of the coming judgment
And gave rise to immorality and gross wickedness.

1st John is replete with incidences of extreme opposites
Like light and darkness, love and hate, the truth and the lie
The Gnostics erroneously professed to know the truth
But denied that Jesus is God and that Christ actually died.

 2nd John admonishes to beware of those who spread error
Particularly the type regarding the Person of our Lord,
While the Apostle rejoiced that the children walked in truth
He implored that we compromised not but receive a full award.

3rd John focuses on the behaviour of three characters:
The first was the godly Gaius whom John wished to prosper,
The second was the dictatorial Diotrephes who received him not,
And the third was faithful Demetrius to whom he gave honour.

Jude admonishes believers to contend earnestly for the faith
 The faith that was once delivered unto the saints,
Ungodly men had crept in denying the only Lord and Christ
And who were trying the grace of our God to taint

The Revelation of Jesus Christ by John to the seven churches
Encourages us wait with patience as we look for Christ’s return,
It teaches the folly of living for things that will soon pass away
And warns rejecters of the Saviour of their doom on judgment day.

Stewart Russell © March 2017


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