General letters

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A letter showing that Jesus Christ fulfills the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament. 

 Jesus Christ, as the Son of God, is superior to all things and all religions.

Faith in Him alone is sufficient for a victorious life.

Jesus Christ is God’s Son, superior to angels, Moses, the Old Testament high priest...  Everyone…

A call to be faithful because of what Jesus has done for us how easy it is to drift away from God, and how disastrous. 

A new place of rest awaits God’s people

Developing maturity as a believer

Jesus is our High Priest offering a new covenant with Him

This new covenant is God’s final answer to sin

How to live under this new covenant; faith is superior to the old system

Great heroes of faith

God’s discipline proves His love for us

Holy and obedient living

A letter from James to Christians everywhere explaining that good deeds are the evidence of strong faith. Genuine faith in Jesus transforms lives.

Our faith in Jesus must be a living faith, not merely a creed, a system of religion, or a doctrine, we must not only hear the truth but speak it and live it. 

When trials and temptations come your way

Hearing God’s Word is not enough, you must obey it

Do not favor the rich

Faith results in good deeds

Controlling the tongue

The kind of wisdom God wants us to acquire

Drawing near to God

Trust God with your future

Warning to the rich

Patience in suffering

Faithful prayer

Peter, the encourager, reminds Christians that even persecution need not be feared if we know Jesus Christ. 

This letter is a manual on how a Christian should live in the face of persecution, disintegrating relationships, discouragement and suffering. It is a note of encouragement. 

The hope of eternal life

A call to holy living

How God wants to use you in His Kingdom

Obey those in authority over you

Counsel for husbands and wives

How to act in the midst of suffering

Counsel for church leaders

Peter encouraged believers to live strong lives through persecution. Now he deals with false teaching that is so self-destructive. 

God’s Word is the foundation and those who have only shallow knowledge of it have superficial resistance to false teachings. 

Peter warns Christians about false teachers and urges believers to grow in their faith.

Character qualities to develop in life

The words of scripture are true

False teaching – a danger to growing Christians

Hope for growing Christians

A letter from John to reassure Christians that their faith is real and to encourage them to live as children of God. They should not let obstacles to their faith, like false teaching, draw them away from fellowship with God and other believers.

Assurance that Jesus is God’s Son

How to live as God’s children

Do not love this evil world

Beware of the enemies of Christ

We are God’s children, so we must love others

Learn to distinguish true teaching from false teaching

True Love comes from God; God is love

Loving God brings eternal life

A letter from John to emphasize the importance of love in our Christian walk and also to warn against false teachings that threatens love.

Real love cannot be separated from truth and obedience. We must believe that the principles found in God’s Word are true and that God Himself is Truth. 

If we believe that God’s Word is true then we must follow (obey) it. God’s word tells us to love one another, If we are committed to following the truth, we must love. 

False teaching will claim that love has nothing to do with God’s Truth and obedience.

Love one another and beware of false teachers

John is an old man now, he writes to his friend Gaius to commend him for the hospitality he has been showing traveling missionaries, many of whom John had personally sent to that church.

Hospitality is a friendly hand shake, a warm smile, a good meal…making people feel welcomed.

Hospitality does not go unnoticed. It earns well deserved praise, in John’s time and in ours. How we treat others is a visible badge of honor, revealing our true character to others.

God’s people should live by standards of the gospel

A letter from Jude to remind the church of the need for constant vigilance… to stay away from false teachings. 

Jude’s contention that false teaching will increase and continue to threaten the church makes this letter a fitting introduction to Revelation, which describes God’s new Kingdom, where only truth and peace will prevail.

In this letter to the church at large, Jude warns believers to resist false teachers. Their work is false and they are doomed to destruction. They will be judged as surely as Sodom and Gomorrah were for their immorality. 

The dangers of false teachers

Our responsibility to fight for God’s truth