 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to New Testament Survey BC 1.3. Before we could begin with our session, request one of you all to please lead us in prayer. Okay. So last class, we were studying on the Synoptic Gospels. That is the first four Gospels of the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. So under that, you know, we were studying on the Synoptic Gospels secret been unfolded. Like first four we covered. We covered on the four prophetic streams. What are the four prophetic streams we covered on? Under that, we covered like the four prophecies we talked about. Behold your King was the first one. Second, we saw the Gospel of Matthew talks about Behold your King. And the Gospel of Mark talks about the servant of Jesus, where it talks about Behold my servant. The third, the Gospel of John Luke, Gospel of Luke talks about Behold the man. And the Gospel of John talks about Behold your God. And then we moved on to the second point, that is four tabernacle colors. Do you think the four tabernacle colors were very important? You know, Jesus, I mean, God paid so much of attention even to the color. You see, there are four colors in the tabernacle veil. The veil was compared to the body of Christ. And what are the four colors? One was purple. Second was scarlet. Third was fine linen. Fourth was blue. Okay. And we also studied what these four colors denotes. The purple denotes kingly color or speaks about royalty. Okay. The second color scarlet. What does it talk about? Anyone from the online, even you all can post your comments on the chat. Yeah. What does the second color denotes? Scarlet. Okay. Anyone from the offline, you can just unmute and say scarlet. Yes. It's a color of her blood speaks about pouring out one's life in humble service and suffering. Okay. And the third one, fine linen, which is the pure white. What is that? What does that pure white denotes? Perfect. Spotless. Anyone? You said high priest. Yes. Yes. Okay. It speaks about the spotless man who lived and he was a perfect sacrifice. Okay. And yes, the third one, the third, sorry, fourth color blue. What does that denote? Yes. Rinn, can you speak loud? Yes. It is a heavenly color speaks about Jesus as the Lord of the heaven. Okay. So, John represented Jesus as the heavenly manna as well. And the next, the third point, what is that? Four faces of the cherubim, which has been stated in the book of Ezekiel and in the book of Revelation. So, what do we know about the four faces? What are the four faces? The living creatures? Yes. The lion, the ox, the man and the eagle. What does the lion denotes? Kingly man. Yes. The kingly crown is referred as the king of the beast. Okay. The ox, servanthood. The animal which used to carry heavy burden. Okay. Servanthood. The man. Yes. Jesus as a man who had the heart of compassion and he was qualified to be as the high priest just like Avnina and the others are saying he was qualified to be the high priest, the eagle. Okay. It symbolizes the majesty like, you know, empowers which flies high, soars high above the earth and it has a greater vision. You know, that's why we say the eagle viewpoint, right? Okay. So, the same way, God has a bigger view of all of us. Okay. With that, we will move on to the fourth point, which is the fourth one. The four genealogies. Okay. What are the four genealogies? Matthew traces Jesus' lineage from back to Abraham to King David and how King David's lineage has been established through Jesus. Okay. And the second one, Mark. That's the Gospel of Mark as genealogy. Why do you think there's no genealogy? Because he's writing about the servanthood and they are not interested to know the genealogy of a servant. Doesn't mean that a servant do not have a genealogy, but they're not interested to know. Okay. They just check, even in the slave market, if you go, a slave has been made to stand in a naked form so that the owners will check. Does he have any scar, any wound? Does his body have any damage? Okay. They're only concerned about that particular person. They're not concerned about his genealogy, his background. Okay. So, there's no genealogy in the Gospel of Mark. And in the Gospel of Luke, there is a lineage that has been traced to Gospel of Luke. The Gospel of Luke talks about the man, isn't it? It talks about the man and here the lineage goes up to the first man. Who's the first man? Adam. Okay. So, Luke traces his genealogy to the first man, Adam, for us to show that the last man, Adam is Jesus in whom we have the redemption. And the fourth one, genealogy, the Gospel of John. Is Gospel of John has a genealogy? Yes. Yeah. So, Gospel of John has a genealogy and he denotes him to God. In the very first verse itself, he says, in the beginning, the word was with God. So, here he denotes the genealogy of Jesus as he was with God. And this word was with God, was made flesh and dwelt among us. So, Jesus is God. Therefore, he has no beginning and he has no end. This is what the Gospel of John talks about. Okay. So, with that background, let's move on to the the next one. That's the four Old Testament offices, the four Old Testament offices. So, the four offices that were highlighted in the Old Testament, which points to Jesus would be the ultimate fulfillment of each of them. So, the four Gospel also reflects on these four streams. As we talk about it, let me show the the chart. Okay. So, that we all can understand. Just give me a minute while I move to the chart. Yeah, we covered all this. Okay. Even you're looking into your screen. You know, as I showed this in the last class, okay, I showed you the tabernacle and how the 12 tribes were situated around the tabernacle. Didn't we discuss on this? Okay. One point that I missed to share last class was, can you see the tribes were seated or they were camped around the tabernacle and they formed a cross. Can you see that? This is the aerial view of the camp. All 12 tribes are camped around the tabernacle and there is a cross formation. So, God had the cross in his mind from the beginning itself. The cross was not suddenly got burned after Jesus been born. No, he had this from the very beginning itself. Okay. We will go in detail as we study each Gospel individually. I'll get to explain about it. Okay. These were the four living creatures. Yeah, this is what I wanted to keep by. So, as we discuss, y'all can relate to each Gospel. Okay. So, the first Gospel is the Gospel of Matthew, which portrays Jesus as the King, which portrays Jesus as the King. So, the first four Old Testament offices, the first office from the Gospel of Matthew portrays Jesus as the King because the office Christ is the kingship and the office of Christ as the kingship has been portrayed well in the Gospel of Matthew. You know, even the genealogy, if you see the writer Matthew, I mean, in the genealogy, he shows that, yes, Jesus from the line age of Abraham and then he says, he's from the line age of King David. The King David throne was established through his descendant and then he relates it to Jesus as the descendant of King David, who has been seated on the throne of David. This throne of David has been established through Jesus. Okay. Then we'll move on to the second one. That's the prophetic office. So, in the Gospel of Mark, we see that Christ as a prophet or suffering servant and is announced by the prophecy in the Gospel of Mark, the Gospel of Mark. So, here you get to read the prophecy of Jesus. It's been announced in the Gospel of Mark. Christ as a prophet or the suffering servant has been announced in the Gospel of Mark. Now, the third point here we see is priest. The Gospel of Luke talks about the man, talks about the high priest. So, the Luke begins with a priest and pictures Christ as a sympathetic high priest who identifies himself with the fallen man because he becomes a spotless man who's ready to sacrifice himself to deem his people. So, in the Gospel of Luke, we see that Luke begins with a high priest, and pictures Christ as the perfect sympathetic high priest. Okay. With that, we'll move on to the fourth one, judge. Fourth one is the judge. So, the Gospel of John, we see the ultimate judge is God. So, through the Gospel of John, the relationship of the Son to the Father is highlighted and the thread that runs through it that the Father has placed a judgment in the hands of the Son. But the Father has placed a judgment in the hands of the Son. Can I request one of you all to please turn to Gospel of John chapter 5 verse 22 and one of you all can read John chapter 5 verse 22. For not even the Father judges anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son. Okay. Please go ahead. For not you can read 22 and 23. For not even the Father judges anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Yeah. So, in this verse, John chapter 5 verse 22 and 23, we see that the ultimate judge is God. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all the judgment to the Son. You see, Father commanding Jesus to be the ultimate judge. And he also says further in that scripture that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. So, he who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Yeah, God is asking us to honor Jesus as the ultimate judge. Okay. With that, we will move on to the next point, which one is the next four aspects of the sonship, the four aspects of the sonship. So, the aspects of sonship reflects on the four streams. That is, Matthew states Jesus as the son of David. Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew, the writer of the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew states Jesus as the son of David. And Mark states Jesus as a son of man. Mark states Jesus as the son of man. Luke states Jesus as the son of Adam. You see, genealogy takes his genealogy to Adam the first, born the first man. Okay. So, Luke states Jesus as a son of man. The fourth Gospel, John. John states Jesus as a son of God. Okay. So, Francis states Jesus as a son of King David. Anyone? Mark, son of man. Nikki, Luke, son of Adam. Prince, John, son of God. Yes, excellent. We can keep this in our mind, isn't it? It's very easy. Matthew states Jesus as the son of David. Mark, son of man. Luke, son of Adam. John, son of God. Yes. And with that, we will move on to the next one. That's four difference between the audience. Four different audience. This four Gospels were written to. When we look at the four Gospels, it is very obvious that the writer took to write for a specific purpose to reach a certain group of people. Okay. It was written to certain group of people. This is clearly seen in the reflection of these four streams. So, we see that the Gospel of Matthew was written to Jews. Please make a note. Gospel of Matthew was written to the Jews. Gospel of Matthew was written to the Jews. How do we know that it was written to Jews? Because it contains more of Old Testament references. It contains more of Old Testament references than any other Gospel, than any other Gospel. And it clearly establishes that Jesus has fulfillment of the prophecy and the King Messiah for whom they were waiting for. All the prophecies from the Old Testament denotes that they were waiting for the Messiah Jesus. And writer Matthew showcases all prophecies have been fulfilled in Jesus. So, he talks more about the King and the Kingdom than any other evangelist. Got it? Okay. So, the Gospel of Matthew was written to the Jews and it contains more of the Old Testament prophecies which was fulfilled in Jesus. Now, with that, we'll move on to the second one. Mark was written to the Romans. Mark was written to the Romans. The Romans were not as interested in what a person said as in what they did. So, they were not the philosophers that the Greeks were but they were pragamists. So, in Mark's Gospel, we see that Jesus was, Jesus was portrayed as a man of few words and the focus is more on the work, on the servers that he did. Like, you know, the Gospel of Mark, the writer of Mark portrayed Jesus as a man of action. The man was always ready to serve, was ready to serve. He was always in action, serving, doing something or the other. Okay. Mark also portrayed Jesus as a man with few words, man of few words but more of action just like how a servant will go on serving. Okay. And he was written to the Romans. Luke was written to the Greeks. Luke was written to the Greeks. The Greeks were impressed with the learning and the culture. Luke was the most educated and the cultured of all the four evangelists. So, his writing reflects as much higher vocabulary in his writing because he was more educated. You know who was Luke, isn't it? Yes, Luke was a physician. So, his writing was also in a much eloquent form when compared to the other Gospel writers. Okay. So, with that, we'll move on to the fourth person. The fourth, John. John was written to the world. He was written to everyone in this world. Okay. John was a universal Gospel and it was written to the world. It is interesting that when people give out testaments for evangelism, it is usually the Gospel of John that is selected. When you see the evangelists sharing the Gospels or the tracts, you see they give out the Gospel of John as one of the book for them to easily understand who the person Jesus was. Because in this Gospel, the writer denotes that Jesus is God. Jesus is the Son of God. So, it reflects the coming of Christ as a reflection of God's love for the world. And the very famous verse from this Gospel is which one? John P. 16 that, you know, God so loved the world that he died for you and me. Okay. And that we will move on to the next one. That is the four different evangelist. Four different evangelists. So, different people. Sorry. Anand, I didn't get four different audience. We covered Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Okay. We'll cover that. Okay. With that, we'll go on to the four different. Just give me a minute, please. Let me see what I'm going back to the slide. Okay. After four different audience, next is four different evangelists, right? We will cover that. I will cover that. Okay. I was following this. Yeah. I was following these points after four different audience. Next is four different evangelist. Okay. You're able to see the same. Okay. So, we are talking about four different evangelists. So, four different evangelists. So, people see things differently from a different perspective of who they are and what is important to them. So, the four evangelists were four different people who reflect a cross-section of the humanity and give all of us a point of identification. So, as we look into that, we will make a note that we will go into more detail about who they are, their where and now. When we look at the individual books, we will get to learn about each book specifically about the evangelist as well, when we go in detail about them. So, Matthew was written to Jews who originally worked as a Roman official, Matthew. And Mark was a servant to the Apostle Paul and Barnabas and a minister who proved profitable. I will tell you in detail why he had to prove profitable when we study the Gospel of Mark. Luke, we all know, he was a Gentile and he was a trained physician, became a very close friend and regular traveling companion of Apostle Paul. So, when we study the missionary journeys or the letter of Apostle Paul, we get to know how Luke was a very good companion to Apostle Paul and how he helped him during his journey and in the time of present, how he was with him so that Luke understood Jesus through Apostle Paul. And John was originally a fisherman who became perhaps Jesus' most intimate friend. When we study the Gospel of John or 1st, 2nd and 3rd John, every time when we study John always portrayed himself as beloved of Jesus, most loved disciple. Do you think Jesus' partiality between the disciples saying that I love John more than Matthew or than any other? No. Jesus loved everyone equally. But from John's point of view, he felt like he is the most dearest one to Jesus. He felt like he was most loved by Jesus. The same way each one of us, when we share your testimony, when you share the love of Christ, you see, you feel like you were more dear to Christ that Christ took notice of each of us, isn't it? The same way John, you know, he was originally James and John, where the two fishermen, sons of Zebedee and here you see, he says that he was a most intimate friend of Jesus. He was the most loved by Jesus. He was the beloved friend of Jesus. Okay. And then we will go again to this chart. Just a minute. Yeah. So what do we see from this chart? We see the four prophetic stream where Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the four streams, how it has been portrayed. Matthew says, behold your King, the Gospel of Mark showcases Jesus as the behold my servant. And in the Gospel of Luke, we'll say behold man and the Gospel of John portrays behold your God. The same with the tabernacle colors. I've been denoted your like purple, scarlet, fine linen and blue and cherubim faces, lion, ox, man and eagle. We got to explain each of them why the Gospels have been portrayed according to the four living creatures. Then genealogy, the Gospel of Matthew showcases Jesus as the King of David in the genealogy. Mark has none because he portrays Jesus as the servant. Luke showcases Jesus as the first Adam for us to know that Jesus is the last Adam. Okay. And then Gospel of John shows cases Jesus as the genealogy from God himself. So without him there's no beginning. He is from the beginning. Okay. He's not a created being, but he exists in the beginning. In the fifth point we see four Old Testament offices that is Matthew showcases Jesus as the King. Mark showcases Jesus as the prophet. Okay. And Luke showcases Jesus as the High Priest. And John showcases Jesus as the judge. Okay. Then sixth one, four aspects of a sonship. Gospel of Matthew showcases Jesus as the son of David who took the throne of the descendant of David will be the take over the throne. Okay. And the Mark showcases son of man. Jesus as the son of man who has come into this world to serve and to be sacrificed. And then Luke as a son of Adam. So that he is the last Adam. And John showcases Jesus as the son of God. Seventh one, different audience where the four different audience. Gospel of Matthew was written to Jews. Gospel of Mark was written to Romans. And Gospel of Luke was written to Greeks. And Gospel of John is written to the world. Okay. Universe. It is a universal gospel written to the world. Now eighth one, four descriptions of Jesus. Four descriptions of Jesus. So in the Gospel of Matthew, he describes Jesus as what he said. What he said. As Jesus narrated, he described like what he said. And if you see the Gospel of Mark, he describes Jesus as what he did. Man of action as I said. Okay. Man of few words, but more of action. And in the Gospel of Luke, we saw that who he was. He denotes him as man. Who he was as a man, who he was on this earth. And the Gospel of John, he showcases him as who he is. He was in the beginning and he is the same man. The word became flesh and dwelt among us. He relates him that he was with God and he is the perfect man who is with us. Okay. Who he is. He is always God. In the book of Christology, we will more in the subject Christology, we will study in detail how Jesus was 100% man and 100% God. Okay. With that, the ninth point here is four different evangelists. So in the book of, in the Gospel of Matthew, we see Jewish and the Roman officials. It was written to and in the book of Mark, minister as a servant. Okay. And Luke, the writer was a Gentile. He was a physician and John, he was a intimate friend. He was a friend of Jesus. So if you see Matthew, he was from a Jewish background and he was also working as a tax collector for the Roman officials. Okay. And yes, Mark, we know he was a fisherman. He was a servant. He was a minister of God. So he started to write there. No, Mark was not a fisherman. Sorry guys. Mark was a minister and he was a servant. He worked under the leadership of Apostle Paul. Yeah. And Luke was a Gentile and he was a physician and John, yes, he was a fisherman and he was a very good friend of Jesus. He was a disciple who was with Jesus. The 10th one, keywords. The keywords from the Gospel of Matthew is that it might be fulfilled. These are keywords which were used often in the Gospel of Matthew, that it might be fulfilled. King day, son of David, these were the keywords that was used. If you go and do a word search in the Gospel of Matthew, you will see very often these keywords were used. And in the Gospel of Mark, we see the three keywords straight away, four with immediately. These were the keywords that was used. We will be studying in detail when we study those gospels. Okay. And look, we see the son of man was often used. And in the Gospel of John, we see the world and the sun was often used. Okay. With that, we will cover all these. Okay. Okay. Okay. With that, we cover the introduction of the four gospels. If you all have any questions, please do ask so that we can study together. And the Gospel of Matthew, I will start in the next session. That's tomorrow. Do you have any questions? From the Gospel of Mark, if you don't have any questions, at least you all can share what was you're learning something new to learn the introduction of the four gospels. What was something new that you learned? You can just unmute and answer, please. What was something new that you learned in this class? Okay. Maybe we'll start with Prince. You can unmute and share one point that you learned that stand or that you remember in your mind when you think about these four gospels. Yes, Prince. One thing like I already stood out is like how everything is significant and like regarding how God is so specific like so in John like John gospel. Thank you. Thank you, Prince. Nina, you want to share what was your understanding? What was something that you need? Everything was actually new learning for me also. All the acts of like every single thing, how the four gospels either just happen like that, but it's not like that. And second thing, how God brought them from the wilderness and stayed like a cross that's fulfilling in Jesus's life. So like it's written like it's God in the beginning He pre-planned the whole thing and it's unfolding in front of us. Now you can see even the cross in the wilderness, how they tended that itself. Everything is so important. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Nina for sharing that. Karen, would you like to share? Karen Natalia. Pastor, I just joined. So I don't know what the question is. Anand, should you do something for the volume? Karen shared, but Karen, we couldn't hear you. Pastor, I just joined. So I don't know what the question is. Okay. Nina, you're asking me to repeat the keywords of Luke and John. I'll repeat it for you. The keywords for Luke is son of man and John is the world and son. Okay. Anyone else would like to share their learning? You can just unmute and share. Nikhil, you can unmute and share. What was your learning? I learned about the four faces, what the land denote, the king and the burden. And another one is Nikhil, like that. And it was very amazing. And there was, I mean, I've always considered these four gospels that shared the same story, but I think that learning was like, each of them wrote to different audiences and each of them shared from their own perspectives, like because it was put together as son of David or son of man and as Adam and son of God in each of the books. And that's something I learned. For me, it's like, like a four gospels, but I never thought like that. But Bible is telling that I'm the alpha and omega and from Genesis to Revelation, everything is pointing that Jesus is the only one. And sometimes we like, when we read numbers, book actually, for me, I sometimes just keep those chapters, but the colors also pointing out Jesus only. So this is it. Thank you, Rin. Thank you, Sriratha, for sharing your view. Anyone from our online? Jacken, would you like to share? What was your view? So for me, it was assuring that each gospel was written to certain people, groups, and then also at that time, God taught about the world. So the Matthew was written specifically to the Jews, and then Mark was written specifically to the Romans, and then Luke was written to the Greeks, and then John was written to the entire world. And that was so much a new learning. And as Nina was sharing, almost everything was new. And it was so interesting to link everything, whatever I've learned so far with what I'm learning now. And especially the picture of the tabernacle, that was so much like, you know, it was the formation of a cross. So all 12 tribes, they were seated around the tabernacle. So the cross was in God's mind, even in the Old Testament. That was something that really stood out to me in the lesson. Thank you. Thank you so much. May I also share? Can you hear me? Yes, please go ahead, Nina. I was amazed to see as to how that God is a God of detail. I mean, whether it is the colors or every aspect that we just went through, how beautifully it all points to the Lord Jesus, whether it is, you know, and the different aspects of him was amazing. And so whether it was the colors of the tabernacle, pointing and how beautifully it connects, I mean, the purple and the scarlet and thing again, connecting to who he was in the four phases, right, whether he was king or man or servant or God, and how he has made the Gospel available to whichever audience. So it's all out there. I mean, if the people so wish to understand and learn, I mean, he did it with everybody in mind. So the whole every aspect that we touched on, how it all points to Jesus and who he is, who he was and who he is and what he has done. So it was a wonderful learning. Praise God for it. Okay. Thanks, Nikhil. Okay, I was muted. Okay. Online students like Karen, who have missed last two classes, request you to please watch the classes, the last two videos from the Google stream, which is posted. So you will, it is unmute. Am I audible? Am I audible? Yes, now we can hear you. Okay. Okay. Okay. Karen, as you said that you joined the class today, great, you're joined. We have posted last two classes video on the Google stream, requested to please go view those videos so that you can, you will study on what we are talking about introduction to the New Testament and the introduction to the four Gospels. Okay. And the students on e-learning, who have joined much later, request you all to please post your learning, what you learn from these two classes on the discussion board so that we journey together. Okay. Thank you. So let's end the session with a word of prayer and tomorrow we will study on the Gospel of Matthew, request you all to please go through the Gospel of Matthew and then so that it becomes much interesting when we study together. Dear God, we thank you for this time that you have set aside that we can study your word in a systematic way. We know and we understand, Lord, that you had Jesus in your mind from the very beginning to redeem us, to restore us back to you. Thank you, Lord, for the great plan that you have in everything, Lord, you are concerned of us, the love that you have for each of us, Lord. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' most precious name, we pray, amen. Amen. Thank you so much for joining in today's session. God bless you all tomorrow. God bless. Thank you.