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signi cance of the two names will be
discussed later.
15. E. M. Blaiklock, The Acts of the Apostles,
The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries,
p. 79.
16. The last verse of chapter 12 might be
considered as part of chapter 13.
18. The Berkeley Version and the New
International Version accurately make a new
paragraph at 18:23, indicating the third
journey’s commencement here.
19. E. M. Blaiklock, Acts of the Apostles, p.
12.
Part 3
THE MESSAGE
Christ the Savior, Sanctifier, and Coming
King
Twenty-one of the twenty-seven New
Testament books are epistles. This kind of
writing, with its personal characteristics, is a
very natural follow-up of the historical kind
represented by the four gospels and Acts. As
the Christian church was expanding
geographically in the rst decades after the
day of Pentecost (Acts 2), communication
from individual to individual, from group to
group, and from individual to group was
usually by letter. The characteristic common
to all the New Testament epistles was the
spiritual bond in Christ, between the writer
and the reader(s). It was a personal, intimate
relationship, and so the epistle was an
appropriate channel for sharing personal
testimony and delivering exhortations and
commands, in addition to interpreting the
grand truths of the gospel.
Of the twenty-one epistles, thirteen bear
the name of the apostle Paul, and are
referred to now as the Pauline epistles. The
remaining letters are non-Pauline epistles,
and were written by Peter, James, John,
Jude, and an anonymous author (Hebrews).
Philip Scha says the New Testament
epistles “compress more ideas in fewer
words than any other writings, human or
divine, excepting the Gospels.” The subject
of the epistles is Jesus Christ. Their message
is that He is the sinner’s Savior, the
Christian’s sancti er, and the King who one
day will return to rule over His kingdom
forevermore. The world desperately needs to
hear that message.
