JAC's Bible Teaching

In this talk we synthesize everything we have been learning about sin by describing the different phases of a Jesus-believers relationship to sin.

In this talk we finish our discussion of the section in 1 Timothy 3:1b–13 where Paul lays out the necessary qualifications for individuals whom Timothy might appoint to help him oversee the believing community in Ephesus. We then discuss 1 Timothy 3:14–15, where Paul explains why he has chosen to write the letter.

In this fifteenth talk in a series on the Upper Room Discourse, the focus is on Jesus's exhortation to his disciples to love one another in contrast to the hatred they will experience from the world.

In this session we discuss the relationship between desire, temptation, and sin.

In this talk we discuss the Parable of the Wedding Feast for the king's son in Matthew 22:1–14 and then the Parable of the Doomed Fig Tree in Luke 13:6–9.

This sixteenth talk in a series on the Upper Room Discourse discusses the end of Jesus's exhortation that the apostles love one another in the midst of a world that hates them and then focuses on what the apostles can expect to be the consequences of the spirit of truth being sent into the world.

In this talk, we examine 1 Timothy 3:15–16. Our focus is primarily on what Paul means in 3:16a, "By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness… ."

In this talk we analyze what Jesus taught in four of his parables (Parable #10, 11, 12, and 13) about what the consequences would be if his contemporaries rejected him and the Truth he proclaimed.

In this portion of the Upper Room Discourse, Jesus discusses his impending death with his confused disciples and explains where that will leave them.

In this talk we begin to explore how one gains an understanding of what is sinful and what is righteous. After discussing how we come to know the will of God, we begin to explore the role the Law plays in our acquiring moral knowledge.

In this talk we continue looking at parables where Jesus explores the unbelief of the people to whom he is proclaiming the gospel. We look at the Parable of Children At Play in the Street (Luke 7:31–35) and the Fable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31)

In this talk, we finish discussing what is often alleged to be an "ancient confession" in 1 Timothy 3:16 and then begin to discuss the falling away from faith into false doctrine that Paul discusses in 1 Timothy 4:1-5.

We continue discussing two passages from the gospel of Matthew where Jesus confronts the Pharisees about their faulty understanding of righteousness and their improper reading of the Law.

In this talk we discuss the first portion of Jesus's prayer with and for the eleven apostles.

In this talk we complete our discussion of 1 Timothy 4:1-6a. We spend particular attention to the seeming conflict in Paul's teaching. What here in 1 Timothy Paul attributes to the teaching of demons, he elsewhere seems to view with tolerance and kindness. We discuss how the two different attitudes can be reconciled.

In this portion of Jesus's prayer for his apostles, Jesus prays that God will preserve these apostles in their belief that Jesus is the Messiah as they navigate a world that is hostile to God, to Jesus, and to truth.

In this talk we look at the parable about reading the weather in Luke 12:54–56 (and Matthew 16:1–3), the parable about the blind man leading the blind man in Luke 6:39–40, and finally the parable about the leaven of the Pharisees in Matthew 16:5–12, Mark 8:13–21, and Luke 12:1–12.

In this talk, we discuss the third portion of Jesus's final prayer for his apostles.

We finish a discussion of how an individual acquires moral knowledge—how he acquires a knowledge of what is righteous and what is unrighteous.

In this talk, we examine 1 Timothy 4:6 – 5:2. This is a section of Paul's letter where he exhorts Timothy to concentrate on studying ,understanding, and teaching the Scripture. There is no more insistent exhortation to Bible study given anywhere else in the Scriptures than here.

In this session, we complete the text of the Upper Room Discourse, focusing on the fourth and final portion of Jesus's prayer for his apostles.

In this final talk of the series, we explore what the New Testament teaches about the forgiveness of sin and, then, turn to discuss what it would mean to "forgive oneself."

In this parable we discuss the parable in Matthew 13:51–52 where Jesus compares the scribe who is a disciple of the kingdom of heaven to a householder who finds things both new and old in his storeroom.

In this talk we focus on five different issues that have been raised in connection with my teaching on the Upper Room Discourse.

In this talk we discuss Paul's instructions about specific policies that he wants Timothy to initiate within the believing community in Ephesus—policies concerning the care of widows, the views toward and care for the leaders, and slavery. We cover most of 1 Timothy 5:3–6:2.