The New Covenant

For many years, I have had a prevailing desire to write a book on a complete study of the doctrine of Jesus Christ and state our Lord’s doctrine in the most chronological, most practical, and simplest terms. On numerous occasions, I have endeavored to pencil such a manuscript from the New Testament record but have never been able to complete the work in a reasonably acceptable manner. I had come to believe that such a work is impractical, if not impossible, in light of the conclusion of the great Apostle John’s gospel. Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples which are not written in the New Testament record, but those that are written are so that we may believe that he is the Christ and his testimony is true. Also, there are so many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose even the world could not contain the books that would be written (Paraphrased, John 20:30 and 21:24–25, NKJV). We can never know all that Jesus came to teach and to do, but we can know what he has left us of his Doctrine in the New Testament record. And this is what we wish to express in a complete study of his teachings. For six years—through an educational endeavor with Liberty University and Dr. Harold Wilmington’s Distant Learning Program on Bible, Dr. George Fall’s master’s program at Summit Theological Seminary on theology, and finally Master’s International School of Divinity’s doctoral program of practical theology—I have decided it is time to write my own documentation, profile, and dissertation on the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

The approach that I have chosen to accomplish such an endeavor is to document and profile every verse of the Scripture in the New Testament record and commensurate Jesus’s personal teachings with those of the apostles and other New Testament writers. According to Jesus’s commandment to the apostles and other New Testament writers, they were to teach what he commanded or gave instruction to teach through the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:20 and John16:12–15). With regard to Christ’s commandments and instructions, a teaching of an apostle or another New Testament writer is a teaching of Jesus Christ. It is now my firm convictions that if I follow a profile of every verse of the Scripture in the New Testament record with this conviction, I will be able to write a complete dissertation on the doctrine of Jesus Christ. I will present the dissertation in two parts of which part one will be the printed profile of the New Testament record and part two will be a summation of Christ’s doctrine gleaned from a commensuration of Christ’s teachings with those of the apostles and other New Testament writers.