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heavenward TV well welcome to heavenward
7:00 this is the beginning of a great
journey and I'm so glad that we're going
to be together on this journey this is a
journey that I've been dreaming about
for a long long time if you're familiar
with the ministry of heavens family at
all you know that I'm a teacher I love
to teach the Word of God and you
probably have seen some of our video
teaching that we recorded in Israel we
taught on the parables rather through
the Sermon on the Mount in Israel had a
lovely time there we recorded some of
those teachings in very remote places in
Alaska and in the Yukon in Canada and in
South Dakota
you know lovely lovely scenic places but
the last time we tried that actually
about two years ago we just ran into a
multitude of problems we can't control
the weather we can't control the
mosquitoes we can't control the lighting
very well and we just were you know
plucking our heads up against brick
walls all over the Yukon and just came
back disappointed but we came back
determined that we're gonna do it like
most anyone else does it and that is get
ourselves a studio much too expensive to
rent one and pay for it so we put one
together in our own little offices here
and I think we've got a great start and
we're going to be able to but because of
the studio to provide consistent
teaching week by week month by month
year by year and the sky is limit as to
how much God can bless the teaching of
His Word all right so this is the first
one so happy that you've joined me and
we're gonna be spending if you're with
me on heaven Ward 7 it's just about
seven minutes a day together working our
way through the entire New Testament so
you can take them as you want you could
do them five times a week you do them
six times a week or whatever seven times
a week
but seven minutes a day we together are
going to get through the entire New
Testament all right now let me tell you
a little bit more of the background of
why we're doing this a couple years ago
I wrote a book took me a year to write
it
we called it heavenward daily and the
idea was again to help people get
through the entire New Testament in one
year's time there's 260 chapters in that
interesting in the New Testament and if
you read one chapter a day five days a
week you'll get through the New
Testament and exactly one year every day
you know chapters are shorter or longer
but on average you'll only have to read
about 700 words and so you know the
average person can read the 700 words in
about 3 minutes so I determined I was
gonna write a devotional a daily
commentary on each chapter that would be
read and then I'd write no more than 700
words all right well that was great this
book you know has been a blessing to
lots of people and so forth but there
was one thing that I wasn't happy about
and here's what it was because I was
limited to 700 words I could only say so
much on a given day and there were some
days when I just go oh look at all the
good things in this chapter we've read
today that I love to teach about that
I'd love to share but you know had to
stop at 700 words all right so the
answer that is heaven word 7 hour 7
minute daily video broadcast that we can
just take our time take our good old
time we don't have to get through one
chapter every 7 minutes
no that's there's no way we're gonna do
that and however long it takes we're
just going to enjoy the spiritual
journey through the New Testament so
very excited and I hope this is the
beginning of a wonderful relationship
between me and you just about every
single day as we spend 7 minutes getting
a spiritual injection from the New
Testament alright now let me tell you
one other thing as we study the New
Testament you might think we're just
going to read it from cover to cover
well that's how most people read it but
I found what I think is a better way to
read the New Testament one that helps
you to
understand things better one that makes
sense and that is to read through the
New Testament chronologically what I
mean by that I mean we're gonna read it
as it happened in time so of course we
have the life of Christ that's the first
thing it's recorded in Matthew Mark Luke
and John but after that we have then the
church it's birthed on the day of
Pentecost in Jerusalem but all of the
letters of the churches for the most
part where were written at some point in
time between Acts chapter 1 and the end
of the book of Acts now some were
written after acts was completed but
we're gonna read those epistles those
letters that were written within the
time context within the chronology of
when they were written and it makes so
much sense it's so so much fun because
for example we'll be reading about Paul
establishing the church in Corinth and
then we'll stop in the book of Acts and
we'll read first Corinthians you know
and we'll say oh look it makes perfect
sense we there's some things we read in
acts that apply to this and so it just
flows so beautifully so here's our plan
we're gonna go we're gonna read the
Gospel of Matthew we're gonna save Mark
Luke and John to different points
throughout our journey when we get about
1/4 of the way through the New Testament
we'll read mark then we'll read some
more of the epistles we get about
halfway through the Testament then we'll
read Luke and so on and so forth but
will we Matthew first then we're gonna
start in the book of Acts and that's you
know a long time away from now probably
but we're not gonna read the whole way
through Acts we're gonna read through a
little bit of Acts chapter 11 okay and
then we're gonna read the very first
epistle that was penned
chronologically do you know which one it
was most people don't they might think
it's Romans because I think well Romans
is the first epistle well Martin Luther
is the guy who gave us that order of our
New Testament and basically what he was
thinking was let's put the longest
epistles first and work our way to the
shortest epistles of course he did you
know put 1st and 2nd Quinn things
together and 1st and 2nd Thessalonians
and the 1st to 2nd Peter and 1st and 2nd
and 3rd John that type of thing but if
you look at your new test but you'll see
basically you know in the epistles it
starts with the longest works towards
the shortest you get to that third John
and then of course you come to
all right so we'll get through Acts
chapter part of chapter 11 and we'll
jump into what is the very first epistle
that was written guess which one it was
maybe you know if you don't know I'm
gonna tell you it's James
the very first one okay and you'll see
how it makes perfect sense it's the very
first one we'll go back to acts after II
read James and we'll jump into the
second book that was penned the second
epistle it was what it was
Galatians and we go back again to the
look of action a little bit further and
we'd about Paul doing some stuff in
Thessalonica guess what we're gonna read
next once we get through that Colonel
Ashley we're gonna read first
Thessalonians okay so it's gonna be
really a neat journey a really and gonna
enhance our understanding and
appreciation of the New Testament
okay thanks let you join me see you next
time