- The Paradox of History
- The Essence of God
- Raw Material
- Available People
- Humility
- Spiritual Gifts
- Meekness
- Baptisms
- Three Functions of the Believer
- Ambassadorship
- Seven Figures of Christ and the Church
- The Mature Believer and Personal Accountability
- Tongues as a Spiritual Gift
- Prophecies of Jesus Christ in the Psalms
- The Perspective of Grace
- Discipleship
- Blessing and Reward
- How to Redeem Time
- Dispensations Timeline
- The Rapture
- The Day of the Lord and The Day of Christ
- The Good Fight of Faith
- Suffering
- Decisions
- No Truce
- Peace
- 10 Principles of Warfare
- God is Able, God Is Faithful
- Present Session of Christ
- Religion: The Enemy’s Ace
- Power In Us
- Faith
- Small Things
- Five Techniques (to spirituality)
- Eight Sabbaths
- Faith-rest
- Strange Tests
- Daily Disciplines
- The Faith-rest Technique
- Three Sources of Temptation
- Divine Wisdom
- The Value of Wisdom
- Evil
- The Royal Code
- The Character of Grace
- The Cross to the Crown
- Water and the Spirit
- Spirituality
- Synonomous Terms
- Reversionism and Recovery
- Soul Strengths and Soul Kinks
- Discipline
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Advance
- The Race of Life
- The Will of God
- The Old Sin Nature
- Energized Prayer
- Abiding: Absolute Thinking
- God’s Faithfulness
- Salvation in The Book of James
- “All things work together …”
- Biblical Spirituality
- Dispensations
- Death
- Endurance
- Essence of God Acronym
- Eternal Security
- Fellowship with God
- Five Commands for Christian Soldiers
- Five Factors of Effective Faith
- Five Techniques of the Christian Way of Life
- Five works of the Holy Spirit
- Five Works of the Spirit in Regard to the Word
- Free Will
- Freedom
- God is Able
- God Revealed
- Greek
- Hebrew Words for Faith
- Hermeneutics
- Imitation of Christ
- Man’s Barrier with God
- Parakaleo
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Recovery
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Retreat
- Spiritual Flexibility
- Spiritual Rest
- Stages of Spiritual Growth
- Take up Your Cross and Follow Him
- The Blood of Christ
- The Call of God
- The Daily Care of the Soul
- The Doctrine of Sin
- The Good Soldier of Jesus Christ
- Christ’s Work on the Cross
- The Church
- The Holy Spirit and Christ
- The I AM Sayings of Christ
- The Importance of the Word of God
- The Overcomer
- The Plan of God
- The Spirit in the Old Testament
- The Way of Salvation
- The Way to be Salt and Light
- The Words of Jesus
- The Work of Christ on the Cross
- Using the Physical to Learn the Spiritual
- Ways of Learning
- The Christian Way of Life
- The Christian Walk
- Scriptural Proof of the Pre-tribulation Rapture
- The Five Crowns
- Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle
- 5 Circles of Faith around Jesus
- The 4 Points of the Cross
- Should I Confess My Sins?
Fellow Bible Student,
The five circles of faith are described for us in the scriptures.
We begin with the circle of the 500. You remember in 1st Corinthians 15:6, the apostle Paul talks of the 500 who had witnessed the resurrected Christ. Those people were blessed with an exciting experience. It would have been wonderful to be in that circle who saw the resurrected Christ on this earth. We’ll call the circle of the 500 the Circle of Witness — the Circle of Witness, because they were able to testify to others that Christ had indeed risen from the dead. So the Circle of Witness 1st Corinthians 15:6.
Then we also see in the Scripture the circle of 70 in Luke 10:1. And these were the 70 that Jesus sent out to the various towns and cities to prepare for His coming. We’ll call the Circle of 70, the Circle of Service. It’s one thing to be a witness for Christ; it’s a little bit higher level to enter into His service.
Third, we have the circle of the 12. This circle is spoken of in Matthew 10:1-4. When Jesus called His disciples to Him, and He identified 12 of them to be with Him and to work with Him, and we’ll call the circle of 12 the Circle of Discipleship. Discipleship refers to discipline, training, and service, so they became known as His disciples.
The fourth circle is the Circle of the three. We find these in Matthew 17:1. They’re mentioned in other passages. This is Peter, James, and John. You remember that Peter, James and John were allowed to experience three things with Jesus. None of the other disciples experienced. They were on the Mount of Transfiguration. They were present at the raising of Jairus’ daughter, and they were the only three that He took with Him apart in the Garden of Gethsemane. They experienced exciting things, powerful things, but they also had to experience a sorrow like none they had ever known before. So this is the Circle of the Trusted. They were entrusted with things that the others did not experience.
And then finally we have the circle of the one, the circle of the one who we find in John chapter 20:2. And this is the disciple Jesus who loved, the disciple Jesus loved. This is we could call this the Circle of the Friend. Do you know what made John unique? He mentions how much Jesus loved him and Jesus loved them all. It’s not that He loved John more than He loved the others. It’s that that John was more amazed and impressed that Jesus loved him. And I think that made all the difference in the world.
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