Prologue

The Bible is the true, epic, unfolding story of the love of God revealed in Jesus & Him crucified for your salvation and the establishment of His Kingdom on earth. The following 27 teachings are ordered in the narrative flow of the story and are foundational to knowing and following Jesus. Truth is not merely a list of theological facts. It's the revelation of God's beautiful love in Jesus Christ. [truth]LINK is a series of Bible study guides that magnify God's love as the center of every Bible doctrine. In studying the Bible through [truth]LINK, you will see God as never before and fall in love. So, let’s start with lesson 1 online for free or by getting it in print.

1. The Logic of Love 

One of the most self-evident things about love is that it requires communication in order to exist and flourish. Start lesson now.

PRE-CREATION

God existing in an eternal friendship of 3 co-equal Persons characterized by pure other-centered love.

2. The Heart of God 

Throughout the Bible, God is described as one God and yet more than one. While the idea of one God involving a plurality of personhood may sound strange at first, we begin to understand what it means when we take into account the most fundamental and essential truth about God stated in Scripture. Start lesson now.

CREATION

Out of this uncontainable love, God creates the universe to exist and thrive under His reign of love, with humanity perfectly reflecting His image of love on earth as His crowning act of creation.

3. The Image of God 

If we humans are mere animals, then a short life of animal urges and the finality of death are all we can hope for. But if humanity was created in the image of God, then dignity, nobility, and eternal bliss may be ours. Start lesson now.

FALL

The angel, Lucifer, rebels against God's character and reign of love and brings the rebellion to earth. When humanity fell by his deception, he thus usurped God's reign, through humanity, on earth, and claimed earth as his dominion.

4. War in Heaven

Our world is at the center of a cosmic conflict between good and evil with a history that reaches back to an angelic rebellion. The issue under dispute is the character of God. Start lesson now.

5. The Fall of Humanity

The human race as a whole, and each of us as individuals, are living in the throes of a perceptual, relational, and moral fall from the beauty of our original state. Start lesson now.

PROMISE

God makes the promise to redeem humanity, restore us back into His image and reestablish His reign of love on earth through the Messiah by making a series of unfolding covenant promises which humanity and Abraham's descendants failed to keep.

6. The Promised One

The Old Testament is a promise of faithful love made and the New Testament is that promise kept. Start lesson now.

7. Journey to the Heart of God

There is a secret path that leads to the most incredible destiny imaginable, and the sanctuary system God gave to Israel is the map He has provided for the journey. Start lesson now.

MESSIAH

Jesus arrives as the fulfillment of the covenant promises and the King who will reestablish God's reign of love on earth through His life, death & resurrection. He returns to Heaven to reign with the Father and minister His saving blood as High Priest. 

8. Death Defined

One after another, each of us stops breathing. What then? Start lesson now.

9. Death Defeated

By the power of self-sacrificing love, Jesus conquered sin and death on our behalf. His resurrection is proof of that victory. Start lesson now.

10. New Creatures in Christ

We do not earn salvation by rightdoing. Rather, by faith we receive the salvation already achieved for us in Jesus Christ, from which the right kind of rightdoing arises. Start lesson now.

11. Life in God's Love

There’s only one thing God desires for human beings: other-centered love. Start lesson now.

12. Resting in Christ

The Sabbath is a weekly reminder of both creation and redemption. It signifies relational rest with God: freedom from the anxiety of trying to earn His favor, on the premise that we already have it. Start lesson now.

13. Reciprocal Living

God’s kingdom is based on one powerful principle: giving. And giving is the most God-like and influential thing a human being can do. Start lesson now.

14. Health and Wholeness

Because God is love, it logically follows that He would be interested in our complete health and well-being. Start lesson now.

15. Immersion

Baptism symbolizes total immersion in God’s love as manifested in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Start lesson now.

KINGDOM

After Christ's ascension and through the Holy Spirit, His revolutionary disciple making movement continues to expand His Kingdom on earth. It was Formed by Jesus, Deformed by middle ages Papal Christianity, Reformed by the Protestant movement and is presently being Restored until the return of the King.

16. A Healing Community

God is building a global community for the restoration and revelation of His love. Start lesson now.

17. The Great Apostasy

Two opposing kingdoms are at war in our world, operating by two different governing principles, undergirded by two diametrically opposite motives. Start lesson now.

18. The Church in the Wilderness

God has always had a people in the world to proclaim the knowledge of His true character—even in the darkest period of Earth’s history and under the most terrible persecution. Start lesson now.

19. The Remnant

During the final phase of human history God will have a people in the world who will preserve the knowledge of His Law and point to Jesus as the true revelation of God’s character. Start lesson now.

20. The Day of Atonement

Right now we are living in the final phase of redemption history, during which God will bring final and full resolution to the sin problem. Start lesson now.

21. The First Angel's Message

God has demonstrated in Christ that He is relationally faithful to all others at any and all cost to Himself. All who believe the good news will worship Him with awe, magnify the beauty of His character, and stand before Him with confidence in the judgment. Start lesson now.

22. The Second Angel's Message

Our world is filled with dark confusion regarding the character of God and the way of salvation. God is calling us out of the confusion into the beautiful light of His love manifested in Christ. Start lesson now.

23. The Third Angel's Message

All true worship is motivated by love for God in the light of His love for us, because only by love is love awakened. Start lesson now.

RE-CREATION

Ushered in by the 2nd coming of Jesus and the 1st resurrection, all who received the Gospel of the Kingdom are taken to Heaven to reign with Christ for 1000 years as His bride. During this time Satan and the other fallen angels are bound to the earth in desolate misery and the redeemed are invited to evaluate God's character in His dealings with lost humanity. This period is concluded by the 2nd resurrection, the ending of all evil and the renewing or re-creating of the earth fully under God's reign of love forever.

24. The Second Coming

The entire biblical narrative rushes forward to a single point of climactic beauty. Jesus will return to receive the church as His eternal bride. Start lesson now.

25. The Millennium

God will bring evil to an end, not by fiat, nor by force, but in such a way as to ensure that it will never rise again—by the full disclosure of His good character and the justice of His ways. Start lesson now.

26. The End of Evil

God is love even in the way He deals with those who are eternally lost. Start lesson now.

27. Pleasures Forevermore

God holds before us the promise of a future characterized by continually-deepening, forever-flourishing, eternally-expanding friendships in a perfect world free from everything contrary to love. Start lesson now.