The Message of the New Testament: Promises Kept

“Here is a vigorous, juicy, engaging, life-centered, God-honoring set of sermons brilliantly overviewing the entire New Testament: a truly rich resource from which to benefit and borrow. Dever is a Puritan in twenty-first-century clothing, and it shows.”

“Dever knows that Christians cannot be powerfully influenced by the Bibles they do not know. So here is the antidote: a biblical flyover that reveals the contours and glories of the New Testament landscape so that it becomes familiar geography to the soul. This book will grace many lives.”

“In our transient age, one of the pressing responsibilities of the faithful exposi- tory preacher is to, within a reasonably short span of years, walk his congregation through the whole canon of Scripture. One of the best ways to accomplish this is through preaching one-sermon whole-Bible-book overviews. Mark Dever is a master at this, and his gifts (first given to his own flock) are now here made available to preachers and congregants everywhere who want a thorough survey of the New Testament literature, not in the form of a scholarly introduction, but instead as a pastoral overview from the heart of a preacher who wants his people to know and live the truth. These expositions are theologically rich, biblically faithful, loaded with superb introductions, illustrations, and applications, and a model for how to preach didactically, practically, apologetically, and evangelistically all at once.”

“This outstanding series of bird’s-eye studies of the New Testament books will enable all Christians to feed deeper from God’s word and equip teachers to feed others. They expand the mind, warm the heart, and challenge the will.”

“Is biblical exposition a lost art? Not if this book is any indication. Mark Dever is a masterful expositor who combines stellar scholarship with a tremendous ability to communicate God’s revealed truth. These sermons and essays represent more than brief introductions to the books of the New Testament. Dever helps draw the reader into the text and texture of each book while providing a constant frame of reference that sees the New Testament not only as a collection of books but as a book in itself—telling the Christian story and grounding the church in God’s truth. This book is a gem and it belongs on every Christian’s bookshelf.”

“The heart of biblical preaching is exposition: explaining what the text of Scripture is saying and applying it. But sometimes this approach is allowed to degenerate into laborious verse-by-verse expositions in which the larger view of the forest easily becomes lost to the minute details of the trees. This book provides an encourage- ment for another way that complements the systematic exposition of whole units of the biblical literature. Mark Dever’s approach is thematic without ignoring the literary and theological structure of the books and is thus a stimulus to doctrinal preaching. This is not only a book for preachers but a challenging read for all who listen to sermons.”