Gospels-Instruction

1. True or false? Jesus spoke in parables to fulfill Isaiah's prediction that the people would hear and not understand.

2. Fill in the blanks: Matthew quotes Isaiah: "Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well ----------; I will put My  ----------- upon Him."

3. Question: In Jesus ' parable of the wheat and tares, why did the owner not want the tares gathered up before the harvest?

 

1. True (Matt. 13:13-15).

 

2. "Pleased....Spirit" (Matt. 12:18) This quotation is from Isaiah 42, in which Isaiah told how the Servant of the Lord would  "bring forth justice to the Gentiles" (v.1).

 

 

3. He was afraid that the wheat would be uprooted along with the tares (Matt. 13:29).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: If a believer seeks the kingdom of God and His righteousness, "all these things shall be added" to him,. What are  "all these things"? (a) Food, drink, and clothing; (b) health, wealth, and long life; or (c) food, fellowship, and friends.

2. Question: Jesus predicted that His disciples would be given what to say in defense when persecuted before governors and kings. Who would speak in them?

3. True or false? Jesus said, "He who  endures to the end will be saved."

 

 

1. (a) Food, drink, and clothing (Matt. 6:31-33).

 

 

2. The Spirit of  their Father (Matt. 10:20).

 

3. True (Matt.10:22). Endurance for the Christian is a work of dependence rather then a task of fortitude.

Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: Who did Jesus say anxiously seek after food, drink, and clothing? (a) Women; (b) scribes and Pharisees; or (c) Gentiles.

2. Question: In the Sermon on the Mount, what did Jesus say that His disciples should seek first?

3. Fill in the blanks: "Sufficient for the  ------- is its own ------."

 

 

 

1. (c) Gentiles Matt. ( 6:32). representing all unbelievers who do not have or who have rejected God's revelation of how to live in peaceful trust.

 

 

2. The kingdom of God (Matt. 6: 33).  God will add the necessities of life in their time.

 

 

3. "Day... trouble" (Matt. 6:34).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blank: Jesus asked, "Which  of you by ------------ can add one cubit to his stature?"

2. Question: According to Jesus, what Old Testament character was never as splendidly clothed as the lilies of the field?

3. Fill in the blanks: Jesus said, "Now if God so clothes the  ------- of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the ----------, will  He not much more --------- you?"

1. "Worrying" (Matt.6:27, Luke 12:25). Jesus warned against expending energy on things beyond control or on the future at the expense of the present.

 

 

2. Solomon (Matt.6:29). Solomon was the most splendid of the ancient kings of Israel.

 

3. "Grass...oven...clothe" (Matt. 6:30).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus said,  " You  cannot serve ---------- and ----------."

2. Jesus said, "Is not life more than --------- and the body more than ------ ?"

3. Multiple choice: What did Jesus commend as examples of trust in God which "neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns" but enjoy God's feeding? (a) The lilies  of the field; (b) the birds of the air; or (c) the fish of the seas.

1. "God...mammon" (Matt. 6:24)

 

2. "Food...clothing" (Matt. 6:25)

 

 

3. (b) The birds of the air (Matt. 6:26).

Gospels - Instruction

1. Question: What did Jesus say was the lamp of the body?

2. Fill in the blanks: "If therefore your  ----------- is good, your whole body will be full of ----------"

3. Fill in the blank: Jesus said, "No one can serve two  -------------; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other."

 

1. The eye (Matt. 6:22; Luke 11:34)

 

2. "Eye....light" (Matt. 6:22).

 

3. "Masters" (Matt. 6:24) The two masters Jesus  had in mind God and mammon, or material wealth.

Gospels-Instruction

1. True or false? Jesus taught that  a true fast should show in the sad countenance of the one fasting.

2. Sentence completion: "For where your treasure is..."

3. Question: In  the Sermon on the Mount, where did Jesus say to lay up treasure?

 

1. False. One who fasts should not appear unusual to those around him (Matt. 6:16-18).

 

2. "There your heart will be also" (Matt. 6:21).

 

3. In heaven (Matt. 6:20).