Saturday, September 21, 2013

Gospels-Instruction

1. True or false? Jesus told His disciples that He  no longer called them servants, because servants do not know what their master does, but friends because He told them all that the Father told Him.

2. Multiple choice: Jesus told His disciples, "In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer," because; (a) "I have overcome the world." (b) "I am with you always."; or (c) You will have the Helper."

3. Why will the Holy Spirit convict the world of sin? (a) Because the Law is vague; (b) because they do not believe in Jesus; or (c) because their deeds are evil.


 
1. True (John 15:15).
 
 
2. (a) "I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). No tribulation which the world generates can destroy the disciple of Jesus. It may kill the disciple, but Jesus will turn that death into victory.
 
3. (b) Because they do not believe in Jesus  (John 16:9). 

Friday, September 20, 2013

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus told the disciples that if He went to prepare  a place for them, "I ---------
 ----------- and -------- you to Myself," so that they might be with  Him.

2. Question: Who did  Jesus  tell the disciples would teach them all things and help them remember all things that He  had taught them, since He  would not be in the world?

3. Multiple choice: What did Jesus say He  would leave with the disciples so that  their hearts should not be troubled  nor afraid? (a) Hope; (b) love; or (c) peace.


1. Come again...receive" (John 14:3).
 
2. The Holy Spirit (John 14:26). Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit when He left  the disciples in death.
 
3. (c) Peace (John 14: 27).

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Gospels -Instruction

1. Fill in the blank: Jesus said to Philip, "The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own
------------; but the Father who dwells in Me  does the works."

2. Sentence completion: Jesus  told the disciples, "If you love Me..."

3. Jesus told the disciples, "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to ..."
 
 
 
1. "Authority" (John 14:10).
 
2. "Keep My commandments" (John 14:15).
 
3. "Prepare a place for you" (John 14:2).

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Gospels-Instruction

1. Sentence completion: "A new commandment I give to you, that ..."

2. Multiple choice: By what characteristic did Jesus say all people would recognize His disciples? (a) Their love for  one another; (b)  their washing each other's feet; or (c) their servant hearts.

3. Sentence completion: "I am the way..."


 
 
1. "You love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another" (John 13:34).
 
 
2. (a) Their love for one another (John 13:35)
 
 
3. "The truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me". (John 14:6).

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus gave His disciples an example to follow when He washed their feet. "If  I
then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash ---------- --------feet."

2. Jesus said, " ---------- not, that you be not -----------."

3. Multiple choice:  How does this verse end? "Do  not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow... (a) "will soon be over"; (b) "will worry about its own things"; or (c) "never comes".


1. "One another's" (John 13:14).
 
 
2."Judge...judged" (Matt. 7:1). This is not an absolute prohibition of evaluation but a condemnation of judgmental spirit (cf. vv.2, 6).
 
 
3. (b) "Will worry about its own things" (Matt.6:34).

Monday, September 16, 2013

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus approved of Mary's anointing His feet with the expensive oil: "For the ------------- you have with you always, but ------------ you do not have always"

2. Sentence completion: "Walk  while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know...

3. Fill in the blanks:  "He who loves his life will -----------it, and he who hates his life in this world will ---------- it for eternal life."

 
 
1. "Poor...Me" (John 12:8).
 
2.  Where he is going" (John 12:35). The truth of God 's light makes wise living possible; the error of the world's darkness makes disastrous living inevitable.
 
3. "Lose...keep" (John 12:25). This is one of the great paradoxes of Christian living.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Gospels -Instruction

1. Sentence completion: Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and life. He who believes in Me..."

2. Multiple choice: Jesus told  Judas to "let her alone" because Mary had saved the expensive oil for: (a) Anointing His feet; (b) His burial; or (c) His resurrection.

3. Judas questioned  why the fragrant oil that Mary poured on  Jesus' feet was not sold and the money given to the poor. He did this because: (a) His family was poor and would benefit; (b) he wanted access to the money for himself; or (c) he was jealous of the attention Mary paid Jesus.

 
 
1. "Though he may die, he shall live" (John 11:25). Jesus  said this to Martha as  He comforted her following the death of her brother Lazarus whom Jesus would raise from the dead.
 
2. (b) His burial (John12:7).
 
3. (b) He wanted access to the money for himself (John 12:6).