Epistles--Instruction

1. Sentence completion: "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus  and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead,..."

2. Multiple choice: In order not  to be conformed to this world but to be transformed, we must do what? (a) Go to church; (b) renew our mind; or (c) do good works.

3. Question: What is the only thing Christians are to owe to one another?

 

 

1. "You will be saved" (Romans 10:9).

 

2. (b) Renew our mind (Romans 12:2). To make any difference for Christ a believer must think differently about all of life. His mind is renewed through the Spirit applying the Word of God to all of life.

 

3. Love (Romans 13:8). Jesus said that all men would know that we are His disciples if we have love for one another (John 13:35).

Epistles--Instruction

1. Multiple choice: Who bears witness with our spirit that we who believe in Christ are children of God? (a) The Lord; (b) the Father; or (c) The Spirit.

2. Sentence completion: Romans 8:28 is one of the most comforting of all verses of Scripture. It states, "And we know that all things work together for good....

3. Multiple choice: According to Romans 8, nothing can separate a believer from the (a) Salvation; (b) love; or (c) life of Christ.

 

 

1. (c) The Spirit (Romans 8:16). The Spirit , the third person of the Trinity, confirms to us inwardly that we really are children of God.

 

2. ..."To those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

 

3. (b) Love (Romans 8:35--39).

Epistles--Instruction

1. Fill in the blank: In Romans 7, Paul describes the battle inside him as being of the flesh and Spirit. He concludes that if he is doing what he no longer desires to do, it is not he who is doing it, but -------- that dwells in him.

2. Paul concludes  in Romans 8 that , "There is therefore now no -------- to those who are in Christ Jesus."

3. True or false? Those who are in the flesh can please God.

 

 

1. Sin (Romans 7:20).

 

2. "Condemnation" (Romans 8:1). No sentence of guilt can be made to stick against one who has trusted in Christ for salvation from sin.

 

3. False (Romans 8:8). Here  "flesh" does not refer to the physical body, but rather to the idea of living life by all the impulses that come from the world system.

Epistles--Instruction

1. Sentence completion: "God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners,...

2. Fill in the blanks: Because believers, by faith, have participated in the death and resurrection of Jesus, they are to "reckon (themselves) to be dead indeed to ---------, but alive to -------in Christ Jesus our Lord."

3. A most important  verse regarding salvation, "For the  --------- of sin is death, but the --------- of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

 

 

1. "Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

 

2. "Sin...God" (Romans 6:11).

 

3. "Wages...gift"  (Romans 6:23). Wages are what a person deserves, but a gift has nothing to do with merit.

Epistles--Instruction

1. Fill in the blank:  "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for ----------."

2. Paul concludes in Romans 5 that "having been justified  by faith, we have --------- with God through our  Lord Jesus Christ."

3 Multiple choice: Paul says we glory in our tribulations because "tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character: (a) Joy; (b) hope; or (c) peace."

 

1. "Righteousness" (Rom. 4:3).

 

2. "Peace" (Rom. 5:1).

 

3. (b) "Hope" (Rom. 5:3,4).

Episles----Instruction

1. Fill in the blank: Paul states that a true Jew is not one who is a Jew outwardly  but rather is a Jew "inwardly; and (his) circumcision is that of the --------, in the Spirit, not in the letter".

2. Multiple choice: According to Romans 3, what gives the Jew the advantage over the Gentile when it comes to the possibility of knowing God? (a) They  have Abraham as their father; (b) They have the oracles of God; or (c) they are good by nature.

3. Question: Quote Romans 3:23.

1. "Heart" (Romans 2:28,29). In Deuteronomy 30:6, Moses foresees God circumcising the heart of His people so that they might love Him completely.

 

2. (b) They have the oracles of God (Romans 3:2). The oracles of God consisted in all God's revelation to Israel as is contained in the Old Testament.

 

3. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).

Epistles--Instruction

1.Sentence completion: If you tend to excuse your own sin by judging others, you condemn yourself "for you who judge practice the ....

2. Question: Paul develops the truth in Romans 1 and 2, that every person is guilty before God. He shows that all people, even  if they do not know the Scripture, do have  a witness of God from two sources. Name one of them.

3. Fill in the blanks: According to Romans 2:13, it is "not the ---------- of the law" who "are just in the sight of God, but the ---------- of the law will be justified."

 

1. "Same things" (Romans 2:1). We tend to be harder on others at the very point that we have the most difficulty.

 

2. Creation (Romans 1:18-25), and conscience (Romans 2:11-16).

 

3. "Hearers ...doers" (Romans 2:13). James says, "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26).