Gospels-Instruction

1. Sentence completion: What line follows this one in the Lord's Prayer? "And for give us our debts..."

2. The Lord's Prayer ends in this way: For Yours is..."

3. Question: Jesus  disciples are to pray for God's will to be done where, as it is in heaven?

1. "As we forgive our debtors" (Matt. 6:12). Enjoyment of the forgiveness God gives His children depends on those children forgiving all those who offend them.

 

2. "The kingdom and the power and the glory forever" (Matt. 6:13).

 

3. On earth (Matt. 6:10).

Gospels-Instruction

1.Multiple choice: Why, according to Jesus , do the hypocrites love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners? (a) That  they may be seen by men; (b) that God might overlook their hypocrisy; or (c) that prayers might continually rise to God.

2. Question: In the Lord's Prayer, what is God asked to give?

3. Sentence completion: What line follows this one in the Lords Prayer? "Our Father in heaven..."

 

 

1. (a) That they may be seen by men (Matt. 6:5)

 

2. Our daily bread (Matt. 6:11), representing the basic needs of the day.

 

3. " Hallowed  be Your name" (Matt. 6:9). The first expression of the Lord's disciple should be desire for the sanctity of the name of the Father.

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: "When you do a charitable deed, do not let your ---------- ---------- know what you ---------- ---------- is doing".

2. True or false? Jesus taught that we should do our charitable deeds in secret and that our Father would reward us in secret.

3. True or false? Jesus taught us to pray so that God can know what we have need of.

 

1. "Left hand...Right hand". (Matt. 6:3). This is an exaggerated way of saying that a charitable deed should be between the doer and God alone.

 

2. False. He will reward openly (Matt. 6:4).

 

3. False. He knows our needs before we ask (Matt. 6:8).

Gospels- Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus said, " ----------- your enemies, ---------- those who  curse you."

2. Sentence completion: When Jesus  called Simon and Andrew to be disciples, He said, "Follow Me, and..."

3. Sentence Completion: Jesus said, "You shall be perfect, just as..."

 

1. "Love...bless" (Matt. 5:44).

 

2. "I will make you fishers of men" (Matt. 4:18, 19). They had been fishermen all their lives, so this figure for bringing men into the kingdom of God was vivid to them.

 

3. "Your Father in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48).

Gospels - Instruction

Sentence completion:

 

1. "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and...' '

 

2. Jesus said ,  "Whoever slaps you on your right cheek..."

 

3. Jesus said, "Whoever compels you to go one mile..."

 

 

1. "A tooth for a tooth" (Matt. 5:38). Mosaic legislation had a certain uncompromising return of the crime upon the head of the offender. Jesus  did not want anyone to interpret this as meaning that a spirit of retaliation and revenge is what the Law was about.

 

2. "Turn the other to him also" (Matt. 5:39). Jesus  contrasted this to the attitude of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" (v. 38).

 

3. "Go with him two"  (Matt. 5:41).  Paul captured  the spirit of this advice in the statement, "Do  not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" (Rom. 12:21).

Gospels-Instruction

1. True or false? : The Old Testament legislation was more restrictive about divorce then Jesus was.

2. Multiple choice: Jesus said not to swear by God's throne.  What did He identify as God's throne?
(a) The earth; (b) Jerusalem; or (c) heaven.

3. Fill in the blanks: Jesus  said, "Let  your' ----------- ' be' -----------', and your' ----------,' ' ---------.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil one."

1. False (Deut. 24:1-4; Matt. 5:31,32).

 

2. (c) Heaven (Matt.5:34)

 

3. "Yes...'Yes'...'No'...'No'" (Matt 5:37).

Gospels -Instruction

1. Question: In the Sermon on the Mount, what did Jesus say to do if your right eye causes you to sin?

2. What should a person do who comes to worship and remembers that his brother has something against him?

3. Fill in the blanks:  Jesus  said, "It  is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole ----------- to be cast into ----------."

 

1. "Pluck it out and cast it from you" (Matt. 5:29). Sin must be rooted out of one's life ruthlessly. Jesus hyperbolic statement stresses the seriousness of the issue.

 

2. Leave his gift, go, and be reconciled  to his brother (Matt. 5:23,24). Then he should return and worship because then his worship will be received by God gladly.

 

3. "Body...Hell" (Matt 5:30).  One should not cling to sin and thereby suffer eternal loss.