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).

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Gospels-Instruction

1.Multiple choice: Why does the hireling flee when he hears the wolf come? (a) He's afraid; (b) he runs for help; or (c) he does not care for the sheep.

2. Fill in he blank: Martha acknowledged that Jesus  was the Messiah when she said, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the  ----------, the Son of God, who is come into the world."

3. Jesus said, "I give them [My sheep] eternal life, and they shall never -----------; neither shall anyone ----------- them out of My hand."


 
1. (c) He does not care for the sheep (John 10:13).
 
2. "Christ" (John 11:27). Martha did not doubt Jesus identity or power, but she had hoped that He would have prevented  her brother's death. She did not expect Jesus to resurrect him. (vv. 21,24).


3. "Perish...snatch" (John 10:28).

Friday, September 13, 2013

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus told the man born blind, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not ----------- may see, and that those who see may be made ----------."

2. Multiple choice:  The sheep follow the shepherd because they know his: (a) Footsteps; (b) scent; or (c) voice.

3. Sentence completion: Jesus said , "I have come that they may have ...

 
 
 
1. "See...blind (John 9:39).
 
 
2. Voice (John 10:4).
 
3. "Life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).