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Biblical Law II
Lesson Eight

Welcome to Biblical Law II lesson eight.

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For Lesson Eight, read Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. 1, pages 723 - 761. Any questions not answered when you watch the video must be marked wrong.

Questions For Lesson Eight

Answer these questions as you are reading pages 723 - 761. You may download the questions in a PDF file or simply write the answers in a notebook.

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The Cultural Mandate

1. The cultural mandate is thus the obligation of ____________________ man to subdue the earth and to exercise dominion over it under God. The ____________________ is the program for that purpose.

2. The first step in the mandate is to bring men the word of God and for God to ____________________ them.

3. The second step is to ____________________ every kind of theory, humanistic, evolutionary, idolatrous, or otherwise, and every kind of rampart or opposition to the dominion of God in Christ.

4. The third step requires that we court-martial or “administer ____________________ upon all disobedience” in every area of life where we encounter it.

5. ____________________ is religion externalized, and it is the development of man and his world in terms of the laws of his religion.

6. The culture of modern man is one of ____________________ to the environment.

7. The purpose of the new ____________________ is to undo the work of the fall, restore man as covenant-keeper, make of man again a faithful citizen of the Kingdom of God, and enable man again to fulfill his calling to subdue the earth under God and to restore all things to God’s law and dominion.

8. The joyful news of the birth of Christ is this restoration of man to his original calling with the ____________________ of victory.

9. All nations are to be subdued by ____________________ and ____________________, i.e., by regeneration and the word of God.

10. If men are not regenerated by Christ, and if they will not submit to His calling, to the cultural mandate, they will be ____________________ by His power.

The Law In Acts And The Epistles

11. The moral Laws and will of God are better seen in the New Testament:

A. They are more expressly extended to the ____________________,

B. The principles on which they are founded are carried out in the New Testament into a greater variety of ____________________,

C. There is a much more enlarged injunction of __________________ and particular virtues,

D. By all overt acts being inseparably connected wit corresponding principles in the heart, in order to constitute acceptable obedience, which principles suppose the ____________________ of the soul by the Holy Ghost.

E. By being connected with promises of divine __________________, which is peculiar ro a law connected with evangelical provisions,

F. By having a living illustration in the perfect and practical example of ____________________,

G. By the higher ____________________ derived from the clearer revelation of a future state, and threatenings of eternal punishment.

12. The laws of God against sin were never ____________________ by this council.

13. Paul never attacked the law as a way of ____________________, but only as the way of justification.

14. Both the council and St. Paul held that a law of God was at stake; the question was as to how to maintain ____________________ to that law.

15. Instead of declaring the law to be ended, the Council of Jerusalem therefore clearly established or sustained the law as the way of sanctification ad retained even the ____________________ aspects of the law.

16. ____________________ from the law as a way of salvation does not give man the right to sin.

17. The point in this illustration is not that the law is dead, but that we in ____________________ are dead, I.e., the death sentence of the law is fulfilled against us.

The Church

The Meaning Of Eldership

18. Elders have responsibilities in both what we would call _____________ and ecclesiastical affairs.

19. The synagogue, in addition to being a place of worship, was a place of instruction, a ____________________.

20. The elders were ____________________ by the community and held office for ____________________.

21. The function of the elder was apparently centred on the ____________________.

22. The elder was an older man in a position of ____________________.

23. Elders formed the basis of ____________________ government.

24. Elders were ____________________ in the synagogues and the elder was the teacher, enforcer, and expert student of the law.

25. The office of the has, among its qualifications, the ability to ____________________, and the ability to ____________________.

26. It is the duty of the Christian home, school, and church to train elders who will apply the law of God to all the ____________________.

The Office Of Elder In The Church

27. There is nothing in Scripture to indicate that a session, or a board of elders, has as its central function the judgment of a ____________________, or a supervision of his work.

28. The office of ____________________ and ____________________ are identical.

29. The bishop or pastor alone could conduct the services of ____________________ and ____________________.

30. The church is a ____________________, not a ____________________.

31. The office of elder is ____________________ in nature.

32. The elder or elders are a ____________________ of the church.

34. The essential task of the elder is to act to the ____________________ of the gospel and the Lordship of Christ.

35. A ____________________ deals with offenders only; a ______________ deals with the whole life of the people.

The Christian Passover

36. There is no possibility of understanding the New Testament if its ____________________ with the Old is denied or under-rated.

37. The ____________________ celebrated the deliverance from Egypt and the tenth plague.

38. The Hebraic passover is a ____________________ service.

39. The Christian passover is also a celebration by the ____________________ of Christ.

40. The passover ____________________ a victory and looked forward to more victory.

41. The Christian passover must declare the ____________________ of God and of the people of God.

42. The ____________________ of the firstborn is basic to the passover.

Circumcision And Baptism

43. ____________________ stands for justification and regeneration, plus sanctification.

44. Circumcision as a sign of ____________________ pointed to the death of Christ as man’s representative.

45. The new rites of the ____________________ look back to Abraham and Adam, and to Christ’s death and resurrection; they look forward to His victory and reconquest of the earth and to a new creation.

46. The early church saw ____________________ as an aspect of baptism, the new understanding of a redeemed heart.

47. The covenant sign thus places the recipient under God’s particular ____________________ and ____________________.

Assignment

1. Memorize Rom. 6:4.

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