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Biblical Law II
Lesson Five
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For Lesson Five, read Institutes Of Biblical Law Vol. 1 pages 611 - 650. Any questions not answered when you watch the video must be marked wrong.
Questions For Lesson Five
Answer these questions as you are reading pages 611 - 650. You may download the questions in a PDF file or simply write the answers in a notebook.
Download PDF Lesson Five Questions.
Judges
1. It is necessary for the state to require all people with serious grievances to ____________________ them to a court of law.
2. The courts of law must have the power of the state to ____________________ their decrees, or else anarchy prevails.
3. The courts of law must represent a transcendental concept of law and justice, a standard beyond and above man, a law-structure derived, however faultily, from ____________________.
4. The election or selection of the judges is not the real issue, but their ____________________ and ____________________, and the character and faith of the citizenry at large.
5. For each ____________________ families one judge was appointed to deal with minor matters and to refer other cases to a higher jurisdiction.
6. Every reformation is Israel involved in part a return to the ____________________ nature of civil office.
7. It is a modern heresy that a country can have a “_________________” without a reformation of the state as well as the church.
8. The office of judge is thus clearly a ____________________ office; the minister declares the word: the judge applies it to the conflicts of life.
9. In terms of Biblical law, while it is a crime for a judge to accept a ____________________, it is not a crime for a man to BRIBE a judge.
The Responsibility Of Judges And Rulers
10. It is the responsibility of judges and rulers to right every wrong, whether the culprit is ____________________ or not.
11. The entire ____________________ has a responsibility to right the wrongs committed within its jurisdiction.
12. If the community cannot locate the guilty party, then it must take steps to right the wrong all the same, or else it becomes _______________, along with its courts and rulers.
13. One aspect of the law of restitution for murder is capital punishment. Another aspect is ____________________ compensation.
14. The state must in all such cases make ____________________ out of special funds for that purpose.
15. The present alliance of courts, public officials, and businessmen to countenance crime because it is profitable cannot exist where restitution is required in ____________________ case.
16. The presence of the ____________________ in the court is to be noted.
17. The civil judge dealt with the GUILT of the criminal and the hearing of the evidence, the Levites with the specific nature and application of the ____________________.
18. When guilt becomes prevalent, God’s ____________________ judgment is replaced with a ____________________ judgment.
19. ____________________ is inescapable wherever there are offences.
20. Churches which are Christian in name only will not preach ____________________.
The Court
21. The court is a ____________________ establishment.
22. The ____________________ in question were experts in God’s law, lawyers.
23. The only authority wherewith the Church can “bind” or “loose” is the written ____________________.
24. It is the law of God, not the ____________________, which binds or looses men.
25. A religious establishment requires religious ____________________.
26. Legal training is a form of ____________________ training, and modern law schools are humanistic religious establishments.
27. For the people of God under their [ungodly] jurisdiction, the routes open are:
A. ____________________ resistance,
B. ____________________ to another church or another country,
C. ____________________ as unto God in order to preserve, while recognizing the powers have no right to command apart for God’s Word,
D. ____________________ as a moral duty under the leadership of authority.
28. The more a power departs from God’s law, the more ______________ is becomes in coping with real offenses, and the more __________________ it becomes with trifling offences or meaningless infractions.
29. When the law breaks down we have either ____________________ or naked ____________________.
30. If men will not obey GOD, they will not obey ____________________.
The Procedure Of The Court
31. Justice, having nothing to hide and everything to gain by being public, was totally ____________________.
32. ____________________ charges and records were thus an early aspect of court procedure.
33. ____________________ of court was forbidden.
34. Witnesses had to take an ____________________ before testifying.
35. Cases could be ____________________ to the highest court of the land.
36. The Biblical reference to Solomon’s wisdom means most centrally his wisdom as a ____________________.
37. Although arrests could be made on the sabbath, __________________ were held only during other days of the week.
38. The right to a ____________________ trial was not only a feature of the public hearings of the court, but also stressed, as an instrument of sound administration.
39. In Biblical law the function of the state is to be the ministry of ____________________.
40. In the Old Testament, Moses was the chief ____________________ of Israel.
41. The judge was not to be an impartial referee but a partisan champion of the ____________________.
The Judgment Of The Court
42. The judgments of the court in Biblical law are of two kinds: first, judgments of money and property, to make ____________________, and, second, judgments upon the person, from corporal to capital punishment.
43. The judgment of the court is the judgment of ____________________, whenever faithfully delivered.
44. The Word of God was written in large measure for ________________.
45. Scripture declares that judges are true judges only if they are ____________________ to God’s law.
46. Evil is recognized and opposed everywhere but in ________________.
47. In terms of God’s law, true reform begins with ____________________ and the submission of the believer to the whole law-word of God.
48. In Proverbs 29:18, ____________________ is equated with keeping the law.
Perfection
49. The Old Testament words translated as “____________________” mean upright, having integrity, blameless, and the New Testament words have the meaning of mature, complete.
50. The greater the responsibility, the greater the ____________________ required to be blameless.
51. Maturity is the ability to ____________________ in terms of our experiences and to use them to draw closer to God’s purpose for us. pg. 630
The Tenth Commandment
Covetousness
52. The commandment [not to covet] therefore deals with all possible undertakings which involve gaining ____________________ over the goods and possessions of a “neighbour,” whether through theft or through all kinds of dishonest machinations. pg. 632
53. Pietism emphasizes the ____________________, the attitudes of man, and underrates the importance of man’s actions.
The Law In Force
54. To hate our brother, or to look with lust at a woman, are offences which God can judge, but the courts can judge only if some _____________ ensues in terms of those feelings.
55. The reforms of a ____________________ which denies God are no more to be trusted than the reforms of a man with a gun in his hand, robbing us of our money.
56. The character of the courts, judges, and legal system cannot be long maintained if the ____________________ of the people is delinquent and degenerate.
57. The law is to be obeyed from the ____________________.
Special Privilege
58. In such a society, this lawless seizure can lay hold of what belongs to our neighbour by asking the state to serve as our instrument of seizure; to covet by ____________________ is no less a sin.
59. The truth is no society has ever existed without ___________________ privileges.
60. A ____________________ thus is insistent on examinations and is hostile to the family.
61. A meritocracy is geared to a ____________________ mentality, not a Christian or a free mind.
62. A third form of society, Biblical in character, is ____________________ oriented.
63. The right to give special privileges is a basic aspect of ____________, and of private property.
64. Every law which seeks to legislate apart from God’s law is a case of ____________________ coercion.
Offences Against Our Neighbour
65. ____________________ has thus led to a basic irresponsibility.
The System
66. Unto man God gives the opportunity to share in that remaking by means of ____________________ and the ____________________.
Assignment
Memorize Exodus 20:17.
Write out from memory Ex. 20:1-17.
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