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Biblical Law II
Lesson Nine

Welcome to Biblical Law II lesson nine.

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For Lesson Nine, read Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. 1, pages 761 - 799. Any questions not answered when you watch the video must be marked wrong.

Questions For Lesson Nine

Answer these questions as you are reading pages 761 - 799. You may download the questions in a PDF file or simply write the answers in a notebook.

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The Priesthood Of All Believers

1. Without obedience to the law of God, no valid ____________________ can exist.

2. The people of God shall be “a ____________________ of priests.”

3. The believer priest of the Old Testament served as a priest-ruler over his ____________________ and in his calling.

4. The synagogue was not only a place of worship but also an ____________________ school.

5. ____________________ believer is given a mature responsibility in terms of Christ’s kingdom.

6. The purpose of the church should not be to bring men into subjection to the church, but rather to train them into a royal priesthood capable of bringing the world into ____________________ to Christ the King.

7. True faith reveals itself in ____________________.

8. The tendency of institutions - church, state, and school - and of callings, is to ____________________ themselves and to play god in the lives of men.

9. The doctrine of the priesthood of all believers is a program for not only survival but ____________________ as well.

Discipline

10. ____________________ is systematic training and submission to authority. Chastisement or punishment is the penalty or beating administered for ____________________ from authority. Many Christian children are chastised but not taught discipline - the goal is to teach self-discipline under God.

11. Where there is no discipline, chastisement is ____________________ and comes closer to being abuse than correction.

12. To be a ____________________ and to be under discipline is to be a learner in a learning process.

13. First and foremost in considering church discipline is the fact that learning or discipline is by the ____________________, by Scripture.

14. Whenever the church forsakes, neglects, or limits the ____________________, there also the church forsakes the divine power of God’s Word for a purely humanistic teaching.

15. In true disciple, the ____________________ process is guided and furthered by the Holy Spirit, which is given to the elect that they might know the things which are of God.

16. Failure by any party to accept God’s Law must lead to a break with him, to ____________________.

17. There can be no true discipline in a church, or in a school and home, unless there be also a full and faithful ____________________ of the law-word of God.

18. There is an alternative in some cases to chastisement. This is ____________________.

Rebukes And Excommunication

19. The rebuke is the first stage in ____________________.

20. The goal of such actions is not the church but God’s _____________.

21. ____________________ is given only to men who can exercise authority, and whose ability at disciplining themselves and their household is a proven one.

22. Worthy widows, in return for their support, ____________________ for the church.

23. Failure to care for members of one's own family is a form of ____________________.

24. Those who do not support their own are first to be rebuked and then ____________________.

25. To provide for one’s children includes a ____________________ education, for the child’s mind and body must both be provided for.

26. The ____________________ is thus one government among many; it is a civil government, and it cannot be permitted to usurp or claim areas which do not belong to it.

Power And Authority

27. Church government is a prelude to ____________________ government.

28. Between a Christian and a non-Christian, there could be a ____________________ use of outside or civil courts.

29. A basic requirement of ____________________ church life is a constant study of God’s law, its implications and its applications.

30. Authority is the ____________________ to command, while _________ is strength or force.

31. The church must by its ____________________ to the law-word of God, establish, strengthen, and increase its authority.

32. Power, when divorced from Godly authority, becomes progressively ____________________.

33. True ____________________ requires that both power and authority be Godly in their nature and application.

34. The primary purpose of conversion is that man be ________________ to God; reconciliation with his fellow man and with himself is a secondary aspect of this face, a necessary by-product but still a by-product.

Peace

35. A central purpose of God’s plan for man and the earth is the establishment of His ____________________.

36. The restoration of that peace begins with man’s restoration to life by the ____________________ work of Jesus Christ.

37. In the Biblical sense, ____________________ is that order and prosperity which flows out of reconciliation to God and a restoration to life under God.

38. The ____________________ can only be an instrument for peace when it is an instrument of God and a ministry of Christ.

39. Peace with God means ____________________ with the enemies of God.

40. If a man is at peace with sinful man, he is at ____________________ with God.

Notes On The Law In Western Society

41. The churches clearly felt that Biblical law was ____________________ on believers.

42. The church thus was mindful of the ____________________ of Biblical law to Christian faith, and its canon law was the application of the rule of that law to the problems of life.

43. After a certain point of centralization, a bureaucracy becomes unrelated to ____________________.

44. Biblical law played a central role in the shaping of ________________ civilization as it entered society from still another source, the Jews of Europe.

45. ____________________ law and urban law thus had their origins in the Jewish communities and their intense devotion of Biblical law.

46. Whatever local customs or elements of “Roman” law, there may be in it, ____________________ law is essentially Biblical law.

47. There are indications that the ____________________ was a major factor in social change and progress.

48. Where the legislators moved into areas not covered by Biblical law, they did so “according to the more Generall Rules of __________________.”

49. ____________________ law has been very much a product of the Biblical requirements.

The New Testament As Law

50. The church for some time celebrated, not the modern Easter, but the Hebrew ____________________.

51. Barnabas stressed the fact that “Christians have received _________ covenant [not a new covenant] through Jesus.”

52. To recognize the centrality and authority of the law does require that the law be understood in terms of the ____________________ of Scripture.

53. The ____________________ themselves were seen in the early centuries as books of law, since they were the words of a King.

54. For Jesus to claim to be Messiah-King over all the world meant that He Himself regarded His own every word as inescapable _______________.

The Implications Of I Samuel 8

55. God saw Israel’s decision as primarily and essentially a ____________________ of His government.

56. It [the demand for a king] was a surrender of God’s law-order for a ____________________ law-order.

57. The captivity came, Jeremiah declared, because the ______________ had abandoned God’s law.

Assignment

Memorize Jeremiah 29:10-11.

2. Meditate on your memory verses and write down how you think it might be applied today.

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