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Biblical Law II
Lesson Ten

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Video Answers For Lesson Ten

For Lesson Ten, read Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. 1, pages 799 - 837. Ebooks may have different page numbers. This lesson's sections are the Appendices: Stewardship, Investment, and Usury: Financing the Kingdom of God, and The Economics Of Sabbath-Keeping.

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Questions For Lesson Ten

Answer these questions as you are reading pages 799 - 837. You may download the questions in a PDF file or simply write the answers in a notebook.

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Stewardship, Investment, and Usury: Financing The Kingdom of God

Usury, Interest, And Charity

1. The prohibition against usury as it appears in the Mosaic law refers specifically to the brother who is ____________________.

2. It was legitimate to take a return above the sum leant from the ____________________ strangers.

3. A tenth of the increase who therefore be ____________________ to God.

4. The definition of usury is precise Biblically: any ___________________ taken from the poor in return for having made a loan.

5. The emergency is a situation of ____________________; godly men and women are not to indent themselves for anything less than this.

6. It was assumed that consumer loans were products of a ____________________ mentality.

7. What is the time-preference factor? _____________________________

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8. What is the risk premium? _____________________________________

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9. What is the inflation premium? ________________________________

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10. He suffers a ____________________ for the sake of his needy brother.

Stewardship, Investment, and Charity

11. Any deviation from this law-order involves man in rebellion against God and the destruction of God’s ____________________.

12. Faithful stewardship therefore involves the following:

1. A recognition of the ____________________ of God over His creation;

2. ____________________ to the law-order God has established for the governing of His creation;

3. The productive, fruitful ____________________ of one’s vocation or calling;

4. The recognition of the lawfulness of the ____________________, in theory and practice;

5. The voluntary giving of ____________________ on a selective, godly basis.

13. Stewardship can be summarized into two overarching principles: ____________________ and ____________________.

14. “Share the wealth” is a Biblical principle, and the normal means of this sharing is the ____________________.

God’s Institutional Monopoly

15. The Kingdom of God includes the work of the institutional ____________________ and the godly activity of Christian men in all other legitimate human ____________________.

16. The business of the church is the ____________________ of the gospel, collective ____________________ under godly discipline, and the administration of the ____________________.

17. Different godly callings are governed by different _________________, and their successes and failures are estimated by different standards.

18. The institutional church is not a business…it is a house of ____________________.

Christian Usury

19. Therefore, to demand the payment of interest by a church for any kind of loan offered to it is a ____________________ demand.

20. Interest becomes usury when it is taken from charitable, legally non-profit firms that are not operating in a. Competitive market in order to ____________________ revenues, but which are in fact __________________ revenues in the name of God.

21. A ____________________ is a present sacrifice made to a charity or a person without any thought of return.

Inflation And Annuities

22. A “____________________ contract” is a contradiction in terms.

23. The more normal form of economic catastrophe is _______________, where pensions and savings accounts are wiped out by the depreciation of a nation’s currency.

24. The usurers are being destroyed by ____________________.

Hierarchical Autonomy

25. The financial autonomy from the weekly contributions of the members has been a basic means of ____________________.

26. Perpetual annuities and trusts ____________________ the promise of Solomon: “The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” [Pr. 13:22b].

27. Financial autonomy of the hierarchy of an institution is the death knell of its original ____________________.

28. The essence of Christian stewardship is simply this: full-time, irrevocable, personal ____________________ before God.

29. Too soft-hearted to enforce the law of the tithe, they [churches] have been utterly ____________________ in devising a whole complex of usury schemes.

The Pitfalls Of Huckstering

30. The institutional church is not an ____________________ company.

The Economics Of Sabbath-Keeping

31. Calvin followed the tradition…interpreting the sabbath as an ____________________ of the believer’s rest in Christ from the bondage of sin, a rest that is made perfect in eternity.

32. If covenant law is binding, then covenant law’s ___________________ is equally binding.

33. This ought to lead us to the conclusion that the application of the sabbath principle in New Testament times is radically __________________ from what was required in Old Testament times.

34. A law with ____________________ is worth enforcing.

35. There is always a ____________________ in violating God’s commandments if one is a sinner.

Assignment

1. Memorize Proverbs 14:21.

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