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Persecution And The Christian
Lesson Eight
Welcome back. Now we are going to begin moving into the rest of the New Testament.
For Lesson Eight, read the following sections in your Textbook and do the questions below. The questions are in chronological order.
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Read pages 169 - 202 and answer the associated questions. If you are using the PDF version of the textbook, I suggest you make a 'copy' so you can highlight in it. You may write the answers to the questions below in a notebook or on a computer file. You may also print them off here and work from a 'hard' copy. God bless.
Lesson Eight Questions
Chapter 3
Teaching Of The Apostles
1. Persecution is not the lot just of dedicated, mature believers; it may also strike the weakest, youngest, oldest, and most __________________ as well as the pillars of the local church. pg. 169
1 & 2 Thessalonians
2. When Paul speaks of the Thessalonians becoming imitators of himself and Christ, it is to their ____________________ that he is referring. pg. 169
3. If this interpretation is correct, this would be in keeping with other places in the New Testament where Satan is referred to as being behind the actions by ____________________ powers against the message from God. pg. 170
4. The focus of election is on the ____________________ God has chosen to be the instruments of His purposes. pg. 171
5. The focus of predestination is on God’s ____________________ and ____________________. pg. 171
6. It is my position that election and predestination are not to ____________________ salvation but refer to those who are in Christ. pg. 172
7. From a historical perspective, the Church’s election actually ____________________ Israel’s. pg. 172
8. There is never a ____________________ between Christ and His people anywhere in the Scripture. pg. 173
9. Paul had said that the faith and perseverance demonstrated by the Thessalonians in the midst of their persecution actually _______________ him in the midst of his distress and persecutions. pg. 173
10. It shows that God can ____________________ them with greater responsibilities in the future. pg. 174
11. As we pass ____________________ through suffering, temptations, and trials, we demonstrate that God will be able to entrust us with much higher positions or responsibilities in heaven. pg. 174
12. It seems to me that the biblical text is clear that not all believers will possess equal ____________________ in heaven. pg. 174
13. It is not a matter of ____________________; it is because we have responded to God’s grace and allowed Him to work in our lives. pg. 175
14. We must live in the light of ____________________. pg. 175
15. God’s ____________________ must be done God’s way under God’s power to God’s glory. pg. 176
16. The thrust of verse 3 would seem to point toward an understanding of God’s establishing and protecting believers as they are _______________ to fall into sin or disobedience. pg. 177
1 And 2 Corinthians
17. This is how God wins His greatest victories—in _________________, not in demonstrations of power and strength. pg. 178
18. What Paul is saying is that preaching of any sort will _____________ if there is not a demonstration of the Spirit working in the messenger’s life that is characterized by weakness, with a corresponding reliance on the Spirit to move in the hearts of the listener through the truth of the message. pg. 179
19. The ____________________ is central to the message and methodology of the gospel. pg. 180
20. The method of the ____________________ is not only God’s way; it must be the way of all of God’s people and especially God’s messengers and agents. pg. 181
21. Jonathan Bonk, in his book Missions and Money, writes that any mission strategy that is worthy to be called Christian must be characterized by three things: the ____________________ (rather than self-serving), the ____________________ (rather than self-preservation), and weakness, ____________________ upon God (rather than stability and strength). pg. 182
22. If this interpretation is correct, Paul’s argument in 1 Corinthians 15:29 would therefore read, “If there is no resurrection, what will be gained by such baptized ones who are ____________________ for their love of Christ?” pg. 184
23. He participates with us in our ____________________ as we participate with Him in fulfilling His purposes in history. pg. 185
24. Christianity can never be truly “seeker-friendly” (to use contemporary terminology) if it is being ____________________ to its calling to be a witness in a hostile world. pg. 186
25. The most powerful apologetic is the faithful lives of God’s people, demonstrating love, faith, and hope in the midst of a __________________ world. pg. 186
26. The treasure that we have is in the ____________________ that we bring. pg. 187
27. As long as Paul is living, he is in the process of _________________ for Christ’s sake, so that the life of Christ, achieved through the cross and the resurrection, may be seen in his life. pg. 188
28. Suffering not only points the sufferer away from self and toward God, but it also points away from the terror of the present to the _____________ of the future. pg. 188
29. We bear this message of ____________________ as ambassadors of God imploring men and women to be reconciled to God (5:20). pg. 189
30. Paul’s suffering gives ____________________ to his ministry. pg. 190
31. One cannot call himself a servant of God if he _________________ the need to sacrifice and suffer for Christ’s sake. pg. 190
32. Nothing comes into the life of the ____________________ that does not first pass through the sovereign hands of God. pg. 192
33. In Paul’s mind, God’s grace in the midst of affliction is just as much an answer to prayer as ____________________. pg. 192
34. There is nothing ____________________ in suffering for the sake of suffering. pg. 193
Romans
35. We rejoice in our sufferings and persecution because we know that through them, God develops the qualities in us that prepare us for ____________________. pg. 196
36. Our ____________________, Paul says, is contingent on our suffering with Christ. pg. 197
37. The rewards that God has in store for His children are designated to them by His ____________________. pg. 198
38. We know that God’s plans for us are never ____________________ by suffering and persecution. pg. 199
39. The ____________________ for the believer today in the face of suffering that may seem meaningless is, in the words of Beker, “grounded and nourished by the imminent triumph of God.” pg. 199
40. The promise is that nothing they will face from the outside can destroy their ____________________. pg. 201
Assignment
1. Memorize Rom. 8:16-17.
2. Analyze Rom. 8:31-39.
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