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Persecution And The Christian
Lesson Five

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For Lesson Five, read the following sections in your Textbook and do the questions below. The questions are in chronological order.

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Read pages 86 - 116 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 in a computer file. You may also print them off here and work from a 'hard' copy. God bless.

Lesson Five Questions

Chapter 2
The Revelation Of God In Christ
God As Sufferer

1. Only Christianity, however, has developed an understanding [of evil in the world] that refuses to retreat from reality, while upholding the ________ of God. pg. 86

2. Christians do readily admit that suffering is ____________________. pg. 86

3. The ____________________ of heaven haunts us, when God seems either unable or unwilling to do anything about our afflictions. pg. 87

4. We are not free to think of God any way that we like, but only to the extent that He has ____________________ Himself to be. pg.88

The Doctrine Of Impassibility

5. The Council of ____________________ (A.D. 451) declared the idea that the divine nature could suffer as “vain babblings,” and condemned those who believed it. pg.88

6. While the church fathers recognized that Christ, the incarnate Son of God, had suffered, they contended that God Himself ________________; He was impassible. pg. 88

7. God suffers because He chooses to ___________________. pg. 89

8. Impassibility means that God can never be forced to act __________ to His character and other revealed attributes. pg. 89

9. Although free from unworthy and uncontrolled emotions and immune from being unconsciously or unwillingly moved, God is _______________ able to relate with those who suffer pain in all of its aspects. pg. 89

Anthropomorphic Metaphor

10. It must be admitted that God is, in many ways, indescribable in the sense that any language we use of Him is ____________________. pg. 90

11. Truth does not have to be ____________________ in order to be true. pg. 90

Suffering Incarnationally

12. The New Testament Christians were convinced that God Himself had visited this world and redeemed it in ____________________. pg. 91

13. The question “To whom will you compare God?” suddenly had an answer: ____________________. pg. 92

14. In Matthew’s mind, the prophecy of Isaiah 53:3,4 was fulfilled in Jesus’ ____________________ rather than the atonement.

15. Time and time again we see throughout the Gospels that Jesus healed because He ____________________. pg. 92

16. When God became man in the person of Jesus Christ, He experienced in full measure the physical suffering that goes along with being a human being in a ____________________ world. pg. 93

Is Healing In The Atonement?

17. It does seem that Isaiah in 53:4 is speaking of __________________ physical and mental afflictions, though not necessarily to a vicarious bearing of them. pg. 94

18. If this is the proper interpretation, Jesus ‘took our infirmities and bore our diseases’ by becoming incarnate rather than by offering ___________.

Could Jesus Have Gotten Sick?

19. We must be careful not to confuse sin with its __________________. pg. 95

20. Mark puts it most bluntly: “He was seized by ___________________ and distress” (14:33, literal translation). pg. 95

21. The Son goes to the cross out of raw ___________________. pg. 95

22. In Christ crucified, you see God ____________________. pg. 96

23. But it is the horror of His Father’s ____________________ that causes Jesus to cry out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” pg. 96

Suffering Relationally

24. His pain for the world is never the wailing sympathy of an uninvolved onlooker, but the genuine pain of one who is directly affected, the suffering of a ____________________, who takes upon himself a part of the burden. pg. 98

25. The prospect of judgment is not a thing of ____________________ to God. pg.98

26. God is revealed not as one who remains coolly unaffected by the rejection of the people, but as one who is deeply ____________________ by the broken relationship. pg. 98

Suffering Sympathetically

27. When His people suffer, He ____________________. pg. 99

28. One of the wonders of knowing the suffering God is the realization that we never face life ____________________. pg. 99

29. Those who suffer frequently find themselves in need of a meaningful answer to the question, “Why?” God, however, knows that the real need of the sufferer is to know the answer to the question, “_________________?” pg. 99

God As Self-Giver

30. There is among the members of the Trinity a relationship of total and mutual ____________________. pg. 101

31. His plans are not achieved by force or power but by ______________ and self-giving. pg. 101

32. “____________________ is no attribute of God”—that is the basic principle of the Trinitarian theologians. pg. 102

33. His acts of sacrifice, serving, love, and giving are acts of ____________________. pg. 102

34. To ____________________ is ‘to make an open and honest statement of the gospel, which leaves the hearers entirely free to make up their own minds about it. pg. 103

35. Having gradually gained political power through the legalization of Christianity with the Edict of Milan in A.D. 313, Christian leaders increasingly called upon the secular authorities to ____________________ fidelity to the decisions of various church councils. pg. 103

36. Doctrinal orthodoxy is unquestionably essential to the Church, but its enforcement must be in line with the ____________________ of the God. pg. 103

Messianic Expectations
Definition Of Messiah

37. Persons who were “____________________” had been elected, designated, appointed, given authority, qualified, and equipped for specific offices and tasks. pg. 104

The Expectations Of First-Century Judaism

38. If we were to try to generalize about what the first-century Jews expected in a messianic figure, we would note immediately its __________. pg. 104

39. Simply put, these figures [of the Messiah] ranged from purely human ____________________ kings to the transcendent and pre-existent quasi-divine Savior King, with a variety of combinations in-between. pg. 106

40. Judaism never reached ____________________ on what to expect of the future, except that all believed that God would eventually vindicate His people. pg. 106

The Expectations Of The Disciples

41. In our day, the mind of man is manifested similarly in the belief that ____________________ has no place in the life of the Christian. pg. 107

42. In Peter’s mind, suffering had no place in the plan of God for His ____________________. pg. 107

43. John the Baptist was the first to call Jesus “the __________________ of God.” pg. 108

44. And the more John hears about what Jesus is doing, the more ____________________ he becomes. pg. 109

45. When Jesus does not act according to our expectations and our “graven image” of what God must be like is shattered by the message and methodology of Jesus, the man who is blessed is the man who _________ Jesus as He is, not as what we would expect or wish Him to be. pg. 110

46. The way of the ____________________ is the way of suffering, self-sacrifice, and trust. pg. 110

47. The revelation of His ____________________ through His transformation further adds to this identification.

48. The three being together does confirm that Jesus is the ____________________ of the Law and the Prophets, Pg. 112

49. For the disciple today who fails to understand the cost of discipleship, who has resisted the concept that to follow Jesus calls for self-sacrifice to the point of death, Jesus still reaches out and says, “_________________.” pg. 113

50. Had Jesus restored the ____________________ as the disciples had hoped, the population under His rule would have been restricted to His small group of followers. pg.114

51. Jesus dwells in our midst as we carry out His work of bringing the gospel to the world, of expanding His kingdom, bringing the message of ____________________ to a lost world as we await His coming glory. pg.115

The Strategy Of Jesus

52. Jesus fears that an uncontrolled explosion of knowledge concerning His messianic identity based on miraculous stories would encourage false ____________________ that He had no intention of fulfilling. pg. 116

53. As the incarnate ____________________ of God, He shows love through His miraculous works. As the suffering ____________________, He expresses love through suffering and self-denial. pg. 116

Assignment

1. Memorize Heb. 1:3

2. Analyze Isaiah 40:27-31.

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