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Persecution And The Christian
Lesson Three

Welcome back.  Let us continue on with this vital subject.

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

Read pages 42 - 75 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 Three Questions

Poets And Philosophers:
Insights From The Wisdom Literature
Job

1. Job is allowed to suffer because of his ____________________.  pg.43

2. When people are suffering, often the last thing they need is words of advice, even from friends and loved ones. They need our _____________.  pg. 43 

3. A considerate and kind man, Eliphaz based his opinions on ____________________.  pg. 43

4. Bildad is a historian with a love for ____________________.  pg. 44

5. Zophar has no time to listen to Job’s cries of __________________. pg. 44

6. Elihu is the voice of ____________________, education, and reason.   pg. 44

7. We learn that with suffering there is often ____________________, unanswered questions, and things we will never understand this side of eternity.  pg. 45

8. God reminds Job that the primary quest for the believer in the face of unjust suffering is not an explanation for the question “Why?” but an answer to the question “____________________?”  pg. 45

9. Punishment without ____________________ would be vindictive, as would punishment after confession and repentance.  pg. 45

10. Job’s suffering was a direct result of his ____________________ to God.  pg. 46

11. If we insist on finding ____________________ in every isolated detail or circumstance of our life, we will inevitably come to wrong conclusions.  pg. 47

Psalms

12. When the New Testament authors quoted from the Psalms and other Old Testament books, they intended to use these verses as pointers to the whole ____________________ in which they were originally found.  pg. 48

13. We know that the Jews had regular, formalized _________________ three times daily, including readings from the Law and the Prophets and singing of Psalms.  pg. 49 

14. Because of the suffering that He endured, Jesus has been crowned with ____________________ that is to be shared with all mankind.  pg. 50

15. Jesus’ final words are an acknowledgment of God’s continued ____________________ in the midst of horrible persecution even to the point of death.  pg. 50

16. The New Testament authors obviously did not see the promises of deliverance in Psalm 34 as promises of deliverance from all harm, but as promises to not be ____________________.  pg. 51

17. This psalmist clearly was seen as teaching that to be unjustly ____________________ was not a new experience for the righteous and would remain a present-day one.  pg. 52

18. Psalm ____________________ is one of the major Old Testament passages that the early church saw as a testimony to the gospel facts or as disclosing the determined plan of God.  pg. 53

19. The temptation that Jesus is subjected to is to use _______________ means to accomplish God’s purposes.  pg. 54

20. The child of God can be assured of God’s help in the midst of trouble but he should not ____________________ upon God’s protection if he acts autonomously or in contradiction to God’s ways and means.   pg. 54

21. ____________________ is not trusting despite adverse circumstances; it is trusting in the midst of them. pg. 54

How The Early Church Used Psalms
In Their Discussion Of Persecution And Discipleship

22. The Psalter is seen as providing prayers that are honoring to God at a time of ____________________.  pg. 56

Letter of Athanasius…On Interpretation Of The Psalms

23. The things we find in the Psalms about the Saviour are stated in the other books of Scripture too; he stressed the fact that one interpretation is ____________________ to them all, and that they have but one voice in the Holy Spirit. pg. 60

24. Within the Psalms are represented and portrayed in all their great variety the movements of the human ____________________.

25. The reader takes all its words upon his lips as though they were his ____________________, and each one sings the Psalms as though they had been written for his special benefit, and takes them and recites them, not as though someone else were speaking or another person’s feelings being described, but as himself speaking of himself, offering the words to God as his own heart’s utterance, just as though he himself had made them up.  pg. 62

26. The Psalms thus serve him who sings them as a _______________.  pg. 62

27. Nowhere is more perfect teaching of ____________________ to be found than in the Lord’s own life.  pg. 62

28. It is possible for us, therefore, to find in the Psalter not only the reflection of our own soul’s state, together with precept and example for all possible conditions, but also a fit form of ____________________ wherewith to please the Lord on each of life’s occasions, words both of repentance and of thankfulness, so that we fall not into sin; for it is not for our actions only that we must give account before the judge, but also for our every idle word.  pg. 63

29. It is rather for the soul’s own profit that the Psalms are ___________. pg. 67

30. For to sing the Psalms demands such ____________________ of a man’s whole being on them that, in doing it, his usual disharmony of mind and corresponding bodily confusion is resolved.  pg. 67

31. For faith and an honest state of mind are always necessary if the Law is to be an ____________________ ally in the fulfilment of man’s vows.  pg. 70

The Imprecatory [Cursing] Psalms

32. These are prayers for divine ____________________, not human grudges.  pg. 71

33. In these petitions, the psalmists pour out their __________________, anger, and hurt.  pg. 71

34. It should be noted that forgiveness of enemies and gaining God’s perspective are not found in ____________________ these emotions, but in acknowledging them to God. pg. 71 

35. The imprecatory psalms also challenge the reader to _____________ with the oppressed and suffering, even though he himself may be quite comfortable.  pg. 71

36. These psalms may awake in us an acute awareness of our own violent sins and ____________________ for others, and of our need for confession and repentance. pg. 72

Ecclesiastes

37. Ecclesiastes was written to provide a solidly balanced and biblical ____________________.  pg. 72

38. The point of Ecclesiastes is to remind the children of God that if they look for this life to make sense, they are bound to be _________________.  pg. 72

Proverbs

39. Proverbs holds that individuals have ____________________ that God’s people are called upon to defend and uphold.  pg. 73

40. God’s love is only expressed by His people in community as we demonstrate His love for us to others by upholding and vigorously promoting their God-given rights to ____________________ treatment as bearers of the image of God.  pg. 73

The Barmen Theological Declaration

41. Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one ____________________ which we have to hear, and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death.  pg. 74

42. We reject the false doctrine that there could be areas of our life in which we would not ____________________ to Jesus Christ,  pg. 74 

43. The church’s commission, which is the foundation of its freedom, consists in this: in Christ’s stead, and so in the service of his own Word and work, to deliver to people, through ____________________ and ____________________, the message of the free grace of God.  pg. 75

Assignment

1. Memorize Pr. 31:8-9.

2. Analyze Job 1:20-22.

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