The Message made plain

The Inner Quest Study Course on the Teachings of Jesus

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Lesson 2 -- Exercises

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Set A: (2 points per item)
  1. Prophets and seers can predict the probable future.
  2. The knowledge of the world is foolishness to God.
  3. Christ came to show sinners the way to God.
  4. Even prophets and righteous men need to learn more about God’ ways.
  5. Jesus is the only son of God.
  6. There really are no miracles that cannot eventually be explained.
  7. Only Jesus can ever do the things he did.
  8. Christ is not of the world.
  9. Evil is subject to goodness even upon the earth.
  10. The apostles understood Christ’s teachings perfectly well.
  11. Christ has already told us everything he knows.
  12. Only those who have come from heaven really know about heaven.
  13. The wise men of the world are necessarily highly evolved spiritually, as well.
  14. No source of information is ever 100% reliable and accurate.
  15. Jesus is the One God of all.
  16. Christ never had to study and develop himself; he has always been the Christ from his creation.
  17. Christ existed even before Abraham was born and he lives even now.
  18. Christ is one with God.
  19. Christ is the greatest authority concerning God’s divine teachings.
  20. Christ will come again.
Set B: (2 points per item)
  1. "I am the light of the world; he who _________ me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life" (JN 8).
  2. For You have given him authority over _______ man and woman in all the earth. He grants _________ ______ to all those You have given him (JN 17).
  3. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for He has anointed me to ________ the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to ______ the broken-hearted, to _________ the captives and _________ _______ to the blind, to _____ ______ the downtrodden and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord" (LK 4).
  4. "I have come into the world to ______ _______ to those who are spiritually blind and to show those who think they see that ______ _____ ________ _______ (JN 9).
  5. Simon Peter replied, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the _______ ____ _________ ______ and we believe and are certain that you are _____ ______ _____ ____ _____" (JN 6).
  6. "Put away your sword," Jesus told him. "All who ______ ____ the sword shall ________ by the sword" (MT 26).
  7. "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but the sick do; I came not for the righteous, but to call on sinners ____ ________" (MK 2).
  8. "I am the _____, the _______ and the ______; no one comes to the Father except through me" (JN 14).
  9. And henceforth, so long as we follow after his divine ways of goodness and holiness, he will be our ______ _______, our _______ _________ and our _________ ________ (Text).
  10. James and John, upon learning of this said, "Lord, would you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and destroy them?" But he turned and rebuked them and said, "You don’t realize ______ ______ ________ ________ and _________!" (LK 9).
  11. "Unless you see _______ _____ _________, you will not believe" (JN 4).
  12. There is nowhere else to turn if we desire the best teacher. For he is the ______ ____ _______ _____ ______ ____ _______, the _________ _________ (Text).
  13. "I no longer call you __________, for a _________ does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you _________, because I have acquainted you with everything I heard from my Father" (JN 15).
  14. "I am the ______________ and the ______: he who believes in me, even if he dies, shall go on living; and whoever lives, believing in me, shall _______ _____" (JN 11).
  15. Life is not of the body but of _____ ________ (Text).
Set C: (3 points per item)
  1. God, being perfect, created us already perfect and mature beings.
  2. We should not listen to other teachers, but only to Christ.
  3. Having come from Jesus, the word of God should be accepted without question.
  4. Christ’s teachings are no longer relevant in these modern times.
  5. Unless we are baptized, we cannot be saved.
  6. The Jews are God’s only chosen people.
  7. It must be true because the Bible tells us so.
  8. The message is what is important; the source of the message is not so important.
  9. There are those in the body of Christ and those who don’t belong to it.
  10. Everyone should be subservient to the Lord.

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