27 Lesson 3 - Review exercises

 

Set A: TRUE or FALSE (2 points per item)

1. Our fate is in our own hands. 

2. To serve our fellowmen is to serve God.

3. No one can understand light without experiencing darkness.

4. Without conflict, no one can gain strength.

5. What we now own indicates how successful we are.

6. The truly spiritual person is necessarily also a vegetarian.

7. We are directly and personally liable for all our thoughts and deeds.

8. We should rid the world of all evil.

9. What is good for me is certainly good also for everyone else.

10. God doesn’t just look at our deeds, but He also considers our motives.

11. If we always do what our elders tell us to do, we can never go wrong.

12. In order to progress, we also need to undergo painful experiences.

13. God sends both good and evil.

14. We should learn to think for ourselves.

15. The way of the world is not the way of God.

16. Love will conquer all.

17. It is God’s wish that all males should be circumcised.

18. We should learn to rely on ourselves and on our own efforts.

19. Rather than fight evil, we need only strive to learn the spiritual lessons they bring.

20. We receive not because we ask not.

Set B: (2 points per item)

1. “Man must love God with all his heart, with all his mind and with all his strength; and he must love his neighbor as he loves himself. It is more important to obey these two commandments than ____ _______ _______ _________ and _______ ____________ to God” (MK 12).

2. “Don’t stop him, because those who are not against us are _________ ______ ____” (LK 9).

3. “Watch out and guard against ______________, for a man’s _______ does not depend on the abundance of his possessions” (LK 12).

4. “‘These people honor Me with their words, but they really have no love in their hearts for Me. Their worship is ___ _______, because they teach people __________ laws as if they were _______ laws!’ You have set aside God’s commands just so that you may keep ______ _____ ____________” (MK 7).

5. Jesus turned on Peter and said, “Get away from me, Satan. You are an abomination in my sight because you look at things only from _____ _________ _______ ____ ______ and not ______ _______” (MT 16).

6. But one thing is far more acceptable to God than all these senseless offerings and sacrifices. ______ — ______ ____ _____ and ______ _____ _____ ___________ — this is much preferred (Text).

7. “You hypocrites! For you tithe down to the last mint leaf in your garden but ignore the more important things — _________, _______ and _______. Yes, you should _______, but you shouldn’t leave the more important things undone” (MT 23).

8. “Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord,’ will _______ the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who ____ what my Father in heaven wants them to ____” (MT 7).

9. Life provides many important lessons. All that we see that is right, we should ____ and what we observe to be wrong, we should _____ ____ (Text).

10. “Beware of _______ __________ who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really like ravenous wolves and will tear you apart” (MT 7).

11. “For there is nothing covered that _______ _____ ____ __________ and every secret _______ ____ ______ _______” (LK 12).

12. God is just and no one can escape His judgment. So will all men be judged according to _______ _______ (Text).

13. “Don’t worry about them! They are _______ guides leading the _______. And when a _______ man leads another, both shall fall into a ditch” (MT 15).

14. Then, at last, they understood that by “leaven” he meant the _______ ___________ of the Pharisees and Sadducees (MT 16).

15. And if it were possible, man would eradicate all evil from the face of the Earth. But the evil in the world is _______ ____ _____ _____________ ____ _____ (Text).

Set C: (3 points per item)

1. All men will be judged according to their beliefs.

2. Everyone will also come to know all there is to know.

3. Evil men will rot in hell.

4. If we don’t pray and praise the Lord, He will never allow us into heaven.

5. God is not just because He allows us to become victims of injustice.

6. If we are already serving God, then we no longer need to serve our fellowmen.

7. God doesn’t really love us because he takes away our loved ones too soon.

8. Provided we pray and ask earnestly, believing we will receive, God will always grant our requests.

9. There is no sense to the practice of flagellation or self-inflicted pain.

10. Our possession of psychic powers proves that we are highly spiritual.