20 Point Questions Flashcards
ACCORDING TO ECCLESIASTES 12:1, when should we begin to seek God?
In the days of our youth
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT DID PETER tell the people at Pentecost to do in order to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit?
Acts 2:38 “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
IN WHOSE name should Christians be baptized?
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
DOES THE BIBLE claim to be inspired?
Yes. The words, “and God said,” or their equivalent, are found over 2,500 times in the Bible.
WHY SHOULD WE be careful about what we think?
Because we become what we think.
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT DOES James say we must do to keep from fooling ourselves?
James 1:22 “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF THE “REVELATION” of Christ?
His return to earth to rule and reign for one thousand years following the Great Tribulation.
NAME five things that will not be found in heaven.
Tears Death Sorrow Pain Sin
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THE BIBLE IS OUR authoritative rule of faith and conduct?
The Bible has the right to command us in what we believe and what we do.
HOW IMPORTANT IS THE BLOOD of Jesus to our salvation?
Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE NAME “Jesus”?
“The Lord is our Savior”
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHY is it important to memorize Bible verses?
Psalm 119:11 “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
WHAT IS JESUS’ TITLE OF HUMANITY?
Son of Man
WHAT INSTRUCTIONS did Paul give Christians for getting along with other people?
Live in harmony
Do not be proud
Be willing to associate with people of low position
Do not be conceited
WHO ARE THE SAINTS?
Born-again Christians
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT POWER is there in united prayer?
Matthew 18:19 “If two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.”
WHO ARE THE THREE Persons of the Trinity?
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit
WHICH OF Jesus’ parables tells us that some who claim to be Christians will be unprepared for His return?
The Parable of the Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins
WHAT KIND of worship does God desire?
God desires us to worship in spirit and in truth.
FOR whom did God prepare hell?
The devil and his angels
WHO IS THE FOUNDATION of the Church?
Christ
WHAT IS THE ONLY sin which will not be forgiven?
Willfully and knowingly speaking evil against the Holy Spirit
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT the conclusion of the Millennium?
Satan will be loosed from the bottomless pit, and Christ will completely conquer him and his followers.
JESUS SAID THE Holy Spirit would convict, or reprove the world of what three things?
Sin
Righteousness
Judgment
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE OF ROMANS CHAPTER 12 that compares the church to a body.
Romans 12:5 “So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
WHAT IS MEANT BY “ORIGINAL sin”?
Because Adam and Eve chose to sin, all people are born in sin and have the tendency to sin.
WHAT IS JESUS’ TITLE OF DIVINITY?
Son of God
WHY DOES THE Holy Spirit convict, or reprove, the world of sin?
Because the world failed to believe on Jesus
WHAT IS THE CHURCH?
A body of born-again people who have been called out from the world; who have faith in and give allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ
DOES THE HOLY Spirit dwell in every Christian?
Yes, the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts when we believe on Jesus.
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE OF ROMANS CHAPTER FIVE which tells us the greatest proof of God’s love.
Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
WHAT IS THE DOCTRINE of Jesus’ incarnation?
God the Son became flesh and lived among us.
HOW DID GOD GIVE us the Bible?
The Holy Spirit inspired holy men, giving them both the truth and the words to write.
IN RELATIONSHIP to our salvation, what is meant by adoption?
All the privileges of being a child of God, including inheriting eternal life, are restored.
WHO WILL SPEND ETERNITY IN THE lake of fire?
All who refuse Christ as Savior and whose names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE OF EPHESIANS chapter two which tells us how we are saved.
Ephesians 2:8 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.”
WHY DO CHRISTIANS worship on Sunday instead of the Sabbath?
Because Jesus fulfilled the Sabbath, we worship on the day of His resurrection.
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THAT GOD IS OMNIPRESENT?
God is everywhere at the same time.
FIRST John 3:4 contains what definition of sin?
Sin is disobedience to God’s commands.
WHAT DID THE prodigal son say to his father when he came back home?
“I have sinned against heaven and you and am no longer worthy to be your son.”
WHERE DID the devil come from?
The devil, or Satan, was an angel created by God whom God had to punish for trying to make himself greater than God.
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT DID JESUS SAY WAS THE GREATEST display of love?
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
THE Holy Spirit guides Christians into what?
Truth
QUOTATION QUESTION. ACCORDING TO FIRST Thessalonians chapter five, when should a Christian thank God?
1 Thessalonians 5:18 “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
WHAT IS HEAVEN?
Heaven is the place of eternal joy which God is preparing for those who love Him and accept Jesus as their Savior.
WHAT IS THE MAIN theme of the Book of Hebrews?
That Jesus is a better priest between God and people than were the Old Testament priests.
WHAT HAPPENS to a Christian’s soul and spirit at death?
The Christian’s soul and spirit go immediately to be with Lord.
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT ARE the three great Christian virtues?
1 Corinthians 13:13 “And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THAT GOD IS OMNISCIENT?
God is all-wise and all-knowing.
QUOTATION QUESTION. HAVE all people sinned?
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
WHY SHOULD A CHRISTIAN NOT marry a person who is not a Christian?
Because God’s Word says we should not be yoked with an unbeliever.
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THAT GOD IS OMNIPOTENT?
God is all-powerful.
QUOTATION QUESTION. HAS Jesus always been God?
John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
WHAT CHAPTER of the Bible is known as the “love chapter”?
1 Corinthians 13
WHAT HEBREW word is the same as the Greek word “Christ”?
“Messiah”
WHAT DID PAUL TELL TIMOTHY was true prosperity?
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
WHEN DID God first baptize believers in the Holy Spirit?
On the Day of Pentecost
WHO WROTE the first five books of the Bible?
Moses
WHAT WERE THE duties of the Old Testament priest?
To intercede with God for the people and offer sacrifices to atone for their sins.
WHO ARE THE FOUR major prophets?
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel
WHAT PROPHECY did Isaiah make concerning Jesus’ power to heal?
He took our infirmities and carried our sicknesses.
WHY DID GOD instruct Joseph to call Mary’s son “Jesus”?
Because He would save His people from their sins.
WHAT IS MEANT BY THE vicarious atonement?
Jesus took the punishment for our sins when He died on Calvary, and if we accept Him as Savior we will not have to be punished by God.
WHY DO WE believe that speaking with other tongues is the initial physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
Because it is the pattern of the New Testament Church
SINCE we are saved because of what Jesus did and not what we do, why should Christians do good works?
Because we are saved, we do good works to show our love for God.
AT the communion service, who is to judge who is worthy to partake?
Everyone should examine themselves.
WHAT DOES PAUL mean when he says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God?
People, by their own ability, cannot attain the righteousness of God.
WHY DID JESUS says it was necessary that He go away?
So that the Holy Spirit might come
WHAT WAS PROVEN by Jesus’ resurrection?
That Jesus was exactly who He claimed to be–Son of God, Savior and Lord
WHAT DOES JAMES instruct us to do if we are sick?
We should ask the elders to anoint us with oil and pray for God to heal us.
WHAT IS THE TITHE?
One-tenth of one’s income which belongs to God and should be given to the church to support its ministeries.
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE WORD “Christ”?
“The Anointed One of God”
WHO INTERCEDES for the Christian?
The Holy Spirit and Jesus
OVER how many different Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled by the life and death of Jesus?
300
QUOTATION QUESTION. HOW LONG will the Bible last?
Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
WHICH GOSPEL proves that Jesus is the Messiah by showing the fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies?
Matthew
WHAT CONFESSION of faith in eternal life and resurrection did Job make?
Job declared that even though he would die and his body decay he would be resurrected and see God.
ACCORDING TO HEBREWS 11:6, those who come to God must believe what?
They must believe that God exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
WHAT IS THE MILLENNIUM?
A future period of one thousand years when Jesus shall rule over the earth.
WHAT PART DOES the Holy Spirit have in our salvation?
The Holy Spirit convicts of sin and makes the repentant sinner a new person.
HOW WERE people created in the image of God?
People were created with spiritual natures which permit them to reason, make choices, and to know and love God.
WHO FULFILLED God’s promise that Abraham’s seed would bless the whole earth?
Jesus
JESUS SAID THAT THE age or time of His return will be like the days of whom?
Noah and Lot
IN THE parable of the Good Shepherd, what did Jesus say the Good Shepherd would do for the sheep?
Give His life.
WHY SHOULD A CHRISTIAN KEEP pure in body and mind, before and after marriage?
Because immoral behavior destroys the purity and happiness God intends marriage to have.
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT DID JESUS SAY WOULD cause the world to know that we are His disciples?
John 13:35 “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
WHO SHOULD be baptized in water?
Every person who believes in Jesus Christ as Savior
WHAT IS THE PROPER method of water baptism?
Immersion in water
WHAT WAS THE purpose of Jesus’ miracles?
They showed God the Father’s approval of Him.
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THE BIBLE IS VERBALLY inspired?
God inspired each word of the Bible, not just the thoughts or ideas.
WHAT IS DONE by everyone who looks for Christ’s appearing?
They purify themselves.
HOW LONG did Jesus walk and talk with His apostles after His resurrection?
40 days
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE FROM First Corinthians in which Paul explains the purpose of the Lord’s Supper.
1 Corinthians 11:26 “For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
WHICH TWO OLD Testament books tell the history of the Jews after their return from captivity in Babylon?
Ezra and Nehemiah
WHO WAS the first person in the Bible to pay tithes, and to whom did he pay them?
Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek
WHAT IS SYMBOLIZED, or pictured, by water baptism?
The death of the old sinful nature and a new life in Christ
IS IT GOD’S will for all people to be saved?
Yes, God wants all people to be saved, but each individual must personally choose Christ as a Savior.
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY a “calling to the ministry”?
A person must have a special impression of the Spirit to serve the Lord through a particular area of ministry.
WHY DOES GOD give ministers to the Church?
To help Christians grow so they can help others
WHAT IS THE RAPTURE?
When Jesus returns to take His Church–the saints both dead and living–out of this world.
WHAT ARE THE TWO ordinances of the Church?
Water baptism and Communion
WHOM DOES GOD oppose, and to whom does He show favor?
God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF THE ANTICHRIST?
The man who will rule the world during the Great Tribulation and will attempt to make all people worship him as God.
WHEN ADAM and Eve sinned, how did God provide them with clothing?
He made them garments from the skins of animals.
WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES of the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
To help us know Christ better
To assist us in understanding God’s Word
To give us power to witness
JESUS SAID THAT GOD had planned for His house to be used as what?
A house of prayer
WHEN WILL Christians who have died be resurrected?
At the rapture of the Church
WHO WILL SPEND ETERNITY IN HEAVEN?
Those who accept Christ as Savior and whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
HOW DID GOD ANOINT Jesus?
With the Holy Spirit and with power
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT RULE do we find in Proverbs for avoiding trouble with others?
Proverbs 15:1 “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
WHAT THREE things does Paul say make up God’s kingdom?
Righteousness
Peace
Joy in the Holy Spirit
WHAT DID PAUL TELL THE Ephesians was the down payment of heaven?
The Holy Spirit of Promise
THERE are over how many references in the New Testament to the second coming of Christ?
300
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT IS THE GOLDEN Rule?
Matthew 7:12 “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.”
HOW SHOULD A church be supported?
By tithes and offerings from those to whom it ministers
WHO KNOWS when the Rapture will occur?
Only God the Father
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT DID JESUS SAY WAS THE FIRST and most important commandment?
Mark 12:30 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
HOW DID JESUS overcome the temptations of Satan?
By using the Word of God.
HOW DID GOD CREATE MAN?
He formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed the breath of life of life into him.
WHOM DOES THE Holy Spirit glorify?
Jesus
WHY SHOULD THE coming of Jesus not surprise the Christians?
Because Christians do not live in the darkness
QUOTATION QUESTION. IS it necessary that a Christian love others?
1 John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
QUOTATION QUESTION. HOW DID JESUS SAY WE may show our love for Him?
John 14:15 “If you love me, keep my commands.”
WHY WERE the Christians at Berea called noble?
Because they received the Word willingly and studied the Scriptures every day.
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THE BIBLE IS INFALLIBLE?
The Bible cannot fail and has no errors.
HOW DID GOD CREATE WOMAN?
God made woman out of one of the ribs of Adam.
IS THE baptism in the Holy Spirit the same as salvation?
No, Paul asked the Ephesian Christians if they had received the Holy Spirit since they believed.
IN JESUS’ story of the Pharisee and tax collector, what was the tax collector’s prayer?
“God have mercy on me, a sinner.”
WHAT DOES ROMANS 8:26 say is the main weakness of our prayers?
We don’t know what to pray for as we should.
WHAT PROMISE did God make to Abraham?
God promised Abraham that through his seed all the earth would be blessed.
WHICH CHAPTER of the Bible is known as the “resurrection chapter”?
1 Corinthians 15
WHAT DOES THE Bible declare is the beginning of wisdom?
Fear of God
WHAT ARE THE THREE main sources of temptation?
Satan
The world
Our own evil desires
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE OF ACTS chapter two that describes the disciples of Jesus receiving the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:4 “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.”
WHAT TWO EVENTS will happen in heaven shortly after the Rapture?
The judgment of Christians and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb
WHAT IS THE INITIAL physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
Speaking with other tongues as the Spirit empowers
MORE than how many people saw Jesus after He was raised from the dead?
500
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE OF PHILIPPIANS that expresses what the Christian’s attitude should be toward both life and death.
Philippians 1:21 “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
WHAT TWO GREAT events comprise the second coming of Christ?
The Rapture and Christ’s revelation
WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN’S Blessed Hope?
The return of Jesus
WHAT WISE king wrote much of the book of Proverbs?
Solomon
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE THAT says Jesus is always the same.
Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
WHY CAN’T evil powers control a Christian?
Because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
WHAT ARE THE CONTINUING spiritual evidences of the Spirt-filled life?
Joy and contentment
Victory over sin
Ability to share the gospel
Desire to know God and His word
JAMES 4:17 contains what definition of sin?
Knowing to do good but not doing it is sin.
WHAT IS THE GREAT Tribulation?
The Great Tribulation is a period of extreme trouble and turmoil before the final judgment.
WHAT SHOULD a Christian’s attitude be toward spiritism, astrology, and other occult practices?
Christians should avoid all occult practices because Scripture specifically forbids them.
WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY THAT GOD IS ETERNAL?
God has neither beginning nor ending, but always has been and always will be.
WHAT ARE THE FOUR major divisions of the Old Testament?
Law, History, Poetry, Prophets
WHAT WERE JESUS’ disciples doing when they were baptized by the Holy Spirit?
They were praying.
HOW WAS God’s first promise of a Savior fulfilled?
Through Jesus’ death and resurrection, Satan’s power was conquered.
WHY IS IT absolutely necessary to our salvation that Jesus lived a sinless life?
If Jesus had sinned then His death would have been the penalty of His sin and would not have had the power to atone for our sins.
QUOTATION QUESTION. QUOTE THE VERSE WHICH tells why it is necessary to live a peaceful and holy life.
Hebrews 12:14 “Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.”
HOW SHOULD WE REGARD OUR SCHOOL teachers, police officers, and other government officials?
We should obey them because their authority comes from God.
IS IT A sin to be tempted?
No, it is sin only when we yield to temptation.
WHO TWO APOSTLES wrote a Gospel?
Matthew and John
WHO IS THE HEAD of the Church?
Jesus
WHAT WAS GOD’S first promise of a Savior?
God told the serpent that one of Eve’s descendants would defeat him.
WHAT IS A GREAT lesson from the Book of Job?
Not all misfortune which comes to a believer is punishment for sin.
PAUL said if God was for us no one could be against us. How do we know God is for us?
God sent His son to die for us.
WHO WILL BE resurrected?
Both the righteous and the wicked–the righteous to receive eternal life and the wicked to receive eternal punishment.
QUOTATION QUESTION. ACCORDING TO ZECHARIAH, how can we do God’s work?
Zechariah 4:6 “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
WHAT IS A PARABLE?
A parable is a story about familiar things which helps us understand spiritual truths.
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT DID JESUS SAY WAS THE SECOND most important commandment?
Mark 12:31 “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
WHAT PART DID THE Holy Spirit have in creation?
The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT IS JESUS’ great “I am” saying in the Book of Revelation?
Revelation 22:13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT DID JESUS TELL Nicodemus was necessary for a person to see the kingdom of God?
John 3:3 “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO Satan during the Millennium?
He will be imprisoned in a bottomless pit so that he cannot tempt people.
WHAT TWO APPOINTMENTS will all people keep?
Death and judgment
ACCORDING TO FIRST John, what are the three common temptations?
Lust of the flesh
Lust of the eyes
Pride of life
HOW DID DEATH come into the world?
Death first came as a result of willful sin.
WHAT IS THE LAST enemy to be destroyed?
Death
QUOTATION QUESTION. ACCORDING TO JOHN’S Gospel, why did Jesus come to earth?
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT IS THE MISSION of the Church?
Mark 16:15 “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
WHO BUILDS the Church?
Jesus Christ
HOW SHOULD WE REGARD OUR SUNDAY School teachers, pastors, and other church leaders?
We should obey them because they are responsible to God for our souls.
IN COMMUNION, what is symbolized by the bread and the cup?
The bread represents the body of Jesus, and the cup represents His blood which He shed for our sins.
WHAT DOES IT mean to be born again?
To experience regeneration of the Spirit
QUOTATION QUESTION. FROM Romans chapter one, quote the verse which tells us the power of the gospel.
Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
WHAT ARE OFFERINGS?
Something given in worship or devotion to God in addition to the tithe.
WHAT DOES “INTERCESSION” mean?
To pray to God for someone else
WHAT PART DID GOD the Father have in creation?
God the Father gave the commands that caused the visible world to be created out of nothing.
HOW IMPORTANT IS THE DOCTRINE of resurrection to our Christian faith?
If Christ was not raised from the dead, our faith is useless.
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE of the doctrine of Jesus’ virgin birth?
Jesus did not have an earthly father. Because of His supernatural birth, Jesus was both fully God and fully human.
QUOTATION QUESTION. WHAT PART did Jesus have in creation?
John 1:3 “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
WHAT IS HELL?
A place of everlasting punishment and torment
QUOTATION QUESTION. ACCORDING TO LUKE’S Gospel, why did Jesus come to earth?
Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
IN FIRST Corinthians chapter fifteen, what illustration does Paul use to explain the resurrection of Christians?
The sprouting of a new plant from a seed
QUOTATION QUESTION. HOW DID JESUS SAY HIS baptism would be different from John’s?
Acts 1:5 “For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
WHAT STORY of Jesus indicates that both saints and sinners are conscious after death?
The story of Lazarus and the rich man
WHERE IS Jesus now and what is He doing?
Jesus is at the right hand of the Father interceding for believers
WHY IS THE devil not as powerful as God?
The devil was created by God and has been defeated by Jesus’ death and resurrection.
