CFL: 1 john 1-3

Question 1

What is the passage that deals with assurance?

Answer 1

Matthew 7

Question 2

What percentage of americans prayed the sinner’s prayer according to the barna study?

Answer 2

50%

Question 3

What percentage of americans have no regular church presence?

Answer 3

25%

Question 4

What percentage of americans have lifestyles opposite of what the bible says?

Answer 4

25%

Question 5

What are 3 things that people use to assure themselves?

Answer 5

• A prayer they prayed
• Ministry activity
• Morality

Question 6

What are the two identifiers of salvation according to 1 john?

Answer 6

• Place your hope of Jesus

* You have a new nature

Question 7

What did Leviticus’ example about the hand on the head of the animal mean?

Answer 7

His sins were being passed to the animal

Question 8

What are the 3 attitudes towards sin that are a sign you are not a believer according to J.D. Grear?

Answer 8

• You willfully sin (habits)
• You say you have no sin
• You have no confidence before God because of your sin

Question 9

What are the 3 responses to the light?

Answer 9

• Go back into darkness
• Make excuses
• Repent and confess

Question 10

What is propitiation?

Answer 10

A claim against you that has been satisfied

Question 11

What is an advocate?

Answer 11

Someone who argues your case before the bar of justice on your behalf

Question 12

What is the general attitude that christians should have when it comes to joy?

Answer 12

• Christ’s blood was enough to have victory over sin

* Their joy doesn’t rest on their present condition rather on their eternal condition (eternal life)

Question 13

Which 2 verses in 1 john 2 correlate for john 8:7?

Answer 13

Verse 8 and 10

Question 14

Why did he call them children?

Answer 14

To show concern on their spiritual growth

Question 15

What are the 3 tests in 1 john 2?

Answer 15

• Do we keep his commandments?
• Do you love one another/brother?
• Do you love the world?

Question 16

What are the tests in 1 John 3?

Answer 16

• Are you in the process of purifying yourself?
• Do you love one another?
• Do you practice sin?

Question 17

What does 1 john 4:6 is a distinguishing feature of those that are of God or of the world?

Answer 17

Those that are of God hear God’s word and do it, those that are not of God can hear His word but don’t do it.

Question 18

In 1 john 4 verse 17 and 18, John points out 2 features that can distinguish someone who truly has the love of God and someone who doesn’t. What are they?

Answer 18

• They have courage

* They fear God and not of the rest

Question 19

How many men encountered Jesus?

Answer 19

3

Question 20

How did the first man encounter Jesus?

Answer 20

He goes up to Jesus and says “i’ll follow wherever you go”

Question 21

How does Jesus respond to the first man’s encounter?

Answer 21

The son of man doesn’t have a place to lay his head (are you ok following me when you know you don’t have a place to stay)

Question 22

What would most conclude that the first man responded after what Jesus said to him?

Answer 22

He didn’t continue to follow Him

Question 23

How did the second man encounter Jesus?

Answer 23

Jesus told him to follow him but he wanted to bury his father first (do everything else once he is ok and safe)

Question 24

What did Jesus respond to the second man’s encounter?

Answer 24

He told him to stop making excuses

Question 25

How did the third man encounter Jesus?

Answer 25

He said he will follow Jesus after he says bye to his friends (lived life the way he wanted to)

Question 26

How did Jesus respond to the third man’s encounter?

Answer 26

No one who works in the plow and looks back is fit to go in the kingdom of God.

Question 27

What is legalism?

Answer 27

A man made rule that takes the place of Jesus work of salvation or adds more rules that God did not intend.

Question 28

Why can legalism be a problem?

Answer 28

You start making rules that are not based on Jesus Christ

Question 29

What the main issue that acts 15 is dealing with in the church?

Answer 29

Should the gentiles be circumcised

Question 30

What is the four requirements for the gentiles according to verse 20?

Answer 30

• Things polluted from idols
• Things polluted from Sexual morality
• Things polluted from what has been strangled animals
• Things polluted from blood

Question 31

What are the 2 people that represented the apostles after they read the letters?

Answer 31

Judas (Jew) and Silas (gentile)

Question 32

What did Judas and Silas going together represent?

Answer 32

unity