Last Third of First Midterm

Question 1

• Fast in Secret; Pray in secret; Serve in secret – your motive cannot be to be seen
• • Don’t focus on the mote (fleck of dust) in your brother’s eye. Focus on the beam (2X4) in your own eye.
• HBL: in his Sermon on the Mount the Master has given us a blueprint for our lives.

Answer 1

Matthew 5-7: Sermon on the Mount

Question 2

• 10 Miracles – Jesus heals men, women, children, gentiles, Jews and has power over disease, demons, death, and da elements

Answer 2

Matthew 8-9: Miracles

Question 3

Apostle Names

Answer 3

• Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew (Nathaniel), Thomas, Matthew, James the less, Thaddeus (Judas), Simon, Judas Iscariot

Question 4

• “Go not into the way of the Gentiles” or Samaritans. The apostles are prohibited from teaching other people based on their race.
• “Ye shall be hated for my name’s sake” “I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.”

Answer 4

Matthew 10 – the Apostolic Discourse

Question 5

• Like the Law of Moses, John was sent to prepare the way for the Messiah.
• He was the last Old Testament prophet and the first New Testament prophet and brought Aaronic Priesthood authority to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdrey in 1829.
• John 3:30 – “He (Jesus) must increase, but I (John the Baptist) must decrease”

Answer 5

John the Baptist

Question 6

“Of them that are born of women, there is none greater than John the Baptist.

Answer 6

Matthew 11:11

Question 7

• Why Parables (Parables B.D.) the purpose was to veil the meaning. The parable conveys to the hearer religious truth exactly in proportion to his faith and intelligence.

Answer 7

Matthew 13 – Parables

Question 8

• The Parable of the Sower - 1 of 2 time the Savior explains a Parable

Answer 8

• Wayside: Hardened heart / Birds = Satan
• Stony Places / No root or depth: Parts of heart hardened; Sun = trials, tribulation, persecution. The sun is good for a plant IF it has deep roots.”
• Thorns (weeds) take resources: Distractions, “Cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches” “the lusts of other things” “the pleasures of this life.”
• Good ground: heareth the word and understandeth it