Lesson 12

Question 1

1. According to the lesson outline Jesus faced several problems in fulfilling His founding purposes on earth? What were they?

Answer 1

1. He confronted a religion system in power at Jerusalem based on Moses Law that was so steeped in social and political tradition that it was spiritually dysfunctional.
2. It was entrenched in the hands of legalist Pharisees and libertine Sadducees many of whom had already rejected him and His claim to be Messiah and proposed to be rid of him by killing him to save their nation.

Question 2

2. How did Jesus resolve these major problems?

Through a process called discipleship.

Answer 2

Through a process called discipleship.

1. A custom of the elder training the younger
2. A master training a novice
3. A leader training his follower

Question 3

3. On what kind of men did Jesus establish the church?

Answer 3

Unlettered, uneducated and untrained, common men

Question 4

4. Multiple choice

These helped the Lord with his mission?

a. The Sanhedrin
b. Sadducees
c. Pharisees
d. None of these

Answer 4

d. None of these

Question 5

5. In the context of this lesson explain what the word disciple means?

Answer 5

A disciple was a learner. A man was known as a mathetes or disciple when he bound

himself to another in order to acquire his practical and theoretical knowledge. The

word was sometimes nearly synonymous with the term apprentice. There was never a

disciple without a master or teacher. In some Greek circles the teacher was paid by his disciples.

Question 6

6. True/False

_____/ _____ Discipleship is of little value in today’s church

Answer 6

False

Question 7

7. The path which a disciple of our Lord is to walk in the path of service and self-sacrifice. What is required?

Answer 7

1. Take up their cross (Luke 9:23-24)
2. Must suffer rejection and persecution (John 15:20,21)
3. They, as their Master (Mark 10:45)

Question 8

8. Who was in Jesus’ inner circle of disciples?

Answer 8

Peter, James, John (Luke 9:28)

Question 9

9. What was behind the motives of the Scribes and Pharisees?

Answer 9

They were proud and puffed up, just as Satan was when he fell (Isaiah 14:12-14;

Ezekiel 28:2, 17).

These men desired disciples because they basked in the glory and adulation of men.

They desired the seats of prominence and greetings which puffed up their pride.

Question 10

10. True/False

The error of the scribes and Pharisees was that they had exalted themselves to a position higher than that of Moses.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

11. True/False

Discipleship originated with the Old Testament.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

12. Of whom was the term ‘disciples’ most frequently used?

Answer 12

Of the twelve disciples