Part 3 Flashcards
- What Old Testament prophet spoke of the coming of John the Baptist?
Isaiah
Identify all of the places from which people came to hear John and the types of people.
Jerusalem, all Judea, all the region about the Jordan.
- What does John warn the Pharisees and Sadducees (the multitudes in Luke) not to presume?
And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’
- What two events occur when Jesus came up out of the water after his baptism?
Heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove
- Describe the differences between the way Jesus and the scribes of his day taught.
The scribes taught with constant appeal to the traditions of the past/legal precedents set by rabbis before them. Jesus taught with originality and personal authority.
- What was Jesus’ central message?
The Kingdom of God
- Describe the two ideas about God’s kingdom that existed in Judaism.
God’s ever present reign as king over all the earth. The universal and the future reigns of God.
- What was radically unique about Jesus’ teaching on the Kingdom of God?
His claim that this end times kingdom of God was even now arriving through his own words and actions.
- Is the kingdom present or future? Explain.
Both. In the present, people are called to submit to God’s authority and so enter his kingdom.
- What two points should be kept in mind concerning Jesus’ relationship to the law?
Jesus’ emphasis on the true essence and purpose of the law. His role as the fulfillment of the law.
- What does Jesus condemn the Pharisees for concerning the law and their oral traditions?
For practicing their traditions without regard for the true spirit and purpose of the law.
- Describe how Jesus fulfilled the twofold purpose of the law.
In his teaching he interpreted the true meaning of the law and in his conduct he lived a life of righteousness. Becoming a ransom for many.
- How does the author explain Jesus’ statement in Mt. 5:19?
New covenant believers who have the law written on their hearts are not less obedient to God’s standards than old-covenant believers but are more obedient.
- How can we reconcile Jesus’ statements of salvation as a free gift and of the high cost of discipleship?
Difference b/n entrance into the kingdom - a free gift offered to sinners - and the standards expected of those whose lives have been transformed by the kingdom’s power. Righteous actions arise out of a life made new. Self-sacrifice is the consequence of, not the condition for, a life transformed by the Spirit of God.
- How is leadership achieved in God’s kingdom?
Service and self-sacrifice
