TCP 21: Hebrews & James

Question 1

THEME of James

Answer 1

Faith that Works

Question 2

JOY IN TRIALS

Answer 2

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Question 3

LACK WISDOM? ASK GOD

Answer 3

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Question 4

TEMPTATION NOT FROM GOD

Answer 4

James 1:13

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Question 5

THE PROCESS OF TEMPTATION - DESIRE, MIND, WILL

Answer 5

James 1:14-15

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Question 6

ALL GOOD FROM GOD

Answer 6

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Question 7

BE DOERS OF THE WORD

Answer 7

James 1:22-25

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Question 8

SHOW NO PARTIALITY

Answer 8

James 2:1

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

Question 9

FAITH WORKS

Answer 9

James 2:17

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Question 10

WARNING TO TEACHERS

Answer 10

James 3:1

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Question 11

TAME THE TONGUE

Answer 11

James 3:2-12

For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

Question 12

EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY WISDOM

Answer 12

James 3:16-17

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Question 13

THE SOURCE OF CONFLICT

Answer 13

James 4:1-3

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Question 14

FRIEND OF THE WORLD = ENEMY OF GOD

Answer 14

James 4:4

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Question 15

CONFESS TO ONE ANOTHER

Answer 15

James 5:16

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Question 16

THEME of Hebrews

Answer 16

Superiority of Christ

Question 17

GOD SPOKE THROUGH CHRIST

Answer 17

Hebrews 1:1-2

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

Question 18

WARNING ABOUT DECEITFULNESS OF SIN

Answer 18

Hebrews 3:12-13

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Question 19

THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND ACTIVE

Answer 19

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Question 20

DRAW NEAR TO THE SYMPATHETIC SAVIOR

Answer 20

Hebrews 4:15-16

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Question 21

GOD DOES NOT FORGET YOUR MINISTRY

Answer 21

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

Question 22

IT’S APPOINTED FOR MAN TO DIE ONCE

Answer 22

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Question 23

A SINGLE SACRIFICE FOR SINS

Answer 23

Hebrews 10:12

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Question 24

GO TO CHURCH

Answer 24

Hebrews 10:24-25

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Question 25

DEFINITION OF FAITH

Answer 25

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Question 26

WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD

Answer 26

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Question 27

RUN THE RACE

Answer 27

Hebrews 12:1-2

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Question 28

THE LORD DISCIPLINES THOSE HE LOVES

Answer 28

Hebrews 12:6

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Question 29

STRIVE FOR HOLINESS

Answer 29

Hebrews 12:14

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Question 30

LET MARRIAGE BE HELD IN HONOR

Answer 30

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Question 31

REMEMBER AND OBEY LEADERS

Answer 31

Hebrews 13:7,17

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.