"Dictionary of the Gospel" - Lesson Tests
Lesson # 1 -
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Lesson # 2 -
IMPUTATION
Lesson # 3 -
JUSTIFICATION
Lesson # 4 -
GRACE
Lesson # 5 -
REDEMPTION
Lesson # 6 -
PROPITIATION
Lesson # 7 -
FAITH
Lesson # 8 -
REMISSION
Lesson # 9 -
FORBEARANCE
Lesson # 10 -
RECONCILIATION
Lesson # 11 -
SANCTIFICATION
Lesson # 12 -
QUESTIONS CONCERNING
SALVATION
Lesson # 1
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. Define what the word righteousness means and write out the verse in which it was found.
2. What is God's standard of righteousness?
3. Who alone possesses absolute holiness?
4. By what characteristics is God identified in Isaiah 6:3 and Isaiah 57:15?
5. What does Isaiah 64:6 reveal about man's righteousness as seen through the eyes of God?
6. What are the two basic doctrines taught in Romans chapter one verse 18 through chapter 3 verse 20?
7. The Holiness of God demands that unrighteousness be dealt with on a just basis. In Romans 1:18, what do we find is revealed from heaven against the unrighteousness of man?
8. In Romans 3:9-12, how many are righteous? How many are good? How many are without sin?
9. Romans 3:19 says the law was given "...that every mouth may be ________ , and all the world may become ___________ before God."
10. What does Romans 3:19-20 reveal as the purpose of the law?
11. Can a person who fails to keep the law perfectly, be saved by the law? How many keep the law perfectly? How many then will be saved by keeping the law?
12. What does a person who is an unrighteousness sinner need in order to be saved?
13. Romans 3:21-22 begins to reveal God's solution to man's sin and guilt problem by saying "But now the _______________ of God _______________ the law is manifested......"
14. Romans 3:21-22 identifies this righteousness of God as being offered to all men but applied to only "...them that ____________.....".
IMPUTATION
It is important that you read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible BEFORE you begin to answer these questions.
1. What does the word imputation mean?
2. Since man "COMES SHORT" and cannot make himself righteous; righteousness will have to be ________________ to him from God.
3. Romans 3:22 teaches us that the God given righteousness (absolute perfection) is available to sinful man because of who's faithfulness?
4. Whose faithfulness does God look to when offering his righteousness as a free gift to sinful man?
5. Read Galatians 2:16 in your King James Bible. By whose faith are we justified?
6. Read Galatians 2:20 (also in KJ version). By whose faith are we to live the Christian life?
7. In Romans 3:22 we find that this gift of God's righteousness is available for how many?
8. According to 1 Timothy 1:15 and 1 Timothy 2:4, how many did Christ die for? How many does God desire to save?
9. In "time past" (prior to the Dispensation of Grace) the provision of the cross was limited to who? See Isaiah 53:4-8, Matthew 20:28, Matthew 26:28.
10. Because of a change from to the Dispensation of the law to the Dispensation of Grace, the provision of the cross is now available to who? See 1 Timothy 2:5-7.
11. While God's righteousness is available to everyone, it is "imputed" (remember the definition) only to who?
12. We learned in Lesson #1 that man is unrighteous and therefore is guilty before God. Man needs perfect righteousness in order to be saved. How, as learned in this lesson, does man get that righteousness?
This speaks of a application.
13. If you have believed the gospel, what has God imputed to your account?
14. Give an example from your own life that will illustrate what the term "Imputation" or "Impute" mean.
JUSTIFICATION
It is important that you read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. What does the term justification mean? Write out the verse in which our study word is found.
2. In ourselves are we righteous or unrighteous?
3. 2 Corinthians 5:21 states that "He (God the Father) hath made Him (God the Son) to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God ____ ______."
4. How does Romans 3:28 answer the question found in Job 25:47?
5. The moment a person believes the gospel, what does God do?
6. Who is the source for our justification?
7. Who is the basis for our justification?
8. What is the means of our justification?
9. How do we appropriate, or take hold of, this justification?
10. What is the guarantee of our justification?
11. In the courtroom of God's Justice (where righteousness is the standard), since we are unrighteous, God must pronounce us GUILTY. However, when we simply believe in what Christ accomplished for us on the cross, what does God do?
12. What now will the verdict from God be?
13. Is this great news or not???
14. Is God for you or against you? (See Romans 8:31)
15. Once you have been Justified, is there any sin that you can commit that will condemn your soul to hell?
16. Have you been Justified?
GRACE
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. What does the word grace mean?
2. How would you describe mercy?
3. What would be the difference between these two words?
4. If Grace is unmerited/unearned favor, can you earn it? Do you deserve it?
5. Is God's salvation earned or is it a FREE gift? Give scripture to back up your answer.
6. Read Romans 11:6. What does this verse tell us about the compatibility of works and Grace?
7. What happens to Grace if a system of "works is attempted to be added to it?
8. If a sinner is Justified by Grace, what part, if any, do works play in his justification?
9. Read Ephesians 3:1-5. What does God call the particular Dispensation in which we live?
10. Read 1 Timothy 1:11-16. In verse 16, what is the reason Paul gives for his having obtained mercy from God?
11. Whose conversion/salvation is a pattern of salvation of salvation by Grace alone?
12. If God were to give us the wages we deserve for our works, what would He have to give us?
13. Once I have received God's free gift of eternal life and have a standing in God's grace, what is His attitude towards me if I sin? In other words, does He still deal with me on the basis of His Grace or does He now deal with me on the basis on my works?
14. Does salvation by grace alone mean that God doesn't care how I live my life after I'm saved?
15. What do we learn from Titus 2:11-12 that the Grace of God does in order to help us live godly lives?
REDEMPTION
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. Define the word Redemption and write out the verse in which this word is found?
2. What is the one great event that made it possible for God to Justify a sinner freely by His Grace?
3. Though all the blessings we have "in Christ" have been given to us freely, was there a price that had to be paid in order for those blessings to be available to us? If so, who paid the price and what was the price that was paid?
4. Each one of us was bound up in the slave market of sin. What did Christ have to come and do in order to free us from this slave market?
5. The law of redemption as found in Leviticus 25:25-27 identified three conditions that had to be met in order for one person to redeem another person. What are these three conditions?
- ________________________________________
- ________________________________________
- ________________________________________
6. Why is it that mankind cannot redeem himself?
7. In what ways did the Lord Jesus Christ satisfy these three requirements enabling Him to be the redeemer of mankind?
8. Which is of the greatest value to God, man's "works" or the work of Christ on the cross of Calvary?
9. What does the perfect work of Christ (His perfect obedience in life and death) show about your own works?
10. In addition to paying the price for my sins, He has freed me from the _____________ of my sin. Therefore, I can live my Christian life with a __________ conscience, knowing that all of my sins have been completely dealt with by Christ on the cross.
11. Read Colossians 2:11-13. If you have been saved, how many of your sins have been forgiven?
12. How does this understanding of the redemption and total forgiveness affect you? In other words, does it lead you have a desire to go out and live any way you want to live or does it lead you too want to serve The Lord out of a heart of thankfulness and love?
PROPITIATION
It is important that you read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. What does the word propitiation mean? Write out the verse in which our study word is found.
2. When we sin we offend which attribute of God?
a) His love
b) His patience
c) His justice
d) His longsuffering
3. Explain what justice is.
4. What penalty does the justice of God demand for sin?
5. The blood of Christ provided _____________ in behalf of mankind, and provided _____________ in behalf of God the Father.
6. Christ's blood shed at Calvary satisfied the demands of God's _____________________.
7. According to Hebrews 10:4, could the blood of bulls and goats take away sin?
8. According to Romans 3:25, what is it that satisfies the justice of God as the payment for our sin.
9. If Almighty God is satisfied with the blood of Christ as the payment for our sin, what should our attitude toward the blood of Christ be?
10. According to Romans 3:25, where should we as sinners place our faith in order to be justified?
11. Since the justice of God is completely satisfied with the blood of Christ as the complete and total payment for my sin, is there any sin that I can commit after I am saved that will send me to Hell?
12. What does this teach you about your security "in Christ"?
FAITH
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. What is Faith? Write out a verse in which our study word is found.
2. Is Faith a work? How does Romans 4:5 support your answer?
3. Upon whom is the righteousness imputed? (Rom. 3:22)
4. Romans 3:24 says that we are "...justified _____________ by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus".
5. If something is given to you freely, do you have to work for it?
6. Why can God justify us freely? In other words, how has the price for our sin been paid?
7. What does God ask us to place our faith in for the remission of our sins? (Rom. 3:25)
8. Romans 3:27 says that because we are justified BY FAITH, boasting is excluded? Would this be true if any work on our part gained our justification?
9. What does God say is the only thing we should boast (glory) in? (Galatians 6:14)
10. What are the three elements that faith incorporates?
- _______________________________
- _______________________________
- _______________________________
11. Why is the KNOWLEDGE important in order to have faith?
12. In order to have faith one must accept the fact as truth. This is called ___________________. (Which element of faith?)
13. Why can we live in FULL ASSURANCE that we have been justified, redeemed, and reconciled to God?
14. God has promised eternal life as a free gift based on the work of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary. How do you receive this free gift?
REMISSION
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. What does the word remission mean? Write out the verse in which our study word is found.
2. Prior to the cross work of Christ, what type of forgiveness were men offered?
3. After the cross, through the ministry of the Apostle Paul, what type of forgiveness are men offered?
4. In Old Testament times, what were men told to do in order to have their sins forgiven? Was this forgiveness temporary or was it permanent and complete?
5. Read Leviticus 1:1-4. What were these people (the nation of Israel) told to do in order to make atonement for their sins?
6. Did God truly accept this on their behalf? (see Lev. 1:4)
7. Why did they have to keep bringing sacrifices each time they sinned?
8. Read Leviticus chapter 16. Explain how the two goats, brought by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement, pictured the forgiveness.
9. This whole ceremony was a type of what?
10. Under the ministry of John the Baptist and the twelve Apostles, remission of the sins was offered through ___________ and _____________ _______________. See Matthew 3:1-6, Mark 1:4, Acts 2:38.
11. During the dispensation of Grace (the age in which we now live) forgiveness of sins is offered on the base of what?
12. What part, if any, do animal sacrifices play in the forgiveness of sins today?
13. Could the blood of bulls and goats ever take away sins?
14. Read Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 4:32 and Colossians 2:13. Based upon these verses, if you are saved do you need to ask God to forgive you of your sins or has He already forgiven you of all of your sins?
15. Do you really believe that all of your sins have been totally, completely, and forever forgiven by God?
16. If your sins have really been forgiven totally and completely by God, should you carry around any guilty feelings for your sins?
FORBEARANCE
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. What is forbearance? Write out the verse in which our study word is found.
2. What does the word remission in Rom. 3:25 refer to?
3. What two truths does the Propitiation (fully satisfying sacrifice) of Christ declare?
4. What does the phrase "sins that are past" in Rom. 3:25 refer to?
5. God forgave the sins of men who lived prior to the cross on the basis of His forbearance.
TRUE or FALSE?
6. Though the Old Testament saints were told to offer the blood of bulls and goats for their sins, what is the BASIS on which they were to be declared righteousness?
7. Explain what is meant by the forbearance of God as it relates to dealing with the sins of men who lived prior to the cross.
8. What does the phrase "at this time" in Rom. 3:26 refer to?
9. Is there any more need for animal sacrifices when dealing with sin today? Briefly explain.
10. What is the conclusion that the Apostle Paul arrives at in Romans 3:27-28.
11. Since salvation is by God's grace and not by our works, what happens to any attempt of man to boast in his works?
12. Is God just or unjust in saving sinners by His Grace?
13. Write out the verse from Romans 3 that will help support your answer to question # 12.
14. If a friend or relative or a religious denomination tells you that salvation is by faith PLUS works, are they right or wrong? _____________ Write out the scripture that will prove your answer.
RECONCILIATION
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. Define the term reconciliation and write out the verse in which the word reconciled is found.
2. As a result of man's rebellion against God, he (man) has become an _________________ of God.
3. Who is to be blamed for the breakdown in the relationship between God and man, God or man?
4. Who then needs to be reconciled, God or man?
5. Who is the only mediator that is capable of reconciling man to God?
6. According to Rom. 5:10 what is the means by which we have been reconciled to God?
7. What happened to the Gentile nations who lived during the time recorded in Genesis chapters 1 to 11?
8. After the Gentile nations were "cut off" what was the one Nation that God was dealing with?
9. From Genesis chapter 12 all the way over to the middle of the book of Acts the Nation of Israel was God's chosen people. According to Ephesians 2:11-12, what was the status of the Gentiles during that time period?
10. The nation of Israel refused to respond in faith to the ministry of John the Baptist, the Lord Jesus Christ (Matt.-John), and that of the twelve Apostles (the early Acts period). What does Rom. 11:11 say happened to them as a result of their disobedience.
11. Read Rom. 11:28. Concerning the present day preaching of the Gospel, how does God view the nation of Israel today?
12. Since the time of Genesis chapter 11 the Gentile nations were alienated and considered to be enemies of God. During the time period recorded by the book of Acts, God concluded the Nation of Israel also in unbelief and alienated from Himself. What does Romans 11:32 tell us as the reason for God concluding His chosen people in unbelief?
13. What was the means that reconciled both Jew and Gentile unto God?
14. According to 2 Corinthians 5:18, what is the ministry called that has been committed to our trust.
15. According to the message of the ministry, is God holding man's sins against him today?
16. According to 2 Corinthians 5:20. "We are __________ for Christ" and the message that we carry to the unsaved world around us is "_________ _______ ________________________ ________ __________".
17. Who became sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21)?
18. According to 2 Corinthians 5:21, why did this happen?
19. Have you responded in faith to God's plea for you to be reconciled?
SANCTIFICATION
Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJ Bible before starting to answer these questions.
1. Define the word Sanctification and write out the verse in which our study word is found.
2. Sanctification is a term that designates .
3. In the process of sanctification (transfer of ownership) there is a _______________________ that occurs.
4. What are some of the things that the Bible speaks of as being sanctified?
5. What is the means by which the believer is sanctified?
6. In this lesson we learned of the three types of sanctification that refer to the believer. What are the three types of Sanctification?
- ____________________________
- ____________________________
- ____________________________
7. Briefly explain these three types of sanctification.
8. According to I Corinthians 6:19-20 who does the believer belong to and who should we serve?
9. Why does the Apostle Paul refer to saved people as "saints"?
10. How does a sinner become a saint?
11. According to the Bible, which statement is true?
(A) People need to live good, holy, self sacrificing lives in order to become saints.
(B) People who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour are saints and therefore should live holy lives.
(C) In order to be a saint a person has to have lived a holy life and then to have been declared a saint by some religious denomination.
12. What does 2 Timothy 3:16-17 tell us about the importance of the written Word of God for us as believers?
QUESTIONS CONCERNING SALVATION
For the concluding lesson in this series, read completely and carefully
the
section
entitled
"Questions Concerning Salvation"
and the
section entitled
"Baptism". Once you
have completed that, answer the
following questins in
your own words using scripture
verses to support
your
answers.
As
you answer
these questions, it
may be helpful
to pretend that an
unsaved person
or
even
another
Christian friend has
asked these
questions of
you. Your purpose would then
be to
help them
see clearly the answers
to these
"questins concerning
salvation".
1. Is a person saved through faith alone? Please explain.
2. Are works part of salvation? Please explain.
3. Can a person know for sure he/she is saved? Please explain.
4. What if a person sins again after being saved? Please explain.
5. Can a person lose his/her salvation?
6. Concerning the issue of baptism, when a person trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, which baptism is it that places him/her into the body of Christ?
7. What is the "one baptism" that the Apostle Paul speaks of in Ephesians 4:5?
