Chapter 29.
Importance of Sound Doctrine
1. DOES it matter what one believes, so long as he is sincere?
"God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit _____________________________." 2 Thess. 2:13.
NOTE.- Doctrine affects the life. Truth leads to life and God; error to death and destruction. No one would think of saying it matters not what god one worships, so long as he is sincere any more than he would think of saying it matters not what one eats or drinks, so long as he relishes what he eats and drinks; or what road he travels, so long as he thinks he is on the right road. Sincerity is a virtue; but it is not the test of sound doctrine. God wills that we shall know the truth, and He has made provision whereby we may know what is truth.
2. Did Joshua think it immaterial what God Israel served?
"Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth: and ________ ______________________________________. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but ____________________________." Joshua 24:14,15.
NOTE.-The influence of all idolatrous worship is degrading. See Rom. 1:21-32; Numbers 15; 1 Cor. 10:20; 1 John 5:21.
3. How may we determine the truthfulness of any doctrine?
"___________________________; hold fast that which is good." 1 Thess. 5:21.
4. By what should we test, or prove, all doctrine?
"__________________________: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8:20.
NOTE.-The Bible is the test of all doctrine. Whatever does not harmonize and square with this, is not to be received. "There is but one standard of the everlastingly right and the everlastingly wrong, and that is the Bible."- T .DeWitt Talmage.
5. Of what kind of doctrines should we beware?
"That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every _________________________________." Eph. 4:14. See also Heb. 13:9.
6. What is a "wind of doctrine"?
"And the prophets shall become ________________________________." Jer. 5:13.
NOTE.-Calling a doctrine a wind of doctrine does not make it such. That is a wind of doctrine which is not sustained by the Word of God.
7. For what is all scripture profitable?
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and __________________." 2 Tim. 3:16.
8. What advice was given to Timothy while preparing for the gospel ministry?
"Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to ___________. . . . Take heed unto thyself, and unto the _______________." 1 Tim. 4:13-16.
9. What solemn charge was given him concerning his public work?
"I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; _____________; . . . r______, r______, ________________________________." 2 Tim. 4:1,2.
10. Why did the apostle say this duty was so imperative?
"_______________________________; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; ________________________________." Verses 3,4.
11. What similar instruction was given to Titus?
"But speak thou the things which become _________________: . . . in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: ___________________________, gravity, sincerity." Titus 2:1-7.
12. What will sound doctrine enable the faithful teacher to do?
"Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able ________________________________________________________." Titus 1:9.
13. What danger attends the teaching of false doctrine?
"Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and _________________________________." 2 Tim. 2:18.
14. Who are the disciples of Jesus, and what gracious work does the truth do for those who receive it?
"__________________________, then are ye My disciples indeed; and _____________________________." John 8:31,32.
15. Through what are they to be sanctified?
"Sanctify them through ________________: Thy word is truth." John 17:17.
16. What kind of worship results from false teaching?
"__________________________, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matt. 15:9.
17. Can we close our ears to truth, and remain innocent before God?
"He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, _________________________." Prov. 28:9.
18. What did Christ say of those who will to do God's will?
"If any man willeth to do His will, _________________________, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from Myself." John 7:17, R.V. See also Ps. 25:9; John 8:12.
19. What will God allow to come to those who reject truth?
"Because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them ______________________, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:10-12.
20. By what doctrines are some to be misled in the last days?
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and ___________________." 1 Tim. 4:1. See 2 Peter 2:1.
21. What fate awaits blind teachers and their followers?
"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, _________________________." Matt. 15:14.
22. To whom will the gates of the heavenly city finally be opened?
"Open ye the gates, that ____________________________ may enter in." Isa. 26:2. See also Rev. 22:14.
________________________________________
Truth is the gem for which we seek,
O tell us where shall it be found!
For this we search, and pray, and weep,
That truth may in our hearts abound.
We want the truth on every point,
We want it all to practice by;
Do thou, O Lord, our eyes anoint
With a fresh unction from on high.
CHARLOTTE HASKINS.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
BIBLE STUDY -- CHAP. 28 -- BIBLE SANCTIFICATION
Chapter 28.
Bible Sanctification
1. WHAT inspired prayer sets the standard of Christian experience?
"And the very God of peace ____________________; and I pray God your whole _______________________ be preserved ________________ unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." I Thess. 5:23.
2. How necessary is the experience of sanctification?
"Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification _______________________." Heb. 12:14, R.V.
3. What encouragement is held out as an aid in attaining this experience?
"For ________________________________, even your sanctification." 1 Thess. 4:3.
NOTE.-Whatever is the will of God concerning us can be realized in our experience if our wills are in harmony with His will. It is therefore a matter of great encouragement to know that our sanctification is included in the will of God.
4. What distinct purpose did Christ have in giving Himself for the church?
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; ____________________________ with the washing of water by the word." Eph. 5:25,26.
5. What kind of church would He thus be able to present to Himself?
"That He might present it to Himself a ____________________________________, _____________________; but that it should be holy and without blemish." Verse 27.
6. In the experience of sanctification, what attitude must one assume toward the truth?
"God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and ____________________________." 2 Thess. 2,13.
7. What instruction shows that sanctification is a progressive work?
"But __________ in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 3:18. See chap. 1:5-7.
8. What description of the apostle Paul's experience is in harmony with this?
"Brethren, I __________________________________: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, ______________________ of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Phil. 3:13,14.
9. By what is this cleansing from sin and fitting for God's service accomplished?
"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the _________ ________, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, ____________________________________?" Heb. 9:13,14. See also chap. 10:29.
10. What change is thus brought about?
"And be not conformed to this world: but __________________________________, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Rom. 12:2.
11. Can anyone boast of sinlessness?
"If we say that we have no sin, ______________________________." 1 John 1:8.
12. What are we exhorted by the prophet to seek?
"Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought His judgment; _______________________________________________: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger." Zeph. 2:3.
13. In whose name should everything be done?
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, _________________________." Col. 3:17.
14. In all we do, whose glory should we have in view?
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, _____________________." 1 Cor. 10:31.
15. What classes of persons are necessarily shut out of the kingdom of God?
"For this ye know, that ____________________________________________ in the kingdom of Christ and of God." Eph. 5:5. "Know ye not that the ______________, ______________________________shall inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Cor. 6:9,10.
16. What must be crucified and eliminated from our lives if we would be holy?
"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; _______________, ___________________________________________: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience." Col. 3:5,6.
17. When purged from these sins, in what condition is a man, and for what is he prepared?
"If a man therefore purge himself from these, ______________________________." 2 Tim. 2:21.
NOTE.-"Sanctification is the term used to describe the work of God the Holy Ghost upon the character of those who are justified. We are justified in order that we may be sanctified, and we are sanctified in order that we may be glorified. 'Whom He justified, them He also glorified.' Rom. 8:30. The grace of God is given to make us holy, and so to fit us for God's presence in eternity; for 'without holiness no man shall see the Lord.' Heb. 12:14."-"The Catholic Religion" (Episcopal), by Rev. Vernon Staley, page 327.
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Bible Sanctification
1. WHAT inspired prayer sets the standard of Christian experience?
"And the very God of peace ____________________; and I pray God your whole _______________________ be preserved ________________ unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." I Thess. 5:23.
2. How necessary is the experience of sanctification?
"Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification _______________________." Heb. 12:14, R.V.
3. What encouragement is held out as an aid in attaining this experience?
"For ________________________________, even your sanctification." 1 Thess. 4:3.
NOTE.-Whatever is the will of God concerning us can be realized in our experience if our wills are in harmony with His will. It is therefore a matter of great encouragement to know that our sanctification is included in the will of God.
4. What distinct purpose did Christ have in giving Himself for the church?
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; ____________________________ with the washing of water by the word." Eph. 5:25,26.
5. What kind of church would He thus be able to present to Himself?
"That He might present it to Himself a ____________________________________, _____________________; but that it should be holy and without blemish." Verse 27.
6. In the experience of sanctification, what attitude must one assume toward the truth?
"God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and ____________________________." 2 Thess. 2,13.
7. What instruction shows that sanctification is a progressive work?
"But __________ in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 3:18. See chap. 1:5-7.
8. What description of the apostle Paul's experience is in harmony with this?
"Brethren, I __________________________________: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, ______________________ of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Phil. 3:13,14.
9. By what is this cleansing from sin and fitting for God's service accomplished?
"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the _________ ________, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, ____________________________________?" Heb. 9:13,14. See also chap. 10:29.
10. What change is thus brought about?
"And be not conformed to this world: but __________________________________, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Rom. 12:2.
11. Can anyone boast of sinlessness?
"If we say that we have no sin, ______________________________." 1 John 1:8.
12. What are we exhorted by the prophet to seek?
"Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought His judgment; _______________________________________________: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger." Zeph. 2:3.
13. In whose name should everything be done?
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, _________________________." Col. 3:17.
14. In all we do, whose glory should we have in view?
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, _____________________." 1 Cor. 10:31.
15. What classes of persons are necessarily shut out of the kingdom of God?
"For this ye know, that ____________________________________________ in the kingdom of Christ and of God." Eph. 5:5. "Know ye not that the ______________, ______________________________shall inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Cor. 6:9,10.
16. What must be crucified and eliminated from our lives if we would be holy?
"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; _______________, ___________________________________________: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience." Col. 3:5,6.
17. When purged from these sins, in what condition is a man, and for what is he prepared?
"If a man therefore purge himself from these, ______________________________." 2 Tim. 2:21.
NOTE.-"Sanctification is the term used to describe the work of God the Holy Ghost upon the character of those who are justified. We are justified in order that we may be sanctified, and we are sanctified in order that we may be glorified. 'Whom He justified, them He also glorified.' Rom. 8:30. The grace of God is given to make us holy, and so to fit us for God's presence in eternity; for 'without holiness no man shall see the Lord.' Heb. 12:14."-"The Catholic Religion" (Episcopal), by Rev. Vernon Staley, page 327.
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