“The Value of the Old Testament”
1. According to Romans 15:4, what is one reason why the things in the Old Testament were recorded for people to read in later years?
2. According to Galatians 3:24, what is one purpose that the Old Testament serves for us today?
3. What did the Old Testament itself predict (in Jeremiah 31:31-34) that would arrive at some point in the future?
4. According to Hebrews 8:13, what was about to happen during the first century?
5. In John 12:48 Jesus explained in very clear terms what would serve as the standard of judgment for those people who live during the Christian Dispensation. What is that standard?
6. According to Colossians 2:14, what did Jesus do to the Old Law?
7. According to Ephesians 2:14, what existed between Jews and Gentiles in Old Testament times?
8. According to Ephesians 2:15, what did Jesus do about the situation mentioned in question #7 above?
9. In Matthew 26:28, as Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper, to what did He refer in regard to the topic of “testaments”?
10. This lesson mentions several important “questions of life” that are answered in the Old Testament. List four of those questions.
11. According to Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, what should humans do while here on Earth?
12. According to Isaiah 43:7, why were people created?
13. Who is the “Us” mentioned in Genesis 1:26?
14. According to the material discussed in this lesson, what important concept is taught in Joshua 24:15?
15. According to the apostle Paul’s comments in Romans 5:12, what happened when Adam and Eve sinned?
16. Considering passages such as 1 Kings 8:46 and Romans 3:23, have those of us who followed Adam and Eve done a much better job of obeying God than they did?
17. In 2 Samuel 7:12-14 a promise was made to King David that someone of his seed would sit upon his throne forever, and that there would be no end to his kingdom. Of whom is that prophecy speaking?
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