3.15 Present Truth                                

 

1. By what is a person sanctified?
John 17:17 Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy word is truth.

 

2. To what knowledge does God want all men to come?
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

 

3. After receiving a knowledge of the truth, what must one do in order to be sanctified by it?
2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

 

4. What is necessary besides simple belief in the truth?
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

 

5. What effect does obedience to the truth have?
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

 

6. How should the truth always be cherished?
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

 

7. Does the Bible recognize what might be called “present truth”?
2 Peter 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

 

8. What was the special message for Noah’s day?
Genesis 6:13-14
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

 

9. How did Noah demonstrate his faith in this message?
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

 

10. How many were saved by the ark?
1 Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

 

11. What special message was given to Jonah for Nineveh?
Jonah 3:3-4
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

 

12. What saved the people from the predicted destruction?
Jonah 3:5-10
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
The People of Nineveh Repent
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.
Jeremiah 18:7-10
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10 If it do evil in My sight, that it obey not My voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

 

13. What was the special message of John the Baptist?
John 1:6-7
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

 

14. What answer did he give when asked about his mission?
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

 

15. What did Christ say of those who rejected John's message?
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

 

16. What did those do who were baptized of John?
Luke 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

 

17. Did God's chosen people receive Christ when He came?
John 1:11 He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.

 

18. What reason did they give for not receiving Him?
John 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.

 

19. How did Christ say that those who rejected Him reasoned?
Matthew 23:29-30
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

 

20. What did it lead to, that the Jews did not accept Christ?
Matthew 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

 

21. Will a special message be heard in the last days?
Matthew 24:44-45
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

 

22. What does Christ say of that servant who, when He comes, is found giving "meat in due season"?
Matthew 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when He cometh shall find so doing.

 

23. What will be the main content of the final gospel message?
Revelation 14:7-10
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

 

24. How are those who accept this message described?
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

 

25. With what earnestness must this work be pursued?
Luke 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.