Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Lay Academy

Test the Spirits

        1 John 4

Peter Combes – June 12, 2005

Note that class starts at 8:30 a.m.

The answers to the following may be multiple, or "none of the above"

 

 

1.  You should test:

a.  prophets

b   writings

c.  pastors

d.  spirits

2. The test is:

a.  whether they are recommended by the apostles

b   whether they are named by bishops

c.  whether they do miracles

d.  whether they confess that Jesus is the Christ

 

3. The spirit of Antichrist:

a.  is here already

b   will come before the Day of the Lord

c.  will come at the Second Coming

d.  will come at the end of the world

 

4. God is:

a.  love

b   strength

c.  the creative urge

d.  the ground of all being

 

5. God sent his son as:

a.  guide

b   example

c.  judge

d.  expiation

 

6. 1 John 6:12 apparently contradicts:

a.  Deuteronomy 34:10

b   Isaiah 6:1

c.  Ezekiel 1:26-28

d.  Daniel 7:9

 

 

 

7. Whoever confesses that Jesus is Son of God:

a.  lives in faith

b   has his sins forgiven

c.  is filled with the Spirit

d.  lives in God

 

8.  John expects:

a.  the Day of the Lord

b   the Second Coming

c.   the end of the world

d.   the day of judgement

 

 

9. Perfect love casts out:

        a.   sin

        b.   fear

        c.   doubt

        d.   envy

 

10. The new commandment is to:

        a.   love your brother

        b.   take communion

        c.     eat all meat

        d.   spread the gospel

 

 

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