Lesson 1:
Q: Who was the author of 1 Corinthians?
A: The Apostle Paul

Q: When was the letter of 1 Corinthians written?
A: Around A.D. 55

Q: Give the three Purposes of the letter of 1 Corinthians
A: 1. To instruct the church regarding its sins and failures, 2. To correct false teaching about the resurrection, 3. To instruct believers to take an offering for poor Christians in Jerusalem

Q: What is the Theme of 1 Corinthians
A: Believers are to honor Christ by holy living

Q: What question was answered in 1 Corinthians
A: What kind of conduct does God expect of Christians, even in the midst of a sinful, corrupt society?

Q: Give Paul's reason for writing the book of 1 Corinthians
A: He had received disturbing reports about the sinful living of the Corinthian Christians

Q: Recite the Outline of 1 Corinthians
A: 1. 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 – The believer's position in Christ, 2. 1 Corinthians 1:10-14:40 – Problems in the church and God's remedy, 3. 1 Corinthians 15 – The resurrection, 4. 1 Corinthians 16 – Instruction concerning giving; Paul's closing personal remarks

Q: What book did Paul write to help the Corinthian Christians stop sinning and start showing Christlike behavior?
A: 1 Corinthians

Q: Where was Paul preaching when he had the vision of the man of Macedonia?
A: the Asian city of Troas

Q: In which cities was the gospel preached for the first time?
A: Amphipolis, Apollonia, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens and Corinth

Q: Where was the city of Corinth located?
A: Between the mainland of Greece and its southern peninsula

Q: Corinth is described as a crossroads for whom?
A: Travelers and traders

Q: What did many visitors practice in the many pagan temples of Corinth?
A: Sexual perversions

Q: What was the religion of Corinth?
A: Sexual sins

Q: What did God say to Paul in Acts 18:10 to encourage him to remain in Corinth?
A: “I have many people in this city”

Q: Name the two chief rulers of the synagogue in Corinth
A: Crispus and Sosthenes

Q: How long did the apostle Paul work in the wicked city of Corinth?
A: A year and a half

Q: Where was Paul living three years after his work in Corinth?
A: Ephesus

Q: Sadly, what was the Corinthian church not known for?
A: Holiness

Q: What is holiness?
A: The Christlike behavior that results from trusting and obeying God

Q: Give the sixteen chapter headings of the book of 1 Corinthians
A: Chapter 1: Position, contention, God's choices - Chapter 2: Divine revelation vs. human wisdom – Chapter 3: Rewards and Loss – Chapter 4: Judging and humility – Chapter 5: Dealing with an immoral Corinthian Christian – Chapter 6: Going to court; the temple of the Holy Ghost – Chapter 7: Marriage, separation and service – Chapter 8: Instructions against offending a brother; meat offered to idols – Chapter 9: Paul's financial support and wholehearted commitment to the cause of Christ. - Chapter 10: Warnings from Israel's failure; offending of edifying a brother – Chapter 11: Church order and the Lord's supper – Chapter 12: The spiritual gifts and their relative value – Chapter 13: Love – Chapter 14: Abuses of tongues – Chapter 15: Resurrection and second coming of Christ – Chapter 16: Christian giving; closing words

Q: Throughout 1 Corinthians, the apostle Paul has a lot to say about what?
A: Relationships

Q: What person does Paul mention in the first verse of 1 Corinthians?
A: Sosthenes

Q: The same person is probably mentioned in 1 Corinthians 1:1 and Acts 8:17, who is he?
A: Sosthenes

Q: Why did Paul mention Sosthenes?
A: Because the Corinthians would know who he was

Q: What service did Sosthenes possibly perform for Paul?
A: As secretary for his letter of 1 Corinthians

Q:What three people did Paul use as messengers, prayer partners, and comforters?
A: Timotheus, Barnabas, and Titus

Q: Why did the Lord create the Church?
A: To encourage Christians and help each of us in our walk with the Lord

Q: You have more in common with a Christian you've never met than with whom?
A: Your closest unsaved friend or family member

Q: Why have we as Christians been declared righteous by God?
A: Because we have trusted in Christ for our salvation

Q: When will we be perfect?
A: When we are finally in heaven

Q: When will Christ's work be complete
A: When we are perfect

Q: What two things will Christ give us to live a life characterized by holiness?
A: Strength and boldness

Lesson 2:

Q: Define Grace
A: God giving me a free gift I don't deserve; God showing favor to people who have not earned it.

Q: What is the meaning of Sanctified
A: At the time of salvation, believers are sanctified, or “set apart” by God for His glory.  Sanctification is also the process of spiritual growth that occurs as believers give control of their lives to the Holy Spirit.

Q: What are Saints?
A: All those who have trusted in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Q: What does most of Paul's letter to the Corinthians deal with?
A: Their failures and sins

Q: What did Paul teach the Corinthians in the first nine verses of his letter?
A: That they were special in God's sight

Q: Because the Corinthian Christians had trusted Christ for their salvation, they were ...
A: 1. the church of God - 2. sanctified in Christ Jesus – 3. called ... saints – 4. receivers of God's grace – 5. enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge – 6. waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ – 7. secure in Christ to the end

Q: What word means “set apart”?
A: Sanctified

Q: When does God sanctify us in Christ?
A: At salvation

Q: In addition to referring to our “position” before God, “sanctification” includes what?
A: our “progression” in spiritual growth

Q: When does a Christian's character not reflect Christ?
A: When he is not yielded to God's will

Q: What was Paul speaking of in 1 Corinthians 1:2?
A: The Christian's standing before God in grace

Q: What were the Corinthians missing out on because of their disobedience?
A: Many of God's blessings

Q: Give two ways God had shown love and kindness to the Corinthians
A: He saved them and gave them spiritual gifts

Q: What is a spiritual gift?
A: A special God-given ability for serving God and others

Q: When does the Holy Spirit come to live in us?
A: The moment we are converted

Q: Despite their failures, the Corinthians understood what great truth?
A: That their salvation depended only on what Christ had done for them, and they looked forward to His return

Q: Why did God consider the Corinthians to have the righteousness of Christ?
A: Because Christ paid the penalty for their sin through His death on the cross

Q: When do people start feeling good about themselves?
A: Early in life

Q: For what reason were we created by God?
A: To love Him and be loved by Him

Q: Why will growing in Christ be infinitely more rewarding than living for the world?
A: Because of the freedom you'll have from sin's consequences

Q: Christians are citizens of heaven temporarily living in what foreign country?
A: Earth

Q: If you are first and foremost a Christian, what should you be much more careful about?
A: The friends you choose

Q: Why do you need a group of Christian friends?
A: To encourage you

Q: When is it OK to have unsaved friends?
A: If you are influencing them to avoid sin

Q: If you friends are influencing you to sin, what do you need to do?
A: Flee

Q: How was God able to do such wonderful things for the Corinthians regardless of their disobedience?
A: Through His grace alone

Q: What did Paul tell the Corinthians after he reminded them that they were special in God's sight?
A: the “bad news”

Lesson 3:

Q: What is the reason many non-Christians don't understand your faith?
A: Because they can't

Q: Why do many non-Christian's think you are foolish for believing?
A: Because they don't understand

Q: Who was Cephas?
A: Peter

Q: Who did the Corinthian Christians think much of?
A: The leaders who had baptized them and taught them the Scriptures

Q: Why was Paul glad he had not baptized many people in Corinth?
A: So no one could say that he had baptized in his own name

Q: What was Paul's primary task?
A: To preach the gospel

Q: Through what power did Paul preach the gospel?
A: The power of the Holy Spirit

Q: Define Carnal
A: Acting like an unsaved person; following the urges of sinful human nature.  Carnal is the opposite of spiritual or mature

Q: Give the meaning of the word Spiritual
A: Able to understand God's truth through the Holy Spirit and being submissive to the Spirit's direction

Q: What is the opposite of Carnal?
A: Spiritual or mature

Q: Who was Apollos?
A: An educated man with a through knowledge of Scripture. 

Q: How did Apollos differ from Paul in regards to his speaking style?
A: He spoke boldly and eloquently, whereas Paul spoke solely through the power of the Holy Spirit

Q: What was the root of the Corinthians' divisions?
A: Intellectual conceit and pride in men

Q: How did Paul strike at the root of the Corinthians' divisions?
A: By pointing out how absurd it is to idolize preachers

Q: What does “World” mean in the context of 1 Corinthians 3:19?
A: Jews and Greeks

Q: What is another term for Greeks?
A: Gentiles

Q: What is the crucified Savior to the Jew?
A: A stumbling block

Q: What is the crucified Savior to the Greek?
A: Foolishness

Q: Paul reminded the Corinthian saints that they themselves had been chosen because of what?
A: God's grace

Q: Why was Paul's preaching about the cross considered “weak” by orators and philosophers of his day?
A: Because it was plain

Q: Paul explained that spiritual truths are revealed to whom?
A: Believers in Christ

Q: Who makes clear to each child of God the Word of God?
A: The Holy Spirit

Q: Why can't the unsaved person understand the things of God?
A: Because he does not have the Holy Spirit

Q: According to 1 Corinthians 2:14, what are the things of God to the unsaved?
A: “foolishness”

Q: List the three things which are revealed to believers through the Holy Spirit
A: 1. The Word of God and God's will, 2. The words they need to teach God's truths to others, 3. The ability to evaluate things in light of the truth of the Word of God

Q: Why couldn't Paul teach the Corinthian believers the deep truths of God and the Christian life?
A: Because so many of them were carnal

Q: When it came to spiritual matters, the Corinthian believers were...
A: Babies

Q: What was Paul trying to show the Corinthians through the metaphor of the laborers working in God's field?
A: To give glory to God, not to Paul and Apollos

Q: To what two things did Paul compare the Corinthian believers in 1 Corinthians 3:4-9 and 1 Corinthians 3;10-17?
A: 1. God's tilled land, 2. God's building

Q: To what two things did Paul compare himself in 1 Corinthians 3:4-9 and 1 Corinthians 3;10-17?
A: 1. A laborer who broke up the soil and planted, 2. A master builder laying the foundation

Q: To what two things did Paul compare Apollos in 1 Corinthians 3:4-9 and 1 Corinthians 3;10-17?
A: 1. A laborer who watered the soil, 2. A builder working on the original foundation

Q: According to the metaphor of God's building, what were Paul's and Apollo's tasks, respectively?
A: Paul laid the foundation – Jesus Christ.  Apollos carried on the Corinthian work, building on the original foundation.

Q: How did Paul caution those who built upon his foundation?
A: By warning that God would test the quality of their efforts

Q: What did Paul characterize good quality work as?
A: Gold, silver, and precious stones

Q: What did Paul symbolize poor quality work as?
A: Wood, hay, or stubble

Q: How must those who continue the ministry of those who have built their work on Christ use their other  abilities?
A: Faithfully for God's glory and teach the Word of God carefully

Q: Why can't we even begin to know God's thoughts?
A: Because His wisdom is so far beyond the ability of the most intelligent human to grasp.

Q: What is your responsibility as an ambassador of Christ?
A: To be the messenger

Q: If you try to impress your friends with your own wisdom, what are you being?
A: Prideful

Q: According to 1 Corinthians 2:3, how did Paul minister?
A: In fear and in much trembling

Q: What was the result of Paul speaking in the power of the Holy Spirit?
A: God greatly used him in drawing people to Himself

Lesson 4:

Q: What is the Judgment Seat of Christ or “the Day”?
A: Judgment of believers for the works they have done since they have been saved; occurs when Christ returns

Q: What is the Great White Throne Judgment?
A: Judgment of the unsaved after the Millennium

Q: How did Paul, as a wise master builder, lay the foundation for the Corinthians' faith?
A: By preaching Jesus Christ, and Him crucified

Q: At what point are sinners able to build their lives on the everlasting foundation?
A: When they believe in Christ

Q: How did Paul describe the two kinds of works?
A: As gold, silver, precious stones, and wood, hay, straw.

Q: When will each Christian's work be shown for what is is?
A: At the Judgment Seat of Christ

Q: What will the quality of each Christian's work be tested by?
A: Fire

Q: Not only the quality of the work, but what else will be tested by fire?
A: The motives and attitudes behind it

Q: If what a believer has built survives, what will he receive?
A: A rewarding

Q: If a Christian's work does not survive, what will he face?
A: A fiery judgment

Q: What will any Christian whose work is destroyed be like?
A: Someone who escapes from a burning house

Q: What kind of works should we spend our lives doing?
A: Works that count for the cause of Christ

Q: Who will be your judge when Christ returns for His own?
A: The One who knows your motives for serving Him and reads your heart

Q: How do several of Paul's letters to churches describe the ewards that Christians will receive?
A: As “crowns”

Q: List the three types of lasting crowns
A: 1. A crown of righteousness, 2. A crown of glory, 3. A crown of life

Q: What event did the Corinthians hold every two years?
A: Footraces

Q: The Corinthian footraces were similar to what modern-day event?
A: the Olympics

Q: How did Paul use the analogy of the Corinthian games?
A: To encourage the believers to discipline themselves and run their life-races in a way that would earn a lasting crown

Q: What is a crown of righteousness?
A: A crown given as a reward for a righteous life by the righteous Judge

Q: What is a crown of glory?
A: A special reward given to those who have faithfully served as shepherds under Him

Q: According to 1 Peter 5:4, what is a shepherd?
A: Leaders of God's people

Q: What is a crown of life?
A: The reward of eternal life given to those who trust Christ as savior

Q: What is the startling contrast Paul makes in chapter four of 1 Corinthians?
A: The Corinthians had 10,000 instructors telling them about Christ. But these instructors were depending on their own wisdom and compromising the gospel.  As a result, the Corinthians were full and rich and considered honorable in the world's eyes.  On the other hand, the apostles were fools in the eyes of the world.  They wre hungry and thirsty, without clothing or a place to live.

Q: Why do we need to read the Word of God regularly?
A: So we can know what it says

Q: What are we considered to be by the world for standing up for the Bible?
A: Fools

Q: What is the difference between the Judgment Seat of Christ and the Great White Throne Judgment?
A: The latter is for the unsaved only and will take place after the Millennium, the 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth with believers

Q: What chapter in the Bible talks about the Great White Throne Judgment in detail?
A: Revelation 20

Q: What might motivate us to godly living?
A: The promise of rewards

Q: What should the promise of rewards remind us of?
A: The privilege God has given us to serve Himself

Q: Anything we may accomplish for God's glory is a result of what?
A: God's power and grace working in our lives

Q: Where in Revelations pictures the day when believers will cast their crowns before the throne of Christ?
A: Revelations 4:10-11

Q: Basically, what is Paul's argument at the start of chapter four?
A: He's doing the job God gave him – to preach Christ.  He didn't care if the world thought he was foolish.  The only opinion that matters is God's.

Q: A lot of the time we judge other Christians because of what?
A: They don't agree with us entirely on every moral decision we makes

Q: What is the only opinion of ourselves that we should care about?
A: God's

Lesson 5:

Q: How does God regard immorality among His people?
A: Very seriously

Q: Give an example of how the Corinthians were behaving immorally
A: One man was living immorally with his father's wife

Q: Paul was ready to judge the immoral man's disobedience in 1 Corinthians 5:1 based on what?
A: The authority of Christ

Q: What was to happen to the man who was living immorally with his stepmother?
A: He was to be kicked out of the church, banned from any fellowship with God's people.  Satan would be allowed to bring physical affliction on him, even death.

Q: Why was the immoral man in 1 Corinthians 5:1 not threatened with hell?
A: Because he was a brother in the Lord's

Q: If the immoral man did not repent, he would be saved as by what?
A: Fire

Q: When did God first command Israel to get rid of any leaven they had used in baking bread?
A: Just before He sent the last plague on Egypt

Q: What is leaven?
A: yeast

Q: Paul referred to the Passover Feast in 1 Corinthians 5 to illustrate what?
A: The need for holiness and discipline

Q: What does leaven usually stand for in Scripture?
A: Sin

Q: Why did Paul call on believers to get rid of the yeast of sin?
A: Because they were new creations in Christ

Q: Give the meaning of the word “carnal”
A: Acting like an unsaved person, following the urges of sinful human nature.  Carnal is the opposite of spiritual or mature

Q: Define fornication
A: Sexual activity outside of marriage

Q: What does “sanctified” mean?
A: “set apart” by God for His glory. Sanctification includes the process of spiritual growth that occurs as the believer gives control of his life to the Holy Spirit.

Q: What does “justified” mean?
A: God declaring me “not guilty” when I placed my faith in Christ's death alone as payment for my sins.

Q: In telling the Corinthians not o associate with an immoral man, Paul was not asking believers to do what?
A: To separate themselves from all nonbelievers who also might be living immoral lives

Q: Why were the Corinthian believers to withdraw themselves from the immoral man in 1 Corinthians 5:11?
A: Because he was a brother

Q: What did Paul warn the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10?
A: That God will not allow uncleanness in His kingdom

Q: What did Paul remind the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 6:11?
A: That some of them had been guilty of various sins, but were now changed.

Q: How did the Corinthians wrongly interpret what it means to be free in Christ?
A: They boasted that they had a right to do anything they pleased.

Q: Paul reminded the Corinthians that, although they had liberty, they must not what?
A: Abuse it

Q: Fill in the blanks, Believers' _____, not just their _____, belong to Christ Himself.
A: bodies – souls

Q: How did Paul illustrate God's high regard for the body?
A: He referred to the resurrection of Christ's body

Q: How should a body be treated that will be raised someday?
A: With dignity and respect

Q: Besides God, who is a person guilty of sexual sin sinning against?
A: His own body

Lesson 6:

Q: List two things the city of 1 Corinthians was known for.
A: Vice and immorality

Q: How should what Paul sys about sex and marriage in 1 Corinthians 6-7 be understood?
A: In the light of the culture the Corinthian Christians lived in

Q: According to 1 Corinthians 6-7, what are some of the types of sinners you should be well aware of?
A: Fornicators, Idolaters, Adulterers, Effeminate, those who abuse themselves with others, thieves, the covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners

Q: Who are fornicators?
A: Those who have sex outside of marriage

Q: What are idolaters according to 1 Corinthians six and seven?
A: Those who worship false gods – and had sex as part of that worship

Q: What are adulterers?
A: Married people having sex with others

Q: What are the effeminate?
A: Men who dress as women for sexual purposes

Q: What is a word which defines those who abuse themselves with others?
A: Homosexuality

Q: Who are revilers?
A: Those who throw wild parties and don't care who they hurt

Q: Give the meaning of an extortioner
A: Those who scheme to take others' money

Q: List three ways we are different as the temple of the Holy Spirit from before we were saved
A: 1. You are washed – Our sins defiled our bodies. We were dirty with sin. Our salvation removed the dirt.  2. You are sanctified – When we trust Christ, we are set apart for a special purpose – to glorify Christ.  3. You are justified – The guilt of our sin is removed and replaced with Christ's righteousness.

Q: If you steal a car, what are the ways you can remedy the situation?
A: By returning it, or paying for it and doing some time in jail.

Q: If you slander somebody, how can you repay that person for wronging them?
A: You can apologize and make sure that everyone who heard the slander knows that you were wrong.

Q: If you commit a sexual sin, what can you do to remove the results or pay it back?
A: Nothing

Q: What is not license?
A: Grace

Q: If all sins, past, present and future are covered by God's grace, what difference does it make if we sin?
A: If you take advantage of your salvation to live in sin, what are you saying about Christ's sacrifice?

Q: What should you keep in mind when considering what Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 7 concerning marriage?
A: Corinth was hostile toward Christianity.  Those who made known their faith in Christ had to endure persecution and suffering.

Q: Define Millennium
A: The 1,000-year reign of Christ on the earth with believers

Q: According to 1 Corinthians 7:1, what was each man to do to avoid immorality?
A: Have his own wife, and every woman, her husband

Q: When was an unsaved person allowed to leave the marriage?
A: When he or she did not want to be married to a Christian

Q: What does the propensity for a Christian to bring his unsaved spouse to Christ not encourage?
A: For believers to marry nonbelievers

Q: Why could marriage become a hindrance to our Christian service according to 1 Corinthians 7:32-35?
A: He who is married cares for the things of the Lord – how he may please the Lord.  But he who is married cares about the things of the world- how he may please his wife.

Q: Give an example of a Christian couple in the New Testament who found that marriage increased their outreach for the Lord.
A: Aquila and Priscilla

Q: What was Paul's advice to the unmarried and widows in the hostile Corinthian society?
A: That they remain unmarried

Q: In contrast to what he taught in 1 Corinthians, where in scripture does Paul urge widows to marry?
A: 1 Timothy 5:14

Q: In whatever situation they found themselves, how were Christians to behave?
A: Content, always striving to please the Lord

Q: Give an example of how believers should take advantage of opportunities to improve their circumstances
A: 1. In the Corinthian church, those who had been slaves when God saved them were encouraged to take advantage of any opportunity to become free.  2. In today's culture, a believer furthering his education, finding better employment, etc...

Q: What are two principles in the Bible that you should use in your relationships with the opposite sex?
A: 1. Flee fornication (1 Corinthians 6:18).  2. Treat members of the opposite sex as brothers and sisters.

Lesson 7:

Q: Give the meaning of the word “heathenism”
A: An uncivilized lifestyle that does not include respect for or knowledge of God

Q: What is “Christian liberty”?
A: The freedom to do God's will and enjoy certain privileges without being bound by man-made rules and regulations

Q: Define lawful
A: Permissible; what believers may do freely in Christ

Q: Whom does your liberty in Christ concern?
A: Yourself and your Christian friends

Q: What verse in Corinthians contains an important principle that will guide you in regards to Christian liberty?
A: 1 Corinthians 6:12

Q: Describe the feast in Corinth in which the people ate meat offered to idols
A: It was a heathen custom in Corinth to hold a ceremonial feast in which the people ate what was left of the meat that had been offered to idols.  They believed this would give them favor with their gods.

Q: According to 1 Corinthians 8:10, who were the “wise” among the Christians?
A: Those who know that idols are not real gods, so the meat to them was the same as any other meat

Q: What did Paul know about the meat offered to idols?
A: That Christians could eat the meat without harming themselves spiritually

Q: Those Christians who had recently been saved out of heathenism thought eating meat sacrificed to idols would be the same as what?
A: Participating in idol worship

Q: Why would it be easier for some Christians to do wrong in other circumstances by simply eating meat offered to idols, which was not inherently wrong anyway?
A: Their consciences would become hardened

Q: How did Paul help the Corinthian believers know how to use their liberty in Christ?
A: By showing them how he used his

Q: What were some of Paul's credentials as an apostle of Christ?
A: 1. He had seen the Lord Jesus, 2. His ministry had produced the fruit of a true apostle's work – many Corinthians had been won to the Lord

Q: List some of the rights Paul had as an apostle
A: 1. The comforts and conveniences of life that others enjoyed, 2. Food, shelter and pay for his work, 3. The right to have a wife

Q: Why was Paul willing to give up certain pleasures?
A: So he would have more opportunity to preach the gospel.

Q: Paul defended the right of a pastor or missionary to receive support from local churches, list his three illustrations?
A: 1. Who ever goes to war at his own expense?, 2. Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit?, 3. Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

Q: Christians are one body – one family – designed to do what?
A: love and support one another

Q: Your example before another believer can do one of two things, list them
A: 1. Help him move forward in his faith, 2. Place an obstacle before him

Q: According to 1 Corinthians 9:15, what was not one of the reasons why Paul told the Corinthians what they should do for their ministers?
A: So they would do it for him

Q: In 1 Corinthians 9:13, what did Paul point out about those who worked in the Old Testament temple?
A: They were provided for

Q: What point was Paul trying to make in his reference to Deuteronomy 25:4?
A: Your pastors and missionaries should receive support from their local church.

Q: Why didn't Paul accept money from the Corinthians?
A: He wanted to make it absolutely clear that he was offering the gospel to them without charge

Lesson 8:

Q: What does it mean to edify?
A: To build up, strengthen, encourage another believer

Q: When Paul talks about the rigorous training and preparation for the Olympics, what is he really saying?
A: That the Christian life should be treated with the same energy

Q: Why should we take care of ourselves?
A: So we can be in the best possible shape to accomplish what God wants of us

Q: What does Paul compare the Christian life to in 1 Corinthians 9:24?
A: A race which calls for hard work and self-control

Q: Why was Paul concerned about receiving God's approval for his life?
A: So he would not lose his credibility with those to whom he ministered

Q: According to Lesson 8, what are some of the hurdles that can get in the way of living for Christ?
A: 1. Lusting after evil, 2. Sexual immorality, 3. Testing the Lord, 4. Grumbling against the Lord

Q: In general, what does the Old Testament tell us?
A: the history of the Israelites

Q: In the Old Testament, who did God guide, provide for, and teach his ways?
A: God's chosen people, the Israelites

Q: What figures of speech did Paul use to depict the spiritual nourishment God continually provides for us?
A: The manna God sent from heaven, and the water he provided from a rock

Q: Who is “our Rock”?
A: Christ

Q: Why was God not pleased with many of the Israelites?
A: They continually failed to trust and obey God

Q: What did God do to those of the Israelites who failed to trust and obey Him?
A: They were not allowed to enter the Promised Land

Q: What event in the Old Testament does Paul link to his warning against idolatry?
A: The golden calf in the wilderness

Q: Why are we free from the law?
A: Because Christ kept it for us

Q: What event in the Old Testament did Paul use to warn against sexual immorality?
A: The immorality of the Israelites in Shittim

Q: What did God tell Moses to do about the Israelites immorality in Shittim?
A: To hang all the leaders in broad daylight

Q: What did God do about the Israelites ungrateful attitude in the wilderness?
A: He sent fiery serpents among them

Q: While in the wilderness, how many times did Israel murmur against Moses and God?
A: 10

Q: Where did all of Israel's murmurings culminate?
A: Kadesh-Barnea

Q: Although the Corinthians had liberty in the Lord, they were to act how?
A: Not selfishly, but in love

Q: How were the action of the Corinthians to be determined?
A: By what was edifying to others and what would bring glory to God

Q: How did Paul illustrate the principle of actions being determined by what is edifying others and what would bring glory to God?
A: By telling the Corinthians they could eat the meat sold in markets, because it had no religious meaning.  When they were invited to someone's home, they were to eat whatever was served, and not ask whether the meat had been offered to idols.  But if another guest who was a Christian expressed concern about the meat having been offered to idols, then they should not eat the meat.

Q: When is it better to give up something you're free to do?
A: When it would offend a fellow believer

Q: How did Paul sum up his teaching in 1 Corinthians 10?
A: By saying he sought to please all men by not offending anyone by anything he did in his daily life

Q: With Christ, what can we do?
A: All things

Q: What is the only thing Christ asks us to do in regard to our relationship with others?
A: Make sure it brings glory to God

Q: What has Christ given us the tremendous privilege of doing?
A: Serving Him

Q: What should others be able to look at us and see?
A: Christ reflected in us

Q: God doesn't expect us to be perfect, instead he wants what?
A: Our obedience and our trust

Q: If we are no longer under law, why should we have to miss out on things we think are fun?
A: Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31)

Lesson 9:

Q: How does an English Quaker service work?
A: The people sit on long benches along all four walls in a square room.  There is an open space in the middle for the speaker.  The first half-hour to an hour is spent in complete silence in prayer and meditation.  Then announcements, singing and the service follow.  Services are normally 2-3 hours in length

Q: Describe a typical service in a Russian church
A: There are often between two or more speakers who give a sermon.  Between sermons, which typically last about forty-five minutes to an hour each, there's prayer and singing.  Prayer in the Russian tradition is said while everyone is standing and everyone replies “Amen!” together at the end.  There is often more than one person praying out loud at the same time.  Services can last 3-4 hours.

Q: God isn't concerned with the exact way a service is organized, rather intending the church to function how?
A: In an orderly way, so he will be glorified

Q: In 1 Corinthians 11, we find Paul's instructions regarding what?
A: Public worship

Q: What did Paul talk about before public worship?
A: Marriage

Q: Paul believed that the Christ-honoring relationship between a man and his wife in the home can also be demonstrated where?
A: In the local church

Q: What meaning does the word “head” convey?
A: The idea of both honor and authority

Q: Man is to honor and submit to whom?
A: Christ

Q: Describe the dress of women in Paul's culture
A: They wore long hair and always covered their heads with veils in public.

Q: Why were men to uncover their heads when believers came together to worship?
A: To show their respect and submission to the Lord

Q: Women were allowed to do what in the Church only if their heads were covered?
A: Pray or prophesy

Q: If women uncovered their heads while in prayer or while prophesying, they would be failing to do what?
A: Show respect for their husbands and for Christ

Q: What did taking off a head-covering suggest about a woman?
A: That she was immoral

Q: Define prophesy in the context of the New Testament
A: To receive direct revelation from God and tell it for the purpose of strengthening, encouraging and comforting believers

Q: The headship of man is God's design for what?
A: The marriage relationship

Q: God's plan is for men and women to live according to what?
A: The higher law of love, although they are free in the Lord

Q: Where should men assume places of leadership?
A: The church and in the home

Q: A wife should willingly submit herself to whom?
A: Her husband, whom God as appointed to be her head

Q: Why should husbands and wives submit to each other?
A: Because they love each other and want to observe God's order in their relationship

Q: How should the husband treat his wife?
A: With love, respect, and service

Q: In what areas should women exercise leadership?
A: In the church and in the home

Q: When the early church observed communion, they also held what?
A: A “love feast”

Q: What was a “love feast”?
A: Possibly like a potluck supper of today

Q: What should the Lord's supper be a celebration of?
A: the Lord's death and resurrection

Q: Communion is not intended to be a party, but rather what?
A: A remembrance of Christ's death

Q: What word means “The Lord's supper”?
A: Communion

Q: In which verse does Paul describe the dramatic scene when the Lord's supper was instituted?
A: 1 Corinthians 11:23

Q: What is the reason believers gather at the Lord's table?
A: To remember His death for them at Calvary

Q: As the Jews remember deliverance from Egypt through a Passover meal, so the Lord's supper is a memorial portraying what?
A: Christ's death for sinners

Q: What does it mean to take the Lord's supper unworthily?
A: Irreverently, selfishly, with a careless or flippant attitude, etc...

Q: In regards to the Lord's supper, the Corinthians were not recognizing or understanding the true significance of what?
A: The body and blood of the Lord

Q: Why were the Corinthians guilty of unloving and self-centered behavior toward one another?
A: Because they were not recognizing the nature of the Church as the Body of Christ

Q: How were some of the Corinthians judged for taking the Lord's supper unworthily?
A: With weakness, sickness, and death

Q: Why has God given believers the privilege of judging themselves?
A: So they do not have to be judged by Him

Q: Why are believers disciplined by their heavenly Father?
A: So they will become Christlike in character

Lesson 10:

Q: What has the Holy Spirit given every Christian to use for the common good in building up His church?
A: Spiritual gifts

Q: What is a common misconception of what spiritual gifts are?
A: Natural talents or abilities

Q: What are apostles?
A: Those believers who had seen Christ and went out and preached and started churches

Q: What are prophets?
A: Those who spoke what God revealed to them for the purpose of encouraging, comforting and strengthening believers

Q: What is someone who preaches the gospel to the unsaved called?
A: An evangelist

Q: Who is a Pastor-teacher?
A: Those who instruct others in the teachings of Scripture; responsible for church leadership

Q: What is the spiritual gift of prophecy?
A: Teaching the truths of God's Word

Q: What is the gift of Serving, ministry?
A: Doing practical work, like painting the church building or preparing a meal; helping meet the needs of others

Q: What spiritual gift involves explaining Scripture in a practical, easy-to-understand manner?
A: Teaching

Q: Give another word for Exhortation
A: Encouragement

Q: What does the spiritual gift of Exhortation entail?
A: Giving words of advice, hope and comfort

Q: What is the gift of Giving?
A: Generosity in contributing to other Christians and to church ministries

Q: What are the spiritual gifts of Administration, Ruling, Governments, Leadership?
A: Organizing and carrying out church plans and programs

Q: What spiritual gift means being patient, forgiving and compassionate?
A: Showing mercy

Q: What is “The word of wisdom”?
A: God-given insight that enables a person to bring solutions to difficult problems, particularly spiritual problems

Q: What is “The word of knowledge”?
A: Ability to understand and explain Scripture

Q: Give the meaning of the spiritual gift of Faith
A: Ability to trust God and expect Him to answer

Q: What are the Gifts of healing?
A: Ability to heal physical afflictions

Q: Explain the spiritual gift of “Working of miracles”
A: Ability to do something that can't be explained naturally

Q: Explain the spiritual gift of Prophecy
A: Teaching the truths of God's Word

Q: Which spiritual gift entails the ability to tell whether a spirit (message) is evil or comes from God; knowing the difference between true and false teaching
A: Discernment

Q: What is the gift of Tongues?
A: Ability to speak in unlearned languages

Q: Explain the gift of “Interpretation of tongues”
A: Ability to explain words spoken in unlearned languages so others can understand

Q: How are the people who make up Christ's Church a little like a theater?
A: You have actors who speak lines, set directors who manage scenery, technicians who install lighting and others in a variety of roles

Q: God has put the body of Christ together in such a way that those who seem the least important are really...
A: The most important

Q: List some of the spiritual gifts which were temporary
A: The office of apostleship, gift of tongues, healing, prophecy and miracles

Q: What were the gifts of tongues, healing, prophecy, and miracles for?
A: Showing the Jews that the Church was the work of God

Q: Why were certain special gifts needed in the early days of the Church?
A: Because there was no New Testament for guidance

Q: Once the canon of Scripture was written in full, what was complete?
A: God's revelation to man

Q: Anyone who claims to have received new revelation from God is what?
A: Lying or confused

Q: God's work on earth was completed in whom?
A: Christ

Q: God is in control and working in the lives of Christians through whom?
A: The Holy Spirit

Q: God has put each Christian in just the right place so that there will be harmony in what?
A: The body of Christ

Q: How were the Corinthian believers boasting about their spiritual gifts?
A: By claiming that they had the “most important” gifts

Q: What behavior did Paul describe in 1 Corinthians 13?
A: The behavior love produces

Q: How is love different from the gifts?
A: It never ends

Q: Fill in the blanks, Paul said that a time would come when _____ would be perfected, and _____ completed.
A: knowledge, prophecy

Q: If every believer were to exercise the same gift, the Church could not do what?
A: Carry out its mission

Q: What was Paul referring to when he said that a time would come when knowledge would be perfected and prophecy completed?
A: The writing of Scripture, which was completed less than a century after the time of Christ when John completed the Book of Revelation

Q: What three things will never end?
A: Faith, love and hope

Q: Which is the most important of the three things that will never end?
A: Love

Q: Why are the gifts which involved direct revelation from God no longer needed?
A: Because we have a complete Bible

Q: What did the Lord Jesus explain in Mark 12:30-31
A: That love was the greatest commandment

Q: When Paul shows that love is greater than any of the spiritual gifts, what does he mean?
A: That love should be the guiding motivation for everything we do

Q: What is godly love?
A: Putting the other person's needs before your own

Lesson 11:

Q: When is the first record of the gift of tongues in the New Testament?
A: The day of Pentecost in Acts 2

Q: How many believers were gathered together in Acts 1:4-5?
A: The apostles + 120 (132)

Q: Who was supposed to attend the feast of Pentecost?
A: Every male

Q: How many annual feasts did Israel have?
A: Three

Q: What was Pentecost?
A: Fifty days after the Sabbath of Passover week.  The day the Holy Spirit came and indwelt believers

Q: Define the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
A: When someone accepts Christ, the Holy Spirit places him into the body of Christ

Q: What is the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit?
A: The permanent presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers

Q: Describe the filling (fullness) of the Holy Spirit
A: Power to serve God effectively.  A a believer continually obeys God and depends on Him, God uses his service to bring honor and glory to Himself

Q: Give the New Testament meaning of Prophecy
A: To receive direct revelation from God and tell it for the purpose of strengthening, encouraging and comforting believers.

Q: What is the Modern-day meaning of Prophesy?
A: Using God's Word to build up believers

Q: Define the word “edify”
A: To build up or make stronger

Q: List the two Greek words that are translated “tongues” and give their meanings
A: glossa – languages, dialektos – dialects

Q: What sign were Tongues to the nation of Israel?
A: That their days as a privileged nation were over

Q: What did the gift of tongues at Pentecost give the early believers the ability to do?
A: To share the gospel with devout Jews in the language of every nation under heaven

Q: When did Israel's ultimate rejection of God's plan for them take place?
A: When Jesus Christ was crucified

Q: Because of the crucifixion of Christ, what happened to Israel?
A: It was set aside for a time

Q: Where are Tongues prophesied in the book of Isaiah?
A: Isaiah 28:11

Q: By speaking in a multitude of languages, what were the apostles making clear?
A: That the message was going to a multitude of nations

Q: Each instance of tongues in the book of Acts included a new group, list them.
A: the Jews, Gentiles, Samaritans, and followers of John the Baptist

Q: Which gift did Paul say was more valuable than speaking in tongues?
A: Prophecy

Q: Why can't a person speaking in tongues help those who hear him?
A: Because they cannot understand him

Q: Before Pentecost, when did those who had already trusted Jesus Christ as Messiah receive him?
A: They didn't until Pentecost

Q: What are the four things that the Holy Spirit is doing today?
A: 1. The Holy Spirit lives in every believer.  2. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit baptizes every believer into the body of Christ.  3. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit seals every believer into the body of Christ forever.  4. The Holy Spirit fills believers who consciously allow themselves to be controlled by Him.

Q: What does the Bible have to say about the gift of tongues?
A: 1. God, through Paul, said that the gift of tongues in an inferior gift.  Speaking in tongues might edify the speaker, but it did nothing for those who heard it and couldn't understand it.  Speaking in tongues requires an interpreter.  Teaching is more effective.  Tongues would be misunderstood by anyone visiting the church.  Tongues causes confusion.  2. Tongues was given as a sign to Israel, and not even to all of Israel but to the unbelieving Jews, that the gospel was about to be given to all nations.  3. There is no new Scripture being written today.  God's revelation is complete.  4. Tongues are never mentioned in the book of Acts after chapter 19.  The book of 1 Corinthians was one of the earliest books Paul wrote.  He does not mention tongues anywhere else in his letters.

Q: When Paul said he would rather speak five clear words to instruct others than 10,000 words in an unknown language, what spiritual gifts was he referring to?
A: Teaching and Tongues

Lesson 12:

Q: Give the two kinds of proof that Jesus Christ rose
A: 1. The Old Testament Scriptures, 2. The testimony of eyewitnesses

Q: Up to how many Christians saw Jesus Christ at one time?
A: 500

Q: Define Rapture
A: When Christ returns and believers rise to meet Him in the air

Q: What is the Millennium?
A: The 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth

Q: List the five things that would be true if Jesus did not rise
A: 1. The apostles' preaching is empty (useless) and they are false witnesses, deceiving others about God.  (15:15)  2. Believers are still dead in their sins.  (15:17)  3. Believers who die are lost.  (15:18)  4. Believers are the most miserable of all people.  (15:19)  5. The baptism of believers as no meaning (15:29)

Q: Because Jesus did, in truth, rise, it is impossible for Christians to have what?
A: A useless faith

Q: Jesus' resurrection is the guarantee that all believers who die will what?
A: Also rise, when Jesus comes again

Q: Why does everyone die?
A: Because everyone is a descendant of Adam

Q: Who is the second Adam in the sense that what He did affects everyone?
A: Christ

Q: Who will Christ destroy?
A: All those who used their authority and power against Him

Q: What is the work Jesus does in the Trinity?
A: He carries out the Father's will in creation and in saving sinners

Q: To explain what the resurrection will be like, Paul compared it to what?
A: Plant life, fleshly beings and heavenly and physical bodies

Q: In the plant kingdom, what must happen to every seed that is sown before it comes up?
A: It must die

Q: List the truths you believe as a Christian
A: 1. Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose from the grave, showing that He is the Son of God.  2. You trust that what Christ died on the cross was all God required as payment for your sins.

Q: If you ask the Lord to help you when you doubt, what will His Word remind you to do?
A: Not to worry

Q: Who is 1 Corinthians 15:33 referring to?
A: It's referring to the people you choose to spend time with

Q: Give some examples of how believing that Christians will have new bodies someday can help you when bad things happen
A: 1. You have a physical handicap.  2. Someone you love has a long-term illness and you see him suffer.  3. You are ill or hurt and have to stay in the hospital for a long time.

Q: What is the way to tell if a relationship is a good one.
A: If you are influencing the other person to think, speak and act in ways that bring glory to God

Q: If you hang around with evil, what will happen?
A: It will get you

Q: According to 1 Corinthians 15:54, Jesus Christ is stronger than what?
A: Sin and death

Q: Why did Believers need a new body?
A: Because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God

Q: What is the order of the resurrection?
A: First, those who have died in Christ will rise; then all believers living on earth will be caught up with them to meet the Lord in the air

Q: What are the four parts of the kingdom of flesh?
A: Man, animals, birds, and fish

Q: What are the three types of heavenly bodies?
A: Sun, moon, and stars

Q: Describe the old body in three words, then describe the new body in three words.
A: Old body – weak, sinful, decaying body.  New body – powerful, unspoiled and lasting

Q: In contrasting the natural body with the spiritual body, Paul referred to whom?
A: Adam and Christ

Q: Give the differences between Adam's body and Christ's resurrected body
A: Adam had a body created from the dust of the ground, and each of his descendants has a natural body.  Christ has a spiritual, or glorified, body.  He will give His people a body that will last throughout eternity with God, similar to His own resurrected physical body.

Q: What will happen to all believers in regards to their bodies?
A: They will be changed