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Righteousness by Faith Quiz
1. What is righteousness? Please supply
a text. Bonus: Does a well-known Spirit of Prophecy
statement come to your mind on this and if so please write it and give
reference.
2. What is faith? Please give a text to
support your answer.
3. Based upon your answer to the two
above questions, what then is righteousness by faith?
4. Is the term “righteousness by faith”
found in the Bible (KJV)? If so, where?
5. Is a phrase a similar to
“righteousness by faith” found in the Bible? If so, where?
6. Complete the following statements
and supply the reference: “For by ________ are ye saved through _______; and
that not of yourselves: it is the _______ of God.”
“For not the
hearers of the ______ are just before God, but the _______ of the law shall
be ________.”
“…but if thou wilt enter into _____, keep
the commandments.”
7. How are our righteousnesses described
in the Bible? Please give a text to support your answer.
8. How is our faith measured or proved
to be genuine? Please supply a Bible text.
9. Is the only thing that separates us
from God and his righteousness unbelief? Please give a text to support your
answer.
10. Can we have the
righteousness of Christ without a submission and surrender of ourselves
first? Please give a text to support your answer.
Close up of a pansy
Links to Prior Sabbath Reports
February 3, 2007
February 10, 2007
February 17, 2007
February 24, 2007
March 17, 2007
March 24, 2007
March 31, 2007
April 7, 2007
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We have had lovely Sabbaths
here at Smyrna Gospel Ministries during the past two weeks, and we apologize
for the delay in updating our Sabbath report. Our hands have been busy with
many things and we hope that you also have been busy about God’s work,
whether it be inside or outside your home. God is good and we praise him for
his continual mercies.
Sabbath School
Last Sabbath our Sabbath School
began with prayer and then a song service led by Brother Leon Holt. A
devotional was shared by Sister Onycha Holt on the “exceeding” wisdom of the
spider (Proverbs 30:24, 28) and the strong and durable web spiders weave
every day. Next we shared with each other how God has blessed us during the
past week and we also shared our prayers requests. Following this, we had a
sweet season of prayer, which lasted until time for the worship hour to
begin, for Hans Stump who was in the hospital at that time.
From Pastor Stump: As perhaps many of our friends know,
a little over seven years ago Hans fought a victorious battle against
cancer, and his life since then has been a series of challenges. Most
recently, a very large tumor has been discovered in the upper left portion
of his chest. After being in three different hospitals, he was sent to the
University of Virginia Medical Center, where it was determined that this
mass is basically inoperable. At the current time, the tumor is not causing
many problems but the future is in God’s hands. We greatly appreciate your
prayers for Hans and his family. (When he was sick over seven years ago, we
received numerous letters and calls counseling us on how he should be
treated. We appreciated all the sincere interest and concerns and we
understand there are many different options available, so please give us the
opportunity of considering the options that we are already well aware of
without weighing us down with more advice and counsel at this time.
Thank you.)
On the previous Sabbath,
devotional thoughts were shared by Pastor Stump and included a quiz on
righteousness by faith. We are adding the quiz to this report
(see left column) and hope that it will bless you as
much as it blessed us that Sabbath morning.
Worship
Service
The worship hour for April 28
began with a hymn of praise, prayer by Brother Glen Ford, and then special
music by Brother Leon Holt. A children’s story was shared by Sister Onycha
Holt on Alma McKibben, one of our early Seventh-day Adventist educators. The
sermon was presented by Pastor Stump on working faith, and several places in
the Bible were looked at where faith was put into action.
Over six years ago we
envisioned a video series that would cover the truth about God in detail,
and we are very pleased to announce that the recording for next video,
“Ellen G. White and the Godhead,” has been finished and we hope to have it
edited and ready for distribution by camp meeting and hopefully before. This
video is extremely well-documented and will provide much help to those who
question the reliability of Ellen White and who want to know her true
position on God, so if you are interested in obtaining a copy, please let us
know.
Until next Sabbath, may you be
safely kept in the loving care of our Saviour.
How
to Listen to our Services
Pastor Stump’s message service can be
heard over the phone by dialing in the United
States 1-605-475-8599 and entering the conference ID of 5126052 when
prompted. The reference number for the audio version of his sermon is
85927. If you are using Skype you may enter +990008271111 on
your Skype call window to access the recording section and, when prompted,
enter room number 5126052 and then the referece number 85927 when prompted.
If you are a listener to the
broadcasts and you would like to have us post a picture of you and/or those
who listen with you, email us a picture at
onycha@smyrna.org and we will post
your picture here for others to see!
Don't forget we also broadcast the
Wednesday evening prayer service starting at 7:00 p.m. (EST)! Join us if you
have no prayer meeting to attend in your area!
Brother Dennis Robertson will be
sharing the service this coming week.
He has made everything beautiful in its time.
Also He has put eternity in
their hearts, except that no one can find out
the work that God does from beginning
to end (Eccl. 3:11-NKJV).
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