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IV.
Life, Parables, and Miracles of Christ
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Chapter 34
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Christ the Great Teacher
1. WHAT report did the officers bring who were sent
out by the chief priests and Pharisees to take Jesus?
"Never man spake like this man." John 7:46.
2. How did Christ teach the people?
"He taught them as one having authority, and not
as the scribes." Matt. 7:29.
NOTE.-"The teaching of the scribes and elders was
cold and formal like a lesson learned by rote. To
them the Word of God possessed no vital power. Their
own ideas and traditions were substituted for its
teaching. In the accustomed round of service they
professed to explain the law, but no inspiration
from God stirred their own hearts or the hearts of
their hearers."
3. Why was Christ's preaching so
impressive?
"For His word was with power." Luke
4:32.
4. With what was He filled?
"And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned
from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness." Verse 1.
5. How freely was the Holy Spirit
bestowed upon Him?
"For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words
of God:
for God
giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him."
John 3:34.
6. How had Christ's teaching by
parables been foretold?
"I will open My mouth in a parable: I
will utter dark sayings of old." Ps. 78:2.
7. How was this fulfilled?
"Without a parable spake He not unto them." Matt. 13:34.
8. What question did Christ's wonderful teaching call
forth?
"And when He was come into His own country, He
taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were
astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this
wisdom, and these mighty works? " Verse 54.
9. What did Isaiah say Christ would do with the law?
"He will magnify the law, and make it
honorable." Isa. 42:21.
10. Because some thought He had come to destroy the
law, what did Christ say?
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break
one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so,
he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto
you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in
no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matt.
5:17-20.
11. What testimony did Nicodemus bear concerning Him?
"Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher come from
God: for no man can do these miracles that Thou
doest, except God be with him." John 3:2.
12. What did Christ's words at
Jacob's well lead the woman of Samaria to ask?
"The woman then left her water-pot, and went
her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a
man which told me all things that ever I did: is not
this the Christ?" John 4:28,29.
13. How were the two on the way to
Emmaus affected by Christ's conversation with them?
"And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn
within us, while He talked with us by the way, and
while He opened to us the Scriptures?" Luke 24:32.
14. In His teaching, to what did
Christ direct attention?
"And beginning at Moses and all the prophets,
He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things
concerning Himself." "And He said unto them, These are
the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with
you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were
written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me.
Then opened He their understanding, that they might
understand the Scriptures." Verses 27,44,45.
15. How did He encourage His
disciples to look for the fulfillment of prophecy?
"When ye therefore shall see the abomination
of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in
the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
then let them which be in Judea flee into the
mountains." Matt. 24:15,16.
NOTE.-Christ was a faithful student, a consistent
user, and a perfect expounder, of the Scriptures. He
met temptation with the Scriptures; He proved His
Messiahship by the Scriptures; He taught from the
Scriptures; and He told His disciples to look to the
Scriptures as their counselor and guide for the
future.
Blest they
who seek
While in their youth,
With spirit meek,
The way of truth.
To them the Sacred Scriptures now display
Christ as the only true and living way;
His precious blood on Calvary was given
To make them heirs of bliss in heaven.
And e'en on earth the child of God can trace
The blessings of his Saviour's grace.
For them He bore
His Father's frown;
For them He wore
The thorny crown;
Nailed to the cross,
Endured its pain,
That His life's loss
Might be their gain.
Then haste to choose
That better part,
Nor e'en refuse
The Lord thy heart,
Lest He declare
"I know you not,"
And deep despair
Should be your lot,
Now look to Jesus, who on Calvary died,
And trust on Him who there was crucified.
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