Lesson 4 (Oct 18-24), Being and Doing

What is the difference between hearing and listening?

Knowing Your Enemy

1. What is the deeper motive of looking into a mirror?
2. Why did Mark Twain say "If you like what you see in a mirror you have a good sense of humor?" What does that mean?
3. How well are we able to assess our spiritual condition?

Being a Doer

1. What actions are expected after hearing the Word, such as through a sermon?
2. What are various ways the Word comes to us? How can we tell if instruction or advice is from God or just the human? 
3. To what extent can we really do what is expected of us?

The Law of Freedom

1. How can laws be understood to bring freedom when from school days we have understood rules to curtail freedom?
2. Are doers of the law attempting salvation by works?
3. If we could live as we liked, breaking any laws without consequence, how would we live?
4. Would Christians live better if we could be saved only through works and not grace?

Useful or Useless

1. Why must we do good deeds, helping others in order to be saved, such as the "sheep" are commended for?
2. In today's culture and society are we still obliged to care for widows? Why did Jesus and other Bible writers not include widowers?

Unlike the World

1. How are we to remain unspotted? How good a solution is it to live like a hermit beyond the reach of  temptation?
2. Why is it not enough to avoid doing evil?