Lesson 4 | Support by Contrary Statement
Quiz
Time for a little more practice!
“Christ Jesus is the one who died— | more than that, who was raised— | who is at the right hand of God, | who indeed is interceding for us.” (Rom 8:34).
Now you have learned all eighteen relationships. Let’s inscribe them into our memory through a quiz. As always, you will be told if you answered incorrectly after answering, in which case you will need to try again until you have selected the correct answer.
“For I am not aware of anything against myself, | but I am not thereby acquitted…” (1 Cor 4:4)
“While people are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ | then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” (1 Thess 5:3).
“But since we belong to the day, | let us be sober…” (1 Thess 5:8)
Which of the following relationships are event-oriented (as opposed to logic-oriented)?
“Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant | so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance…” (Heb 9:15).
“…he entered once for all into the holy places, | not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood…” (Heb 9:12).
“I had much to write to you, | but I would rather not write with pen and ink.” (3 Jn 13)
Which of the following relationships are logic-oriented (as opposed to event-oriented)?
“Then Peter came up and said to him, ‘Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?’ | Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.’” (Mat 18:21-22).
“I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, | but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.” (Rom 14:14).
“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, | just as I promised to Moses.” (Jos 1:3).
“And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. | But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, ‘It is a ghost!’ and they cried out in fear.” (Mat 14:25-26).
“Take heart; | it is I. | Do not be afraid.” (Mat 14:27).
“For good news came to us just as to them, | but the message they heard did not benefit them…” (Heb 4:2).
“…many are saying of my soul, ‘There is no salvation for him in God.’ | But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.” (Ps 3:2-3).
Which relationship stresses that something is true despite a seemingly contradictory reality?
“Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! | You have given me relief when I was in distress. | Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!” (Ps 4:1).
“Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. | Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight…” (Neh 4:4-5).