Lectures to Professing Christians

Lecture 2: False Professors
Question Sheet

Did the people who inhabited the land of Israel when Israel was taken captive fear God? Yes  No

Did they also serve their own Gods? Yes  No

There are two kinds of fear:
  One is founded on __________.
  The other is based on __________.

What does it mean to serve someone?

To serve God is to make religion the main business of _______.

The first lesson of religion is to renounce __________ of ourselves.

Who has paid our wages?

For each of the following, mark whether the phrase proves we are serving our own Gods...

2. Make your business a way of serving God.  True  False

3. Devote to Jehova what costs us little or nothing.  True  False

4. Six days belong to ourselves and the Sabbath is God's day.  True  False

5. Will not make any sacrifices of personal ease for God.  True  False

6. Give grudgingly to God's work.  True  False

7. Ask how little we may do rather than how much we may do.  True  False

8. Laying up wealth for our own families.  True  False

9. Accumulate property for ourselves for retirement.  True  False

Is retirement biblical?  Yes  No

10. Gratifying our own appetites.  True  False

The astonishing strength of selfishness.

11. Moved to action by appeals to my own interests.  True  False

12. More interested in other subjects than religion.  True  False

13. More jealous for our own fame than for God's glory.  True  False

14. Not making the salvation of souls the leading motivation in our lives.  True  False

What is the main end of all religion? _______________________.

15. Those who are doing little for God.  True  False

16. Those who seek for happiness rather than for usefulness.  True  False

17. Making our own salvation our supreme object in religion.  True  False

Remarks

1. Why is so little accomplished in the world for Jesus Christ?

2. Why do so few Christians have a spirit of prayer?

3. Why are there a number of professors of religion who have not become religious yet?

4. Those who profess to serve the Lord, but only serve themselves are _____________.

VOCABULARY:
burlesque
heathen
hypocrite
impenitent
outrageous