125 Gospel Obedience
Gospel Obedience THIRD YEAR—SUBJECT 18 Gospel Obedience
(READ ACTS 3) 1. Whom must we hear? Matthew 17:5.
2. How must we hear? Hebrews 2:1.
3. What must we hear? Matthew 7:24.
4. Why do some people not hear? Acts 28:27.
5. In what manner must we hear? James 1:19.
6. What depends upon our hearing? Romans 10:17.
After examining the life of Christ and the church he established we now come to examine the law that God requires all to obey in order to be saved.
All agree that the sinner has wandered from God, and must come back to him before he can be reconciled or received back into God’s family. As God makes the conditions upon which the sinner can come and be saved, we now propose to examine these conditions, closely, step by step, so all can learn what God requires them to do to be saved.
Under the old dispensation people had to hear Moses and the prophets, but Moses taught that when Jesus came we must hear him in all things. Deut. 18. So if we learn how to be saved we must hear Christ. In hearing him, I hear the gospel and in hearing the gospel I must believe what I hear. Thus my faith depends upon my hearing, and if a man has Scriptural faith he must have heard the gospel. If I ever come to Christ, where I can be saved, I must start by hearing the word of God, that I may understand it and be¬lieve the same.
QUESTIONS 1. What must a man hear to be saved?
2. Why do not all hear the gospel?
3. Whom must a man hear to be saved?
4. If one cannot be saved until he has faith, how must his faith come?
5. Moses says I must hear Christ in all things he commands. If I refuse to accept part of his teaching can I be saved?
6. What does he say about keeping the whole law, and offending in one point?
7. When people heard and obeyed the gospel in apostolic times, what did it make them?
8. To what church did the Lord add them?
9. Then if we find people something else than Christians, and belonging to some other church than the church of Christ, can they claim to have heard the gospel?
10. What does God threaten to do with all those who will not hear him in all things he commands? Acts 3:22-23.