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18 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. What is a jot? What is a tittle?
jot - 10th letter in Hebrew Alphabet and it looks like an apostrophe.
tittle - a tittle is smaller than a jot. it is small pen stroke. such as the difference between a small L (l) and the number (1.) l 1
Christians and bad works are a ________________.
contradiction.
The law refers to the ________________. The Law and the Prophets refers to ___________________.
Torah or Pentateuch
whole of the Old Testament Scriptures
Jesus knew that ________is but murder in disguise. _________ is murder.
anger
slander
Christians are to be the _________of the earth.
salt
. . . Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell. What does Raca mean?
Raca means "empty-headed" cognitively deficient, stupid.
We, the disciples of Christ, the visible community, are the ___________.
light of the world.
Who gave us the Beatitudes?
Jesus (God)
Light has one purpose and one property. What are they?
Purpose: To be the light of the world
Property: To shine
Whoever practices and teaches God's commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (True/False)
True
What is another word for blessed in the Beatitudes?
Happy
God entered into the ________________promising him that he would make him a great nation.
Abraham Covenant
Name one Gospel the Beatitudes is discussed in?
The Gospel of Matthew.
If abolish and fulfill are not opposites, does it mean that Jesus came to retain the OT, or to keep it, or preserve it? Explain your answer
No. Jesus thought of His ministry as bringing the Old Testament to its completion, its culmination, to its intended goal.
Jesus corrects a misunderstanding about His relationship to the OT, that He came to _______ not to _________.
fulfill not to abolish
What is the Mishnah?
First written collection of the Oral Law.
The law can dictate right living without demanding __________________.
righteousness.
The ten commandments were limited, therefore a Hebrew had no obligation to be just to a __________.
non-Hebrew.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may _______________which is in heaven.
see your good works, and glorify your Father
Why does Jesus treat calling someone a fool in the same classification as murder?
Because calling someone a fool is because of anger and Jesus considers anger as murder.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. Give one example of Jesus fulfilling the law?
Examples, virgin birth, Jesus ministry in Galilee, Jesus healings, other activities in Jesus life including dying on the cross.
For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of __________________, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
the scribes and Pharisees,
Since Jesus did not “destroy” the law, do we have to keep the Sabbath today?
No! Luke 19:44 Jesus said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you:Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
Which does salt and light represent: deeds or words?
deeds
When someone is upset with you, what should you do? (Matt 5:23-24)
Go and be reconciled with them.
Share an example of how you reconcile with your friend when both of you were angry with each other.