Apr. 14, 2024

Matthew Lesson 39 Study Questions

1.    “The word proselyte is an English transliteration of a Greek word proselutos, which means one who has approached or drawn near. The proselyte was the full _________ who had accepted the ceremonial law and circumcision and who had become in the fullest sense a _____.”

2.    Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing: Out of obedience to God’s Word they refused to swear by the name of God (as commanded in Exodus 20:7). Yet they constructed an __________ system of oaths, some of which were binding and some were not. It was a way of making a promise while keeping fingers ________ behind one’s back.

3.    Having never been separated from God the Father by sin, Jesus Himself needed no ______. He had a free and glorious relationship with His Father. It was the freedom of Adam _________ the fall – or even more so, because Jesus had a history of relationship with His Father that Adam did not know.

4.    You pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin: Their tithing was meticulous and noteworthy; but ____________ because it served to sooth the _______ of their neglect of the weightier matters of the law. It is both possible and common to be distracted with relatively trivial matters while a lost world perishes.

5.    Jesus gave a cursory description of these weightier matters of the law with the words, _______ and _____ and ______. “This phrase recalls the summary of true religion (in contrast to extravagant sacrifice) in Micah 6:8.”

6.    Inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence: While greatly concerned with their outward appearance of ___________, they were unconcerned with an inside full of ____ and ____________.

7.    You also outwardly appear righteous to men: Men might see them as righteous, but God did not. God is never ________ by what we show on the ________. He sees what we actually are, not what we appear to be to other men.

8.    Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt: Jesus prophesied about how these leaders would complete the __________ of the prophets their fathers began by ____________ His disciples, whom He would send to them.

9.    Jesus spoke so strongly about these religious leaders for two reasons. First, He did not want others to be deceived by them. Second, He loved these men. These men were the farthest from God and they needed to be warned of coming judgment. What Jesus really wanted was their __________, not their ____________.

10.    This heartfelt cry is another way to see that Jesus didn’t hate these men He rebuked so strongly. His heart broke for them. When we sin, God does not hate us; He genuinely _________ for us, knowing that in every way our sin and rebellion only __________ our life. We should hope to share God’s sorrow for lost humanity.