Quiz4

“Heavenly places” is described as the place of

• eternal blessings

• Christ’s seat of dominion at the Father’s right hand

• believers’ spiritual union and communion

• All of the above

God chose us (Christians) to be holy and without blame before him

• Before the foundation of the world

• After the fall of Adam and eve

• When we as individuals believed on jesus

• God chooses all people not only christians

God chose us

• because He needed someone to love

• during our previous lives we lived before the creation of the world

• in Christ, in accordance with God’s good pleasure and His foreknowledge of us. We are elect in God’s precious, beloved, elect One, Jesus Christ. All spiritual blessings are in Christ.

Regarding predestination…

• predestination is a scriptural doctrine in which all Christians should rejoice

• predestination means God has fixed believers’ destiny ahead of time

• those who God foreknew He predestinated to the adoption of children, to the praise of the glory of His grace, to be conformed to the image of his Son (that Jesus might be the firstborn among many brethren), and to an inheritance

• All of the above

By the riches of God’s grace and His abounding, manifold wisdom in Jesus Christ,

• we have been accepted in the beloved, redeemed by his blood, and forgiven of sins

• God has made peace with us through the blood of Christ

• God has made known to us these glorious truths (i.e., the mystery of God’s will which was once hidden is now revealed to believers)

  all the above

• All of the above

The exceeding riches of God’s grace

• will continue to be shown to us in the ages to come, when we are gathered together unto Him

• are only realized in this life—science has proven that there is no life after death

• are earned by good works and not available to those who have sinned too much

God chose us to salvation in Christ through belief in the truth of Christ

• God gave spiritual blessings before the world began for the benefit of those who would believe in Christ

• We received these blessings and were saved in time after hearing and believing the gospel.

• Before faith, we Gentiles are described as being in Adam, enemies of God, dead in trespasses and sins by nature the children of wrath, without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, without God in the world, and afar off

• All the above

After believing the truth, we were sealed with the Holy Spirit. God’s indwelling Spirit is…

• God's seal or mark of ownership unto the day of redemption

• the earnest (or first fruit) that secures the believer's promised inheritance (guaranteeing that there is much more to come)

• A second work of grace which can commence years after a person is saved

• a and b only

Paul ceased not to give thanks and to pray for the Ephesian Christians. He prayed for…

• their physical ailments

• their material blessings

• their knowledge, understanding, and comprehension of the love of Christ, the hope of their calling, the riches of their inheritance, and the exceeding power of the resurrected, exalted, and reigning Lord Jesus that worked in them. That God would strengthen them with might by the Spirit in the inner man, that they might be filled with all the fullness of God.

God has made peace and reconciled into one body both Jews and Gentiles

• by the cross of Jesus, abolishing and slaying the enmity between us and God, even the law of commandments that condemned both Jews and Gentiles

• through the ecumenical movement that emphasizes the unity of all religions

• by saving Gentiles through Jesus and saving Jews by virtue of their physical ethnicity