Women of Grace Fall Semester ‘02

Tests of Eternal Life

Homework for Lesson Two: I John 1:5-7

The Outcome of The Dark Road and 
The Light Road

Your Homework is Not Only to Sharpen Your Understanding of the Bible but a Ministry to Others in Your Small Groups! Be Faithful to Give Careful Thought to Each Answer with the Expectation of Sharing with Others What You have Discovered.

Memory Verse - I John 1:6

1) Read I John 1:5-7 and John 1:1-14.

(a) What word does John use in both of these passages to describe God?

 

 

(b) What are the results according to these two passages of knowing the Light?

 

 

 

 

(c) What does the statement "God is light" tell you about God?

 

 

 

 

 

2) John says in I John 1:5 that "God is light." (a) Because God is light, what benefits are there for those who know Him?

Psalm 27:1;

 

Psalm 36:9;

 

Psalm 84:11;

Isaiah 60:19;

 

John 1:9;

 

John 8:12;

 

John 12:35,36;

 

Rev. 22:5.

 

(b) What is your response to this?

 

 

 

 

 

3) (a) According to Matthew 7:21-23, who claims to have fellowship with God, but actually walks in darkness?

 

 

(b) What happened to these people?

 

 

(c) How do Jesus (Mt passage) and John (I John passage) describe those who claim to have a relationship with God, but in fact they do not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d) Do you claim to know God?

(e) Does your life measure up to that claim?

 

 

4) (a) What contrasts do you see in the following passages between those who are in darkness and those who are in light?

Luke 11:33-36;

 

John 3:19-21;

 

Acts 26:18;

 

Romans 13:12-14;

 

Ephesians 5:8-17;

 

Colossians 1:12-14;

 

I Thess. 5:1-8;

 

I John 2:8-11.

 

(b) Why not begin to pray Acts 26:18 for those you know who are in darkness?

5) (a) Besides Light, what else does scripture say about God?

Psalm 99:9; 116:5;

 

 

John 3:33; John 4:24;

I Cor. 1:9;

 

 

I Tim. 4:4;

 

 

Heb. 12:29;

 

 

I John 4:8

 

 

(b) What does this tell you about God?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) (Private question to consider-not to be answered in class.) Is there someone you know who claims to have fellowship with God, and yet you know they are walking in darkness? Will you plead with them this week to consider the truths of I John-to consider that they are in darkness, that they lie, and that they are not of the truth?

 

 

7) Come with a prayer of thanksgiving to God for the "cleansing of all your sins!"

Come with a request so that we might pray for you.