Women of Grace Spring Semester ‘03

Tests of Eternal Life

Homework for Lesson Fifteen: I John 4:1-6

Discerning Truth From Error

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 4:1

1. (a) There are many differences between those who are false and those who are true according to I John 4:1-6. What are those differences?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Who is behind false prophets, antichrists, and those who teach error?

 

 

 

 

(c) What test does John give us in the passage that helps us to discern false teachers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. John gives us some ways to test false prophets in I John 4:1-6. However, there are other ways to discern false prophets. What are they according to the following passages? Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Deuteronomy 18:20-22; Isaiah 8:19, 20; Matthew 7:15-21; Galatians 1:8; I Timothy 4:1-3; II Peter 2; Jude 4, 8, 10, 16.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. (a) Do you think all believers can discern false teachers? See Matthew 24:24; John 16:13; I John 4:6.

 

 

 

 

(b) How should Christians respond to false teachers? Deuteronomy 13:1-3; Titus 3:10, 11; II John 7-11.

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Why should we respond that way? (Answer this question according to the preceding passages.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. (a) What is going to happen to false teachers? II Peter 2:1, 12, 13, 17; Jude 11-15.

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How can you encourage or exhort those who are engrossed in error?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. How does I John 4:4 give you comfort?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. (a) Do you think you can discern false prophets?

 

 

 

(b) How can you be more discerning after this lesson?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Who are some of the false teachers and/or some of the false religions in our day, and how did you discern that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Do you know anyone who has been swept away by false teaching or false teachers? How might we pray for them? Bring a prayer request to share with your partner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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