Women of Grace Spring Semester ‘03

Tests of Eternal Life

Homework for Lesson Twenty One: I John 5:9-12

The Three Witnesses

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 5:12

 

1. Read I John 5:9-12. What do you learn about God, the Son, and eternal life from these verses?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. (a) John mentions three witnesses in this passage-who are they?

 

 

 

 

(b) Jesus mentions five reliable witnesses in John 5:30-47. Who or what are they?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) What reasons did Jesus give the Pharisees in John 8:12-27 that He could indeed bear witness of Himself?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d) Why do you think the witness of God is greater, as John mentions in I John 5:9? Prove your answer from Scripture.

 

 

 

 

 

3. (a) What do you think "witness" means?

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Do you have the witness within yourself that you are a child of God?

 

 

 

(c) How do you know?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. (a) How do we make God a liar according to what John says in I John 5:10?

 

 

 

 

(b) In what other way do we make God a liar according to I John 1:10?

 

 

 

 

 

(c) What do you think it means to make God a liar?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. How do John 3:36 and Mark 16:16 correlate with I John 5:12?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. (a) Write down at least five reasons why an unbeliever might reject the witness God gave in His Son Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Now write down your rebuttals to the rejections, and include scripture when possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) How can you use these when giving a defense of the gospel to an unbeliever?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. If others were to examine your life closely, how would they conclude that you believe the witness of God, and that you have the Son of life? Or would they conclude that you do not believe the witness of God, and thus have made God a liar?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. (a) Is there someone you know who has rejected the witness of God, and will you share with them again their need of a Savior?

 

(b) Come with a prayer request for that soul.

 

 

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