Grace Bible Church - Tulsa, OK
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Your homework will help sharpen your understanding of the Bible and is a ministry to others as you share your answers in your small group. Prayerfully think through each answer with the expectation of sharing with others what God has taught you.
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The Sermon on the Mount: Being Women of the Kingdom
Homework for Lesson Eleven
An Eye for an Eye
Read and memorize Matthew 5:38-42
1. (a) What are the specific details given in the Law regarding vengeance?
Exodus 21:24-25
Leviticus 24:19-20
Deuteronomy 19:15-21
(b) Why do you think God gave such detail?
2. What do the following verses teach regarding revenge?
Leviticus 19:18
Proverbs 20:22
Proverbs 24:29
3. (a) What is the principle that Jesus is teaching in Matthew 5:39-42?
(b) In what ways should we resist evil?
4. How were the following individuals treated by others? How did they model
Jesus' teaching of "turning the other cheek?"
Genesis 13:9-10, 14:14-16
Genesis 50:15-21
I Samuel 26:1-10
5. How are Christians exhorted to practically apply this teaching?
Romans 12:19-21
I Corinthians 6:7
I Peter 3:8-9
(d) How did Christ model this teaching for us? See I Peter 2:21-24.
6. How do people today use the phrase, "eye for eye, tooth for tooth", to justify sinful actions?
7. What characteristic(s) of kingdom citizens allow themselves to be wronged without reacting or retaliating?
8. What weapons of retaliation do you use when you have been offended? Do
you reflect Christ's example when you are hurt? Write a prayer request
that God will help you to grow in Christ's likeness.