Lesson Sixteen Flashcards
Finish this sentence:
Luke’s Gospel details how the outsiders to the community of Israel _________________________________________
Are welcomed in to the community of Israel and Israel is restored
Why was the parable of the Good Samaritan so shocking to Jewish sensibilities?
The Samaritans were a people who were outside the bounds of the covenant of Israe
What is a parable?
A teacher’s way of taking some unknown idea or concept and making it comprehensible or known by using visible, everyday objects
Describe Jesus’ incarnational existence
The unknown, invisible, intangible God being made known by ordinary, everyday human flesh
The three parables contained in Luke 15 are really what?
Only one parable (one concept made known by three ordinary images)
In Luke’s Gospel, in what sort of place were the ninety-nine sheep left?
The wilderness (a place of danger and suffering)
What is Jesus teaching in the parable of the lost coin?
Sometimes people can get lost inside the house of God - yet even there God will seek what is lost
To ask for one’s inheritance early was the same as doing what?
Wishing that your father was dead
In the parable of the two lost sons, the older brother is a metaphor for what?
The Jewish people who would not accept the Christian movement, because it included sinners and Gentiles
The theme “without hindrance,” traced throughout Luke and Acts, finds its culmination in Paul’s ability to do what?
Preach the gospel freely and welcome the outsider into the house of God (Acts 28:31)
