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Question 1

Jesus’s vision is centered on

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The kingdom of God, the reign of God

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Characterized with the absence of suffering, sorrow, sin and death.

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Kingdom of God

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Viewed as a future when God completely reigns over evil. Thus people look towards the future with great anticipation, and excitement.

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Kingdom of God as a Future Event

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1. Parables of the Growing Seed
2. The mustard seed
3. The yeast
4. Sower of weeds
5. Great net

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Kingdom of God as a present reality

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Kingdom is to be embraced as a present moment where God reveals himself and his power, without any doubt, through the lives of men and women.

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Kingdom of God as a present reality

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One does not need to wander in the future to seek traces of God’s intervention but in the healing, the exorcism and the manifold ways by which He manifests Himself to all in and through the person of his Son, Jesus Christ.

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Kingdom of God as present reality

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T/F The jews had already understood it as the reign of YWH as God and King

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Question 8

An expectation that has always been part of the Jewish religious identity.

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Coming of the Messiah from the lineage of David

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It is by obeying the Law, that the just man takes on himself the yoke of the Kingdom of heaven.

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Kingdom of God (Essentially interior)

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Obedient to the very letters of the Law without high regard to its spirit, its wisdom.

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Pharisees becoming legalistic

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T/F Jesus was a pious Jew; he followed the religious traditions and customs of his ancestors.

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Question 12

Prophecy of the Anointed One was Jesus
Brough glad tidings to the poor was Jesus
One who proclaimed liberty to the captives was Jesus
One who gave recovery of sight to the blind was Jesus
One who freed the oppressed was Jesus
One who proclaimed a year acceptable to the Lord was Jesus

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Fulfillment of the Messiah as Jesus

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The Kingdom of God himself through his words and works.

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Jesus as the Autobasiliea

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T/F Reason that made the Kingdom of God a pressing concern in every moment is Jesus’ call for repentance

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Question 15

Repent and believe in the Gospel means that God’s kingdom will demand a reorientation of life

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Jesus’s call for repentence

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T/F To follow Jesus means to be of service to the Kingdom of God

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Question 17

T/F The Kingdom of God will have its full realization in Jesus’ second coming when Christ shall be the supreme Judge and King

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Question 18

Describe willing and committed love, occur well over 300 times in the New Testament

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Greek words for agapao and agape

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Is a community of overflowing love

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Our God - The Father, the Son, and the Spirit

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Sending his only begotten Son to redeem a stubborn, sinful humanity - as it is describe by John

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God’s ultimate expression of love

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Considered such commandment to be a contradiction to human nature because to hate is to naturally reciprocate it with feelings of anger and hatred.

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Philosopher Gottfried Nietzche

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Is the power to love those whom we do not like and who may not like us. We can only have agape when Jesus enables us to conquer our natural tendency to anger and to bitterness, and to achieve this invincible goodwill to all men.

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Agape

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Love is not a feeling because true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love

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M. Scott peck

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T/F The surest way of killing bitterness is to pray for the man we are tempted to hate

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Question 25

Is the term traditionally used to designate Jesus's sayings at the beginning of the Sermon of the Mount... and in other parts of NW

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Beatitudes

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As praise for certain kind of behavior As a blessing that transforms the status of those designated As a proclamation that designated those whom the readers should recognize as blessed

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Beatitudes

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First 3 - God and the glory of God Second 3 - our needs and necessities Last - God is given proper place that all other things fall into their proper places

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Apostle Prayer/ Disciple Prayer

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Comparison - usually builds from a literary device called simile

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Parable (greek parabole)

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T/F Made intriguing and effective was the strategy of weaving messages in simple terms, and down to earth setting that ordinary people could easily relate and identify with.

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Question 30

(1) based his parables on day-to-day experiences (2) made use of parables to illustrate and explain the reality of God's kingdom (3) led his listeners to reflection after telling them the moral of the parable

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Jesus able to connect message to audience

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Healing miracles Exorcisms Restoration of Life Natural Miracles

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Miracles of Jesus

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Miracles on Sabbath days Being possessed by Beelzebul Granting Forgiveness and not God Calling of Levi (Unclean) Dispute on fasting

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Controversies on Jesus

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Simply referred to as the Paschal Mystery

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Accounts of Jesus' Passion, Death, and Resurrection

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Were written by the evangelists from the perspective of faith in recognition and appreciation to the truth of Jesus' identity an destiny as the Suffering Servant Messiah.

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Paschal Mystery

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(1) Claimed authority over Law by healing on Sabbath (2) Claimed authority over Temple when stopping sacrificial services and stopped anyone from buying and selling (3) Self claims that inspire sedition against the Roman Empire

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Basis of Jesus Arrest

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(1) Violation of Law On Sabbath (2) Plan to destroy the temple (3) Association with sinners and other social, religious and political outcasts (4) Question on the interpretation of the Jewish Law (5) Question on Jesus' Source of Authority, God as his Abba

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Allegations Against Jesus

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(1) Law must be at the service of the people (2) Anticipation of his passion and death (3) Helping sinners (4) Trap of legalism be avoided (5) Source of authority from God himself (6) Jesus did not publicly claim that he was the Messiah

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Counter Allegations

Question 38

(1) King of the Jews against Ceaser of the Roman Empire (2) Incited rebellion and sedition

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Political Charges

Question 39

Even if they sentenced Jesus to death, they still lacked the legitimate authority to execute him.

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Pilates as a necessary character leading to Jesus' Crucification

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T/F Jesus was fully aware of his impending death and embraced it with so much love and obedience to the Father, even if he had all the reasons to spare himself and to escape from the pain and humiliation of being crucified.

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Question 41

Act of washing the feet of his disciples - strongly affirms the quality of Jesus' messiahship, that is, a servant Messiah