Views from the Pew: An Enemy Encounter Quiz

What did you learn from Sunday’s sermon “An Enemy Encounter”?

  1. How can Christians focus on kingdom work (e.g., share the gospel, bear fruit) with all the distractions in the world?
    a. Focus on the cloud of witness
    b. Just pray for people
    c. Focus on Jesus.
    d. It is not our responsibility
  2. Luke 4:1-13 proves that Jesus can defeat sin because He encounters evil and wins.
    a. True
    b. False
  3. Why is Jesus suffering temptation?
    a. To be like His brethren in all things
    b. To aid those who are tempted so easily
    c. To satisfy God for the sins of people
    d. All of the above
  4. We are “in the pit of life” because we disobeyed God; why is Jesus “in the pit”?
    a. Because He obeyed God
    b. Because He disobeyed God
    c. Because He was just a man
    d. None of these
  5. Why does Luke add that Jesus became hungry after 40 days without food?
    a. To show the purpose of fasting
    b. Jesus is totally dependent on God
    c. The devil thought Jesus was weak
    d. All of the above
  6. What does it mean to be full of the Holy Spirit?
    a. To get a small dose from time to time
    b. To speak in tongues
    c. To surrender to the Holy Spirit
    d. To be baptized
  7. Why does Jesus go into the wilderness for 40 days?
    a. To pray
    b. To take a walk
    c. To dry off after His baptism
    d. The Holy Spirit led Him there
  8. Why was Jesus unable to sin if He was tempted just like we are?
    a. He is God and could not sin
    b. He wasn’t human
    c. He wasn’t tempted like we are
    d. He was fasting
  9. The temptation Jesus faced in the wilderness from Satan for 40 days was not lessened by His inability to sin but more intense than we can imagine.
    a. True
    b. False
  10. God makes temptation ordinary/common (1 Corinthians 10:13) in accord with our ability to overcome it, and He’ll give us an escape; so, when we fail it is not because of a special temptation, but our internal surrender to the temptation.
    a. True
    b. False

Answers:

  1. c (See Hebrews 12:1-3)
  2. a
  3. d
  4. a
  5. d
  6. c
  7. d
  8. a
  9. a
  10. a