Expository Preaching: Quiz – Law & Gospel

According to Shan Rosenthal, i the Reformation of the 16th century, the church was defined as…

In what chapter of St. John does Jesus say these words to the Pharisees, “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me and to have life.”

What does the Greek word “ojrqotomouvnta or orqotemew” mean?

In the section titled: Problems Associated with Confusing Law & Gospel, it opens with recounting the story of the “Rich Young Ruler who comes to Jesus”.

What was it that Jesus told the Rich Young Ruler to do when he asked him, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

According to the section entitled Rightly Dividing the Word, if the Promised Land, or goal, of Christian preaching is Christ, then the means to that end is…

According to the section entitled Law & Gospel in Les Miserables, a 1985 musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel (Les Miserables) is basically about…

Which of the great Biblical writers said the following words:

“If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a lost compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my l\Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness f my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”

Who is the author of “Law & Gospel” (Preaching Christ Through a Rightly Divided Word)?

At the time of reformation, which reformer wrote the following: “This difference between the Law and the Gospel is the height of knowledge in Christendom. Every person and all persons who assume or glory in the name of Christian should know and be able to state this difference. If this ability is lacking, one cannot tell a Christian from a heathen or a Jew; of such supreme importance is this differentiation. This is why St. Paul so strongly insists on a clean-cut and proper differentiating of these two doctrines.”

Scottish theologian Ralph Erskine wrote a poem entitled Against A Legal Spirit, in which he responded to the question, “Who then can be saved?” What was his prevailing point in the poem?