Preparation for Heavenly Living Correspondence School
TW 403 from PFHL Course 411-- Trust
(special compilation of verses by Bill Stevenson)
Directions:Answer the thought provoking questions. Notice the subtitles. Sometimes the question or questions will refer to more than one passage, so before answering such read all Scripture until the next question. This assignment is worth 3 units, so write at least 4quality pages (single spaced lines and no redundancies). Introduction:
Trust is so important, especially in a Christian’s growth in faith. The word “believe” inthe New Testament usually means “believe with complete trust as if one’s life dependedon such”. Remember, it wasn’t just Judas who did not completely trust Jesus Christabout what He said about Him being resurrected from death. They were very scared after the Crucifixion.
1.)What do these passages say about trust? How is trust related to doubt?
Matthew 28:16-20John 20:18-31
Wrong things and people to trust in:
2.)What .is vanity? What does recompense mean? Why would trusting in vanity lead encourage oneto lie and become wicked?
Job 15:31Isaiah 59:1-5
3.)What does trusting in your own heart mean? What are you relying on for your decisions? What does trusting in beauty mean? What does trusting in one’s own righteousness mean?
Proverbs 28:26Ezekiel 16:15Hosea 10:13Isaiah 47:10-15Ezekiel 33:13Luke 18:9-17Philippians 3:4-92 Corinthians 1:92 Corinthians 10:7
4.)How can trusting in other human beings be wrong?
Psalm 41:9Isaiah 30:1-13Jeremiah 17:5-6Isaiah 36:4-6
5.)What do trusting in horses, chariots, “my bow”, and “my sword”, “all of his armor” mean? Howcould trust in such things go against God’s desires for us?
Isaiah 31:1Psalm 20:6-9Psalm 44:6-8Luke 11:21-23
6.)What does trust in wealth or riches mean? What kind of problems have you had in such trusting? How could a wealthy Christian man or woman avoid such trusting?
Psalm 49:6-14Psalm 52:1-7Psalm 62:9-10Proverbs 11:27Jeremiah 48:7-8Mark 10:17-311 Timothy 6:17
Incomplete trust:
7.)How is the following problem not just true of the Jews back in Jesus’ human ministry time? Howdo even professing Christians have incomplete trust of the Bible?
John 5:18 & 45-47
Trust in God the Father:
8.)Why trust in God?
Jeremiah 17:7-8Psalm 5:11-12Psalm 13:5-6Psalm 16:1-3Psalm 17:6-7Psalm 25:1-6 & 16-21Psalm 26:1-5Psalm 28:6-7
Daniel 3:28
Psalm 31:1-20Psalm 32:10-11Psalm 33:16-22Psalm 34:8-9 & 22Psalm 86:2-7Psalm 71:1-5Psalm 36:7-101 Timothy 6:17-19Psalm 57:1-3Psalm 73:24-28Psalm 84:11-12Psalm 91:1-6Proverbs 30:5 Nahum 1:72 Corinthians 1:7-11
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