PENTICOSTAL THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY.

ELEME

RIVERS STATE

TERM PAPER

COURSE: THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF CHRIST

(THE GOSPEL)

QUESTION: OPEN ASSIGNMENT

LECTURER: Rev. ELIJAH OPWOJU

Submitted by:

DUUDEE GOODLUCK BARIKPOA.

AUGUST, 2019

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1. Malachi 4: 5-6 ends with the prophecy that God will send Elijah
"before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes," who will
bring harmony between parents and children so that the Lord will not
come to curse the land.

The return of Elijah as a forerunner to the Messiah was commonly

believed in Jesus' time. When Jesus asks his disciples, "Who do
people say that I am?" all three Synoptic Gospels report that the
disciples mention Elijah as one of the answers they have heard
(Matthew 16:14; Mark 8:28; Luke 9:18-19).

Malachi writes that when Elijah returns, "he will turn the hearts of
parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents"
(Malachi 4:6). At the beginning of Luke's Gospel, the angel cites this
verse to describe to Zechariah that his son John will fulfill Elijah's
task: "With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him [the
Lord], to turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the
disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people
prepared for the Lord" (Luke 1:17).

It could also be seen a s farewell message of the old testament

prophecy for there followed a four hundred years when the voice of a
living prophet was not heard.

It was also noted that it closed with a prediction of the coming of

Elijah to prepare the nations for God’s great day

2. The prediction is about the return of Elijah as a forerunner to the

Messiah was commonly believed in Jesus' time.
3. The meaning of the name John is Jehovah is gracious.

4. He spent most of his boyhood, youth and manhood in the desert.

5. In the desert he:

a. Pondered on the writings of the prophets

b. Brooded over the nation’s backslidden condition

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 c. Sought the face of God and

d. Awaited the divine call to his public ministry

6. He planned to put her away secretly

7. To the Catholics God preserved the Virgin Mary from the taint of
original sin from the moment she was conceived.

8. He remained in Egypt until the death of Herod

9. He was 12 years old when he first visited Jerusalem.

10.He said that because the parents didn’t know the mission, he came
but to do the work of his father. They only understood after the day of
Pentecost

11.He supported his mother thus sanctifying by his example the duties of
home life and the obligation of honest labour.

12.He spent them in Nazareth in the home of Joseph and Mary.

13.I learnt to be humble and submissive. Also learnt to be obedient to

call of duty.

14.Yes, the divine one could be tempted because at that moment he had
a human soul and a human body to suffer hunger and weariness. He
had taken the armor of human flub for battle and not for idleness. Heb
4:15

15.He was anointed with the Holy Spirit for a spiritual ministry to break
Satan’s hold over men. His work was to bind the strong man and
spoil his house Matt 12:29.

16.The tempter knew he was hungry and knew he had the power to turn
stone into bread which was selfish. In all, he never did any miracle
for himself rather he did al for humanity.

17.The devil wanted him to throw himself from the top of a pinnacle
tempting him that an Angel would be sending to pick him from

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 falling which is contrary to what he stands for. You don’t tempt the
Lord your God.

18.He took him and showed him the kingdoms of the world requesting
that Jesus would bow and worship him. How could a God who is to
be worshipped give worship to the created? He sent him out letting
him know you are to worship only the Lord your God and him only
shall you serve.

19.Andrew and John

20.The substance of Jesus’ message concerning the kingdom of God is

drawing the entirety of the people of Israel and the world at large to
promise of the Kingdom of God. They saw the Kingdom of God as to
be presently given in a political manner where as the kingdom was
about, the rule of God in eternity. It is about a never-ending life in the
presence of God. Luke 17:21

21.The substance of Jesus’ message concerning the nature of God was

centered on a father whose nature is endowed with the love and care
he has extended to every creature who trust him. He made them know
he is the son of God and had a unique relationship with the father and
had come to reveal himself to mankind.

22.The substance of Jesus’ message concerning salvation is that each is

so precious to and in the sight of the father and that he was sent to as
a begotten son into the world to die for all and redeem mankind from
condemnation. The soul of a man is of great value to God. Salvation
depends on a loving trust in the father and in the one whom he sent.

23.The substance of Jesus’ message concerning the way of life is purely

centered on love for God. The controlling power and motive in all of
man’s conduct and relationship is to love God and love man.

24.The miracles were performed to exerting is power over disease, sins,

demons, death and nature but basically

a. Show his credentials given evidence of his messiahship

b. Show the natural outflowing of his personality revealing his

compassion for mankind

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25.The subject is an eye opener to what we thought we knew about the
Gospel. It is worth it from the beginning to the end and needs be re-
visited regularly to update one’s knowledge about the Gospel and
what it holds for the human race without which we may not be able to
uphold the truth and reality about the kingdom race we are all either
consciously or unconsciously pursuing.

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