SDA English Medium Senior Secondary School

36 Park Street Kolkata

Half –Yearly Exam
Subject: Moral
Class XII COM & SCI.

A. Read the passage given below and answer the given below questions:

All who became the subjects of Christ's kingdom, He said, would give evidence of faith and repentance.
Kindness, honesty, and fidelity would be seen in their lives. They would minister to the needy, and bring
their offerings to God. They would shield the defenseless, and give an example of virtue and
compassion. So the followers of Christ will give evidence of the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. In
the daily life, justice, mercy, and the love of God will be seen, otherwise they are like the chaff that is
given to the fire.-The Desire of Ages, 107:3.

Answer the following question by reading and understanding the passage above

1. What would be the character of the people who became fit for the Heavenly Kingdom?
2. How would you know the person has repented of the past wrong deeds?
3. With whose power we will be transform and the spirit of repentance will come on us?
4. Give the characteristic of the person on the daily life basis who has be transform by the Holy
Spirit.
5. What is the meaning of the word ‘Repentance’?

B. Read the passage given below and answer the given below questions:

Repent: to feel penitence or regret for past conduct. Penitence: sorrow for sins or faults.-Webster.
No repentance is genuine that does not work reformation. The righteousness of Christ is not a cloak to
cover unconfessed and unforsaken sin; it is a principle of life that transforms the character and controls
the conduct. Holiness is wholeness for God; it is the entire surrender of heart and life to the indwelling
of the principles of heaven.-The Desire of Ages, 555:6.
Repentance includes sorrow for sin, and a turning away from it. We shah not renounce sin unless we see
its sinfulness; until we turn away from it in heart, there will be no real change in the life.-Steps to Christ.
26: 2.
Repentance is turning away from self to Christ; and when we receive Christ, so that, through faith, He
can live His life in us, good works will be manifest. Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 131:3.

C. Read the passage given below and answer the given below questions:

1. Mentions the name of three books which has been Quoted explaining the meaning of
Repentance.
2. Explain the meaning of repentance as mentioned in the book Desire of Ages, in the context
given above.
3. What is the meaning of the word repentance according to the Webster Dictionary?
4. Give the meaning of the word pentene.
5. Is repentance in our personal life important and how we can know that person has repented in
his life?
 D. Read the passage given below and answer the given below questions:

It is the virtue that goes forth from Christ that leads to genuine repent ... We can no more repent
without the Spirit of Christ to awaken the conscience than we can be pardoned without Christ.-Steps to
Christ, 30: 1. It is true that men sometimes become ashamed of their sinful ways, and give up some of
their evil habits, before they are conscious that they are being drawn to Christ. But whenever they make
an effort to reform, from a sincere desire to do right, it is the power of Christ that is drawing them.-
Steps to Christ, 31:1.

1. How can we have the repentant heart?

2. Is it in the power of man to be drawn towards Christ?
3. What leads to Genuine Repentance?
4. Have you repented any time in your life if so of what wrong deed?
5. Is repentance important moral characteristic of a person’s life. If so who help the person to
repent?

E. Read the passage given below and answer the given below questions:

The conditions of obtaining mercy of God, are simple and just and reasonable. The Lord does not require
us to do some grievous thing in order that we may have the forgiveness of sin. We need not make long
and wearisome pilgrimages, or perform painful penances, to commend our souls to the God of heaven
or to expiate our transgression; but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall have mercy.-Steps to
Christ, 42:2.

1. What is confession according to the context given above?

2. Does God require long and expansive pilgrimage journey to obtain forgiveness of sin.
3. What two thing is required for the forgiveness of sin?
4. What do you understand by the term “confession”? State one of the confession that you have
made in front of God?
5. Why we should confess our sins? And to whom we should confess our sin?

F. Read the passage given below and answer the given below questions:

You are a sinner. You cannot atone for your past sins, you cannot change your heart, and make yourself
holy. But God promises to do all this for you through Christ. You believe that promise. You confess your
sins, and give yourself to God. Your will to serve Him. Just as surely as you do this, God will fulfill His
word to you. If you believe the promise-believe that you are forgiven and cleansed God supplies the
fact; you are made whole, just as Christ gave the paralytic power to walk when the man believed that he
was healed. It is so if you believe it.-Steps to Christ, 55:1.

1. Can we make our self-holy if not how we can be holy according to the context given above?
2. What is our role in order that God will make us Holy?
3. What God promises in the context above?
4. What is sin explain in two line according to your understanding.
5. Are you sinner than what is the solution to be cleansed from Sin?
G. Complete the given verses of the Bible

1. Isiah 1:8 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though ………………, they shall be
as white as snow; though they…………………………….., they shall be as wool.
2. 1 John 1:9 If we ………………our sins, He is faithful and just to …………….sins, and to ………..us from
all unrighteousness.
3. Acts 3:19 ……………………ye therefore, and be ……………, that your sins may be blotted out, when
the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.