What Is the Evidence of Salvation?

Preview: A look at the role of prophecy in our salvation. 


Scripture Reading: Matthew 16:1-12. 

Memory Verse: Matthew 16:6. 

1. Why didn’t the Pharisees and Sadducees accept Jesus? Matthew 16:1-3. 
Note: They knew the law, but they were ignorant as to the spirit of prophecy. 
2. By what may we test religious teachers? Isaiah 8:20. 
3. What are the testimonies? Revelation 19:10. 
Note: The testimony is the spirit of prophecy, and without the prophecies we are as a blind man. 
4. How did Peter regard the prophecies? II Peter 1:19. 
5. How should prophecy be interpreted? Where does true prophecy come from? II Peter 1:20-21. 
6. What blessing is ours if we read and hear the Book of Revelation? Revelation 1:3. 
Note: The Book of Revelation is a book of prophecy. It gives the future so we may know where we are in the stream of time. 
7. By what may we test a minister of God? Isaiah 41:21-24. 
8. What further did the Lord question? Isaiah 41:26. 
9. Can the Lord show forth the future things? Discuss. Isaiah 42:9. 
10. Who, and only who, can declare the end from the beginning and from the ancient times? Isaiah 46:10. 
Note: The prophecies are written for the saints of God to comfort us, and as a guide to know where we are in the stream of time. 
11. Who are part of the Church foundation and who is the cornerstone? Ephesians 2:20. 
12. What will be the reward of the men who leave off or add to the prophecies? Revelation 22:18-19. 
13. What did Isaiah write about future things to come? Isaiah 30:1-8. 
14. Who will not hear the prophecies? Isaiah 30:9-10. 
15. What did Paul say to the Thessalonians about prophecy? I Thessalonians 5:20. 
16. Should we desire prophecy, why? I Corinthians 14:1. 
17. How will prophecy affect the unbelievers and the unlearned? I Corinthians 14:24. 
18. Why should we covet prophecy? I Corinthians 14:39. 
Note: We now better understand why the Pharisees and Sadducees crucified Jesus: they were not students of the prophecies. They committed the greatest crime of all crimes; they crucified the Author and Giver of prophecies. They trusted in the law alone, were blind leaders. Brethren covet to prophecy. 
19. How will Christ come to His Church? I Thessalonians 5:4-5. 
20. How much will the brethren know of the Word of God? I John 2:20.