SANTIFICATION/MATURITY
To live a sanctified life and to mature in the Lord, a believer
must study the passages dealing with these two topics. First answer the questions for each
passage listed below.
Once you have answered the questions then do an indepth,
study of these passages. Click on each passage to go to the page with the questions.
Example of an indepth study.
Matt. 5.48
Are we to live the best we can for the Lord or are we to live perfect lives?
Luke 14.26
To be a true disciple of Jesus must we hate our own family or must we love the Lord more than our family?
Romans 5.3-5
Should we react to tribulation by becoming angry or should we be joyfull knowing it
will develop proven character and hope?
Romans 6.11-14
What does it mean to be dead to sin and alive to God?
Romans 6.18,19,22
What does it mean to be a slave of righteousness?
If you become a slave of righteousness what will that result in?
Romans 12.1
What does it mean to present your body a living sacrifice?
Are we required to be a living sacrifice or is it optional?
Romans 12.2
Are we to actively avoid being conformed to the world?
What are we to be transformed from and transformed to?
How are we transformed?
What is one reason we should renew our minds?
How do we renew our minds?
Romans 12.9-15
List some of the things we should be doing on a regular basis.
Romans 12.16
What should we be toward our brothers and sisters in the Lord?
What should we not be in our own eyes?
Who should we associate with that we normally don't?
Romans 12.17,18
What should we never do?
What are we to be at with all men?
Romans 12.19
What must we never do and why?
Romans 12.21
What are we to daily overcome and what are we to overcome it with?
Romans 14.13
What two things should we never do with the brethren?
Romans 14.19
What things should we pursue and what should we seek to do with one another?
Romans 15.2
How should we treat our neighbors?
Romans 15.5-7
What does it mean to be of the same mind with the brethern and why should we be of the same mind?
What does it mean to accept each other as Christ accepted us?
I Kor. 13.1-3
What must we have besides knowledge and faith to serve God?
1 Cor. 13.4-7
List the qualities of love and then examine yourself.
Do you have these qualities?
Gal. 5.13
What should we never do with our freedom in Christ?
What should we always do with this freedom?
Gal. 5.14
What should we always do to our neighbors?
Who are our neighbors? (Luke 10.29-37)
Gal. 5.19-23
Examine the deeds of the flesh and the fruit of the SPIRIT.
Do you live out too many of the deeds of the flesh?
Do you have too few of the fruits of the SPIRIT?
Ephesians 6.14-18
Explain what it means to:
Gird you loins with truth?
Put on the breastplate of righteousness?
Shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel?
Take up the shield of faith?
Put on the helmet of salvation?
Take up the sword of the Spirit?
Phil. 2.3,4
Are you looking out for the interests of the brothers and sisters in the church you are a member of?
Col. 3.2
Do you spend more time each day thinking about the things above or about the things on Earth?
Col. 3.5
List the things we are to consider our bodies dead to.
Are you dead to those things or do they control your life?
Col. 3.8
What sinful things should we stop doing?
Do you still do some of these things on a regular basis?
1 Timothy 6.9-10
Is it dangerous to want to be rich and if so why or why not?
What is the root of all kinds of evil?
If a person loves money too much what can happen to his faith?
1 Timothy 6.11
What should we flee from?
What should we pursue?
Hebrews 12.1
What are we to lay aside?
What are we to do?
Hebrews 12.2,3
Who should we fix our eyes on?
What two things should we not do?
Hebrews 12.5-11
How should we respond to God when He disciplines us?
God disciplines us so we can share what attribute of His? (v. 10)
The result of divine discipline in our lives should be what? (v. 11)
Hebrews 13.1,2
What should we do concerning strangers and why?
James 1.2-4
What emotion should we experience when we encounter various trials?
What should the testing of our faith produce?
James 1.5
What should we do if we want to get wisdom?
James 1.19
What should we be quick to do and slow to do?
James 1.22
What should we prove to others?
James 3.1-8
What should we have tight control over?
Do you have control over it?
James 3.16
What two things should we rid ourselves of?
Have you cleansed your life of these two sins?
James 4.6,10
What should we do before God? Have you?
James 4.7 & 1 Peter 5.9
What should we do concerning the devil?
James 4.8
What three things should we do and how do we do them?
James 4.11
What should we not do concerning the brethren?
1 Peter 1.20,21
What purpose has all believers been called for?
1 Peter 4.1,2,13
What does suffering for the Lord result in? (v. 1)
What should we not live for and what should we live for? (2)
What should we do when we suffer for the Lord? (v. 13)
1 Peter 4.8,9
What should we keep fervent for?
Should we be hospitable to only those brothers and sisters we like or to all the brethren?
1 Peter 5.8
What does it mean to be spiritually "sober" and why should we be sober?
1 Peter 5.10
What will God do for you after you have suffered for Him?
2 Peter 1.5-9
What seven things are we to supply to our faith?
Is a believer spiritually blind and short-sighted if he does not have all seven of these qualities?
1 John 3.16-18
What should we be willing to do for the brethren?
What are a few things we can do for the brethren short of dying for them?
We should love the brethren in word, but also in what else?