It Is Written Bible Study Guides

Lesson 8 The Day That Disappeared – Answers

1. What has God given us to guide us in a happy and holy way of life?

He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

2. What motivates a believer in Jesus to want to obey God and keep  His  commandments?

If you love Me, keep My commandments.

3. How important is it to God that we keep His commandments?

One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

4. How does God make it possible for sinful human beings to obey His law?

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

5. Which of the Ten Commandments is a special sign between God and His people?

I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

6. Did God intend for Christians to keep the Sabbath after Jesus died on the cross?

Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.

7. Why is it that many people observe Sunday for the Sabbath, in place of the seventh day of the week?

Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him. Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.

Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

8. Do any other New Testament texts mention the first day of the week?

Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.

9. Did God intend for Sunday to be observed in honor of the resurrection?

Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.

10. Did the apostles begin observing Sunday after the death of Jesus?

Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

On the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.

So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath . . . On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.

12. What does the Bible counsel in situations where the Word of God and the customs of the church or society seem to be in conflict?

Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

13. What did Jesus say about the concept of replacing divine commandments with human enactments?

In vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

14. Does the Bible give clear guidelines when it comes to worship?

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.