Study your lesson carefully before answering the exam questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Click the button to the left of the letter that corresponds to the correct or most nearly correct answer.

1. The possibility of the new birth

a. was first extended to Nicodemus.
b. is exclusively a characteristic of the New Testament believer in contrast with the Old Testament believer who was saved by faith apart from the new birth.
c. was extended to men in Old Testament times just as much as in New Testament times.

2. It is evident from Scripture that in the Old Testament

a. there was an anointing of the Spirit for service as distinct from the usual work of the Spirit.
b. the anointing of the Spirit took the place of what we would call today the regeneration of the Spirit (i.e. the new birth).
c. only those who were devout and instructed believers in God possessed of pure motives and holy desires were anointed by the Spirit.
d. the anointing of the Spirit was reserved for prophets, priests and kings.

3. True Christians are to be channels through which flows the Holy Spirit in outpoured blessing to others. We receive the Spirit in this way

a. only after a prolonged period of wrestling with God in prayer.
b. be believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
c. as a result of the Holy Spirit's having persistently drawn attention to Himself.
d. when we speak in tongues as the disciples did at Pentecost since "tongues" is the great evidence that a believer is empowered for service.

4. The great function of the Holy Spirit as "the Comforter" is to

a. console the believer for losses and hardships suffered as he lives the Christian life.
b. bring comfort to the heart of God in the assurance that His work on earth is in the capable hands of the Holy Spirit.
c. come alongside the believer as his Helper and particularly to help the believer grasp and apply Divine truth.
d. convict the world, which crucified the Lord Jesus, of sin, righteousness and judgment to come.

5. We are specifically told that the Spirit's great work is to GLORIFY the Lord Jesus in

a. John 7:37-39.
b. John 14:16-20.
c. John 14:26,27.
d. John 16:13,14.
e. 1 John 2:20,27.
f.  Acts 1:4.

6. The BAPTISM of the Holy Spirit is that ministry of the Holy Spirit which

a. enables all believers who experience it to speak in tongues.
b. takes place subsequent to conversion as a "second work of grace" or a "second blessing".
c. is repetitive in the believer's experience and may be summed up thus - "One filling; many baptisms."
d. makes a believer a member of the Church, the mystical body of Christ.

7. The SEAL of the Spirit

a. sets the believer's body apart as God's temple.
b. guarantees that the believer belongs to God.
c. imparts to the believer spiritual gifts to be used in evangelizing the lost and edifying the Church.
d. provides continuity between the Old Testament ministry of the Spirit and the New Testament ministry of the Spirit.

8. The FILLING of the Spirit

a. makes it possible for God to put into practical effect in our lives all the things for which He has given us His Spirit.
b. may be described as conditional but  not optional.
c. hinges on the believer's surrender of himself to God.
d. embraces all the above facts.

9. In order to be filled with the Spirit we must

a. wait (i.e. "tarry") in God's presence for an extended period of time as the disciples did just prior to Pentecost.
b. confess our sins and stop resisting the Holy Spirit.
c. first live lives which are free from sin altogether.
d. enter into some form of full-time Christian service.

10. How can a believer know as a daily, living reality in his life the cleansing, enablement and deliverance wrought for him by the Lord Jesus in His crucifixion, resurrection and ascension?

a. He must try his hardest to live a good, fruitful Christian life.
b. He cannot know these things in his life this side of heaven because he has an inbred tendency to sin.
c. He can achieve these things only after he becomes a mature believer with years of experience in living the Christian life behind him.
d. The Holy Spirit has been sent to make these things true in the experience of each child of God.

What Do You Say?

Are you filled with the Spirit? How do you know? Please enter your comments in the box below.

Please feel free to submit your questions or prayer requests in the box below.

If you prefer, you may send your exam via postal mail or fax to:

Institute for Religious Research
1340 Monroe Ave. NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49505
Fax: (616) 451-8907

If you send your completed exam by postal mail, please enclose a self-addressed envelope for its return.