ANSWERS TO QUESTION 1.
What is required for true service?
(a) For true service we must have a single eye. “Behold to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams” (1 Sam. 15:22).
The Lord Jesus was the perfect servant, and in all His path down here “He pleased not Himself” (Rom. 15:3), but in all things sought His Father’s will (John 5:30; 6:38), and for true service we must fulfill His will. Like Mary, we must first sit at His feet and hear His words, to know what His will is for us (Luke 10:39).
(b) I think obedience is required for true service, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart” (Eph. 1:6).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 2.
What should our object be in service?
(a) Our object should be Christ Himself. “For to me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). “That I may win Christ” (Phil. 3:8).
(b) Our object should be to follow the Lord. “If any man serve Me, let him follow Me, and where I am, there shall also My servant be: if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor” (John 12:26).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 3.
Why should we serve the Lord?
(a) This is the way we can show our love for the Lord and express in some small measure our gratitude for all He has done for us (Luke 18:22).
He has delivered us from this world (Gal. 1:4), and then left us here to live for Him (John 17:18).
“And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again” (2 Cor. 5:15).
“God hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation....now then we are ambassadors for Christ” (2 Cor. 5:18,20).
(b) We should serve the Lord for what He has done for us. “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). “Christ died for our sins” (1 Cor. 15:3).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 4.
Why is it our reasonable service to present our bodies as a living sacrifice?
(a) “Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit which are God’s” (1 Cor. 6:19-20).
This is the only way for the Christian to be truly happy, for “There is only joy as we seek His pleasure, There is only rest as we do His will.”
(b) “That ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God” (Rom. 12:2).
ANSWERS TO QUESTION 5.
Give five scriptures, showing that God is unwilling that any should perish.
(a) 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 33:11.
(b) John 3:16,17; 1 John 4:14. John 3:16; Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 11:28; Matthew 18:14; 2 Peter 3:9.