Bible Challenger: The Worldly ASpect Christians Should Be on Their Guard Against

From: Bible Challengers

By: Ralph Erisman

Bible Challenger: The Worldly Aspect Christians Should Be on Their Guard Against

• 1 min. read • grade level: 7

The first letter of each of the following responses will form the word applied to some aspect of the world, against which Christians should ever be on their guard.

1. Something instrumental in flattening an imposing barrier.

2. Something a desperate king used in vain in seeking a message from the Lord.

3. Something that showed a reversal to encourage a doubting king.

4. Something having a physical shape that can be reckoned as nothing.

5. Something used by two prophets to keep from getting wet.

6. Something God planted and Peter cut off.

7. Something used by a wicked servant to store his lord's money.

8. Something Solomon made having 6 steps and 24 lions.

9. Something a king commanded man and beast to wear after hearing an 8 word proclamation.

Answers to these questions will he found in next month’s issue of Christian Treasury.

R. Erisman.

Answers to Last Month's Bible Challenger

1. Peradventure. Gen. 18:24, 28-32²⁴Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? (Genesis 18:24)
²⁸Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. ²⁹And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. ³⁰And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. ³¹And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. ³²And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. (Genesis 18:28‑32).

2. Labor not for the meat that perisheth. John 6:27²⁷Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. (John 6:27)

3. Empty vessels; borrow not a few. 2 Kings 4:3³Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. (2 Kings 4:3)

4. Number now, and see who is gone from us. 1 Sam. 14:17¹⁷Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armorbearer were not there. (1 Samuel 14:17)

5. Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown. 2 Sam. 10:5⁵When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. (2 Samuel 10:5)

6. Exhort one another daily. Heb. 3:13¹³But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews 3:13).

7. Occupy till I come. Luke 19:13¹³And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. (Luke 19:13).

8. Unclean, unclean. Lev. 13:45⁴⁵And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. (Leviticus 13:45).

9. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. Psa. 3:8⁸Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. (Psalm 3:8).

“For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and PLENTEOUS in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee." Psa. 86:5⁵For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. (Psalm 86:5)

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