Study Sheet for Goodness & Contentment

This sheet is designed to serve as a study sheet for the Godly Man series on Goodness and Contentment. We have eliminated graphics for easy printing or copying into your own word processor. We are hoping with these questions in mind, your study will be more focused and profitable. You might try making a short prayer as a response to each significant thought. If you have any questions or discussions, please send them to me at info@foundationsforfreedom.net --- Paul

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Goodness and Contentment

1) How is goodness defined?

Discovering of God's Goodness

1) Where will we find the marks of God's goodness?

2) List at least five of these marks.

3) Everything is mutually dependent on other things, and the whole is _____________ upon God.

4) How many times is the word 'good' used in Genesis 1? Describe the pattern in which the word 'good' is used.

5) Go through each of the 7 principles developed from these verses. Explain each one and its importance.

6) Personally, are you excited about God's goodness or have you been caught in one of the traps of desire?

Good and Evil * Genesis 2

1) Why couldn't evil proceed from God?

2) Why are people more willing to discuss about God's association with evil than His goodness?

3) Do you have any doubts about God's perfect goodness being expressed to you or any others? (Answers vary)

4) How do we begin to understand the place of evil in this world?

5) List the five statements to help us understand evil in this world.

6) Through the picture/diagram, what is difference in the way that evil entered the world and the way it will leave?

Godliness and Contentment

1) Why can't a Christian get the best from both worlds?

2) What is it called when we love the world just a little?

3) What does evil do wrong?

4) What is the only way to be godly man? Why?

5) Explain the illustration of the door. Which side are you on?

6) What is the real problem behind the problem of the Christian person who has disgraced himself in sin?

7) How does God use good things in the life of the godly man?

Discontent Breeds Temptation

1) Why is the word 'faith' rare in the Old Testament?

2) How does a good understanding of the Hebrew and Greek word for faith help keep us from legalism and nominalism.

3) Why is it so important to believe in something reliable?

4) Why is Genesis 15:6 the scriptural origin of the Gospel?

Goodness and Suffering

1) Can we always need a specfic explanation to our problems? If not, why not?

2) What does God give to help us understand our problem in Romans 5:3-5?

3) Explain this general pattern of how God uses suffering in His people's lives?

4) Draw up a list of your famous 'worse 7 experiences' and match them next to Paul's '7 worse things.'

5) What was Paul's secret of contentment even when he suffered needs?

6) Have you any situations that you have not accepted God's good care of you? If so, make your own confessional prayer.

Good Works and Salvation

1) How are teachers often like inexperiences surgeons?

2) Why were the Pharisees convinced that they were right about the sabbath?

3) What is meant by 'protector of the law?'

4) What is the major problem of the Faith Losers?

5) What is the major problem of the Faith Changers?

6) What is the major problem of the Faith Killers?

7) What is the major problem of the Faith Showers?

8) What is the way one can hold onto truth?

A Case for Goodness * 1 Timothy & Gnosticism

1) How is the word 'good' used throughout the Bible?

2) Why does 1 Timothy use 'good' so much for such a small book?

3) List the two teachings common with all forms of Gnosticism.

4) How do these two major forms of Gnosticism differ?

5) In what three chapters of 1 Timothy does Paul counter this false teachin??

6) How can Paul's teaching be used to counter those who say that matter (creation) is evil?

Goodness Overflowing into our Lives *Psalm 100

1) God's goodness is likened like a waterfall in our lives. What happens when the waters hit our lives?

2) How do we know that this psalmist wasn't just a natually happy person?

3) Why is it that a person who is convinced of God's goodness does not lose his joy?

4) Write down the numerous ways the psalmist in Psalm 100 calls people to praise the Lord. Praise Him on your own.

5) Pick out one of the five reasons for the psalmist's joy and write down your own thoughts on how that thought helped explain the Psalmist's joy.

6) Based on what we have read, what are some qualifications for those who lead us in worship through songs and prayer?

Testimonies

1) What challenged you from the testimonies?

2) What are you prompted to change from these testimones?

Other great resources on God's goodness!

Psalm 36 and Goodness

A Study Sheet for Goodness & Contentment

Other great resources on God's goodness!