The following true/false questions all involve acts of obedience or
disobedience. Good luck!
1. After the angel released them from prison, the apostles were apprehended and brought before the Sanhedrin. It was then that Paul said, "We must obey God rather than men."
2. Isaac commanded his son Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman, but Jacob later disobeyed.
3. Paul begins the sixth chapter of Ephesians by instructing, "Men, obey God."
4. Samuel was disappointed that he had made Saul king because Saul often disobeyed Samuel's orders.
5. Peter encouraged Christians to obey all human authorities.
6. In the ninth year of King Hoshea, the Assyrians captured and deported Israel to Assyria. The write claims this happened even though the children of Israel had been "obedient to God and His laws."
7. Paul told the Galatian believers that he had boasted about their obedience to Titus.
8. James says that horses naturally obey their riders, and our obedience to God should be the same.
9. When the Lord told the prophet Elijah to head east of the Jordan, where he would drink from a brook and be fed by ravens, Elijah immediately complied.
10. When God confronted Adam and Eve about eating the forbidden fruit, Adam blamed Eve. Eve blamed the serpent, and the serpent blamed a guy named Lenny.
11. Jonah's disobedience to God led to his being thrown into the sea by a ship's crew, and then swallowed by a great fish.
12. Peter speaks of disobedient spirits who apparently had been imprisoned since the days of Noah.
13. Paul told the Thessalonians that God would punish those who were disobedient to the gospel of Jesus Christ until they repented.
14. The writer of Hebrews encourages obedience to leaders so their work is joyful, not burdensome.
15. When Moses and Aaron instructed the Hebrews about what they must do to avoid the final plague on Egypt (death of firstborn), as usual the people disobeyed.
16. Because of their disobedience, God said that none of the Israelites of that generation would set foot in the promised land, except Moses and Joshua.
17. Paul told the Romans that he had been a minister of Jesus Christ in bringing Gentiles to obedience to God.
Scroll down for the answers.
1. False - Acts 5:27-29
2. False - Gen. 28:1, 7
3. False - Eph. 6:1
4. False - 1 Sam. 15:11
5. True - 1 Pet. 2:13-14
6. False - 2 Kings 18:12
7. False - 2 Cor. 7:13-14
8. False - James 3:3
9. True - 1 Kings 17:2-3
10. False - Gen. 3:11-13
11. True - Jon. 1:1-17
12. True - 1 Pet. 3:19-20
13. False - 2 Thess. 1:8-9
14. True - Heb. 13:17
15. False - Exo. 12:24-28
16. False - Num. 32:11-12
17. True - Rom. 15:15-18
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