1. The word “hypocrite” literally means ________________. 

Matthew 7:3-5, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” 

Matthew 23:5,25, ”Everything they do is done for men to see… ²⁵ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.” 

Matthew 23:14,27-28, “They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them… ²⁷ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. ²⁸ In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” 

2. Those who authentically follow Jesus are marked by an honest   ____________________________, not controlled appearance.

Matthew 23:6, “They love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues.” 

1 John 1:8, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” 

3. The second mark of authentic spirituality is being                     

1. The word “in vitro” is Latin for ________________.

(1) The Germinal Stage (first 3 weeks)                                                               

• Conception (sperm & egg)
• Zygote (journeys to uterus)
• Zygote (turns into a blastocyst)
• Blastocyst attaches to uterus        

(2) The Embryonic Stage (weeks 3-8)

• Blastocyst becomes an embryo
• Structures and organs begin to form 

(3) The Fetal Stage (week 9-birth)

• Embryo turns into a fetus
• Sex is assigned
• Organs and body systems grow and mature 

(4) Viability (at around 24 weeks)

• Brain maturation 

                   Consider Psalm 139 

2. “Exegesis” is letting the text ___________________. 
3. “Eisegesis” is when you read something into it  ___________________________________.

1. Simplest definition : Grace is _____________________ something we did not _____________________.

   2. Grace realizes that people are _________________ in every conceivable way, and that’s by God’s design.

    3. Grace flows when you realize we are all _______________.

    4. Grace, by its very definition, is something that is to be applied directly to sin. And not just the sins we’ve committed, but the sins others _____________________________________.

    Matthew 6:12, 14-15, “And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors… 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

1. The idea of inspiration is that God used people to write the books of the Bible, but He was so involved in the process that they wrote_______________________________________.

 2 Peter 1:20-21  Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. ²¹ For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2. “Cosmic Exception Clause” — Somehow you don’t have __________ what the Bible says to your life the way it says you should.

 1 John 2:4-6 Whoever says, “I know Him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. ⁵ But if anyone obeys His word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in Him: ⁶ Whoever claims to live in Him must live as Jesus did. 

3. “Food Bar Approach” — You pick and choose what you’re going to put on your plate ______________________.
4. The “Compromise Game” — You ______ what it clearly does; or you _______ that what it says has any authority over your life.

1. So when is :finishing well” most tested?  
2.   a) You can be severely tested to deviate from a life that “finishes well” is __________________________________________.                                                                               

2 Timothy 2:3-7,15, “Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. ⁵ Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules. ⁶ The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. ⁷ Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this… ¹⁵ Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”

2. As a soldier…   

5. Making a difference with our lives, fulfilling God’s dream for our lives, means ________________________ and getting to it.