Sunday School Quiz – Lesson 61: Two Recruits

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Well done. You’ve remembered the lesson very well, but have you understood it and followed the Lord Jesus in the right way?

Not your best effort! So you haven’t remembered the lesson very well, but have you understood it and followed the Lord Jesus in the right way?

#1 What did the first of the potential recruits (the scribe) say to the Lord Jesus?

He asked Jesus to forgive his sins.

He said, ‘I will follow You wherever You go’.

He asked to have an illness healed.

He was very confident and probably thought he would be very useful to the Lord Jesus.

#2 How did the Lord Jesus respond to the Scribe?

He thanked him for becoming a disciple.

He told him that he was not good enough to be a disciple.

He tested him by explaining that His disciples had to give up everything, money, home, position, etc. if he really wanted to follow Jesus.

The test was designed to show whether the scribe was really sincere in needing help from the Lord Jesus. If he was not sincere, he would be turned away by the Lord Jesus.

#3 We may be tested like the scribe. What does Jesus tell us about how we should come to him?

If we are really good, Jesus will be very happy to welcome us and be glad that we have chosen to follow Him.

We have to understand that we have nothing to give Jesus. We are all sinful and need His forgiveness.

If we work hard at school and become very clever, understanding lots of things, we will be useful to the Lord Jesus and help to do good things.

We have nothing to give to Jesus, we can only repent of our sins and ask for His forgiveness. Other people we have learned about in this series, like the centurion and the street woman were very humble, understanding how unworthy they were.

#4 The second potential recruit didn’t volunteer but was called by the Lord Jesus. How did the man respond?

He said he had to go and bury his father.

He replied that he didn’t want to follow Jesus, because it sounded too hard.

He said yes straight away and followed Jesus immediately.

By saying he had to bury his father, it didn’t mean his father had died. It meant that he wanted to carry on his family life and get his inheritance from his father in the future. He was not willing to lose his inheritance to follow Jesus.

#5 We may have heard from our Sunday School teachers about how the Lord Jesus can save us. When is the best time to follow Jesus?

When we are grown up.

After we have had lots of fun doing things that Christians wouldn’t do.

When we have got a good job, a nice house and car and lots of money.

Now, without any delay.

Don’t delay or you may leave it too late! Nothing is more important than seeking and finding the Lord.

#6 If we hear the Lord Jesus calling us, perhaps through Sunday School lessons and from reading the Bible, knowing our consciences are troubled by the bad things we have done in the past, what should we do?

Ask our parents or teachers for advice.

Repent of our sins and believe in the Lord Jesus as our Saviour.

Try not to do bad things anymore.

Pray to the Lord and read our Bible.

If we truly want to follow Jesus, we must genuinely repent and turn away from sins and believe that the Lord Jesus will save us and take us to heaven. Some of the other answers are useful, but repentance and belief have to come first.

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