“Abide in Him [Christ]” is an exhortation addressed to little children. The first letters of the following responses tell us something that those who heed the exhortation will have at His coming. [1] Numbers in brackets indicate the number of words in the answer.
1. What was it that the Apostle Paul longed to see formed in those whom he addressed as “my little children,” so much so that he likened his yearning to travailing in birth? [1]
2. What might one do to a believing little one, which is so solemn, that it would be better for them to be drowned in the sea with a millstone tied around their neck? [1]
3. What should fathers bring their children up in, rather than provoking them to wrath? [6]
4. How many children were torn by bears as a result of mocking a man of God? [3]
5. In an exhortation addressed to little children, what are they told to keep themselves from? [1]
6. What was the attitude of the chief priests and scribes upon seeing the wonderful things that Jesus did and hearing the children in the temple crying “Hosanna to the son of David”? [1]
7. Whom did Jesus say we should love, in connection with the ensuing promise, “Ye shall be the children of the Highest”? [1]
8. Someone who cherishes her children, to whom Paul compared his gentle behavior towards those he labored among. [1]
9. Something that Rachel (as a figure of the nation of Israel), weeping over the loss of her children, refused to be. [1]
10. The mother of one who was sent to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. [1]
Answers to these questions will be found, Lord willing, in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
J. Short