2. Introductory Thoughts
Most Students Will Tell You That They’re Not
Particularly Fond of Taking Exams
Exams Can Be High Stakes - Exams Can Be High Stress
Pop Quizzes Are Harder than Premeditated
Tests
Pop Quizzes Are Sudden, Unannounced Examinations
making them the Most Difficult Form of Testing
We Need to Know How to Prepare for Spiritual
Pop Quizzes - Matthew 10:21 22
3. Pop Quizzes are Intense –
1 Peter 4:12-13
Fiery Trial Is Used as a description of a Furnace
Our Experience with Fire Has Taught Us That it
Causes Some of the Most Excruciating Pain
Known to Man
The First Century Church Experienced This
Pop Quizzes Are Usually Heated Events
Some Examples
Psalm 66:10-12
4. Pop Quizzes are Inevitable –
James 1:2
The Inspired James Did Not Say That We Might
Fall into Trials
The Word When, Not If, Suggests That the Tests of
Life Are Inescapable; You Cannot Skip Them
Hebrews 11:33 38
Pop Quizzes Were Not Isolated to Bible Times
For Those of Us Who Are in Christ, Testing Is a
Normal Part of the Christian Experience
John 16:33
Matthew 5:10-12
5. Pop Quizzes are Diverse –
James 1:2
Various, Many colored, Varied
James Taught That God Allows / Sends Different
Situations in the Lives of Different People
In Light of this Truth, We Need to Caution
Ourselves Against Making Undue Comparisons
When We Are Taking a Pop Quiz or Test, We Tend to
Look Around at Our Friends and See That None
Of Them Are Dealing with the Same, Hard Issues
That Seem to Be Plaguing Us
6. Pop Quizzes are Purposeful –
James 1:3 – Romans 5:3-4
Tests Are Not Given for Gods Benefit
Pop Quizzes Are Designed with Our Own Spiritual
Progress in Mind
He Wants His Children to Be Mature, and Maturity Is
Developed Only in the University of Hard Knocks
We Usually Cannot See Any Divine Rhyme or
Reason in the Testing Process
Do You Realize That the Pain and Turmoil in Your
Life Right Now May Be Evidence of God Working
on or Testing You
7. Pop Quizzes are Brief –
1 Peter 1:6-7
Pop Quizzes in School Tend to Be Brief in
Duration
By Contrast, the Tests of the Christian Life Seem at
Times to Be the Exact Opposite
Time Is a Matter of Perspective
When You Are in the Middle of a Pop Quiz and Your
Faith Is Being Tested by Some Type of Harsh
Adversity, it Can Seem like it Will Go on Forever
8. Concluding Thoughts
Are You Currently Taking One of God’s Pop
Quizzes?
God Has a Goal for You in this Test
There Are No Short cuts to Spiritual Maturity;
You Cannot Mature Without Your Faith Being
Tested
1 Corinthians 10:13
