DEEP Prayer Book Discipleship Course · Dr. Steve Foss

Chapters 5-8

The Door, The Vine, The Desire, The Price

Concept Review Test · 30 Questions · 50 Points · Dr. Steve Foss

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Chapter 5 - The Door No One Can Shut: counterfeit spiritual power that feels genuinely comforting; praying in Jesus' name as a position of authority, not a formula; the Reformers' warning against any other mediator; Hezekiah destroying the bronze serpent; modern "transferable anointing" objects as the same mechanism as ancient relics.
Chapter 6 - The Vine, the Branches, and the Abiding Life: the "wall" broken through travailing prayer; the seventh "I Am" - Jesus as Source, not only Giver; "takes away" meaning to lift up, not cut off; Finney's crutch and cliff-edge illustrations; fruitfulness, not dryness, as the most dangerous season.
Chapter 7 - Ask What You Desire: the staircase of promises across John 14-15; rhema versus logos; the five promises of the Spirit spelling ABIDE; the Spirit exposing to cleanse, not condemn; Peter's phileo before Pentecost versus the agape received in power.
Chapter 8 - The Price of Love: Apostle Robinson's seven-year prayer and its true cost; choosing to want what God wants rather than merely complying; the Young Adults Conference outcry; agape's hardest edge in John 10:17-18 and John 15:13; John 13:35 and the corporate nature of the D.E.E.P. anointing.

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Part A

Multiple Choice - 20 Questions · 2 pts each · 40 pts

Chapter 5 - The Door No One Can Shut

Question 1

While passing near a religious statue in Seville, Steve felt a real, tangible spiritual power flowing toward the worshipers - producing genuine feelings of kindness, care, and compassion. According to Chapter 5, what does this experience teach about counterfeit spiritual power?

A. A counterfeit spiritual experience can feel authentically warm and comforting while still not being the Spirit of God - the same ancient deceptive pattern Steve had also felt in a Hindu temple district, different image and costume, same deception. B. Since the feelings were genuinely comforting and kind, the power must have been the Holy Spirit working through an unconventional means. C. Emotional experiences during religious devotion are always purely psychological and never involve any real spiritual power. D. Only aggressive or frightening spiritual encounters can be counterfeit; comforting ones are always safe.

Question 2

A believer explains that praying "in Jesus' name" means adding the correct closing phrase to the end of a prayer so that God will honor it. According to Chapter 5, what is wrong with this understanding?

A. Nothing is wrong with it - the phrase itself is what activates the prayer's power. B. "In Jesus' name" is not a polite phrase, formula, or password - it is a living reality of standing in Christ's authority, identity, and righteousness before the Father. C. The phrase should actually be replaced with the names of saints or angels for greater effectiveness. D. Praying in Jesus' name was only valid for the original apostles and does not apply today.

Question 3

Martin Luther and John Calvin both warned about prayers directed to any mediator other than Christ. According to Chapter 5, what were the Reformers actually defending when they wrote this?

A. They were attacking the sincerity of ordinary believers who prayed through other means. B. They believed prayer itself was unnecessary once salvation was secured. C. They were defending the glory of the one Mediator and the open door He alone purchased - not questioning anyone's personal sincerity. D. They were arguing that only ordained clergy should be permitted to pray on behalf of others.

Question 4

Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, even though God Himself had originally used it. According to Chapter 5, why did Hezekiah do this, and what principle does it illustrate?

A. He judged the artifact to be historically inaccurate and wanted a more authentic replacement made. B. Hezekiah acted out of jealousy toward Moses' legacy and wanted to erase his predecessor's achievements. C. The serpent had never actually been used by God and was always considered a forbidden object. D. The people had turned a genuine past instrument of God's power into an idol they burned incense to - illustrating that something God once genuinely used can become a substitute for God Himself and must be broken, regardless of its history or the sincerity of those attached to it.

Question 5

Chapter 5 draws a parallel between the bones of Cologne, the golden statue of Marseille, and the modern charismatic practice of selling anointing oil, holy water, and prayer cloths for a special transferable anointing. What point is the chapter making with this comparison?

A. That these modern practices are the same underlying mechanism as the relics and statues - different vocabulary and packaging, but both promise access to God through something other than direct, already-purchased access in Jesus' name. B. That charismatic believers are entirely exempt from this error since their practices are biblically based. C. That all physical objects used in ministry, including Paul's handkerchiefs in Scripture, are inherently idolatrous. D. That only Catholic and Orthodox traditions are capable of this error, not Protestant or charismatic ones.

Chapter 6 - The Vine, the Branches, and the Abiding Life

Question 6

While praying for a young man recruiting for a local coven, Steve felt a tangible, solid spiritual resistance he called "a wall," which broke only after he pressed in through travail. According to Chapter 6, what did Steve carry out of that experience into praying for the seventeen other teenagers?

A. A specific technique or method that could be mechanically repeated to guarantee the same result every time. B. Confidence and fresh dependence born from what abiding taught him the first time - not a repeatable technique, but a posture of pressing in through the Vine each time freshly. C. A guarantee that all future spiritual walls would break within the same twenty-four hour timeframe. D. Proof that persistence alone, apart from any connection to God, is what breaks spiritual resistance.

Question 7

Jesus made seven "I Am" declarations in the Gospel of John, with "I am the true vine" saved for last, on the night before the cross. According to Chapter 6, what makes this seventh declaration different from the first six?

A. The seventh declaration was added later by the early church and was not part of Jesus' original teaching. B. All seven declarations describe identical truths using different metaphors with no meaningful progression between them. C. The first six describe what Jesus gives (bread, light, door, shepherd, resurrection, way/truth/life); the seventh describes what He is - the Source from which our very life must flow, not simply something received. D. The seventh declaration applies only to the original apostles, not to believers today.

Question 8

In John 15:2, Jesus says the Father "takes away" every branch that does not bear fruit. According to Chapter 6, what does the Greek word behind "takes away" most fundamentally mean, and what does this reveal about the Father's character?

A. It means to permanently discard and destroy, showing the Father's harsh judgment toward any unfruitful believer. B. It means to ignore completely, showing the Father's indifference toward fruitless believers. C. It refers only to physical vineyard practices with no spiritual application to believers. D. It most fundamentally means to lift up - showing the Father's first response to a trailing, fruitless branch is rescue, not judgment, dislodging it from a wrong attachment so the Vine's life can flow through it again.

Question 9

Charles Finney observed that most Christians will readily agree with "without Christ I can do nothing," yet still plan first and bring Christ in later. According to Chapter 6's use of Finney's crutch and cliff-edge illustrations, what is the difference between this and genuine abiding?

A. Genuine abiding means the awareness of total dependence is constant and continual - like a one-legged man never forgetting his crutch, or a child gripping a guide's hand without releasing and re-grasping it - not a theory held while living as a practical self-sufficientist. B. There is no real difference; agreeing with the statement intellectually is the same thing as abiding in practice. C. Abiding only matters during formal prayer times and has no bearing on everyday decision-making. D. Finney taught that dependence on Christ actually discourages believers from taking any independent action at all.

Question 10

According to Chapter 6, Finney identified the most dangerous season in a believer's prayer life as the season immediately following breakthrough and fruitfulness, not the season of dryness. Why?

A. Because success always leads directly to moral failure regardless of a believer's spiritual posture. B. Because when believers are dry and desperate they grip their dependence on Christ tightly, but once lifted into fruitfulness they can quietly begin leaning on the memory of what worked before instead of fresh dependence on the Vine today. C. Because fruitfulness itself is a sign that a believer has stopped abiding altogether. D. Because seasons of dryness are actually more spiritually dangerous than seasons of fruitfulness, contradicting what the chapter actually teaches.

Chapter 7 - Ask What You Desire

Question 11

A believer claims that John 15:7's "ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you" is a blank check - God will grant literally anything requested, regardless of the believer's spiritual condition. According to Chapter 7, what is wrong with this claim?

A. The claim is essentially correct; John 15:7 places no conditions whatsoever on what is granted. B. The verse only applies to requests made for physical healing, not any other category of request. C. John 15:7 is the top of a staircase built across John 14-15, not a stand-alone promise - "ask what you desire" is the explosive result of a desire reshaped by abiding in Christ until it matches the Father's own desire, not an unconditional blank check. D. The verse was written exclusively for the original eleven disciples and has since expired.

Question 12

When Steve asked God for a strategy to reach a high school campus, God said only, "Make something. Whatever it is, I will bless it" - not a detailed curriculum. Chapter 7 uses this to illustrate the difference between logos and rhema. What is that difference?

A. There is no meaningful difference between the two Greek words; they are simply synonyms used interchangeably. B. Rhema refers exclusively to Old Testament prophetic utterances and has no New Testament application. C. Logos is always spoken audibly, while rhema can only ever be written down in Scripture. D. Logos is the general body of Scripture; rhema is the specific word that comes alive for a specific moment and situation - like the simple, unglamorous direction Steve received, which reshaped his desire until it matched the Father's.

Question 13

According to Chapter 7, the five promises Jesus makes about the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room discourse spell out the acrostic ABIDE. What does the chapter say all five promises together were meant to produce?

A. A permanent, indwelling presence of the Spirit that abides forever - not for a season, but continually, producing witness, illumination, declaration, and exposure in the believer's ongoing life. B. A temporary, occasional presence available only during special services or seasons of crisis. C. A one-time historical event limited entirely to the original apostles in the Upper Room. D. A guarantee that believers filled with the Spirit will no longer face any opposition.

Question 14

Chapter 7 describes the Spirit's work of exposing unconfessed sin, unhealed offense, and hidden motives. According to the chapter, why does the Spirit do this, and what category of problem does it identify these hidden things as?

A. The Spirit exposes hidden things primarily to condemn and shame believers into better behavior. B. The Spirit exposes them not to condemn but to cleanse - identifying unconfessed sin, unhealed offense, and hidden motives as prayer obstructions, roots pushing into the soil that pull the branch away from the true Vine. C. This exposing work applies only to unbelievers, never to those already walking with Christ. D. Hidden sin and motives are described as merely moral issues with no connection to a believer's prayer life.

Question 15

Despite hearing the full Upper Room revelation directly from Jesus, Peter denied Him three times under pressure, and later answered Jesus' question "Do you love Me?" with phileo rather than the agape Jesus asked about. According to Chapter 7, what changed at Pentecost?

A. Peter simply tried harder the second time and willed himself into greater loyalty through personal effort. B. Jesus lowered the standard of love He required from Peter after witnessing his failure. C. Peter received the power to walk in the very agape love he had lacked before - the same Peter who cowered before a servant girl stood before thousands at Pentecost with total authority, because the love of God had been poured out in his heart by the Holy Spirit. D. Peter's transformation at Pentecost had nothing to do with love and was purely about boldness in public speaking.

Chapter 8 - The Price of Love

Question 16

Apostle Robinson told Steve he had been praying for seven years, often in tears, and the prayer turned out to be simply, "Help me love Your people the way He loves them." When Steve felt the full cost of that prayer by the Holy Spirit, his gut reaction was resistance rather than eagerness. According to Chapter 8, what does this reveal about agape love?

A. Agape love is primarily an emotional warmth that naturally overflows once a believer understands it intellectually, with no real cost involved. B. Steve's resistance proved he was not spiritually mature enough to receive the prayer at all. C. The seven years of tears indicate that Robinson's prayer was never actually answered. D. Agape is a deliberate choice of the will to act in another's best interest regardless of the cost to oneself - understanding its true cost can provoke honest resistance rather than automatic eagerness, even in a mature believer.

Question 17

After feeling the cost of loving God's people the way He does, Steve told his church he did not want to pray that prayer, and wrestled with God for three weeks before surrendering. According to Chapter 8, why couldn't Steve simply comply with the assignment while privately still resisting it?

A. Because the Father had already told him obedience alone was not enough - he had to choose to genuinely want what God wanted, not merely comply with gritted teeth, echoing the alignment principle introduced earlier in the book. B. Because compliance would have been perfectly acceptable; the three weeks of wrestling were unnecessary according to the chapter. C. Because his church members were monitoring his prayer life and would have known if he was insincere. D. Because God required him to complete a specific ritual before the prayer would be considered valid.

Question 18

At a conference of over twenty thousand young adults, Steve's private burden broke open into a public cry, "Oh God, have mercy on us," igniting a ninety-minute outpouring in which thousands responded. According to Chapter 8, what did God specifically say produced that power?

A. God said Steve's years of skilled preaching and theological preparation were what filled the room. B. God told Steve his cries would ignite a fire and that his prayers would always be far more powerful than his preaching - the power came from costly love wrung out of him by the cross he had just been carrying, not performance. C. The outpouring was primarily caused by the original speaker's prophetic message reaching its emotional peak. D. God attributed the outpouring to the size and enthusiasm of the crowd rather than to anything in Steve.

Question 19

Jesus says, "My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life... This command I have received from My Father" (John 10:17-18), just before declaring in John 15:13 that greater love means laying down one's life for friends. According to Chapter 8, what connection does this establish about agape?

A. Agape is shown to be primarily a private, internal feeling between the Father and Son with no application to how believers treat one another. B. This passage teaches that the Son's suffering was involuntary and forced upon Him against His will. C. The Father loves the Son because of His obedient laying down of His life, and out of that love the prayer partnership between them operates at full power - showing agape's "hardest edge": not warmth poured into a believer, but a life laid down for others. D. The connection proves that love and obedience are entirely separate, unrelated categories in Jesus' teaching.

Question 20

Jesus said, "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35). According to Chapter 8, what does this reveal about the D.E.E.P. anointing described throughout the book so far?

A. That the anointing is fundamentally an individual matter, and how believers treat each other has no bearing on whether it operates. B. That sound theology and powerful preaching are what the world actually uses to identify true disciples, according to this verse. C. That John 13:35 applies only to the relationship between believers and God, not between believers and each other. D. That the D.E.E.P. anointing in its fullest expression is not merely individual but corporate - all the theology of the previous chapters cannot operate at full power in a corporate context without the costly, horizontal love that flows between believers, not only from God to the individual.

Part B

True or False - 10 Statements · 1 pt each · 10 pts

Lessons 13 & 14 - Secrets & Revelation

Chapters 5 & 6 - The Door & The Vine

1. The spiritual power Steve felt flowing from the Mary float in Seville was confirmed by Chapter 5 as the Holy Spirit affirming the sincerity of the worshipers' devotion.

TRUE FALSE

2. According to Chapter 5, praying in Jesus' name is a living reality of standing in Christ's authority, identity, and righteousness before the Father, not a verbal formula.

TRUE FALSE

3. According to Chapter 5, Hezekiah preserved the bronze serpent out of respect for its history and the sincerity of those who venerated it.

TRUE FALSE

4. According to Chapter 6, the word translated "takes away" in John 15:2 most fundamentally means to lift up, not to cut off and discard.

TRUE FALSE

5. According to Finney, as presented in Chapter 6, the danger of self-reliance in prayer disappears once a believer reaches a season of consistent fruitfulness.

TRUE FALSE

Chapters 7 & 8 - The Desire & The Price

6. According to Chapter 7, rhema refers to a specific word from God that comes alive for a specific moment, distinct from logos, the general body of Scripture.

TRUE FALSE

7. According to Chapter 7, Peter's denial of Jesus proves that the Upper Room revelation itself was incomplete or flawed teaching.

TRUE FALSE

8. According to Chapter 8, agape is a deliberate choice of the will to act in another's best interest regardless of the cost, illustrated by Steve's three weeks of wrestling before surrendering to Apostle Robinson's prayer.

TRUE FALSE

9. According to Chapter 8, the power that filled the room during Steve's outcry at the young adults conference came primarily from his years of skilled preaching and preparation.

TRUE FALSE

10. According to Chapter 8, Jesus taught that the world will know believers are His disciples by their love for one another, not by their theology, preaching, or conferences.

TRUE FALSE

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Part A - Multiple Choice (20 questions × 2 pts)

Part B - True or False (10 questions × 1 pt)

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"The door is open. The way has been purchased. Abide in Him and ask what you desire. There is no other way. There is only the cross - and on the other side of it, the power of love."

- Dr. Steve Foss, Chapters 5-8 · John 15:7 · John 15:13

Chapters 5-8

The Door, The Vine, The Desire, The Price

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