RCCG Sunday School Student’s Manual 23rd November 2025 Study
RCCG SUNDAY SCHOOL MANUAL FOR STUDENTS 23 NOVEMBER 2025
RCCG SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDENT’S MANUAL
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, 2025
LESSON TWELVE (12)
TOPIC: LAW AND GRACE
RCCG Sunday School Student’s Manual 23rd November 2025 Study
SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMN
1. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
O how I love Thee well,
I am happy, it makes me glad
To rejoice at Thy birth.
2. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Thy friendship suits me well,
Both young and old will sing Thy song,
We long for Sunday School.
3. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Christ was Thy first teacher,
The Holy Spirit, great teacher,
Does manifest in thee.
4. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
This testimony is sure,
That God, the Father Almighty,
Poured His blessing on Thee
5. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Though the sun be so bright,
Or if the clouds be black with rain,
I’ll be in Sunday School.
6. O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day
I rejoice to see Thee,
Will thou pass over me today?
Without my being blest?
RCCG Sunday School Student’s Manual 23rd November 2025
MEMORY VERSE: “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” John 1:17.
BIBLE PASSAGE: Romans 8:2-4.
[2]For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
[3]For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
[4]That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
INTRODUCTION: The law, according to Scriptures, refers to the detailed standard God gave to Moses, beginning in Exodus 20 with the Ten Commandments. The Law was given to sep-arate God’s people the Israelites from the evil nations around them and to define sin (Ezra 10:11; Romans 5:13; 7:7).
OUTLINE
1. THE NATURE OF THE LAW
2. THE PLACE OF GRACE
THE NATURE OF THE LAW
God gave “a law and commandments” written in a tablet of stone to the Israelites as they jour-neyed through the wilderness to the Promised Land (Exodus 24:12). The law and command-ments were expounded (supposedly by Moses) to include God’s statutes, judgements, testi-monies, etc. and written in a book called “the laws of Moses” to hold the Israelites accountable whenever they disobeyed God’s commandments (1Kings 2:3; Matthew 19:7-8). Jesus sum-marised all the laws to be “love God with all your heart” and “love your neighbour as yourself” (Matthew 22:36-40).
God’s commandments are not grievous or b densome (1 John 5:3) but the nature of sin in man made it difficult for him to comply. Also, the Law was not evil: it defines the condition of a person’s heart (Romans 7:7). The Law exposes the inability of man to obey God’s command-ments (Romans 7:14-16).
While the Law itself was good, holy and just (Romans 7:12), it was weak in that it lacked the power to change a sinful heart (Romans 8:3; Acts 13:39). We should be careful not to set aside the commandment of God, replacing it with human traditions (Mark 7:7-9).
THE PLACE OF GRACE
God is full of grace (Joel 2:13), and people have always found grace and salvation by faith in God (Genesis 19:18-19). God did not change between the Old and New Testaments (Malachi 3:6a). The same God who gave the law through Moses also gave grace through Jesus (John 1:17). Jesus was born “under the law” (Galatians 4:4-5) and became the final sacrifice to bring the Law to ful-filment and establish the New Covenant (Matthew 5:17; Luke 22:20).
If properly understood, there is no conflict be-tween grace and the Law: Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf and offers grace through the power of the Holy Spirit, who motivates a regenerated heart to live in obedience to God (Romans 8:1-4).
Hence, in place of the Old Testament law and its penalty, Christians are under the law of grace through Christ (Romans 6:14; Galatians 3:10-1 22-28). In this dispensation of grace, God’s command-ments remain sacred and to be obedient is to love God (1 John 5:3).
However, any attempt to obey the commandment through the Old Testament Law will take away the liberty of the believer (Romans 8:1-3). This is because “whoso-ever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all” (James 2:9-12). By grace, we can do what is pleasing and acceptable to God (Ephesians 2:7-10). This is why it is an aberration for anyone who is genuinely born-again to habitually and deliberately practice sin (1John 3:8-9, AMP).
CONCLUSION: In Christ, we have the grace to re-sist sin and live holy.
QUESTIONS
1. Why was the law given?
2. Is there a conflict between the grace and the law?
FURTHER READINGS:
SUN: Romans 6:14.
MON: Ephesians 2:8-9.
TUE: Galatians 3:24.
WED: John 1:16-17.
THUR: Romans 3:20.
FRI: James 2:9-12.
SAT: 1 John 5:3.
ASSIGNMENT: List the 10 commandments under the two categories of the summary of the whole law according to Matthew 22:36-40 (1×10=10 marks)
