Revision Day 4

17/7/2016   LESSON   7

THE LAW IS POWERLESS TO SAVE

Quarter’s Theme: BASIC CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES

Unit 2 – The Believers’ Justification And Admonition To Sinners (Lessons 5-9)

Suggested Hymns: G.H.B. 159, 165

Devotional Reading: GAL. 3:19-25

Topic For Adults

YOU CANNOT MAKE HEAVEN THROUGH KEEPING THE LAW

Topic For Youths

YOU NEED DIVINE POWER TO OVERCOME SIN

Topic For Intermediates

SAVED BY GRACE ALONE

Scripture Lesson

ROM. 7:4-12, 21-25

(RESPONSIBILITY MONTHS)

MEMORY VERSE

But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by,

so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in  the oldness of the letter. (Rom. 7:6) NKJV

REVISION

Sin can be likened to cancerous tissue in a body. Unless the cancerous tissue is removed, it will eventually destroy the body. The human society is dying under the power and impact of sin. The law is like a diagnostic tool which does a good job to reveal the cancer, but which cannot cure the cancer. The law highlights the failure of man to meet God’s set standard.

The law is able to reveal the fallen nature of man, but does not empower man to overcome the power of sin. Grace is given by God to forgive the repentant sinner, to cleanse him of all his past sins and to empower him to overcome the power of sin.

24/7/2016   LESSON   8

HAVING PEACE WITH GOD

Quarter’s Theme: BASIC CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES

Unit 2 – The Believers’ Justification And Admonition To Sinners (Lessons 5-9)

Suggested Hymns: G.H.B.  79, 206

Devotional Reading: MATT. 11:25-30

Topic For Adults

RECONCILED TO GOD, ADOPTED AS HIS CHILD

Topic For Youths

ADOPTED SO AS TO ENJOY GOD’S WONDERFUL LOVE

Topic For Intermediates

LIVE TO PLEASE GOD

Scripture Lesson

ROMANS 8:1-39

(RESPONSIBILITY MONTHS)

MEMORY VERSE

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:28) NKJV

REVISION

God’s agenda for every born-again Christian is to be transformed into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ. God puts at the disposal of the Christian all resources that will help him grow spiritually and make him fit to come into the eternal inheritance prepared for him. The Christian needs to know that whatever experience God makes him to go through, He is doing it in love. The Christian therefore has to keep trusting and loving Him.

A Christian becomes co-heir with Jesus Christ if he is willing to continue to follow Him in spite of whatever the Christian encounters. There is a cloud of witnesses of those who had gone through similar trials and problems and had overcome. With one voice such overcomers say “watch and pray”. There is trial that comes our way that is not common to man; God proffers a way of escape in such situations. Do not give up but continue to follow God to the end.