1. Free Indeed!

3. Who can draw the diagram we’ve been looking at this term?

4. A story that points to the end

5. A story that points to the end
Genesis 1 v 31:
‘God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and these was morning – the sixth day’

6. A story that points to the end
Genesis 3 v15:
‘And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers;
He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel’

7. A story that points to the end
Genesis 3 v23 – 24
‘So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life

8. A story that points to the end
Romans 8 v3b – 4
‘And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.’

9. A story that points to the end
Romans 8 v 19 – 25
‘For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.’

10. A story that points to the end
Romans 8 v 19 – 25
‘We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.
But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.’

11. Why is The End important?
Gives us the freedom to be ok with the broken world we live in
There is something else that’s not just better, but perfect
Changes our perspective on the present

12. Building a picture of The End
What happens at The End?
Building a picture of The End

13. Building a picture of The End
What happens at The End?
Building a picture of The End
A beautiful place where righteousness dwells
If you don’t love God, you won’t want to be there!

14. How does knowing ‘The End’ give us Freedom?
What does this passage tell us about the New Creation?
Therefore… What does this mean for our freedom right now?
2 Peter 1 v4-8 Matthew 6 v19 – 21 2 Corinthians 5 v17 – 6 v10
Colossians 3 v9-17 Philippians 3 v20 – 4 v9

15. The New Creation starts now!

16. How do we live now, knowing how the story ends?

17. How do we live now, knowing how the story ends?
Because I know how the story ends, I have the freedom to…
How are you going to live that out in a way that shows others that you ‘live in the Spirit, not in the flesh’?