Freedom in Christ

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Freedom in Christ

• from what? for what?

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Who is it that can tell me who I am?
Society
Sexuality
Possessions
Celebrity
DNA
Job
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13 For you created my inmost being  you knit me
together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you
because I am fearfully and wonderfully made
your works are wonderful, I know that full
well.
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 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be
fruitful and increase in number fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and
the birds of the air and over every living
creature that moves on the ground." - Genesis 1
Significance
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 29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing
plant on the face of the whole earth and every
tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be
yours for food. - Genesis 1
Security
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 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and
they felt no shame. - Genesis 2
Acceptance
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Right Relationship with God in the Garden
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18They are darkened in their understanding and
separated from the life of God because of the
ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of
their hearts. - Ephesians 4
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Disconnected from God

• SignificanceShame and Guilt
• SecurityFear and Anxiety
• AcceptanceRejection
• Manifests in
• Feeling weak and powerless
• Depression and Anger

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Trying to recover the symptoms rather than
trying to reconnect with the cause
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Reconnection

• For as in Adam all die,
• so in Christ all will be made alive.

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He who has the Son has life he who does not have
the Son of God does not have life. - 1 John 5.12
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Food for thought

• What difference does it make to you to think of
  yourself as a creation?
• If you are a creation, what significance does
  your creator have?
• What would it be like to live in harmony in the
  company of your creator?
• What would life be like without a creator?

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You are not saved by how you behave but by how
you believe

• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
  creation the old has gone, the new has
  come! - 2 Corinthians 5.17
• He came to that which was his own, but his own
  did not receive him. Yet to all who received him,
  to those who believed in his name, he gave the
  right to become children of God children born
  not of natural descent, nor of human decision or
  a husband's will, but born of God. -
  John 1.11-13

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Are you alive in Christ?Are you still prone to
sin?

• My dear children, I write this to you so that you
  will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have
  one who speaks to the Father in our defenceJesus
  Christ, the Righteous One. - - 1 John 2.1
• What is the appropriate thing to do when you know
  you have sinned and feel condemned?

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It is not what we do that determines who we are
it is who we are that determines what we do

• Making what is true come true?

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Exercising faith- believing God in how we live
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People dont always live according to what they
say they believe, but they will always live
according to what they actually believe