Sunday, May 8, 2022: “Freedom for the Future” May 8th, 2022: Freedom for the Future, Sunday School

When we come to Jesus Christ by faith, we are saved instantaneously. It happens at once, and we have new life in Christ. There is also a future glory that we will see one day. We don’t know everything that day will include, but this week’s lesson does give us some ideas about it. What we do know is that our redemption that started with our souls will be completed with the redemption of our bodies.

I. SHORT-TERM SUFFERING (Romans 8:18-25)
Anticipating our glorious future should give us a perspective on life that’s unknown to others (Romans 8:18-19).
God is able to restore beauty to everything that we have stained (Romans 8:20-21).
We should be deeply grateful that God forgives us for the mess we have made of His creation (Romans 8:22-23).
How can we not trust God fully after all He has done for us (Romans 8:24-25)?
II. SPIRITUAL HELP (Romans 8:26-27)
God continues daily to overwhelm us with His blessings (Romans 8:26).
Only the One who made the human heart can truly know its desires (Romans 8:27).
III. ASSURANCE OF GOD’S WORK (Romans 8:28-30)
One result of loving God is that all things, including the unpleasant ones work out for His glory and the believer’s ultimate good (Romans 8:28; Ephesians 1:11).
The things that we experience in this life are part of God’s predestined purpose to make us more like Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29-30; I John 3:2).
This week’s lesson teaches that when Christians suffer and struggle, and we will, we need to remember God’s big picture instead of focusing on our immediate situation. Bad things happen in a world that is under the curse of sin. Christians are not immune to the sufferings that are part of the human experience. But the believer has God’s precious promises and God’s prevailing love to see him or her through. As believers look beyond the scope of the sufferings of this life, we will realize that there is a glorious future in store for God’s children when we will be truly free at last!

Ronald Jasmin Assistant Pastor of Corona Baptist Church in Mt Juliet, TN and Cornelius Hill Pastor of Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church Nashville, TN Christian Business Connection
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