Ultimate Authority (2)

What have you learned from current or past authorities? (parents, teachers, boss or supervisors, etc)

-Think of areas in your life where you struggle to obey your parents, teachers, or other authorities. Write them down below.

- You have the freedom to choose between obeying your parents and disobeying your parents.

-when you disobey, what happens to your freedom? Explain

-When you obey, what happens to your freedom? Explain

Is it safe to say that obedience under your parents authority maximizes freedom in your home? Explain

What does it mean then, when we say that “maximized freedom is found under the ultimate authority - God’s authority” ?

What is being said about freedom in each of the following passages?

Acts 13:38-39 - Who is free? - What are we free from?

Galatians 5:1- Christ died to give us what? What warning do you hear in this passage?

2 Corinthians 3:17 - Where does the this Spirit dwell? - Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is what? and what does that mean for you?

Ephesians 3:12 - A very few people could be in the presence of God in the Old Testament. (Holy of Holys) Who were they? Based off this verse who has access to God in today’s age?

Think through this statement. “True freedom is found under God’s authority”.

What are your thoughts?

What freedom is found in Jesus Christ and under God’s authority?