end product what will it look like?. god’s promise 2 peter 3:13 a new heaven and earth [visble and...

END PRODUCTWHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE?

GOD’S PROMISE

2 PETER 3:13

A NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH [VISBLE AND INVISIBLE UNIVERSE] IN WHICH RIGHTEOUSNESS [NOT SIN] IS THE NORM

NEW NOT IN TIME BUT IN QUALITY

THE END PRODUCT

HUMANS

TRINITY

WHEN AND WHERE?

REVELATION 21:1-4

WHEN GOD MAKES EVERYTHING NEWWHEN THE NEW HEAVEN COMES DOWN TO THE NEW EARTHWHEN GOD IS AT HOME WITH HIS PEOPLEWHEN HIS PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY FREED FROM THEIR PAST

REVELATION 21:4

NO TEARS FROM ‘IF ONLYS’, PAINFUL OR SHAMEFUL MEMORIESNO DEATH BECAUSE OF RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWNSNO SORROW ARRISING FROM DISASTERSNO CRIES FOR HELP BECAUSE OF DISTRESSNO PAIN FROM HAVING TO STRUGGLE

A PEOPLE FREED FROM ALL DISTRACTIONS

LACKING NOTHING

THIS LIFE IS TOUGH. WE HAVE TO WORK HARD.WE CANNOT COPE, FEEL INADEQUATELACK RESOURCES, STRUGGLEREVELATION 21:7 THE OVERCOMERS WILL INHERIT THESE THINGS [ALL NEEDED RESOURCES] FOR I WILL BE TO THEM GOD [THE SOURCE OF ALL THEY NEED] AND THEY SHALL BE MY SONS [MY PARTNERS]

A PEOPLE TRANSFORMED

GALATIANS 3:3 HAVING STARTED BY MEANS OF THE SPIRIT, WILL WE GO ON TO COMPLETENESS THROUGH SELF-EFFORT?PHILIPPIANS 1:6 GOD WHO HAS STARTED A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL BRING IT TO COMPLETION1 THESSALONIANS 5:23-24 THE GOD OF PEACE/HARMONY IS COMMITTED TO PROCESS HIS PEOPLE TO COMPLETION

WHAT DO INCOMPLETED PEOPLE LOOK LIKE?

1 THESSALONIANS 5:23

THE RAW MATERIAL IS DYSFUNCTIONALINDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELYSPIRIT = IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GODSOUL = IN OUR HUMAN RELATIONSHIPSBODY = IN OUR ABILITY TO WORK TOGETHER

DEFECTIVE IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE

A COMPLETED PEOPLE LOOK LIKE

A BEAUTIFUL, HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY – THE TRINITY AND THEIR PEOPLECOMPLETE IN SHARED QUALITY OF LIFECOMPLETE IN THE WAY EACH CONTRIBUTES TO THE WHOLENO WEAKNESS OR DEFECT IN ANY PARTEACH FITTING BEAUTIFULLY WITH ALL THE OTHER PARTS

THE PRODUCT OF DIVINE ACTIVITY

GOD MUST WORK ON AND IN USINDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELYWE ARE ALL IN HIS WORKSHOPHIS TOOLS • PAIN AND SUFFERING [JAMES 1:2-4]

• HIS WORD, THE BIBLE [2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17]

PARTICIPATORS NOT SPECTATORS

WE ARE BEING TRAINED IN • HEARING UNDER [OBEDIENCE]• SUBMISSION AND WORSHIP• FAITH, HOPE AMD LOVE• THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT• SERVING/LOVING ONE ANOTHER• SONSHIP• OVERCOMING

GOD’S COMMITMENTOUR CO-OPERATION

THE TRINITY HAS COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO PROCESS THEIR PEOPLE TO COMPLETIONCAN THEY ACHIEVE THEIR GOAL WITHOUT OUR CO-OPERATION?ROMANS 8:28-30 GOD MAKES EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO US WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD [BRING TO COMPLETION] FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND ACCEPT THE TERMS OF HIS CALL