1. SIMPLY THE BEST

2. WORLD CHAMPIONS

3. THE BETTER THAN GAME  Do we really believe that what God offers us is better than what the world offers us?  How are we doing that?

4. LUKE 9:23-25 23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. 25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? 26 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

5. SACRIFICES  What do they look like?  Difference in repentance and sacrifice. Both are necessary!

6. SACRIFICES  Good for me  Good for You  Good for the Body

7. “OUR GOD” -CHRIS TOMLIN Water you turned into wine, opened the eyes of the blind there's no one like you none like You! Into the darkness you shine out of the ashes we rise there's no one like you none like You! Our God is greater, our God is stronger, God you are higher than any other. Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God! Our God!

8. “OUR GOD” -CHRIS TOMLIN And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us. And if our God is with us, then what could stand against. And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us. And if our God is with us, then what could stand against. What could stand against.

9. GALATIANS 4:21-31 21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. 23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.

10. GALATIANS 4:21-31 24 These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

11. GALATIANS 4:21-31 27 For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

12. GALATIANS 4:21-31 28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

13.  Ishmael  Bondwoman  Born of flesh ABRAHAM  Isaac  Freewoman  Born through promise

14.  Hagar  Mt. Sinai  Bondage  Present Jerusalem  Born of the flesh ABRAHAM  Sarah  The Jerusalem above  Mother of us all  Children of promise  We are born of the Spirit

15. WHAT GOD OFFERS IS  Greater than our suffering  Greater than our victories  Greater than all in between

16. GOD IS SIMPLY THE BEST