How Freedom Season fits into the bigger story of God's campaign

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The Bible readings for Freedom Season tell us how God set the descendants of Abraham free from slavery, gave them their own homeland, and later sent the Freedom King to lead the whole world into a new era of freedom. 

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What does this new era mean for us? How do we get free and stay free from everything that is pressing us down or holding us back? How do we spread real freedom to the whole world? It's all there in the biblical story:

• Exodus 1-18: How God set the descendants of Abraham free from slavery in Egypt 

• Isaiah: How God predicted he would send a king descended from Abraham to bring freedom to the whole world

• Mark: How that king, Jesus, brought freedom, died for it, and was raised to keep bringing it

• Romans: How that king's life and death broke the curse that had restricted human freedom

• Galatians: How the king enabled outsiders to become descendants of Abraham, free citizens of God's kingdom

• Ezra, Zephaniah, Haggai, and Malachi supplement the freedom theme 

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Looking back over all this, we gradually realize where and how we fit into this story, and a fantastic thought dawns on us--God is in the freedom business! He has been in it for thousands of years.

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But he has not been ramming freedom down anyone's throat. He allows people to choose whether to enter his kingdom or stay out of it. In other words, he is running a public awareness campaign. The goal is to share information persuasively so that people choose the option that is good for them and for everyone else. 

That's where we come in. He has made us freedom agents to draw people in. The freer we get, the better we do our job. So let's savor the freedom theme in the biblical story this season, soak up all of it we can.

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If you use the SYNC Bible reading guides for the other six SYNC "seasons," you will cover the whole Bible in a year. The big story of the campaign gets clearer and richer as you appreciate it from all seven seasonal angles.