The Eternal Purpose Track

God’s Eternal Purpose

by Bryan Kessler

Class Overview

If you ask many believers, “What is God’s ultimate purpose for us?,” you are likely to hear something like, “Save the lost. Make disciples. Release a world-wide revival. Display His power through signs, wonders, and miracles. Or bring liberty and justice to the hopeless and needy.” Though all of these can lead to His ultimate purpose, there’s something far deeper in God’s heart. If we truly want to discover the reason why God created the world and what His ultimate intention is, then we have to go back in time. Back before the fall of man. Back before the creation of the world. We have to travel back to eternity past, when it was only the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Here, dwelling together in approachable light in the perfect bond of fellowship and love, the Godhead held a council that established the blueprint for the creation of the world and His chief creation—humanity. This class, God’s Eternal Purpose, explores what the Godhead established as their ultimate intention.

1 – Before the Foundation of the World

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, June 4, 2017

This session takes us back into eternity past so that we can know God’s ultimate intention. You will see the importance of having the proper starting point when seeking to discern God’s ultimate aim.

2 – The Son at the Center of All Things

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, June 11, 2017

In this session, you will learn that the eternal Son is at the center of God’s ultimate intention as the Creator, the Way, the Truth, the Life, and the pattern to which humanity would be conformed.

4 – The Son is Life

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, July 9, 2017

This session focuses on God’s ultimate aim to impart His Son’s life into humanity. Among God’s entire created order, humanity is the one-and-only creation given the privilege of having God’s life in them.

5 – The Gospel and Ultimate Intention

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, July 23, 2017

This session looks at how the work of the cross restores us to the place where Adam would have initially been if he had eaten from the tree of life and how the way of the cross leads us to God’s ultimate intention.

6 – The Fullness of Christ

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, August 6, 2017

In this session, you will learn five keys to experiencing the fullness of Christ. These are: The filling of the indwelling Spirit, abiding in Christ, gaining Christ in our soul, internal intimacy, and obedience.

7 – A Family of Sons

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, August 20, 2017

This session looks at the Father’s ultimate intention to adopt us as His sons. Understanding this requires knowledge of Greco-Roman adoption in the first-century and how that applies to our adoption as sons.

8 – Coheirs with Christ

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, September 17, 2017

This session looks at our future son placement into Christ’s inheritance as His coheirs. Namely, we look at our inheritance of eternal intimacy, eternal authority, and eternal glory.

9 – The Revealing of God’s Sons

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, September 24, 2017

In this session, we look at how God’s eternal purpose to adopt us as sons will be fulfilled at the end of the age. Specifically, we look at the first-fruits harvest and the final ingathering of God’s Christ-like sons.

10 – Corporate Fullness

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, December 3, 2017

This session looks at the Holy Spirit’s inheritance, which is a temple that He fills, a house in which He dwells, and a body that He possesses and brings to full maturity. This can be summarized by the phrase corporate fullness.

11 – A Worthy Bride

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, December 10, 2017

This session looks at the Son’s inheritance in the saints, which is an equally yoked bride who will partner with Jesus throughout the endless ages of eternity. The Father will provide Jesus with a pure, spotless, and holy bride.

12 – Aligned with God’s Eternal Purpose

Class: God’s Eternal PurposeSunday, December 31, 2017

This session exhorts us to make God’s eternal purpose our life-purpose and to become part of an army who will labor together to see God’s ultimate intention achieved at the end of the age.
Bryan Kessler

Bryan Kessler

Vice President

Bryan Kessler is the senior pastor of Restoration Life Church in Marietta, Georgia and the Vice President of Lifeschool International. He spends much of his time writing and teaching about topics related to God’s eternal purpose, the bride of Christ, the overcomers, the way of the cross, and the fullness of Christ.