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Episode 23: The joy of discovering your purpose in this world
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The five main purposes as why you were made.
1) You were planned for God's pleasure. God made you to enjoy you. In Revelation 4:11 says: "You, God, created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created."
2) You and I were formed for God's family.
Look at Ephesians 1:5 - "This unchanging plan, His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family." Family should be very important to us because it is important to God.
Did you know that fifty-eight times in the New Testament the word "one another" is used? Love one another, care for one another, pray for one another, exhort one another, encourage one another, greet one another, and on and on and on. God wants you to care for other people. That's called fellowship. Enjoying God's family is called fellowship, and that's the second purpose for your life. Enjoying life with your family.
3) We were created to be like Christ, that's called discipleship. God made you to transform you into a likeness of his son, Jesus Christ.
The Bible says in Romans 8:29, "From the very beginning, that those who came to him, and all along He knows who would, should become like His son, so that His son would be the first of many brothers." Now this is not God's new plan, It's been God's plan from the very beginning of time.
God is more interested in your character, and I'll tell you why - you're not taking your career into eternity, but you are taking your character.
4) You were created to serve Him
The fourth purpose God created you for is this: you were shaped for service. God made you to serve Him.
In Ephesians 2:10, the Bible says, "God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing."
Every Christian is created to serve - called to ministry, created for ministry, saved for ministry, gifted for ministry. The Bible makes it very clear that every Christian is a minister. Not every Christian is a pastor, but every Christian is a minister because to be Christ-like is to be a minister. You can't be like Jesus Christ without serving others.
5. You were created for a mission.
Jesus said, in John 17:18, "[Father,] in the same way you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world." Every believer needs a ministry in the church and a mission in the world. You need both. You need a ministry to believers, and you need a mission to unbelievers.
If you want God's blessing on your life, if you want God's hand of blessing on your life, you must care about the things that God cares about most! And that is bringing lost children back to Jesus. That is what God cares about more than anything else.
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1) You were planned for God's pleasure. God made you to enjoy you. In Revelation 4:11 says: "You, God, created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created."
2) You and I were formed for God's family.
Look at Ephesians 1:5 - "This unchanging plan, His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family." Family should be very important to us because it is important to God.
Did you know that fifty-eight times in the New Testament the word "one another" is used? Love one another, care for one another, pray for one another, exhort one another, encourage one another, greet one another, and on and on and on. God wants you to care for other people. That's called fellowship. Enjoying God's family is called fellowship, and that's the second purpose for your life. Enjoying life with your family.
3) We were created to be like Christ, that's called discipleship. God made you to transform you into a likeness of his son, Jesus Christ.
The Bible says in Romans 8:29, "From the very beginning, that those who came to him, and all along He knows who would, should become like His son, so that His son would be the first of many brothers." Now this is not God's new plan, It's been God's plan from the very beginning of time.
God is more interested in your character, and I'll tell you why - you're not taking your career into eternity, but you are taking your character.
4) You were created to serve Him
The fourth purpose God created you for is this: you were shaped for service. God made you to serve Him.
In Ephesians 2:10, the Bible says, "God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing."
Every Christian is created to serve - called to ministry, created for ministry, saved for ministry, gifted for ministry. The Bible makes it very clear that every Christian is a minister. Not every Christian is a pastor, but every Christian is a minister because to be Christ-like is to be a minister. You can't be like Jesus Christ without serving others.
5. You were created for a mission.
Jesus said, in John 17:18, "[Father,] in the same way you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world." Every believer needs a ministry in the church and a mission in the world. You need both. You need a ministry to believers, and you need a mission to unbelievers.
If you want God's blessing on your life, if you want God's hand of blessing on your life, you must care about the things that God cares about most! And that is bringing lost children back to Jesus. That is what God cares about more than anything else.
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