What is Life all About?

Intro

Why do I exist?

What is the purpose or meaning of life?

3 Approaches to answering the question of the meaning of life?

Mystical: It’s speculation

Self-Help: May lead to success; but not purpose

Philosophical: Hughe Moorehead “The meaning of life”- Many admitted they did not know.

Bertrand Russel, “Unless you assume a God, the question of the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.”

Fredrich Nietzsche - argued that the decline of faith in God, society would lead to a sense of meaninglessness and nihilism.

Ephesians 2:1-20

We were all spiritually dead at one point (Eph. 2:1-3).

Ephesians 2:1 NIV

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2:2 NIV

in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

Ephesians 2:3 NIV

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

God created you to love you and show you his grace and kindness (Eph. 2:4-9).

Ephesians 2:4–5 NIV

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 2:6–7 NIV

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8–9 NIV

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.

God has a plan and purpose for your life (Eph. 2:10).

Ephesians 2:10 NIV

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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