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One Purpose
Ron Dunn
Philippians 1:20
If God is going to use you, Sunday School teache, deacon, Christian, you must choose one great purpose in life.
I think the great purpose that every Christian ought to have for his life is the purpose that Paul revealed in the twentieth verse of Philippians, chapter one.
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
What is the one absorbing purpose?
That Christ shall be magnified in my body.
To me, I cannot think of any greater purpose in life than that.
That ought to be the sole and chief purpose of any Christian, no matter his calling.
I hope you understand that I am not talking about a preacher, a missionary, an evangelist; I'm talking about you—the Christian.
The one great purpose of his life should be: Christ shall be magnified in my body.
What does it mean for Christ to be magnified in my body?
Notice he is talking about in my body.
The body refers naturally to the everyday life, to my conduct, to my behavior.
He doesn't say that Christ may be magnified in my preaching.
He was, and he ought to be.
In 1 Corinthians 2, he says, I determine not to know anything among you save Christ and him crucified.
Christ was magnified in his preaching but that's not what Paul is talking about here.
He doesn't say that Christ may be magnified in my writings.
He was.
What Paul says is that Christ may be magnified in my body—my everyday life, the way I talk, the way I eat, the way I behave myself, the way I work.
When Paul was making tents while living in Ephesus, he said, I want Christ to be magnified in my body—even while I am making tents.
The physical, everyday life—not just the religious life.
I heard a young evangelist say a remarkable thing after he came to the realization of some deeper things in his life.
He said, I lived in Sunday in the Spirit, and I lived Monday through Saturday in the flesh.
He said, I had more sense than to know that I couldn't preach by himself.
I had to have the anointing and filling of the Holy Spirit to preach.
He said I would preach in the power of the Spirit on Sunday, but Monday through Saturday, out of the pulpit, I was living in the flesh.
That's what Paul is talking about.
He says, I want Christ to be magnified in my body when I'm preaching, witnessing, or doing anything else—whatever it is.
Monday through Sunday, Christ magnified in my body.
The Greek word means that Christ should be made great or conspicuous in my body.
Do you like to be conspicuous?
I don't like to be conspicuous.
Have you ever gone to a dress up affair, and you've got on your best T-shirt.
When women will be invited somewhere they will call up and ask, what are you wearing?
If everybody else is going to have slacks on, she doesn't want to come in a dress.
And if everybody is going to have a dress on, she doesn't want to come in slacks.
But we don't like to be conspicuous.
Paul said, the one purpose of my life, the one sole, absorbing passion of my life is that in my body Jesus shall be conspicuous, made great.
It is like his body becoming a microscope.
You can take something that is small, something that is naked to the natural eye, and place a powerful microscope over it, and suddenly it looms large.
That is what Paul is saying.
Paul is saying to a world that looks upon Jesus as somebody small and insignificant, I want my body to be a microscope.
When people look at my body, they see Jesus large and conspicuous.
That's the way our bodies ought to be.
You ask the average man on the street what he thinks about Jesus.
If he is honest with you, his conception of Jesus is somebody small and insignificant.
Have you ever noticed a Christian who has only one absorbing purpose in his life, and you look at that man's life and Jesus looks big.
Paul says I want my body to be a microscope.
I want my body to be a telescope.
A telescope is something that takes an object that is far, far away and brings it closer and closer and closer.
Paul says, in my body I want Jesus Christ to be close.
When people see me, talk with me, come around me, I don't want them thinking of Jesus as someone far off, unreachable, inaccessible.
I want my body to be a telescope that brings Jesus close so that they can see him--Christ magnified in my body.
That is the all absorbing purpose, and it bends every circumstance to its purpose.
Here is the key.
You have to be right in your purpose.
I'm talking about the absorbing purpose in your life.
Many of us have lesser purposes, of lesser degrees, and lesser grades.
We have to have these, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I am talking about the all absorbing purpose in your life, because whatever that all absorbing purpose is, that purpose takes every other circumstance and bends it to its service.
It makes every other circumstance a servant of the purpose.
For instance, if a person's all absorbing purpose is to make money, then he is going to look upon every situation as to how he can make a buck.
He is going to take every circumstance and try to make that circumstance serve his purpose.
If a fellow's primary, chief absorbing purpose is to gain an education, then he is going to make every circumstance of life submit to that purpose.
He is not going to let circumstances contradict that purpose.
I guarantee you that the football coach of your high school has only one absorbing purpose in his life, and that is to win.
He had better have a winning season or we'll get somebody else.
You think being a preacher is a shaky business; I wouldn't be a high school football coach for all the money in the world.
I wouldn't coach Baylor University Bears for a million dollars.
Boy, you better make it all the first year or you may not get a second chance.
Only one purpose.
If you go to that coach and say, we're having a little get-together in our home, and we would like for John to be excused from football practice today.
Would you mind excusing him?
Do you think that coach is going to do that?
It doesn't matter if it is raining, snowing, sleeting, or what other demands there may be on that boy's life, every other circumstance, every other need, every other claim must submit to that one all absorbing purpose.
Do you know the reason so many other things can knock us out of our service for Jesus Christ?
Paul says to be instant in season and out of season.
That means to serve the Lord when it is inconvenient—even when it's out of season.
Do you know why some people let a little rain keep them out of the house of God on the Lord's Day?
Because their all absorbing purpose is not that Christ shall be magnified in their body.
They are at the mercy of circumstances.
I can tell you something about yourself.
If Christ being magnified in yur body is not the all absorbing purpose in your life, you are a slave to circumstances.
Your Christian life is dictated by circumstances.
Paul dictated circumstances.
If he was put into prison, hee made that prison experience submit to his purpose, and he used that even as a place to magnify Jesus.
One night he and Silas were thrown into the Philippian jail.
Remember now that he has one absorbing purpose.
What does he do?
He makes that bad circumstance submit to that purpose, and he wins the jailer and probably every prisoner there.
He gets on a ship.
The ship is wrecked, and they are cast on an island.
What does Paul do?
He uses that as an opportunity to glorify Jesus.
If you follow the life of the apostle Paul, you will find he would preach at the drop of a hat.
It made no difference what the circumstance was, he had one all absorbing purpose and he made certain that every circumstance submitted and was the slave and servant of that purpose.
I will tell you right now.
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