Why Are You Here?

Why Are You Here?

Lifes Big Questions “Why Am I here” “What am I here for” “What is my purpose”???

Everthing You Do, Say, Plan for Comes From The Answers to Those Questions.

Your Worldveiw Comes From I.

How You Spend Your Time In

What You invest Your Money In?

Quotes- “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.” – Meat Loaf

“Without knowing who I am and why I’m here it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that and therefore I cannot live.” – Leo Tolstoy

“We won’t fully experience joy until we’ve answered life’s biggest question: Why am I here?” – John C. Maxwell

Why You Are Here Influences Your Purpose

Here To Preach- Peka Lead worship

Knowing God- Gods Presence gives your Purpose

Purpose- plan

Jeremiah 29:11–13 (NIV) 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Plan- Gods thoughts or imagined plan for you.

Purpose- Why something exists, what it was made for, what was it made to do.

Athiest- No god- Result of An accident- Big Explosion- Random

Christian- Created By God-

Our Plans Verses Gods Purpose Proverbs 19:21 (NIV) 21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Created For A Purpose

Proverbs 16:4 (NRSV) 4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Gods Purpose For You - Love God Love People

Matthew 22:35–40 (NIV) 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Love- verb- ag-ap-ah-o — Demonstrate love, Show Love , Moral and Social Justice- To do what is right.

Love Through Action 1 John 3:18 (NKJV) 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Love Is The Evidence of Knowing God 1 John 4:7–8 (NKJV) 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

What You Do With Your Wealth ?? 1 John 3:17 (NKJV) 17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

Are You guilty of Loving God??

Hate Your Brother- loveless towards Brother - 1 John 4:20–21 (NKJV) 20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

Brother- Fellow Believer

Hate?- Detest

Loveless? Dont care

Doing Gods Purpose Transforms Things To Good

Romans 8:28 (NIV) 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Gods Purpose You Are An Instrument of Good

You Change The World- You Are A world Changer