TOP TEN

GREATEST NEEDS
1. Love 6. Comfortable
2. Spiritual Life
3. Financial 7. Friends
4. Partner in Life 8. Home
(Family) 9. Food
5. Stable Job 10. Education
 TOP TEN
PURPOSES IN LIFE
1. Have a Family 6. Enjoy Life
2. Serve & Protect 7. Have a good
3. Become Financially Education
Stable 8. Have a stable job
4. Possess Materials 9. Support Family
5. Serve God 10. Live healthy lives
 WHAT DRIVES YOUR LIFE?
The basic motive for success is
the driving force of envy and
jealousy!

4 And I saw that all labor and all achievement

spring from man's envy of his neighbor.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
 WHAT DRIVES YOUR LIFE?

THE MAN WITHOUT A

PURPOSE IS LIKE A SHIP
WITHOUT A RUDDER – A
WAIF, A NOTHING, A NO
MAN!

Thomas Carlyle
 WHAT DRIVES YOUR LIFE?
1. Is it guilt?
2. Is it resentment or anger?
3. Is it fear?
4. Is it materialism?
5. Are you driven by the need for approval?
 THE BENEFITS OF
PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIVING
1. Gives meaning to your life
2. Simplifies your life
3. Focuses your life
4. Motivates your life
5. Prepares you for eternity
WHAT ON EARTH
AM I HERE FOR?
 Max Jukes,
[an] atheist, lived a godless life.
He married an ungodly [woman],
and from this union there were 310 who died as paupers,
150 were criminals,
7 were murderers,
100 were drunkards,
and more than half of the women were prostitutes.
His 540 descendants cost the State

one and a quarter million dollars [before inflation].

 Jonathan Edwards,
He lived at the same time as Max Jukes, but he married a godly [woman].
Of the 1,394 known descendants of Jonathan Edwards,
13 became college presidents, 65 college professors,
3 United States Senators, 30 judges, 100 lawyers,
60 physicians, 75 army and navy officers,
100 preachers and missionaries, 60 authors of prominence,
one Vice-President of the United States,
80 public officials in other capacities,
295 college graduates, among whom were governors of states and ministers to
foreign countries.
Jonathan Edwards' descendants did not cost the state a penny.
(quoted in America is Too Young to Die by Leonard Ravenhill, Minneapolis,
Minnesota: Bethany Fellowship, 1979, p. 112)
Life on earth is too short to be wasted away. We
simply cannot live according to the age-old principle
that says, “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we
die.” There’s got to be more to life than that. And
there is.

This Purpose Driven Life Series is designed to help

you understand and live out God’s purposes for your
life. As we study God’s Word throughout the Series,
we are confident that you will get the right answers to
the three greatest questions on the meaning of life.
A. THE QUESTION OF EXISTENCE
WHY AM I ALIVE?
B. THE QUESTION OF SIGNIFICANCE
DOES MY LIFE MATTER?
C. THE QUESTION OF INTENTION
WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?
A. THE QUESTION OF EXISTENCE
WHY AM I ALIVE?

“Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to

end my life in disgrace?” Jer. 20:18 (TEV)
 MYSTICAL APPROACH
“Look within and find the purpose”

PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH

Survivalist: “Stay alive”

Naturalist: “Perpetuate itself ”
Hedonist: “Life is pleasure – have fun, party-hardy ”

Materialist: “Life is about the acquisition of things ”

Fatalist: “Whatever will be, will be ”
“The Lord has made everything for His own purpose.”
Prov. 16:4a (GW)

Everything has a purpose. Your life has a purpose.

“Long before He laid down earth's foundations, He had us in

mind, and settled on us as the focus of His love, to be made
whole and holy by His love.”
Eph. 1:4 (Msg)
Why am I alive?
I was created
to be loved by God
B. THE QUESTION OF SIGNIFICANCE
DOES MY LIFE MATTER?

“My work all seems so useless! I have spent my strength for

nothing and for no purpose at all.”
Isa. 49:4a (NLT)
 THREE LEVELS OF LIFE
a. The Survival Level
b. The Success Level
c. Significance Level

“I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you

were born.” Isa. 44:2 (CEV)
“You... scheduled each day of my life before I began to
breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!”
Ps. 139:16 (LB)

Your life has been divinely planned. That’s how much

you matter to God. He paid so much attention to your
life that every detail was recorded in His book, before
you even took a breath.

"His plans endure forever; his purposes last eternally."

Ps. 33:11 (GN)
“When this tent we live in—our body here on earth—is torn
down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a
home he himself has made, which will last forever.”
2 Cor. 5:1 (TEV)

“Leave your impoverished confusion and live! Walk up the

street to a life with meaning."
Prov. 9:6 (Msg)
Does my life matter?
Yes!!!
I was made
to last forever
C. THE QUESTION OF INTENTION
WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?

“Why did you create us? For nothing?”

Ps. 89:47 (NCV)
If you don’t know something’s purpose, it is likely to be misused, or
abused.

The only way you’re going to know what some things are is either:
a) you talk to the creator, or the inventor of it, or
b) you read the owner’s manual.
The only way you’re going to ever know your purpose in
life – You’ve got to talk to the Creator and look in the
owner’s manual (Bible).

"Knowing God results in every other kind of

understanding." Pr. 9:10b (LB)
What is my purpose?
I find my purpose by
getting to know God
“For everything, absolutely everything, above and below,
visible and invisible…everything got started in him and finds
its purpose in him.” Col 1:16 (Msg)

“It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are
living for... part of the overall purpose he is working out in
everything and everyone.”
Eph. 1:11 (Msg)

“It makes no difference who you are or where you're from—

if you want God and are ready to do as he says, the door is
open.”
Acts 10:35 (Msg)
WHAT ON EARTH
AM I HERE FOR?

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