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*What’s Your Life Mission?*
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June 7 & 8, 2003
*Speaker: Pastor Steven Peschke*
 
 
So what’s your life mission?
What’s your purpose in life?
What in the world are you here for?
Before we can really answer those questions, we must consider God’s purpose in creating us.
He never does anything without a purpose.
Regardless of how we feel sometimes, He just doesn’t wing it.
God always has a reason, always has a purpose for everything that He does.
Proverbs 16:4 says /“The Lord has made everything for His purpose.”/
Jesus said in Luke 4:34 that His purpose was /“to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”/
And God has a purpose in you being here today.
He wants you to understand that the purpose of your life is not a mystery.
God planned your life mission before you were born, even before the creation of the universe.
And when you became a believer you were given that mission.
Your life mission has both universal elements and unique elements.
There are parts of your life mission that apply to every Christian and there are parts of your life mission that apply uniquely to you, what God custom designed you to do.
Class 301 can help you identify how you your personality, talents and experiences have shaped you for ministry in the Kingdom.
These are part of the unique elements of your life mission.
But today we’re going to look at the universal elements that are a part of every believer’s life mission.
To discover our life mission we have to first understand two things.
We have to understand God’s overall purpose in creating human beings and second, Jesus’ mission here on earth when He was here.
Let’s start by reviewing GOD’S PURPOSE FOR CREATING US.
The Bible says that we were created for four reasons:
 
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WE WERE MADE TO *HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD*.
In Gen. 1:27 it says /“Let us make man in our likeness.”/
Why did He make man in His likeness?
We are unlike any other creation.
We’re not like the animals.
Human beings are unique in that we’re made in God’s image.
What does that mean?
We have a spirit.
We were made to know and communicate with God, who is a Spirit.
Most people think we’re different than animals because we are more intelligent.
We’re unique because we have a spirit.
We have a moral conscious, we have the freedom to choose our behavior and most important, we have the ability to know and talk with God.
The Bible tells us in Ephesians 1, /“Long ago, long before He made the world, God chose us to be His very own through what Christ would do for us.
His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us.”/
Even before you were born, God had you in mind and He planned that He would adopt you into His family.
He wants a long-term relationship with you.
You were made for relationship.
That’s why when people don’t ever develop a relationship with God, they have missed the very reason they were created.
God’s plan for you is older than the plan for the earth.
Before He even made the earth He had you in mind.
That’s what I call long range planning!
That’s how much you matter to God. 
 
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The second thing the Bible says is WE WERE MADE *TO BECOME LIKE CHRIST*.
/“For those God foreknew He also predestined,”/ the Bible says, /“to be conformed to the image /[or the likeness]/ of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.”/
When God made Adam and Eve the very first temptation that Satan gave to human beings was “If you eat the fruit you’ll be like God.”
In fact, he said, “You’ll be gods.”
That has been the temptation ever since.
Satan never tempts you to be like him.
Satan tempts you to think that you’re God.
That is the oldest temptation.
You are never going to be a god.
You are never going to be God.
But the Bible teaches that you can become godly.
What does that mean?
In character, having the love of God, the joy of God, the peace of God, the patience of God.
You’re never going to be God or even a god.
But you can become like God in character and that’s what God says His goal is.
From the very beginning He predestined us to be conformed to the likeness of His Son.
 
Romans 8:29, Message paraphrase, /“God knew what He was doing from the very beginning.
He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of His Son.
We see the original intended shape of our lives there in Him.”/
The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 15 /“Just as we are now like Adam, the man of the earth, so we will someday be like Jesus Christ.”/
So God’s first two goals of your life:  That you can have a relationship with Him and second, that you become like Him – specifically like His Son, Jesus.
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God’s purpose is also this: WE WERE MADE TO *SERVE GOD’S PURPOSE*.
Ephesians 2:10 /“God made us what we are and in Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works which He planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.”/
How many of you would like to be accused of living a life that is built on the purposes that God created you for?
How many of you desire to hear God say to you, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
And if that’s true there must be something we are to be faithful in doing.
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Finally, the Bible says WE WERE MADE TO *LAST FOREVER*.
One day your body is going to wear out and your heart is going to stop.
But that’s not going to be the end of you.
You’re going to go on.
There’s an eternal warranty on your life.
Human beings were made to last forever.
You’re going to last forever one of two places – heaven or hell.
If you have trusted in Jesus as your Savior, then you’re going to Heaven.
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:10, /“He has planted eternity in the human heart.”/
The Bible tells us in Ephesians 1:10, /“This is His purpose that when the time is right that He will gather us all together to be with Him in Christ forever.”/
If you want to know how the world’s going to end, there it is right there.
God tells you clearly.
He’s going to gather all of His children together to be with Him in Christ forever.
We’re made to have a relationship with God, we’re made to become like Jesus (in character), we’re made to serve God’s purpose while we’re here on earth; we’re made to last forever and live with Him.
Here’s the bottom line: This life is preparation for eternity.
It’s the warm up act, the dress rehearsal, the kindergarten that lasts 60, 70, 80 years before you go on to the real thing.
Obviously, if you fully understand and believe these principles, it’s going to dramatically effect how you live.
When you realize that this world is not all there is – in fact, this is kind of the get-ready stage – eternity is going to go on for forever.
When we realize that we only spend a short time here on earth, a lot of things lose their importance.
Who’s going to care about who won the World Series a hundred years from today?
Much less a thousand years from today.
And yet it’s a big, big issue for many of us.
Who’s going to win the NBA Championship, the Stanley Cup or the next Super Bowl?  Who cares in light of eternity?
We’re made to last forever and our purpose and life mission is tied to that eternal perspective.
The second thing we need to look at as we consider our mission in the world is, JESUS’ MISSION ON EARTH.
The Bible tells us that God sent Jesus to earth because we got ourselves into a mess that we couldn’t get out of.
We’ve already said that we were all made to have a relationship with God but by our own selfish choices we have severed that relationship.
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