My Purpose Part One Series

Sermon series- purpose 1

- God has a purpose for you.

- As I was pondering the direction God was leading me to preach, I turned on the tv &

the subject they were talking about was purpose.

- I thought, what an intriguing subject.

- We’ve started studying Jeremiah, & there’s a man created for a purpose!

- This morning we’re going to, for the next three Sunday’s, look at the first

chapter of Jeremiah, & verses 4-10.

- Just like Jeremiah God created us for a purpose, is with us in the purpose, & equips

us to do the purpose.

Jeremiah 1:4-10

4 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

6 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

7 But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

9 Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

- God immediately reveals the task, purpose to Jeremiah.

Q- Wouldn’t it be wonderful if God would do the same thing for us today?

- Believe It, or not He still does, we just have to be listening for His direction.

Prayer

- From a mom who kept suggesting I should be a preacher, a speech teacher’s

uplifting words, & a sudden slow down with the wreck. God was steadily revealing

His purpose to me.

- What’s funny is, at first I refused to listen.

> Here’s something that’ll grab your attention,

Q- In eternity, where will you be sitting, smoking or non-smoking?

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- You can’t get more direct than that!

- We don’t want to listen, but listen

Hebrews 9:27

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

- We’re here, we’re alive, & God has a reason for every last one of us!

- I know we think that I can’t go out & evangelize like Paul did, but that may, or may

not, be God’s plan for us.

- God’s plan doesn’t have to be anything that we think as a desirable plan.

Q- What If God’s plan is simply for you to be His child?

- I know that sounds simple, but think of the millions, if not billions throughout time,

who are not God’s child!

2 Peter 3:9-10

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

- As God spoke to Jeremiah, He said He had a plan for Him before he was formed in

his mother’s womb.

- Think of the impact on us if God tells us the same thing, but His plan is for us to be

His child.

Q- Can you reject God’s plan?

Q- Would you listen as God reveals His plan to you?

- Those are two deep, & theological questions that on all levels can boggle the mind,

but we’re not asked to evaluate the questions. We’re asked to give an answer.

Q- Would you reject being God’s child?

- What God desires of all mankind is found in Micah 6:8

Micah 6:8

8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

- In the creation of mankind God placed the option before us to do good, or bad.

- The choice was made to do bad, because they did not trust the Lord.

- It all falls in the line of trust God, trust Jesus.

- When you trust Him, you allow Him to

1. Direct your steps.

2. Cultivate your skills/gifts

3. Then, you allow Him to use you in the way the Father wants His child to work.