Created for His Purpose

  Created for His Purpose

Rom. 8:28-32   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

Only if certain conditions are met. The first condition is that it is His purpose, not ours, which is actually the second condition. Otherwise all things would not work out together for our good.

Proverbs 1:24,29,31   ²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

²⁹ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

For he, God, did foreknow means that Gods foreknowledge of our life is so that we could be conformed to the image of Jesus, his son. It is not about the person predestined; it is about Gods plan for the believer.

³⁰ Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Without that call from God man cannot be saved. To many of Gods children refuse to hear the call.

The whole of humanity is set apart in to two camps. Those who follow God and are given wisdom of the word and those who reject the God given wisdom of the word.

They hate knowledge and have no fear of the Lord. Here is the choice that every living soul has to make. Those who choose not to follow God do so because they refuse to accept the knowledge which is given to us by the word of God.

So, they will eat of the fruit of doing it their own way. Man’s problem is doing things in his own way and his own devises. It is either Gods way to have eternal life or mans way which is eternal death.

³¹ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

If God be for us should have been translated, since God is for us who can be against us.

³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

God, who spared not his own Son, refers to the great gift given of God regarding the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the cross God freely gives us all the things that pertain to life and Godliness. Which Jesus paid for at the cross. Providing our faith is forever in Christ and the cross.

The word destination means the purpose for which something or someone is intended or appointed to.

The word predestinate means God did actually know us before we were ever born physically. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate.

That is how we know that all things can work together for good to them that love God. And to them who are called according to his purpose.

2^nd Peter 1:3-4   ³ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

⁴ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Exceeding great and precious promises pertains to the word of God which alone holds the answer to every life problem. Partaker of the divine nature implanted in the inner being or a believing sinner becomes the source of our new life and actions. It comes to everyone at the moment of being born again.

Matthew 22:14   For many are called, but few are chosen.

This includes the whole world which are many and are called by God. few are responding favorably to the call.

 Many are called for Gods purpose on earth, but some that are called are led astray by the world’s rebellious ways.

Before we were born physically to our mother and father, we were in Heaven as a spirit.

You were a spirit in the heavenly realm. How else could he have known you and predestined you for His purpose.

We were called, we were justified, and the ones he justified, them he also glorified.

Before you were physically born, at the time of conception, God sent a predestinated foreknown spirit: Flesh can only produce flesh. The real you is spirit, the flesh is to be a device to house the spirit.

Your soul which is made up of your mind, your will and your emotion, your soul helps you make choices in your life.

This is why and how Mary (Jesus’ physical mother) could deliver a physical baby without being with a man.

You are a spirit that was created in heaven: foreknown in heaven and at the time of Gods purpose for your life you were predestinated and sent to earth.

So, if God is for us who can be against us? He also freely gives us all things. God loves his creation and wants to bless us with everything heaven has to offer.

Romans 8: 37-39   Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because of the love of God and everything that he has invested in us through the finished work at the cross, we are more than conquerors.

Paul is saying I am persuaded; persuaded means his mind was made up through faith in the word and is immovable. He was persuaded that neither death nor life or things to come was going to change his mind.

Jesus loved us enough to give his life on the cross. That alone makes us more than conquerors.

This love of God the Father extended to us is made possible solely by Christ Jesus and what was done for us at the cross. Once again this is God’s love for us, it never wavers because we are in Christ.

Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35   ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

This is speaking to us of the love of Christ for the believer. Not the believers love of Christ.

We are protected against all outside influence but not from ourselves. If a person so desires, he can separate himself from the love of Christ by rejecting what was done at the cross.

John 10:28-30   ²⁸ And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

²⁹ My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

³⁰ I and my Father are one.

Eternal life carries with it a promise that cannot be matched elsewhere under any circumstances. They shall never perish means that no believer needs never fear that God will change his mind respecting their salvation.

Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand is referring to any and all out side forces. Only by our own choice can we be taken out of Gods hand. Regretfully many have chosen to leave the Fathers hand.

My Father which gave them to me is greater than all is proclaiming the power of God that is able to keep any and all which he does through the spirit.

Jesus proclaims that no one is able to pluck them out of my Fathers’ hand. If you have Jesus as savior you have the Father’s hand of protection on you.

Jesus says, I and the Father are one. We are one, these simple words destroy the teaching of those who deny the distinction of three persons in the God head and those who question the deity of Christ Jesus.

When God sends you to earth as a spirit, you as a human will have a free will to make decisions as to which path you want to follow.

You can choose the natural way and be led by the things of the world… or you can choose the spiritual way and be led by the Holy Spirit.

Because you were foreknown, God knew everything about you; you were predestined to come to earth for the purpose of serving God. Most people simply do not understand the purpose that God has for their lives.

On Sunday they live by faith; on Monday it’s the same old grind.

We are trying to get through life, letting the old flesh control our thoughts and our life. We are to be led by the Holy Spirit, not what the crowds think.

Let the Holy Spirit Quicken you with the life force that makes your minds and spirits alive beyond the natural realm of thinking.

Let Gods Holy Spirit lead you to your highest potential.