Matt Tuckson – Faith & Anxiety – Class 4 – What is My Purpose?

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Good morning, brothers and
sisters.

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Good morning.
So we’ve made it to our final

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class and this one’s going to be
slightly different than the

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other ones.
That’s why we’re doing it after

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the exhortation, which is kind
of weird.

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It was for our typical way of
doing things.

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That’s the reason is because
while our last couple of classes

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and exhortation, we’re dealing
with anxiety and and kind of the

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greater scale of it, looking at
in a very big picture view, how

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do we deal with anxiety?
This one’s going to get a bit

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specific.
We’re dealing with a specific

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anxiety and kind of work through
at least process step #2 and a

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little step #3 and kind of step
#4 on how to deal with that, how

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to deal with this very specific
anxiety that some people have

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have to deal with and have to
struggle with.

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And that anxiety is
understanding our purpose,

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feeling purposeful, like our
life has some sort of

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fulfillment in it that we feel
fulfilled in our day-to-day.

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This comes from a conversation
that I had with gnomes when she

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was down in Norfolk.
I asked her, what would people

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our age say is the thing that
they are most anxious about if

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you had to think?
And she said having feeling like

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they’re, they have a purpose
like they’re fulfilled in the

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day-to-day.
And so at first I was a bit

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surprised about this.
This is not something that I

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particularly struggle with and
I’ll talk about why I think that

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is later in our class.
But it started to make a lot of

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sense as I thought more and more
about it.

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There was a major shift in kind
of generations at large when we

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got to the age of the
millennials and specifically in

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the work environment.
This happened where for

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millennials, people generally,
when they got into work, head

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down, did what they were told,
didn’t think too much about it,

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very dedicated and loyal to
their jobs.

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When millennials came into the
picture, millennials quit more,

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they complained more and they
wanted more out of their jobs.

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And at first this was viewed as
like millennials are lazy and

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complainers and, you know,
really poor workers.

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And this is a there’s a lot of
articles out.

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That was the initial view.
However, upon examination, what

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people realized was that
millennials just wanted to feel

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purpose in their jobs and they
wanted that really bad.

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Compared to earlier, where that
wasn’t a real main focus,

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Millennials needed that.
Millennials tended to really

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want a sense of purpose or
fulfilment from their jobs and

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they weren’t getting that in
entry level jobs, which makes

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sense.
But that was the problem.

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And that was a thing that there
was a stage in kind of the

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working world where CEOs and
bosses and managers had to

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figure out how do we infuse
purpose in entry level jobs to

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fix this problem.
And so it makes sense that

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although that’s a work situation
that in our lives as most of us

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are millennials, that yeah, we
need more purpose.

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We struggle with this.
This is a star that seems to be

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very in tune with our
generation.

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So I could go on and on about
the work stuff.

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We’re not really going to dig
more into that too much.

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But I think the reason we
struggle with our our day-to-day

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struggles with purpose is
because by and large we’ve been

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sold a lie on what purpose is
and how we should experience it,

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how we should feel fulfillment
and how that all looks and

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works.
So what we’re going to do today

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is we’re going to start
examining what is our purpose.

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To do that, we’re going to have
to start with what is God’s

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purpose and we’re going to see
how does that relate to our

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purpose.
And then from there, we’re going

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to ask the question, how do I
evaluate like I’m doing my

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purpose?
How do I get that sense of

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fulfillment?
Am I supposed to at certain

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stages?
Am I not in certain stages?

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How does that work?
So that’s the goal for today.

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What is God’s purpose?
How does that relate to my

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purpose?
And how do I get this, the sense

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of fulfillment?
Once I understand my purpose,

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it’s a lot to cover, and I’m
going to be hopping around a lot

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of scripture.
So I’ve kind of asked for

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forgiveness in advance because
we’re going to be doing a lot of

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hopping around.
We’re going to start in Hebrews

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6, but we’re not going to end
there by any means.

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So let’s go ahead and get
started.

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So we first start off with what
is God’s purpose?

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And the reason we’re doing this
is the Step 2 of dealing with

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this anxiety that I was talking
about, the idea of saying what

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God’s view on things is.
So we start off with what is his

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purpose.
We have to start at a

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foundational level.
And I want to approach this in

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two different ways because this
is a golden thread throughout a

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little scripture.
The 1st way is going to be

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springboarding.
Springboarding from our reading

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and our reading in Hebrews 6, it
says for when God made a promise

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to Abraham, since he had no one
greater whom to swear by, he

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swore by himself, saying, Surely
I will bless you and multiply

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you.
And thus Abraham, having

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patiently waited, obtained the
promise.

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For people swear by something
greater than themselves and and

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all their disputes and oath is
oath is final for confirmation.

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So when God keepers here, so
when God desired to show more

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convincingly to the heirs of the
promise the unchangeable

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character of his purpose, he
guaranteed it with an oath.

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According to verse 17, God’s
purpose is the promises to

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Abraham.
Specifically.

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When is it the promises to
Abraham?

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Well, it’s when God swore by
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When God swore by himself, He
was expressing to Abraham.

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This is my my promise, I’m
sorry, my purpose.

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This is my purpose with the
world.

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This is the character of my
purpose.

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That conversation with Abraham
is his purpose, and that

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conversation is in Genesis 22,
verses 16 to 18.

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By myself I have sworn, declares
Yahweh, Because you have done

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this and not withheld your son,
your only son, I will surely

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bless you.
I will surely multiply your

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offspring as the stars of heaven
and as the sand of that is, that

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is on the seashore.
And your offspring shall possess

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the gates of their enemies.
And in you, your offspring,

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shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed because you

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have obeyed my voice.
Again, in essence, the promises

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to Abraham are God’s purpose.
Let’s bring about a day where

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all the nations of the earth
will be blessed, where it will

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be part of Abraham’s seed or
offspring, and we’ll they’ll

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have the land of Israel.
And we know when this is.

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This is the Kingdom.
We know that because of the work

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of Jesus and how it’s talked
about in Galatians 3.

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Now I know I’m hopping all over.
Try to bear with me because

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we’re trying to get a really
solid foundation on what is

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God’s purpose.
So Galatians 3 verses 27 to 29

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say for as many as you were
baptized into Christ have put on

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Christ neither is neither Jew
nor Greek, neither slave nor

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free, neither male nor female.
For you all in one one, all at

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one in Christ Jesus.
And if you are Christ, then you

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are Abraham’s offspring, heirs
according to the promise.

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So this gives us kind of a full
picture of what God’s purpose

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is.
Essentially, it’s from Hebrews

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to say that the purpose was told
to Abraham from Genesis.

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The purpose is the promise, and
through Galatians we know that

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purpose is talking about the
Kingdom as achieved through the

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work of Christ.
That is God’s purpose.

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It is to bring about the
Kingdom.

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OK, that’s thread one.
I want to go through another

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thread now, and it’s going to be
a similar, similar way of going

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about it.
But at least for me, I connect a

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whole lot more to the second
thread because the first thread

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seems very theoretical, seems
very like logical.

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It’s not a lot of for me, it’s
not a lot of connection.

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I don’t connect to that throat a
lot.

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The second thread, I connect a
lot because there’s a lot more

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relationships between God and
people who follow him, and that

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is through his name.
His name contains his purpose.

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His name is expressed very
plainly in Exodus chapter 3.

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And I don’t have time,
unfortunately, to break this

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down as much as I want to.
I highly recommend listening to

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Roger Lewis’s classes on God
Manifestation.

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They they nail this way better
than I’m going to nail it here

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because I got to do it in 10
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He did it in five classes.
But they they really, really

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open up the understanding of why
do Christopher say the name

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Yahweh?
Why do we say Yahweh when we

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pray?
Why do we say Yahweh when we

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read?
Why don’t we just say, Lord,

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It’s easier for people to
understand and there’s a reason

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to it.
That’s because when you

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understand the name Yahweh, you
connect to God’s purpose a whole

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lot better because His name
contains his purpose.

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So how do we get that?
How do we get that?

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His name contains his purpose.
Nexus 3 verses 13 to 14.

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His name is expressed very
plainly to Moses.

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It states, If I come to the
people of Israel and say to

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them, the God of your father’s
has sent me to you, and they ask

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me, what is his name, What shall
I say to them?

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God says to Moses I am who I am.
And he said, say to the people

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of Israel, I am has sent me to
you.

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And God also said to Moses, say
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Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, God of

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Isaac, the God of Jacob, has
sent me to you.

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This is my name forever.
And thus I am be remembered

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throughout all the generations.
So I’m going to break this down

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a bit, and to break this down
we’ve got to get into some

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Hebrew.
I am who I am.

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There’s a bit of a debate and
mostly mainstream Christianity I

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will say of is this I am who I
am or I will be who I will be.

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And funny enough, the answer is
both.

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And the reason it is, is because
of how tenses work.

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In Hebrew there’s a perfect
tense and an imperfect tense.

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While we have past, present,
future, they have perfect or

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another way to think about it is
completed or imperfect,

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incomplete.
Has it been finished or not

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finished?
And we need to understand this

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for understanding that I am who
I am because in the imperfect

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tense it is incomplete.
It is currently happening and

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will happen.
The I am is also I will be.

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It’s not specifically I have or
I was.

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That’s the the weird thing with
Hebrew When we compared to

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English Hebrew 2 tenses, it’s
kind of essentially it’s present

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and future tense and then one
past tense.

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It’s kind of how you would split
that one.

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So the I am who I am really
should be.

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I am and will be who I am and
will be a little bit

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complicated, but that’s how we
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When you understand a bit more
about Hebrew.

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On top of that, the actual
Hebrew is aya, Asha, aya, and

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there’s some really cool stuff.
When you break that down South,

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aya is the I am or I will be,
The Asha is The Who or the that,

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and then aya I am or who I will
be.

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So the aya the I am is masculine
and singular.

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God’s referring to himself.
I am He typically takes on the

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role of the masculine and he is
referring to himself in the

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singular.
The that or The Who in the

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middle is masculine and feminine
and it’s plural.

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Now the reason that’s really
weird in Hebrew is that’s rare

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to have a masculine and feminine
word.

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It’s more often that if you’re
not masculine or feminine,

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you’re feminine, You’re actually
gender neutral.

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And as far as the language goes,
there’s a few words that are

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both, but typically you’re
neutral.

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There’s a few words, though,
that are both masculine and

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feminine.
And this is one of those words.

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It’s both a masculine and
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And the reason and it’s plural
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referring to a group of people.
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people who I am or will be.
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If God was referring to himself
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or the that, it would be
singular because he’s still

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saying I’m going to be who I’m
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He’s actually referring to a
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It’s the I will be those who I
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Now, to kind of break that down
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connect a few other verses or a
few other sections to get a

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better understanding of the
name.

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So in Exodus 33, this is the
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Yahweh on Mount Sinai.
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show me your glory.
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Yahweh, I want to see your
glory.

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Please show me your glory when
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I’m sorry, chapter 34.
It’s so interesting because it

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starts in verse five.
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Yahweh descends from the cloud
and stood within there and

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proclaims the name Yahweh.
The answer to what is your glory

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is Yahweh.
This is my name.

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This is this is who I am.
I am Yahweh.

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That is the glory.
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name is Yahweh.
Yahweh God, merciful and

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gracious, slow to anger and
abounding in steadfast love and

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faithfulness, keeping steadfast
love for thousands for giving

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iniquity, transgressions, and
sin.

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But who will know by no means
clear the guilty, visiting the

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iniquity of the fathers, of the
children on the children and the

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children’s children to the third
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So Moses says, Yahweh, show me
your glory, Yahweh says, That’s

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fine, I’ll tell you my name.
My name is my character, so we

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start seeing some connections
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Yahweh’s name is his character,
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And then we connect sections
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Numbers 1421, Habakkuk 214.
That state.

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But truly, as I live and as the
earth shall be sorry, but truly

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as I live, and as all the earth
shall be filled with the glory

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of Yahweh, or for the earth will
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glory of Yahweh.
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The glory, the character, the
name, they’re all referring to

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the same thing.
The name is the promise of

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manifestation of God.
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what’s going to be manifested,
and the result is God’s glory is

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spread throughout the whole
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That is all wrapped in the name.
I will be manifest in those who

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I will be manifested in.
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It’s a promise of manifestation.
It’s not just a name to call

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them by the same way you call me
Matt or Tuck, the same way you

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call someone else by their name.
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It has a promise.
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Yahweh, I’m not just saying
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I’m saying this is the
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promise that I connect with.
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think of the name Yahweh.
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we can summarize that in really
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One, he wants to create a sorry,
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where people have his glory, and
he wants to bring about that day

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where the Kingdom comes.
His goal is to create the

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Kingdom.
That’s his purpose, to spread

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his glory, his character, his
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So what does that have to do
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Then?
Where do I fit in with that?

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Why did we just spend 10 minutes
going through God’s purpose when

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I’m trying to figure out my
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And to do this, we’re going to
look at a few different

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characters in Scripture to see
what were their purpose and why

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was their purpose their purpose.
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We’re going to read verses 8 to
10 of Second Timothy, chapter

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one.
So, so far, just a reminder we

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got God’s purpose is to create
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In that Kingdom he wants to have
his glory, his character, his

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name spread throughout it.
He wants to bring out a group of

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people that manifest his
character.

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And in Second Timothy, chapter
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Therefore this is Paul speaking
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Therefore do not be ashamed of
the testimony about our Lord,

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nor of me, His prisoner, but
sharing suffering for the gospel

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of the power of God, who saved
us and called us to a holy

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calling, not because of our
works, but because of His own

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purpose and grace which He gave
us in Christ Jesus before the

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ages began, and which now has
been manifested through the

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appearing of the Savior Christ
Jesus, who abolished death and

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brought life and immortality to
light through the gospel.

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Verse 9 is the key verse.
They had a holy calling, and for

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Paul owes to be a like the
Gentiles.

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He was teaching Timothy to do
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That holy calling was their holy
calling.

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Their purpose was their purpose.
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Not because of their works.
Not because they’re particularly

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skilled at it.
Not because they had the

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abilities to do this.
Because of God’s own purpose and

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grace.
Their purpose was their purpose,

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because it was part of God’s
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They formed their purpose.
They figured out their why

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because they first understood
God’s why his purpose and then

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made that theirs.
This doesn’t just happen with

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Paul and I’m going to read a lot
of or to hop around a few

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characters here.
So if you feel like if you want

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to hop around with me, you can,
but I’m going to be going fairly

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quickly through them.
John the Baptist in John One

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states.
I myself did not know him, but

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for this purpose I came baptized
in the water that he might be

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revealed to Israel.
John the Baptist’s purpose was

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his purpose because it fit
within God’s purpose.

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It helped accomplish God’s
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Jesus about his own purpose,
says now is my soul troubled?

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What shall I say father?
Save me from this hour.

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But this is but for this purpose
I have come to this hour.

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Jesus purpose was his purpose
because it fit within God’s

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purpose and helped accomplish
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It’s even true in the negative
case when God talks through

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Moses to Pharaoh in Exodus 9, it
says But for this purpose I have

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raised you up to show you my
power so that my name may be

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proclaimed throughout all the
earth.

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Pharaoh’s purpose, as
unfortunate as it was, was his

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purpose because of how it fit
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So even in the negative case in
in unfortunate purposes they’re

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true because of how they fit
within God’s greater purpose.

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And so this means, brothers and
sisters, for us, my purpose and

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your purpose will be our
purpose.

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Not because it’s what I want it
to be.

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Not because it’s how I feel
about it, or because of my skill

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sets, or because of what I’m
particularly good at.

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It’s because of how it fits
within God’s greater purpose.

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My purpose will be my purpose
because it accomplishes God’s

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purpose, or else it attempts to.
So what does that mean?

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Well, I can break that down into
two very simple statements.

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My purpose is to personally
change, to be like God and to

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take on his character.
To do my part in manifesting his

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glory.
To spread his name throughout

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the earth, to do my part in that
process.

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And secondly, to help, as many
other people do the same.

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To take on Christ, to take on
Yahweh’s name, to take on God’s

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character, to do as help as many
people get there as well,

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because that is God’s purpose.
It is to manifest his glory

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throughout the earth.
And so I need to do what I can

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personally and in my community,
to do the same.

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To spread His glory, to spread
His name.

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Now, this sounds great talk, but
I work a full time job.

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I’ve got responsibilities at
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I’ve got to cook dinner every
night.

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I’ve got to clean the laundry.
I’ve got to clean dishes.

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I’ve got to If I’m married, I
have to keep up with a spouse

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and a relationship.
If I have friends, I have to

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people I have to keep up with.
How on earth do I make every

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moment about personally changing
to be like God and helping as

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many people as I can’t get there
when I have to do things as

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menial and useless and
purposeless, like driving to

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work?
I don’t want to answer that

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question with a potentially
jarring statement.

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I hope it’s not, but it might
be.

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And I want to dig into this a
bit.

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And that statement is if we
don’t feel like we have purpose

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in our life, if we don’t get
that sense of fulfillment, there

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we go.
If we don’t have that sense of

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purpose, I would argue that one
of two things is going on.

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Probably a mix, but one of two
things.

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One, we actually have a lot of
purpose going on in our life.

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We’re just not getting the
fulfillment.

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We’re not feeling that purpose.
It’s there.

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You have purpose.
You’re just not getting that

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feedback.
And I’m willing that most of us

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actually fall into that and
we’ll see how that works.

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The other potential is that,
yeah, there’s a whole lot going

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on in your life or my life that
just doesn’t have purpose.

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We have filled our life with a
lot of purposeless things and we

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need to change that.
So it could be one of the two,

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potentially a mix.
And it’s kind of jarring because

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sometimes the answer that has to
be on the table, we have to

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consider it.
That maybe this is true is I

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don’t feel purpose because I
haven’t filled my life with

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things relating to purpose.
But I’m willing to bet most of

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us fit in the first, which is we
actually have a lot of purpose

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and we do a lot of things that
are purposeful, that have

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meaning.
We just don’t feel it.

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We just don’t have the the
understanding properly to really

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get that fulfillment, that
feedback loop that we want.

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I want to spend some time
dealing with that first

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scenario.
How do we fix that?

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How do we make it so we feel
purpose if we have it how do we

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make it so that we get that
proper fulfillment and to start

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that process.
I want to start by re examining

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that kind of initial statement I
made made of you know about

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talk.
I have a full time job and I

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have to do the dishes and all
those menial tasks.

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What I actually heard when this
theoretical person said that to

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me was there’s a whole lot of
purpose in your life.

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Those are all very purposeful
and meaningful things that you

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just said and this is how we can
look at that.

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Working a job allows me to be
able to spend time being helpful

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to my ecclesia instead of a
burden.

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It allows me to be able to
provide potentially for a family

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and provides me personally with
the financial stability to be

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able to focus on trying to be
like God.

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And I think a really useful way
to look at it is look at it in

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the alternative.
What if I wasn’t working a job?

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What if I was struggling
financially?

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What if I was in a really low
point?

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Well, if I’m in that spot, I’m
really stressed about that.

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That becomes a priority to me to
fix that solution.

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I I’m really focused on that,
which leads to less focus on

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things like helping others to be
like God.

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Now there’s a new temptation
that’s entered my life that I

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have to work through of
prioritizing.

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Do I work on my finances or do I
work on helping other people?

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There’s all this battle that I
have to deal with, and so having

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a job, being stable and
financially working on, trying

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to set yourself up in a career
that allows you to have the

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breathing room to focus on God’s
purpose.

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It in itself is not God’s
purpose.

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Working a job does not fulfill
spreading God’s glory around,

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but what it does do is allow me
to have the breathing room to do

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that for the rest of my life.
So yeah, it facilitates God’s

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purpose in itself is not, but it
facilitates it.

433
00:23:00,760 –> 00:23:02,640
Keeping up with friends and
relationships.

434
00:23:03,080 –> 00:23:06,200
By all means, if we are together
in Christ like and trying our

435
00:23:06,200 –> 00:23:08,840
best to be like Christ, that’s
fulfilling God’s purpose.

436
00:23:09,320 –> 00:23:11,480
Hanging out with somebody
doesn’t necessarily feel like

437
00:23:11,480 –> 00:23:15,240
I’m doing this great task of of
spreading God’s glory,

438
00:23:15,240 –> 00:23:17,360
especially when we’re not
directly talking about God.

439
00:23:18,120 –> 00:23:21,960
But that’s fellowship that is
helping that brother or sister

440
00:23:22,120 –> 00:23:24,720
work their way towards the
Kingdom step by step.

441
00:23:25,400 –> 00:23:27,400
And when we view it in that
light, it actually helps direct

442
00:23:27,400 –> 00:23:29,920
our conversations.
Because instead of just getting

443
00:23:29,920 –> 00:23:33,080
together and talking about the
sports or weather or how’s your

444
00:23:33,080 –> 00:23:36,080
job going, we’ll actually talk
about things that matter.

445
00:23:36,080 –> 00:23:39,080
Because there’s meaning in this,
there’s purpose in this.

446
00:23:39,480 –> 00:23:41,200
There’s value in these
conversations.

447
00:23:42,960 –> 00:23:45,600
Taking care of our home allows
us to be welcoming to others,

448
00:23:45,600 –> 00:23:48,400
allows us to be be, have an
environment at our house that

449
00:23:48,520 –> 00:23:51,320
allows people to feel welcomed
and able to come over and have

450
00:23:51,320 –> 00:23:54,760
good conversations.
If we are chaotic and have a

451
00:23:54,760 –> 00:23:56,920
mess everywhere, people aren’t
going to feel like they want to

452
00:23:56,920 –> 00:23:58,200
come over.
Well.

453
00:23:58,200 –> 00:24:00,720
That’s part of God’s purpose is
getting people together and

454
00:24:00,720 –> 00:24:03,680
spreading, helping, spreading
God’s glory and talking to them

455
00:24:03,680 –> 00:24:05,840
about different parts of God’s
character.

456
00:24:06,120 –> 00:24:09,400
It creates a space where you can
think about and process life’s

457
00:24:09,400 –> 00:24:11,200
events and not be distracted by
maps.

458
00:24:11,840 –> 00:24:15,000
I know personally I don’t get
too terribly flustered, but

459
00:24:15,000 –> 00:24:19,400
there’s a lot of mess around me.
But Silla does, and if I leave

460
00:24:19,400 –> 00:24:23,320
dishes on the counter, she has a
hard time focusing on things.

461
00:24:23,680 –> 00:24:26,840
And so by me doing dishes, what
I’m actually doing is providing

462
00:24:26,840 –> 00:24:30,440
a space or environment where
Silla is able to think and

463
00:24:30,440 –> 00:24:33,800
process God’s character and
glory better, which she can

464
00:24:33,920 –> 00:24:36,960
examine her life in the context
of all these things better.

465
00:24:37,640 –> 00:24:40,440
So there’s actually not a lot of
purpose and meaning to me.

466
00:24:40,440 –> 00:24:43,200
Doing something as meaningless,
at least that’s what it seems at

467
00:24:43,200 –> 00:24:48,400
first as doing the dishes.
Most tasks in our life have

468
00:24:48,400 –> 00:24:52,280
meaning and purpose.
They facilitate basically God’s

469
00:24:52,280 –> 00:24:55,200
glory and purpose being spread
throughout the earth.

470
00:24:55,720 –> 00:24:58,880
They might not directly be it.
Me doing the dishes isn’t

471
00:24:58,880 –> 00:25:01,920
saying, hey, this is God’s
glory, but it helps it so that

472
00:25:02,320 –> 00:25:05,080
each other can actually process
and work on that.

473
00:25:05,080 –> 00:25:11,840
It makes the space for it.
And if we aren’t feeling purpose

474
00:25:11,840 –> 00:25:16,240
in these events, in these small
day by day, the daily grind,

475
00:25:16,760 –> 00:25:18,160
there’s two things potentially
going on.

476
00:25:19,360 –> 00:25:22,360
One, and this is what I think is
often the case, we haven’t

477
00:25:22,360 –> 00:25:24,000
actually given these events
purpose.

478
00:25:24,120 –> 00:25:25,520
We haven’t thought through all
of this stuff.

479
00:25:25,840 –> 00:25:28,360
We do delicious because, well,
we ate and so we have to do

480
00:25:28,360 –> 00:25:30,040
delicious.
We do laundry because

481
00:25:30,440 –> 00:25:31,840
logistically, I need clothes for
tomorrow.

482
00:25:32,320 –> 00:25:35,200
We cook our dinner because yeah,
I have to eat and it’s what I

483
00:25:35,200 –> 00:25:37,440
do.
We go to work because, well,

484
00:25:37,640 –> 00:25:40,960
everyone has a job, so might as
well We haven’t thought through

485
00:25:41,080 –> 00:25:44,640
an assigned purpose and figured
out the reason we actually do

486
00:25:44,640 –> 00:25:48,400
all these things to all these
seemingly meaningless tasks.

487
00:25:49,600 –> 00:25:52,000
This is why I said in the
beginning, I don’t really

488
00:25:52,000 –> 00:25:55,840
struggle with this too much.
Not because I’m some special

489
00:25:55,840 –> 00:25:58,040
person who’s thought through
everything, but actually because

490
00:25:58,040 –> 00:26:01,560
I’m a really combative person.
And so when people say, hey, you

491
00:26:01,560 –> 00:26:05,240
should do this, my initial gut
reaction is no, until you give

492
00:26:05,240 –> 00:26:08,840
me a really good why.
But what that does is make it so

493
00:26:08,840 –> 00:26:11,840
when I’m doing something, I know
exactly why I’m doing it,

494
00:26:12,160 –> 00:26:15,520
because I’ve combated that thing
to before I let it into my life.

495
00:26:16,200 –> 00:26:17,920
Now there’s there’s definitely
problems with that.

496
00:26:18,120 –> 00:26:20,560
I can create some interesting
and awkward conversation

497
00:26:20,560 –> 00:26:23,920
sometimes, but the benefit of
this is that, yeah, I really

498
00:26:23,920 –> 00:26:27,000
understand my why to what I do
and why I’m doing it because

499
00:26:27,000 –> 00:26:29,560
I’ve had to process that way a
lot before I’ve let it into my

500
00:26:29,560 –> 00:26:32,880
life, even as meaningless as do
I lift the carpet when I’m

501
00:26:32,880 –> 00:26:35,760
vacuuming.
That’s something that I really

502
00:26:35,760 –> 00:26:38,360
will have to understand why I’m
doing that before I am willing

503
00:26:38,360 –> 00:26:40,480
to do it.
But it makes it so that in every

504
00:26:40,480 –> 00:26:42,800
step in my life, I know why I am
doing this.

505
00:26:42,800 –> 00:26:45,000
And that is what purpose is.
It’s a why.

506
00:26:45,360 –> 00:26:47,880
It’s the reason you’re doing
what you’re doing.

507
00:26:48,840 –> 00:26:52,000
And so if you can understand the
why to why you work and go past.

508
00:26:52,160 –> 00:26:54,520
I’m doing it because it’s what
I’m supposed to do and give it

509
00:26:54,520 –> 00:26:58,280
purpose and say I’m doing it to
help facilitate my ecclesia.

510
00:26:58,400 –> 00:27:01,760
I’m doing it to help facilitate
my life in a way that I can work

511
00:27:01,760 –> 00:27:04,840
on God’s purpose and that I can
work on glorifying His name.

512
00:27:04,840 –> 00:27:07,720
But I can give myself a space
where I don’t have to stress

513
00:27:07,720 –> 00:27:11,360
about the the financial or
financial challenges that can

514
00:27:11,360 –> 00:27:13,520
come in life when we don’t or
when we’re not financially

515
00:27:13,520 –> 00:27:15,960
stable.
I can actually choose to use

516
00:27:15,960 –> 00:27:19,240
that time wisely or use that
time well and working on the

517
00:27:19,240 –> 00:27:20,800
truth.
Working in the truth.

518
00:27:21,760 –> 00:27:26,080
That’s meaning instead of making
dinner because I have to eat,

519
00:27:26,520 –> 00:27:29,080
I’m making dinner to provide
conversations with me and Cilla.

520
00:27:29,640 –> 00:27:32,360
Or I’m making dinner to provide
a place where we can have

521
00:27:32,520 –> 00:27:34,640
conversations with our brothers
and sisters where we can go and

522
00:27:34,640 –> 00:27:38,240
hang out with each other.
I’m instead of doing the dishes

523
00:27:38,240 –> 00:27:41,440
because that’s what we have to
do, and you know, they’re dirty

524
00:27:41,440 –> 00:27:44,160
and someone’s got to do it.
I’m doing it to provide a space

525
00:27:44,160 –> 00:27:47,480
where we can be clutter free and
focus on what actually matters.

526
00:27:48,600 –> 00:27:51,640
You can give purpose to these
meaningless tasks and make them

527
00:27:51,640 –> 00:27:54,640
not that meaningless.
And it will feel purposeful.

528
00:27:54,640 –> 00:27:57,680
It will feel, it will feel like
it can give you a sense of

529
00:27:57,680 –> 00:28:02,120
fulfillment.
The other potential barrier to

530
00:28:02,160 –> 00:28:06,080
feeling fulfilled in these small
tasks is that we were sold a lie

531
00:28:06,120 –> 00:28:09,640
by the world on what purpose is
and how it works.

532
00:28:11,600 –> 00:28:17,280
See, the world sells purpose.
Like it’s a thing of success,

533
00:28:17,280 –> 00:28:19,600
like it’s related to to
achieving something.

534
00:28:20,200 –> 00:28:22,360
Like it feels good and it’s full
of hype.

535
00:28:22,360 –> 00:28:23,800
Moments like, yeah, it’s
awesome.

536
00:28:24,920 –> 00:28:28,440
And that’s just not true.
When you think of Scripture,

537
00:28:28,720 –> 00:28:31,800
none of those things are.
They’re sometimes true, but not

538
00:28:31,800 –> 00:28:35,480
consistently.
One of Hezekiah’s act, their

539
00:28:35,480 –> 00:28:38,800
greatest acts, dealing with the
success idea, was bringing

540
00:28:38,800 –> 00:28:41,080
together Judah and Israel for
the Passover.

541
00:28:41,320 –> 00:28:42,840
His goal was to try to unify the
nation.

542
00:28:43,480 –> 00:28:44,640
That was what he wanted to
happen.

543
00:28:44,640 –> 00:28:46,840
He wanted to unify these two
groups.

544
00:28:47,440 –> 00:28:49,960
Very, very related to God’s
purpose.

545
00:28:50,160 –> 00:28:52,840
By all means.
Did he succeed?

546
00:28:54,440 –> 00:28:56,920
Not really.
Yeah, they had a really great

547
00:28:56,920 –> 00:28:59,320
Passover, but they weren’t
unified afterwards.

548
00:28:59,840 –> 00:29:03,200
They went on with their life
separate from a.

549
00:29:03,560 –> 00:29:08,440
From a practical point of view,
he failed his goal, But did God

550
00:29:08,440 –> 00:29:10,880
look at it as like a failure?
No.

551
00:29:11,440 –> 00:29:13,920
This was a good thing.
This was something that was

552
00:29:13,960 –> 00:29:18,880
talked well about Hezekiah.
And the reason is success at our

553
00:29:18,880 –> 00:29:22,040
goal isn’t actually the thing
that Yahweh says is part of your

554
00:29:22,040 –> 00:29:24,840
purpose.
It’s the principles that you use

555
00:29:24,840 –> 00:29:28,080
to start your goal.
It’s the why you made the goal,

556
00:29:28,080 –> 00:29:32,280
your goal in the 1st place.
Hezekiah’s attempt to unify the

557
00:29:32,280 –> 00:29:35,960
nations wasn’t a a success
because he actually achieved.

558
00:29:35,960 –> 00:29:39,480
It was a success because he had
the right why?

559
00:29:40,160 –> 00:29:42,120
Because he had the right goals
and principles in mind.

560
00:29:43,320 –> 00:29:46,760
So while the world says you have
to succeed to fulfill your

561
00:29:46,760 –> 00:29:51,960
purpose, God says you have to be
like me to succeed and fulfill

562
00:29:51,960 –> 00:29:53,720
your purpose.
You have to have the right why

563
00:29:53,720 –> 00:29:55,320
you have to have the right
goals.

564
00:29:56,480 –> 00:29:59,840
It’s not about what you actually
did, it’s about the principles

565
00:29:59,840 –> 00:30:02,000
you used to decide what you want
to do.

566
00:30:02,600 –> 00:30:05,280
That’s what determines if your
life should have purpose and you

567
00:30:05,280 –> 00:30:08,080
should feel fulfilled on top of
it.

568
00:30:08,080 –> 00:30:10,520
The world says that fulfilling
your purpose will feel good,

569
00:30:10,720 –> 00:30:11,920
that you’ll have the sense of
achievement.

570
00:30:11,920 –> 00:30:15,160
I think of things like, you
know, finishing that degree or

571
00:30:15,320 –> 00:30:18,400
you you finish that project at
work, you close the deal.

572
00:30:18,400 –> 00:30:21,880
Those are all-purpose sort of
awesome events and it feels

573
00:30:21,880 –> 00:30:25,480
great.
But that didn’t happen to Jesus.

574
00:30:25,960 –> 00:30:28,800
We just talked about it in our
exhortation and the fulfillment

575
00:30:28,800 –> 00:30:31,720
of his purpose.
He didn’t feel good and it

576
00:30:31,720 –> 00:30:35,680
wasn’t intended to feel good.
And in fact when we have think

577
00:30:35,680 –> 00:30:37,400
about what purpose really gets
us to do.

578
00:30:37,400 –> 00:30:40,120
When we think about the idea of
I’m supposed to try and manifest

579
00:30:40,120 –> 00:30:42,320
God’s name and what that often
encourages us to do.

580
00:30:42,800 –> 00:30:45,520
It’s not stuff that feels good.
It’s stuff that’s hard.

581
00:30:46,000 –> 00:30:48,680
It’s stuff that’s challenging
and and their trials and they’re

582
00:30:48,680 –> 00:30:50,760
working through things that are
against our human nature and our

583
00:30:50,760 –> 00:30:53,240
flesh.
We’re not doing what feels good.

584
00:30:53,680 –> 00:30:58,800
We’re often doing what is hard
and that’s what actually purpose

585
00:30:58,920 –> 00:31:01,480
and what we should be fulfilled
from often encompasses.

586
00:31:02,160 –> 00:31:04,720
It’s taking on things that are
challenging and difficult and

587
00:31:04,720 –> 00:31:08,080
feel awkward.
The first time I I gave a prayer

588
00:31:09,160 –> 00:31:11,960
in our in our meeting.
I’m not going to say the prayer,

589
00:31:11,960 –> 00:31:16,480
but it was bad and it was
awkward and it felt weird and

590
00:31:16,480 –> 00:31:21,040
not not normal, but it was by
all means part of the growth

591
00:31:21,040 –> 00:31:24,400
process of God’s purpose.
The first time I gave an exhort,

592
00:31:24,800 –> 00:31:27,440
I fumble over my words.
I didn’t know what I was saying.

593
00:31:27,440 –> 00:31:29,800
I think it was like 15 minutes
or something for me that was

594
00:31:29,800 –> 00:31:33,560
really short, but I but I’ve got
through it.

595
00:31:33,720 –> 00:31:36,240
It felt awkward, but by all
means it was part of God’s

596
00:31:36,240 –> 00:31:38,760
purpose to help people learn
more about the truth.

597
00:31:40,400 –> 00:31:42,560
God’s purpose in our lives isn’t
always going to feel good.

598
00:31:42,560 –> 00:31:44,600
In fact, often it won’t.
Sometimes it will.

599
00:31:44,880 –> 00:31:48,880
Fellowship weekends like this
feel great, but it’s not a

600
00:31:48,880 –> 00:31:52,480
requirement to have a sense of
purpose or a sense of

601
00:31:52,480 –> 00:31:54,480
fulfillment.
It’s kind of like a happy

602
00:31:54,480 –> 00:31:56,840
sometimes this happens and often
times it won’t.

603
00:31:58,160 –> 00:32:00,520
Feeling good is not a
requirement to feeling

604
00:32:00,520 –> 00:32:03,120
fulfilled.
The last one is hype.

605
00:32:03,120 –> 00:32:07,240
Moments again, thinking about
finishing that project or

606
00:32:07,400 –> 00:32:09,400
finishing that degree.
This is often how purpose is

607
00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:12,440
sold in the world, and even
sometimes in the Bible it’s sold

608
00:32:12,440 –> 00:32:13,800
that way.
You think of Moses leading the

609
00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:15,840
people of Israel, you think of
Jesus on the cross.

610
00:32:16,120 –> 00:32:18,800
These are hype moments.
These are like, yeah, awesome.

611
00:32:18,920 –> 00:32:20,560
These are stories to be told
about this.

612
00:32:20,720 –> 00:32:26,560
This is legendary stuff.
But with Moses, he didn’t just

613
00:32:26,560 –> 00:32:29,320
get to that hype moment
randomly.

614
00:32:30,040 –> 00:32:33,320
He spent 40 years in the
wilderness working with sheep,

615
00:32:34,800 –> 00:32:38,280
and he spent 40 years being a
shepherd to prep him for that

616
00:32:38,280 –> 00:32:41,400
moment.
Those 40 years had purpose.

617
00:32:41,960 –> 00:32:44,000
Yeah, the hype moment had a lot
of purpose.

618
00:32:44,000 –> 00:32:46,320
The leading of the people had a
lot of purpose.

619
00:32:46,520 –> 00:32:48,400
And we read about it and study
it because it’s awesome.

620
00:32:48,560 –> 00:32:50,840
That’s some really fun stories,
lot to learn from.

621
00:32:51,840 –> 00:32:55,920
But by all means, those 40 years
had purpose.

622
00:32:55,920 –> 00:33:01,800
The long grind of monotony of
sheep had purpose.

623
00:33:01,960 –> 00:33:03,560
It set him up for the hype
moments.

624
00:33:04,000 –> 00:33:08,880
So your day-to-day often times
is that long grind.

625
00:33:09,120 –> 00:33:13,120
It is that slow, monotonous
process that is filled with

626
00:33:13,120 –> 00:33:16,080
purpose.
The question for us is do we

627
00:33:16,080 –> 00:33:20,040
feel it?
Yes, you will have hype moments.

628
00:33:20,760 –> 00:33:24,280
My first exhort, while it was a
bit of a fumble, was also a bit

629
00:33:24,280 –> 00:33:26,080
of a hype moment.
I think about that.

630
00:33:26,080 –> 00:33:28,720
I remember it just felt really
good afterwards.

631
00:33:30,280 –> 00:33:31,760
But I had to do a lot of prep
for it.

632
00:33:31,760 –> 00:33:33,720
I had to do a lot of days of
studying for it and thinking

633
00:33:33,720 –> 00:33:35,440
about stuff.
And those are the grind.

634
00:33:36,440 –> 00:33:39,520
Yes, when I got married to
Silla, that was a hype moment.

635
00:33:40,560 –> 00:33:42,800
But there was a lot of work put
into that relationship prior

636
00:33:43,080 –> 00:33:45,560
that required grind in
day-to-day.

637
00:33:46,000 –> 00:33:47,080
I’m not saying that in a bad
way.

638
00:33:47,080 –> 00:33:56,400
That’s just, that’s just life.
Yeah, they that’s just part of

639
00:33:56,400 –> 00:33:59,800
how life works.
We have to we have to go in and

640
00:33:59,800 –> 00:34:03,160
put in the hard yards, the
grind, the day and day, the

641
00:34:03,160 –> 00:34:05,760
monotony to be able to get to
the hype moments.

642
00:34:05,880 –> 00:34:09,120
That’s how our life works.
And so hype moments are not a

643
00:34:09,120 –> 00:34:12,679
requirement for fulfillment.
They will happen sometimes, but

644
00:34:12,920 –> 00:34:16,880
they’re not a requirement.
What is the requirement as being

645
00:34:16,880 –> 00:34:20,840
connected to God’s purpose?
It’s knowing his why and making

646
00:34:20,840 –> 00:34:23,639
that your why.
It’s understanding God’s reason

647
00:34:23,639 –> 00:34:26,159
for doing something and making
that real reason.

648
00:34:26,639 –> 00:34:29,199
And sometimes that will be hype
and sometimes that will be

649
00:34:29,199 –> 00:34:32,960
successful and sometimes it will
feel good, but not always.

650
00:34:33,120 –> 00:34:39,400
I’d actually argue not often.
The other side of this is that,

651
00:34:40,480 –> 00:34:43,960
again, dealing with the other
side that sometimes, and in some

652
00:34:43,960 –> 00:34:46,480
cases, the reason we don’t feel
fulfilled, the reason we don’t

653
00:34:46,480 –> 00:34:48,679
feel like we have a lot of
purpose, is because we actually

654
00:34:48,679 –> 00:34:51,480
haven’t filled our life with a
lot of meaningful things.

655
00:34:52,719 –> 00:34:56,520
It could be that I’m working a
job where I work 8090 a hundred

656
00:34:56,520 –> 00:35:01,000
hours a week and I work so much
that I actually don’t have time

657
00:35:01,000 –> 00:35:04,240
to work on myself, to try to be
like Christ, to help others, to

658
00:35:04,240 –> 00:35:07,240
be like Christ.
I don’t have time in my life to

659
00:35:07,240 –> 00:35:11,000
work on these things.
Well, that Job’s kind of lost

660
00:35:11,000 –> 00:35:14,800
the point of its purpose because
the point of that job was not to

661
00:35:15,160 –> 00:35:17,800
just give you money and to fill
your days.

662
00:35:18,120 –> 00:35:20,160
It was to give you the
opportunity and the freedom and

663
00:35:20,160 –> 00:35:22,760
the ability to work on God’s
purpose.

664
00:35:23,240 –> 00:35:27,160
And so, yeah, there are times
where we’ve kind of filled our

665
00:35:27,160 –> 00:35:29,240
life with things that aren’t
purposeful.

666
00:35:29,880 –> 00:35:31,520
Could be the job, could be a
hobby.

667
00:35:31,960 –> 00:35:34,520
If I spend all my time on a
hobby, that really doesn’t have

668
00:35:34,520 –> 00:35:36,680
a lot of reason.
So, for example, I play a card

669
00:35:36,680 –> 00:35:39,560
game, I play it and I love it.
It’s fun, but it’s not part of

670
00:35:39,560 –> 00:35:42,280
my purpose.
And if I spent all my time doing

671
00:35:42,280 –> 00:35:45,240
that, if I do that when I get
home, from when I get home from

672
00:35:45,240 –> 00:35:47,800
work to when I go to bed, and
that’s all I do all the time,

673
00:35:48,480 –> 00:35:51,840
there’s no purpose in that.
There’s no God related purpose

674
00:35:51,840 –> 00:35:53,920
and reason.
The purpose in that is I enjoy

675
00:35:53,920 –> 00:35:55,880
it.
It’s not because God said it’s

676
00:35:55,880 –> 00:35:57,720
good, It’s not because it’s
related to God’s purpose.

677
00:35:57,920 –> 00:36:00,640
The purpose is I enjoy this
feeling of playing this game.

678
00:36:00,640 –> 00:36:04,480
And if that’s all I do in my
days, then yeah, my life’s not

679
00:36:04,480 –> 00:36:08,720
full with true purpose and it’s
not AI need to realize that the

680
00:36:08,840 –> 00:36:10,640
day-to-day grind has purpose
problem.

681
00:36:10,880 –> 00:36:13,440
It’s AI need to change my
day-to-day grind.

682
00:36:13,440 –> 00:36:15,480
So what?
It has purpose, actually, to

683
00:36:15,480 –> 00:36:19,280
change what’s in my life.
I need to reconsider what’s

684
00:36:19,280 –> 00:36:25,400
going on in my day-to-day.
Regardless of the why.

685
00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:28,800
It’s important to ask ourselves
in, in the situations we’re in.

686
00:36:30,160 –> 00:36:32,920
Is this related to God’s
purpose, or is it something that

687
00:36:32,920 –> 00:36:34,920
I just enjoy?
Is it something that I find

688
00:36:34,920 –> 00:36:37,960
comfortable or something I enjoy
and find comfortable?

689
00:36:37,960 –> 00:36:39,480
And it’s not related to God’s
purpose?

690
00:36:39,720 –> 00:36:42,120
It’s not that you necessarily
have to remove all those things,

691
00:36:42,720 –> 00:36:44,480
but yeah, they’re not supposed
to make you feel fulfilled.

692
00:36:44,600 –> 00:36:47,520
That’s not the point of them.
And so we need to make sure that

693
00:36:47,520 –> 00:36:50,440
our life is filled with
fulfilling things, things

694
00:36:50,440 –> 00:36:55,760
related to God’s purpose.
When we approach life starting

695
00:36:55,760 –> 00:36:57,920
at the found, like the
foundation of God’s purpose of

696
00:36:57,920 –> 00:37:00,560
what is that?
And then we build our life with

697
00:37:00,560 –> 00:37:03,640
events and things going on and
and activities that either

698
00:37:03,640 –> 00:37:06,920
relate to that purpose or
facilitate that purpose.

699
00:37:07,760 –> 00:37:10,880
All of a sudden the day-to-day
has a lot of purpose.

700
00:37:11,560 –> 00:37:13,920
The reason, as I said, that I
don’t tend to struggle with this

701
00:37:13,920 –> 00:37:16,240
as much, it’s not because I’m
some.

702
00:37:16,240 –> 00:37:18,440
I filled my life with all these
great purposeful things.

703
00:37:19,120 –> 00:37:24,160
It’s because I ask why a lot.
And then yeah, like I said, that

704
00:37:24,160 –> 00:37:25,880
can cause them awkward
conversations.

705
00:37:26,120 –> 00:37:29,840
But when you really know your
why to everything you do, you

706
00:37:29,840 –> 00:37:32,680
know the purpose to them.
You set the purpose for them.

707
00:37:33,520 –> 00:37:36,240
Purpose is not something that
events just have.

708
00:37:36,760 –> 00:37:40,560
Events aren’t self-evident with
purpose, they’re assigned.

709
00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:45,400
I give something purpose, I say.
This has this reason in my life

710
00:37:46,320 –> 00:37:49,360
we get to choose.
Are we assigning things purpose

711
00:37:49,360 –> 00:37:52,400
based off God’s purpose and the
purpose that I’ve chosen in

712
00:37:52,400 –> 00:37:55,480
baptism?
Or are we doing the day-to-day

713
00:37:55,640 –> 00:37:57,680
the monotony without thinking
about her?

714
00:37:57,680 –> 00:38:00,800
Why?
So what I would suggest to those

715
00:38:00,800 –> 00:38:04,040
who struggle with that anxiety
of what is my purpose and why

716
00:38:04,040 –> 00:38:06,880
don’t I feel fulfilled?
Examine everything.

717
00:38:07,240 –> 00:38:10,480
Ask why a lot.
Why do you do what you do?

718
00:38:11,480 –> 00:38:15,840
Most of it probably is related
somehow, shape or form to God’s

719
00:38:15,840 –> 00:38:20,280
promises, to God’s purpose and
to trying to facilitate or

720
00:38:20,560 –> 00:38:24,520
directly is caring the name of
God from you and to others.

721
00:38:25,880 –> 00:38:28,960
And if that’s the case, you
should feel purpose from that.

722
00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:33,080
But you have to connect to that.
Why You have to connect to that

723
00:38:33,080 –> 00:38:35,360
reason?
Because if you don’t, then yeah,

724
00:38:35,360 –> 00:38:38,320
you’ll go through life without
thinking about purpose, without

725
00:38:38,320 –> 00:38:40,440
thinking about your why.
And you might not feel

726
00:38:40,440 –> 00:38:43,000
fulfilled.
But I promise you brothers and

727
00:38:43,000 –> 00:38:46,800
sisters, when you connect to
that Y you will feel and connect

728
00:38:46,800 –> 00:38:51,480
to God’s purpose.
And also we have to consider, am

729
00:38:51,480 –> 00:38:53,160
I actually filling my life with
things?

730
00:38:53,160 –> 00:38:55,960
Because again, potentially we
might not be.

731
00:38:56,280 –> 00:38:58,520
We might be filling our lives
with things that don’t have

732
00:38:58,520 –> 00:39:01,240
God’s purpose.
And if we do, the answer isn’t

733
00:39:01,240 –> 00:39:04,120
to change and re evaluate.
It’s actually sorry to change

734
00:39:04,120 –> 00:39:05,520
and re evaluate how we look at
things.

735
00:39:05,840 –> 00:39:07,360
It’s actually to change what’s
in our lives.

736
00:39:07,520 –> 00:39:11,000
It’s to change the life.
So these are our two kind of

737
00:39:11,000 –> 00:39:14,760
ways of looking at purpose and
looking at how to how to feel

738
00:39:14,760 –> 00:39:17,960
fulfilled.
And that’s really how I go about

739
00:39:17,960 –> 00:39:21,880
Step 2 when dealing with anxiety
in almost everything that I’m

740
00:39:21,880 –> 00:39:24,400
dealing with anxiety on is I
started the foundation.

741
00:39:24,720 –> 00:39:26,680
I started out how does God view
this?

742
00:39:27,000 –> 00:39:30,160
How does God’s views on it apply
to me and what does it relate to

743
00:39:30,160 –> 00:39:33,560
me?
And then step four, act on it.

744
00:39:34,040 –> 00:39:36,680
So how do we act on the the
sense of purpose?

745
00:39:36,680 –> 00:39:40,400
Well, if we have things in our
life that need to be changed, we

746
00:39:40,400 –> 00:39:42,920
change them.
That might be hard, but it’s

747
00:39:42,920 –> 00:39:45,600
what we might need to do.
And if we have things in our

748
00:39:45,600 –> 00:39:47,600
life that are purposeful and
we’re just not feeling that

749
00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:51,800
purpose from it, we ask why.
We ask why is it in our life in

750
00:39:51,800 –> 00:39:54,320
the 1st place?
And we really work at that

751
00:39:54,320 –> 00:39:56,600
answer.
That’s and you’re not going to

752
00:39:56,600 –> 00:39:58,760
feel right away.
You will not feel yet purpose

753
00:39:58,760 –> 00:40:00,760
woo right away.
That’s not how that works.

754
00:40:01,360 –> 00:40:04,600
But when you connect to that Y
over and over again and you make

755
00:40:04,600 –> 00:40:07,400
sure you understand it.
That’s changing that internal

756
00:40:07,400 –> 00:40:10,160
belief of the dishes have no
meaning to.

757
00:40:10,400 –> 00:40:13,360
There’s some meaning here that’s
changing and challenging those

758
00:40:13,360 –> 00:40:15,800
internal beliefs.
So rather than such as I

759
00:40:15,800 –> 00:40:39,260
encourage you ask
why?