What on Earth Am I Here For

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Lifes 3 Greatest Questions

• Why Am I Alive?

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Lifes 3 Greatest Questions

• Why Am I Alive?
• Does My Life Matter?

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Lifes 3 Greatest Questions

• Why Am I Alive?
• Does My Life Matter?
• What is My Purpose?

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Why Am I Alive?
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Why Am I Alive?

• Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble
  sorrow, to end my life in disgrace? Jeremiah
  2018

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Why Am I Alive?

• I dont know the meaning, the purpose of life,
  but it looks as if something were meant by it.
  Carl Jung
• As far as I can see, there is no purpose. Isaac
  Asimov
• My life is a superb cast, but I cant figure out
  the plot. Arthur Ashley Brilliant
• I hope life isnt a joke, because I dont get
  it. Jack Hanley
• I Have No Answers to the Meaning of Life I No
  Longer Want to Search for Any. Joseph Taylor
  (book title)

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Why Am I Alive?

• Mystical Answerlook within

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Why Am I Alive?

• Mystical Answerlook within
• Remember, youve got to figure it out for
  yourself. Oprah Winfrey

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Why Am I Alive?

• Philosophical Answers
• Survivaliststay alive as long as possible

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Why Am I Alive?

• Philosophical Answers
• Survivaliststay alive as long as possible
• Naturalistkeep the species going

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Why Am I Alive?

• Philosophical Answers
• Survivaliststay alive as long as possible
• Naturalistkeep the species going

Ice Tea The only reason were here is to
reproduce. Just chill out reproduce. Keep the
species alive.
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Why Am I Alive?

• Philosophical Answers
• Survivaliststay alive as long as possible
• Naturalistkeep the species going
• Hedonisthave as much fun as possible

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Why Am I Alive?

• Philosophical Answers
• Survivaliststay alive as long as possible
• Naturalistkeep the species going
• Hedonisthave as much fun as possible
• Materialistacquire as much as possible

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Why Am I Alive?

• Self-Help Answerinvent your own

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Why Am I Alive?

• The Lord has made everything for His own
  purpose. Prov. 164

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Why Am I Alive?

• All things were created by God, for God. Col.
  116

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Ephesians 1
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Long before He laid down the earths foundation,
He had us in His mind settled on us as the
focus of His love to be made whole holy by His
love. Eph.14 (Msg.)
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Why Am I Alive?

• ? God I was created to be loved by God!
  (v.3-4)

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Does My Life Matter?
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Does My Life Matter?

• Survival (getting by)

Living Levels
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Does My Life Matter?

• Survival (getting by)
• Success (standing out)

Living Levels
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Does My Life Matter?

• Survival (getting by)
• Success (standing out)
• Significance (seeing meaning)

Living Levels
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Does My Life Matter?
Significance comes when I realize

• How much I matter to God (v.4)

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Does My Life Matter?
Significance comes when I realize

• How much I matter to God (v.4)

I am your Creator. You were in My care, even
before you were born. Isa.442 You scheduled
each day of my life before I began to breathe.
Every day was recorded in Your book. Ps.13916
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Does My Life Matter?
Significance comes when I realize

• How much I matter to God
• My life has permanent value (v.7-14)

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Does My Life Matter?
Significance comes when I realize

• My life has permanent value

When this tent we live in our body here on
earth is torn down. God will have a house in
Heaven for us to live in. A home He Himself has
made, which will last forever. 2 Cor.51
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Does My Life Matter?
Significance comes when I realize

• My life has permanent value
• ? God I was made to last forever!

His plans endure forever His purposes last
eternally. Ps.3311
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Does My Life Matter?
Significance comes when I realize

• Its my preparation for eternity

Leave your impoverished confusion, live walk
up the street to a life with meaning. Prov. 96
(Msg.)
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What is My Purpose?

• Not knowing leads to misuse abuse

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What is My Purpose?

• Learn purpose from its inventor or owners manual

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What is My Purpose?
In beginning, God created. Genesis 11
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What is My Purpose?
Unless you assume the existence of God, the
question of lifes meaning purpose is
irrelevant. Bertrand Russell
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Letting us in on the plans He took such delight
in making. He set it all out before us in
ChristIt is in Christ that we find out who we
are what we are living forpart of the overall
purpose God is working out in everything
everyone. Eph.19,11 (Msg.)
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What is My Purpose?
For everything, absolutely everything, above
below, visible invisibleeverything got started
in Him finds its purpose in Him. Col.116
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What is My Purpose?

• ? God I find my purpose by getting to know God!

Knowing God results in every other kind of
understanding. Proverbs 910
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What is My Purpose?

• Discover Gods 5 purposes for my life ( 40 Days)

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Why 40 Days?
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Why 40 Days?

• Used when He wanted to transform (realign) people
  
• (e.g.) Noah, Moses, 10 spies, Elijah, David,
  

Nineveh, Jesus, the 12
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Why 40 Days?

• Used when He wanted to transform (realign)
  peopleME?

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Why 40 Days?

• Used when He wanted to transform (realign)
  peopleME?

Its never too late to be who you might have
been. George Herbert
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It makes no difference who you are or where
youre from if you want God are ready to as
He says, the door is open. Acts 1035
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• 1 Chronicles 6
• The sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
  And the sons of Kohath Amram, Izhar, and Hebron,
  and Uzziel. And the children of Amram Aaron, and
  Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron Nadab,
  and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Eleazar begat
  Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, And Abishua
  begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, And Uzzi begat
  Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, Meraioth
  begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, And
  Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz, And
  Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
  And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that
  executed the priest's office in the temple that
  Solomon built in Jerusalem) And Azariah begat
  Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, And Ahitub
  begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, And Shallum
  begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah, And
  Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat
  Jehozadak, And Jehozadak went into captivity,
  when the Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem by
  the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
• The sons of Levi Gershom, Kohath, and
  Merari. And these be the names of the sons of
  Gershom Libni, and Shimei. And the sons of
  Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
  Uzziel. The sons of Merari Mahli, and Mushi. And
  these are the families of the Levites according
  to their fathers. Of Gershom Libni his son,
  Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, Joah his son,
  Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
  The sons of Kohath Amminadab his son, Korah his
  son, Assir his son, Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph
  his son, and Assir his son, Tahath his son, Uriel
  his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. And
  the sons of Elkanah Amasai, and Ahimoth. As for
  Elkanah the sons of Elkanah Zophai his son, and
  Nahath his son, Eliab his son, Jeroham his son,
  Elkanah his son. And the sons of Samuel the
  firstborn Vashni, and Abiah. The sons of Merari
  Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his
  son, Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his
  son. And these are they whom David set over the
  service of song in the house of the Lord, after
  that the ark had rest. And they ministered before
  the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the
  congregation with singing, until Solomon had
  built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem and
  then they waited on their office according to
  their order. And these are they that waited with
  their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites
  Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of
  Shemuel, The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham,
  the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, The son of
  Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the
  son of Amasai, The son of Elkanah, the son of
  Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
  The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of
  Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, The son of Izhar, the
  son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of
  Israel. And his brother Asaph, who stood on his
  right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the
  son of Shimea, The son of Michael, the son of
  Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah, The son of Ethni,
  the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, The son of
  Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, The
  son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of
  Levi. And their brethren the sons of Merari stood
  on the left hand Ethan the son of Kishi, the son
  of Abdi, the son of Malluch, The son of
  Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of
  Hilkiah, The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the
  son of Shamer, The son of Mahli, the son of
  Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. Their
  brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all
  manner of service of the tabernacle of the house
  of God.
• But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar
  of the burnt offering, and on the altar of
  incense, and were appointed for all the work of
  the place most holy, and to make an atonement for
  Israel, according to all that Moses the servant
  of God had commanded. And these are the sons of
  Aaron Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua
  his son, Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah
  his son, Meraioth his son, Amariah his son,
  Ahitub his son, Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

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What on Earth Am I Here For?

• For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
  advance for us to do.
• Eph.210

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