part 3
What is purpose?
What is purpose? What is living purposefully?
In Part 2 of What Is Purpose, we uncovered three truths.
1. You are His workmanship
2. He created you for good works
3. He prepared a life and good works for you to step into before you were even born.
Another question that this definition of purpose leads to then is, ‘What are these good works?’ One way is to know that God called us to be obedient –He has specific things He calls us to be obedient to in in the Bible.
In Ephesians 4 & 5, there are multiple examples of ways we can be obedient to God.
Ephesians 4
- V 2 – Walk in humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing one another in love
- V 3 – Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace
- V 19 – Avoid sensuality, greed, impurity, deceitful desires
- V 25 – Speak the truth with your neighbor
- V 26 – Do not sin, do not let the sun go down on anger
- V 27 – Give no opportunity to the devil
- V 28 – Do not steal, do honest work, share.
- V 29 – Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouth. Use your words to build up and giving grace
- V 31 – Put away all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, slander and malice
- V 32 – Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgive one another
Ephesians 5
- V 1 – Be imitators of God
- V 2 – Walk in love
- V 3 Have no sexual immorality or impurity or covetousness
- V 4 – Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking but be thankful
- V 15 – Look carefully how you walk, as wise people
- V 16 – Make the best use of your time (don’t waste it!)
- V 17 – Don’t be foolish, understand the will of God
- V 18 – Don’t get drunk, but be filled with the Spirit
- V 19 – Address each other in psalms and songs, making melody to the Lord
- V 20 – Give thanks
- V 21 – Submit to one another