Sermon Slides 01-28-2018

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NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE! EPHESIANS 2:8-10

BIG IDEA: To find your purpose you must first understand four facts:

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I. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE.

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For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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I. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

(Ephesians 2:8-10) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

I. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE.

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I. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE: 5

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

I. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE.

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I. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE:

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"Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. 16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." 17 So Ananias departed and entered the house. (Acts 9:15-17)

I. YOU HAVE A PURPOSE.

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II. YOU ARE NOT H E R E B Y A C C I D E N T.

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II. YOU ARE NOT HERE BY ACCIDENT: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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II. YOU ARE NOT H E R E B Y A C C I D E N T.

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II. YOU ARE NOT HERE BY ACCIDENT: For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." (Romans 9:17) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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II. YOU ARE NOT H E R E B Y A C C I D E N T.

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II. YOU ARE NOT HERE BY ACCIDENT: …who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, (2 Timothy 1:9) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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II. YOU ARE NOT H E R E B Y A C C I D E N T.

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III. YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND EQUIPPED. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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III. YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND EQUIPPED: …created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10b) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

III. YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND EQUIPPED. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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III. YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND EQUIPPED: 1I

appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 3

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III. YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND EQUIPPED:

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. 9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. (Romans 12:1-9) 6

III. YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND EQUIPPED. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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I V. YO U M U S T PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

IV. YOU MUST PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE: which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10c) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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I V. YO U M U S T PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

IV. YOU MUST PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE: So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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IV. YOU MUST PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. (Philippians 2:3-4) 3

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I V. YO U M U S T PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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IV. YOU MUST PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE: 4 Now

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there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.

IV. YOU MUST PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE: 7 To

each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. (1 Corinthians 12:4-7) NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

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I V. YO U M U S T PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

REVIEW: I.

YOU HAVE A PURPOSE.

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YOU ARE NOT HERE B Y A C C I D E N T.

III. YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND EQUIPPED. IV. NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

YOU MUST PURSUE YOUR PURPOSE.

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FIND YOUR PURPOSE AND GET AFTER IT! NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE!

I WILL’S: ( A P P L I C AT I O N )

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NEXT STEPS: PURPOSE! EPHESIANS 2:8-10

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