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Robert Jeffress - Choosing Purpose Over Aimlessness (Part 1)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Choosing Purpose Over Aimlessness (Part 1) | March 20, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Most people simply react
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To whatever comes their way each day,
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Drifting through life without any real direction
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Or sense of calling.
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But god didn't create you to wander aimlessly.
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He has a unique reason for your existence,
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A specific purpose that only you can fulfill.
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Today, i want to show you how to discover
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That god-given purpose
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And how to connect every area of your life to it.
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My message is titled:
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Choosing purpose over aimlessness
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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Life doesn't always go the way we plan,
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But here's the good news:
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We get to choose how we respond.
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In "choose your attitude, change your life,"
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Dr. robert jeffress shares 11 biblical attitude choices
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That can transform your health, your relationships,
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And even your eternity.
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You may not be able to control what happens to you,
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But you can learn how to make your circumstances
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Strengthen you rather than destroy you.
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Request "choose your attitude, change your life,"
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Thomas chalmers once said,
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"the grand essentials for happiness
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Are something to love, something to do,
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And something to hope for."
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What chalmers is talking about is the importance
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Of having a purpose in life.
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Purpose is the foundation upon which we build our actions,
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Our affections, our aspirations.
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Having a purpose is like having an engine
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That drives our life.
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A purpose is like a beacon in the darkness
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That gives our lives direction
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In times of uncertainty.
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And yet, as important as it is to have a purpose,
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Studies have shown that less than 3% of americans
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Have a clearly defined purpose in life
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Or the goals and objectives to meet that purpose.
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In our series choose your attitude, change your life,
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We're talking about 11 biblical attitude choices
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That are essential for living the life
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God wants us to experience.
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And i could certainly make an argument
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About why each one of these choices
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Is the most important one.
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But if i were going to say which attitude choice
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Is the most essential,
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Certainly the one we're talking about today
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Would be close to, if not at the top of the list,
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And that is the choice of how we go through life.
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How do we spend the limited time
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God has given us here on earth?
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We can do so aimlessly
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And just simply reacting to whatever comes our way each day,
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Or we can choose to live our life with purpose.
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And today, we're going to talk about the importance
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Of choosing purpose over aimlessness in life.
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Without a clearly defined purpose for living,
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We are doomed to live lives that thoreau talked about:
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Lives of quiet desperation.
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If you think that's an overstatement,
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Consider this very real experience
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That the late charles colson talks about in his book,
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"kingdoms in conflict."
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In that book, colson recounts the story, the true story,
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Of a group of jewish prisoners
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In a nazi concentration camp
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Who suddenly found that the factory they had been working in
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Had been bombed out by allied aircraft.
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Colson writes: the next morning,
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Several hundred inmates were herded to one end
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Of the charred remains of the factory.
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Expecting orders to begin rebuilding,
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They were startled when the nazi officer
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Commanded them to shovel sand into the carts
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And drag it to the other end of the plant.
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The next day, the process was repeated in reverse.
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They were ordered to move that huge pile of sand back
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To the other end of the compound.
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A mistake had been made,
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The prisoners thought, "stupid swine."
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But day after day, they hauled the same pile of sand
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From one end of the camp to the other.
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And then, it began to happen.
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One old man began crying uncontrollably.
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The guards hauled him away.
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Another prisoner screamed
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Until he was beaten into silence.
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Then, a young man who had survived three years
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In that concentration camp darted away from the group.
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The guard shouted for him to stop
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As he ran toward the electrified fence.
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The other prisoners cried out,
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But it was too late.
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There was a blinding flash
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And a terrible sizzling noise,
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A smoke puffed from his smoldering flesh.
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In the days that followed,
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Dozens of prisoners went mad
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And ran from their work only to be shot by the guards
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Or electrocuted by the fence.
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The commandant smugly remarked
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That soon there would be no more need to use the crematoria.
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"the gruesome lesson is plain," colson writes,
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"men will clinging the life with dogged resolve
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While working meaningfully,
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Even if that work supports their hated captors.
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But purposeless labor soon snaps the mind."
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What is true in that nazi concentration camp
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Is true in your life as well.
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Purposeless labor soon snaps the mind
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And the spirit.
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Today, we're going to talk about how to discover
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Your god-given purpose in life.
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Now, when we talk about your purpose,
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It's important to clarify the difference
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Between a purpose, objectives,
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And goals in your life.
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Let's look, first of all, at purpose.
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A purpose statement simply answers the question:
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Why do i exist?
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It doesn't have to be a long treatise.
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It can be a simple statement
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About your unique purpose in life.
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Why did god create you?
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Why are you occupying real estate on planet earth?
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You know, organizations have purpose statements, hopefully.
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Many businesses have a purpose statement.
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You know, the general motors corporation
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Might say that their purpose, their reason for existing,
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Is to generate a healthy profit
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By manufacturing the finest automobiles in the world.
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And that statement gives that company direction.
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You know, suppose a vice president comes into the ceo
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And says, "you know, i had an idea.
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I think there's a lot of money
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To be made in pharmaceuticals."
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And the ceo, if he's worth his weight in salt would say,
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"well, that's a great idea,
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But that's not the purpose of our company.
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Our company exists to make money
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By manufacturing fine automobiles."
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Not only do businesses have purpose,
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Hopefully a church has a clearly defined purpose.
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You know, in our church,
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We understand and believe the great commission jesus gave
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To go into all the world and make disciples,
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Baptizing them in the name of the father,
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Son and holy spirit,
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Teaching them to observe whatsoever things
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I have commanded you.
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And from that great commission,
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First baptist dallas has developed a mission statement.
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Our purpose is to transform the world
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With god's word one life at a time.
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And that means everything we do as a church
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Is directed toward either winning people to christ,
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Baptizing them in the name of the father,
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Son and holy spirit.
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Or once they become christians,
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Developing them into disciples,
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Teaching them to observe
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All things christ has commanded us.
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And anything doesn't contribute
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To either evangelism or discipleship
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May be a nice thing to do,
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It may be a good thing to do,
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But it's not what we're called to do.
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You know, somebody might say,
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"you know, i think it would be helpful to our people
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If we held a seminar
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On real estate investing for our people."
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Well, that may be a nice thing to do,
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But that's not our purpose.
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Or somebody else might say,
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"wouldn't it be a nice ministry
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For our church to run a hospital?"
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Well, that's a nice thing to do as well.
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Some of you might think we actually do that.
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Have you seen those commercials for first baptist hospital?
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That's not us.
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It's not that we're against hospitals,
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But that's not what we're called to do.
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Or somebody else would say,
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"wouldn't it be fun to have a monday night bingo
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At our church every monday night?"
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Nothing wrong with bingo,
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But that's not what we're called to do.
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A purpose statement gives us, as a church, direction.
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And what's true about organizations, businesses,
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And churches is true about individuals as well.
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We need to have a clearly defined purpose statement.
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We talked about the difference between a general purpose
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And a specific purpose.
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I mean, as christians, we all have a general purpose
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Of glorifying god, having fellowship with him,
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Leading people to faith in christ.
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But each of us should have a specific reason
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For living as well.
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Remember, we said that god is telling a story
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Throughout the universe
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Of his love and redemption through christ,
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But god is also writing an individual story
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In your life to tell his story.
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And so, when we talk about discovering your purpose,
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We're talking about discovering that unique reason
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That god has created you.
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And there are two keys, the bible says,
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To discovering your unique purpose.
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The answer to the question: why do you exist?
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And those two keys are both found
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In philippians chapter 2, verse 13.
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I like the way j. b. phillips paraphrases this verse:
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"for it is god who is at work within you,
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Giving you the will and the power
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To achieve his purpose."
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God has given you, first of all, a will, a desire,
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A passion, if you will, to accomplish your purpose.
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And so the first key to discovering that unique purpose
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Is to identify your passion.
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What is it that you see
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That causes you concern in the world today?
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One way god reveals his purpose for your life
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Is by the unique passion,
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The desire he has given you.
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For example, here is a business person
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Who is concerned about the fact
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That many christians in business
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Compartmentalize their faith.
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They have never integrated their business with faith,
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And this person believes that the bible has a lot to say
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About how to run a business
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According to biblical principles.
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So he makes as his life purpose
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To be a model christian businessman
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For other business people
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To show how to integrate
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Biblical principles with your business.
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That's his passion.
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Or let's say there's a woman
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Whose teenage daughter was killed by a drunk driver
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And she has a passion to remove the menace
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Of drunk driving from our nation's streets.
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Or here as a pastor who, growing up as a teenager,
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Always was trying to invite his unsaved friends to church.
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But every time he did so,
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He was embarrassed by the poor quality of the church service
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And the deafness, so to speak, to unbelievers.
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And so he has this passion as a pastor
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To create a church in which unbelievers
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Would be comfortable attending
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And that would speak to their special needs.
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By the way, all three of those examples
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Are real-life examples
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Of people who found their purpose in life
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By the unique passion that they have.
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What passion do you have?
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What is it that inspires you?
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What is it that makes you angry?
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What needs do you see in the world
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That keep you awake some nights?
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You know, in our first service,
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Andy horner was here,
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And i just thought of it.
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I saw him on the second row,
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I thought of that as i was preaching this.
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Because, you know, andy's story is a miraculous one.
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When he was 60 years old, he had retired,
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He could have stayed retired,
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He didn't need to work anymore.
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But as he looked around,
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He saw some needs in the world
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That really bothered him.
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One need he saw was the need to provide funds
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For missionaries and to support the work of missionaries.
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But another desire, a need he saw was the need
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For women who were staying at home with small children
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Or single women to be able to make a living
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For their families.
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And so, out of that passion to generate money,
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To support missionaries,
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And to meet the need of women
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Who couldn't be in the workplace full time,
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He developed premier designs,
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A way to fill that very real need he saw in the world.
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And the same is true for you and me.
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God puts a passion in our heart.
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You know, every life, somebody said,
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Is focused either to fill a greed or to meet a need.
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And the passion god puts in your heart
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Is not to fill your own greed,
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But to meet a genuine need in the world.
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How do you identify what that passion is?
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Our friend, bobb biehl,
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From masterplanning international
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Gives five questions you can ask yourself
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To help you determine what your passion is.
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Question number one:
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What needs do i see in the world
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That concern me?
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Question number two:
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If i could meet any need in the world,
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What would that need be?
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Number three: what are the most urgent needs in my country,
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My community, my work,
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My school and my church?
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Number four: what age group
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Or type of people naturally interest me?
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And number five:
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What are the major needs among my neighbors,
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My friends and my family?
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Answering those questions will help you determine
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The unique passion god has placed in your heart.
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It is god who is at work within you,
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Giving you the will to do his will.
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But there's a second key in that verse,
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And that is he gives you both the will and the power.
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That is the ability,
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The giftedness to achieve your unique purpose.
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If god has called you to do something,
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He's not only going to give you a passion for it,
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He's going to give you a special gift
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In order to fulfill that passion.
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And that's why the second key in discovering your purpose
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Is identifying your gifts and your abilities.
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Let me show you why that's so important.
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You know, let's just say for example,
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I looked around the world and i said,
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"you know what the greatest need in the world is, i think,
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Is to find a cure for cancer."
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So, i think maybe i would devote my life
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To finding a cure for cancer.
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How many of you would think that was a worthy goal?
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Okay, i could develop quite a passion for that.
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I mean, i could talk about how cancer affected my own family
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And took my parents prematurely.
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I could have a real passion for it.
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The only problem with me devoting my life to that
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Is i have no gifts in science whatsoever.
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I mean, i almost flunked out of high school biology
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Because i couldn't see anything in the microscope.
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Everybody else saw these things swim.
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I never saw anything in a microscope,
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So i'm probably not the one to find a cure for cancer.
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Because if god is going to gift you to do something,
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He's not going to only give you the passion,
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He's going to give you the corresponding gifts and abilities.
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That's what philippians 2:13 is.
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It is god giving you the will and the power
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To achieve his purpose.
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Many years ago, back in 1984,
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I remember sitting in the coffee shop
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At the houston intercontinental airport.
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I had my yellow legal tablet out.
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I had a few hours to wait for a flight.
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And i really asked god to give me discernment
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In writing down a clear purpose statement
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That would guide the rest of my life.
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And i wrote this simple statement,
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My purpose is to be an effective communicator
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Of god's word.
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I remember the words of my old seminary professor
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Who used to say, "men, it is a sin
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To bore people with the word of god."
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(congregation laughing)
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I hear an amen
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-on that somewhere. -(congregation laughing)
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Don't hurt my feelings,
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But that is true.
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And so i wanted to devote my life
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To clearly communicating god's word.
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Now suppose i had that passion,
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But i had no communication skill whatsoever.
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Every time i stood up,
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I stuttered and stammered.
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Or when i sat down to try to write,
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I couldn't write a cohesive sentence that made sense.
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That's probably not my calling
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If i don't have the gifts to go along with that.
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And i know some of you bible students,
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You're already objecting yourself.
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"oh, wait a minute, pastor,
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What about moses?
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He stuttered, he stammered,
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But god used him supernaturally."
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Well, that's true,
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But moses' major calling
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Was not to be a communicator of god's word,
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It was to be a leader of god's people,
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And moses had tremendous leadership abilities
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From the very beginning.
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As a child growing up in pharaoh's palace,
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There were exhibited throughout the rest of his life.
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If god has called you to do something,
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He will give you the gifts to do that.
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How can you identify your unique gifts and abilities?
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Again, let me share with you five questions
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You ought to ask yourself.
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And by the way, this is great material for you to use
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With your children, your grandchildren.
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There are so many millennials today
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Who are wandering through life without any clear direction
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Because they really don't know
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How to define their purpose in life.
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Here are some questions to help you
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Identify your gifts and abilities.
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Number one, what abilities do you have
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That other people seem to notice and appreciate?
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Things they compliment you about.
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Number two, i love this,
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Suppose you were asked to give a how-to seminar
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In your church or civic group on any topic you chose,
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What topic would you feel the most comfortable addressing?
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Number three, outside of recreational pursuits,
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List five accomplishments
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That have given you the most satisfaction.
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What aspect of these experiences did you enjoy?
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Number four, is there a common denominator
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In those five experiences that you could identify?
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What is it?
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I mean, i think about the five
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Most satisfying experiences of my life.
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They were different,
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And yet they all shared one common characteristic,
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They all dealt with communicating,
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Whether it's to a church group
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Or to a secular audience
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Or something about communication that satisfied me.
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With you, that might be working with children.
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It might be serving other people.
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It might be organizing events.
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But what one word would describe that satisfaction?
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And number five, hopefully, these questions
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Have helped you identify one area
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In which you are both interested and gifted.
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In a word, what is that area?
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And knowing what your passion,
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What your giftedness is,
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Will help you identify your purpose
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And help you fill out that sentence:
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My purpose in life is to what?
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Now, remember, we all have a general purpose in life.
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Jesus said that in john 4:34.
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Jesus said, "my food, that is my purpose
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Is to do the will of him who sent me
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And to accomplish his work."
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That ought to be the purpose statement of every christian.
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But jesus also understood
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He had a unique purpose in coming to earth,
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That nobody else could fulfill.
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In matthew 20 verse 28, he said,
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"just as the son of man did not come to be served,
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But to serve,
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And to give his life as a ransom for many."
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Once we define our god-given purpose in life,
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It's important to connect every part of our life
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To that overarching purpose statement,
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And that's where objectives come in.
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A definition of an objective
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Is an objective is a simple statement
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Expressing desires for specific areas of our life.
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No matter what your purpose is,
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You've got to be able to connect that
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To every part of your life, your spiritual life,
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Your family relationships, your work,
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Every part of your life
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And objectives are the way to do that.
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Let me show you how to develop the objectives
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For the seven major areas of your life.
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I've put on your outline or grid
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Showing the seven major life areas:
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Spiritual, physical, that is your health,
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Family, vocational, personal growth, social, financial.
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♪ music ♪
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When we identify the passion god has placed in our hearts
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And connected to the gifts he has given us,
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We can live with direction and meaning.
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Now, in closing today,
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I want to share how this truth is impacting real lives
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Through "pathway to victory."
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Zelda from texas wrote to us and shared:
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"i used to be a nurse,
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But i was recently laid off.
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Each morning, i would listen to your radio program
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So that i could maintain a positive attitude
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And share it with my patients.
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After being laid off,
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I felt that my back was up against the wall,
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And yesterday i just wanted to give up.
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I just wanted to go see jesus.
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Then, this morning when i heard your sermon,
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I realized i'm in this spiritual war
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And i have to get out and fight no matter what."
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Well, zelda, thank you for sharing your heart with us.
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And to everyone who supports this ministry,
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Especially our pathway partners,
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Thank you for making it possible
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For us to reach people like zelda
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With hope and truth when they need it most.
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Together, we are piercing the darkness
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With the light of god's word.
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Now, please stay right there
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And i'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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In just a moment.
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When unexpected challenges hit,
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It's easy to feel defeated and robbed of joy.
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But while we can't always choose our circumstances,
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We can always choose how we respond to them.
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In "choose your attitude, change your life,"
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Dr. robert jeffress shares 11 proven attitude choices
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That will help you experience
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The abundant life god desires for you.
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The bible tells us that as a person thinks within himself,
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So is he.
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Our attitudes impact everything,
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Our health, our relationships, our work,
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And even our eternity.
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In my book, "choose your attitude, change your life,"
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I walk you through 11 essential choices
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Like purpose over aimlessness, perseverance over defeat,
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And faith over worry.
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These biblical principles have transformed countless lives
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And they can transform yours as well.
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Request your copy
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Our attitude determines our destiny.
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Attitudes profoundly impact our life, our death,
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And our eternal destiny.
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Of "pathway to victory."
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Your partnership helps us
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Bring practical life-changing biblical truth
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Into homes across the nation and around the world.
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Right now, you may be thinking
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About that passion god has placed in your heart.
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Maybe you've been ignoring it or pushing it aside
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Because life gets busy.
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Don't let another day go by living aimlessly.
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Well, knowing your purpose is just the beginning.
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And next time, we're going to take the next step
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And show you how to connect that overarching purpose
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To every area of your life
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Through objectives and goals.
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Stay tuned for a preview
00:25:45.667 --> 00:25:46.935
Of what's coming up next in our series:
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Choose your attitude, change your life.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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There is no more effective way
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To be a disciple of jesus christ
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Than by discovering his unique purpose for your life
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And living out that purpose.
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That is why god left us here
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To fulfill his unique purpose for us.
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Set your dvr and join us next time
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For part two of the message:
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Choosing purpose over aimlessness
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Here on "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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Join us on the "pathway to victory" cruise to alaska,
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June 13 through 20, 2026.
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You're standing on the deck of a beautiful cruise ship,
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Coffee in hand,
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While bald eagles circle overhead.
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Robert Jeffress - Choosing Purpose Over Aimlessness (Part 1)

March 20, 2026 | 27:29

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