Title: #Lifegoals

Subject: How to live an excellent, purpose-filled life as a young person.

Warm up question: What to you is a successful life?

Define vision

Define purpose

There is a clear difference between vision, mission, and purpose and they all play a role in keeping you
focused and on the right path.

A Healing Example

Purpose: To heal

Mission: To eliminate the need for human donors for people who have kidney failure, because many
dont receive a transplant in time

Vision: A world where people with kidney disease no longer need dialysis or human transplants, but are
able to live a full life via another therapeutic cure

The vision is the inspiration that keeps this doctor on the path when challenges to fulfill this daunting
mission appear. But its this persons purpose in life to heal that leads to this particular mission and
vision. Without it, s/he will likely lose the fire to continue down the path when challenges arise.

The purpose is at the very core.

A healthcare company working with this doctor might define itself this way, focused on a shared vision

Purpose: To save lives

Mission: To create an artificial kidney

Vision: A world where people with kidney disease no longer deteriorate, die, or need dialysis or human
transplants, but are able to live a full life because of our products

Its the focus on saving lives will be at the heart of everything they do.

Point 0: You have a purpose.

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 ESV

Point 1: Knowing your purpose brings wisdom to your decisions.

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. - Psalm 90:12

Point 1a: When you know your purpose, you can do your mission excellently.
Illustration: When you go to the mall and you dont know what to buy, you tend to waste time, energy
and money on things you dont need.

Point 1b: It is easy to miss the mark (sin) when you do not know your purpose.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

Hamartia "sin", is failure, being in error, missing the mark, especially in spear throwing;[7] Hebrew hata
"sin" originates in archery and literally refer to missing the "gold" at the centre of a target, but hitting
the target, i.e. error. When we do not know our purpose, we will miss the point of our lives.

*Insert drugs here*

Body: AIDS, cancer, old appearance, mental illness

Point 2: Gods purpose in our lives is good.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans
to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

Question: If you believe that Gods plan is good, would you choose to do otherwise?

Point 2a: When we disobey, we are saying that our way is better than Gods way.

Idolatry: You make something good the ultimate. Sometimes idols in our lives are subtle (I.e. ungodly
relationships, too much obsession with grades and image, our self)

Point 3: Our purpose is a PERSON.

Point 3a: Apart from having a personal relationship with Jesus, we can never know our purpose.

for In him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your own poets have said, For we
are indeed his offspring. Acts 17:28

Point 4: Our purpose can only be fulfilled if we are in the center of Gods Will.

Point 4a: The way to know Gods Will is to know God. And to know God, we must read His Word.

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. - Romans 10:17

Point 4b: The way to fulfill Gods purpose for our lives is to do it His Way. All the way. Its all or nothing.

Point 5: We can live a victorious life free from sin and lived to the fullest because of what Christ has
done on the Cross.

Point 6: Your mistake does not change the purpose of God in your life. KEEP ON WALKING.
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