You're born, you live, you die
And that life defines your eternity
heaven in hell
follow
in a straight line
from what you've made of
this life and that's it
You waste your life if you
don't
bring it into sync with God's purposes
for you
for your life
And one of the first questions that theologians have been asking since the beginning
is this question
Why did God create?
Human beings man and woman. Why did God create?
Men and women he didn't need to create us if he needed to do anything. He wouldn't be God
So God doesn't need anything so he could have gone throughout eternity
Before time existed he could have been fine. Happy. God blessed God
So the question is why did he create man and woman? Why am I here? What's my real purpose?
Is it just to have a job raise a family go on vacation have children have grandchildren make a living get an education
What is the reason for our existence?
God made you
for his glory
That is he made you
to put him on display
By the way you live the way you think the way you feel 1st Corinthians 10:31
Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do all of it for the glory
of God
It's all over the Bible you're on the planet by God's design in order to make him look
Magnificent you're not your own
You were made
And you were redeemed bought
For his glory to make him look great
That's why we're here if you don't bring your life
Into sync with that you waste it you throw it away and in the end you lose it
So the Bible tells us in both old and new Testament man, and I mean men humans were created
To glorify God and enjoy him forever
Your existing today to glorify God that's your initial primary purpose for all of us
We're not here to make a living got to make a living got to pay the bills. All those things are
Subsidiary to the main purpose which many of us because it's so simple we miss it
We are on earth right now to glorify God
When you and I are glorifying God in whatever way God helps us to do it
We are now fulfilling the purpose of our existence
Every morning we wake up. Our main goal should be
Understanding the purposes of God for our life. How can I glorify God?
Let me tell you how Paul put it in the end of the tenth chapter of 1st Corinthians
He says this whether you eat or whether you drink
in whatever you do do it for the glory of God
So when we have a meal we can glorify God. God thank you for this food
See how if so few of us think of it. We just take life as a series of
of just
Inconsequential actions and we're not realizing I was created I'm happiest God is glorified and it's best for me
Because I was made to do this to glorify God
Whatever we do. You're doing it for the glory of God. That's where not only is God praise, but now all of his fulfilling
Power and grace and blessing begins to flow in us
Why where we're moving in the purpose for our existence?
So sad to see people in the world trying to be happy without God and even
people who come to church on Sunday
Trying to be happy
Outside of glorifying God it is impossible. It is impossible
God has made us humans. So that the more you try to be happy the less happy you are
the more you make
happiness your goal the more it escapes you and when you don't try to be happy and just
Glorify God happiness is chasing you all over the place
You have a joy you have a zest in living. Why because you want to know because you're glorifying God
So many people are aiming at the pleasure principle, but none of those things
money
vacations
Educational
achievement a great career even children and a family
None of them can bring the joy and the fulfillment that glorifying God with our lives does
But now the question comes obviously
How do you glorify God?
As we look at the scripture, I want to take you to the deepest thing of all
There's nothing deeper than what I'm going to read to you
Nothing in the Bible. Nothing nothing nothing
You can't go deeper than this. There is no further depth
found in scripture and
We read it this way you're familiar with it. But I want to read it from the NIV. I am The True Vine
And my Father is the gardener
He cuts off every branch in me. That bears no fruit
while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes
So that it'll be even more fruitful so notice there no fruit
Cast away you bear fruit. He prunes you so you can bear even more fruit
You are already clean or pruned because of the word. I have spoken to you remain in me
And I will remain in you now that word remain in me and I will remain in you. That's a very
Deep word the King James has it abide in me and I will abide in you
Some have stay connected to me. Stay with me
Be close and with me being union with me and I will be in union with you
No branch can bear fruit by itself. It must remain in the vine
Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You are the branches
for apart from me you can do nothing
If anyone does not remain in me
He's like a branch that is thrown away and wither such branches are picked up thrown into the fire and burned
This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit
Showing yourself to be my disciples and the fruit bearing is not on Sunday. The fruit bearing is
24/7 365
As you bear fruit, my father is glorified
What kind of fruit
when you're kind
And bear that fruit of kindness and love and mercy
When you love people who are different than you
When you're patient with people who are trying your nerves
My father is glorified
When you spread the good news of Jesus Christ with boldness, that's good fruit.
My father is glorified when you bear fruit of souls getting saved
when you're filled with
Patience and you're filled with kindness and you're forgiving and dropping grudges
My father is glorified when you bear good fruit like that
that's how my father is glorified
And the fruit the flower
Is produced not by anything it does it can't do a thing
But by remaining in the vine the sap the life of the plant
Flows up and it's an apple a fig a grape and that's what Jesus says to us
Just abide in the vine
Stay connected to the life of the spirit
That I put in you that is in the entire vine of which I am and you are just branches
It's only life is in the vine
This is what Satan always trying to do with us draw us away from abiding in Christ
Stopping us from being connected to Christ
Trusting Christ
leaning on Christ staying connected and
Abiding in Christ because you can't believe what I'll do in your life and through you if you just abide in me
You don't have to struggle. You don't have to worry. You don't have to fret you don't have to make promises you got to abide
The only life I have the only hope I have is in Jesus Christ and he is the life
That's in the vine
He is the vine and I'm just a branch an offshoot
That can take his life and then without struggling produce all kinds of fruit
Notice if we're bearing fruit
like hopefully all of us are he said that his father is the
Gardener and he comes and prunes us so that we can have more fruit now pruning is cutting
It's not it's not pleasant
But I bet if we could all talk privately. We all know what it is to be pruned by the father, don't we?
Sometimes he uses circumstances in life
to prune us
So that we could bear more fruit
So important to be in the word every day, so that that word can speak to us and prune us
Oh God, I want to bear fruit
And I know I can only do that by abiding in you. So prune me wherever you see I need pruning
God, help me to live like that. I want to abide in you