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What Drives Your Life

Published on May 15, 2014

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE

PART 3
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Life isn’t about you

  • It’s about God and you fulfilling His purpose
  • Man’s chief end is to glorify God (1 cor. 10:31)

You are not an accident

  • You exist because God wanted you to exist
  • He wants you to fulfill His purpose for your life
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What Drives Your Life?

Chapter 3 PDL
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Five of the Most Common Motivations

(What Drives You?)
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Guilt

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Adam and Eve

  • Genesis 3
  • They ran away and hid in the bushes
  • Proverbs 28:1 - The wicked glee when no one is pursuing, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
  • 2 Corinthians 7:9
  • Guilt driven people are manipulated by memories

Anger and Resentment

(What drives you?)
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Why God allow bad things to happen

  • God wants to use all things to brings glory to himself and conform us to the image of His dear Son (Christlikeness)
  • Rom. 8:28
  • God is looking at how we respond to circumstances
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Romans 2:4

Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?"

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Job 5:2 Resentment kills fool and slays the simple

Fear

(What drives you?)
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Fear is a self-imposed prison

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1 John 4:18
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love."

Materialism

(What drives you?)
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Luke 12:15

Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

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Luke 16:13

13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

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Approval

(what drives you?)

Galatians 1:10
"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."

Proverbs 13:20
“He who walks with the wise men will be wise; but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”

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Benefits

OF A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE
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Knowing your purpose

  • Gives meaning to your life
  • Simplified and focuses
  • Motivates your life
  • Prepares you for eternity
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Let’s find our purpose

and gear toward it