{"id":1105,"date":"2016-06-25T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2016-06-25T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:00:30","slug":"without-gods-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/without-gods-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"WITHOUT GOD&#8217;S PURPOSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1105-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/111515WithoutGodsPurpose.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/111515WithoutGodsPurpose.mp3\">https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/111515WithoutGodsPurpose.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">    <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/111515WithoutGodsPurpose.mp3\" target=\"_self\" class=\"emd_dl_blue_four\" download>Download<\/a>\r\n        <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four {\r\n        -moz-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #3d94f6), color-stop(1, #1e62d0) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #3d94f6 5%, #1e62d0 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#3d94f6', endColorstr='#1e62d0');\r\n        background-color:#3d94f6;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topleft:0px;\r\n        border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topright:0px;\r\n        border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomright:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        text-indent:0;\r\n        border:1px solid #337fed;\r\n        display:inline-block;\r\n        color:#ffffff !important;\r\n        font-family:Georgia;\r\n        font-size:15px;\r\n        font-weight:bold;\r\n        font-style:normal;\r\n        height:25px;\r\n        line-height:25px;\r\n        width:90px;\r\n        text-decoration:none;\r\n        text-align:center;\r\n        text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #1570cd;\r\n    }\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four:hover {\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #1e62d0), color-stop(1, #3d94f6) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #1e62d0 5%, #3d94f6 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#1e62d0', endColorstr='#3d94f6');\r\n        background-color:#1e62d0;\r\n    }.emd_dl_blue_four:active {\r\n        position:relative;\r\n        top:1px;\r\n    }\r\n    <\/style><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">This message is not about a life without any purpose, or even without knowing that there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em>a Divine purpose.\u00a0 We are speaking about a life that fails to actively submit to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doing<\/em><\/span>\u00a0God&#8217;s\u00a0Divine purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">Living life according to God&#8217;s purpose involves many smaller efforts throughout a person\u2019s life.\u00a0 It is not a single act of obedience, but a continuing commitment that daily makes Jesus \u2018LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">1. THE PURPOSE OF GOD IS A LIFE-LONG PURPOSE.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. THE WORLD&#8217;S PURPOSES ARE AT WAR WITH THE PURPOSES OF GOD. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">This is important to understand, because the news, the education system, governments, and other media present the world&#8217;s purposes, in hopes of convincing people to abandon the purposes of God. THE WORLD CONTINUES TO FOLLOW IT&#8217;S OWN PURPOSE. ***People have been convinced that if you make a law, make something legal, it is moral, and it is right to follow it. That is not true. Slavery was legal. In Nazi Germany, it was legal to send Jews to their death. In Rome, it was legal to torture and kill Christians. In the Soviet Union it was legal to spy on your neighbor and have them thrown into jail for having a Bible. LAWS do not make something right.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> The world has a warped sense of values. It always has. We have been sheltered in America to how the world thinks until recently. Now America thinks like the rest of the world. The world doesn&#8217;t truly care about human life. The soldiers didn&#8217;t care about life, just their jobs. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Acts 27:42-43<\/strong> <em>And the soldiers\u2019 counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. SOLOMON DIDN\u2019T TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY. HE MADE IT A ONE-SHOT EFFORT. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Kings 5:5<\/strong> <em>And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto My name. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">Then see I Kings 11:1-8 where Solomon departed from God.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. NOT ALL RELIGIOUS PURPOSES PLEASE GOD. HE SHOULD BE GIVEN EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Isaiah 1:11<\/strong> <em>To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">D. FULFILLING PURPOSES OF GOD REQUIRE THE RIGHT TIMING. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Ecclesiastes 3:17<\/strong><em> I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">E. SOME PEOPLE HAVE A PURPOSE THAT IS SO ENDURING THAT PEOPLE KNOW THEM BY IT. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Ephesians 6:22<\/strong> <em>Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Colossians 4:8<\/strong> <em>Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">2. THE PURPOSE OF GOD WILL ALWAYS BE UNDER ATTACK.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. EZRA.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">From the secular world. <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5; font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Ezra 4:5<\/strong> <em>And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> B. THE DEVIL WANTS US TO THINK THAT ALL WILL WORK OUT FOR GOOD EVEN IF WE DON&#8217;T FOLLOW HIS PURPOSE. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Romans 8:28<\/strong> <em>And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">according to His purpose<\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">3. IT IS GOD&#8217;S PURPOSE FOR YOU TO BE SAVED. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">God went through the torture of paying for your sins so that you might have eternal life if you receive Him. That is the purpose that He sent Jesus down to earth, so that He might provide a way for you to have real and everlasting life. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE DEVIL ? YOUR DESTRUCTION. 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