Living in Your Divine Destiny Part 2
Know God
Sunday, August 18, 2024
I. Living in Your Divine Destiny
A.God Has plans for You
1. (Jer. 29:11 TPT) God has plans for you.
2. (2 Cor. 5:15, 17-20 AMP) Our life’s mission.
3. (ref. Matt. 28:18-20 NIV) Living in your divine destiny requires 4 things: (1) Know God, (2) Find Freedom, (3) Discover Destiny, (4) Make a Difference.
B.Know God (Religion vs. Relationship)
1. (Matt. 7:21-23 NIV) “I never knew you…”
a. “know” to intimately know in relationship, to become well acquainted with; idiom for sexual intercourse. (ref. Gen. 4:1; Matt. 1:24-25)
~Knowing God is to be in union with Him having an intimate loving relationship that results in you bearing fruit like in marriage.
b. (Luke 12:15, 20-21 NLT) Parable of the Rich Fool: Jesus reveals that true success in life is not measured by how much you own, but by the depth of your relationship with God.
~Aim at heaven and you’ll get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you’ll get neither. C.S Lewis
~(Jer. 9:23-24) the Lord says what’s most important in life – knowing God.
~(Phil. 3:8, 10 NLT) Paul shares the importance of knowing Christ more and more.
2. (John 3:16 NIV; John 17:3 NIV) Jesus defined (salvation) eternal life as simply knowing God.
a.Married to Christ – His bride – one with Him.
~(2 Cor. 11:2-3 NIV)
~(1 Cor. 6:15-20 NLT)
~(Eph. 5:22-32)
3. (John 15:4-17 TPT) intimately joined to Christ in marriage, a life-union that bears fruit.
[Pastor Lee Stokes]