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ANB 38, why we’re here

Hello everyone,

This week I have been once again confronted with the immeasurable importance of reading the
Word of God. The Word of God is a manual to live by (Joshua 1:7). So why do we need a
manual, someone might ask. Did not God put us here on this earth? Don’t we know what to do,
to eat, to drink, to procreate and to die. If our life was nothing more than a finite existence in a
large motel I suppose the answer would be yes. You know exactly what to do, so do it the best
you can. So isn’t that life, just to live your best then die? But even if you throw in Salvation
through Jesus Christ and going to Heaven (making this an eternal stay) what is the point and why
are we here? Let’s address some of these questions according to God’s Word.

Let me begin with this, these are questions that the greatest (according to the world’s view)
philosophers and thinkers have pondered since the beginning of time. They wasted a lot of time.
The purpose of man’s life and how to live are easily understood and grasped once a person
begins to open up the Bible. It is the walking out of the Bible’s instructions that requires true
dedication and effort.

So, with the Word’s beautiful simplicity, let me show you the purpose of man:

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His
commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every
work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be
evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13,14)

So we see that thousands of years ago one of the wisest men to ever live (King Solomon) said
that ‘doing what God says, in order to prevail during some (absolutely inevitable) judgment, is
the entire duty of man.’ So this is man’s duty, fair enough. But does that really answer our
question, why are we here? I’m not sure it does. For while I understand my duties, does my
purpose only embody my duties? Surely my purpose for being must contain more than simply
obeying a law. If God only wanted something that would follow His laws, why did He give me
the power of choice?

So for now we must conclude that man’s entire duty cannot merely be stated like this, ‘fear God
and keep His commandments.’ God could have created a robot to do that. The duty must be to
actively choose to fear God and to actively choose the obey His commandments. (I pray you are
seeing the difference, although I’m sure people might say something like, ‘what’s the
difference.’) Alright, let’s continue. So if my duty is to solely choose to obey God in all My
ways, why does this please the Lord? Or put another way, why would He make this my sole
duty?

Let’s look at a simple Domino’s pizza man. He has several duties, but they are embodied in one
larger duty. He might be required to take phone orders, ring them up, put the order together and
drive the pizza to the purchaser, for example. Yet as an employee his all encompassing duty
would be something like this, ‘do whatever the boss tells you, as long as it is lawful.’
Our lives with God are very similar, you have many individual duties such as to love your
neighbor and forgive those who hurt you, and you also have one encompassing duty, ‘Keep all of
God’s commandments.’

So what is the real similarity? The totality of the domino’s man’s duties can reveal His purpose,
even if they don’t say it explicitly. His purpose is to help Dominos do its business. I would
argue the duty of every human being to their Creator is the same, to further the Creator’s
business. So now we must ask, What is the Creator’s business?

Obviously the Creator has many businesses, but let us focus on His business here on earth. Why
did He create earth, what does He want to accomplish here? I believe the answers to these
questions will reveal our true purpose on this earth.

“And God said, Let us make man in our (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26).

“What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You care for him?
For Thou hast made him a little lower than [You] God, and hast crowned him with glory
and honor. Thou made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have
put all things under his feet.” (Psalm 8:4-6 (Amplified version)

“I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.” (Psalm 82:6,
John 10:34-36).

When you look at the scriptures what do you see? God made everything that we see (and even
much of what we do not see) not so that He could reign over it, but so that we could reign over
all of it. We are the very purpose for the creation of all you see. God made beings to rule this
planet? And for a time Adam did rule this planet.

But what happened? Adam turned it all over to satan. For this reason satan is called the ‘god of
this world.’ (2 Corinthians 4:4). Our authority was taken from us. One of our individual duties
was to be the gods of this earth, but when we turned it over to satan, he became the god here.
(Don’t believe me, take a look around at the sinful filth that plagues most of this world). So
what did God do for us? He sent His son Jesus Christ. And through our relationship with Jesus
Christ we can take our rightful position back.

“But as many as received (Jesus Christ), to them gave He power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on His name.” (John 1:12)

Let us see the passage in John 10 again. (This is Jesus speaking with some Jewish leaders who
accused Him of blasphemy for saying He was the son of God) “Is it not written in your law, ‘I
said, ye are gods.’ If God called them gods, unto whom the Word of God came, and the
scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the
world, ‘You blaspheme because You said, I am the Son of God.? If I do not the works of my
Father, believe me not?” (John 10:34-37)

So what do you see here? Those who receive Jesus Christ, The Word of God (Jesus Christ is the
Word made flesh, John 1:14) have the power to become the sons of God, and are called gods by
God Himself. What does a true son of God do? He does the work of His father. (John 10:37).
So who is a true son or daughter of God and what is our purpose here, to come and do the work
of our God, to actively choose to do His work.

Does God need help, or was God lonely, of course not? But God wanted someone like Himself,
God wanted someone who would work like Him, someone He could work with. God is looking
for the people that will truly fellowship with God by doing His work on this earth. It is when
you begin working with God that you begin truly understanding God. This is the purpose of
man, to develop a relationship with God, to live as a son of God. How do you do this, you begin
doing the works of God and allow Him to show you, teach you and mold you. Praise God.

God created Adam, and what was the first thing He said about Adam, that Adam would have
dominion on this earth. We were created to be the gods of this earth. We were created to
actively choose to lord over this earth the way God would do so, in righteousness and justice and
love. Now how do you begin to do this, or how could you ever learn to do this? You begin
getting in His Word!

You accepted Jesus Christ, the Word was given to you. Now you have that Word with you (your
Bible) and in you (through the Holy Spirit), praise the Lord. Obey the commandments of your
Father, learning to understand the Word and do what It says. You will learn to reign on this
earth as you should. As you do this you will begin working the works of God, or the Works God
would have you do on this earth. Do that and you will truly learn fellowship with God and learn
His ways. Those who do these things are the true sons and daughters of God.

“To him that overcomes (is victorious on this earth in the ways of God) will I grant to sit with
Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.”
(Revelation 3:21, Jesus speaking).

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