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Speaker: Welcome to God Talks with Chibs, where faith meets purpose and young voices rise to lead with truth. Let's build, grow, and go deeper in the Word, in life, and in destiny.
Speaker: Okay guys, so today we're talking about purpose. The money word. And I say that because i think it's becoming more and more, or people are feeling like it's more and more of a cliche term, you know, or something that's like, oh, why you bringing up purpose, you know?
Speaker: Um...
Speaker: So it's a topic that needs to be fleshed out. And so that is what we're going into today.
Speaker: It's important to understand what you are here for. Why you, why you're in the earth, you know, putting it like that is like, oh okay.
Speaker: But it's as simple as that. Why are you here? Why are you here? So going to take you along with me and we're going to go through okay just six points, but brief points, and we will start.
Speaker: And of course, if you're listening to my podcast, ah you know that
Speaker: we like to use scriptures quite a bit. So journey with me as we go along. We are starting with John chapter 15 verse 13.
Speaker: And it says, greater love has no one than this to lay down one's life for one's friends.
Speaker: According to God's word, it says greater love has no one than this. There's no greater action in love than this. to lay down your life for your friend.
Speaker: The Lord Jesus, he chose to die for us. We're getting right into the meat of it. The Lord Jesus, he chose to die.
Speaker: It wasn't random and it wasn't forced because there were opportunities for him
Speaker: to make the change and say, oh, you know what? I don't stand with everything I've said. I apologize. Don't kill me. did they He could have done all of that. And then they wouldn't have killed him or he would have gotten a lesser punishment, but he chose to die.
Speaker: It was an intentional act from beginning to end.
Speaker: I think this is already very profound because it already shows you the heart of the person that you're dealing with.
Speaker: He chose to die. There's no greater love than this. Remember that
Speaker: the Lord Jesus chose to die.
Speaker: And before he died, God weighed the cost. God weighed the cost and he decided that you were worth that cost.
Speaker: You see, if you're wondering how much is my life really worth? Because sometimes those questions pop up. How much am I really am i really worth?
Speaker: If you find the answer to be
Speaker: whatever you went to school for, you're wrong.
Speaker: If you find the answer to be, oh not much because and don't really solve too many problems in the world, you're still wrong.
Speaker: If you find the answer to be anything outside of what God's word says, you're wrong.
Speaker: Why? Because God created us. And so when it was time to make the payment, he weighed the cost and decided it was worth the blood of his son, Jesus.
Speaker: And by the way, the term son of God really just means God in human flesh. So he thought
Speaker: that he himself was worth it for you. That's massive. That's massive. And we think that God is there in the sky with like a whip or something, you know, or just goggles, just watching our every move and waiting for you to mess up.
Speaker: No, No, he thinks you were worth the cost.
Speaker: He paid intentionally.
Speaker: That's my first, or I guess my intro for you to you. I want you to know what this means. You see, Jesus laid down his life for you intentionally.
Speaker: So my first point is love that redefines worth. This is so big because we put our worth in so many different aspects of the world, right?
Speaker: As soon as you go to school, your worth can easily be attributed to how smart you seem, how intellectual you are. Right. If you can't get this grades or that those grades or academic, you're not as academic as some other students, you're already rated or you are super academic. So you're rated at a certain point.
Speaker: Your worth can be attributed to what's on your resume. So your resume me seems so stacked or not as stacked or you specify or specialize in a certain area that you really like.
Speaker: We put our worth in so many things.
Speaker: And how skilled you are in sports, how athletic you are. Right? The world classifies you so quickly, but And and they're the love of the world is so fickle because it's based on what you can do or what you can't do.
Speaker: So they love you more if you can do more. You see more valuable if you can do more, if you can give more yourself.
Speaker: In the sense that, you know, you have what they need, what they want. But there's a love that redefines worth.
Speaker: How is it redefined? It's redefined through the sacrifice of Jesus.
Speaker: You didn't have to do anything. He dies and his death gives you access to a relationship with him. Why? Because the perfect father He's also the perfect judge.
Speaker: And though the perfect father wants a perfect relationship with his child, he cannot excuse as a perfect judge sin. Somebody has to pay.
Speaker: So now automatically your worth becomes whatever he pays and he gives himself.
Speaker: So that means You are as valuable to the Lord as Jesus is.
Speaker: Oh my goodness. That changes everything. You are as valuable to God as the Lord Jesus because he pays for you with his own blood.
Speaker: Oh, that is a love that redefines worth because now your worth is not in your accomplishments or your lack of accomplishments. Your worth is in the Lord Jesus who paid for you.
Speaker: If I go to a store and i want to buy, i want to buy book. Okay. if I go to the store and i want to buy a book.
Speaker: The worth, the value of this book.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Is in the amount.
Speaker: That I pay for it.
Speaker: Okay. Yeah, it can be written with the same, you know, ink and whatever as many other books. But if I price it.
Speaker: at a higher value becomes more valuable.
Speaker: The Lord priced you at the highest value. He didn't just price you at the value of another man. He priced you at the value of the man, Christ Jesus.
Speaker: The perfect man.
Speaker: That means, oh, that means When you come to God, you're not coming to God to try to fix yourself because once you say, dear Lord Jesus, I accept you.
Speaker: He sees you as the perfect man. He sees you perfect in his sight because your value is equal to the value of a perfect man.
Speaker: think I just cooked on that one.
Speaker: Alright, I'm already 10 minutes in and this is only my my first point. So I guess we'll just have to do three points for today and we'll move on. Okay, so my second thing is...
Speaker: And I was listening. Now, actually, i my teacher, shout out to my grade nine English teacher, Mrs. Taylor. Taylor, you're listening to this, thank you so much for playing this in class. I still remember this video to this day.
Speaker: And it's a sermon from Judah Smith. All right. And it's called Jesus is loving Barabbas. And he paints a picture where, you know, Barabbas, I'm not going to get too much into it because it takes some time to explain, but he's a character in the Bible and he was basically known criminal of the day.
Speaker: And when it was time, um according to the Jewish law, or tradition to release a prisoner.
Speaker: The choice was between Barabbas and Jesus. Jesus really had done nothing wrong. This is a man who healed the sick, cast out devils, raised the dead, opened blind eyes.
Speaker: Barabbas was a murderer. he He was a criminal. And when it was time to choose Who do you want to be set free?
Speaker: The people, the crowd chose Barabbas. Now, if you look at it from that aspect, you'll be like, oh my goodness, this also just shows the wickedness of the people. But Judah Smith painted an analogy and said, you know what?
Speaker: Barabbas represents us as human beings. We didn't deserve to be set free, but God out of his love set us free.
Speaker: By taking our place. So that whole encounter is literally foreshadowing what Jesus was to do on the cross for us.
Speaker: And it paints a perfect picture. So if if you um want to check that out, just search up Jesus is Loving Barabbas, Judah Smith's sermon on YouTube.
Speaker: A beautiful picture, beautiful picture. This is what Jesus did for us.
Speaker: My third point, it's okay to have questions. It is okay to have questions. All right. Faith doesn't mean that doubt doesn't come or questions don't arise.
Speaker: That can happen.
Speaker: But don't, and hear me, don't stay stuck in those doubts or questions. You see, if doubt tries to enter, you have to continue fixing your eyes on Jesus.
Speaker: Because doubt is one thing that stops
Speaker: or hinders your progress with the Lord.
Speaker: Be so confident in who Jesus is. Know that he's there. Continue looking at him. Continue fixing your eyes on him. Continue trusting him because that's where the power is.
Speaker: I could give an example of this, but time. But if you want an example, look at the story of Jesus walking on water. And when Peter also walked on the water, there was this it's the same story.
Speaker: Fix your eyes on the Lord Jesus. You see, I'm going to skip to my last point because I really want you to hear what this is. All right.
Speaker: So now that Jesus has paid and he's taken care of the sin aspect, now is the relationship aspect. What does this mean?
Speaker: You are now to use your life, your choices, your time, your words, your actions to reflect the love of Jesus, to reflect what he did for you.
Speaker: He gave his life for you. Now you are to give him your choices, your time, your words, and your actions.
Speaker: That, we're bringing it back to purpose now. That is where your purpose is rooted. it is in responding to his love with your life. I'm to say that again.
Speaker: Your purpose in God is rooted in responding to his love with your life.
Speaker: You see, he loved you so much, he paid.
Speaker: Your worth is the blood of Jesus.
Speaker: It's worth his life. So now in response to his payment of his life,
Speaker: give your life for him.
Speaker: Not in the sense that you now have to die for him. No, no, no. But you now live for him because he paid for you. You are worth his life. So your purpose is to live out the life of Christ that he paid. This is the purpose.
Speaker: So now you're not
Speaker: a doctor trying to, you know, be good in the world, or you're not a teacher trying to be good in the world. You are Christ.
Speaker: In a lab coat to your world, you are Christ to the kids you teach, you represent him, you show him to your world.
Speaker: This is the life he's given us.
Speaker: So now if you want to again, this is another deep topic, but a is what God talks is is what God talks is.
Speaker: It's getting to know. what it means to truly be grounded. That's it. So if you want to take this step now and really live out your purpose, I want you to say this prayer after me because he can't force himself on you, but he wants a relationship with you. So say this prayer after me, Oh Lord God,
Speaker: I believe with all my heart in Jesus Christ, son of the living God. I believe he died for me and he was raised from the dead for me.
Speaker: I'm a child of God now. I have eternal life. Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul. In Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker: so welcome to the family of god welcome to the kingdom of god god loves you god loves you and know that you have a safe space here if you have any questions maybe um you're just listening in and you're hearing this you're wow but you still have some questions like i said the questions are okay Please don't feel like you can ask questions. You can ask questions and you can ask me questions.
Speaker: Send me the questions right away and I'll answer them as soon as possible.
Speaker: Get to a local church and begin growing your relationship with the Lord Jesus because now that's the next part. Cultivating the relationship. That's the whole point now.
Speaker: um Yeah. Thank you for listening to today's episode and I'll see you guys in the next one.
Speaker: Thank you for listening. I hope you enjoyed this episode of God Talks with Chibs. If have any questions, comments, or even suggestions for topics you'd love to hear covered on the podcast, feel free to reach out at godtalks.show at gmail.com.
Speaker: And don't forget, stay tuned, stay grounded, and get ready to rise.
