What is His Purpose?

Good day. Today we are posting the newsletter What is His Purpose? written in 1995 by our dear brother, fellow steward and ambassador of the mystery of Christ, Larry Gazelka, Our prayer is that you will be blessed and encouraged by this newsletter. Have a very blessed and prosperous day in Christ Jesus our Lord. ***You can download a copy of the writing for personal use only by clicking on the Built Anew Ministries Archive page link above and scroll down to the year 1995.

What is His Purpose?     V17n20

I Jn 3:8-11 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. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. (KJV)

Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of God and our Father. (KJV)

Love = partnership based on total trust and respect.

Purpose - a setting forth, (as the shewbread).  Aim.

Did you notice in the purpose of the Son of God, and the will of God, that these things "might" come about?  The purpose of the Son of God, motivated by the love of God, is that none would perish.  The only way that this can be accomplished is by our following the example that Jesus Christ set for us.

2 Cor 5:7  (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) (KJV)

The example that Jesus Christ set, is what we are to follow; this is what our purpose should be.  We should not be led by the view or form of things around us. We are in this world, but we are not of this world.  We have to get to the place in our life, that we are totally dependent on the Word of God, and not by what this world tries to dictate to us.

How do we do this? This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.(Gal 5:16).  We need to be guided by the Word of God.  His Word has to be the light that illuminates our path.  It has to be this light that directs our every step. We have to walk in the same measure of love with which He loved us.  Jesus Christ has done everything necessary for us to walk a victorious life.  He accomplished the full purpose of the Father.

Col 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; (KJV)

Have you noticed how the word "might", keeps showing up in these scripture texts?

Might = may be able, possible, forcefulness

All things are possible to them that believe.  We have to be the one to act upon the Word of God.  No one else can do it for us.  We cannot ride anyone else's coat tails into kingdom of God.  We, as individuals, have to work out our own salvation.

We are to be walking in the Spirit, not by the view or the form of the world around us.  We are led around, (for the most part), by messages of the physical presence around us.  How our figure is, or how much we weigh.  By what is the latest style of clothes, perfumes, and make-up; or by trying to keep up with the neighbors or co-workers, in regard to where they live or what they may drive.  The list would be too long to list here.  Yet, these are the things that motivate us, and drive us to attain.  This becomes our total purpose in life.

We need to follow after the example set forth by the Word of God.  It is not easy to keep our mind set on the purpose set forth by the Word. (Much study is a weariness to the flesh.)

For far too long, the world and its way of thinking have programed our minds.  From the time we are little, up until the present day, we have put more faith in old wives’ fables, fears and rumors, than we have in what the Word of God has to say.  This should be the final authority, but in most instances it is not.  We have been so efficiently trained in the ways of the world that we have a tendency to believe what it says rather than setting our heart and mind for the purpose of the high calling. Acting on what the world says, (senses), rather than the example of Jesus Christ.

​It is easy to read, "By whose stripes ye were healed."  Yet, when it comes to living by those words it becomes quite difficult.  Not because God's Word does not work, but because we only try to apply it on an occasional basis.  It, (the Word) has to be a way of life.  It has to be our purpose for our entire life, not just a little here, and a little there.  The walk of faith has to be a continual journey in this world.

Ps 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.(KJV)

We forget that God has made a way of escape from our destruction.  We always want to blame God for whatever goes wrong.  We always want Him to be responsible for what happens to us.  God's purpose was to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to make full atonement for our transgressions.  (Which He did accomplish).  For this purpose was the Son of God manifested.  Yet, the choice is ours, and God cannot make the decision for us.  Choose you this day whom you will serve!

1 Pet 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. (KJV)

The example has been set.  We have to choose which path we will walk.  Everything has been accomplished to enable us to follow Jesus Christ's example.

1 Tim 4:12-13 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. (KJV)

We have this illusion that Jesus Christ was a popular person in his day.  We forget that many did follow Him; but when the times got tough, there was a quick dispersal of the followers.  It is easy to be a follower, but takes a total dedication to be one who sets the example.  We have to walk the walk, and talk the talk; we have to be doers of the Word, and not hearers only.

We all want to inherit all of the blessings of God.  We all want to inherit eternal life.  Yet, we do not want to follow the total example that was set before us.  We do not want to be as Paul was at the end of his life.  At his first defense, no man stood with him.  Everybody fled what appeared to be a sinking ship.  In the physical, it appeared that Paul had failed.  However, Paul knew that he had fought the good fight and that he had accomplished the purpose that God had set before him.

Have you allowed the purpose of God to be manifest in your life?  Have you fought the good fight?  Have you stayed on the straight and narrow path that leads into the kingdom of God?

If there are problems in our life, the problem is not on God's end.  It is on our end; we have not taken the time to study to show ourselves approved unto God.  We have not made full proof of the ministry that we have been called into.

Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. (KJV)

Contend = to struggle for, to strive against rivals or difficulties

Exhort = to call near, invite, invoke

The purpose of Jesus Christ is that we might have life, and have it more abundantly.  The words that He speaks, they are spirit, and they are life.  Faith, (the ability to believe God), only can arrive by hearing God's Word and then applying it to our lives.  There are no short cuts.  You will have to contend for the faith that was once delivered unto you.

Do you know your purpose?  Do you want to?

​That you may know Him
In the service of Jesus Christ,
Larry Gazelka