1. WHY ON EARTH AM I HERE ? Part 1 Life’s Most Significant Questions

2. 1. Why am I alive? 2. Does my life matter? 3. How can I know my purpose?

3. Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace? (Jeremiah, 20:18 GNT) 1. Why am I alive?

5. A famous quantum physicist, Isaac Asimov, replied, “As far as I can see, there is no purpose.” A famous author, Joseph Heller, responded, “I have no answers to the meaning of life and I no longer want to search for it.”

6. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1, NIV) Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image…”NIV “The Lord has made everything for his own purposes…” Proverbs 16:4, TLB

7. Ephesians 1:4 Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love... THE MESSAGE God made you, to love you!

8. 2. Does my life matter? Isaiah 49:4 “…my work seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose.” NLT

9. Psalms 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

10. 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. NIV

13. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 …we will be with the Lord forever. NIV Psalms 33:11 …the Lord's plans stand firm forever; his intentions can never be shaken. NLT

14. God’s plan for you is eternal. 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down-when we die and leave these bodies-we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself and not by human hands. TLB

15. You are so significant that you were made to last for all eternity.

16. 3. How can I know my purpose?

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21. “In beginning, God created.” “For the reverence and fear of God are basic to all wisdom. Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding.” (Proverbs 9:10, TLB)

22. The only way to know your purpose in life is to get to know God.