What Was I Made For?

Part 3 | I Was Made to Make a Difference

May 11, 2025

 

I Was Made to Make a Difference

 

• I was made by God.
• I am not a mistake.
• I have a purpose.
• I carry gifts that only I was made for.

 

1. Living for

 

2. Pursuing Stuff Over

 

3. Toxic Cycles

• Pain becomes normal, and purpose gets ignored.

 

4. Waiting for the

 

5. Instead of

 

6. Ignoring

 

Genesis 1:26–28 (NIV) – Let us make mankind in our image… and let them have dominion…Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it.

1. Be fruitful – Be Productive

 

Hebrew Word: _“Pārāʾ” (פָּרָה)

 

John 15:8 – Jesus says, This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

 

Galatians 5:22-23 – The “fruit of the Spirit” is love, joy, peace, etc.

 

Colossians 1:10 – …bearing fruit in every good work.

 

2. Multiply – Grow

Hebrew: רָבָה (rāḇāh)

 

Mathew 25:20-21(ESV) – “ And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much.”

 

Matthew 25:26 (ESV) – But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?”

 

3. Fill the earth – Spread and Build Spiritually

Hebrew: מָלֵא (maleʾ)

 

Matthew 28:19 – Go and make disciples of all nations…

 

4. Subdue it – Control

Hebrew word: כָּבַשׁ (kāḇaš)

 

5. Have dominion – Take Authority & Responsibility

Hebrew: רָדָה (rāḏāh)

 

Matthew 28:18-20 – Jesus declares, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

 

Mathew 20:28 – Jesus said, “Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many

• Be fruitful – Be Productive
• Multiply – Grow
• Fill the earth – Spread and Build Spiritually
• Subdue it – Have Control
• Have dominion – Take Authority

 

Genesis 3:17–19 (NIV) – Cursed is the ground because of you… Through painful toil you will eat food from it… It will produce thorns and thistles for you…

 

1. Without

 

Wandering

 

Romans 13:1–2 – Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.

 

John 15:5 – Apart from Me, you can do nothing.

 

 2. Without

 

Exodus 33:15 – If your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

 

 Psalm 127:1 (ESV) – Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.

 

 3. For the

 

Matthew 6:1 – Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them…

 

4. We Do Nothing

 

Matthew 25:25 – I was afraid… so I hid your talent in the ground.

• Be fruitful – Be Productive
• Multiply – Grow
• Fill the earth – Spread and Build Spiritually
• Subdue it – Have Control
• Have dominion – Take Authority

 

Luke 19:5 – Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.

 

Luke 19:8 – Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount. 

 

Luke 19:9-10 – Today salvation has come to this house… For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.