216 Why Did God Make You?

We mistakenly think that God made us to serve Him, worship Him, and love Him and that He blames us and condemns us because of our faults. However the reality as revealed in scripture is vastly different. Join us to discover what Jesus has revealed about why God has made you.

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SHOW NOTES

1. God did not make you to . . .

serve him

worship him

love him

blame U

condemn U

1.1 God did not make you to condemn you!

Romans 8:1 (NIV) 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in

Christ Jesus,

1.2 God did not make you to experience guilt

Isaiah 53:11 (NLT) 11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be

satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for

many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.

2. God made you for relationship

God: “Let us make make . . .”

No virgin births.

God did not invent hermits!

Dying father in RDRH

Jesus: “I never knew you!” meaning “You never knew me.”

Jesus: “Why have you forsaken me?”

3. God made us so he could love us

Jeremiah 31:3 (NLT) Long ago the Lord said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with

an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.”

1 Chronicles 16:34 (NLT) Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love

endures forever.

Psalm 40:10 (NLT) by David I have not kept the good news of your justice hidden in

my heart; I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. I have told everyone in

the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness.1 John 3:16 (NLT) We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

1 John 4:7-12 (NLT) 7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes

from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does

not love does not know God, for God is love.

9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so

that we might have eternal life through him.

10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a

sacrifice to take away our sins.

11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is

brought to full expression in us.

King David had God’s heart 3000 years ago

Acts 13:22 (NLT) But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about

whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do

everything I want him to do.’

David loved Saul’s sons Jonathan and Mephibosheth. David loved his dead, rebellious son: Absolom

2 Samuel 18:33 (NLT) The king was overcome with emotion. He went up to the room

over the gateway and burst into tears. And as he went, he cried, “O my son Absalom! My

son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! O Absalom, my son, my son.”

Hosea 11:8 (NLT) “Oh, how can I give you up, Israel? How can I let you go? How can I

destroy you like Admah or demolish you like Zeboiim? My heart is torn within me, and

my compassion overflows.

Jesus loved his people that would not have him:

John 11:35 (NLT) Then Jesus wept.

Matthew 23:37 (NLT) “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and

stones God’s messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as

a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me.”

4. God planned for you to be YOU

Ephesians 2:10 NLT For we are God’s masterpiece.

He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

God does not need another Jesus Christ. He made you to be uniquely You.

It is not WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) but WCID (What Can I do?).

You are to reflect the love of God to the Universe as only You can.

a. Ian: I am curious about meanings. I need to know why and how? This often moves me

past the usual answers.

b. Warren: courageous believer.

c. Sascha: authentic and transparent presence.

5. God has always planned to adopt us into His intimate family

Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but

you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit

himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Ephesians 1:4-5 NLT Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in

Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into

his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to

do, and it gave him great pleasure.

6. God has planned for us to sit with him on his throne

Revelation 3:21 To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my

throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my father on his throne.

Perhaps this is why Jesus says

John 15:15 NLT I no longer call you slaves/servants, because a master doesn’t

confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the

Father told me.

This will make it possible for you to reveal the love of God in a unique way since you are

uniquely made in God’s image. You can minister to the universe as God would because you are made in the image of God. How blessed are you!

Ian Hartley, Sept 2025