November 21, 2021 - What is the Real Business of our Lives? - Pastor Paul Vallee

Matthew 28:18-20 Do we understand God’s purpose for us as a people? Are we committed to God’s plan for our lives, or has the business of life caused us to become caught up with the rat race? Do we have a purpose that reflects something beyond ourselves and our families? C. S. Lewis once wrote: “The glory of God, and, as our only means to glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.” One of the most powerful truths in Scripture and a general principle of life is simple; life produces life. There is something about life that reproduces. We are meant to reproduce. Now I realize that there are exceptions to this principle, but this is a principle that God instituted right from the very beginning of creation. Mankind was designed to reproduce. “God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground (Genesis 1:28). After the great flood, which was a judgment on man’s failure to obey God’s directives and live life solely for themselves, we read how God reissues the same command to Noah and his family, as He did to Adam and Eve at the very beginning of human history. Notice how God didn’t change His agenda (cf. Genesis 9:1-2).” 1. Humanity was to reproduce his own kind. 2. God gives us authority and dominion over the rest of creation for us to succeed at what He has asked us to do. With authority and privilege comes responsibility. When God issues a command, He gives us the power and the ability to carry it out.