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1. Rediscovering the Original
Life Purposes of Humanity
Aniel Barbe
Stewardship and Trust Services
SID
Category: General
2. OUR VISION
“All of us in Full Partnership with
Him, Accomplishing the Final
Mission.”
3. OUR POSTULATE
The effective Christian steward
tailors his/her life according to
the original life purposes given by
God in Eden.
4. PLAN
• Step I: Who is God?
• Step II: Who are human beings?
• Step III: What are the original life
purposes?
• Step IV: Sin and the life purposes.
• Step V: Salvation and the life
purposes.
5. Step I: Who is God?
“God created the heaven and
the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
“The earth is the LORD’s, and
everything in it, the world, and
all who live in it.”
Psalm 24:1
6. Step I: Who Is God?
i. God is Eternal.
i. God is the Creator.
i. God is Self-Sufficient.
i. God is the Owner
i. God is both Elohim (Gen.1) and Yahweh
(Gen. 2)
7. Step I: Who Is God?
vi. God is Love
“Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love.”
1 John 4:8
“The work of creation was a manifestation
of His love.”
E.G.White, Testimonies, Vol.5,p.739
8. Step II: Who Are Human Beings?
Genesis 2:7,8
And the LORD God formed man of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul. And the LORD God planted a
garden eastward in Eden. And there He put
the man whom He had formed.
Genesis 1:27,28b
“So God created mankind in his own image, in
the image of God he created them; male and
female he created them. God blessed them
and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in
number; fill the earth and subdue it.”
9. Who Are Human Beings?
i. Humans are Creatures
i. Created in His Image
i. Commissioned as Stewards
i. Free Beings
11. The 5 Original Life Purposes
EDEN LIFE PURPOSES
One Creator Act as Creatures.
God provided for
all.
Be Dependant upon
God.
God created humans
in His image.
Behave as
Representatives.
God visited the
garden and gave the
Sabbath.
Maintain
Relationship.
God asked humans to
take care of the
garden.
Accept and fulfil
responsibilities.
12. The Original Life
Purposes were the
principles underneath the
lifestyle of our first
parents.
14. The First Temptation
Genesis 3:1,4,5
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of
the wild animals the Lord God had made. He
said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You
must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
And the serpent said to the woman, You
shall not surely die, for God knows that in
the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall
be opened, and you shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
15. The First Temptation
Life Purposes “You shall be as gods”
Act as creatures. Behave as your own
creator.
Be Dependant upon
God.
No need of God.
Behave as
Representatives.
Represent yourself
Maintain
Relationship.
In conflict with
God.
Accept and fulfil
responsibilities/Mi
ssion.
No order to
receive.
16. Sin Spoiled the 5 Life Purposes
i. You shall be gods … not a creature.
ii. Rely on oneself… Not trustworthy
anymore v/s God ( Rom. 8:7,8)
iii. We lost his Image … distortion of the
image of God in us. (Rom.3:23)
iv. Separation from God … Run away from
God, Chased out of the garden. (Is.
59:1,2)
v. Subdue to nature, subdue to each
other, subdue to sin ( Rom. 6:16)
17. SIN
Sin is so devastating because it
moves human beings away from
what they were designed for.
19. Jesus the New Steward
Commissioned by God
John 3:35
The Father loves the Son and has placed
everything in his hands.
Matthew 11:27
“All things have been committed to me by
my Father.”
20. In Jesus… We are Reestablished as Creatures
2 Corinthians 5:17
“So that if any one is in Christ, that one
is a new creature; old things have passed
away; behold, all things have become
new.”
21. In Jesus… We re-enter into a
Dependent Relation with God
John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who
abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit;
for without Me you can do nothing. »
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.
22. In Jesus … The Lost Image is Restored
Romans 8:29
For those God foreknew he also predestined to
be conformed to the image of his Son…
Colossians 1:15
“Who is the image of the invisible God, the
First-born of all creation.”
.
23. In Jesus … The Broken Relationship is
Mended
Relationship
2 Corinthians 5:19
That God was reconciling the world to himself
in Christ, not counting people’s sins against
them. And he has committed to us the message
of reconciliation.
24. In Jesus … We are Divinely Untrusted
with another Responsibility
Responsibility/Mission
Acts 1:8b
And you shall be witnesses to Me[a] in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the end of the earth.”
Colossians 1:25
I have become its servant by the
commission God gave me to present to you
the word of God in its fullness—
25. Jesus Restored the 5 Life Purposes
Original Life Purposes In Christ
Act as creatures. We are a new creature
(2 Cor.5:17)
Be Dependant upon God. We are the branches
(John 15:5)
Behave as
Representatives.
We have acquired the
image of the son (Rom.
8:29) who is the image
of the father (Col.
1:15)
Maintain Relationship. We are reconciled with
heaven. (2 Cor.5:19)
Accept and fulfil
responsibilities/Missi
on.
We have received a
mission.(Acts 1:8b)
26. Salvation: A Modification of Lifestyle
1 Peter 1:18
“ Knowing that you were ransomed
from futile ways inherited from your
forefathers, not with perishable
things such as silver and gold, but with
the precious blood of Christ, like that
of a lamb without blemish or spot.”
28. The 5 Life Purposes in Christ
i. Stewards act as creatures.
ii. Stewards maintain dependance with
God
iii.Stewards behave as representives of
God.
iv. Stewards develop an intimacy with
God.
v. Stewards accept their responsibilities.
30. Our Responsibility as
Parents-Pastors-Spiritual Educators
We are to help people to develop
and entertain a living relationship
with Jesus that will bring them to
live according to the original life
purposes.
31. The Promise of Abundant Life
John 10:10b
“ I have come that they may have life
and that they may have it abundantly.”
32. OUR VISION
“All of us in Full Partnership with
Him, Accomplishing the Final
Mission.”
The opening statement of the Bible. What we know about God is mainly through His actions.
Moses did not try to establish the preexistence of God. It is assumed and accepted as an evidence.
He does not rely on any external force to come to existence and to exist.
The characteristics of the Author of Life inform us about the life purposes.
The characteristics of the Author of Life inform us about the life purposes.
Creatures: Different from God, Limited in Time and Space, A product of God’s love.
Image: Physical, Social, Intellectual and Spiritual being.
Stewards: Manage in partnership with God.
Free: Freedom of choice
Base on who God is and who humans are, we can come to the Original Life Purposes.
It is another way of taking of the design that God had for His creatures before the introduction of sin.
Act as Creatures // Worshippers of the God of Heaven
Be Dependent upon God// Rely upon God/ Recognize that He is the source of every good thing.
To be His Image // Representatives of God
Live in Intimacy // Closeness and Relationship// The Sabbath was not given for physical rest but for relationship
Receive Governance // Responsibility
Maintain Interdependance with God // Rely on God, He Chose to rely on us
The effect of sin on original the life purposes
Sin is to renounce to the original life purposes
Sin has shattered the Five Life Purposes
In Ephesians 1:10, Paul uses the word “eis oikonomian” which means literally “the one who acts as a steward.”
The contrast bet. Jesus and humans: Humans wanted to change their status from stewards to owner, whereas Jesus moves from owner to stewards.
Christ is not only the faithful steward.
In Him, all the original life purposes can be restored in us.
We are not expected to work for God but with God.
Christ is the eikon of God.
Another definition of salvation: A modification of lifestyle
Before our encounter with Christ, we live without caring for the life original purposes (futile ways)
After our encounter with Christ, we tailor our lives according to the original life purposes.
A personal definition
Living according to the original life purposes of God for humanity will make this promise to come true.
