What Purpose?

Danby House

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

What kind of purpose are we talkimg about?

1. God’s purpose for our lives?
2. God’s purpose for making creation?

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

( 2 Timothy 1:8-9 )

Are they the same thing?

When was the purpose decided on?

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

( Ephesians 1:4 )

Whatever the purpose is, or for whom, it was estanlished before the foundation of the world.

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

( Titus 1:2 )