Finding our Purpose Series:

• Seeking our Purpose
• Drawing out our Purpose
• Living our Purpose

What is Purpose?

Hebrew and Greek Definitions

Ya`ats

yaw-ats’

Parts of SpeechVerb

Ya`ats Definition

NAS Word Usage – Total: 80

1. to advise, consult, give counsel, counsel, purpose, devise, plan
   1. (Qal)
      1. to advise, counsel, give counsel, consult
      2. counsellor (participle)
   2. (Niphal) to consult together, exchange counsel, deliberate, counsel together
   3. (Hithpael) to conspire

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Boule

boo-lay’

Parts of SpeechNoun Feminine

Boule Definition

NAS Word Usage – Total: 12

1. counsel, purpose

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Matthew 2

The Magi Visit the Messiah

2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem ² and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

Look for something outside ourselves

³ When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. ⁵ “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:

⁶ “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
    are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
    who will shepherd my people Israel.’”

⁷ Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. ⁸ He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

Seek Your Purpose

⁹ After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

Be Overjoyed – We know we are living our purpose when the Holy Spirt won’t let us do anything else.

 ¹¹ On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. 

Worship God

Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Offer our Gifts

 ¹² And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

Take the Detours

To Seek Our Purpose

1. Pursue something outside ourselves
2. Seek your Purpose
3. Be Overjoyed
4. Worship God
5. Offer our Gifts
6. Take Detours

Who Were the Magi?