You know at salvation God has a plan for the rest of our lives and even for the
end of our lives when we are glorified. Look at Romans chapter 8 and verse 28
let me make a comment before we read it. This is why it's it's here's the thing
it's you know sometimes people think well I got saved later on in life and I
made a lot of bad decisions prior to salvation. You know I got in bad
relationships or I experimented with drugs or you know I just did a lot of
bad stupid stuff prior to salvation you know did I miss God's perfect will no
you didn't because here's the thing look at Romans 8 28 says 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 the Bible says. So the Bible is teaching us that even
though you made bad decisions you have you know you know you dated wrongly
growing up or maybe you had a child out of wedlock or you experimented with
drugs or you know whatever it is that you came out of you know the Bible's
telling us here that God can still work together all those things work together
for good to them to love God so he can turn that into a blessing you understand
and sometimes people get this this misconstrued thought and say well you
know how can a person like that fulfill God's perfect will you know they can't
be a pastor well then you have a twisted view of God's perfect will because you
think it's being a pastor as God's perfect will that's not true that's the
will for some people's lives but it's not for others no I think that's God's
perfect will and you know people can forfeit what about women you know I mean
that's never God's will for any woman to be a pastor you know when we talk about
God's perfect will it's it's a destination that God has for you you
know to earn rewards to serve him to live a life of joy and fulfillment you
know a purpose for your life and it doesn't necessarily have to do with
being a pastor or being an evangelist or a deacon it just has to do with you
fulfilling his perfect will according to the according to the will of God verse
29 says for whom he did for no he also did predestinate to be saved no to be
conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn among many
brother you see God's will for every Christian is that we become Christ like
right and more than that that we would conform 100% to the image of his son now
let's just be honest that's never gonna happen this side of eternity because we
have the flesh the spirit lusts against the flesh the flesh lusts against the
spirit these are contrary one to the other city cannot do the things that you
would we're still waiting for the redemption of our body at which point we
will be like him the Bible says