Here's my question to open up the sermon today.

What is your ultimate goal?

Or we could also say, what is your ultimate destination?

Where are you going to travel to?

Because you're on your way somewhere.

Where is the final stop? Where are you going to end your journey?

Or we could also ask the question this way, what is the point of your life? These are ultimate

questions to ask. What's your goal? What's your destination? What's the point of your life?

And in all of these questions, what we're really asking is, what are you oriented toward?

Now, some of you might be, feel like when you wake up, I know my wife is a little bit

like this, right? What's the first thing that has to happen when you wake up? You're not really

woken up unless you get that cup of coffee, right? And of course, there's people out there who

that's, it seems like that's what life's about, right? Not not my wife but other people uh it's about that cup of

coffee that's what animates you that's what i you know that's that's your life support all right so

but that could be anything right there there's so many material things that we enjoy that can end up

becoming the big thing the thing we live for i just live for the weekends so I can get out on the lake with

my boat. That's what I live for. That's the purpose of life. And when I die, hopefully I got out

as many weekends as possible. There's earthly pursuits, power, money, right? A lot of people that

that's what animates them. He who dies with the most toys wins. Not really. They don't get to take those things with them. But some people think that way. Other people, this is a little more noble, right? They think that family is the important thing. I have a little daughter back there. It's hard for me not to look at her and see purpose. And I should see purpose, right? I shouldn't suppress that. But

she's an eternal being. I'm responsible for her. God's laid down duties. And ultimately,

my love for her and my responsibility and obligations towards her are ordered because

Christ has made it that way. Christ is the one that I'm ultimately responsible for in an ultimate sense,

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