Why Knowing Your Purpose Makes You INVINCIBLE

"Moses removed Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar. And Aaron died there on top of the mountain."  Numbers 20:28

You cannot die until you've fulfilled God's purpose for you.  Now if you could care less about fulfilling God's purpose, and you live carelessly and recklessly, then you are choosing a random and meaningless life.  You could die at any time and for any reason.  But I'm not talking to the careless and random.  I'm talking to you, someone who wants to fulfill God's purpose for your life.

What is your purpose?
If you know it, then you know you can't die until you fulfill it.

The scriptures show me three examples of your purpose making you invincible, three men who didn't, and thus couldn't, die until they fulfilled their God given purpose.

AARON THE HIGH PRIEST
Moses and Aaron dishonored and disobeyed God, and God forbid them both to enter the promised land as a result.  Moses was commanded to remove Aaron's priestly garments.  Upon their removal, Aaron died.  Do you see that Aaron's purpose determined his death?  That once his priestly garments, given to him in holiness of purpose, were removed by the command of God, he died?  Now Aaron died because of his disobedience in connection to his priestly purpose.  But you can't separate his death from his purpose.

JOHN THE BAPTIST
John knew who he was and who he was not.  He was not the Messiah, but "the voice of him crying in the wilderness:  prepare the way of the Lord."  John knew that Christ "must increase," while he "must decrease."  Herodias, the one ultimately responsible for John's beheading, murderously hated John long before he was imprisoned.  She wanted him dead long before her opportunity.  But like the Lord Jesus, our third example, John could not die by her desire because John's time had not yet come.

JESUS THE SAVIOR
As I showed in this blog, Jesus evaded or escaped at least four attempts on His life because "his hour had not yet come."  Jesus knew "his hour," his purpose, the way and reason of his death.  We should know ours.  We should know why God put us on earth, and what He wants us to accomplish before we die. In fact, we should even know the kind of death by which we will glorify Him, and accept nothing less than that kind of death.  Jesus didn't accept less.  He didn't come to be stoned or thrown off a cliff.  He came to die a vey specific kind of death for a very specific reason:  His mission--our salvation.  To submit to any other death would have been sin for him and hell for us.  But Jesus' purpose made Him invincible to every attack on His life.

Why does knowing your purpose make you invincible?
Because God Himself is invested in you fulfilling it.
It's His purpose for you, and His breath in your nostrils.
The only one that can take purpose and life from you is you, if you carelessly choose to.