I know You’ve given all I need

I know Your blessings never end

I know that Your love is forever
I know that You are all I have
The only reason that I live
The only reason that I follow…
ohoooh
Pre-Chorus:

You have captured me today, Jesus

You completed all my days, ohooh
Chorus:
It’s You that I am living for
For You Lord I will worship more
I will raise my hands and worship,
worship You

It’s You that I am living for

For You Lord I will worship more
I will raise my hands and worship,
worship You
I know You’ve given all I need
I know Your blessings never end
I know that Your love is forever
I know that You are all I have
The only reason that I live
The only reason that I follow…
ohoooh
Pre-Chorus:

You have captured me today, Jesus

You completed all my days, ohooh
Chorus:
It’s You that I am living for
For You Lord I will worship more
I will raise my hands and worship,
worship You

It’s You that I am living for

For You Lord I will worship more
I will raise my hands and worship,
worship You
Bridge:
I am thankful for Your kindness
Lord
I am thankful for You are bountiful

I am thankful for Your kindness

Lord
I am thankful for You are bountiful
Pre-Chorus:

You have captured me today, Jesus

You completed all my days, ohooh
Chorus:
It’s You that I am living for
For You Lord I will worship more
I will raise my hands and worship,
worship You

It’s You that I am living for

For You Lord I will worship more
I will raise my hands and worship,
worship You
Lord I come to You
Let my heart be changed, renewed
Flowing from the grace
That I have found in You
Lord I have come to know
The weaknesses I see in me
Will be stripped away
By the power of Your love
Chorus:
Hold me close
Let Your love surround me
Bring me near
Draw me to Your side
And as I wait
I will rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love
Lord unveil my eyes
Let me see You face to face
The knowledge of Your love
As You live in me
And Lord renew my mind
As Your will unfolds in my life
In living every day
By the power of Your love
Chorus:
Hold me close
Let Your love surround me
Bring me near
Draw me to Your side
And as I wait
I will rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love
Chorus:
Hold me close
Let Your love surround me
Bring me near
Draw me to Your side
And as I wait
I will rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love
Talk #1
 Goal:
To communicate the truth that God Loves us
and to provide better understanding of that
LOVE
 Core Message:
GOD is love. Thus he is compelled by HIS very
Nature to create, so that He can share that love.
God demonstrate his love by creating man in
His image. God’s love creates. But man, in the
Exercise of his God-given gift of free will, has rejected
His creator by sinning. Yet, even when he sin and
Abandon Him, God still loves us and patiently waits
For us to come back to Him.
God’s lavish and generous love is best describe in the
Parable of the father and his two sons (LK 15: 11-31).
The parable tells us that God’s love forgives. The
greatest expression of God’s love is the sending of
His only Son to suffer and die, that we may have life
eternal. Therefore, God’s love is, most of all, a love
that redeems.
In the beginning, God broke the deafening silence and
stillness of the universe. He lit up its blinding
darkness. He filled up its infinite void. He disturbed
the sound of silence. He did all this to manifest and
share his love. For love is not love if it is not shared!
 God’s Love Creates:
The starting point of understanding God’s love is
found
In the story of creation in Genesis. Since God is love,
He is compelled by His very nature to create so that
He can share his love (Gen 1: 1-31).
For 5 days,
God created the
heavens and earth,
the water and the land, the animals and the plants.
And after each description of what God has created,
the verse followed by the word “God saw how good it
was”
(Gen. 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25).
So God created
man in his image.
In the divine
image, God
created him. What
better
demonstration of
God’s love than
being created in
the image of the
CREATOR!
But man, in the exercise of his God-given gift of
free will, rejected his Creator by sinning. And
since then, man has continued to offend God
and go against His ways. But God’s love never
wanes despite the sinfulness of man.
Despite their sin,
God bestowed on
Adam and Eve a
gesture of grace by
giving them
clothing! (Genesis
3:21).
When Cain murdered his brother Abel, God
manifested his love and mercy by putting mark
on Cain to protect him from being killed on
sight.
When God decided to eradicate evil on earth by
sending a great flood, He instructed Noah to
build an ark to save the righteous on earth
Even when mankind continued to disobey and
offend God, still God promised Abraham the He
would love him and his descendants forever.
He made the same promise to Isaac and to
Moses and to David.
As in Old Testament times, God’s love for us
today remains that same compassionate and
forgiving love of God who created us. Even
when we abandon him, He patiently waits for
us to come back to him.

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God’s Love Forgives:
Lucas 15:11-32
11 Sinabi niya: May isang lalaking may dalawang anak na lalaki. 12 Ang nakakabatang anak
ay nagsabi sa kaniyang ama: Ama, ibigay mo sa akin ang bahagi ng mga ari-arian na
nauukol sa akin. Binahagi ng ama sa kanila ang kaniyang kabuhayan.
Lumipas ang ilang araw, pagkatipon ng lahat ng sa kaniya, ang nakakabatang anak na
lalaki ay umalis. Nagtungo siya sa isang malayong lupain at doon nilustay ang kaniyang
ari-arian. Siya ay namuhay ng magulong pamumuhay. 14 Ngunit nang magugol na niya
ang lahat, nagkaroon ng isang matinding taggutom sa lupaing iyon at nagsimula siyang
mangailangan. 15 Humayo siya at sumama sa isang mamamayan ng lupaing iyon. At siya
ay sinugo niya sa mga bukirin upang magpakain ng mga baboy. 16 Mahigpit niyang
hinangad na kumain ng mga bunga ng punong-kahoy[a] na ipinakakain sa mga baboy
sapagkat walang sinumang nagbigay sa kaniya.

17 Nang manauli ang kaniyang kaisipan, sinabi niya: Ang aking ama ay maraming upahang
utusan. Sagana sila sa tinapay samantalang ako ay namamatay dahil sa gutom. 18 Tatayo
ako at pupunta ako sa aking ama. Sasabihin ko sa kaniya: Ama, nagkasala ako laban sa
langit at sa iyong paningin. 19 Hindi na ako karapat-dapat na tawaging anak mo. Gawin
mo akong isa sa iyong mga upahang utusan. 20 Sa pagtayo niya, pumunta siya sa kaniyang
ama, ngunit malayo pa siya ay nakita na siya ng kaniyang ama at ito ay nahabag sa
kaniya. Ang ama ay tumakbo at niyakap at hinagkan siya.
21 Sinabi ng anak sa kaniya: Ama, nagkasala ako laban sa langit at sa iyong paningin. Hindi
na ako karapat-dapat na tawaging anak mo.
22 Gayunman, sinabi ng ama sa kaniyang mga alipin: Dalhin ninyo ang pinakamainam na

kasuotan at isuot ninyo sa kaniya. Magbigay kayo ng singsing para sa kaniyang kamay at
panyapak para sa kaniyang mga paa. 23 Magdala kayo ng pinatabang guya at katayin ito.
Tayo ay kakain at magsaya. 24 Ito ay sapagkat ang anak kong ito ay namatay at muling
nabuhay. Siya ay nawala at natagpuan. Sila ay nagsimulang magsaya.
25 At ang nakakatanda niyang anak ay nasa bukid. Nang siya ay dumarating at malapit na

sa bahay, nakarinig siya ng tugtugin at sayawan. 26 Tinawag niya ang isa sa kaniyang mga
lingkod. Tinanong niya kung ano ang ibig sabihin ng mga bagay na ito. 27 Sinabi ng lingkod
sa kaniya: Dumating ang kapatid mo. Nagpakatay ng pinatabang guya ang iyong ama
sapagkat ang kapatid mo ay natanggap niyang ligtas at malusog.
28 Nagalit siya at ayaw niyang pumasok. Dahil dito lumabas ang kaniyang ama at

namanhik sa kaniya. 29 Sumagot siya sa kaniyang ama. Sinabi niya: Narito, naglingkod ako
sa iyo ng maraming taon. Kahit minsan ay hindi ako sumalangsang sa iyong utos. Kahit
minsan ay hindi mo ako binigyan ng maliit na kambing upang makipagsaya akong kasama
ng aking mga kaibigan. 30 Nang dumating itong anak mo, nagpakatay ka para sa kaniya ng
pinatabang guya. Siya ang nag-aksaya ng iyong kabuhayan kasama ng mga patutot.
31 Sinabi ng ama sa kaniya: Anak, lagi kitang kasama at lahat ng akin ay sa iyo. 32 Ang

magsaya at magalak ay kailangan sapagkat ang kapatid mong ito ay namatay at muling
nabuhay. Siya ay nawala at natagpuan
Under Jewish law, the children inherit their share
of the property only after the father’s death. By
asking for his share of inheritance, the younger
son is effectively saying that as far as he is
concerned, his father is already dead. It is
expected that he will never come back (Lk 15:12).
But the younger son suffers misfortune in a
distant land. He decide to come back. He prepares
three – part statement:
“Father, I have sinned against heaven and
against you” (Lk 15:18).
“I no longer deserve to be called your son.” (Lk
15:19a).
“Treat me as you would treat one of your hired
worker.” (Lk 15:19b).
But it was more likely that this father had been
constantly looking beyond his property since his
son had left.
He missed his son so much, that each morning, as
the sun rose, he would stand on the threshold of
his house gazing at a distance, asking himself:

“Is it today that my son will come back?”

“Is it today that he will return?”
“Is it today that I will see my son again?”
He does not wait for him
to come near, he run to
meets his son. Most
father would wait and
expect an apology. But
not this father! He loves
his son so prodigally that
he hugs and kisses him –
no matter how dirty he
must have been (Lk
15:20c).
He interrupts his son’s
apology and asks his
servant to give his son
the best robe – to show
that he is regarded with
highest esteem; to put a
ring in his finger – to
show that he has authority as a son; and to put
sandals on his feet – to show that he is a son and
not a slave.
For this my son was dead,
and is alive again;
he was lost, and is found.
The elder son returns from working in the field and
refuses to come in. Again, the father, who loves his
elder son as much as the younger son, comes out
to meet and console him. The elder son refuses to
call his younger brother as “brother” but refers to
him as “this son of yours”. So the father also
assures the elder son of his love:
“My son, everything I have is
yours.”
It is the parable that confirm God’s willingness to
give us all that he possesses
“My son, everything I have is
yours.”

Even his only begotten

son
God’s Love Redeems:
We learn that God’s love is manifested in the story
of creation – God’s love is a love that creates. We
discover that the parable describes the nature of
this love – God’s love is forgiveness.
Then St John Paul II tells us,
“God’s love is expressed in
the offering of his only son”
John 3:16
For God so loved the world
that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have
eternal life.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Let’s believe in Gods love,
and let’s be faithful to him.
If you look at the cross, you
will see his head lowered to
kiss you. You will see his
arm stretched out to
embrace you. You will see
his heart open to welcome
you. He loves us in spite of
how poor and sinful we are.
His love is true, and we
should believe in his LOVE”
We are both the younger son and the elder son in
the parable. Some of us had “taken our share of
the inheritance” and abandoned God. Some of us
have stayed on but have become self – righteous.
Regardless of whom we are, God loves us dearly.
Like the younger son, we should “come to our
senses” and return to God who is patiently waiting
for us. Unlike the elder son, we should not be
jealous of our brothers or hesitate in accepting
God’s invitation to join in the celebration.
Gods love is reflected in His creation. Gods love is
described in the parable of the father and his two
sons. But the fullest revelation of Gods love is the
sending of the son to suffer and die that we may
have life eternal.

Thus, we ought to know who this

SON really is.