Sorry for lagging so long guys. Long week :) Finally thursday tmr but here's the sermon notes for last week :D

The greatest love by pastor shirley:)
- we all desire unfailing love in some way or another :)
- Human love however, fails a lot because imperfect people bring imperfect love
- God however brings-> perfect love :)

+[ 1 John 4:9-10] Main text

1. Jesus identifies with YOU :) (v9a)
-God sent His only son to us
- People cannot "understand" or empathize each other totally due to different backgrounds and situations
- Jesus came down to "understand" how humans felt and He became one of us to learn and experience what we go through

+[Hebrews 4:15]
- The struggles we go through now are timeless as those in Jesus's time e.g loneliness and weariness
- Jesus faced the same thing and was tempted in every way, yet He did not sin.
- He understood us and He died for us, chose to die for us :)
+[ Ephesians 3:18 (NLT)]
-"His love is wider from east to the west"
- Jesus is a God that is not far away from us but close to us, He understood and loved us :)

2. Jesus gives you the FULLEST life
- What is the difference between a full life and being alive?
- King Solomon was the richest man in the world and was wise as well.
- He had everything but...
+ [Ecclesiates 1:14}
- Many times God sees the potential in us, but He can't do anything with us for we chose to waste it on meaningless things
- Which is why Jesus came as the way, the truth and the light
- Ask God what He wants you to be
+ [John 10:10]
- Not just a life but a life to the fullest- which is being all we are created to be and doing all we can do for God's plan :)

3.Jesus brings you back to God (v10)
+[ Philippians 2:6-8 (NLT)]
- He came as a servant and died on a cross
- He did not come down as God or flaunt His powers but He took many steps back from His comfort zone as God and became man to feel the pain and suffering and to save us
- Yet sometimes we can't even take one step back, for Jesus
- Heaven was what Jesus had known for all eternity, unimaginable glory and beauty, yet He chose to come down to Eath and be born in a manger.
- He lay down His rights as God to bring us back to God
- He put up with all the people who mocked, hated and wanted to kill Him
- He knew that He would be killed by the human beings He created yet He went to the cross.
- it was not anything else but sin that compelled Jesus to come down to earth, simply to save us.
+ [Romans 6:23 (NCV)]
- Jesus would rather go to hell for you, than to go to heaven without you

Labels: sharings (: