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Around September so it's going to be really fast and a lot a lot of times what we tend to do is we say God bless me this God bless me in that bless my marriage bless my business bless this and bless that when actually what you and I should be doing is committing today at the second half of the Year let my life be a blessing to you let my marriage be a blessing to you let my business and all that I do be a blessing to you oh God and you watch when you live to bless the Lord He blesses everything about you so that you can be a blessing to others in jesus' name amen and so it's not about asking from God all the time we're not loving isn't about getting for yourself it's always about giving to him and to others and to love the Lord your God with all your soul heart mind and strength and to love others as you love yourself and so father with with our heads bowed and our eyes closed we contemplate what are the areas that I need to surrender to you areas that are not pleasing habits secret sins weaknesses offenses unforgiveness what are those areas that I can just lay at your feet and say God you you need to take this from me as I Surrender it to you and so today Lord Jesus not only those things but also the good things our talents and experiences and wisdom and knowledge and gifts we not want to lay it all at your feet because we are your servant you are our God and it's never the other way around Lord we recognize we ask you to do too many things that we should be doing ourselves and in jesus' name I pray for the second half of this year that it is stronger and better for each person in this room I pray that your families are more blessed in the second half of this year as you live in good stewardship of your body I pray that in everything that you do it is pleasing unto God and your Vats will overflow and your barns are full and whatever you put your hand to do it would Prosper to his glory I pray you are protected and safe all the days of your life in your going out and in your coming in and I pray Angels escort where you wherever you go and your loved ones are blessed and safe because you've heeded and obeyed the word of the Lord your God and all his Commandments as well I call the second half of the Year bless for everyone that obeys you in jesus' name amen amen praise God you why don't you give a high five to some person be beside you say hello to them and then you can take your seats okay say hello to the other one that you don't like so much as well just say hi to them too amen okay you are seated on a brown envelope I want you to write your prayer requests there or your testimonies or thanksgivings the ushers are in the aisle before they come and collect I want you to listen real quick just a real quick report okay first half of the year we looked at the numbers almost every Ministry in this church in the first half of the Year grew between 20 to 25% uh the attendance has grown Seaside has actually almost overtaken you uh yeah uh their offerings your offerings 25% bigger first half of the Year between January and and June young adult has grown it's already overflowed into the lobby our Tuesday prayer which started with six staff is now hitting like 170 every Tuesday uh just an Hour of Prayer every morning uh we had the biggest Firm Foundation class last week and then yesterday we had the biggest water baptism we've ever had everything around you is growing and listen carefully we didn't really do very much different things it's really God's grace and when a wave comes along you need to Surf with what God is doing we can't stand still he is doing something special in our midst and you and I are a big part of that you're sitting in the middle of a miracle because somehow somehow without without us doing anything different we've actually grown that much and that's because you also come here early we we want to commend you for a church of Excellence you always come before the service starts you also always are a generous Church this week we are giving backpacks with school supplies to many churches all around the place and you will be a part of that and Pastor Mano will be talking to you about that a while in a while but as you sit there you know what I dare you to sew better and stronger in the second half of the year than you're doing right now amen and and if you are blessed by this ministry sew into good ground and as you give today give with a cheerful heart father bless every Giver that gives with a cheer cheerful heart and Amaze them continually at your generosity and kindness how you always provide for your children and Bless the people as they give in jesus' name amen God bless you as you give e e e e e e e e afternoon everyone it's so good to be back again in a loud church for six weeks I was in Germany churches Germany so good to be back here in City Church and it's amazing to see what God is doing in City Church in all of our Lives the biggest water baptism yesterday amazing what God is doing and we want to make sure yes we want to make sure we're part of what God is doing in this city in this nation amen we have a workshop coming up in tune Workshop that's July 27 for musicians for vocalists I always say it's a dangerous thing to say here in the Philippines Talent so I don't know you can sign up at the booth outside there's a booth for that July 27 and this coming Saturday is the backpack distribution from from from the storehouse Ministry we want to bless over a thousand kids with a brand new backpack school supplies and set them up for this new school year these are not kids from City Church we want to bless outside of City Church 20 any communities you can sponsor a backpack also at a booth outside and then if you have kids we have a city charms ministry that's City CH City Chums is not just to entertain your kids but that's a service for the kids that they get to know the Lord on their level their service is so much better than our service here and I tell you why the kids are so much more honest than you guys as I walked in here a lot of people said hey Manu welcome back good to see you again you're looking good and the kids instead said Manu and I can see they're more honest so their service must be so much better yeah I was weeks in Germany visiting over 15 churches I was speaking in churches that support our children Ministry with that NGO that I also work with and you know what I noticed is that there's such a difference in the standards of beauty here in the Philippines it's Guapo and guapa to be white in Germany right now it's summer everyone is laying in the sun sunbathing to be Brown londong because the standard of beauty is so different but you know what's also different in this world the standard of Love hey I met a guy in Germany and he's in a relationship with this entire apartment there are a group of four or five people and I don't even know what that what's that called it's like a I don't know a dorm relationship it's not just living together it's really they they're in a relationship and they justify with that with that's love you can't say anything against love and so today I want to make sure that we know what's the standard of love love doesn't tolerate anything so I want to talk about that because Jesus very clearly tells us what's the standard of love that we should have I'm going into John 13 if you have your Bibles please open your Bibles with me John chapter 13 and we're in there are a few chapters most of the the chapters there are all in red letters because that is Jesus talking you can see that in in your Bible because this is also called like The Upper Room discourse The Upper Room meeting chapters 13 to 17 are chapters where Jesus has a private meeting with his disciples in a very private setting so Jesus talks his final words before he would go to the cross in a private meeting with his disciples first all 12 disciples including Judas and Jesus practices demonstrates servanthood that's the first part of chapter 13 Jesus washing the feet of his disciples including Judas and after that Jesus would call out Judas as the one who would betray him and then we come into a a verse in verse 33 that I want to read 33-35 Jesus says little children yet a little while I am with you you will seek me and just as I said to the Jews so now I say also to you where I am going you cannot come verse 34 a new commandment I give to you that you love love one another just as I have loved you you also are to love one another by this all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another heavenly father I pray that you will make it clear to us what your standard of love is not the standard of this world but your standard of Love make us understand and make us learn something today touch our hearts and change our lives in the name of Jesus we pray amen Jesus gives a new commandment this is now only the 11 Judas left the room and it's now Jesus talking to the 11 to his closest friends the disciples and he's giving a new commandment why is he giving a commandment why do we need a command or a command commandment you know we don't need a commandment for something that's natural to us or easy to us like no one needs to tell Filipinos to eat Filipinos just love to eat amen yeah no one needs to command you hey come on you need to eat something no it's natural for to for us to eat so we don't need a command for something that's natural and easy for us but a command is then needed if something something is no longer natural or easy for us and Jesus here gives a new commandment something that will not be easy and something that will not be natural but also a commandment it also means Jesus telling his disciples this new commandment that means Jesus knows that the disciples will be able to follow the command you wouldn't give a commandment if you know the person wouldn't know how to follow it like I wouldn't give my 2-year-old daughter the the command I wouldn't do that because I know she W she won't be able to do that with two years old but Jesus giving this command to his disciples and also to all of us that means he knows we will be able to do it yes we need his help but we will be able to do it but why is it a new commandment Until then people were following the Commandment of love from Leviticus 19:18 that says love your neighbor as you love yourself love your neighbor as you love yourself so selflove was the standard of love how we are supposed to love one another love your neighbor as you love yourself self- L was the standard on how we are supposed to love each other but now Jesus comes along and says hey I I'm giving you a new commandment and this new commandment it's no longer your selflove that is the standard of love I now want you to love one another just as I have loved you you know what happened Jesus now makes himself the standard for how we are supposed to love one another no longer how we are how we love ourself because self-love during that time was one of the highest forms of love that they knew even up until today selflove mostly comes out in times of Crisis during the pandemic when everyone went Panic buying you don't care about the others as I have everything I need that's selflove you only make sure you're good you're set when it comes into a crisis I matter the most that's selflove so until today even self- L is a high form of love but now Jesus is raising the standard because there are some days that even our selflove is not that strong anymore we can have bad days where we don't love oursel anymore what happens now to the standard the standard lowered because I I'm not feeling so good about myself s today that's why Jesus is raising the standard he his love is now the standard for us to love one another and if we want to learn about that love Jesus is giving us this command so this command is basically Love Like Jesus and I want to learn a little bit today about how can we do that how can we grow in our love to one another with the standard of Jesus Jesus being the standard and if you want to know how Jesus loved we need to dive into the Bible and I was trying to see how can I explain how Jesus loved and I said better to just go into scripture and see how Jesus himself explains the kind of love that he has for us and I'm going to go to a text where Jesus is explaining the love that he has for us and we find it in Luke 15 you can jump to Luke 15 in your Bibles Jesus is giving three little stories in where he where he teaches on what the standard of Love is Luke 15: 1-2 then all tax collectors and sinners Drew near to him to hear him and the Pharisees and the scribes complained saying this man receives Sinners and eats with them four groups of people that we read here in just these first um two verses we have the tax collectors the most hated people at all we have Sinners and on the other side we have the Pharisees and the scribes the religious people and the religious people they are irritated with Jesus this guy Jesus he receives sinners and he even eats with them when I moved to the Philippines I started to understand what they were talking about because in Germany eating is a very private thing in the restaurant you order your own food if you go to Italian restaurant you order your own pizza here in the Philippines it's so different when I came to the Philippines the first time I went to shakes I ordered this big pizza and the the the waitress they they brought me like 10 plates and they like no no no I'm just alone this is for myself and then I learned that in the Philippines you share food you just put it in the middle of the table and you eat from you just share it with all with your entire Barada so having a meal together in the Philippines is something very intimate it's almost like having a relationship because the hand you eat with your rice you also grab some more and it's so intimate in Germany it's very distant and so I understand during the time of Jesus it was like that like sitting with your Barada sharing a meal grabbing food here breaking bread and eating here and maybe they only have one glass to drink from so sharing a meal together is almost like having a relationship so Jesus having a meal with the Sinners that's too intimate what is this guy doing so the religious people they were shocked and Jesus now shared three little stories because he immediately saw the heart of the Pharisees the heart of the religious people yes they had the knowledge they knew the law maybe they even followed the law in action but their heart was not right and when Jesus gives a command to love it's all about the heart and so now he's sharing three stories and the first thing that I can learn five I have five points that I want to learn from these three stories the first thing when I look at Jesus sitting sharing a meal with these Sinners I can see the kindness that Jesus demonstrates it's not just throwing out some food hey guys eat I'll eat somewhere else no he's sharing a meal with these people the kindness of Jesus he doesn't condemn the people he doesn't touch the Sinners did you see in the first verse we read that the Sinners they drew near to Jesus they wanted to hear him it was almost as if it Jesus was like a magnet calling bringing in these people so the people the Sinners and the tax collectors they draw near to Jesus they wanted to hear him and I asked myself as a church today do we also have this effect on people are we also like a magnet that any person could walk through the stores and would feel welcome here no matter what their past looks like do they also feel welcome in our midst do we show kindness or do we show condemnation amazing how Jesus draw in these Sinners without condemning them he never tolerated sin he never minimized sin but he still showed kindness Romans 2 verse4 we read that God's kindness is meant to lead us towards repentance God's kindness leads us towards repentance so never underestimate if you practice kindness never underestimate what this can mean towards the person that you're showing kindness to you read it backpack distribution this Saturday we're going to bless a thousand kids with unexpected kindness entire bakpak it's easy if you want to start practice practicing kindness go out to the booth 500 peso for one for one backpack or join with your life group this Saturday for distribution go to the booth start somewhere to practice kindness for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him amazing how Jesus was bringing people to repentance without condemning them the biggest sinner could come into the presence of God and would feel welcome and we need to be a church like that the first story that Jesus shares verses 4-6 he says what man of you having a 100 sheep if he loses one of them does not leave the 99 in the wilderness and goes after the the one which he lost until he finds it and when he has found it he lays it on his shoulders and re rejoicing and when he comes home he calls together his friends and neighbors saying to them Rejoice with me for I have found my sheep in W which I have lost thank you we know this story so well the lost sheep the man that goes out leaves the 99 behind to find the one to find the one one that is lost right after the next story The Second Story Jesus says or what woman having 10 silver coins if she loses one coin does not light a lamp sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it and when she has found it she calls her friends and neighbors together saying Rejoice with me for I have found the peace which I lost Jesus is now giving them two stories first where something got lost something valuable got lost and Jesus is making a connection between these stories and a PR a kingdom principle a standard of love that God has for us in this world and we're going to learn this the second thing that we can learn is Jesus never gives up a sinner he would never give up a sinner there is no hopeless case for Jesus is that the same for us do we also not give up on someone who is lost or do we say9 yeah I don't know how I would react if I would be the shepherd with 90 with 100 sheep in the wilderness and one got lost I don't know how how I would react but Jesus tells us do not give up hope don't give up any loser you know I was with with the ministry that I'm working in we do we do also outreaches to the youth prison here in seu City there's a prison for minors 14 to 17 year old second chance is it called NASA kalasan and we do Bible studies there and there was a time that I was speaking there were around 400 inmates 14 to 17 year olds and I saw this one guy in in all of these 400 inmates teens I saw this one guy he had tattoos on his forehead three sixes and three crosses turn upside down and I looked at this guy and I said oh man this guy I see his tattoo on the forehead I can imagine what his past looks like he's here in prison now and just while I was speaking to these 400 people I said this guy is gone he's lost there's no hope for this guy and God kind of slept me in the face because after that message was done no one from the 400 came except for one person one p person after the meeting came in front and said I want to know more about this Jesus that you were talking about guess who it was the one with the three sixes on the forehead the one that I have given up on while I was speaking and he wanted to know more about Jesus don't give up on any sinner don't give up on anyone don't give up on anyone Jesus never never condemned these people I judge people I condemn people how about us as a church chur do we condemn people do we judge other people on the way how they look like on the way that the life that they went through Jesus teaches us to be kind to not condemn anyone and to not give up hope there are no hopeless cases for Jesus so we need to learn that because that's the standard of love that's the standard of love that Jesus gives us and in these stories Jesus says like he says in verse 7 I say to you that likewise there will be more joy more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 just persons who need no repentance it's okay there will be more joy over one sinner who repents than over 99 just persons there's a party in heaven when the one that is lost is found and there's a third story that Jesus shares a third story that is very familiar to us a father who had two sons and the younger son comes to the father asking to pay him out his share of his inheritance and the father did so paid out his inheritance and the younger son we know the story went abroad and spent all his money he spend it all and then he finds himself in the lowest point of his life when he has nothing left he spent all his money and he's now hurting pigs just to survive even the food of the pigs would be enough for him because he have not he has nothing left and now we read verse 17 to 19 but when he came to himself he said how many of my father's hired servants have prad enough to spare and I perish with Hunger I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him father I have sinned against you against heaven and before you I am no longer worthy to be called your son make me like one of your hired servants this younger son is practicing his confession speech says I will go to my father and I will confess everything that I did I am no longer worthy to be called your son just make me like one of your hired servants and when Jesus shared this third story to the people especially to the fareses to the religious people I can imagine the reaction of these people the reaction of these people when they heard how the father treated the son that made this huge mistake by wasting all of the money all of his inheritance because we know how the father how the father reacted to the son when the son came home from afar the father saw the son and he started running towards him hey fathers during that time wouldn't run they wouldn't do that but in this story that Jesus shared the father runs towards his son he runs toward towards him fell around his neck and kissed him he would not let him finish his sentence he gives him a ring robe and shoes and throws the biggest party because the son the son that was lost is now found and back we know that story can you imagine the religious people listening to that story to the reaction of the father and what is Jesus teaching us teaching the Pharisees but teaching the Sinners teaching all of us with these three stories one thing I can also learn from Jesus here is when we want to love like Jesus we need to learn to be patient in the first two stories the person that lost something they went out to find it but in the third Story the lost son the father was waiting patiently not giving up but waiting patiently are we patient it's already difficult to be patient with the people around us with our friends with our family with our spouse but Jesus even wants us to be patient with the people that wronged us people that did something to us and then look at the father in this story how he reacted when his son came home I don't know what I would do we Filipinos I will say wein when the sun comes back what would we do I know what I would do duh I Told You So H we love that word duh it's one of the first words I learned in the Philippines because I hear it all the time it's like see I told you so we love to show people what they did wrong but she Jesus in this story he teaches us to keep no record of wrongs because the father did not read all the mistakes that the son did no he fell around his neck he kissed him he welcomed him back he forgave so Jesus is teaching us to forgive keep no record of wrongs Proverbs 10:12 says hat steers up Strife but love covers all sins love covers all sins but also the father demonstrates generosity you know that son he just wasted his entire inheritance and this father he had servants it was a rich guy he would the son wasted his entire inheritance and what did the father do he was still generous he gave him the family ring you know what the family ring holds of a power and authority the family ring is like it's like the family credit card no limit would you give it to the son that just wasted all of that money that ring was powerful and had Authority and yet the father gave it to his son the son wanted to be just a hired servant he's no longer worthy to be a son but the father says no I forgive you you are my son he restores his sunship he restores the elements as a son undeserved kindness undeserved unexpected kindness that the father demonstrates here that Jesus teaches us now this new commandment that Jesus gives us gives his disciples why is it so different from the old from the old commandment love others love your neighbor as you love yourself now Jesus is making love only about others because the way how Jesus loved us there was nothing about himself there was nothing about himself it was all all about others God demonstrated God demonstrated his his love towards us why and how did he do it while we were yet sinners while we were still Sinners God didn't wait for us to be lovable to to say thank you no while we were still sinners Christ died for us and for us sometimes we expect the thank you in return we are kind if the person is also said saying thank you for it but what if we don't get a thank you for it are we still being kind well Jesus teaches us if you want to love like Jesus that's the standard Jesus is raising the standard it's no longer about ourselves it's all about others that's the St standard of the love of Jesus these five things that we just learned in these stories be kind not condemning don't give up be patient forgive be generous these are just a few things that Jesus teaches here we can find an entire list in First Corinthians 13: 4-7 love is patient love is is kind it does not envy it does not boast it is not proud it does not dishonor others it is not self-seeking it is not easily angered it keeps no record of wrongs love does not Delight in evil but rejoices with the truth it always protects always trusts always hopes always perseveres that is the standard that Jesus Is Now setting the standard of love nothing else it's not about the standard of love that this world has it's a standard of love that Jesus gives us how do you feel about this new commandment that Jesus is giving us a new commandment I give to you that you love one another just as I have loved you you also are to love one another another Jesus rising the St raising the standard to a level that's almost impossible to reach but yet Jesus gives this commandment to us because he knows we can reach this level of love not by ourself but through him I don't know how you feel but I felt a bit burdened when I read about this standard that Jesus is setting I felt a bit worried burdened it got a lot more difficult now yeah there were days I was loving my neighbors and others like I love myself but now with this new standard I don't know if I can make it but would Jesus give us a Commandment that makes us feel burdened and heavy no go back to this verse John 13:34 to this new Comm commandment a new commandment I give to you that you love one another just as I have loved you you are also to love one another yes this is Jesus being the standard but did you notice as I have loved you Jesus is not just the standard but Jesus is also the source he has loved us first and that is why we will be able to achieve this new commandment why we will be able to love one another with the love that Jesus had for us it's not oh that's a hopeless case no I won't be able to do it no Jesus is also the source the disciples during this Upper Room meeting they didn't even see Jesus go to the Cross yet but we know already what Jesus did not just going to the cross for us but after 3 days defeating the grave when he rose again we know what Jesus did for us we experience that kind of love because he has loved us first so Jesus not just being the standard but Jesus also being the source of exactly that kind of love that we just heard about hey that gave me a little bit more peace when I knew I don't need to to achieve this love on my own selflove the old commandment was different love your neighbors as you love yourself to love yourself you need to love yourself on your own but now we're being loved by someone else by Jesus when I was in Germany just before I moved to the Philippines I was back in Forth forth in Philippines and Germany when I was still in the in the in the moment of my life where I was really talking with God if the Philippines is really the place where he wants me to be I can tell you Germany is a beautiful country you hear a lot a lot of things about Germany they're so stiff they're so cold but Germany is a beautiful country the longer I live in the Philippines the more I appreciate Germany when I go back to Germany I'm like a tourist I think there's this beautiful little river in this little village and very beautiful and I took a video of it and other Germans passing by they're looking in the water and I'm just saying it's so beautiful and they're like I appreciate the country it's a beautiful country it's a wealthy country it's a comfortable country and I was talking to God God do you really want me to leave all of this behind do you want me to leave all of this behind and saying I'm I'm good in Germany I'm safe in Germany the old commandment love your neighbors as you love yourself how can I love myself that would means I would stay in Germany and how can I love others when I know God calls me to the Philippines that's why the old commandment doesn't work that way Jesus rising this raising the standard of this new commandment now makes it possible makes it more difficult but makes it possible because the love does not need to come from my own I don't need to produce the love to love others in the way that Jesus loved others no I receive from Jesus the love that I can now give to others I received the Forgiveness now I can forgive others I received the grace for all the things that I did now I can release grace to the people around me forgiving them for the biggest mistakes it's not it doesn't come from my own hey I want you to stand up for a moment I want to read you a few Bible verses that exactly talks about this maybe you feel burdened by this new standard of love that's too high for me to handle I want to read to you these Bible verses I don't don't have these verses on the slides I want you to just close your eyes for a moment just close your eyes for a moment that new standard that we now heard of the new standard the level of love that we are supposed to love the people around us in 1 John 4 vers 16- 19 it says and so we know and rely on the love God has for us we know and rely on the love that God has for us God is love whoever lives in love lives in God and God in them this is how love is made complete Among Us that we will have confidence on the day of judgment in in this world we are like Jesus we love because he first loved us we love because he first loved us it's not our own love that we need to give we can just channel on the love that we received from God because God is love God is love and so we can stand today and say yes this standard is very high but also the love that I receive is powerful the love that we receive from God is powerful let me remind you we are the branches he is theine and as the branes we receive everything that we need from the vine from our connection to the vine father I believe that this city needs more love love that comes from you and I believe that your love is what can change this city is what can change this nation is what can change our world it is your love that makes the difference and we can stand today as a church as people people loving others without running out because you are our source and we can stand today and not give up on Sinners because you have never given up on us for you there are no hopeless cases and it gives us peace knowing that we are the prous not the vine you are the vine this high level of love comes from you in the first place and what we will do is we run back to the source to receive so that we can give receive so that we can give and I believe that to in that way we can be a church that makes a difference we can be a people that that stand out of the crowd just like Jesus said by this the word world will know that you are my disciples by the love that we have for one another the world will know that we are his disciples we belong to Jesus it's not by the Bible verses we post on Instagram no it's by the love that we have for one another and father today we want to make a stand as a church that as we go out of these doors we will demonstrate the love that we receive re from you as we pass it on as we pass on the love that we receive from you we will be a church we will be a people that's not it's not about our s we are not self-seeking in the name of Jesus but we seek the needs of the people around us father help us help us to follow this new commandment that you have for us and we stand and believe that as you as the source this is possible come on say that this is possible this is possible because you are the source in my life and today we will make a difference out there we will make a difference out there in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Amen and amen hey City Church start with the sharing a meal share some kindness come on can we praise God Can We Praise Him loud [Music] oh you are God and we lift you up we'll keep singing we'll keep praising and we won't stop giving all we got cuz you're worthy of all glory and oh there is no other you are forever Lord Over All there's nobody like you no one beside you to go let endless graise reach out every night and day and with no delay let prise out to go when there gra out every night and day and with no delay let every me [Music] down we need to walk up up we're giving you our love love love for everything you done done done we give you all the praise we lift you up up we're giving you a love love love for everything you've done done we give you all the praise let's go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] come on we sing let endless praise ReSound every night and day and with no delay let endless Grace ReSound to and endless bra we out every night day and with no delay let's [Applause] [Music] endless you are GL oh you are amen and amen Love Like Jesus go out there make a difference start by sharing a meal or sponsoring a backpack see you at the booth outside God bless you City Church [Music] oh