THANKFUL - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD | CornerstoneSF Online Service

Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? What does God's agape love for us look like? What obstacles do we put in our way from receiving His love? Join us this Sunday at 10A as Vincent Nel explores one of the most famous parables of Jesus. Show more

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Song Credits:

Rule
Matt Crocker  | Joel Houston
© 2015 Hillsong Music Publishing Australia

Gratitude
Brandon Lake | Dante Bowe | Benjamin Hastings
© 2019 Bethel Worship Publishing | SHOUT MP Brio | Maverick City Publishing | Maverick City Publishing Worldwide | Bethel Music Publishing

Just As I Am
Jason Crabb
© 2021 Red Street Records

All music performed by the CornerstoneSF Worship Band under CCLI license No. 48786, CCS No. 8434

Message Notes 11/28 (Vincent)
Thankful: For The Love Of God
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Application Point:
No matter where we are in our life stage or spiritual journey, we will always have the love of god - and that alone is something to give thanks for.

Scripture:
1 John 4:7-11 NIV
The Four Loves: [will build one at a time]
1. storge - familial love; affection
2. philia/phileo - brotherly or sisterly love; a close friendship
3. eros - romantic love; erotic; a passionate bond.
4. agape - unconditional love; desires the good of the object being loved; wants nothing in return

Scripture:
Luke 15:11-24 NIV

Quote:
If I am able to look at the world with the eyes of God’s love and discover that God’s vision is not that of a stereotypical landowner or patriarch but rather that of an all-giving and forgiving father who does not measure out his love to his children according to how well they behave, then I quickly see that my only true response can be deep gratitude.
- Henri Nuowen, The Return of the Prodigal Son

Quote:
For a very long time I considered low self-esteem to be some kind of virtue. But now I realize that the real sin is to deny God’s first love for me, to ignore my original goodness.
- Henri Nuowen, The Return of the Prodigal Son
Application Point:
Let’s not hold back from receiving God’s merciful love for us because we don’t think we deserve it. Of course we don’t! That’s the beauty of it.
Application Point:
There is nothing we can do to earn favors or to rack up more debt in God’s balance book, because it has already been paid in full - past, present, and future - by Jesus’ atoning sacrifice on the cross.

Quote:
For most of my life I have struggled to find God, to know God, to love God. I have tried hard to follow the guidelines of the spiritual life—pray always, work for others, read the Scriptures—and to avoid the many temptations to dissipate myself. I have failed many times but always tried again, even when I was close to despair.
Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not “How am I to find God?” but “How am I to let myself be found by him?” The question is not “How am I to know God?” but “How am I to let myself be known by God?” And, finally, the question is not “How am I to love God?” but “How am I to let myself be loved by God?” God is looking into the distance for me, trying to find me, and longing to bring me home.
- Henri Nuowen, The Return of the Prodigal Son