I’M A MAN {MANKIND INCLUDES WOMEN} Psalms 8:3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers – the moon and the stars you have set in place – 4 what are mortals (MAN) that you should think of us, mere humans that you should care for us? 5 For you made us only a little lower than God (Elohim), and you crowned us with glory and honor. 6 You put us in charge of everything you made, giving us authority over all things. ADAM AND EVE FAILED GOD LOVED US AND SOUGHT US Matthew 13:44 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field – and to get the treasure, too! 45 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a pearl merchant on the lookout for choice pearls. 46 When he discovered a pearl of great value, he sold everything he owned and bought it! 1 Corinthians 6:20a for God bought you with a high price. I’M A CHILD OF GOD Romans 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his f am ily – calling him "Father, dear Father." 16 For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children. I’M A LOVED PRODIGAL Luke 15:8 "Or suppose a woman has ten valuable silver coins and loses one. Won't she light a l am p and look in every corner of the house and sweep every nook and cranny until she finds it? 9 And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors to rejoice with her because she has found her lost coin. 10 In the s am e way, there is joy in the presence of God's angels when even one sinner repents." Luke 15:20 "So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. 21 His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.’ 22 "But his father said to the servants, 'Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger, and sandals for his feet. 23 And kill the calf we have been fattening in the pen. We must celebrate with a feast, 24 for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.' So the party began. I’M CALLED TO BE A LOVER 2 John 6 Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning. John 4:19 We love each other as a result of his loving us first. 20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen? 21 And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too. John 15:9 "I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey me, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 I command you to love each other in the s am e way that I love you. 13 And here is how to measure it – the greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends. 14 You are my friends if you obey me. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn't confide in his servants. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my n am e. 17 I command you to love each other. I’M CALLED TO SPREAD THE NEWS Matthew 28:18 Jesus c am e and told his disciples, "I have been given complete authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the n am e of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age." O I’m a man I’m the meaning of the universe; Yes, I’m a man I’m the meaning of the universe; God made me such, I am so much; I’m the center and the meaning of the universe; Christ lives in me He’s the meaning of my human life; Christ lives in me He’s the meaning of my human life; Yes, He’s in me My all to be; He’s the meaning and the reality of my human life; What shall we do? We should go and tell the world of this. What shall we do? We should go and tell the world of this. Disciple all This is our call. Let us go and spread the news to our friends and neighbors, too. |
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