Preacher: Tony Mercado

​Gospel: John 8:51-59
 
Jesus said to the Jews:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
   whoever keeps my word will never see death.”
So the Jews said to him,
   “Now we are sure that you are possessed.
Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say,
   ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died?
Or the prophets, who died?
Who do you make yourself out to be?”
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing;
   but it is my Father who glorifies me,
   of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
You do not know him, but I know him.
And if I should say that I do not know him,
   I would be like you a liar.
But I do know him and I keep his word.
Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day;
   he saw it and was glad.”
So the Jews said to him,
   “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you,
   before Abraham came to be, I AM.”
So they picked up stones to throw at him;
   but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.

Preacher: Patrick Tesorio

Gospel: John 8:31-42
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Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him,
“If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples,
   and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham
   and have never been enslaved to anyone.
How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”
Jesus answered them, “Amen, amen, I say to you,
   everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
A slave does not remain in a household forever,
   but a son always remains.
So if the Son frees you, then you will truly be free.
I know that you are descendants of Abraham.
But you are trying to kill me,
   because my word has no room among you.
I tell you what I have seen in the Father’s presence;
   then do what you have heard from the Father.”
 
They answered and said to him, “Our father is Abraham.”
Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children,
   you would be doing the works of Abraham.
But now you are trying to kill me,
   a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God;
Abraham did not do this.
You are doing the works of your father!”
So they said to him, “We were not born of fornication.
We have one Father, God.”
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,
   for I came from God and am here;
   I did not come on my own, but he sent me.”

Preacher: Emy Abaya

Preacher: Adriana Haro

Gospel: John 8:12-20
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Jesus spoke to them again, saying,
   “I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness,
   but will have the light of life.”
So the Pharisees said to him,
   “You testify on your own behalf,
   so your testimony cannot be verified.”
Jesus answered and said to them,
   “Even if I do testify on my own behalf, my testimony can be verified,
   because I know where I came from and where I am going.
But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
You judge by appearances, but I do not judge anyone.
And even if I should judge, my judgment is valid,
   because I am not alone,
   but it is I and the Father who sent me.
Even in your law it is written
   that the testimony of two men can be verified.
I testify on my behalf and so does the Father who sent me.”
So they said to him, “Where is your father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father.
If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
He spoke these words
   while teaching in the treasury in the temple area.
But no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Preacher: Angel Frias

Gospel: John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
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Jesus moved about within Galilee;
   he did not wish to travel in Judea,
   because the Jews were trying to kill him.
But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
 
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast,
   he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret.
 
Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said,
   “Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him.
Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ?
But we know where he is from.
When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said,
   “You know me and also know where I am from.
Yet I did not come on my own,
   but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
So they tried to arrest him,
   but no one laid a hand upon him,
   because his hour had not yet come.

Preacher: Jou Marquez

Gospel: John 5:31-47

Jesus said to the Jews:
“If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true.
But there is another who testifies on my behalf,
   and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true.
You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.
I do not accept human testimony,
   but I say this so that you may be saved.
He was a burning and shining lamp,
   and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.
But I have testimony greater than John’s.
The works that the Father gave me to accomplish,
   these works that I perform testify on my behalf
   that the Father has sent me.
Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf.
But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
   and you do not have his word remaining in you,
   because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.
You search the Scriptures,
   because you think you have eternal life through them;
   even they testify on my behalf.
But you do not want to come to me to have life.
 
“I do not accept human praise;
   moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.
I came in the name of my Father,
   but you do not accept me;
   yet if another comes in his own name,
   you will accept him.
How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another
   and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father:
   the one who will accuse you is Moses,
   in whom you have placed your hope.
For if you had believed Moses,
   you would have believed me,
   because he wrote about me.
But if you do not believe his writings,
   how will you believe my words?”

Preacher: Ronan Capuras

Preacher: Jay-anne Desabelle

​Gospel: John 5:1-16
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There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate
   a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there
   and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him,
   “Do you want to be well?”
The sick man answered him,
   “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool
   when the water is stirred up;
   while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.”
Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.
 
Now that day was a sabbath.
So the Jews said to the man who was cured,
   “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
He answered them, “The man who made me well told me,
   ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
They asked him,
   “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”
The man who was healed did not know who it was,
   for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.
After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him,
   “Look, you are well; do not sin any more,
   so that nothing worse may happen to you.”
The man went and told the Jews
   that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus
   because he did this on a sabbath.

Preacher: Richard Cabarrubias

Preacher: Stella Deriquito