↓Audio link to the sermon:(ZOOM worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) There are two things that I would like to ask. One, do you have anything that you want to share with other people? Second, how do you want to do that? Recent days, due to the continuous development of the internet, it is much easier to share your thoughts with others compared to before. For example, Youtube. I used to play baseball in high school, and I often watch baseball related YouTube channel. Former Nippon Ham fighters, Mr. Kataoka owns his own youtube channel to communicate the reality of the baseball
「The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them.」Isaiah 19:22
(Voice messages will be posted after ZOOM worship.) This is the 5th message from the book of Isaiah of the Old Testament. From last week, we started learning about the second part of the book of Isaiah, the sentence to other countries. This sentence is written from chapter 13 to 23. The first one was for Babylon. Let’s look back briefly. One of the main messages of the sentence to Babylon is written in Isaiah 14: 4-6.「How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended! The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, which in anger struck down peoples with
「The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,」Isaiah 14:5 NIV
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1nd worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today, it is the 4th message from the book of Isaiah of the Old Testament. As believers, we want to have a perspective on how God sees through the history and bring judgement on prideful people at the right timing. Last time, I mentioned that God brought judgment on Northern Israel, who became prideful and continued to sin. At that time, the Assyrian army was sent by God to bring judgement. It was because the Northern Israel neither seek the Lord Almighty, nor repented of their sins (9:13). That is the perspective
“When he came to his senses,”
↓Audio link to the sermon:(ZOOM worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) “6 parables of Jesus Christ” No. 3 (Luke 15:11-24) 「Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
(Voice messages will be posted after worship.) Today’s message is the third message from the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament. We will learn from the prophecy of the birth of Christ. Isaiah 11:1 says,「A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.」(Isaiah 11:1 NIV) In the age of Isaiah, it was the time like the darkness covering the whole society. Not only the Northern Israel was about to be destroyed by Assyria, but also the Southern Judah was hopeless being attacked by Northern Israel. In such times, Isaiah continued to speak the message of hope, the birth of the Messiah.