Gospel of John 5:1-9 “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get

“Return, faithless people” (Jeremiah 3:22)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today’s message is my third sermon on the book of Jeremiah. The theme of my previous sermon was “Where is the Lord?” (from Jeremiah 2:6) God had given his people many trials and difficulties as an opportunity to repent. Likewise, in our lives, difficult times can be opportunities for us to repent or change our direction. These are times for us to ask, “Where is the Lord?” We should stop to remember how God has been gracious to us. He is the God who rescued the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. We

Matthew 9:9-13, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick”

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what

“See, I will create new heavens and a new earth.” (Isaiah 65:17)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today is my 22nd message on the book of Isaiah, which is found in the Old Testament. Last week, I spoke on Isaiah 64 and the key verse was, “We are the clay, you are the potter. We are all the work of your hand” (Isaiah 64:8). None other than God is our Creator. And he is one who can remold us. Isaiah was reflecting on God’s creative power. Then he prayed, “Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for

“We are the clay, you are the potter.” (Isaiah 64:8)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is my 21st sermon on Isaiah, a book from the Old Testament. In my last sermon, I spoke on Isaiah 63:7, “I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord, the deeds for which he is to be praised.” In the same chapter, verse 6 says, “I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.” These severe words are a prophecy of God’s future judgment upon the whole world. This will happen in the end times. Our Lord Jesus