↓Audio link to the sermon:(ZOOM worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is the eighth message from the Old Testament book of Isaiah. From today, we will learn the fifth part of the book of Isaiah. It is written in chapters 40-55. The main content is prophecies about salvation by Jesus, the servant of the Lord. Before these prophecies, there is the 4th part (Chapter 36-39), which is about historical records, so I would like to briefly explain about its content before talking about today’s passage. In chapter 36, it is written that Assyrian king, Sennacherib threatens Jerusalem. He speaks to the people
Luke 15:25-32 “When the older son came home” (Pastor Kitazawa)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(ZOOM worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) 「“Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your
「Let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”」Isaiah 25:9
↓Audio link to the sermon:(ZOOM worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) Today’s message is the 6th message from the book of Isaiah of the Old Testament. In my previous message, we learned the sentence spoken to Egypt. Declarations to other countries are written in chapters 13 to 23. From these chapters, we learned the sentences against Babylon and Egypt. God sees through history of the nations and judges the proud people in His appointed time. Not only that, God prepares a way to restoration and recovery for those who repent. This is the absolute promise of the Bible. Isaiah went a step further
Matthew 1:1_by Akihiko Tsuchiya (Seminarian)
↓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