↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is my 15th message from the book of Isaiah of the Old Testament. This is the second message from the same passage as last message. Isaiah prophesies that a house of prayer will be built, including both Jews and Gentiles. So what was the current situation of Jewish people at the time of Isaiah? From Isaiah 56: 9 to the whole Chapter of 57, it is written that the leaders were corrupted, and so were the people of Israel. The content is really sorrowful. However, as we learn and understand
“For my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.” (Isaiah 56:7)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is my 14th message from the book of Isaiah of Old Testament. In my previous message, I spoke from Isaiah 55:1,「“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;」 Isaiah talks about the work of redemption accomplished by Christ on the cross in Chapter 53, he prophesies about the beginning of work of restoration in Chapter 54, and he encourages us to come before Him for the waters, seeking and receiving the salvation given by God in Chapter 55. Now, from Chapter 56, the 6th part of the book
Matthew 20:1-16 “I want to give the one who has hired last the same as I gave you.” (Ps. Kitazawa)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) ① Today’s Bible passage contains the following parables spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ. ・ There was a landowner who owns a vineyard in a certain place. One day, the landowner went out to the market to hire workers. ・He went out to hire workers first early in the morning, then around 9 in the morning, then around noon. Furthermore, he went out around 3 pm to hire more workers and sent them to his vineyard. ・After that, he went to the market again around 5 in the evening, then he found
「“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;」(Isaiah 55:1 )
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is the 13th message from the book of Isaiah of the Old Testament. In my previous message, I spoke from Isaiah 54:8, “but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you”. Isaiah prophesies about the work of Christ’s redemption on the cross in Chapter 53. And the following Chapter 54, prophesies that the work of restoration will take place in Jerusalem. Isaiah speaks to Jerusalem, the abandoned city, where there is no one to live in at that time, to sing for joy. That is because the work of
“With everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you.” (Isaiah 54:8)
(Voice messages will be posted after 1st worship.) This is the 12th message from the book of Isaiah. In my previous message, I spoke from Isaiah 53:5, “By his wounds we are healed.” In chapter 53, Isaiah prophesies about the work of redemption accomplished by Jesus on the cross. He expresses pain and suffering that Jesus experiences so vividly. Just like these prophesies in chapter 53, Jesus completed the work of redemption, dying on the cross on our behalf. He set us free from our sins. Christ had an absolute victory over Satan. We were saved through the suffering of Christ on the cross. And by the work of each
“and by his wounds, we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5d)
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「Turn to me and be saved,」(Isaiah 45:22)
↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is the 10th message from the Old Testament book of Isaiah. Last time, we learned from Isaiah 43:4,「(Since) you are precious and honored in my sight, and (because) I love you,…」Salvation is not given by our good deeds. It was God’s will and His work of grace that brought us salvation. Since it is written the will of God in Isaiah 43:25,「“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.」God sees each of us as precious being, and salvation