Mari Ikeda Video (YouTube)      http://yourchurch.jp/archive/resources/messagemp3/2017/message170716.mp3 Audio  Is that persistence important, or for nothing? (Galatians 1:11-24)   0. Beginning of the dispute (Acts 15:1-2) Acts 15: 1 Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. 1. What Paul persisted: No circumcision for the Gentiles (1-5) 1 Then after fourteen years, I…

Andy Nagahara Video (YouTube)      http://yourchurch.jp/archive/resources/messagemp3/2017/message170709.mp3 Audio  Listening to the voice of the LORD (Psalm 29)   A. Ascribing glory to the LORD (1-2) A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.  1) Understanding the Lord correctly 2) Understanding oneself correctly B. Listening to the voice of the LORD 1) God has ruled all from the beginning to the present (3) The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.  2) The…

Mari Ikeda Video (YouTube)      http://yourchurch.jp/archive/resources/messagemp3/2017/message170702.mp3 Audio  Faith in Jesus, by Jesus, for Jesus (Galatians 1:11-24)   A. By Jesus 1. None of us met Jesus by our own strength (11-14, Philippians 3:5-7) Philippians 3:4b-7 If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. Philippians…

Mari Ikeda Video (YouTube)       http://yourchurch.jp/archive/resources/messagemp3/2017/message170625.mp3 Audio  False gospel and Christ’s Gospel (Galatians 1:6-10)   6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel― 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If…

Mari Ikeda Video (YouTube)    http://yourchurch.jp/archive/resources/messagemp3/2017/message170618.mp3 Audio  The Righteous Anger (Galatians 1:1-5)   1 Paul, an apostle -sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead- 2 and all the brothers and sisters with me, To the churches in Galatia: 3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. A. In order to save churches from crisis 1.…