Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Let’s Not Mistake A Means For The Purpose (Mark 2:23-3:6) <A side story> The limit of the Bible seen in Abiathar? Ahimelek?   <Main story> 1. The purpose of the Sabbath   2. We mistake a means for the purpose a. Focusing on unimportant things (23-28) 23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” 25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry…

Andy Nagahara ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Trusting in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever (Psalm 52) Preface: David, God’s beloved (0) 0 For the director of music. A <maskil> [1] of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”   A. The great evil in our world (1-4) 1 Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God? 2 Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit. 3 You love evil rather than…

Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio The New Life We Live By Being United With Jesus (Mark 2:18-22) 18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?” 19 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. 20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast. 21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old…

Andy Nagahara ❖ Video ❖ Audio Create in me a clean heart, oh God (Psalm 51) A.This is who we are (0-5) 0 For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that…

Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Peter Carl Geissler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Friend of Sinners (Mark 2:13-17) A. Jesus’ calling (13-15) 1. His one-way invitation (13-14) 13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.  2. He becomes a friend of us (15) 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for…

Andy Nagahara ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Are You Disregarding God’s Word? (Psalm 50) A. Turn away from counterfeit worship(1-6) 1. The call for a trial (1-6) 0 A psalm of Asaph. 1 The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets. 2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. 3 Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages. 4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people: 5 “Gather to me my consecrated ones, who made a…

Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Active Faith (Mark 2:1-12) A. Jesus answers to our active faith (1-5) 1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man…

Andy Nagahara ❖ Video ❖ Audio  The Joy of Relying on God’s Power and His Word (Psalm 49) For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world, both low and high, rich and poor alike: My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the utterance from my heart will give understanding. I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle: (0-4) Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me– those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches? (5-6) No man…

Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio  What About Jesus Makes Him So Wonderful? (Mark 1:40-45) 40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 41 Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” 42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. 43 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: 44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to…

Andy Nagahara ❖ Video ❖ Audio  What is the Church? (Psalm 48, Matthew 16:15-19)   1. First… (0) 0 A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.   2. How does God reveal himself today (1-3, Matt 16:13-19) 1 Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain. 2 It is beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth. Like the utmost heights of Zaphon [1] is Mount Zion, the [2] city of the Great King. 3 God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress. (Matthew 16:13-19) 13 When Jesus came to…