Davar Kingdom of God - The Blessings of Sonship
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 8 years ago -We deliver Rev. Toru Asai’s sermons every week from Los Angeles. “Davar Kingdom of God” (Davar Church) is an independent, Protestant church that does not belong to any denomination. Our pastor is a noted Biblical scholar who elucidates the truths hidden in the Bible, enabling us to apply those truths to our everyday lives. If you are looking for a church, seeking a solution to your problems, trying to find guidance and purpose in your life, or simply interested in Christianity, please pay us a visit. Sunday Services in Japanese are from 9 am ~ 11 am, English from 11:15 am ~ 1:15 pm. Saturday Bible Study starts at 1 pm.
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“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 20 by Rev. Toru Asai
July 17, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourThen Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left (Exod 14:21-22). This was what happened when the people of Israel were reborn by going through water. The "strong east wind" was the Holy Spirit—the power of new creation. It was the spirit of God who was hovering...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 19 by Rev. Toru Asai
July 10, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourAnd you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory. (Eph 1:13-14). Since the beginning of creation, the Holy Spirit has been always a backstage being whose work was not recognized or praised at all. Now the earth was formless and empty, ...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 18 by Rev. Toru Asai
July 03, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourAnd I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—... (John 14:6). This "another Counselor" is one of the three beings of the Trinity, and is usually called "the Holy Spirit" in the New Testament. According to Jesus' words above, this being was to be given to the disciples by the Father. Admittedly, at that point, this being was not yet given to them who had already believed that Jesus was the Messiah. This promise of giving the Holy Spirit to his disc...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 17 by Rev. Toru Asai
June 26, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourWhen all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased (Luke 3:21-22)." Here, we see all the three divine beings present in this short passage. As Jesus, in whom was living the Son God as his spirit, came out of the water, and was praying, the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 16 by Rev. Toru Asai
June 19, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourIn the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab (Ruth 1:1). The book of Ruth is one of the rare books in the Bible in which women are the main characters. The story itself is short, and is about two women, a widowed mother (Naomi) and her Moabite daughter-in-law (Ruth), who returned to Bethlehem after they had emigrated to the land of Moab because of fam...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 15 by Rev. Toru Asai
June 12, 2016 09:08 - 1 hour"Agreed," she replied. "Let it be as you say." So she sent them away and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window (Josh 2:21). Here, the expression, "the scarlet cord," occurs for the second time in this story. Earlier in v. 18, it was "tiqvath hut ha-sshani hazeh," and here, it is simply, "tiqvath ha-sshani"—somewhat shorten or abbreviated from the earlier one. Note, however, the word "tiqvath," which means both "cord" and "hope" is still used (this word for the meaning o...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 14 by Rev. Toru Asai
June 05, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourWhen we enter the land, you will tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you will bring your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house (Josh 2:18). These two things were what Rahab was to do before the Israelites would come to destroy Jericho: to tie "this scarlet cord" in the same window as she let these spies down, and to gather all those who belonged to her into her house. Here, the phrase, "this scarlet cord," draws our special i...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 13 by Rev. Toru Asai
May 29, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourA record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, … Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, … Jesse the father of King David (Mat 1:1-5). Genealogies in the Bible are not given simply to show who the ancestors of the Jews were, but to show how the inheritance originated from God had been given to certain individuals, and th...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 12 by Rev. Toru Asai
May 22, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourFight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses (1 Tim 6:12). If the promise that we will be heirs of God is fulfilled by faith, then, the promise that we will be blessed with various blessing we are entitled to as heirs of God is also fulfilled by faith. Therefore, the fight we fight in order to receive God's blessings takes place in the area of our faith. The reason that this is ...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 11 by Rev. Toru Asai
May 15, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourFrom the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it (Mat 11:12). We learned last time that we as heirs of God must go and forcefully lay hold of the kingdom of God together with all kinds of blessings associated with this inheritance. Although the kingdom of God exists in our world, it does not exist physically. Where the will of God is carried out through the name of Jesus, there is the kingdom of God. So, then, ...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 10 by Rev. Toru Asai
May 08, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourFrom the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it (Mat 11:12). We, as heirs of God, have come to inherit the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is where God's will and his good work of salvation, such as health and prosperity, love and peace, and the restoration of what was lost or destroyed, are being done. John the Baptist in his ministry taught the Jews that having Abraham as their (external) father would not...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 9 by Rev. Toru Asai
May 01, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourIt was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith (Rom 4:13). In order for a man to be an heir of God, he must be righteous before God. With sin, no one can be an heir before God, and the promises of blessings given in the Bible are totally irrelevant to the unrighteous according to the Bible. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 8 by Rev. Toru Asai
April 17, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourNow the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there (Gen 11:1-2). This is how the story of the Tower of Babel begins. The significance of this story becomes highlighted when it is compared with the story of Abram in chapter 12. While people moved eastward from Mt. Ararat to the region of Shinar (northwest of the Persian Gulf) to settle there, Abram moved westward from Ur in Shinar to the land of Canaan (11:31), and ...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 7 by Rev. Toru Asai
April 10, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourI have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth (Gen 9:13). Note the pronoun "my" in "my rainbow," which indicates that this rainbow is something God possesses. The Hebrew word qesheth means both 'rainbow' and 'bow' because the two have the same shape. A bow in the Bible is a symbol of victory over battles. The greatest battle that humans came to face was the battle against death, yet it was impossible for them to have victory over it. S...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 6 by Rev. Toru Asai
March 27, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourOn this mountain, he will destroy the shroud that enfolds (lit. face of covering upon) all peoples, the sheet that covers (lit. mask casted upon) all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The Lord has spoken (Isa 25:7-8). These are the words that lie behind what John witnessed inside the empty tomb: two kinds of cloth were used for the burial of Jesus, but the one t...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 5 by Rev. Toru Asai
March 20, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourThis is the written account of Adam's line. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. … When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth (5:1-3). The second point in the meaning of "in the likeness (Demuth)" and "in his image (tselem)" is that man was created as God's son resembling him in his divine nature. In a sense, Adam was given spiritual DNA from God, which was also handed down to the generations after him. It sh...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 4 by Rev. Toru Asai
March 13, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourThen God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground (Gen 1:26)." It is a great truth that God created everything for humans, and he intended to give the world to humans from the very beginning of the creation of the heavens and the earth. Humans are, and have been always heirs of the world. Among the phrases in the abov...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 3 by Rev. Toru Asai
March 06, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourSimon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mat 16:16)." The most significant part of this confession by Peter in the mind of Jesus was "the Son": God is not only the Father of Jesus, but also of his disciples—one of the predominant themes in the gospel of Matthew. It frequently records the words of Jesus who taught his disciples calling God as "your heavenly Father" (5:16, 45, 6:1, 8, 15, 7:11, etc.). You see the same theme flowing in this passage of Mat 16. Jesu...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 2 by Rev. Toru Asai
February 28, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourThen God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground (Gen 1:26)." When you read the whole chapter of Genesis 1 from the beginning, you get a sense that the world was created for humans who were created at the last. In fact, God said, "… and let them ruler over the fish of the seas, … over all the earth, and over all the ...
“The Blessings of Sonship” No. 1 by Rev. Toru Asai
February 21, 2016 09:08 - 1 hourIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1). The very first verse of the Bible indicates that everything that exists today was created by God, and is, therefore, owned by him. For everything in this world, there is someone who owns it, and nobody is allowed to use anything that is not his/hers without the owner's consent. The above scripture implies that God is the owner of everything, and we are only allowed to use what he has with his permission. Yours, O Lord, is th...