Our in person service will include: 9:30 a.m. The Lord’s Supper/Breaking of Bread 10:00 am Sunday School, 11:55 a.m. refreshments 11:15 a.m. Worship Service, Sohrab Ramtin preaching the sermon (We have a traditional worship service including hymn singing, prayer, announcements, a musical special, and a sermon from the Bible. We dress from very casual to formal.)
Tomorrow night, Monday, October 18, we are having our monthly prayer meeting for Israel at 7:00p.m. Join us in prayer for Israel, for missionaries and evangelists to the Jewish people, and for the salvation of Israel.
As the Apostle Paul said, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.” (Romans 10:1)
Mission Valley Community Chapel 6964 Mission Gorge Road San Diego, CA 92120
We are an Open Plymouth brethren assembly, and from the start, the Plymouth Brethren have had a focus on the prophecies given to Israel and their future salvation and restoration. From Pastor Jim Mader’s founding of Mission Valley Community Chapel, reaching the Jewish people with the gospel has been important to us. This work was often done in connection with the San Diego Hebrew Mission. Now Tom Cantor, a Jewish believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, teaches at the Chapel. He is also the founder of Israel Restoration Ministries.
Watch our October 17, 2021 Worship service, including hymn singing, announcements, a musical special, and a sermon by Tom Cantor.
Tom taught from the last chapter of Malachi (4) which is also the last chapter of the Old Testament. He showed how the end of both the Old Testament and New Testament teach of the Lord’s coming judgment, God’s coming blessings for the saved, and His genuine desire for all and call to all for salvation – “Turn” (Malachi 4:6), “Come!” (Revelation 22:17)
Watch our October 17, 2021 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 17:24-27).
This passage covered the question to Jesus paying the temple tax and Jesus’s response to cast hook in the sea to get a fish and the money would be in the fish’s mouth. One minor point Tom noted was that this is the only case of fishing with a hook in the New Testament. In all other cases where details are given, nets are used. He also address the supernatural nature of the Lord’s knowledge and of the fish having a coin. He covered other details and applications.
We now have the free Halloween tracts in at the Chapel. Get them and give them out with candy for Halloween!
The above business size card tracts all have moving pictures on the front and Gospel presentations on the back. Also, we have regular sized “Christ Is Risen” tracts, too.
Visit David’s Science Scripture Salvation in the park on Saturdays at the Bea Evenson Fountain area get directions here. Look for the display of posters about science and prophecy like the ones in the below video –
It was from David and the free material at his outreach that I found out about these motion tracts the size of a business card that we will be giving out this Halloween from our homes.
The Christian singing group “The Believers” has sung the musical special at the Chapel several times this year. They are very good at picking songs, and singing them with great harmonizing. They sing in different styles from classic hymn style to spiritual to jazz.
One of the members started attending the chapel during the shutdown. During this time, a group of singers from her church started singing together. Recently, they have named themselves, “The Believers.” We are always blessed when they visit and sing.
If you are interested in The Believers singing for your church or group, here’s their contact phone number.
The Believers
Where morning downs And evening fades, You call forth songs of joy Psalms 65:8
Pat McLean 619-461–8168
You can listen to some of their singing at the Chapel here. Videos below are set to start at their singing:
Listen to “#49 – The Apostle Thomas: Didymus? Let’s Be Bible Detectives! by “Grandma” Joelee free children’s Bible audio at SermonAudio
The story behind this Bible story for kids: There didn’t seem to be enough information to make an audio on the life of the apostle Thomas. They were very interesting bits and pieces, and of course his declaration in John 20:28, “My Lord and my God,” but how to fit it all together?
The solution was to show the tools that were used to connect all the pieces of the biblical information on the apostle Thomas. This way children could learn how to use a harmony of the Gospels, a Bible atlas, concordance, and lexicon.
As this is real investigative work, the model of being “Bible detectives“ was used to tie it all together and make it interesting. In this audio, kids can learn about the apostle Thomas, hear are the gospel, and also learn tools they could use in their own research as they grow up.
Joelee Chamberlain’s Children’s Bible Audios-Stories for Kids are not only available on SermonAudio and many other podcast sites including iTunesGoogle Podcasts and Stitcher
They can just be listen to and also used as part of formal instruction such as homeschooling.
In the previous section, Tom discussed the Trinity and the Old Testament. Here he discusses the Lord Jesus Christ as both God and man. He appeals to the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah and the apostle John.
Again, understanding this is not only important in Jewish evangelism, but also in reaching Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormon, or anyone else who would have this type of question.
Also, this is a good way for us to better understanding the Bible and our own beliefs. Christian apologetics (reasons to believe) is a way of thinking carefully of the truths about God at a basic level to reach unbelievers with the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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2. Is the Jewish Messiah God as a man?
The common Jewish mind set is that the Messiah could never be God, because no man could ever become God. However, the Bible does not teach that man became God; on the contrary, it teaches that God became a man. “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” (Micah 5:2). The Jewish prophet, Micah prophesied that the Jewish Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. However, Messiah’s existence would not start at birth because He has no beginning; He is “from everlasting.” Eternality is an attribute that belongs only to God, and for Messiah to possess eternality would unquestionably show His deity. This prophecy was fulfilled when the eternal, divine Lord Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6) The Jewish prophet, Isaiah also told of the Messiah. In this passage, a promise was given to Israel of a amazing child whose description was unparalleled by any other child ever born. He would be called Wonderful Counselor, The Prince of Peace, The Mighty God, and the Everlasting Father.
God the Son could be referred to as Mighty or Almighty or Everlasting, but why was He called the Father? Each person in the Godhead is so one (echad) with the others the Messiah said concerning Himself, “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” (John 14:9). Though Elohim is three, He is still one. For example, every person is made up of three parts: body, soul and spirit. No one ever asks a person if it is his body, spirit, or soul speaking; they are all one!
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” (Jeremiah 23:5-6) A third Jewish prophet who foretold of the Messiah was Jeremiah. This future descendant of David was described as the “Righteous Branch.” His name would be called “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” Psalms 53:3 says that “there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Who, then, is this righteous Israelite, descendant of David, and One called Lord and God? Who is this One who is a King, a Judge, and the Savior of the Jews? It can be none other than the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ.
All of these Scriptures teach us clearly that the Messiah is the Son of God or God the Son. As the second person in the Godhead, the Messiah is worthy of our worship.
