Davar Church holds bible seminar camps every year in August and December. Many people participate not only from California, but also from all over the U.S., Japan, and Asia. Away from the hustle and bustle of the city, five days of concentrated Bible study provides a good opportunity to reflect on oneself and change one’s way of life.

2025 Summer Bible Seminar
12/29 (Mon) – 1/2 (Fri) at Pine Springs Ranch
Now Accepting Applications!
（Apply by 12/7）

Speaker : Rev. Toru Asai
Theme: “Crossing the Jordan”

I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you (Gen 28:15).

These are the words God spoke to Jacob in a dream the night he left his father’s house to travel to Haran, where Laban lived. This land had been promised to his descendants since the time of Abraham, his grandfather, when God swore by Himself to give it to him and his descendants. Several centuries passed before Jacob’s descendants, the Israelites, took possession of the land, and many crises challenged that oath. Even after Jacob returned from Haran, a famine forced his entire family to flee to Egypt, where they became slaves. However, God’s oath always comes true. When the people who left Egypt made a golden calf and worshiped it in the wilderness, Moses spoke to the Lord.

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever (Exod 32:13).”

We can apply this oath of God to ourselves in Christ, who are spiritual descendants of Abraham. What promises and blessings has God given us through the redemption of Christ? Just as the inheritance He vowed to give to Abraham’s descendants, these blessings have already been granted to us and will never be taken away. About a thousand years after Abraham’s time, when the nation of Judah was destroyed and its remnants were taken captive to the distant land of Babylon, God said:

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans of peace and not of harm, plans to give you hope and a future (Jer 29:11, trans. mine).

So, what kind of “peace (shalom)” is sworn for us who have already received eternal rest in Christ? Aren’t we being deceived by Satan and living as if we were still in the wilderness, not yet crossing the Jordan River? Come, let us cross the Jordan River together and enter the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey.

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