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Beyond the Matrix
Using "The Matrix" movie trilogy as a backdrop, Pastor Okubo teaches that rejecting Christ's real gift of eternal life for the perceived pleasures of this world is like willingly returning to The Matrix after having been set free from its evil control.
June 13, 2004/32 kbps/4.27 MB

A Cinderella Sermon
For anyone who has been rejected, abused, or put down by others like an evil stepmother, God wants you to know that you are so precious that He had Jesus die for you that you wouldn't be lost.
June 27, 2004/16 kbps/2.1 MB

The Da Vinci Code: Fiction and Confusion
Pastor Okubo takes on and dismantles the claims of the controversial book and movie, and warns that the need to look for secret knowledge or to follow conspiracy theories is based on the sin of pride.
May 21, 2006/16 kbps/1.78 MB

The Reason for the Passion
Why did Jesus have to die such a violent death as dramatized in "The Passion of the Christ"? Pastor Okubo explains the symbolism and the reasons for Jesus' taking the punishment that we deserved so that we wouldn't be lost.
Feb 29, 2004/32 kbps/4.86 MB