New Hope Church

Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave? —Psalm 89:48              How old are you?  Isn’t interesting when we sing the second stanza of the birthday song we sing, “How old are you now?”  We don’t sing “How young are you now.”  The second stanza is not usually sung.  That is because we are getting older and… yes… closer to the end of life.  Not many really want to think about that.  But death will come to us all (unless we are alive when Jesus returns).  Consider how old you are and that you are getting closer to the end of your…

But you are to hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have until now… So be very careful to love the Lord your God. —Joshua 23:8, 11 Then Jesus said to them, “Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David?  David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’  David calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?” —Luke 20:41-44              Yes, we “are to hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have until now.”  We are also to “be very careful to love the…

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.  —Luke 20:17 The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it. —Psalm 89:11              The most important stone (Jesus) was rejected by the builders (Israel/Gentiles).  It is clear that the heavens and earth and all that is in the earth, belong to Jesus because He founded or created it and all that is in it— It is very clear from God’s Word who Jesus is.  Even the Jewish leaders in Jesus’ day realized who He was claiming to be and wanted to kill Him.  Yes, they rejected the stone that became…

“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” —Luke 19:38 “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” —Matthew 21:9 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ —Matthew 23:39              The vast majority of people did not truly understand why Jesus came the first time.  They were hoping for relief from their Roman occupiers.  They did not realize that He came to die, to be an atonement for the sins of the world, for every person past, present and future.  Even his disciples did not understand…

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” —Luke 19:10              Jesus was, according to John 1:1— Jesus left the glory of heaven to come to this sin infested planet so that “By His stripes you are healed” (I Peter 2:24).  Healed from what?  Healed from the serpent Satan’s snake bite of sin that took place in Genesis chapter 3.  Yes, “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that…

“No one is good—except God alone. —Luke 18:19 Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.  He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.” —Luke 18:31-33 For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. —Psalm 86:10              God is the only One who is good… all the time.  Are you good all the time?  I think not!  Nor am I,…

So here I (Caleb) am today, eighty-five years old! I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. —Joshua 14:10-11 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up…  However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” —Luke 18:1, 8 Years ago, I read this verse— “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures…” (Psalm 90:10).  So there is something to keeping our strength up and so that is one reason I…

For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.  But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.  “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.  People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.  “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.  But the day Lot…

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.  At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.  “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.  In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the…

When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath… Joshua said, “Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today.” —Joshua 7:21,25 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” —Luke 16:13              Our choices don’t only affect ourselves, but others as well.  Achan, and all the…