New Hope Church

HATEFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah  You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.  —Psalm 52:2-4             We live in a fallen and sinful world. Let us not forget who the god of this world system is and what His goal is (II Corinthians 4:4). Satan hates God and he hates God’s people. He is out to destroy God’s people (I Peter 5:8) and he works through people who need to “come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken…

SING PRAISE! Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. 15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 —Psalm 51:9-15             Brothers and Sisters let us not be deceived. Sin breaks…

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GODLY AND UNGODLY ”But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. “Mark this, then, you who forget God,…

GOD DID WHAT MAN COULD NOT DO Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, that he should live on forever and never see the pit. —Psalm 49:2-9 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah —Psalm 49:15             The sin problem which causes the evilness of mankind is ignored by most people. It surely has not gone unnoticed by God as much as many would like to think that is the case. Sin is an immense offense against the God who made us.…

THE CHOICE TO BE YOKED WRONGLY OR RIGHTLY While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. —Numbers 25:1-3 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?  What agreement is there between the temple…

HE REIGNS Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises! For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm! God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne. —Psalm 47:6-8             In a fallen world that resists His reign let us rejoice to know Who is really in control. His plans and purpose are being carried out and will be carried out to the end of time.   We read in Genesis chapter 3 how sin entered this world and brought about the mess that we have today. There is so much evil and wickedness in this world, but that…

BE STILL IN THE STORM! God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah —Psalm 46:1-3 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah —Psalm 46:10-11             Brothers and Sisters we have a Refuge and a Strength that is our help. When trouble comes we need not…

GRUMBLING OR PRAISING And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you. —Numbers 17:5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.” —Numbers 17:10 Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise. They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the Lord. —Psalm 106:24-25 And do not grumble, as some of them did–and were killed…

BOAST IN OUR LORD GOD In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. —Psalm 44:8 “But let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the LORD. —Jeremiah 9:24 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” —I Corinthians 1:21 But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” —II Corinthians 10:17 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has…

GOD IS IN CONTROL! And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. —Numbers 11:1 And the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.” —Numbers 11:23             Our Lord is not happy with us when we complain about our misfortunes. As a matter of fact we are told that He is angry when we complain. Why would this be so? It is because…