New Hope Church

COMPASSIONATELY SOW THE WORD OF GOD Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. —Psalms 126:5-6              How much of a concern and passion for the lost do we have?  Your answer will be seen in when you last shared the Word of God with someone who does not know our Lord.  If we are not concerned for the lost, if we are not sowing the seed of His Word then there will be no harvest, no shouts of joy over those being saved from their…

YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE… OR NOT!  It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life… as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. —Acts 13:46, 48              Do you receive the Word of God or thrust it aside?  Do you have eternal life by accepting what God says or judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life by rejecting what He says?  What do you say?             There are those who are appointed to eternal life.  They hear the Word of God, believe it and accept it.  They then seek to live according to God’s…

BE LOVINGLY AND FAITHFULLY OBEDIENT TO SHARE THE GOSPEL  And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter; he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’ —Acts 11:13-14  At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.  About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come…

PROOF OF REPENTANCE  And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. —Acts 9:26-28  First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles,…

IGNORANT OF THE TRUTH  And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.  But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. —Acts 8:1-3              After Stephen was killed, executed, there was a great persecution that broke out against the church in Jerusalem.  Saul was going from house to house to drag off to prison men and women that were following Jesus. …

 WHO YOU ARE… REALLY…  Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God. —Acts 5:4  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men… And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him…”  Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. —Acts 5:29, 32, 42  I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.…

YOU ARE BOLD… OR SILENT…  But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,  and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.  —Acts 3:14-15  And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number…

EMPOWERED WITNESS FOR JESUS!  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. —Acts 1:8             God’s Holy Spirit gives us power.  He gives us power to be His witnesses.  So the questions I have are— “When was the last time you saw His power?  When was the last time you bore witness of Jesus?”  According to this verse above that is who we are to be— witnesses that are empowered by God’s Holy Spirit.             So today, who will you bear witness to?  How…

FALSE ACCUSATIONS HINDER NOT GOD’S PLAN  Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.” —Luke 23:4  I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him. Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him. I will therefore punish and release him.” —Luke 23:14-16  A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him. —Luke 23:22  Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with…

BE MORE OF A SERVANT LIKE JESUS!  A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. —Luke 22:24-27              Jesus, the Word that became flesh, the…