New Hope Church

BEWARE! ETERNAL JUDGMENT IS COMING! It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. —Jude 1:14-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On-whMoulOM             There will be a generation living that will see the return of our Lord Jesus Christ to this earth. It will not…

JOY! I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. —III John 4             It does bring great joy to know my own physical children or spiritual children are walking in truth. We have four children, grown now and married, but nothing brings greater joy to know they are being faithful to Jesus. So it is true of our seven grand-daughters. It would bring such great joy to know that they all are living for the Lord. Regardless of the careers they have or anything else— the greatest joy is that they would be walking with Jesus. That is true success!             So…

PLEA FOR MERCY As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice. —Daniel 9:13-14  For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. —Daniel 9:18 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so…

BE BLAMELESS! “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”—Daniel 6:5 Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace is multiplied to you. I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end. He delivers and rescues; he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the…

GOD IS SO IMMENSE, WE SO SMALL! All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done? —Daniel 4:35 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, The world, and all who live in it. —Psalm 24:1  Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.   Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough…

GOD REVEALS KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams…. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.  —Daniel 1:17, 20 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes…

CLEAN IN CHRIST! If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole…

STAND FIRM, BE PATIENT AND BE SERVING And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. —II Peter 3:15-17 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as…

DOGS, PIGS AND PEOPLE What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.” —II Peter 2:22             The nature of an animal does not change. You can give a dog the best food and satisfy its hunger and yet the disgusting animal will still eat its own vomit after throwing up— gross! But this is a characteristic of a dog. That is his nature. You cannot change it.             You can give a pig a bath, clean it all up, but given the opportunity it will return to the muck and…

PRECIOUS FAITH To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours. —II Peter 1:1             Oh, how precious this faith is that we have!   This faith came “through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.” We had no righteousness of our own, but by faith in Jesus we have God’s righteousness. “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (II Corinthians 5:21). Jesus took our place, was punished for us and paid our sin debt, a debt we could never pay…