New Hope Church

BEWARE OF GOSPEL IMITATIONS! The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them! —Psalm 135:15-18 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom…

MARRIAGE AND SINGLENESS Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. —I Corinthians 7:28 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but…

THE DESTRUCTION OF SEXUAL SIN!   Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves…

MY HELP COMES FROM THE LORD!  I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1-2  I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. —Psalm 123:1             Where do you look for your help? You depend on yourself? You depend on others? Or do you truly depend on the One who created you? My help comes from our Creator, He who sits enthroned in heave!             We are going to find ourselves in various situations in life— good and bad.   Those situations, whatever they are, are…

GOD’S WORD IS TRUE!  The word of the Lord proved him true. —Psalm 105:19  All your words are true; —Psalm 119:160             If you want to be proved to be a faithful follower of Jesus, then listen to what He says and out of love for Him obey Him. All His Words are true and are to be fully trusted. A person who lives like this will have the evidence in their lives that they are a genuine follower of Jesus. It is not enough to hear His Word or to repeat His Word; one must live His Word— “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice…

KEEP HIS WORD! The LORD is my portion; I promise to keep your words…. I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts… I am yours; save me, for I have sought your precepts… I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. 105 Psalm 119:57, 63, 94, 101-104             Do I truly see the Lord as my portion and is it really my…

DEVOTION TO JESUS, HIS PEOPLE AND THE LOST I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. —Psalm 119:15  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.  According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he…

ONLY ONE CRUCIFIED CORNERSTONE! For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.  —I Corinthians 2:2-5 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. —Psalm 118:22             Where does your faith lie? To what is it based off? Is it based off “the wisdom of men” or “the power of God?” Is it based…

ALL BY GOD’S POWER! For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the POWER OF GOD. —I Corinthians 1:18 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.  For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the POWER OF GOD and the wisdom of God.—I Corinthians 1:21-24 For I am not ashamed of the…

WATCH OUT! I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. —Romans 16:17-18             When a follower of Jesus is not grounded in the foundational truths of God’s Word then they are in danger. They are in danger of someone coming along that “sounds” good even as God’s Word is used by them. The Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons will use the Word of God for their own…