New Hope Church

DEATH’S HOUR WILL COME So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. —John 7:30             God knows the length of our days (Psalm 39:4).   He knows when we will draw our last breath. We will not die without His determinate time (Deuteronomy 34:5; Luke 12:20). So it was with Jesus. He would not died on the cross until the predetermined time of God (Acts 2:23). But then there would come a time when “Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father” (John 13:1).             So…

ALL FOR GOD’S GLORY So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. —John 7:16-18             Jesus came representing His Father who had sent Him. He was looking to do His Father’s will and not His own (Luke 22:42).   Those who wanted to do God’s will would know…

BREAD OF LIFE— BREAD OF HEAVEN This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”—John 6:58 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life—John 6:63 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” —John 6:68-69 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the…

ETERNAL BREAD Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” —John 6:26-29             Jesus had fed the thousands and when He went on the other…

OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSING Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the…

FLEE THE COMING JUDGMENT! Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. —John 5:24 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. —John 5:28-29 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to…

GOD DOES WHAT HE SAYS… ALWAYS! Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah.” —II Kings 10:10 And when he came to Samaria, he struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke to Elijah. —II Kings 10:17 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that…

GOD’S ANGEL SERVANTS When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. —II Kings 6:15-17 Angels… God doesn’t NEED…

GOD OF WONDERS! When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing. She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.” —II Kings 4:6-7 And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.” But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha…