New Hope Church

LIVE A BLAMELESS LIFE I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.   I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it. The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil. Psalm 101:2-4               Hmmm… Am I careful to live a blameless life? Do I conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart? Do I look on anything with approval that is vile?…

  HATE EVIL AND CLING TO WHAT IS GOOD O you who love the LORD, hate evil! —Psalm 97:10 Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. —Romans 12:9 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. —Romans 12:21             Do you love the Lord our God? Then you are commanded to “hate evil.” Not only are you to hate evil, but you are to “cling to what is good.” In Proverbs 8:13 we read “To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.”   So if the Lord truly is loved by us then we will hate…

ALL KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM GOD He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. —Psalm 94:-11             Where does knowledge come from? Does it originate with man? No it does not. “Can anyone teach knowledge to God?” (Job 21:22). Of course they cannot. Yet so many people live like they know better than God. They actually think they are smarter than God. How ridiculous is that?            A person cannot even understand who Jesus is unless “God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give…

  GET READY TO FLY AWAY The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away….  So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. —Psalm 90:10, 12             When you are 65 years old, as I am, this passage becomes very sobering. I read that in 2016 the average life expectancy was 72 years of age in this world.   In 2020 the average life expectancy is 72.63 years. But what is the reason to consider one’s age? It is to “teach us to…

MAKE KNOWN OUR LORD’S STEADFAST LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. —Psalm 89:1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPJt13P7Nyk             He has been faithful to generations before us, He is faithful to us and He will be faithful to all the remanding generations to the end of this age. He has given us, brother and sister, the responsibility to make known His love and faithfulness to the generation we live in and those that follow. Let us be faithful in this.             Let us proclaim that we are “convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels…

OUR LORD IS GOOD, FORGIVING, LOVING, A TEACHER, MERCIFUL… For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. —Psalm 86:5 Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. — Psalm 86:11  “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” —Romans 9:15 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. —Romans 9:18             “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Romans 10:13). Those who call on His Name…

  GOD IS FOR YOU! If God is for us, who can be against us? —Romans 8:31 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 8:38-39             So tell me… why are you fearing? Who is it that can triumph over us? What is it that can triumph over us? We are already on the Victor’s side (I Corinthians 15:57). We are already overcomers in Him. (I John 5:1-4).  …

GIVEN OVER So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. Psalm 81:12 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts… —Romans 1:24 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts… —Romans 1:26 God gave them over to a depraved mind… —Romans 1:28             These are very concerning words— “God gave them over.” When men follow their own counsels then anything can happen.   The only solid foundation is the Word of God. All other foundations are but shifting sand. Everything, yes everything that is built on shifting sand will come crashing down.   Only that which is built…

DISCIPLESHIP Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them…

REMEMBER I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds. Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God? —Psalm 77:11-13             What deed or deeds of our Lord come right to your mind? What came to mind and why did that come to mind? I just thought about when He created in six days.   How awesome was that! Think of the power, the creativity, the design, the interconnectedness and then He made man to be a steward of it!   Wow!             We are told to ponder and…