New Hope Church

ONLY JESUS REDEEMS! No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them—the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough—so that they should live on forever and not see decay… But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead; he will surely take me to himself. —Psalm 49:7-9, 15  People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish. —Psalm 49:20             No mere person can redeem the life of another person.  There is nothing a person could give to God to redeem another person.  The cost of redemption is so costly that no human…

PREPARE OTHERS!  TELL OTHERS!  “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.” So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight. You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of…

YOU ARE NOT ULTIMATELY IN CONTROL And the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me. —Numbers 22:32 He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. —Psalm 47:3             Who is really in control?  Can you determine how many more breaths you will take before you die?  Do you know what is even going to happen today?  Tomorrow? Next week?  Next month?  Next year?  No, “you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that’” (James 4:15). …

GOD WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS!  “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” —Psalm 46:10             Be sure… this is happening and one day will fully take place— God will be exalted among all the nations.  He will be exalted in the earth.  “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14).  “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14). “All…

THE ONLY FREEDOM IS IN JESUS! Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. —II Corinthians 3:17              And… where Spirit of the Lord is not, there is bondage.  Listen to what we read in II Timothy 2:23-26—  Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and…

WHO JESUS IS! Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions. —Psalm 45:6-7 But about the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.  You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”  He also says, “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the…

NOTHING IS SECRET TO GOD! For he knows the secrets of the heart. —Psalms 44:21 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. —Romans 2:16             Our Lord God Almighty knows everything.  For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing…

BEWARE OF THE RABBLE! Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.” —Numbers 11:4-6 And say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for…

FREED BY OUR PASSOVER LAMB! In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it. —Numbers 9:11-13 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same…

RUN THE RACE MARKED OUT FOR US AND BEWARE OF THOSE WHO WOULD TRIP US UP! Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. —Psalm 41:9 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ —John 13:18             It is so painful when those close to you rise up against you to harm you.  I read of this lifting of the heal “that this figure is taken from those who are running in a race, when one attempts…