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  • The Daily Dose of Hope is a devotional intended to provide context and reflection to the New Hope Church Bible Reading Plan. It’s our goal to read the Bible in a year together as a family of faith. Five days a week we read. Two days a week we either rest or catch up. Reading the Bible is the number one way to grow in our walk with Jesus. We have to know God’s Word to live God’s Word. Now for our Daily Dose of Hope.
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The Daily Dose of Hope is a devotional intended to provide context and reflection to the New Hope Church Bible Reading Plan. It’s our goal to read the Bible in a year together as a family of faith. Five days a week we read. Two days a week we either rest or catch up. Reading the Bible is the number one way to grow in our walk with Jesus. We have to know God’s Word to live God’s Word. Now for our Daily Dose of Hope.
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  • November 3, 2024; Day 1 of Week 32

    November 3, 2024; Day 1 of Week 32
    2024/11/03
    Daily Dose of Hope November 3, 2024 Day 1 of Week 32 Scripture: Hosea 1-3; Matthew 16 Welcome back, everyone, to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Bible reading plan. Today, we begin the book of Hosea. Hosea was a prophet in the Northern Kingdom, probably active from about 750-721BC, when Jeroboam II was king of Israel until the time that the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom. Like Amos, Hosea is considered a minor prophet – not because his message was less important, but simply because his book is shorter than the major prophets (such as Isaiah and Jeremiah). There are twelve minor prophets, including Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Similar to Amos, things were going well for the people of Israel during Hosea’s time and they didn’t want to hear any kind of message of warning. Yet, this was a time in which the people were incredibly rebellious against God. They broke the 10 commandments, they oppressed the poor, and they worshiped other gods. They still worshiped Yahweh, they still went through the motions of worshiping in the temple, making sacrifices, and looking outwardly religious (theme in most of these minor prophet books) but they were hypocrites. They pretended to be faithful to Yahweh but their hearts were far from God. Hosea is the longest minor prophet book in the Old Testament and this book is a collection of his sermons and prophecies over the course of 25 years serving God obediently. Fair warning: It’s mainly in the form of poetry and it’s filled with metaphors. I’ll be honest, it’s kind of a weird book. In the first few chapters (what we read for today), God tells Hosea to marry a woman named Gomer who is a prostitute. Hosea’s life becomes what we might call a living parable. They have three kids together and Gomer cheats on Hosea repeatedly. When she does, God tells Hosea to go find her and seek reconciliation. This whole dysfunctional marriage is intended to be a metaphor for how Israel is behaving. God is the faithful husband and Israel is behaving like Gomer, the wife who continues to betray her spouse. The people of Israel continue to betray God over and over again but he will continue to seek them, continue to try to draw them back to him. Our New Testament passage for today is Matthew 16. Jesus has taken his disciples on a retreat of sorts, and they have traveled away from Judea, further north into Gentile territory. It could be to get away from the crowds or so they can speak more freely. But Caesarea Philippi is pretty far north in Israel. It was a quiet place at the headwaters of the Jordan River but also a place filled with idol worship and signs of Roman occupation everywhere. And it’s here that Jesus decides he is going to settle his identity with these men. He asks each of them, “Who do people say I am?” Over the two years that the disciples had been with Jesus, people had all kinds of thoughts about who Jesus was. Some thought he was the precursor to the Messiah, others (like King Herod) thought he was John the Baptist reincarnated, and others thought he might be one of the prophets returned. But Jesus presses them, “Who do you say I am?” Now, it doesn’t matter what the others say – who is it you say I am? That’s really the question for all of us, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter who others say Jesus is. If I were to do a man on the street interview right now, I’m sure I’d get all kinds of answers to who is Jesus? A teacher, a healer, a crazy person, Son of God, the Savior. But it doesn’t matter what others say, what matters is what you believe and what you say about Jesus. And that’s what Jesus is asking his disciples. What do you say about me? What are you willing to confess about me? This was really a rubber meets the road question for them, as it is for us. What are you willing to confess about me, to others, publicly? Jesus asked all of them but it was Peter who spoke up. And he says, “You are the Messiah, Son of the Living God.” The word Messiah means anointed one or God’s anointed. And the term “Messiah” was the Hebrew word for God’s anointed, the term “Christ” was the Greek word for it. Messiah and Christ mean the same thing, just in different languages. I know this might come as a surprise to some of us but Christ is not Jesus’ last name. It is a title. And Peter is giving Jesus this title, you are the Messiah, the anointed one. In ancient Israel, when someone was given a position of authority, oil was poured on his head to signify his being set apart for God’s service. I Samuel 10:1 is an example, Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the Lord anointed you ruler over his inheritance? Kings, priests, and prophets were...
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  • October 31, 2024; Day 5 of Week 31

    October 31, 2024; Day 5 of Week 31
    2024/10/31
    Daily Dose of Hope October 31, 2024 Day 5 of Week 31 Scripture: Amos 7-9; Matthew 15 Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Church Bible reading plan. This Sunday is our Celebration Sunday at New Hope. We invite everyone to bring their commitment cards to church and we plan to take some time to lay them on the altar and dedicate them to Jesus. We also will have a time of celebrating baptisms at the close of the service. Please try to attend in person. This will be a Spirit-filled morning! To switch things up a bit, let’s start with the New Testament today. We are looking at Matthew 15. In this Scripture, we are talking about handwashing and cleanliness but it has nothing to do with germs. In fact, germ theory didn’t really become a notable thing until the 1800s. So what was the hand-washing ritual discussed in the first half of Matthew 15? To go deeper, we need to talk a little about 1st century Jewish life. Certain groups of Jews, such as the Pharisees and the scribes, affirmed two types of law. There was the written law (the first five books of the Bible) and the oral law (the traditions of the elders/rabbis). Basically, the written law didn’t have specific details so the rabbis, over the years, filled in those details with oral traditions. In today’s chapter, there were Pharisees from Jerusalem who sought out Jesus. We don’t know why these Pharisees had traveled some 80 miles from Jerusalem (a long trip in those days) but there is some speculation that they had come to check out this Jesus character, this man who was healing, teaching, and saying things that were questionable in their eyes. They were suspicious. Remember the Pharisees were a strict sect of Judaism that believed in following the law in the fullest sense. There were different standards for following the law for different groups of people (i.e. a day laborer would not be expected to follow the law in the same way that a scribe could do so.) But certainly, it would have been expected that a rabbi and his followers would follow both the oral and written law. The Pharisees noticed that Jesus’ disciples were not going through the ceremonial hand-washing rituals that were required before they ate. They asked Jesus about this. This was a dig, it was more like, why aren’t you properly teaching your disciples? Jesus has this interesting reply, he quotes Scripture from the prophet Isaiah: “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me...” On the surface, there wasn’t anything wrong with what the Pharisees were trying to do. They had purity laws which they thought were very important in following God. But Jesus could see past their words, past their ritual, and into their hearts. He saw their insincerity, hollowness, and hypocrisy; it was all a facade. Thus, he sees this as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Just as in the times of Isaiah, the Pharisees were giving lip service to following God but their hearts were far from him. They were concerned about the Sabbath being followed to the tee but they would cheat people in the marketplace. They were concerned about following specifics of the handwashing but they weren’t at all concerned about the widow and the orphan. Something was truly skewed here. They were all about piety but they had neglected compassion, justice, and love. But this issue goes even deeper. Being unclean and being defiled was a big deal in 1st century Judaism. If you couldn’t be clean (and let’s be real, a lot of regular people worked jobs or had lives that meant they couldn’t meet all the various regulations to stay clean). If you were unclean for whatever reason, then you were ostracized from the temple. You were basically shunned from religious life. So Jesus is making a huge point here. Jesus is saying, “You are shunning people, you are telling them they are unclean, you are ostracizing them from the community, based on the rituals they have done or haven’t done to be clean. But what you are missing is this: the things that really matter, the things that pose the greatest danger, are not external. They aren’t hand-washing. They aren’t meticulously keeping Sabbath. The things that matter most to God are internal.” What Jesus is saying to them is that God cares most about the heart. I think we will all should admit that, at times, the church has looked a lot like these Pharisees. We’ve been all about religious activity and less about trying to be like Jesus. We’ve been about the external and not the internal. We’ve cared about appearances. We are putting up this great religious front but then being horribly judgmental, angry, or bitter. Friends, God could care less about your religious busyness. He wants your heart. He doesn’t care about our ceremonial handwashing---he cares about if we are treating others with the love of Christ. And if we aren’t, ...
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  • October 30, 2024; Day 4 of Week 31

    October 30, 2024; Day 4 of Week 31
    2024/10/30
    Daily Dose of Hope October 30, 2024 Day 4 of Week 31 Scripture: Amos 4-6; Psalm 55; Matthew 14 Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Church Bible reading plan. Tonight, we have a special worship night! We will have Recharge groups at 6:30pm and then gather in the sanctuary at 7:30pm for a time of praise and worship. Please consider joining us. This will truly be a recharge for the rest of your week. Today, we are continuing in the book of Amos. Remember, things seemed to be going well for the people but Amos was called to bring them a warning. God was rejecting their worship. Let’s read a portion from Amos 5:21-24,“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! God rejected their worship. He was disgusted by it. It was the people who came to worship who allowed great injustices against the poor. Whether they were actively involved in the oppression or just allowing it to happen, not caring enough to do something about it, we don’t know. What we do know is that God is not simply annoyed, he is truly angry. And then we read this famous line about justice – let justice roll on like a river... Justice in the Old Testament is often used when describing four groups: widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor---the absolutely most vulnerable people in that society, people with no safety net, no protection, and no one to help care for them. The just and righteous person is the one who helps take care of these groups. And justice, according to this definition, includes lifting up the oppressed. A just person is one who uses their own resources for the good of the community. Keep in mind that Israel was originally an egalitarian society. The Torah, the covenant God made with his people, made provision to ensure that all people are cared for and that no one was taken advantage of. What we are seeing in Amos is that the people saw their resources as theirs and theirs alone. They felt no compassion and no responsibility to be agents of justice and righteousness, they felt no need to follow the covenant. Yet they would go through all the religious motions. They did their required festivals, they gave the required sacrifices and offerings, they sang religious songs. They worshiped, they did small groups and Bible studies. But there was no connection between what went on during worship and what happened the rest of the week. This is truth: What we believe about God is demonstrated not by how often we come to church, not by the number of Bible studies we attend, but by how we live the rest of the week, by how we treat our neighbor. Jesus certainly taught this. What was the Great Commandment? This comes from Matthew 28: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Amos taught this, Jesus taught this–we need to pay attention to this: Love of God and Love of Neighbor cannot be separated. Justice, righteousness, and how we treat others flows out of our worship of God. We may try to disconnect our worship/our church life from the rest of our life and we may actually do a good job convincing ourselves this is possible. But what God is telling us in Amos and what Jesus teaches is that it isn’t. It just isn’t possible. We can’t worship God on Sunday and neglect the poor on Monday. We can’t go to bible study on Tuesday and gossip about our church friends on Wednesday. Why? Because Amos’ unpopular truth is that what we believe about God is demonstrated not by our religious busyness, not by the church stuff we do, but by how we live every other day of the week. With that, let’s move on to our New Testament reading, Matthew 14. There are three very different but powerful narratives in this chapter. Be sure to read through all of it if you haven’t done so already. We start with John the Baptist’s murder in an incredibly gruesome way, specifically a beheading. We can see there is little value placed on human life in the Roman Empire; rather, Herod is far more concerned about how he looks in front of his guests than how he looks in front of God. Then, we read about Jesus feeding the 5,000.This is a beautiful miracle that gives us a great picture of the Kingdom of God. In God’s Kingdom, there is no hunger so Jesus feeds. But he doesn’t do so in any kind of conventional way. He makes sure that everyone there knows that God provided the meal. Every part...
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    8 分

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