Anchor Of Hope Christian Reformed Church

Who is so prideful that they think they know more or better than God? Everyone, unless God humbles them by making alive and giving them the gift of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. God is God and we are not! God is our strength, wisdom, hope, comfort and salvation! Praise the Lord! Amen.

The rebellious world, the father of all lies the Devil, and our old fallen flesh continue offer us false comforts in sin and disobedience to God. This is why we are so dependent on God's word and the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. The World is passing away along with its rebellion, The Devil and all the demonic will be thrown in to lake of fire along with all who remain in unbelief, and our old fallen flesh has been crucified, killed, and buried with Christ. God's word and promises, however, are eternal life and will last forever! Amen!

Jesus Christ has paid it all, all to Him we owe. He died on the cross in our place so that God's elect could have forgiveness, his righteousness, and eternal life. This truth is to lead us to lives of gratitude, thanksgiving and praise. This truth is not to lead to complacency, presumption, pride in ourselves or any forms of self-righteousness. Let us never forget that he have been saved ultimately for God's glory and His glory alone!

Isaiah 38 verse 17 gives us a powerful depiction of salvation "Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back." Though in our sins we were all children of disobedience, children of wrath, under condemnation and deserving eternal conscious torment in hell God has completely removed our sins from us and from His sight due to the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ! Praise the Lord for His grace and love! Amen!

God is stronger than all our enemies! We can trust God at all times knowing His ways and will is perfect. We are weak yet He is strong! Thank you Lord that you have saved us by and for your son Jesus Christ and His saving work on the Cross!Amen!

To know, believe in, trust, live according to, and proclaim the Salvation that we have in Jesus Christ is to leap for and sing with joy and shout with praise because we have went from death to life! The world, the devil, and our fallen flesh with its sinful desires can not offer us one note of true peace and joy and hope and love. Only God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit satisfies with overflowing! Amen!

There will be a judgement! God will bring to an end all rebellion and disobedience. There will be punishment for sin; Eternal conscious torment in hell for all who die in unbelief and with out faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Believe in Jesus and you will no longer be under judgment, because of you believe in Jesus then He has already taken your judgment on Himself on the Cross! Repent and believe in Jesus and live for ever. Refuse to repent and believe in Jesus and you will experience the full wrath and anger and hatred of God for ever! To God be the glory!

As Isiah 33:22 makes clear, "For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us." It means eternal life to know, believe and live in accordance to these truths. It means eternal judgment and wrath to not know, believe, and live in accordance to these truths. The Lord is Righteous and we must be righteous. This is only possible by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and have His righteousness reckoned to us! What a good and loving King of kings and Lord of lords!

What a wonderful truth and promise given Christians in Isaiah 32:17 "And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever." The only source of righteousness, peace, and eternal life with God is in and from Jesus Christ. Let us rest and trust in the crucifixion, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and return of Jesus Christ as our peace that passes understanding! Amen!

In whom or what do you put your ultimate trust, hope, security, peace, faith, belief, and joy? If you put them in anyone or anything of creation he or it will fail you for he or it is passing away. If you put them in God who is eternal, all powerful, all know, and perfectly holy and good then you will abide forever in love and peace. Jesus Christ crucified is our gospel and our only trust, hope, security, peace, faith, belief, and joy!Amen!

It is sin, rebellion, deception, and deadly to put our hope, trust, and security in anything other than the Lord. Only the Lord is all knowing, all powerful, perfectly good, absolutely holy, always righteous and just. Let us cry out to and worship our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Amen!

The Lord desires your "heart" your all! We are commanded to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. We are to love, trust, worship, be devoted, fear God alone. Christ did not die on the cross to make people superficial hypocrites who speak words of faith yet live unrepentant lives of rebellion. Christ died so that by God's grace we can be made new in His righteousness and have new living hearts that beat with the love of God! Amen!

No one can escape God's holiness! No one can escape God's just judgement! Jesus Christ is the only Way, Truth, and Life; no one gets to the father [can have forgiveness, peace, love, life...] except through Jesus Christ. We must put no confidence, security, or hope in anything of creation, only in the Creator, redeemer, sustainer Lord of host! Amen!

In humility a person repents and believes and trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior. The Holy Spirit brings about this humility. If a person remains in unbelieving pride he thinks he can live however he wants and will not face judgement. The prideful live only for themselves and according to their flesh. Jesus sets us free from this deadly and destructive pride! Praise you Jesus!

As the Scriptures make clear, "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places," [Ephesians 6:1] we have powerful enemy. The good news is that Jesus has defeated the devil on behalf of those who are saved by Jesus' work on the cross. Jesus has won the victory over sin, death and the devil! Let us live in this victory by God's grace in the power of the Spirit! Amen!

The salvation we have in Jesus Christ is greater than all the riches of this earth. It is stronger than any wind, wave or storm. It is more sure than any earthly guarantee. The salvation we have in Jesus Christ is truly our only hope, peace, strength and comfort because it is life, eternal life! Amen!

To have faith and trust and belief in God is to hunger and thirst for Him more than anything else. Jesus Christ alone saves! Jesus Christ alone gives hope, and peace, and love! Jesus Christ alone satisfies! He is our feast our joy our all! Amen!

This fallen world will be destroyed. Actually, all of these heavens and earth will be done away with and replaced with a New Heaven and New Earth. If you are placing you faith, hope, comfort, peace, security... in anything of creation then it will ultimately fail you as it passes away. Let us put our faith, hope, comfort, peace, and security in the Creator, in Jesus Christ the Savior, in the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit. Only in God is eternal life, let us live in Him!  

O Lord, help my hunger for you always be greater than my hunger for food,help my thirst for you always be greater than thirst for drink,help me in weakness to remember that you are our strength,help me to face plenty and hunger, abundance and need--all with thanksgiving, gratitude and faith in you! 

God is so good to His elect! He strips away their idols, He humbles them to repentance, He gives them the gift of faith in His son Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit! No matter how separated from God you are, if you have been chosen, atoned for, and loved, God will draw you near through the cross of Jesus Christ! Thank you Lord!