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Daily Dose of Hope from New Hope

Daily Dose of Hope from New 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.©New Hope キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 個人的成功 聖職・福音主義 自己啓発
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  • September 18, 2025; Luke 20:20-47

    September 18, 2025; Luke 20:20-47
    2025/09/18
    Daily Dose of Hope September 18, 2025 Scripture – Luke 20:20-47 Prayer: Amazing Father and Lord, Thank you for who you are. Thank you for how you care for us. We get distracted. We veer away from you and your Word. For that, we are so very sorry. Forgive us, Lord. Help us to abide in you. Help us to remain close so that we can be fruitful and effective for your Kingdom. Help us get outside ourselves and see others as you see them. Lord, we belong to you. In Your Name, Amen. Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional/podcast that goes along with the daily Bible reading at New Hope Church in Brandon, Florida. We are currently deep diving into the Gospels and Acts. Today, we finish Luke 20. In this chapter, we get a pretty clear picture of how hard the Pharisees are trying to catch Jesus saying or doing something punishable by Jewish law. They keep trying to trick him; they have no idea with whom they are dealing! No one enjoys paying taxes, and in first century Palestine, this was a particularly sticky topic. The Jewish leaders are trying to trap Jesus so they ask him if it is lawful to pay taxes, meaning according to God’s law. If Jesus says it isn’t lawful, then he could get in trouble with the Romans. The Jewish authorities are hoping he will be in trouble no matter which way he answers. But Jesus is not deceived. He asks for a coin, which had Emperor Tiberius’ image stamped on it, and asked who was on it. When they said Caesar, he told them to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what it God’s. It left no room for argument and his enemies are literally stunned silent. Jesus is making the point that we are citizens of both earth and heaven at the same time. While we have allegiance to both our nation and God, there is no question that our first and primary loyalty is to God. Jesus is Lord over all the earth, over our nation, over the church, and over our lives. Think of Paul’s words in Philippians 3, But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. After the coin incident, there are some Sadducees who want to grill him on the concept of the resurrection of the dead. By addressing Levirate marriage, they also are trying to trap Jesus in his words. The Sadducees, the intellectual aristocracy of the day, did not believe in resurrection. They were pressing Jesus on the topic, hoping to make him look foolish. If you will recall from Mark and Matthew, levirate law was intended to protect widows without a male heir. When a brother died, leaving his wife without children, a surviving brother marries the widow with the sole intention of producing an heir. If a son is conceived, he is actually considered to be the deceased brother’s child. In ancient near-East culture, a widow without any connection to a male would either starve or be forced to beg or prostitute herself. Thus, the Sadducees question makes a little more sense even though it is a bit absurd. A woman’s husband dies and she marries a brother. That brother dies and she marries another brother and so forth until she has been married to all seven brothers. Then she dies. Whose wife will she be at the resurrection? Keep in mind, they ask this question knowing that they think the resurrection is false. Jesus basically tells them they are missing the point. In the resurrection, our bodies will be different – perfect and glorious. There will also be a change in our spiritual nature. Jesus is saying that in regard to marriage and sexual matters, we will be like the angels (note that he did not say we will be angels but we will be like them.) But the Sadducees were mistaken so significantly not because of this absurd question but because they didn’t believe in the resurrection. This is a fundamental aspect of Jesus’ teaching and they missed it entirely. Rather than allowing the Pharisees to continue trying to trap him, Jesus decides to ask a hard question of them. He asks the group, “What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They immediately respond, “The son of David.” How then, Jesus asked, could David call him by the Spirit ‘Lord’ when he said, “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’ (Psalm 110:1). “If David”, Jesus said, “Calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” The Pharisees were unable to answer and “from that day on no one dared to question him any longer”. Jesus’ point was missed. Of course, Jesus had descended from David. He was the Son of God. He was the Messiah, the one the Jews had been waiting for, for hundreds of years. He was right before their eyes and they were missing it. How...
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  • September 17, 2025; Luke 20:1-19

    September 17, 2025; Luke 20:1-19
    2025/09/17
    Daily Dose of Hope September 17, 2025 Scripture - Luke 20:1-19 Prayer: Heavenly Father, Provider, Sustainer, Thank you for being the God who creates, cares, loves, and saves. All we have is from you. As we talk about today’s text, give us a fresh revelation; help us see your Word in a new way. Lord, thank you most of all for Jesus. Thank you for his sacrifice. Thank you for showing us a different way of doing life. Help us actually live the way you taught us. In Your Name, Amen. Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Bible reading plan at New Hope Church in Brandon, Florida. We are currently doing a deep dive into the Gospels and Acts. Today, we begin a deep dive into Luke 20. We start today’s text with the Pharisees asking Jesus by what authority he speaks and teaches. Keep in mind, this was right after Jesus cleanses the Temple and the Pharisees are a bit annoyed. In Jewish culture, authority was based on lineage and education. Jesus’ authority was divine and so these earthly leaders are feeling incredibly threatened. They are more concerned with losing their own power and authority than anything else at this point, or so it seems. I do love how Jesus so often answers a question with a question, as he does in this text. He asks the men where the authority of John of Baptist came from. They were in a bind and knew that whatever they answered, it would get them into trouble. So, because they said they didn’t know, Jesus told them he had no need to say from where his authority came from either. We move from there to the parable of the tenants. This is a hard parable with violence involved in every aspect of it. A landowner, presumably a man of means, builds a vineyard and gets it set up with all the right equipment. He has tenants plant the vines and run the farm for him, while he lives in another place. When the harvest comes, the absent landowner sends a slave to collect his portion of the harvest or profits. The slave is beaten up pretty badly by the tenant farmers and limps away. You would think the landowner might do something different next time but he doesn’t. He sends another slave. Actually, he sends a lot of different slaves to collect on his behalf. Some are badly beaten while others are actually killed. We get the impression this happens over many growing seasons. The landowner decides he has one option left, his beloved son. He feels assured that the tenants won’t hurt him. Did the son feel the same way? Not sure. But things don’t go so well. The tenants know this is the heir and they kill him too, throwing his body out to the wild animals. The question that Jesus asks is what will the landowner do? The answer is that he will come there himself, kill the tenants, and give the land to others (or possibly get new tenants.) What in the world is meant by all of this? There are several possible things to think about here and none of them are pleasant. First, throughout the Bible, the concept of the vineyard is associated with the people of Israel. With that as a backdrop, could it be that God is the stubborn landowner, the slaves are prophets, and the son is Jesus? That would make the tenant farmers the corrupt religious leaders. Second, there are aspects to the parable that the first-century hearers would get that aren’t necessarily evident to us. It wasn’t that unusual for the wealthy to obtain the land of those who were poor, possibly because of outstanding debts or because the impoverished are forced to sell land to feed their families. Life was hard. It also wasn’t that unusual for landlords to live elsewhere and demand a large percentage of the harvest from those who are performing the labor. The reaction of the parable will be different for different people, depending on where they fall on the social ladder in Israel. There are those who will identify with the slaves. There are those who will see the landowner as uncaring and reckless and possibly identify with the plight of the tenants. There are those who will identify with the landowner and his son. Every single reaction is unsettling. One thing I do want to mention is that people have used this parable over the years in an antisemitic way, stating that it was the Jews who killed the son and it is the Jews who should then be killed by the landowner. Jesus is not speaking of ethnicity or religion here, he is speaking about faithfulness. The big issue in the parable is not the identity of the players but rather the failure of the tenants to respond faithfully to their obligations. It’s no secret that Christians over the centuries have also treated the cornerstone with disrespect, irreverence, and indignation, while Jews can (and many have) responded faithfully to God’s revelation. What do you make of this parable? Why...
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  • September 16, 2025; Luke 19:28-48

    September 16, 2025; Luke 19:28-48
    2025/09/16
    Daily Dose of Hope September 16, 2025 Scripture – Luke 19:28-48 Prayer: Lord, We need you. Our world is unstable and unjust. It is a place where innocent people die and power and control take precedent over mercy and compassion. While we know that sin and brokenness are everywhere, it is still hard to take it in. We don’t know which way to turn. So, we need you. We need your peace, your justice, and your wisdom. Help us be the people you have called us to be, even when it’s hard. Fill us with your courage to speak truth and grace. More of you and less of me. In Your Name, Amen. Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Bible reading plan at New Hope Church in Brandon, Florida. We are currently doing a deep dive into the Gospels and Acts. Today, we finish up Luke 19. We start with Jesus entering Jerusalem as King; this is what we call the Palm Sunday passage. We are so used to this narrative that sometimes we don’t see the strangeness of it. This is an odd scene. Jesus sends two of his disciples to go on ahead to the village and find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. If someone asks why you are taking it, then just say the Lord needs it. What this says to us is that Jesus has taken care of every single detail. We don’t know how he has done it, but Jesus is God and he has made sure everything is right. So, they get the colt. They put their cloaks on the colt and Jesus rides on it. Others spread their cloaks on the road. As he makes his way down the Mount of Olives, a crowd of his disciples gather and begin praising God. Now, this isn’t just the twelve disciples. This is probably a fairly large group of believers that have seen his power, the people who have heard his teaching, watched his miracles. And they shout out, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” A couple things to note here: · All of this is very intentional. This is not a coincidence. This is a very intentional show of power. Jesus is being given a royal welcoming. First, he is riding on a colt. In the Old Testament, new kings would come riding in on the mule or donkey of the the previous king. We see in 1 Kings 1 that David puts his son Solomon on his own mule, a trumpet is sounded, and the people rejoice and shout, then the priest and the prophet Nathan anoint him as king of Israel. The mule is like the presidential limo, a sign of power and prestige that says that this is the new leader. · What’s interesting here is that Jesus is not riding on the previous king’s mule or donkey. He is riding on a colt that has never been ridden. Scripture makes a point of telling us this. Why? Because God is doing a new thing, Jesus is a different kind of king. · Then, there is this whole issue of the cloaks being thrown down on the path for Jesus to pass. The people are running ahead and shouting his praises. This is the kind of welcome that a royal official of the Roman government would receive. Think of it like the red carpet being rolled out. This is the sign that a very important leader, the new king, has arrived. All of this has meaning. And for the Jews in the crowd, and most of them would have been Jewish, they would have known that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. Zechariah 9:9, Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. All of this is pointing to the fact that Jesus is the king. This large group of disciples were praising God joyfully and shouting, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord…” What might not be apparent to us is that when they shout this – Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, Peace in heaven and glory on highest” they are expressing that this is the Messiah, this is the anointed one, the one they had been waiting for that God had sent to save them. These words echo Psalm 118:22-26, The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 23 the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad. 25 Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success!26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Surely, this is the long-expected Messiah, this is the one that God sent to sit on the throne of David, just as he promised some 600 years before. You see, its all coming together for them. And thus, there is much joy and celebration for God has sent King Jesus to save us. But what happens next is worth noting. The Pharisees tell Jesus to make his disciples stop. Stop the praising. Stop the quoting of Scripture. In fact, what they say is, “Teacher, rebuke your...
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