New Hope Baptist Church Podcast

Romans 16:17-27  NIV 17) I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. 18) For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. 19) Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I...

Romans 16:1-16  NIV 1) I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. 2) I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me. 3) Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. 4) They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the chur...

Romans 15:23-33 NIV 23) But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, 24) I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. 25) Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s...

Romans 15:14-22 (NIV) 14) I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. 15) Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me 16) to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gosp...

Romans 15:1-13 (NIV) 1) We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2) Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up. 3) For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.” 4) For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through...

Romans 14: 13-23 (NIV) 13) Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14) I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15) If your brother or sister is dist...

Matthew 10:1-10, 16-22, 32-33 (NIV) 1) Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. 2) These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3) Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of...

Romans 14:1-12 (NIV) 1) Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2) One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3) The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4) Who...

Romans 13:8-14 (NIV) 8) Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. 9) The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10) Love does...

Romans 13:1-7 (NIV) 1) Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2) Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3) For rulers hold no terror for those who do...

  Romans 12:9-21 (NIV) 9) Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10) Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11) Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12) Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13) Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. 14) Bless those w...

  Romans 12:1-8 (NIV) 1) Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2) Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 3) F...

Romans 11 (NIV) TAKEAWAYS 1. God did not reject His People. 2. There is always Remnant by Grace. 3. Israel has today largely fallen away. 4. The Gentile mission help will save Israel. 5. Gentiles are ingrafted into the Israel story so that no one can boast. 6. Israel is hardened to the gospel, but will be saved, by the gospel. 7. Jesus alone can take away our sins. 8. God offers mercy. 9. Amazing...

Romans 10 (NIV) 1) Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2) For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3) Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4) Christ is the culmination of the law s...

Romans 9:16-33 (NIV) 16) It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17) For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18) Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. 19) One of you will say to me...

Romans 9:1-15 (NIV) 1) I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— 2) I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3) For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, 4) the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the r...

Romans 8:31-39 (NIV) 31) What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32) He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33) Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34) Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jes...

Romans 8:28-30 (NIV) 28) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29) For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30) And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justifie...

Romans 8:26-27 (NIV) 26) In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27) And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. TAKEAWAYS 1. The Spirit searches, v27 2. The Spirit helps, v26 3....

Romans 8:19-25 (NIV) 19) For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20) For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21) that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22) We know that the whole c...

Romans 8:18 (NIV) 18) I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. TAKEAWAYS 1. Have a hopeful perspective on suffering 2. Have an eternal perspective on suffering 3. Allow suffering to deepen our relationship with Jesus 4. Understand that there is a time-limit on suffering

Romans 8:12 -17 (NIV) 12) Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13) For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14) For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15) The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so...

  Romans 8:5-11 (NIV) 5) Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6) The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7) The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor ca...

Romans 8:1-4 (NIV)  1) Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2) because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3) For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned si...