Hope Camps

Hope Camps Pt 7: Whosoever Believes

Does the death of Jesus Christ some 2,000 years ago, pay for the punishment of MY sin? Yes. Is that true even if I was the worst and most vile sinner the world has ever seen? Yes. “Whosoever”! Does his resurrection show me that, not only is my sin pardoned, but that I have heaven as a guarantee of my future home when I die? Yes. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that…

Hope Camps Pt 6: The Just Shall Live By Faith

Something has changed in the heart of all who have come to believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, a very different and distinct constitutional change has happened in their hearts. They believed by Faith that Jesus Christ is Lord, that he bore their sin on that cross, that he himself was THEIR REPRESENTATIVE, when he was placed upon the tree, and they are forgiven, saved eternally from the punishment of their sin. But how shall they now live?…

Hope Camps Pt 5: The Serpent In The Wilderness

There are portion of the Bible that are hard to be understood, one of the most challenging is Jesus own portrayal of himself in the gospel of John 3:14-15, a representation of the serpent in the wilderness by which the people of Israel, in the Old Testament, beholding with their eyes, could be healed of the deadly bites they received as punishment for their sin. The brazen serpent hanging on that pole in the wilderness of Numbers 21 was a…
The Romans Road

Hope Camps pt 4: The Romans Road

There is one book in the Bible that provides the complete way by which a person may have eternal life, it is the book of Romans. This incredible letter of the apostle Paul to the Church at Rome outlines with perfect clarity the state of the world and the explanation of both how a person may receive forgiveness of sin, obtain everlasting life, demonstrate how to live and teach the fundamentals truths of how we are to live together. The…

Hope Camps Pt 2: ETERNITY

Emilio does a great job deliberating on the Biblical presentations of heaven and hell. Both are eternal in scope. While “the wages of sin is death”, we also learn that “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23)