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Our Mission Statementand our
Statement of Faith.

Our Mission Statement.

Before anything else, it is my sincere hope that people
searching for their God may find Him through this web-site.

Secondly, I'm moved by the victims, as a result of false
doctrines and teaching, the bible calls it the doctrines of demons and
men. Mark 7:7 In vain (fruitlessly and without profit) do they worship
Me, ordering {and} teaching [to be obeyed] as doctrines the commandments
{and} precepts of men.2 Pet 2:1 BUT ALSO [in those days] there arose false prophets
among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves,
who will subtly {and} stealthily introduce heretical doctrines
(destructive heresies), even denying {and} disowning the Master Who
bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 1 Tim 4:1 BUT THE [Holy] Spirit distinctly {and} expressly
declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving
attention to deluding {and} seducing spirits and doctrines that demons
teach,

Thirdly this web-site is meant for the many victims in
the future, it is my hope that I am able to make a small contribution
and to keep God's chosen people from stepping into these false streams
of security and blessings. And to open the eyes of those that have
bought into this false and wide road to idolatry.

And to offer help to those to find back their hope and
trust in God and the way back to humility, to obedience, to servant hood
and to eternal life, it is the way of the Bible and the Cross.

KJ212 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves
teachers in accordance with their own lusts.

Amplified BibleMatt 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they
will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive {and} lead astray, if
possible, even the elect (God's chosen ones).

2 Thess 2:3 Let no one deceive {or} beguile you in
any way, for that day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless
the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be
Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is
the son of doom (of perdition),

2 Thess 2:4Who opposes and exalts himself so proudly
{and} insolently against {and} over all that is called God or that is
worshiped, [even to his actually] taking his seat in the temple of God,
proclaiming that he himself is God.

Titus 1:10-16 Titus 1:10 For there are many disorderly
{and} unruly men who are idle (vain, empty) {and} misleading talkers and
self-deceivers {and} deceivers of others. [This is true] especially of those
of the circumcision party [who have come over from Judaism]. Titus 1:11 Their mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally
distressing {and} subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not
to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage {and} disreputable gain.
Titus 1:12 One of their [very] number, a prophet of their own, said,
Cretans are always liars, hurtful beasts, idle {and} lazy gluttons. Titus 1:13 And this account of them is [really] true. Because it is
[true], rebuke them sharply [deal sternly, even severely with them], so that
they may be sound in the faith {and} free from error, Titus 1:14 [And may show their soundness by] ceasing to give
attention to Jewish myths {and} fables or to rules [laid down] by [mere] men
who reject {and} turn their backs on the Truth. Titus 1:15To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure,
but to the defiled {and} corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very
minds and consciences are defiled {and} polluted. Titus 1:16 They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be
acquainted with Him], but deny {and} disown {and} renounce Him by what they
do; they are detestable {and} loathsome, unbelieving {and} disobedient {and}
disloyal {and} rebellious, and [they are] unfit {and} worthless for good
work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.

Titus 2:1 BUT [as for] you, teach what is fitting
{and} becoming to sound (wholesome) doctrine [the character and right living
that identify true Christians].

I wish you God's blessing and protection in these last days.

Ministry of Hope

God Bless!!

What We Believe:

.The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God
(2Timothy 3:166)

There is one true God, eternally existent in three
persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy
6:4; Matthew 28:19)

In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin
birth

in His sinless life, in His miracles,

in His vicarious and atoning death,

in His bodily resurrection,

in His ascension to the right hand of the Father,

in His personal, future return to the earth in power
and glory to rule for a thousand years (John 1:1; Matthew 1:18;
Matthew 28:5-6; Revelation 20:4).

In the fall and sinfulness of man and that the only means
of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the blood of
Christ (John 14:6).

Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential to
personal salvation (Titus 3:5).

In Divine Healing of the human body provided through the
redemptive work of Christ on the Cross in answer to believing prayer (1
Peter 2:24).

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit, is given to believers who ask for it, with
all the evidence manifested in the book of Acts (Acts 2:4).

The Church of Jesus Christ is the universal, spiritual
body of believers from every tribe, tongue, kindred and race of peoples, and is
indwelt by God through the Holy Spirit and divinely empowered to fulfill the
Great Commission on earth (Ephesians 1:20-23; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14;
Colossians 1:18-19; Revelation 5:9).

In the new heavens and the new earth and the holy
Jerusalem, the city of God, descending out of heaven and filled with God's glory
(Revelation 21:1-2, 10)

What We will do for you:

We will help you finding the will
of God, understanding and hearing His voice, walking in meekness and humility,
being filled with the Holy Spirit, in order to withstand the whiles of the
Devil, so he will flee from you.

James 4:7 So be subject to
God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.

Trusting God as our Lord and
Savior, as the only true and sovereign ruler of heaven and earth,

Matt 28:18 Jesus approached
and, breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in
heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Who has the power to to kill and
to make alive, to destroy and to save, wound and to heal,

Deut 32:39 See now that I, I
am He, and there is no god beside Me; I kill and I make alive, I wound and I
heal, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand.

And lead His people to live a
life of higher moral standards and holiness and at the end the salvation of our
souls

Rom 6:22 But now since you have
been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present
reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.

Rom 6:23 For the wages which
sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through
(in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Pet 1:8 Without having seen
Him, you love Him; though you do not [even] now see Him, you believe in Him and
exult {and} thrill with inexpressible and glorious (triumphant, heavenly) joy.
1 Pet 1:9 [At the same time] you receive the result (outcome, consummation) of
your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Motivation for Ministry

Let
me tell you something about myself first.

Who or what is this Ministry of
Hope, Ministry of Hope is an Inertnet and a Missionary ministry, from the
Netherlands.

In spite of my worldly upbringing and life, there was always
this longing for the church of God, as a child and also later, believing in
God was often on my mind, but it took another 30 years before I decided on
the age of 34, to become a Christian. In the spring 1980 one of the Nabors
invited me to a special friendship service at the
local Baptist Church . I lived in Canada at that time.

After that meeting I became regular churchgoer,
however, it took me another three years before I learned through Christian
TV the simple message of salvation. by an Evangelist, I gave my life
to Jesus Christ and accepted Him as my eternal Lord and Savior. Short
after that I committed my life to God and was baptized at the
Baptist Church.

After three years in the Baptist Church I moved to a
Word-Faith Church in the nabors hood. This Church was following the
teachings of Kenneth Hagin by satellite TV.

The church was practicing,
positive confession, faith healing, and claiming possessions and healing

Much was spoken about the good
fight of faith, against sickness, diseases, demons and powers and rulers of
dark places.

After about a year, the son of the pastor developed a brain
tumor at a young age, early in the thirties and died in spite of all the
prayer, claiming and laying on of hands.

It was the general belief in
that church that every thing could be obtained by faith as long faith was
strong things had to happen according to your faith, God was obligated to do
and perform, when you put your faith in something He had promised in His
Word, this was the basic formula, whereby this faith operated and had been
successful in the life of Kenneth Hagin, who by this formula of faith, was
raised from a sickbed of death in his youth. The basis for this belief was
from (Romans 10:9-10) and (Marcus 11:23-24)

Later, more people got sick and
some died, in spite of the faith, claiming and positive confessions. The
church was dissolved several years later and gone over into a Elim church.

After these incidents and
several other, we decided to look for another church to go to . We found a
wonderful assembly of believers downtown Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

The services were outstanding and the love was present in
the believers, a down to earth church for the little man and the forgotten
people, quite different from where we came from where the standing of the
people was much higher, here we had regular loving and caring people and a
pastor called by God to Sheppard the children of God. This church was part
of the Elim churches in the States and Canada. A Pentecostal church with a
humble attitude and love for the people. We stayed at that church until we
moved back to Holland . We left with much weeping for the love for each
other had touched our hearts deeply. Through this assembly of God's people
we were sold out to these Pentecostals and gave us much hope and trust in
the Pentecostals in general

After My return in Holland in
1991, I have been in several churches, all Pentecostal- and gospel
churches. In two of these churches I had the privilege to serve as a pastor.

In 1993 I was asked to take over
a bible study group in our village in Holland, the group was attended
by people of different denominations and was a real blessing. During this
period I attended a bible school for two years.

In 2004 I have finished Term 1
of the Essentials of Your Faith Course at the Institute for Christian
Living, given by Dr Charles Stanley

Also in February 2007 I have
finished the Faith Foundations course, at the Institute For Christian
Living , during the period from June 2004 - February 2007. In December 2013 I was Married and together we carry on the Ministry
for India and here in Holland through teaching and preaching the Word. In 2015 we started to make video's for India and Testimonies
for local TV and Internet TV in the Netherlands. You can follow our video activity on Youtube ministryofhope.nl

This internet course is from
In Touch Ministriesby Dr. Charles Stanley in
the period of 14 years after 1991 and also in the years before I have been
studying the ministries of the gifts of the Spirit in Holland and also from
the States and Canada. "Toronto Blessing and so on.
Specially the ins en outs of the prosperity preaching "prosperity gospel".

Through an
indebt study of these teachings I have discovered many errors and have come
to the following conclusions:

1 Many of these preachers,
speak about blessings only and keep silent about the true purpose of
salvation.

2 The Bible is manipulated,
and because of the manipulation an other Gospel is preached.

3 Through the hyper faith
confessions and name it claim it gospel, many people have been robbed
from their dependency on God and losing their hope in God.

4 All things are centered
around entertainment and blessing, this will keep the people captive in
self indulgence, it is all about the "good feeling" and mistakenly taken
for the Holy Spirit.

5 God is being robbed from
His sovereignty and reduced to a God that handles according to the
dictates of His people (because it is His will that everybody should be
rich and healthy )at all times. These preachers are leading the people
into vain promises of deceit. Selling the people for gain into this
"different Gospel" avoiding the real purpose of salvation, such as
obtaining the crown of glory and learning obedience through suffering
and circumstances to become a sanctified vessel in the hand of God,
destined for "good works" and eternal life. The general idea is that the
suffering of Jesus was enough, therefore we are free from chastisement.

The result of this foreign gospel is that people are
being robbed from their purpose for God and don't understand the
sanctification process. They are not busy with the things of God and the
Kingdom, but with worldly and personal gain and profit.( the attributes of
Baal)

Always busy learning the crafty things of these teachers, to
reach their goal, not God's goal for our lives

At best the result would be, that people would find
themselves robbed from their money and see that they lost their hope and
confidence in God, then they may turn away from this "other gospel" and
return to the only truth, the Bible and study the scriptures for themselves
and let the Holy Spirit speak through the Word and come to the knowledge of
God for what He truly is.

Much worse is the outcome for the people who continue this
road no matter the cost and keep denying the truth , they keep resisting the
truth and keep running after gain for themselves, for satisfying their lust
for gain in any way. This fleshly and worldly way will separate them from
God more and more and will seduce them in their thinking, slowly but surely
putting on the blindfold and lead them into idolatry.

Many of these teachings are mixed with cultic "New Age"
thinking and can be traced by the contacts of these teachers through the
involvement or past contacts they had or still have. They are wolfs in
sheeps clothing.

Because of many of my own experiences and research with many
different movements and ministries, I have come to the conclusion that a
"new" gospel is trying to reach Europe from the U.S, Canada and parts of
Africa. This "foreign gospel" is a mix of truth and lie, and will lead to
the great falling away, where the bible is talking about in

2 Thess. 2:1-4 BUT RELATIVE to the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and our gathering together to [meet] Him, we beg
you, brethren,

2 Not to allow your minds to be quickly unsettled {or}
disturbed or kept excited {or} alarmed, whether it be by some [pretended]
revelation of [the] Spirit or by word or by letter [alleged to be] from us,
to the effect that the day of the Lord has [already] arrived {and} is here.

3 Let no one deceive {or} beguile you in any way, for that
day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted
great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come],
and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of
perdition),

4 Who opposes and exalts himself so proudly {and} insolently
against {and} over all that is called God or that is worshiped, [even to his
actually] taking his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself
is God.

The Leaders will speak of revival, but in reality it is the
beginning of the great falling away from God into idolatry. This is the
great pain Israel has caused God to judge His people over and over again.

Since I have consulted some websites that can contribute to
the insight and discernment of today's gospel. I am pleased to give them to
you for further study on the subject, I have found the following helpful
links for you.
I have to mention that the opinions expressed on these sites are not
necessarily the opinions of Ministry Of hope.

Here they are:

Back to the
Bible is a Dutch ministry in which a group of concerned leaders have
expressed their concern.
Back to the Bible

An other most
valuable Website is the Apologetics Index, it will give you profound
information, about persons, ministries, certain doctrines, cults,
occult, too much to mention it all. I personally have found this site
most helpful in my quest for bible truth. . Apologetics
Index

Then we have
the website of Biblical Discernment Ministries, on this website you go
to "discernment notebook", you will find valuable comments and an
exposing of the many of today's prominent preachers and teachers. You
will find that what they claim for themselves is genuine or not and
their true personality is exposed. Most importantly is the insight of
their specific and general teaching and preaching.Biblical
Discernment Ministries

Interesting is the warning and practices about the
Apostolic 5 fold ministries of today. go to the following direct page of
the 5 fold ministryAbout the 5 fold ministriesalso is interesting to read the experiences of this
person, when he grew up in the charismatic movement.Child
of the Charismatic's

These Web-sites will give you a wealth of information to
discern today's modern gospel.

Also a good
source of information is to be obtained from Watchman Fellowship Watchmen
Fellowship

4 All things are centered
around entertainment and blessing, this will keep the people captive in
self indulgence, it is all about the "good feeling" and mistakenly taken
for the Holy Spirit.

*And as last the also
a good source of information is to be obtained from Deception in the churchDeception
in the church

In all these web-sites there are more then 25000 pages and
links to check out your believes.

Ministry of Hope
God bless

May the Lord guide you and keep you and protect you, until the day you will
be standing before Jesus the righteous, being un afraid, clothes with white
linen.