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THE BIBLE:
We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, inerrant, complete
and final revelation of God's will to man, and the supreme standard to all
faith and life. (Isaiah 40:8; II Timothy
3:16, 17; John 10:35; II Peter 1:19-21)
We believe the King James Bible, AV 1611, to be
the inerrant Word of
God, providentially preserved and transmitted to the people of our time. We
believe it is unique in its unerring portrayal
of the exact rendering of the original Text, and that it reigns Supreme, having
no rival among all English Translations
of the world. We do not believe there is any need to revise, update, correct,
better explain, or change in any
way, the present King James Bible, AV 1611.
GOD:
We believe in one God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, manifesting himself in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; one in nature, attributes, power, and glory.
(Genesis 1:1; Mark 12:39; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14; John 1:1-4,14;
John 5:17-27; Philippians 2:6-11)
JESUS CHRIST:
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary and that He is true God and true man.
(Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35; John 1:1-4, 14: John 5:17-27, Philippians 2:6-11)
MAN:
We believe that man was created in
the image and likeness of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from
God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are
sinners in thought, word, and deed.
(Genesis 1:26; 2:7-9, 16, 17; 3:1-9;
Psalm 14:3, 4; 51:5; 58:3; Romans 5:12; Ephesians
2:1-3).
SALVATION:
We believe that the
Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a
substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe-on Him are
justified on the ground of His shed blood on the cross, and are saved by grace through faith, wholly apart from human-merit and works. True
salvation is brought by true repentance.
(John 1:29; Acts 2:39,
3:19, 13:38-39, 16:31, 17:30, 20:21, 26:20; Romans 3:21-28; Ephesians
2:8-10, Titus 3:3-8).
REGENERATION:
We believe that all who
receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God, and thereby become children of God.
(John 3:3-8, 14-16, 1:12, 13, 5:24;
10:28, 29;I Peter 1:23; II Peter 1:4-7; I John
3:1-3).
THE HOLY
SPIRIT:
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a
divine person, and the administrator of the things of God: convincing
of sin, revealing Christ, teaching the truth, restraining evil, energizing
believers in prayer, worship and service, and is ever present in the
believer as our comforter and helper.
(Psalm 139:7-12; John 7:38, 39;
15:26; 16:13, 14; Acts 1:8; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 6:19; II
Thessalonians 2).
SATAN:
We believe in the
reality and personality of Satan: that he is a created being of beauty and
power, the prince of this world, the god of this age, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience; that he fell through pride, and that he will be judged and cast into the lake of
fire.
(Ezekiel 28:12-18; Isaiah 14:12-14;
Job 1:6, 7; John 8:44; Ephesians 2:2; II Corinthians 4:4, 11, 13-15;
Revelation 20:1-3, 7-10).
THE RETURN OF
CHRIST:
We believe in the resurrection of
the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into Heaven, His present
life there for us as our High Priest and Advocate, and His personal, bodily,
visible, premillenial
return to establish His kingdom on earth, to
reign as the only potentate: the King of Kings and Lord of
Lords.
(Luke 24:26-43; John 20:24-29; Acts
1:9, 10; I Corinthians 15:20-25; I Timothy 6:14, 15; Revelation 1:7; 19:11-16; 20:6).
THE RAPTURE OF THE
CHURCH:
We believe that at any moment the
rapture of the saved may occur, when the Lord Himself shall descend
from heaven. . . ." to catch up His people to meet Him in the air; and so shall
we ever be
with the Lord.
(John 14:1-3; I Thessalonians
4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:51-58).
HEAVEN AND HELL:
We believe in the bodily resurrection
of all the dead: the saved, to a 1ife of eternal glory and
bliss in
heaven with God; the unsaved, to eternal judgment of conscious suffering and woe
in the lake of fire.
(John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:6,
11-15, 21:1-8; Matthew 10:28, 18:8-9, 25:41 and 46; Mark 9:43-49; II
Thessalonians 1:6-9).
EVANGELISM:
We believe that it is
the privilege and responsibility of every believer to be a personal soul winner
and
to do his utmost to give the Gospel of Christ to the whole
world.
(Mark 16:15-16; Acts
1:8; Matthew 4:19; John 17:18, 20:21 and II Corinthians
5:20).
SEPARATION:
We believe that we are
called to be a separated people to abide in Christ, to walk in the Spirit and to
enjoy victory over the world, the flesh and the
devil.
(Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 5:16; I
John 2:15- 17;Colossians 3:1-17 and II Corinthians
2:14).
ORDINANCES:
We believe that there
are two ordinances of the Church: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. We-believe
that believer's baptism by immersion is the scriptural
mode.
(Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; I
Corinthians 11:23-32; Matthew
3:16).
ETERNAL SECURITY:
believe that all who have truly
been born again by the Spirit of God through faith in Christ are
eternally secure. We believe it is the privilege of all such to be assured of
their present salvation and eternal
security.
(John 10:20-29, 5:24; II Timothy
1:12; Philippians 1:6, Romans 8:33-39)
ARE YOU 100% SURE YOU'RE SAVED?
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