Statement of Beliefs & Sound Doctrine //
Statement of Beliefs - Page Still In Progress - Also - Recurring Themes
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1. There is only one God Almighty and Creator three in one. The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. There are many others who either claim to be God or claim to worship other Gods but these all are in fact all created beings and must give due service and accountability to the Eternal Creator and Jesus Christ the Lord.
2. The historical figure written about in ancient history documents whose name was Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem Israel was and is in fact the Word of God made into Human form. He was the Son of Man, born of the Virgin Mary as his earthly Mother and also the Son of God in the same person, Fathered by His and our Father in Heaven through the brooding of the Holy Spirit on the Virgin Mary. He also is the exact same one prophesied about numerous times before his coming to the Earth, by many great Men of God over a period of many generations all the way back to Adam and Eve. He was the Christ of God, the Messiah of Israel and all the World and the Lord over all things in Heaven and Earth.
3. Jesus the Christ the Lord over all mankind, all the Earth and all of the Heavens, lived on the Earth among His own people the Jews and taught the Word and ways and will of God the Father. He also healed all who came to him when he went to them and even cast out demons, raised the dead, called Disciples out of those His Father gave Him and appointed twelve of them, to begin with, as His Apostles and sent them forth to carry on His work after he dies.
4. This same Jesus, after He lived amongst the Jews and suffered and shed his precious blood, was also crucified on the Cross and died for all souls ever born and then rose again in bodily form on the third day as the Scriptures foretold, conquering Death, Hell, and the Grave for all who come to him in faith to be saved. He is also the one that is foretold to be returning again to the Earth in bodily form, as He left on the day He ascended back to His Father after having spent forty days after His resurrection showing himself to whomsoever He was meant to.
5. As Jesus and the Scriptures foretold, after Jesus ascended back to Heaven to complete his mission, and was seated by His Father at His right hand, sent the Holy Spirit as the gift He prophesied about, to His followers in order to empower them to carry on His Work in His Name, and with the same power He had while he was amongst them.
6. Just as Jesus came only to do the will of His Father as His Father showed Him to, He requires of us that we do the same as He in our daily life. When Jesus came the first time He also came to complete and fulfill the Old Covenant He began with the Jews of old and install the New Covenant, sealed in His Blood instead of the blood of bulls and goats. The Old Covenant in part required the chosen people of God throughout the time before his coming to earth to believe in and follow the “Laws of Moses” delivered by The Lord through His Servant Moses. The New Covenant, instituted by Jesus require that all men now be ruled by the Lord through the same working and role of the Holy Spirit as was Jesus when He was here.
7. The Bible that was given to us by The Lord our God as He directed it to be, and was canonized as it is today [without the Apocrypha] long after Jesus rose from the dead, is the only specially anointed spiritual writings and the very “Word of God” to all mankind that He will judge all mankind by, is in fact one and the same as the pre-existent Jesus the Lord the Word in Heaven. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit divinely intervened in mankind’s affairs and supernaturally provided us with the Bible we now have. He did so by moving upon great men of old by His Holy Spirit, inspiring their minds and pens to ascribe precisely what He wanted written. Although penned by men over the Centuries it is the infallible very words and messages and prophecies to all mankind about everything we will ever need to believe in and follow while we are in this mortal existence.
8. All mankind from Adam and Eve have been born into sin and have also committed sins and transgressions and trespasses without remedy of their own ever since then. And this is the very reason that God sent His only Son and offspring to come and live amongst us, without sin or without sinning, to free us from everything that would keep us from being Holy and Righteous and upright, as the Lord created us to be. All men must become Born Again, as the Scripture says, and become new creatures, In Christ, in order to be saved from the inevitability of sin and death forever. Anyone who passes from this mortal life without being born again of the Spirit, the Blood, and the Word, through Jesus cannot enter the Kingdom of God and of His Christ and must be transferred to the place of eternal punishment and the Lake of Fire that Jesus taught about. There are no exceptions.
9. As the Bible and Holy Scripture have prophesied and predicted one day God Almighty and the Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit will entirely restore the chosen people of God the Jews to their homeland to their original glory and place amongst men on the earth and Jesus will in fact rule and reign with them and among them on the earth, from the City of Jerusalem with a rod of iron, for one thousand years.
10. There is coming a day in time and a place where all things created and all beings created will experience final judgment of where they will spend eternity. Those with the New Life of Jesus along with the Angels who did not rebel in the first, will go on into eternity forever with the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. All else who are not ascribed in the Book of Life will be transferred to the Lake of Fire where they will be tormented forever and all memory of them and the world they were in will be erased from all consciousness.
11. After this Great White Throne Judgment, as the Bible calls it, the existing Heavens and the Earth will be done away with and a New Heavens and a New Earth, wherein will dwell righteousness only forever. Then the City of God the very “Zion” that is now in Heaven being prepared as a bride would be prepared for her wedding will ascend out of God from Heaven and will set upon the earth forever. There will be no more seas, no more sin, or death, or hell, or the grave, or unrighteousness, or pain, or sickness, or suffering, or wars, or pestilence, or anything at all that was condemned and devoted to destruction by the Lord from the previous Heavens and Earth.
12. As soon as someone becomes a Believer in and a follower of the Lord Jesus, through the Holy Spirit of the Father, as a rule, they should not be encouraged to get involved in one of the local in house Ministries of that congregation. They should primarily be plugged into a program of discipleship and ministry training for a minimum of two years first. This of course applies as a rule. There will sometimes be exceptions.
13. We believe that there is no place in the Body of Christ for Liberal Feminism but it is there to a large degree as well. Likewise there is no place in the Body of Christ for wives who do not submit to and cooperate with their husbands, as unto the Lord, yet, it is there as well. Likewise there is no place for husbands not treating their wives properly, yet it is there as well. Likewise, there is no place for men to view and relate to women in a non Christ like way, but it is there as well.
14. For the Time Being God does allow and ordain in His allowing, certain of those of His servants to experience sickness, affliction, illness, adversity, and all other forms of tribulation and testing. He still uses the fires of refinement, the water of affliction, the bread of adversity, and the trials of the righteous to perfect and complete his will. This does not mean in anyway that He does not approve of nor believe in divine miraculous healings and deliverances and restorations. Our place is to pray and believe and stand in faith and He alone holds the keys to the timing, the place, the method, the type and amount of these divine provisions. There is no reason in Heaven or on the earth that can prevent us from being sound doctrinal flourishing followers of Christ and mighty witnesses for him just because of any of these circumstances, including sickness.
15. Until a Believer in and a Follower of The Lord Jesus Christ removes a person from this mortal existence into immortality with him they can still use the power of their will to choose to decide to abandon the faith and go back to the old life and ways and as such are in danger of not making it to Heaven when the Lord calls to Him. It may or may not be the case, and in these cases only God knows for certain, we do not. But there should never be a situation where it is nearly impossible to be able to tell if a person is ready to meet the Lord or not. This is not right, it is not a Biblical life and God will be the Judge, not us. We must always pray for those individuals.
16. There are those in the midst of us who profess to know Christ Jesus, and they may or may not. But they overemphasize the demonstrations of the Presence and Power of the Holy Spirit and His Ministry and working to a point where it becomes a stumbling block to the New Christian and a dis-orderly conduct case to the unbeliever. When they behave themselves in a way that is more physical and of a sensory or sensual nature [not referring to sexual activity] and they say it is a demonstration of the Presence and power of the Holy Spirit, in some cases but not all what you are seeing is how their own nature may be responding to the presence of the Spirit but not necessarily an outward manifestation of the Holy Spirit himself. Beware, Be careful, Be advised, Be sober, and Test the Spirits.
Here are some of the recurring themes you will find in our messages, & teachings. They are all intertwined with each other and reflect the Statement of Beliefs.
- There are Times, Places, and Seasons in God's Kingdom and in our lives. The absolute sovereign ownership of us by God. All things in balance, and in order. He can do as he pleases with what belongs to him.
- Being Led by the Holy Spirit in ALL things, all the time, and not by our own direction or understanding. This is progressive as well. Practice patiently waiting on and for Him.
- Making Believers out of Christians and true followers out of Disciples. Most of us are very lacking in the "believing" and the "following after" department.
- We just don't know as much as we'd like to assume we do ["for we know in part"] and we ask too many [foolish] questions about what we don't need to know. Just concentrate on declaring what is known and trust the Lord for the "increase".
- All of God's Word(s) is not only found in the Bible, but will never violate the Bible. Even the Bible refers to prophecies [ old and new testament] being spoken and we don't even know what was said. But we must be very careful and test the spirits. We do not simply refer to a Bible verse or passage alone. The insights and teachings of the Spirit found in between the lines in our studies is also valid and can come from God, as well as what God himself is doing and has done in and throughout the life testimonials of his children around the world and through the ages even until now.
- God has been active and working amongst men for thousands of years and the Living Epistle lives of all of God's people in Church History all that time and how he directed their lives also show us proof of what is found in God's Word. And If He has done some thing before amongst men He may do so again. He is authorized and able.
- We should get used to the joy of repentance and the blessing of confessing each and every wrong shown to us, daily, and keep short accounts with men and God.
- The Scripture teaches about living a Holy Upright life before God and man and reaching towards being as faultless, blameless, guiltless, spotless, as is possible. It was done before the Cross and can still be done.
- "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be disappointed, rightly dividing the truth." [2 Tim. 2:15] declaring, explaining, believing and living the Whole Bible, [Acts 20:27] as it stands before the Cross and the Blood.
- Suffering from sickness, disease, illness, affliction, and all other kinds, physical or mental or relational, or financial, or marital, or occupational, or social, or any other kind is not necessarily a sin or a lack of faith. It is also a glory, honor, privilege and opportunity to rejoice in suffering because your a Christian, either at the assaults of the devil, or even someone else. God has and can and still does, by allowing these things, ordain them as a part of our lives, at times, places, and in seasons. Even if it's our fault.
- By walking by faith and in trusting Jesus for our salvation primarily means not trusting at all in any of our goodness, no matter how we think it compares to our wrongs. Our's can never match or even exceed Jesus life. But this walk of faith and trusting cannot even be done in this way if a person is still running their own life.
- "For the Time Being", referring to what God is permitting and allowing now, and also his preferred and ideal "will" which he will not see completed fully until the New Heavens and the New Earth are here and sin, satan, and this world's system are no more. Both aspects of His Will are "perfect" in the sense that whatever he wants to do and does is without challenge and without fault.
- Understanding God’s will and ways. This is best summed up here and now in the phrase “for the time being”. As God allows things to take place that may not even be his ideal preferred way He is in effect pre-ordaining it to happen. But that does not mean it will stay that way. God did not make you the way you are, and he won’t leave you that way, and has only allowed you to be this way, “for the time being”.
- All of the "If's" from the Holy Scriptures. Can a Christian miss Heaven?
- All of the “As” terms. Scriptural insight into that word study.
John 1
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
3. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
11. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Isaiah 53
1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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