Statement of Faith - First
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Believing on the LORD Jesus Christ is committing our life to submit
to His authority and control and being willing to surrender completely in His
Will--surrender all!
When we repent and confess our sins, and accept Christ by faith, and are
born-again from above, we then come into union with Christ, receive the Holy
Spirit and become a member of God’s family. The Holy Spirit will also give us
the strength and will to obey God, and to do His Will in all things, turning our
life over to His full control (1st John 3:1,2; Romans 8:16-17).
It requires a complete change of living, our will for His Will, being willing to
learn God's Will and obey it. When
we read the LORD Jesus' Words in Matthew 7:20-27 for instance, we learn that
obedience is necessary. We must read
and study these other passages also, to learn what God expects of us (Hebrews
3:6,15; Romans 11:22, 1st John 2:3-6; Colossians 1:23; 1st
Corinthians 15:2; John 6:66; John 8:30,31; Luke 8:13; John 14:23; 1st
John 1:6; John 15:14; Romans 8:9; 1st Corinthians 7:19; John 9:31 and
John 12:26). We are warned over and
over again in these Scriptures that obedience and submission to God's Whole Will
are NECESSARY.
We believe
in the Triune
God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe in triune immersion for
baptism by going into the water as our LORD Jesus Christ did.
We believe in the partaking of the LORD’s Supper (Matthew 3:16; 28:19;
Colossians 2:12; Luke 22:19-20; 1st Corinthians 11:23-26).
We believe the teachings of Scripture (The Holy Bible) in the Old and New
Testaments as the inspired Word of God (2nd Timothy 3:16; 1st Thessalonians 2:13; 2nd Peter
1:21).
We believe
and teach that all men have sinned, Romans 3:23; 6:23.
We therefore conclude that all must die because of sin.
More than
that, all are dead--spiritually and judicially, in trespasses and sins of which
the wrath of God must descend in condemnation (Ephesians 2:1-3; John 3:18,36).
We believe in the doctrine of the Atonement; that Christ died for our sins, that
His death was sacrificial and absolutely necessary for man’s redemption.
We are not redeemed by the doctrine of the atonement, but by the
atonement itself, the precious Blood of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
We believe the sacrifice of the Son of God was the vicarious offering for sin by
which God’s righteous demand was satisfied. Through His Blood we
have redemption, the forgiveness of sins; for the LORD Jesus Christ suffered for
us, the Just for the unjust that He might bring us to God, Ephesians 1:7; 1st
Peter 3:18.
We
believe in the Bodily Resurrection of Christ.
The whole plan of Salvation was based on the Death and Resurrection of
the Sinless Son of God. By His
Resurrection He has proved that God is Almighty, and Satan a defeated foe.
It was necessary in order that believers in Christ might know that God’s
justice has been satisfied and they are justified (Romans 4:25).
We believe in the Substitutionary Death of the LORD Jesus Christ on the Cross
for sin and this is the central fact in God’s Plan of Redemption.
The Blood of the Son of God was shed for the remission of sin, and we who
are sinners have been justified before God, through faith, merely by believing
in Him as the Son of God and only Savior (John 3:16), through trusting in Him
and what He accomplished there (1st Corinthians 15:21,22).
We believe that the testimony of God is that he that believes on the Son has
Everlasting Life.
Faith is to place reliance upon God’s
Witness and to believe in His Son.
To believe God’s revelation is to acknowledge that God is true.
To reject it, is to make Him a liar.
The former is faith, the latter unbelief!
We believe that for a man to gain Heaven, he must be regenerated by God; born
again from above.
It is through faith in God, faith in
Christ’s Atonement Sacrifice that a man is saved, regenerated (John 3:16,18,36;
John 5:24). Only God can save (Acts
4:12).
And like repentance, faith is not an act of merit upon the part of
him who evidences it, but it is a divinely implanted conviction (Romans 10:17).
We are not saved by faith; we are saved by Grace through Faith!
Faith is simply the channel through which God’s Grace to us is received.
It is the hand that reaches out and receives the gift of His Love.
We believe the New Birth whereby new life is communicated to the recipient,
Divine Life--Christ
Himself living in the heart by the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit
(Galatians 2:20; 1st Corinthians 6:19,20).
We believe that our position, by God’s Grace and through Faith, is that we are
now United with Christ,
born anew by the Word and the Spirit; are new creations in Christ, possessors of
Divine Life.
It is by Grace that we are justified
(Romans 3:24). Therefore, since we
are saved by Grace, we become justified through Grace.
Grace is God’s Free Gift.
Justification is our title to Eternal Life. Pardon for sin
removes its penalty--death.
Justification gives its reward--Life.
We believe that Romans 8:4 gives us our relationship to the law:
“In order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met
IN us, (NOT ‘by us’), who do not live according to the sinful nature but
according to the Spirit.”
We believe that just as God had to quicken the deadness of Sarah’s womb--so God
must also quicken those who are dead in trespasses and sins.
Redemption means complete deliverance by a price paid.
Christ’s Death on the Cross completed this redemption.
We
believe that man wants to earn rather than receive Salvation.
Salvation is based on the Loving Goodness of God and never on the
supposed worthiness of the sinner!
We believe as the Bible teaches, the Christian is IN Christ, and God sees us
only as He sees Christ.
Being “IN Christ” we are in God’s sight what Christ is.
Romans 3:28
and 5:1,9 “Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the
deeds of the law. Therefore, having
been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our LORD Jesus Christ.
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through Him.”
We believe and trust God alone for protection from any harm without using any
human efforts
(Psalm 23:1-6; 27:5; 91:1-16; 121:1-8; Isaiah 25:4).
We believe that God does not permit sickness and disease to correct or make us
grow spiritually
(Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 7:11).
We believe and trust God alone for our divine (physical) healing,
which is wrought by the Power of God through the prayer of faith and provided
for in the Atonement of Christ, without the use of doctors, drugs or medicine
whatsoever. It is pure common sense
that since the body was made by God, then He is the only One to be trusted or
depended upon for healing. God has
been the healer of true believers for all ages (Exodus 15:26b; 2nd Chronicles
16:12-13; Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 4:23; Acts 10:38; James 5:14-15).
We believe and trust God alone spiritually to meet wrongs right.
We trust God to die to self, and carry the Cross daily in every aspect of
our Christian life. We all know that unless we are fully under the control of
God’s Holy Spirit, it is impossible to allow others to walk over us, be
everybody’s doormat, everybody’s slave and everybody’s servant (Matthew 5:38-48;
16:24-27; Luke 6:27-36; John 12:25-26; Romans 6:11; Romans 12:1-2,14,17-20).
We believe
and trust God alone financially to supply all our material needs.
The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross cover
every need,
and that is why it is unscriptural to go into debt by borrowing or purchasing
any article with the intention to pay on installments.
We are not to take thought for the morrow but to look to God for our
supplies a day at a time (2nd Corinthians 8:9; Philippians 4:19;
Psalm 50:15; Romans 13:8, Matthew 5:7; 6:11,25-34, Luke 3:11; 11:13; Malachi
3:10; Psalm 41:2-3; Proverbs 19:17)
We close with the LORD Jesus’ Words, “I assure you, most solemnly I
tell you, the person whose ears are open to My Words—who listens to My
Message—and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me
has (possess now) Eternal Life” (John 5:24).
Amen.
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Gospel Church
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USA
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February 2000
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