Releasing Heaven's Realities through Jesus Christ
By Loving God and Loving People.
OUR DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
1. GOD
God has revealed Himself to be the Living and True God. There is one God Who is the Creator and Preserver of all things. He is One, existing eternally in the three persons of the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Who are of one essence and co-equal.
God the Father
God the Father works all things according to His own purpose. He is sovereign over all. His creative purpose and redemptive plan cannot be thwarted.
God the Son
Jesus Christ is God, the eternally pre-existent Son and Living Word, Who became incarnate through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth.
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He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person.
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Both natures are whole, perfect, and distinct. He was tempted in all ways, yet He lived a sinless life. He was obedient to God the Father, even unto death. He voluntarily atoned for sinners by dying on the cross as their substitute and shedding His blood for the forgiveness of their sins.
He thus revealed divine love and upheld divine justice, removing our guilt and reconciling us to God.
On the third day, He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died. He ascended bodily into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for believers.
He shall come again to complete His saving work and to complete God’s redemptive purpose.
God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit reveals and glorifies Christ and applies the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts the world of sin, truth, righteousness, and judgment.
He draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them as they respond with repentance, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth in order to conform them to the image and likeness of Christ, and seals them until the day of redemption.
His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith. The Holy Spirit administers spiritual gifts to the Church for the common good of all believers.
2. THE BIBLE
The basis of all Christian belief is the Bible, God’s written Word. It was and is uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit and is free from error in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.
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It is the authoritative and trustworthy rule of faith and practice for all Christians. All doctrinal statements must be measured against the full counsel of God in Holy Scripture.
3. MANKIND
Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God to know, glorify, worship and enjoy Him forever. Tempted by Satan, mankind willfully disobeyed God and sinned. Thus, people were alienated from their perfect Creator and plunged into a state of sin and separation from God.
This historic fall brought all people under the sentence of eternal condemnation and death.
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Man’s nature is corrupt, and he is thus, apart from the grace of God through faith, totally unable to please God, have fellowship with Him, or enter into His presence. Everyone is in need of salvation through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ as full payment for their sin and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
4. SIN
Sin is disobeying God and attempting to live and to meet our needs independently of Him.
5. SALVATION / REDEMPTION
Salvation is wholly a work of God’s grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human merit or goodness or religious ceremony. Jesus died upon the cross as the sinless substitute for sinners of all ages and times.
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Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. Therefore, His death perfectly satisfies the demands of God’s holy justice and appeases His holy wrath. All who receive, by faith, the resurrected Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are spiritually born into relationship with God by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Thus, God imputes His righteousness into those who put their faith solely in the substitutionary death of Christ for their salvation.
As a result of this faith, the redeemed sinner receives eternal life and is free from the penalty and power of sin and, in heaven, from the very presence of sin.
6. ETERNAL LIFE
Eternal life is a relationship that begins at the moment of salvation and continues forever. Eternal life is knowing the One True and Living God and Jesus Christ Whom He sent.
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The great end, which Christianity sets before us, is the joy of eternal life in the knowledge and presence of the Eternal God. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.
When the Holy Spirit indwells the new believer at the moment of salvation, He imparts this eternal life to the believer. Although all die physically, God will ultimately resurrect all believers in glorified bodies that are incorruptible, without sin, decay, illness, pain, or death–finally perfected for eternal life.
7. ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
Since human salvation is wholly a work of God’s grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human merit or goodness or religious ceremony, salvation rests securely with God. All who are born again of the Spirit can be assured of their salvation from the very moment at which they trust Christ as their Savior and Lord.
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Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
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This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit or feelings, but on the promise of God and the testimony of the Holy Spirit to the believer through His Word. Further, when a person is born of the Spirit of God, he is a new creation.
He now desires to please God. This new inclination, the intent of the heart, is called repentance and is evidence of a changed life. Therefore, the three-fold witness of salvation — the witness of Scripture, the witness of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the witness of a changed life — is God’s assurance that the believer is a child of God.
8. THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
There is an empowerment available through the HOLY SPIRIT (also referred to as the Baptism in the Holy Spirit). This is to endue the believer with power to be a witness (Acts 1:8). It is the will of God for every believer to walk in the Spirit daily.
The Holy Spirit has gifts to bestow upon every Christian.
9. SANCTIFICATION
From the moment of salvation, every believer is being conformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. This process is called sanctification.
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God’s promise is that He is faithful to complete this process He began in us.
God created us in Christ Jesus to do good works, which He prepared in advance for us to do, so that people will see our good works and praise our Father in Heaven.
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The Holy Spirit is the active agent in fulfilling these good works; the responsibility of the believer is to obey. Through obedience to the Word of God and the empowering of the Holy Spirit, the believer is able to live a life of increasing holiness in conformity to the will of God, becoming more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ.
10. CHRIST'S RETURN
Jesus Christ will come again to the earth–personally, visibly, and bodily — to consummate history and fulfill the eternal plan of God the Father. No man knows the day and time of Jesus’ return, but the fact of His return is certain.
The Scriptures declare that when Jesus returns to the earth in glory, every eye will behold Him, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Christian’s are to be about the Father’s business and are to maintain an attitude of expectancy.
11. JUDGMENT
There will come a day when everyone who has lived will stand before God to be judged. Christians: All who confess Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord have already been judged at the Cross and have passed from death to life.
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Their names will be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and they will be ushered into God’s presence forever. Their works, however, will be judged and each Christian will receive what is due him for the things done while in his mortal body.
Non-believers: If anyone’s name is not found written in the Book of Life, he will be thrown into the lake of fire, which is the second death, being punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and the majesty of His power.
12. THE CHURCH
Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body. The Church is not a building or an institution; rather it is composed of all people who have received salvation.
His people are to assemble together regularly to devote themselves to worship, teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer.
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The Lord Jesus commanded His Church to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all He has commanded.
The Church is to reflect the love of Christ through its service to others.
13. MANIFESTING GOD'S KINGDOM TO THOSE AROUND US
Our God is a good God and He desires to bless His children. He is a God of abundant provision and He desires to manifest His provision to our lives.
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Each one of the redemptive names of Jehovah was revealed to show us that God is the answer to our every need.
He is our Deliverer, Righteousness, Healer, Peace, Provider, Banner, etc. Prosperity is the ability to draw upon God’s ability to meet the needs of mankind. It begins by God meeting our own needs and extends to the place where God is meeting the needs of others through our lives.
God’s desires to manifest His prosperity in these areas of our lives:
Spiritual Prosperity – This is experienced at salvation!
Mental Prosperity – This is walking in the peace and joy of the Lord!
Physical Prosperity – This is walking in healing and health!
Financial Prosperity – This is seeing God meet our every need according to His riches in glory and being a greater blessing to others as a result.