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About God |
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The Lord our God, the Lord is One!
Deuteronomy. 6:4 NKJV |
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You believe that there is One God, you do well.
James 2:19 NKJV |
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Jesus said, There is One God , and there is no other but He. Mark 12:32 NKJV |
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For us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things.
1 Corinthians 8:6 NKJV |
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He eternally exists in three persons: The Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit – three in One. By example one man may be a father, a son and a brother, but be the same person. |
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About Jesus Christ |
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Jesus Christ is eternally God.
1 Timothy 3:16 |
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He is God the Son, He is the Word made manifest. According to scripture he was born of a virgin, the seed of Abraham. He lived a sinless human life. He demonstrated God’s love and healing power to man.
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He gave Himself as a perfect sacrifice and shed His redeeming blood for all sins, for all peoples, for all time on the Cross. He fully fulfilled the law, disarmed satan, made a spectacle of him, triumphed over him in it, made intercession for sinners, pleased God. He died.
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According to scripture after three days He was raised by the Spirit of Holiness victorious over sin and death He gave liberty and life. He was seen by many witnesses. Gave commandments through the Holy Spirit for the sharing of the gospel.
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He ascended to heaven, being glorified at God’s right hand He reigns King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s pouring out His Holy Spirit on all who receive the gospel. He is the promise of the Father, He is our ever-living hope, and He is coming again to judge the living and the dead and to be glorified in all who believe the gospel.
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Jesus Christ is Lord. Amen! |
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About the Holy Spirit |
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The Holy Spirit is eternally God. He is the Spirit of Holiness who convicts: |
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- the world of sin because they do not believe in Jesus Christ
- of righteousness because it is available through Jesus Christ
- of coming judgment because satan has been judged by Jesus Christ |
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He guides us into all truth, granting repentance teaching us to abide in Christ. |
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He comes to live and make His home in every Christian from the moment of salvation. And everyone who is lead by the Holy Spirit lives free from condemnation as a child of God. |
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He gives every believer special abilities to serve Jesus Christ in building His Church and sharing His gospel. He is our Helper, our Comforter who seals us all for eternal life. |
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About the Bible |
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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”
John 1:1 NKJV |
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The Bible is God’s Word. Men inspired by the Holy Spirit wrote as God enabled them. |
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“God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds….who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high…”
Hebrews 1:1-3 LB |
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Today we do not have to wonder what His word is to us. Jesus is the ever living message of God. For God declared His gospel from Genesis to Revelation that to Him every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God. |
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“…He was in the beginning with God….all things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made…in Him was life, and the life was the light of men…..and the Word became 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…”
John 1:2-4, 14 NKJV |
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“It is through Christ the scriptures are opened up to us; in order to open the eyes of our understanding and turn us from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God that we may receive forgiveness of sins and our inheritance among all those who are sanctified by faith in Jesus.”
Acts 26:18 NKJV |
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Jesus said, “…and this gospel will be preached to all the world as a witness to all the nations…”
Matthew 24:14 NKJV |
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Every believer has been given a new heart and mind in which His Word lives. God says to us all, My Word is near you…it is in your heart and mouth…share it and I will save all those who hear you. |
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About Human Beings |
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Both man and woman were made in God’s image. Created according to the good pleasure of His will in His likeness. However, because Adam, the first man disobeyed God, everyone is born with a sin nature and therefore separated from God – which is the reason we suffer all the problems in this world. Romans 5:12. But God came in Jesus Christ – a man, to give us new birth. |
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About Our Salvation |
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Salvation is a free gift of God made available through Jesus Christ. No one can ever cancel or pay for the debt of their sin by self improvement or good works. Only by repentance towards Jesus Christ, and living in Him who in His own blood on the cross suffered the punishment for all our sins, and in His death, freely has taken all sin away, can anyone be saved. |
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“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved…”
Acts 4:12 NKJV |
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About Our Eternal Security |
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We were created to live forever! Either eternally separated from God because of sin which is unimaginable suffering and hell, or eternally in His presence because of Jesus which is joy un-speakable and full of glory in heaven. Heaven and hell are real places. We have a choice!! |
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What security do we have that we don’t have to go to hell but will go to heaven? |
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Christ Himself is our security. “For he who has the Son has life.” 1 John 5:12 NKJV. Christ ever lives to make intercession for us. His life and ministry at the Father’s right hand secures our eternal salvation. Jesus said He would go and prepare a place for us that where He is we will be also. John 14:2 NKJV |
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Our hope is in nothing less than Jesus Christ and His righteousness. He upholds us in His own righteousness by which we bear the fruit of His holiness. For without holiness no one will see God. No self-effort can secure such absolute, complete, unshakable and everlasting salvation. Truly we are what we are by the grace of God. |
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About Tithing |
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We understand that God is the one who blesses us with all good things, including our income. |
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He also helps us to enjoy and manage our finances by teaching us to honour Him, before everything else, as we give back to Him the tithe – that is one tenth (10%) of our income. |
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When we continue to recognize Him as our provider and honour Him above things, we are assured of a continual and more than enough supply. It is through us giving the tithe of all into His house, the Church, that we recognize and honour Him. God Himself has said, “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
Malachi 3:10; 1 Chronicles 29:12-14 NKJV |
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About Water Baptism |
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“Jesus said, ‘He who believes and is baptised will be saved.’”
Mark 16:16 NKJV |
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For sin’s power over us was broken when we became Christians and were baptised to become a part of Jesus Christ; through his death the power of your sinful nature was shattered. Your old sin-loving nature was buried with him by baptism when he died, and when God the Father, with glorious power, brought him back to life again, you were given his wonderful new life to enjoy.
Romans 6:3-4 LB |
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In water baptism we obey God’s Word and follow Jesus Christ. |
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About The Church |
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“…the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground (foundation) of truth…”
1 Timothy 3:15 NKJV |
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Christ loved the church. “…the church of God which He purchased with His own blood…” Act 20:28 NKJV.
“He gave up His life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s Word. He did this to present her to Himself as a glorious Church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish… she will be holy and without fault.”
Ephesians 5:25-27 NLT |
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“God put all things under the authority of Christ and has made Him head over all things for the benefit of the Church. And the Church is His Body,. It is made full and complete by Christ Who fills all things everywhere with Himself”.
Ephesians 1:22-23 NLT |
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To God be the Glory in the Church by Christ Jesus. |
