The Bible is our all sufficient rule for faith and practice. This statement of fundamental truth is intended simply as a basis of fellowship among us (i.e. that we all speak the same thing, (1Cor 1:10, Acts 2:42).
CONDUCT: The Christian daily conduct should be above reproach so that he/she will not bring shame upon the LORD’S name and the ministry to which he is called (Heb. 12:14, 1John 2:15-17, 1Cor 8:9-13, 2Cor 7:1). Therefore, temper quarrels, gossips, jealous, hatred, lies, boastfulness, prides, fornication, lust, etc. are to be controlled or not to be practiced. The word holy means to be separated from all that is unclean and to be consecrated to all that is sacred and pure. God alone is perfect and holy; man is imperfect and sinful. Therefore, man must become holy by putting off the sins of the flesh and by putting on God’s righteousness (Rom. 6:12-13).
DRESSING: The Christian dressing should be modest, conforming to the standard set forth in the scriptures (1Peter 3:3-5, 1Tim 2:9, 10). Both in the church and in the respective communities of each Christian; our dressing should be without reproach or blame.
THE SCRIPTURES INSPIRED: The scriptures both the Old Testimony and the New Testimony are verbally inspired and fulfilled of God and are the revelation of God to man; the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct (2Tim 3:15-17, 1Thes 2:13, 2Peter 1:21).
THE ONE TRUE GOD: The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent and the Creator of Heavens and the Earth and Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association (Deut 6:4, Isa. 43:10-11, Matt 28:11, Luke 3:32, 1Tim 3:16).
TERMS DEFINED: The term “Trinity” and “Person” as related to the Godhead while not found in the scripture, are words in harmony with scriptures, whereby we may convey to others our immediate understanding of the doctrine of Christ respecting the being of God, as distinguished from “gods many and lords many”. We therefore may speak with propriety of the Lord our God, who is one Lord, as Trinity or as one being of three persons and still be absolutely scriptural (example Matt. 28:19, 2Cor 13:14, Matt 3:16-17)..
DISTINCTION OF PERSONS AND RELATIONSHIP IN GODHEAD: Christ Jesus taught a distinction of persons in the Godhead which is expressed in specific terms of relationship, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but that this distinction and relationship is inscrutable and incomprehensible because unexplained (Luke 1:35, 1Cor 1:25, Matt 11:25-27, 28:19, and 1John 1:3-4).
Unity of the one being of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit/Ghost accordingly therefore, there is that in the Son, which constitute Him the Son, and not the Father, and there is the Begotten and the Holy Spirit is the one proceeding from the Father and the Son. Therefore, because these three persons in the Godhead are in a state of unity, there is but one God Almighty and His name is One. He is called on earth when He revealed Himself on earth as Jesus Christ; Emmanuel, "God with us" (so we strongly claim that Jesus is God!). (John 1:18, 15:26, 17:11, 21, Zech 14:19, 1Timothy 3:16).
Identity and God Co-operation in the Godhead. The Father, the Son and Holy Spirit are never identical as to person, nor confused as to relation; nor divided in respect to Godhead, not opposed as to co-operation. The Son is in the Father and the Father is in the Son as to fellowship and self-nature.
The title Lord Jesus Christ is a proper name. It is never applied in the New Testament either to the Father or to Holy Spirit. It therefore belongs to the Son (Romans 1:1-3, 7).
The Lord Jesus Christ, God with us. The Lord Jesus Christ as to His divine and eternal nature is the proper and only begotten of the Father, but as to human nature, He is the proper Son of man. He is therefore acknowledged as both God and man and so He carries the title Emmanuel “God with US” (Matt 1:23, 1John 4:2, 10, 14, Rev 1:13, 17).
THE TITLE, SON OF GOD: Since the name “Immanuel” embraces both God and man in one person, our Lord Jesus Christ, it follows that the title, Son of God describes His proper deity, and the title Son of Man, His proper humanity. Therefore, the title Son of God belongs to order of eternity, and the title, Son of Man to the order of time (Matt 1:21-23, 2John 3, Heb 7: 3, 1:1-13).
TRANSGRESSION OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST:Wherefore, it is a transgression of the doctrine of Christ to say that Jesus Christ derived the title, the Son of God, solely from the fact of the incarnation or because of His relation to the economy of redemption. Therefore to deny that the Father is real and eternal, and the Son is real and eternal, is a denial of the distinction and relationship in the being of God; a denial of the Father and Son; is a displacement of the truth that Christ is come in the flesh (2Jn 9; John 1:1-2, 18, 29; 1John 2:22-23; 4:1-5, Heb 12:2).
EXALTATION OF JESUS CHRIST AS LORD: The Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, having by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on High; angels and principalities and powers having being made subject under Him. And been made both Lord and Christ, He sent the Holy Spirit that we in the name of Jesus only might bow our knees and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of the Father that He was made God in all (Heb 1:3, 1Peter 3:22, Acts 2:32-36, Rom 14:11, 1Cor 15:24-28).
EQUAL HONOR TO THE FATHER AND THE SON: Wherefore, since the Father has delivered all judgment unto the Son. It is not only the expressed duty of all of Heaven and on Earth to bow the knees, but is an unspeakable joy in the HOLY Spirit to ascribe unto the Son all the attributes of deity, and to give Him all the honor and glory contained in all names and titles of the Godhead (except those which expressed relationship-see paragraph a, b and d) and thus honor the Son as we honor the Father (John 5:22-23, 1Peter 1:18, Rev 1:8; 5:6-14; 7, 9-10, 4:8, and Phil 2:8-9).
THE DEITY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST: The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The scriptures declare His virgin birth. (Matt 1:23, Luke 1:31, 35), His sinless life (Heb 7:26, 1 Peter 2:22), His miracles (Acts 2:22, 10:38), His substitutionary work on the cross (1Cor 15:3, 2 Cor 5:21), His bodily resurrection from the dead (Matt 28:6, Luke 24:39, 1Cor 15:4), His exaltation to the right hand of God pleading for us day and night (Acts 1:9, 11, 2:33, Phil 2:9-11, Heb 1:3).
THE SALVATION OF MAN: Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
CONDITION OF SALVATION: Salvation is received through repentance and faith towards God (Jesus Christ). By washing of the generation and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes the heir of God according to the hope of eternal life (Luke 24:47, John 3:3, Rom 10:15, Eph 2:8, Titus 2:11, 3-7).
EVIDENCE OF SALVATION: The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit (Rom 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness (Eph 4:24, Titus 2:12).
THE ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH: The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded in the scriptures. All who repent and believe in Christ savior and Lord are to be baptized. Thus, they declare to the world that they have died with Jesus Christ, and that they have risen with Him to walk in newness of Life (Matt 28:19, Mark 16:16, Acts 10:47-48, Rom 6:4).
HOLY COMMUNION: The Lord's supper, consisting of the elements bread and fruit of the vine is the symbol expressing our sharing of the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2Pet 1:4), a memorial of His suffering and death on the Cross (1 Cor 11:26), and a prophecy of His second coming (1 Cor. 11:26), and is enjoined on all believers “Till He comes”.
THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT: All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, and the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian church. With it comes the endowment of power of life and services, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4, 8, 1Cor 12:31). This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth (Acts 8:12-17, 10:44-46, 15:7-9, 11:14-16). With the baptism in the Holy Spirit comes such experience as an over-flowing fullness of the Spirit (John 7:37-39, Acts 4:8). And a deepened reverence for God (Acts 2:43, Heb 12:23) and intensified and consecration to God and dedication to His works (Acts 2:42) and a more active love for Christ for His work and for the lost which is to the extent of losing one’s life (Mark 16:20).
THE EVIDENCE OF THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT: The baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking in other tongues as the spirit of God gives them utterances (Acts 2:4). The speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues (1 Cor 12:4-10, 28) but, different in purpose and use.
SANCTIFICATION: Sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil and of dedication unto God (Rom 12:1, 1Thes 5:23, Heb 13:12). The scriptures teach a life of holiness without which no man shall see the Lord (Heb 12:14). By the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to obey the command, “Be ye holy for I am holy (1Peter 1:15-16). Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his identification with Christ in his death and resurrection, and faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy spirit (Rom 6:1-11, 8:1, 2, 13, Gal 2:20, Phil 2:12-13, 1Pet 1:5).
THE CHURCH: The church is the body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit with divine appointment of the fulfillment of His great commission. Each believer born of the Spirit is an integral part of the of the General Assembly and church of the First born, which are written in Heaven (Eph1:22-23, 2:22, Heb 12:23).
THE MINISTRY: A divinely called and scriptural ordained ministry has been provided by our Lord for a twofold purpose: 1. the evangelization of the world and 2. The edifying of the body of Christ (Mark 16:15-20, Eph 4:11-13).
DIVINE HEALING: Divine healing is an integral part of the Gospel. All healing should be done in the name of Jesus Christ only. Knowing that by faith we can please God and acceptance of His will is so perfect to us. Deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege for all believers (Isa 53:4-5, Matt 8:16-17).
RAPTURE: “RAPTURE IS THE ONLY WAY TO ESCAPE FROM THE COMING TRIBULATION”
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. --Luke 21:36-- Because thou hast kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. --Rev 3:10-- For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (Gen 6:1-8, 7:24) and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomor'rah into ashes (Gen 19.24) condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly; and delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (Gen 19:1-16) (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds:) the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: --2 Peter 2:5-9-- Behold, I come as a thief. (Matt 24:43, 44, Luke 12:39, 40, Rev 3:3) Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. --Rev 16:15-- Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. --Rev 3:3--
• 1Thessalonians 4:16-17
• 1Corinthians 15:57
DON’T YOU THINK THAT THERE WILL BE GREAT SIGN IN THE SKY BEFORE IT HAPPENS ….; THE ONLY THING WHICH HAS STOPPED him (ANTICHRIST) TO APPEAR IS “THE HOLY SPIRIT.”
HE (THE HOLY SPIRIT) WILL BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY FROM EARTH BY YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST JUST A LITTLE BEFORE THE CAUGHT UP (RAPTURE) OF THE BRIDE, OR both AT THE SAME TIME.
“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until HE be taken out of the way.” 2Thes 2:6-7 He (Antichrist) himself, knowing all this, IS WAITING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY before his APPEARANCE AS WORLD DICTATOR. REPENT WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME! TRUST YESHUA JESUS CHRIST! LIVE HOLY
THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST: The rapture is the blessed hope of the church/bride of Christ, the Second Coming is the visible return of Christ with His saints to reign on the earth for one thousand years (Zech 14:5, Matt 24:27, 30, Rev 1:7, 19:11-14, 20:1-6). This millennial reign will bring the salvation of national Israel (Ezek 37:21, Zeph 3:19-20, Rom 11:26, 27), and the establishment of the universal peace (Isa 11:6-9, Ps 72:3-8, Micah 4:3-4).
THE FINAL JUDGMENT: There will be final judgment in which the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works. Whoever is not found written in the Book Of Life together with the devil and his angles, the beast and false prophets will be thrown into the lake of fire (Rev 20:11-15. They will be consigned to everlasting punishment in the lake of fire which burned with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Matt 25:46, Mark 9:43-48, Rev 19:20).
THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH: We according to His promise look for a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelled righteousness (2Peter 3:13, Rev 21:18, 21:22).