SPIRITUAL CREED & BASIC STATEMENT OF FAITH

The GOD of the Holy Bible

1. "We believe that God Who has revealed Himself in the Holy Bible is the supreme Deity of the universe, the Creator of all things visible and invisible and the source of all life."

(Genesis 1:1; John 1; John 5:26; Acts 17:24; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6; Revelation 1:11)

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

John 1

John 5:26 "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

Acts 17:24 "The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

1 Corinthians 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

Ephesians 4:6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

Revelation 1:11 saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."
The HOLY BIBLE: God's Operational Manual for Mankind

2. "We believe the Holy Bible is God's determinative and complete revelation to mankind. The original writings of both the Old and New Testament were penned by holy men of God under Yahweh's divine instruction and inspiration. The Holy Bible is the only infallible, inerrant, sufficient and authoritative Word of God."

(2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21; John 17:17; Proverbs 2:6; Romans 3:4)

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

2 Peter 1:21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Romans 3:4 May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED."

JESUS CHRIST

3. "We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His Virgin Birth, His sinless life, His powerful miracles, His resurrection from the dead, and His ascension into Heaven where He presently lives at the right hand of the Father. He existed as God before His human birth; He is God. He will be returning to earth with great power and glory."

(Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:34; John 1; Revelation 1:8)

Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1:34 Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?"

Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

John 1

SALVATION: The ONLY Way Into God's Kingdom

4. "As important as obedience to God's Law/Word is, No amount of good works can save any man or woman. Human nature is imperfect, naturally sinful, and spiritually defiled. There is no basis for a perfect God to have a relationship with puny man. Our sins have separated us from God. We believe that reconciliation and salvation is possible only by faith in the Substitutionary Sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is the only way and means into His Kingdom."

(Ephesians 2:8; Hebrews 7:25; Titus 3:5; Romans 5:9; Acts 15:11; Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:5)

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Titus 3:5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Romans 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

Acts 15:11 "But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."

Acts 4:12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

The RESURRECTION of the Dead

5. "We believe in the Resurrection of the dead both the saved and the unsaved. At Christ's Return, those who are saved are raised unto the resurrection of eternal life with God in His Kingdom. Those who are separated from God and lost are raised unto the resurrection of eternal damnation.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Revelation 2:11 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'

Revelation 21:7 "He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Daniel 7:18 'But the saints of the Highest One will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.'

Luke 1:31 "And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.

Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:23 "They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Revelation 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 2:25 'Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.

OBEDIENCE to God's Word/Law

6. "We believe that we are saved by God's grace yet we must properly respond to that precious gift not by continuing in sin but with total submission and obedience to God's Law/Word which is every Word in the Bible including God's Ten Commandments."

(1 John 2:3; John 14:15; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 5:2; Romans 5:8; Galatians 5:16; Romans 6:16; Romans 2:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Galatians 5:19; 2 Peter 1:5; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:14)

1 John 2:3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

Joshua 14:15 Now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba; for Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

1 John 3:24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Romans 6:16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

Romans 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

Galatians 5:19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

2 Peter 1:5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

The HOLY SPIRIT

7. "We believe that God dwells in the sons and daughters of God in the Person of the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity. He is the source of all good works and fruits of Christianity. He is the source and power of all godly change and spiritual growth."

(John 4:23; Romans 5:8; Romans 8:1; Galatians 5:16; Romans 6:4; Romans 12:22; John 14:16; John 15:1; John 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; Ephesians 1:13)

John 4:23 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

John 14:16 "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."

1 Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit;

Ephesians 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation -- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

God's HOLY SABBATH DAY

8. "We believe that God set aside, blessed and sanctified the seventh day Sabbath as a everlasting memorial of His creation. Jesus Christ is the Lord and protector of the Sabbath. As Jesus set the example for us by being baptized, so He also set the example for us by keeping the Sabbath as it was intended. The Sabbath is one of God's Ten Commandments which can never be changed even in the age to come. God's Word teaches us that the Sabbath will serve as a sign of God's people in every age."

Genesis 2:2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Leviticus 23:32 "It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath."

Exodus 20:11 "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

Mark 2:23 And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

Mark 2:28 "So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

Mark 3:1 He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.

Matthew 12:7 "But if you had known what this means, 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,' you would not have condemned the innocent.

Luke 4:16 And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

Acts 13:42 As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging that these things might be spoken to them the next Sabbath.

Acts 17:2 And according to Paul's custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Acts 18:4 And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

Isaiah 66:23 "And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me," says the LORD.

John 10:35 "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

Matthew 5:15 "nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

God's TRUE CHURCH

9. "We believe that God's true church is NOT a physical structure or organization of men but a spiritual organism comprised of all true born again, baptized, Spirit led believers in the Deity and Substitutionary Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The saints names are written in the Lambs Book of Life. Christ alone is the Head. It is NOT limited to any earthly church organization. Water Baptism symbolizes the burial of the old self and the resurrection of the new with Christ. It is the New Testament entry point just as circumcision was in the Old Testament into that Church. As a member of God's True Church our spiritual relationship is personal, direct and one on one with our Father in Heaven through Jesus Christ. No longer can any clergy, church, saint or angel mediate for you. The work of the church is to administer to the sick of body, mind and spirit, preach and teach the Word/Law and lead disciples to repentance and a personal relationship with their Creator through Jesus Christ. The true spiritual Church of the New Testament is the extension and continuance of the true spiritual Israel of the Old Testament. True Christians are the true spiritual heirs of Abraham, the father of the faithful.

1 Corinthians 12:12 For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Romans 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

Ephesians 1:22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,

Colossians 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

John 15:4 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

1 Corinthians 1:12 Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ."

Revelation 21:27 and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Ephesians 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

1 Peter 3:21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you -- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 6:2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.

Mark 16:16 "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

James 2:20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

Revelation 2:11 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Matthew 27:51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split.

Matthew 6:6 "But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

Our PURPOSE in Life: The Christian Mission

10. "We believe that our Christian faith must be a practical, living and working faith applicable to every area of life. The Great Commission of our King is the Church's marching orders to take dominion of the earth, replace man's faulty systems and institutions with Biblical solutions, to expose the darkness, foolishness and spiritual bankruptcy of all of man's long failed history of non-Biblical philosophies, ideologies and systems, to obey Christ and serve His everlasting Kingdom as ambassadors, associate kings and priests, and to occupy like a conquering army until Christ returns, NOT by force but by God's invincible Spirit and infallible Word/Law.

(James 1:22; James 2:17; James 4:17; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Luke 19:13; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Revelation 5:10; Revelation 2:26)

James 1:22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

James 4:17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

2 Corinthians 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

Luke 19:13 "And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business with this until I come back.'

2 Corinthians 5:20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Revelation 5:10 " You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth."

Revelation 2:26 'He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS;