•We believe in true, apostolic,
scriptural teaching of the Kingdom Message
in support of the Full Gospel of Jesus Christ
both in Word and Deed.
•We believe the
Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are the inspired living Word
of God,
giving
revelation of His will for the salvation of
man and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith,
life, and conduct. •We
believe in one Living God,
Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in
three
persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. •We
believe Jesus Christ, without
any change in His eternal deity,
became man through conception by
the Holy Spirit and virgin birth. He
died on the cross, a perfect and complete sacrifice, to establish
the
Way for mankind to be reconciled to God. He died for
our sins according to the Scriptures.
He was resurrected bodily from
the dead by the Holy Spirit. He walked the earth forty days
preparing
His apostles for the work of the ministry and
teaching and performing the miraculous. Afterward, He
ascended into heaven
and sits on the eternal throne of David at the right
hand of the Father.
•
We believe that the completed work of Christ: His birth, life,
ministry, water and Spirit baptism,
teachings,
miracles, crucifixion, death, burial, descent into hell, resurrection,
and ascension to the
right hand of God the Father
fulfilled the promises of God of the Old testament prophets.
The fulfillment is the witness and consummation of
the Gospel and the outpourings of the Holy Ghost.
The Lord Jesus declared to His disicples that the
Holy Ghost would be sent to them to represent Him
and affirm He was with His Father ruling the
heavens and the earth. John 16:1-23 (see:Amplified Bible) •
We believe Jesus is
alive and has been ruling as King and Lord of all things since His
ascension and
crowning evidenced by the fulfillment
of Joel 2:28-32... the Day of Pentecost and the gift of the Holy
Spirit Acts 2:1-4. Christ's Kingship
is
evidenced by the divine
gift and working presence of the Holy
Spirit as He manifests Himself and administrates
the
spiritual gifts of the Kingdom given to the believing
church on earth. His Person and manifest presence
empowers the work of the ministry of the Kingdom.
• We
believe Christ rules
with authority over all things, principalities and powers.
A life in the Kingdom
of God is not appointed for some future event.The
Kingdom
of
Heaven
is a Now reality seen through
the eyes, ears and acts of faith.
Hebrews
11:1-3
•We
believe the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth has not been postponed for a
future reign. The Jewish
mission was completed through the work of the 1st
century apostolate. The scattered
remanent of
believers were assembled into the One Holy
Apostolic Church in compliance to the mandate of the Lord:
"You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
end of the earth." Acts 1:8
By 70 AD, the apostolic company of Peter and the
apostolic company of Paul had carried the Gospel
into the then known world. The Sign that
the Kingdom had been established and the mandate fufilled
was the destruction of Jerusalem and Jewish
Temple as prophesied by the Lord. (see Matthew 24,
Mark 13 and Luke 21 whereby Jesus declares the
events that would occur within the disciples
generation.)
•We
believe Jesus
is King, High Priest and Advocate this day, this moment... to
those who believe and
receive Him. He is actively administering
the
affairs of His Church and the affairs of nations through
the Holy
Spirit. 1 John 2:20 But you have been anointed by [you hold
a sacred appointment from,
you have been given an unction from] the Holy
one, and you all know [the Truth] or you know all things. • We
believe
the Name of Jesus
represents who He is and all that He is. He is the only begotten
Son
of God and the Son of man sent from heaven... fully
God
and fully man.
•We
believe
in
the
experience of Pentecost: the gift of tongues, baptism
and
empowerment of the Holy
Spirit are for those who believe and receive.
• •
We believe that water baptism and the Lord’s Supper
are ordinances to be observed by the Church
during
this
present
church age. They
are not to be regarded as the means of salvation.
•
We
believe that the
Church, defined, is composed of all such persons who through saving
faith
in
Jesus Christ, initiation into the Kingdom through
water baptism and the divine work of regeneration
by the Holy Spirit are the
Body
of
Christ
of
which Christ is the Head and the Head of Christ is God the
Father. 1Corinthians 11:3
•
We believe that man was
directly created by God in His own image. • We believe that the atoning death of
Jesus
Christ and His resurrection provide the only way of
justification and
salvation for all who believe.
•
We
believe that
during the destiny age of the Church, the Holy Spirit is to convict of
sin and regenerate
the repentent sinner. Through genuine sorrow and
repentance, and believing, recieving and submitting
to Christ, one experiences the regeneration of the
spirit . We become a New Creature.... Born-again
by the Holy Spirit.
•
We believe that all the saved should live a life that honors and
glorifies
the
Lord and find a church body
in which to serve.
We are commanded of God to remain separated from false
doctrines, sinful pleasures,
and unrighteous practices.
• We believe in the return of
our
Lord Jesus
Christ as the Bible clearly cites in the apostles writings to the
1st century church. We believe in the
resurrection of all the dead, of the believer to
everlasting life and
joy with the Lord and of the unbeliever to
judgment and everlasting conscious punishment and eternal
damnation. The dead in Christ will
rise first and
those who are still alive will be caught up together to
meet the
Lord. I Cor.15:52; I
Thess.4:16-17
The hope of His appearing has a vital bearing on the
personal life and
service of the believer.
True, apostolic, scriptural teaching of the Kingdom
Message and Full Gospel of Jesus Christ
does not support the teachings of a "double rapture"
along with its suppositions and inferences that
are made to present such heresy. This false
teaching has permeated many denominational and
independent churches. Orthodox churches have
not changed their doctrines of faith to encompass
these doctrinal and theological teachings.
For full discourse on what Jesus taught in Matthew
24, Luke 23 and Mark 16... to THIS GENERATION
• We believe in the existence of
uncountable numbers of angels
who worship God. Angels are
also
assigned to
minister to believers.
• We believe in the existence of Satan, the devil, a
fallen angelic being, who
with
his demons opposes
God, His
people, and His work, over whom believers have
spiritual victory through the Name of Jesus
Christ. Satan is
a free agent. He
has
a
realm
of
authority in sinful mankind and he has demonic subjects
who administer his realm of demonic influence. Satan is not omnipresent (present everywhere), omnipotent
(have
absolute power and authority),or omniscient (knowing everything).
Only our Living Triune God
possesses these attributes!
Ephesians 6:12 AMP
For we are not wrestling with
flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against
the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits
who
are] the world rulers of this present
darkness, against the spirit
forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.