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We
believe in
true,
apostolic-prophetic,
scriptural
teaching of
the Kingdom
Message
in support of
the Full
Gospel of
Jesus Christ
both in Word
and in Deed.
Apostolic
Ministry
You are
invited to seek
more about the
Kingdom of God,
to understand
Apostolic
Ministry.
See these web
pages in the
Inner Chambers:
The
Apostolic
Mission of the
Church
The
Apostolic-Prophetic
Church
Apostolic
Spiritual
Covering in
Fellowship
Disciples
of the Light
of Christ
The
Apostle
"Blessed
Holy Trinity" in
Inner Chambers
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.
See "Blessed
Holy Trinity" in Inner
Chambers
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 then
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 NOW
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, ascension
and enthronement
to
the right hand of God
the Father (place of all
authority and power)
fulfills the promises of
God of the Old testament
prophets.
The fulfillment is the
witness and consummation
of the Gospel
and
outpourings of the Holy
Ghost. The Lord Jesus
declared to His
disciples
that the Holy Ghost
would be sent to them to
represent Him and affirm
His
presence, power and
authority with His
Father.
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 (Feast of
Open Heaven)
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
twelve eye-witness
forerunners completed
the
Jewish Mission through
the work of the 1st
century "apostolate.
"
Paul, an ascension-gift
apostle, (forerunner,
vanguard, special
messenger)
completed
his race of destiny by
entering a village first
preaching
to the Jews and then to
the Gentiles. Paul's
ministry focused on the
Hellenistic Jews and
Gentiles of Asia Minor.
He wrote letters to 7
churches
in
which he had labored:
Corinth, Galatia,
Ephesus, Philippi,
Colosse,
Thessalonia and Rome
(where imprisoned)...
likened to John whom
Jesus instructed to
write to 7 churches of
Asia
in
which John had labored.
(Revelation
1:11) ...Write
promptly what you see
(your vision) in a
book
and send it to the
seven churches which
are in Asiato Ephesus
and to
Smyrna and to Pergamum
and to Thyatira and to
Sardis and to
Philadelphia
and to Laodicea.
Both the Epistles of the
New Testament and the
Apocalypse, record that
John
belonged to the
multitude of personal
eyewitnesses of the life
and work
of
Christ (1 John 1:1-5;
4:14), that he had lived
for a long time in Asia
Minor,
was
thoroughly acquainted
with the conditions
existing in the various
Christian
communities there, and
that he had a position
of authority recognized
by
all Christian
communities as leader of
this part of the Church.
Moreover, the Apocalypse
tells us that its author
was on the island of
Patmos
"for the word of God and
for the testimony of
Jesus", when he was
honored
with the heavenly
Revelation contained in
the Apocalypse
(Revelation 1:9)...
The Christian writers of
the second and third
centuries testify to us
as
a tradition universally
recognized and doubted
by no one that the
Apostle and Evangelist
John lived in Asia Minor
in the last decades
of the
first century.
Believers were assembled
into the One Holy
Apostolic Church built
upon Jesus
Christ, the Chief
Cornerstone and the
apostolic-prophetic
ministries in compliance
to His
mandate.
Acts 1:8 (AMP)
But you shall receive
power (ability,
efficiency, and might)
when
the Holy Spirit has
come upon you, and you
shall be My witnesses
in Jerusalem and all
Judea and Samaria and
to the ends (the very
bounds) of the earth.
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 fulfilled 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 (AMP)
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 I AM, the only
begotten Son of God sent
from heaven and
the Son of man... 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 the Holy Spirit
is a Divine
Person. He is not
a "principle,"
"a
thing" or "an it." His
ministry is to glorify
the Lord Jesus Christ
through the Church Body
Universal. He is sent to
comfort, indwell,
guide, instruct, fill,
and empower the believer
for godly living
service [in the Truth of
God, the Word and the
Spirit], while the
church
age
remains. It is the Holy
Spirit Who empowers and
administrates spiritual:
visions, prophetic
dreams, knowledge,
wisdom, miracle healing,
prophetic
songs, prophetic
utterances, speaking in
tongues. and the ability
to interpret
spiritual language with
spiritual understanding.
We
believe that water
baptism and the Lords
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. Water
baptism by submersion
is
the personal submission
'rite' in the Kingdom
Life which symbolizes
our
death to self and
commitment to obedience
to Jesus Christ as King
of all
things and Lord of our
lives.
We
believe that the Church,
defined, is composed of
all such persons
who
through saving faith in
Jesus Christ, the divine
work of regeneration
by
the Holy Spirit, the
baptism of fire and
consummation with Christ
through water baptism...
are the Body of Christ
of which Christ is the
Head
and
the Head of Christ is
God the Father. (1
Corinthians 11:3)
We
believe that man was
directly created by God
in His own image.
Mankind through the
woman willingly chose to
disobey God's commands.
Through disobedience and
rebellion to God's
command
"do not eat of the Tree
of the knowledge of good
and evil,"
mankind in the
"Adamic sin of rebellion
and disobedience" fell
from grace
and was
separated from his
perfect state with God.
The entire human race
is,
therefore, born into sin
and lives in the ways
and darkness
of
the prince of the air
(the devil), in
rebellion.
1
Samuel 15:23
(AMP)
[Spoken to Saul through
prophetic enlightenment
by Samuel]
For rebellion is as
the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as
idolatry
and teraphim
(household good luck
images). Because you
have rejected
the word of the Lord,
He also has rejected
you from being king.
Only through repentance
and faith in Jesus
Christ can regeneration
by
the Holy Spirit and life
in the Kingdom of Heaven
be obtained.
Salvation is a gift of
God and not a result of
the plans or works of
mankind.
We
believe that the atoning
death of Jesus Christ
and His resurrection
provide the only way of
justification and
salvation for all who
believe.
Only such as receive the
gift of redemption
through Jesus Christ by
personal profession of
faith in Him, that He is
the Christ, the Son of
God
and
trust in Him and rely on
Him, receive new life of
the spirit
by
the Holy Spirit and the
promise of eternal life.
We
believe that during the
destiny age of the
Church, the Holy Spirit
is
to convict of sin and
regenerate the repentant
sinner. Through genuine
sorrow and repentance,
and believing, receiving
and submitting to
Christ,
one
experiences the
regeneration of the
spirit.
We become a New
Creature.... "a
Born-again spirit" by
the Holy Spirit.
We
believe that all the
saved should live a life
that honors and
glorifies
the
Lord and find a Spirit
filled, Spirit-guided
fellowship of believers
in
which to serve. We are
commanded of God to
remain separated
from false
doctrines, sinful
pleasures, and
unrighteous practices.
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
Thessalonians 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 by
John Nelson Darby has
permeated many
denominational and
independent churches
around the world.
Orthodox churches have
not changed their
doctrines of faith to
encompass
these
doctrinal and
theological false
teachings.
For full discourse on
what Jesus taught in
Matthew 24, Luke 23 and
Mark 16...
"to THIS
GENERATION."
See "End of the Church
Age?" in Inner
Chambers
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.
The Name of Jesus
represents Who He Is and
All that He Is!
Satan is a free agent.
He has a realm of
authority in the sinful
affairs of mankind.
He has demonic subjects
who administer his
extreme of demonic
influence.
Satan is Not omnipresent
(present everywhere),
He is Not omnipotent
(have absolute power and
authority),
He is Not 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.
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