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"Our Profession"
Statement of
Faith
We Believe:
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There is only one gospel and that is the gospel of the grace of God and there is only one faith and that is the faith of God’s
elect.
Galatians
1:8-9; Titus 1:1
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The singular and absolute decree of all things assuring the
certainty that they will happen as they have been decreed
a forehand by the overseeing will of providence and
predestination.
Ephesians 1:11
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The inspiration of the Old and New Testaments as being the
completed written Word of God.
Isa. 8:20; II
Tim. 3:16
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The God of the Old and New Testament as being the only Living
and True God.
Isaiah 45:12;
John 17:3; I Cor. 8:4
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This God of the Old and New Testament is spoken of in terms as
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons, yet
co-equal with each other. All three are one God.
I Corinthians
8:6; I John 5:7
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The Father elected a people from before the foundation of the
world. The Son died for those elected by the Father and for
them alone. The surety of that number can be neither diminished
or added to. The Holy Spirit in time regenerates, sanctifies,
and glorifies those people that The Father elected and for whom
The Son died and them only.
Ephesians 1:
5-6; Titus 3:5
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Man in his natural state is deaf to the Word of God, blind to
the Kingdom of God, and dead in his trespasses and sin to the
Life of God. In this state of death known as depravity he can
neither repent from his evil or exercise faith toward God.
John 8:47; John
3:3; Ephesians 2:2
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The necessity of the regeneration by the Holy Spirit before any
man can repent or believe in the sufficiency of Christ’s
salvation. To believe that Christ died and one has to do
something or anything is not to believe in the sufficiency of
Christ’s salvation; it is merely an exercise of the natural and
fallen mind of man.
Acts 5:31;
11:18
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The historical fulfillment of the tribulation spoken of in
Matthew 24 and parallel passages in the events of 70 A.D.
Matthew 24:34
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The bodily resurrection of the dead and the translation of the
living saints on the final Day of Judgment.
I Corinthians
15: 51-53; Revelations 20: 11-13; II Corinthians 5:10;
I Corinthians
3:15
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Eph 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the
faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:2 Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God
our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph 1:3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ:
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Eph 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his
grace;
Eph 1:8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all
wisdom and prudence;
Eph 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of
his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed
in himself:
Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness
of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ,
both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him
who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Eph 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his
glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom
also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy
Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the
praise of his glory.
Eph 1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your
faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Eph 1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making
mention of you in my prayers;
Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling,
and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints,
Eph 1:19 And what [is] the exceeding greatness of
his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of
his mighty power,
Eph 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he
raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in
the heavenly [places],
Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power,
and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only
in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22 And hath put all [things] under his
feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the
church,
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him
that filleth all in all.
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