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Cindy
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The fresh hope statement of faith: Apr 20, 2015 12:49:13 GMT -5 Ang likes this

Post by Cindy on Apr 20, 2015 12:49:13 GMT -5

The fresh hope statement of faith:

WE BELIEVE
that the scriptures of the Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, were inspired by God through The Holy Spirit and are without error, and that they are the authoritative Word of God; the only infallible truth and the only standard guide for living the Christian life. We believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible.

WE BELIEVE
in one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

WE BELIEVE
in the deity of Jesus Christ; His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit; His virgin birth; His sinless, perfect life; His atonement and substitutionary death through the shedding of His blood on the Cross for our sins; His bodily resurrection for our justification; His ascension to the right hand of the Father; His present ministry as High Priest and Advocate; and His personal and imminent return, "Our blessed hope;" prior to the Tribulation, and we believe that all things shall finally be subjected to Him.

WE BELIEVE
that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, as an atonement, substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him and accept Him as Lord and Savior and receive a new "born-again" spirit, are justified only through the shedding of His blood. We believe Jesus Christ is the ONLY WAY - the ONLY TRUTH - the ONLY LIFE!

WE BELIEVE
that after one is truly saved good works & fruit will follow because we are now in Christ. But good works could never save us, or Christ died in vain. We believe that once someone is saved they are eternally secure in Christ.

WE BELIEVE
in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit indwelling all "born-again" believers and giving life and empowering the life and ministry of the Christian. We believe each person who is truly saved is Eternally Sealed & Secured in Christ. We believe as works played no part in earning our salvation it can play no part in keeping it.

WE BELIEVE
that the Church, which is the Body and Bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again believers.

WE BELIEVE
in the blessed hope, the personal, imminent, pretribulational, and premillennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to rapture His saints. We believe in the subsequent, physical return of Christ to the earth with His saints to establish His promised millennial kingdom.

WE BELIEVE
in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved through the shed blood of Jesus, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

WE BELIEVE
that every biblical promise pertaining to Israel and the Jewish people is eternally valid. We Believe all the future prophecies pertaining to Israel will be fulfilled. We believe there is a difference between national Israel and the church and that God has an ongoing plan for Israel after the rapture.

WE BELIEVE
that human life clearly begins at conception.

WE BELIEVE
that all forms of homosexuality and pornography are an abomination to the Lord - although there is hope for the sinner who repents, just as there is hope for any other sin we may commit if we repent.

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calfisher Guest	The fresh hope statement of faith: Apr 21, 2015 11:29:39 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by calfisher on Apr 21, 2015 11:29:39 GMT -5 We Believe! :)

Brother Mark Junior Addict Good morning, afternoon, evening, depending on which part of the palent, you live on! Posts: 1,512	The fresh hope statement of faith: May 22, 2015 20:43:27 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Brother Mark on May 22, 2015 20:43:27 GMT -5 Amen!!
	For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20 NKJV

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	The fresh hope statement of faith: Aug 4, 2015 22:30:31 GMT -5 Ang likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 22:30:31 GMT -5 It's a shame that the world considers microscopic organisms on a planet to be "life" but they do not believe a baby with a heartbeat in the womb is life.

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	The fresh hope statement of faith: Aug 4, 2015 22:31:57 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 22:31:57 GMT -5 Do you believe in the current day function of the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as dreams, visions, baptism in Holy Spirit etc?

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The fresh hope statement of faith: Aug 8, 2015 10:54:41 GMT -5

Post by Cindy on Aug 8, 2015 10:54:41 GMT -5

I do not believe that there are current day prophets, at least not "prophets" in the sense of someone foretelling the future with 100% accuracy of anything that's not already in God's Word. I think that true prophets, like those in the Bible, will once again return, but I don't think it will happen until after the rapture. Until then, for the most part, I think that the only true prophets today are those who exercise the other part of the job, which is calling people to repent from their sins and turn back to the Lord.

I also don't believe there are current day "apostles". That flies in the face of what the Bible tells us the qualifications of an apostle was.

As far as God giving people dreams and visions goes, He's always done that, and always will. However I think some people fool themselves into thinking that every dream has a significant meaning or something like that. If you're talking about the verse where God says He will pour out His Spirit on everyone,(Joel 2:28) that had a near partial fulfillment at Pentecost, (Acts 2:14–18) during the "last days", but the final and full fulfillment awaits the Tribulation and the time when "All Israel is saved" at the Second Coming. When we read Joel 2:28 carefully, and in context, this is easy to see. During the Tribulation, we won't be here, and the nations will be subject to God's Wrath, not visions. So this is speaking to the children of Israel. During the Tribulation, besides the two witnesses and the 144,000 sealed witnesses they'll have, God will give them dreams, visions, and prophecy so that eventually, "all Israel will be saved", all those who respond to The Lord's Word given through those dreams, visions and prophecy. Like many of the things that will happen during the tribulation, it seems like we get mini previews of them during these last days of the church. For example, right now, many muslims are being sent dreams by God to draw them to Jesus, and are converting at the risk of their lives. So while we may see little bits of it now, just as we see little bits of the natural disasters, etc. the full meaning and complete fulfillment won't happen until the tribulation.

As far as other gifts go, yes, I think that many of them are active today. However, at the same time, I also think many are greatly misused and that many often fake a great many of them and misuse them for their own benefit and glory instead of what they were intended for. While I think the real gifts are there, I don't think they're as prevalent as many seem to think or wish they were. I also think though that after the rapture, these gifts too will return in full force because no one is going to be trying to fake them or use them for their own benefit or glory any longer. The church has abused God's Word and accepted much false teaching and has become very self centered today instead of God centered, which is why so many gifts are faked. At the same time however, there are pockets here and there, of humble, godly people who do use God's gifts the way they were intended and bring Him glory with them. Sadly, we don't hear about them very often because the church has become so worldly and is looking for sensationalism and glitz instead of humbly obeying God.

All who are truly born again have "the baptism of the Holy Spirit" as God gives us His Spirit to dwell in us at the moment of our salvation, which places us into union with Christ and others believers in the Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:12–13 explains this. Our baptism in the Holy Spirit joins us to the body of Christ and makes it so we were crucified with Christ -associated with Him in His death, burial and resurrection which establishes the basis for our separation from the power of indwelling sin and enables us to walk in the newness of life. It also is the basis for keeping the unity of the church. I may not have explained it very well, but I'll leave some of the scritptures that teach this for reference.

“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.” (1 Corinthians 12:12–13)

“having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.” (Colossians 2:12)

“There is one body and one Spirit— just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” (Ephesians 4:4–6)

“What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.” (Romans 6:1–10)

I hope this helps. If I need to clarify something, please let me know.

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