WHAT I BELIEVE

THE BIBLE:
I believe the absolute, sole, authoritative rule for faith and practice is the perfect, preserved word of God, which is the AV 1611, King James Bible.
 (Psalm 12:6-7) The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.  Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

JESUS CHRIST:
I believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His vicarious death for sinners, His literal bodily resurrection and His literal bodily return to this earth to reign for a thousand years.
(I Timothy 3:16)  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
received up into glory.

GOOD WORKS:
I believe that any religious person who depends upon the sacraments, or the golden rule, or the church, or the ten commandments to justify him before God will be condemned at the White Throne Judgment and banished to the Lake of Fire for trusting their righteousness instead of Jesus Christ’s righteousness.
(Romans 4:5)  But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

BAPTISM:
I believe that water baptism for the REGENERATED believer is immersion in water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
(Matthew 28:19)  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

CHURCH ORDINANCES:
Baptism and the Lord’s Supper constitute the only two scriptural ordinance for the church, but neither has any saving power.
(Luke 22:19)  And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

ETERNAL SECURITY:
I believe in the eternal security of the believer as part of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and I subscribe to a mild dispensationalism when dealing with those verses that seem to teach otherwise.
(John 10:28-29)  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

SEPARATION:
I believe that Christians should attempt to live godly lives and separate themselves as much as possible from the world and its lusts and entanglements.  That they should encourage and minister to one another and give liberally to the support of any Bible-believing ministry that is actively winning people to Jesus Christ.
(Romans 12:1)  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

CHURCH AND STATE:
I believe in absolute separation of church and state and that the state has no business dictating to any local church how they should conduct their services, ministries, business, or property matters.
(Acts 5:29)  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST:
I believe in the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ to this earth to catch out His “bride” before Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the “Time of Jacob’s Troubles) takes place.  That He will return after the
“Marriage of the Lamb” to reign over the “House of Jacob” at Jerusalem on the “Throne of David.”
(John 14:3)  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.