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GOD 

There is only one true eternal, omnipotent (all powerful) omniscient (all knowing) and omnipresent (everywhere present) God manifested in three eternal co-equal, co-eternal, co-existent persons, being The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. They created all things through the eternal person of The Son, being Jesus Christ, in the whom all things were created, by Him and for Him, being before all things, JESUS being the express image and revelation of God.

 

THE FATHER

The eternal Father, being the head of the Holy Trinity, is the ultimate authority in all things, by whom all things came to be and by whom all things were created through the Person of Jesus Christ. The Father sits on heaven's throne as the great and preeminent God and King of both eternity and creation in His co-eternal equality, existence and eternality with the Son and the Holy Spirit. Not only did He create all things through the Person of Jesus Christ, but also manifested His glorious love to the world in the sending of His Son, who by His Son glorified His name and who through JESUS made the manifestation of His image, character, heart, mind, essence, new covenant and the fulness of His eternal decrees, to whom we can only be reconciled to and have access to through the new birth in true repentance and faith in the Person of Jesus Christ, who is One with Him and always will, through JESUS, be glorified.
 

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THE SON

The eternal person of the Son and Second Member of the Holy Trinity became man 2000 years ago, wherein through the virgin birth by the Holy Spirit, IMMANUEL (GOD WITH US) the eternal Word of God, became flesh and dwelt amongst us and that to live a life of sorrows, being acquainted with grief, to keep the fulness of the Law in the place of sinners and go to the cross of Calvary, wherein He suffered, shed His precious blood, died and rose again the third day to accomplish eternal salvation for all who truly repent and believe in Him as their Lord and Savior. Giving all who are born again by faith in Him, not only the forgiveness and pardon from hell, but an eternal inheritance that will be manifested in both the present heavens and in due time to come, the new heavens and the new earth.
 

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THE HOLY SPIRIT

The eternal person of the Holy Spirit, being the Spirit of the Father, the Spirit of the Son and the Spirit of God (being one with the Father and Christ) is yet a distinct eternal, co-equal, co-eternal and co-existent person who descended in the bodily shape of a dove on the baptism and declaration of Christ by the Father as God's beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. The Holy Spirit, the third member of the Holy Trinity has been here on earth for the past 2000 years since His descension on the Day of Pentecost and has been convicting the world of sin, righteousness and judgement, giving an innumerable amount of people of all ages in every tribe, nation and tongue the new birth through their faith of Christ through the Gospel. He is the Comforter of believers and dwells with them, by whom they are sealed and secure until the day of Redemption, to the praise of God's glory.

 

CREATION

God created all things in 6 literal days, having created light on the first day, separating the light from the darkness, having created the sun, the moon and the stars on the second, all vegetation on the third, all sea creatures on the fourth, all animals and insects on the fifth, mankind on the sixth, and on the 7th (also known as the Sabbath Day) He rested. The creation has been ongoing by the omnipotence of God's omnipotent power, decree, as well as omniscient and omnipotent sustaining for approximately 6,000 years. 


MANKIND​

At the end of the God's creation, He made man and woman in His own image to both be able to know and worship Him. He made them in two distinct, complementary genders, constituting of male and female, perfectly reflecting the image and nature of God. They were originally intended to inherit the creation and subdue it, before sin entered into the world.
 

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SIN
 
Sin entered into the world by Adam's disobedience when he ate of the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, passing death unto all of mankind, the which death, without faith in the Lord Jesus Christ leads what's known as the second death in the conscious eternal punishment of everlasting fire.
 

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SALVATION

The free-gift of Salvation is solely given to those who acknowledge their sinful enmity against God, their just deserving of eternal hell because of it and truly turn from their offence against Him by putting their faith and trust in Jesus as their Lord and Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ said while He was here on this earth, that except a person is born again, they cannot see the kingdom of God so that as many as receive Him, whether they are born Jews or Gentiles (as all are commanded to repent and put their trust in Him) will receive the Holy Spirit, be freely born again and given the gift of everlasting life.

 

BAPTISM

Baptism is for professing born again believers, by full immersion, signifying their being buried with Christ and risen together with Him. Wherein such baptism by full immersion is also likened to the flood of Noah in the immersion of the world, signifying of the believer's full cleansing of the new nature. Baptism very clearly depicts the believer's union with the death of Christ and new life with Him.
 

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THE GREAT COMMISSION

By Christ's great commandment, believers are called to go to every nation and preach the everlastingly saving Gospel of Christ to everyone making disciples of all nations baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching everyone everything that there is to be taught within God's truth of Christianity, the Lord both working with and being with us until the end of the world. 
 

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THE BIBLE

Is God's living, active and inerrant Word, who is one with God, being God and is the sole authority of all truth. The Bible gives the entirety of the revelation of God, as well as creation, the fall and the salvific work of Christ, being none other than the Word incarnate for the salvation of the soul from everlasting hell and the gift of eternal life, both in the current heavens, as well as the new heavens and the new earth to come. The Bible was written by over 40 authors in a time stamp of more than 1000 years, it constitutes of 66 books.

 

SANCTIFICATION

The New Birth in all believers leads to a sanctified life lived in holiness in the accordance to the keeping of God's law in Christ and proving our love to Him by obeying His moral and ethical commandments by the power of the Holy Spirit that indwells all believers. The which, whenever believers fail to keep said commandments, they commit sin (for sin is the transgression of the Law) receiving correction accordingly, both in this life and in the one to come (in the context of eternal rewards) Believers are called to love, encourage and minister to one another as they all exercise their callings as fellow labourers of God's Kingdom. 
 

 

THE END TIMES (ESCHATOLOGY)

With the pre-tribulation rapture being disproven, the church of the last days is to remain during the tribulation and both prayerfully prepare and live accordingly until the Second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the fulness of His glory with the Holy angels to destroy the antichrist, the false prophet and the worldwide army of the post-seals, post-trumpets new world order of Daniel 7, rapture His celestially resurrected church by the Holy angels, to meet the Lord in the air, wherein He will immediately elevate Israel as the greatest mountain above the nations and establish His millennial reign. The In-tribulation Martyrs of Christ will have ruling rights with Christ as their head for 10 centuries (1000 years) and at the end of these, the kingdoms of Gog and Magog, being deceived by a released Satan will be destroyed for their betrayal of Christ and His kingdom, leading to the Day of Judgement, wherein the saints of all the ages, from Adam to the end of the world will judge the entirety of mankind, wherein the righteous will inherit God's eternal kingdom (prepared for them before the foundation of the world) in the new universe, manifested in the New Heavens and the New Earth, whereas the wicked who died without knowing God through Christ will experience the punishment of everlasting fire, alongside Satan and the fallen angels. It is only those who truly repented and were saved by grace through their faith of Jesus as their Lord and Savior, based on His blood bought sacrifice on the cross, death and resurrection who will inherit the free gift of salvation and enjoy eternal life and all of its indescribable joys.
 

THE WHITE HORSEMAN (UNSEALED) - THE UNITED NATIONS

 

"And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." (Revelation 6:1-2)

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The Eschatological Christian Reformation of The 21st Century recognises the United Nations intergovernmental World Peace Organization as the First opened Seal of the Book of Revelation, constituting of:
 

• The intergovernmental peace-keeping organization known as the United Nations (Horseman)

• Their United States Sovereignty (and remaining four world superpowers: Russia, China, France and the UK at main command in the Security Council) as their main political influential authority (Crown)

• Their minimalist peace-keeper force in post-combat intervention and combat monitoring (apart from real armies) being their blue helmet peace-keeper armies, as well as their intertwined alliance with the west’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) As well as their diplomatic means of international peace enforcement and international war prevention, while not being able to enforce such. (Arrowless- Bow)

• These have (through the UN’s multi-nation cooperation agenda and multiple antichrist geo-political and antichrist-interorganizational cooperation efforts and influence) given an aimed conquest of peace attempts to 195 of the world’s nations in their worldwide peace-promoting, war-preventing and antichrist (earth preserving) system efforts, having successfully gained geo-political influence, as well as given the world a significantly successful 80-year-long, anti-mass-scale-conflict and ensure enduring international peace in most of its nations. (Conquering and to Conquer)

• They have achieved this geopolitical influential conquest by the means of pushing for peace for 80 years by their God-given rich earthly resources (White Horse)

 

The United Nations First Opened Seal view perfectly intertwining and coinciding with the already fulfilled signs of, “The Beginning of Sorrows” of the end-times that have (for these past two centuries) preceded the main tribulation of Revelation before the Only Second Coming of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the fulness of His glory with His saints, as well as the Holy angels.
 

MARRIAGE 

Marriage has been divinely established by God and affirmed by Jesus as the voluntary, lifelong union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. The Bible teaches that marriage is the only context in which human sexuality is to be expressed and in which sexual intimacy is to be experienced and that believers are to abstain from sexual immorality.

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CONTEXTUAL CESATIONISM 
(Pro-Reformed perspective)

The great gifts of the Spirit that were given to the church on the day of Pentecost are still in operation today, yet have, in the vast majority of their application been sovereignly limited by God's decreed and wise providence to be used whenever He determines they ought to be used and how these will be used to mature the Christian church into their needful dependance and sole focus of God's inerrant Word. These gifts (besides the biblical gift of tongues that were prophesied to cease entirely in due time being the ability of speaking in different languages) are still active in a sovereignly ordained manner that does not disregard the church's understanding of a life of self-denying cross bearing. Though healings (although rare and according to God's sovereign will to advance His purposes in goodwill to His church and His eternal kingdom) do take place, yet in most cases (as saddening as it is for the afflicted Christian/unbeliever) these do not happen in this life due to said conditions and/or sicknesses being oftentimes part of the cross-bearing life the born again Christian must live with (otherwise there would always be Christians in hospitals as a general norm of society and that for 2000 years, doctors/surgeons wouldn't be needed in general etc.) The gift of prophecy (being able to decree future events) besides revealing Biblical mysteries in regards to God's truth (that never go against, nor contradict scripture in any way) has in its vast majority become unreliable due to the Holy Spirit promising through Paul that prophecies were going to become faulty (once that which was perfect was come, being the finished canon of scripture, as well as the establishment of God's church on earth by the end of the first century) so much so to the point that such "prophecies" are guaranteed to fail (due to their once needful application, being no longer necessary due to the finished Word of God and all of the major world end events having been revealed through the apostles in it).

 

It is so that most of biblically solid prophesying by believers today oftentimes happens without them realising they are in themselves prophesying as the Spirit moves them to speak, only realising they were prophesying until after said things have happened. As to the context of dreams and visions, these are oftentimes misleading and dangerous due to the reality of lying spirits that give false divination to believers (due to general fiery darts and attacks by Satan, as well as lack of Christian/behavioural purity). Most of the time when God does give dreams and visions to the believer (although very rare) these are (if truly from God) biblically pure, sanctifying and means of warnings, especially in the context of personal sin. It is almost always God's will for believers to keep these rare experiences and leadings private and only give them the necessary attention (if any) and that only according to their true and necessary importance (while comparing them with every aspect of the Bible) seeing that the Holy Spirit's main operation in the believer is to make them focus and rely on God's Word and not the grey and dangerous area of said spiritual experiences that are oftentimes, if not most of the time, misleading, dangerous, false, demonically afflicting/deceiving and plainly unnecessary. The Holy Spirit will always be pointing the believer to the Bible for their means of all guidance in knowledge, behaviour, discernment and general understanding in the Christian life with the person of Christ and His finished sacrifice as their core and fundamental and revolving focus in every aspect of their life on this earth.
 

 

THE CHURCH (ECCLESIOLOGY)

THE HIERARCHY OF THE CHURCH

The Church is to be lead by a multiplicity of born again, experienced, sanctified and faithful men starting with life-experienced and biblically qualified elders, secondarily pastors and teachers, as well as deacons. That includes the practice of general doctrine in the church, a church is to obey the New Testament given pattern of that of a multiplicity of pastoral and teaching leaders (being submissive to such) and not be solely led, nor focus on a one-man doctrine, wherein all sorts of errors and issues arise, including the spirit of popery and misplaced anarchical preeminence.  
 

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THE KEEPING OF THE READING OF THE WORD AND APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE 

Every faithful and truly Spirit lead church will have their ultimate, foundational and core doctrinal teaching and set of scrutinized focus, as well as values based on the Bible, being God's inspired, inerrant and living authoritative Word, by the which all truth is proclaimed and apart from it, all errors arise.

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THE KEEPING OF THE LORD'S SUPPER

The Keeping of the Lord's Supper is an ordinance given by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself the night before His crucifixion to be done in remembering His sacrificial work on the cross for our salvation. The broken bread (preferably unleavened as it was eaten on the night of the Lord's Supper, signifying He was sinless and pierced for us, leaven being a picture of sin in the Bible) and the red wine signifying His precious blood that was shed to wash away the sins of the world. Although the Lord's Supper is preferably to be done every Lord's Day, churches and believers have the freedom of the conscience to exercise the remembering of the Lord's sacrifice as often as they are fully persuaded they ought to do so, whether on every meeting throughout the week, or every week/second week, every month etc. for the Lord said, "...Do this, as often as you drink it."

 

The Lord's Supper is to be practiced by born again and baptised believers only, yet in an open manner in having those approved by the eldership to stand up as they receive the bread and wine when it is given (to not alienate, stumble and give unnecessary offence to visitors by uncharitably forcing them to sit at the back) having only those who have spoken to the eldership and been confirmed to be born again and baptised believers by their testimony to have the freedom to participate.

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THE FAITHFUL STUDY OF GOD HONORED MINISTERS
AND DOCTRINALLY SOUND WORKS (as non-authoritative guides)

The church is to faithfully practice the encouragement of the reading of sound teacher's works and doctrinally sound commentaries, as well as personal ministries for the edifying of the body as means of guides and doctrinal enjoyment, being secondary in the context of teaching practice and not apostolical, or prophetically authoritative as is the New and Old Testaments.

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FREEDOM OF INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

Because of the New Testament's non-direct principles in general church practice (e.g. the church must begin at 9am on Sundays) the Church holds the freedom to do as many Bible studies, prayer meetings, ministerial discipleship, house meetings, evangelical operations, as well as day and afternoon services on the Lord's Day as every church perceives is necessary and according to circumstance.

 

E.g. My personal pattern for a Lord's Day morning service would be (led by faithful men only):

 

1. Opening announcements.

2. Opening praise and worship (hymn/gospel song).

3. A general reading of God's word: One Chapter (or what is best discerned by the church eldership).

4. Hymn/Gospel Song.

5. Lord's Supper: Open Lord's Supper (with as many as have first spoken to the elders, being professing saved and baptised believers) being welcome to stand up and receive the bread and wine.

6. Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Bread (Minister led, as elders approve).
7. Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Wine (Minister led, as elders approve).
8. Hymn/Gospel Song.
9. General prayer for the sermon.
10. Pastor/teaching ordained and studied minister with eldership approval gives the day's sermon.
11. End prayer by said minister.
12. Closing Hymn/Gospel song.
13. Closing announcements and prayer requests for the church are given.​

14. Following day services.

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This suggestive pattern is entirely of personal preference because as mentioned before, a "set" pattern doesn't exist in a, "step-by step basis" in scripture.

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As long as the church is faithful in the keeping to the reading of the Bible, the practice of the Lord's Supper, worship and praise, prayer and in continuing with apostolic (solid biblical doctrine with Christ, His finished sacrifice and the gospel as their main focus) led by faithful and studied men, they have the freedom of conscience to ordain their services as they are best persuaded they ought to do so.

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WOMEN ARE TO KEEP SILENT IN THE CHURCHES

(While still being a faithful and active part of the body of Christ in their respective callings)

That is within the context of addressing the church in any way, for the woman is not to hold any part in public speaking, neither public prayer (specially preaching for such is the God-ordained privilege given to the man and strictly forbidden to the woman) women are still equally valuable to men and are given the divine shared privilege of partaking in the great commission in a faithful individual means of sharing the gospel with others (apart from the pulpit) as well as in the individual discipling of younger women apart from church operations by the Spirit. They are called, not only to be submissive and honoring to their husbands, but also to their man-led elderships and pastoral leaders.

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THE FREEDOM OF LOVING CONTENTION WITHOUT DIVISION

If the subject discussed is not a core-doctrinal, fundamental, or moral/ethical issue in the church, no strong contention should ever be had in the local church body to avoid all types of division. That having been said, if believers find themselves in disagreement over a secondary issue of necessary contention, they should never feel or be forbidden from expressing their views lovingly and respectfully apart from the church body. Believers should always feel welcomed and encouraged to both engage in active and open discussion on spiritual topics regardless of the controversy of their nature, as long as these discussions are made apart from the church, without disrespecting, or grieving those involved. They can do this as long as they do not make the grievous and serious sin of bringing unnecessary division to the body of Christ, whether in the local body or apart from it (e.g. I can lovingly disagree with your view on smoking not being a sin, while exhorting you to depart from the said practice while not making a church issue out of it as long as you're not getting out of your way to encourage, or influence people within the church into that harmful habit, or if you are a minister that practices and influences others to do the same, the which would turn into a moral issue.)

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THE FREEDOM OF THE CONSCIENCE IN MINISTERIAL OR SECULAR CALLINGS

Every church member has the freedom of the conscience to either choose to labor for God's kingdom in either church ministry (if they are persuaded of the providential calling and seek a discipling path, as well as elder approval years after scrutinized study and testing of their gifts) or labour in secular and God honouring work, each man and woman has the freedom of conscience to do according to their own persuasion. 
 

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