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The Gospel of Jesus Christ (Good News), click to read more The Eternal God has decreed that this present evil world will be destroyed and His wrath will be poured out during the “Great Tribulation” in judgment of sin. The Good News is that Christ died for the ungodly. The wonder of wonders is “…that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,…” (2 Cor. 5:19). He shed His precious blood for the remission of sin (Acts 20:28; Heb. 9:14). “God gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:16,17). Christ took upon Him a human body (without sin) in the form a Servant and was born of a virgin, lived a life of perfect obedience to the Father unto death, even the death of the cross (Phil. 2:8). He suffered, bled, and died for the sins of His people. He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures and is now seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession for the saints (Heb. 7:25; Rom. 8:34).
The Church (The Bride of Christ), click to read more The Church was conceived and birthed to be a witness for Christ in the gravity of times like these. The message of the Church of Jesus Christ must not change, even though things all about it are daily, rapidly changing. Christ has given to His Church an unfailing guarantee that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” Matthew 16:18. God has put within His Church the capacity to endure. It should therefore never dissipate its sacred energies with the trivial things of the ages. The Church is God’s fortress of hope and salvation in a world of despair and spiritual depravity, God’s masterpiece of faith and God’s marvel of the ages. It is precisely geared to hold a steady course of righteousness throughout the tumultuous times of evil in all ages, without compromise. It is built to last!
The Threefold Office of Christ:, click to read more
Prophet, Priest, and King
We as fallen men, ignorant, guilty, polluted, and helpless, need a Savior who is a Prophet to instruct us; a Priest to atone and to make intercession for us; and a King to rule over and protect us. And the salvation which we receive at His hands includes all that a prophet, priest, and king in the highest sense of those terms can do. We are enlightened in the knowledge of the truth; we are reconciled unto God by the sacrificial death of His Son; and we are delivered from the power of Satan and introduced into the Kingdom of God; all of which supposes that our Redeemer is to us at once Prophet, Priest, and King. This is not, therefore, simply a convenient classification of the contents of His mission and work, but it enters into its very nature. He instructed while acting as a Priest, and His dominion extending over the soul gave freedom from blindness and error as well as from the power of sin and the dominion of the devil. The gospel is His scepter. He rules the world by truth and love.
The Ten Commandments, click to read more The Holy Law of God was inscribed in the heart of man at creation. Man was created in the image of God, but man’s willful disobedience to God’s command “not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” plunged him and all his posterity under the curse of God’ s Law (Genesis 2:17; 3: 17-19). Consequently fellowship was broken, his foolish heart was darkened, he was blinded to the truth, and rendered powerless to do anything but evil. Nevertheless, The Holy Law of God remains a perpetual and universal rule of conduct for all men. Hence, man’s great dilemma: apart from God man is powerless to obey the Holy Law, yet God requires obedience for fellowship. The answer to man’s dilemma is the Lord Jesus Christ. We can find acceptance with God only in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ (“…we are accepted in the Beloved”).
“It is appointed unto men once to die, after this the judgment…” (Heb. 9:27).
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." (John 5:25-29)
The Bema (Judgment Seat of Christ) Saints will be judged for the deeds done in their body and rewarded accordingly: “For we shall all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.” (Romans 14:10b.) “Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:13-15.)
The Great White Throne Judgment The day will come when the Lord Jesus Christ will move from the throne of mercy to the seat of judgment. And in that final hour at the Great White Throne Judgment, those who neglect the Great Salvation provided by the Eternal God by failing to believe the report of the Saving Work of Christ Jesus (The Virgin Birth, Substitutionary Death, Burial, Bodily Resurrection, and Ascension) will be held accountable for their failure to respond to the Gospel and for violation of His Holy Law (Heb. 2:3). They will be judged from the books (record of their lives) not the “Book of Life”. And in that solemn hour will not be able to appeal for mercy. They will receive due wages for sin (Rom. 6:23), and cast into the lake of fire forever which is the second death (Rev. 20:14, 15).
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