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The
Landmark Sovereign Grace Baptist Church
Believes, Preaches, And Practices The Teachings Of The Word
Of God.
WE ARE CONVINCED THAT GOD
RICHLY REWARDS
THOSE WHO LEARN HIS TEACHINGS, BELIEVE AND
PRACTICE THEM. ALSO, THOSE WHO DO NOT
LEARN, BELIEVE, OR PRACTICE THEM SUFFER
UNTOLD LOSS.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE DOCTRINES GOD Holy Script TEACHES
AND WE BELIEVE: |
- We
believe in God — God the Father — God the Son and God the Holy
Spirit. 1st John 5:7.
- We
believe that Jesus Christ was and is God from all eternity as
the Word. John 1:1, 2, 14.
- We believe that the Holy
Spirit, the third person in the Trinity, is God. Romans 15:13;
Acts 1:2; I John 5:7.
- We believe that God
created all things, including man. Col. 1:16; Gen. 1:1; 2:7.
- We believe in the
sovereignty of God, in the salvation of men and in all things
and that nothing can come to pass contrary to his divine will.
Isaiah 40:12-31; Eph. 1:4-12; Rom. 9:15-16.
- We believe there is a
heaven and a hell and that they are real places. Rev. 4:1,2;
Rev. 20:10-15.
- We believe in the total
depravity of man. There is nothing good in him until God gives
him a new heart, until God makes him a new creation in Christ.
Isa. 1:5-6; Ps. 58:3; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:9, 20; Ps. 51:5.
- We believe that salvation
of men is altogether of grace — God’s grace — and not by any
good works of man. Eph. 2:8-10; Titus 3:5.
This salvation comes as the result of God’s choosing. Eph.
1:4-5.
For this choosing and salvation to become effective, it was
necessary for Christ to die for our sins and rise from the dead
the third day. Eph. 1:7; Acts 3:18; Acts 17:3; 1st Cor.
15:17-20.
We also believe it is necessary for man to hear the gospel of
Christ, to come to REPENTANCE and FAITH in Christ before
salvation is consummated. 2nd Thess. 2:13; John 3:14-18, 36;
Acts 20:21.
- We believe in Evangelism —
the simple, scriptural proclamation of the gospel of Christ.
Matt. 28:19- 20; 1st Cor. 15:1-4.
- We believe in the security
of the believer. After he is born again he is a child of God and
can never cease to be a child of God. John 14:10, 11; John 6:37;
John 10:27-30; Col. 1:27.
- We believe that Jesus
founded the Church while He was yet on earth and ADDED to the
Church on the day of Pentecost. Matt. 16:18; 18:17; Heb. 2:12;
Acts 2:41,47.
- We believe that only a
local Church founded on the same principles as the Church Jesus
founded while He was yet on earth can be called a true Church of
the Lord Jesus Christ, that it is a self-governing body and that
it must ever be free from all outside human control or
dictation. 1st Peter 5:2, 3; Acts 11:22; Acts 16:4, 5; Acts
15:22-28.
- We believe that baptism is
immersion. It is to show forth the death, burial and
resurrection of our Lord. It also shows our own death to sin and
resurrection to a new life. Acts 8:38; Col. 2:12; Rom. 6:3, 4.
It is not for salvation, but is a work of righteousness. Matt.
3:15.
- We believe that one must
be scripturally baptized (immersed) to first enter a New
Testament Church. 1st Cor. 12:13; Eph. 4:5; Col. 1:24.
- We believe that the Lord’s
supper is a local Church ordinance; (I Cor. 11:2) and can only
be observed in the Church; (I Cor. 11:18, 20) and that it is
restricted to the members of the Church observing it; we also
believe that it is threefold in nature: a supper of
commemoration or a memorial supper, a supper of proclamation,
and a supper of anticipation. I Cor. 11:25, 26.
- We
believe members may move from one church to another of like
faith and order by letter or perhaps in some rare cases be
received by statement. Romans 16:1-2.
- We believe in both home
and foreign missions. To be an obedient church, every church
must have a part in sending out missionaries. God requires that
missionaries be sent directly by a local New Testament Church.
Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 1:8; Acts 13:2, 3.
- We believe in tithing. The
Old Testament commanded it. The Lord Jesus endorsed it. Mal.
3:10; Luke 11:42.
- We believe in the
Premillenial return of our Lord, first, to catch away his own to
be forever with Him; and then to return to rule the world in
person for one thousand years. 1st Thess. 4:14-18; Rev. 20:4;
Luke 1:32; Zech. 14:4, 9.
- We believe in the judgment
of rewards for God’s children. 1st Cor. 3:11-15.
- We believe in the judgment
of damnation for those who will not believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Rev.
20:5, 11-15.
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