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| ALL ABOUT MY FAITH |
| THE VERY FIRST THING I LEARNED AFTER MY SALVATION EXPERIENCE, IS THAT YOU CAN NOT KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO EXPLAIN HOW I FELT, WAS LIKE A BIRD THAT JUST WANTED TO SPREAD MY WINGS AND FLY TO EVERY CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE AND TELL EVERYONE I SAW ABOUT JESUS. WELL, SINCE OBVIOUSLY, I AM NOT A BIRD, I DID USE MY RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ME. I CALLED EVERY FAMILY MEMBER I COULD THINK OF TO TELL THEM THE GOOD NEWS, NOT ONCE THINKING THAT IT WAS KINDA LATE AT NIGHT, AND SOME PEOPLE DO ACTUALLY GO TO BED BEFORE MIDNIGHT. I HAVE NOT REGRETTED A SINGLE DAY SINCE I STARTED SERVING AND GIVING MY ALL TO MY SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST. IT IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE VERY.....THE VERY........BEST THING THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO ANYONE. MY PRAYER FOR "SHY'S CORNER" IS THAT THE LORD WILL TAKE IT AND USE IT AS A WITNESSING TOOL TO EVERY LOST PERSON WHO HAPPENS TO COME ACROSS MY DOORWAY, AND JUST HAPPENS TO ENTER IN. THANK ALL OF YOU WHO COME EVERYWEEK AND LEAVE SUCH ENCOURAGING WORDS IN MY GUEST BOOK. YOUR KINDNESS WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN AND YOUR REWARD IS ASSURED WHEN WE ALL REACH HEAVEN! ! ! |
| WHAT I KNOW IS TRUE ! |
| I KNOW THAT IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND ALL THINGS THERE, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE; AND THAT GOD IS CONTINUALLY WORKING THROUGH HIS CREATION TO SUSTAIN IT AND TO NUTURE HIS CREATURES. GENESIS 1: 1 ~ 2 ~IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH. AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; AND DARKNESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS....... I KNOW THAT ALL THINGS ARE FORESEEN IN THE WISDOM OF GOD, SO THAT GOD KNOWS WHATSOEVER CAN OR CANNOT COME TO PASS UPON ALL SUPPOSED CONDITIONS. ALL EVENTS ARE PRESENT WITH GOD FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING; BUT HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THEM DOES NOT IN ANY SENSE CAUSE THEM, NOR DOES HE DECREE ALL EVENTS WHICH HE KNOWS WILL OCCUR. ISAIAH 42:9 ~ BEHOLD, THE FORMER THINGS ARE COME TO PASS, AND NEW THINGS DO I DECLARE, BEFORE THEY SPRING FORTH I TELL YOU OF THEM. MATTHEW 6:8 ~ "BE NOT YE THEREFORE LIKE UNTO THEM; FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWETH WHAT THINGS YE HAVE NEED OF, BEFORE YE ASK HIM." I KNOW THAT GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE AND PLACED HIM IN A STATE OF GLORY WITHOUT THE LEAST MIXTURE OF MISERY, FROM WHICH HE VOLUNTARILY BY SIN, FELL, AND BY THAT MEANS, BROUGHT ON HIMSELF A MISERABLE AND MORTAL STATE SUBJECT TO DEATH. UNBELIEF IS THE REASON WHY MEN ARE CONDEMNED IN THE SIGHT OF THE JUST AND RIGHTEOUS GOD. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: GENESIS 2:7, 3: 1 ~ 7, JOHN 3:17, 18, ROMANS 5:12; AND GENESIS 1:26 ~ 27....AND GOD SAID LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS.........SO GOD CREATED HE HIM; MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM. SO NOW I HAVE ESTABLISHED THAT WE ARE CREATED BY GOD AND IN HIS OWN IMAGE, AND WE DID NOT EVOLVE INTO THIS WORLD, BUT WERE CREATED AS MAN AND WOMAN, AFTER GOD'S OWN IMAGE SALVATION I BELIEVE THAT SALVATION IS THE RESTORATION OF MAN TO HIS RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT HE MADE THAT PROVISION THROUGH HIMSELF IN CHRIST, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL MANKIND WHO REPENTS AND BELIEVES THE GOSPEL. I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, CHRIST HATH COMMANDED THE GOSPEL TO BE PREACHED AMONG ALL NATIONS AND TO EVERY CREATURE. I BELIEVE THAT SINNERS ARE DRAWN TO GOD THE FATHER BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH CHRIST HIS SON, AND THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT OFFERS HIS DIVINE AID TO ALL THE HUMAN FAMILY SO THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE SAVED, IF THEY ACCEPT HIS DIVINE TEACHING AND IF ANY FAIL OF ETERNAL LIFE, THE FAULT IS COMPLETELY HIS OWN. MARK 14:36 ~ "AND HE SAID, ABBA, FATHER, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE UNTO THEE; TAKE AWAY THIS CUP FROM ME; NEVERTHELESS NOT WHAT I WILL, BUT WHAT THOU WILT." FAITH I BELIEVE THAT FAITH IS THE RESPONSE OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN TOTAL TRUST AND COMMITMENT TO GOD'S PROVISION IN CHRIST. THE POWER TO BELIEVE IS THE GIFT OF GOD, BUT BELIEVING IS AN ACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHICH IS REQUIRED AS A CONDITION OF SALVATION. "FAITH IF IT HATH NOT WORKS IS DEAD BEING ALONE." JAMES 3 : 17. REPENTANCE I BELIEVE THAT THE REPENTANCE WHICH THE GOSPEL REQUIRES INCLUDES A DEEP CONVICTION, A PENITENTIAL SORROW, AN OPEN CONFESSION, A DECIDED HATRED AND AN ENTIRE FORSAKING OF ALL SIN. THIS REPENTANCE GOD HAS ENJOINED ON ALL MEN; AND WITHOUT IT IN THIS LIFE THE SINNER WILL PERISH ETERNALLY. CORINTHIANS 7:10 ~ "FOR GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION NOT TO BE REPENTED OF; BUT THE SORROW OF THE WORLD WORKETH DEATH." REGENERATION: I BELIEVE THAT REGENERATION IS AN INSTANTANEOUS RENEWAL OF THE HEART BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHEREBY THE PENITENT SINNER RECEIVES NEW LIFE AND BECOMES A CHILD OF GOD. THIS IS CALLED IN SCRIPTURE "BEING BORN AGAIN," BORN OF THE SPIRIT," BEING QUICKEND." PASSING "FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE," AND "PARTAKING OF THE DIVINE NATURE."EPHESIANS 2: 1 ~"AND YOU HATH HE QUICKENED, WHO WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS." JUSTIFICATION I BELIEVE THAT JUSTIFICATION MEANS THAT PERSONS WHO ACCEPT BY FAITH THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST ARE PARDONED AND ABSOLVED FROM THE GUILT OF SIN AND RESTORED TO DIVINE FAVOR WHERE ONCE THEY STOOD GUILTY BEFORE GOD. ROMANS 5: 1 ~"THEREFOREBEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." SANCTIFICATION I BELIEVE THAT SANCTIFICATION IS THE SETTING APART OF THE BELIEVER FOR CONTINUING GROWTH IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, FOR SERVICE TO GOD AND MAN. GALATIONS 2:20 ~ "I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST; NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME; AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME." THE HOLY SPIRIT I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONE HOLY SPIRIT, THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF THE FATHER THROUGH HIS DEAR SON, WHO IS THE DIVINE PRESENCE IN OUR LIVES, WHO REGENERATES AND SANCTIFIES US, AND WHERE BY WE ARE KEPT IN PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE OF THE TRUTH OF CHRIST AND IN WHO WE FIND OUR STRENGTH AND HELP. I BELIEVE THAT THE SCRIPTURES ASCRIBE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. THERE ARE SEVERAL SCRIPTURES RELATING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, JOHN 16: 7 ~14, ACTS 2: 1~ 3; EPHESIANS 2:1, 4~6, JOHN 14: 16, 17 ~ "AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOR EVER; EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CONNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT SEETH HIM NOT, NEITHER KNOWETH HIM; BUT YE KNOW HIM FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU AND SHALL BE IN YOU" THE HOLY TRINITY I BELIEVE THAT GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE ONE GOD, WITH NO BEGINNING OR END, WHO IS INDEVISIBLE IN HIS NATURE OR BEING. 1 JOHN 5:7 ~ "FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR RECORD IN HEAVEN, THE FATHER, THE WORD(CHRIST), AND THE HOLY GHOST (SPIRIT); AND THESE THREE ARE ONE." WRITTEN BY SHIRLEY JULY 8, 2004 REFERENCES BY THE STATEMENT OF FAITH BY THE ORIGINAL FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH |
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| I BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, AND WALKED THIS EARTH PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL AND WAS SACRIFIED FOR THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS, AND AFTER THE THIRD DAY, HE ASCENDED BACK UP TO SIT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER TO BE INTERCESSOR FOR YOU AND I. |
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