The Lord Jesus is coming again to this earth personally, bodily and visi bly. The return of our Lord is the blessed hope of the believer and in it God’s purposes of grace toward mankind will find their consumma tion. (7) The Holy Spirit is a person and is possessed of all the distinc tively divine attributes. He is God. (8) Man was created in the image of God after His likeness but the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam. All men, until they accept the' Lord Jesus as their per sonal Saviour, are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignor ance that is in them, hardened in heart, morally and spiritually dead through their trespasses and sins. They cannot see nor enter the king dom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit. (9) Men are justified on the single and simple ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed His blood, and are born again by the quickening, renewing, cleans ing work of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God. (10) All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellowmen, become chil dren of God and receive eternal life. They become heirs of God and joint- heirs with Jesus Christ. At death, their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness and at the second coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. (11) All those who persistently re ject Jesus Christ in this present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity shall exist in a state of conscious, unutterable, end less torment and anguish. (12) The church consists of all those who in this present dispensa- 9
ed in the four Gospels; He was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate; God raised from the dead the body that had been nailed to the cross. The Lord Jesus after His cru cifixion showed Himself alive to His disciples, appearing to them by the space of forty days. After this, the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven and the Father caused Him to sit at His right hand in heavenly places far above all rule, authority, power, do minion and every name that is named —not only in this world but also in that which is to come and He put all things into subjection under His feet and gave Him to be head over all things to the church. (4) The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the form of God and of His own choice, laid aside His divine glory and “took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men.” In His pre-existent state, He was with God and was God. He is a divine person possessed of all the attributes of deity and should be worshipped as God by angels and men. “In Him dwelleth all the ful ness of the Godhead bodily.” All the words that He spoke during His earthly life were the words of God. There is absolutely no error of any kind in them and by the words of Jesus Christ, the words of all other teachers must be tested. (5) The Lord Jesus became in every respect a real man possessed of all the essential characteristics of human nature. (6) By His death upon the cross the Lord Jesus made a perfect atone ment for sin by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners. He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming accursed in our place. He who Himself was absolute ly without sin was made to be sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker