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upstairs where a. little flaxened head was deep in a downy pillow. For a long time I looked at the child, so peacefully sleeping— the sleep of a conscience untouched by bitterness. Next morning, as the sunshine streamed through her win dow, I sat again on her bed, as she opened her eyes. “Little girl, I have some good news for you.” With a puzzled expression, half awake, she asked me what it was. “We’re going to keep kitty for our very - own,” I announced. Instantly she sprang up and threw her arms around my neck. “Oh, Daddy— joyg-joy— it’s what I most wanted of all the world.’ And it was to me a picture of Christ. Like that little cat, I was in my sin a loathsome thing to God. Covered with the slime and the filth of my own base passions; weak as water, and sore and blind-eyed, I was an outcast,— lost,— with none to desire me. ■But One saw me,— in my dirt and sin,— loved me; picked me up,— washed me,-—and brought me to my Father’s house.
Kitty has been fully incorporated into the family, has picked up flesh, its coat now white and glossy. It is the most frolicsome, most audacious little cat you ever saw. Yesterday I was talking on the telephone, and I found myself gently lifting kitty down from the back of my neck where its purring was interrupting the free course of con versation. Adopted! bless you yes, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. . . . . For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father . . . and as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believ- eth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Oh, matchless Christ! Wonderful Saviour! Has He found you? Greensboro, N. C.
'¿S> Statement of Doctrine, Bible Institute of
Los Angeles Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour, are lost, darkened in their understand ing, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in heart, morally and spirit ually dead through their trespasses and sins. They cannot see, nor enter the kingdom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit. IX. Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the, simple and single condition of faith in Him Who shed the blood, and are born again by the quickening, renewing, cleansing work of the Holy Spirit through the instru mentality of,th e Word of God. X. All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and their Lord and who confess Him as such before their fellowmen become children 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 blessed ness and at the second coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. XI. All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and through out eternity exist in a state of con scious, unutterable, endless torment and anguish. XH. The Church consists of all those who, in this present dispensation, truly believe on Jesus Christ. It is the body and bride of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself up. XIII. There is a personal devil, a being of great cunning and power. “The prince of the power of the air.” “The prince of this world.” “The god of this age.” He can exert vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so. He shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall be tormented day and night forever.
The Directors of the Institute have j things in subjection under His feet adopted the following Statement •of ' and gave -Him to be Head over all- Doctrine which every officer and things to the Church, teacher and department head is re quired to sign once a year. * 71
The Lord Jesus, before His incarna tion, 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 like ness 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 wor shipped as God by angels and men. “In Him dwelleth all the fulness 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. V. The Lord Jesus became in every respect a real man, possessed of all the essential characteristics of human nature. VI. By His death upon the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement 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 re deemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place. He who Himself was absolutely without sin was made to be sin on our behalf that we might become the righteous ness of God in Him. The Lord Jesus is coming again to this earth, person ally, bodily, and visibly. 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 consummation. VII. The Holy Spirit is a person and is possessed of all the distinctively divine attributes. He is God. VIII. 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
Money contributed for the work of the Institute will be held inviolate for the teaching of these truths. Failure to insist upon the promul gation of these truths, or the permis sion of teaching contrary to this state ment of belief, would constitute ground for suit for the reversion of the money contributed to the original donors or heirs. I. The Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernaturally given revelation from God Himself, concerning Himself, His being, nature, character, will and purposes; and con cerning man, his nature, need, duty and destiny. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teachings and record of historical facts. They are without error or defect of any kind. n. There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons— Father, Son and Holy Spirit. in. Our Lord Jesus was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin—Mary, a lineal descendant of David. He lived and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as is re corded in the four Gospels. He was put to death by crucifixion under Pon tius Pilate. God raised from the dead the body that had been nailed to the cross. The Lord Jesus after His cruci fixion showed Himself alive to His dis ciples, appearing unto them by the space of forty days. Aiter this the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven and the Father caused Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all
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