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STATEMENT OF FAITH
1. THE HOLY BIBLE is the revelation of God's mercy to mankind. Mankind desperately needs
forgiveness and mercy, and the Holy Bible reveals the only possible way.
2. GOD exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
God the Father is the creator of the natural universe - He is also our rightful lawgiver and judge.
3. GOD THE SON is Jesus Christ - fully God and fully man. Jesus Christ is God's representative to man in holiness,
and man's representative to God in sacrifice.
4. GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT is needed in conversion because no-one wants to, or even can, obey God.
5. MAN IS SINFUL and is not able to obey God in anything he does because his selfish heart has caused
total spiritual blindness in him. He needs to be converted.
6. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT is the result of this disobedience to God. It is no use for a murderer to say
"I have not murdered most of the time" - by doing the crime once, such a person is guilty of death.
Is endless punishment just? Well, this punishment corresponds to the death penalty in human governments.
The hanged man can never come back to life again - his punishment is endless - he can never enjoy life again (neither can the man
imprisoned for life). We could just as well ask, does a murderer deserve death? Yes.
Does capital offence like treason or REVOLUTION against the state deserve death? Yes.
But some ask, surely God would give punishment less than eternal for fewer sins?
But Capital punishment is the ultimate punishment for the ultimate crime, it does not have different degrees of punishment.
It is total banishment from the state and endless death. If a man murders one person, he is not punished any more or less than a man that murders 1000 people!
A man that murders multitudes in the death camps of World War II in the eyes of human law would not be punished
any different, or any lesser or greater than a man that murders JUST ONE PERSON!
Sinful man, commits the ultimate crime by his very act of betraying his father God, by doing it JUST ONCE
becomes worthy of eternal punishment,
makes God appear unworthy of obedience in the highest sense.
It is the very highest act of treason and revolution, as it steals all confidence of others in God.
The sin of one man produces in others an absolute recklessness towards God's government.
If a man permanently takes life from this world and good, his own is gone. And If a man
permanently takes a soul from God our protector and happiness, his own soul is gone. He does this through his influence.
Suppose I influence a man to commit murder; the deed is as absolutely my own as if I had done it with my own hand.
The crime is not in the hand which struck the blow, any more than it is in the sword, that stabs the victim.
The crime is in my mind. If I use another's hand, if my mind, as the moving cause, influenced him, it is my act still.
And at the point of death, everyone, just as if they themselves had committed all the sins of recklessness
to God which they influenced by their example, are guilty of endless punishment; are carried away to an everlasting and conscious
place of suffering in hell as their punishment.
7. THE NEW BIRTH is when God in mercy, grants a person salvation from eternal punishment and salvation from bondage to sinning.
It is when a person changes his heart under the direction of the Holy Spirit, and becomes a new creature.
It is only possible before death - we are already condemned, and are presently in a period of probation
until the execution is passed at death. A person signifies his or her willingness to receive salvation by being baptized
in water.
8. THE ATONEMENT is Christ dying for sinners. We are all sinners, and we need the atonement
if God is ever going to grant us salvation from the penalty of sin, or from bondage to sin. We need someone to pay
for all our sins. The atonement only applies in our case if we receive it. It is available for everyone.
9. JUSTIFICATION is salvation from eternal punishment. It is by faith, because we are not righteous by anything
good that we may do, but by believing in the sacrificial death of Christ for us. It is a finished work.
Once saved, always saved. If we are justified in this way, at the point of death we shall enter an everlasting
and conscious place of bliss in heaven.
10. SANCTIFICATION is salvation from bondage to sinning. It is also by faith, because sanctification is the natural result of justification by faith. Knowing that Christ payed
in full for all our sins, releasing us from eternal punishment, naturally results in holiness, immediately - our working for God in love for his acceptance of us. The
Christian life naturally consists in good works, because these are the works of faith, or faith that works by love.
If this does not happen - if we do not have these works of love, our
conversion was not thorough, we did not realise what we have been saved from, and
we have every right to question whether we are saved. OR, if
we have 'good' works without being justified by faith, the works themselves do not spring from a relationship
with God, so it is NOT holiness.
The only cure in all cases is to sincerely and honestly confess all our own sins in detail till we reach the fountain of sin and totally break it up.
This is needed because people feel as if they are willing to renounce all their sins, taken all together,
or in the abstract. But take them up in the detail, one by one, and there are many sins they are unwilling to
give up. And until they do, they can have no peace with God.
11. THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT as on the day of Pentecost is a second experience of every believer who
accepts the commission to convert the world. It is accompanied by speaking in tongues.
There is a continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit in believers today, as evidenced in spiritual gifts and ministries,
whenever believers are committed to this commission to convert the world.
Are you interested in:
THE LEADINGS OF THE SPIRIT
MIRACLES
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
BAPTISM DOCTRINES
THE END TIMES
THE ORIGIN OF SATAN
THE PHYSICAL RETURN OF JESUS
PROSPERITY
MARRIAGE
TITHES
IDOLATRY ...
YOUR COMMITMENT
DO YOU REALLY KNOW GOD? OR DO YOU JUST SERVE HIM FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET OUT OF HIM?
- Confess your sins and stop doing them.
Public Confessions online will help you do this.
If you have not obeyed - DO now what you have
not been doing, in obedience to God. A common sin is not telling other people about Jesus
(especially people in the office, or official people - you could start by directing them to this website).
- As you read the King James Bible, get a separate notebook to write down and MEMORIZE verses that strike you, and
as you recite out loud, pour out your heart to God. These are the Scriptures You Should Know.
- Only once you have done the above, then you can sing songs of praise and worship
to lift up your prayers in Church.
Would you like to say what is on your mind?
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WHAT REVIVALS ARE
- Christians being convicted of their sins.
- Backslidden Christians repenting.
- The faith of Christians renewed.
- Christians no longer swayed by the power of the world and sin.
- Conviction, repentance and reformation of sinners.
WHEN REVIVALS ARE NEEDED
- When there is a lack of brotherly love and confidence among those who profess to be Christians.
- When there are dissensions, jealousies and backbiting among those who profess Christianity.
- When there is a worldly spirit in the Church.
- When Church members fall into gross and scandalous sin.
- When there is a spirit of controversy in the church and in the country.
- When the wicked triumph over the church and revile it.
- When sinners are careless and stupid, sinking into hell unconcerned.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE ARE NO REVIVALS
- There is a reproach covering the church.
- God’s judgment is not averted.
- Dying churches are annihilated.
- The Gospel is the aroma of death to the ungodly and they consequently experience a more horrible damnation than if they had never heard the Gospel at all.
- The church is not fitted for heaven.
ARE YOU REVIVED? DO YOU KNOW:
- How to look out for the Providence of God – his ordering of events that signal an awakening is at hand? How to observe the indications of God’s care?
- What it means to be grieved, humbled and distressed by the sinfulness of sinners?
- How to have the spirit of prayer for revival? What it means to pray as if you want it?
- As a pastor, how to make revival your goal? What it means to preach to expect the immediate conversion of sinners?
- As Christians, what it means to begin to confess your sins to one another specifically and in a concerned manner?
- How to sacrifice to carry it on? What it means to be willing to surrender feelings, business and time to help the work?
CHARLES FINNEY LIBRARY
No history of American Christianity can omit the life and theology of Charles Finney.
He is one of the most recognized—and controversial—evangelists, theologians,
and preachers of the nineteenth century, and was the strongest voice of the Second Great Awakening.
He promoted spontaneous and extemporaneous preaching, emphasized authentic and emotional expressions of faith,
and established the principles and practices of revival which have become commonplace in American Christianity.
Finney’s name is still regularly woven into modern theological discourse, testifying to his impact on the history
of American Christianity.
Charles Grandison Finney was born on August 29, 1792 in Litchfield, Connecticut. He studied law, but his plans were altered when he underwent a dramatic conversion experience at the age of 29. Finney later wrote of his conversation experience: “I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love” (from Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney, included in this collection).
Finney became pastor of the Free Presbyterian Chatham Street Chapel and later the Broadway Tabernacle. He spoke as a refined and expert orator and became a widely popular evangelist, organizing and preaching at numerous revivals and meetings throughout New England. He also traveled to England. As many as one million people heard Finney preach throughout his career, and many of them underwent conversion experiences. Finney also spoke at length about social issues, and became an ardent abolitionist. In 1835, Finney was appointed as a professor of theology at Oberlin College, and became its president in 1851, where he remained until 1866.
Oberlin College was built almost entirely on his reputation, fundraising, and booksales.
Charles Finney died on August 17, 1875.
During Finney's time
the world saw the Second Great Awakening, the Abolition
of Slavery in the United States, and a global missionary movement
which saw the Bible enter many African countries for the
very first time.
The CHARLES FINNEY STUDY MANUAL in God's Providence would not exist without all the hard work of:
Pastor Art Ferry, Jr.,
Liz Groman,
Carolyn Nelson,
Lori Bigby,
Mike Todd,
Paul J. DiBartolo,
Mike Burns,
Michael and Pam Burns,
Vic Johanson,
Valerie Mitchell,
Eugene Detweiler,
Katie Stewart,
Tony Alan Mangum,
Cheryl Lafollette,
Bob Wynn,
John and Terri Clark,
Lewis Peregory,
Ron Neely,
Bret Dambrauckas,
Joon H. Lee,
Ernest Thomas,
Ross and Ruth McElwee,
Chris Delk,
Dara Kachel,
Pam Burns,
Mike Miller,
Terry A. Deckard,
Spencer Rawlins,
Jim Boyd,
Mike and Julie Clark,
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Clark,
Dara Kachel,
Daniel F. Smith,
Jeff Sullivan,
Claude Cousineau,
Bill Tyler,
Bob Borer,
Nancy Dozier,
John, Terri and Aaron Clark,
and many others.
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