BASIC DOCTRINAL BELIEFS
THE PRESIDING BISHOP,
REV.DR.CHRISTOPHER AND HENRIETTA MATTHEW, AND THE MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
PRESBYTERY OF THE PREVAILING WORD CHURCH, HAVE TAKEN IN HAND TO SET FORTH A
DECLARING OF TWENTY ONE DOCTRINAL BELIEFS, MOST SURELY BELIEVED AMONG US AS
NECESSARY IN UNDERSTANDING THE INTENT OF THE LIVING GOD. WE PRAY THEREFORE
THAT THERE BE NO HARMFUL DIFFERENCES, WHICH MAY LEAD TO DISUNITY,
DIVISIVENESS, OR DISHARMONY AMONG THE BRETHREN OR CHURCHES, AND THAT WE MAY
BE OF THE SAME MIND AND JUDGMENT, SPEAKING THE SAME THINGS IN LOVE. (ACTS
2:42; 1COR 1:10)
- THE SCRIPTURES (THE
HOLY BIBLE): -1PET.2: 2; 2PET.1: 21; 2TIM.3: 15-17-THE BIBLE IS OUR
SOLE GUIDE AND SETS FORTH CRITERIA FOR A HEAVEN-BOUND PEOPLE. IT SUPREMELY
DECLARES THE HOLY ORACLES OF GOD. THE SCRIPTURE, BOTH OLD AND NEW
TESTAMENT CONSISTING OF 66 BOOKS ARE INSPIRED BY THE SPIRIT.
- THE TRIUNE GODHEAD:
-ISA.43: 10,11; MK.12 29; MATT.3: 16-17; JOHN.1: 1,14,18; 1COR.1: 14;
2COR.13: 14-THE GODHEAD CONSISTING OF THREE PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES IN
ONE. THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST.
- THE DEITY OF THE
LORD JESUS: -MATT.1: 18,23; LK.1: 26-27; 1TIM.2: 5-THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST IS TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN, HAVING BEING CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY GHOST
AND BORN OF VIRGIN MARY.
- THE ORIGINAL SIN
AND FALL OF MAN: -ROM.3: 1-7; GEN.3: 6-24; ROM 5:12-19-THAT BY THE
TRANSGRESSION OF ONE MAN ADAM, SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD RESULTING IN THE
TOTAL SPIRITUAL DEATH, WHICH IS SEPERATION FROM GOD OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN
RACE.
- THE SUBSTITUTIONARY
SACRIFICE OF CHRIST: -ACTS 2:32-36; 1PET.2:24; HEB.9:14; 1COR.15:3-8;
HEB.10:12-JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS AND SHED HIS BLOOD AS A SACRIFICE
FOR OUR SINS. HE AROSE BODILY FROM THE DEAD, ASCENDED TO HEAVEN AND IS
SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH.
- THE SALVATION OF
MAN AND JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE THOUGH FAITH: -EPH.4:11-12; ROM.3:3;
LK.24:47; COL.1:14- SALVATION, JUSTIFICATION AND REGENERATION IS RECEIVED
THROUGH REPENTANCE AND GODLY SORROW FOR SIN AND THAT AS AN ACT OF GODS
GRACE WE RECEIVE FORGIVENESS AND REMISSION OF SIN.
- THE MINISTRY OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT: -JOHN 15:26; JOHN 16: 8-14; ACTS 1:8-THE MINISTRY OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT TO GLORIFY CHRIST, TO CONVICT MEN OF SIN, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
JUDGMENT AND TO IMPROVE THE BELIEVER. THE HOLY SPIRIT OPERATES AS THE
UNLIMITED AND INVISIBLE PRESENCE OF JESUS CHRIST ON THE EARTH AS COMFORTER
AND ADVOCATE. INDWELLING EVERY BORN AGAIN BELIEVER AND MAKING THE
BELIEVERS BODY HIS TEMPLE.
- THE CHURCH: -1
COR. 12:12-27; EPH. 1:22,23; EPH.2: 22; HEB.12: 23 THE TRUE CHURCH IS
COMPOSED OF SUCH PERSONS WHO, THROUGH SAVING FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST HAVE
BEEN REGENERATED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. THAT THE TRUE CHURCH IS THE BODY OF
CHRIST, NOT INTENDED TO BE THE EDIFICE OR THE INSTITUTION, BUT THE
HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. EACH BELIEVE BORN OF THE
SPIRIT IS AN INTERGRAL PART OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND THE CHURCH OF THE
FIRSTBORN WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.
- WATER BAPTISM:
-MATT.28: 19; MK.16: 16- THE ORDINANCE OF BAPTISM BY IMMERSION IN WATER IS
COMMANDED IN THE SCRIPTURES BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT ALL WHO REPENT
OF THEIR SINS AND BELIEVE IN CHRIST AS SAVIOUR AND LORD ARE TO BE
BAPTIZED.
- THE PRIESTHOOD OF
THE BELIEVERS: -1 PETER 2:5, Rom 12:1- THE BELIEVER IS TO OFFER UNTO
GOD SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES BECAUSE WE HAVE GAINED ACCESS IN TO GODS HOLY OF
HOLIES THROUGH CHRIST.
- THE HOLY COMMUNION
OR THE LORDS SUPPER: -1COR.11: 26, LK22: 17-20; 2PET.1: 4-THE LORDS
SUPPER CONSISTING OF THE ELEMENTS, BREAD AND THE CUP OF THE FRUIT OF THE
VINE IS THE EXPRESSION OF OUR SHARING IN THE DIVINE NATURE OF OUR LORD
JESUS CHRIST. A MEMORIAL OF HIS SUFFERINGS AND DEATH.
- THE BAPTISM OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT: -ACTS 1:39; ICOR.14:2-18; JUDE 20; 1 COR.12:1-31- THE
SPIRIT IS SENT TO GIFT EACH BELIEVER WITH THEIR OWN PRIVATE PRAYER AND
PRAISE LANGUAGE USED TO EDIFY THEMSELVES AND THAT SUCH BAPTISM EMPOWERS
THE BELIEVER TO BE EFFECTIVE FOR CHRIST.
- DIVINE HEALING AND
MIRACLES: -EXD.15:23-26; MK.16:18; 1COR.112:8-10; MATT.16:17-DIVINE
HEALING WAS CLEARLY PROVIDED FOR IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND WAS AN INTEGRAL
PART OF THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPEL AS TAUGHT AND DEMONMSTRATED BY JESUS
CHRIST, THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH.
- SANCTIFICATION:
- HEB.12: 14; 1THESS.5: 23; 2PET.3: 18; 1THEDD.4:
3;1PET.1:16-SANCTIFICATION IS DEFINITE YET PROGRESSIVE WORK OF GRACE, THE
SEPERATION FROM ANYTHING CONSIDERED SINFUL IN THE SCRIPTURES AND OF
DEDICATION TO GOD.
- THE FIVE-FOLD
MINISTRY: -EPH.4: 11; 1COR.7: 20; 1COR.12:28-GOD BY THE HOLY
SPIRIT,DEFINITELY CALL WHOM HE DESIRES TO SERVE IN THE FIVE-FOLD MINISTRY
AND QUALIFIES THE ONE CALLED WITH POWER, TALENTS, WISDOM AND GIFGTS
PERTAINING TO THAT OFFICE OR OFFICES.
- MATRIMONY:
-GEN.2:24; MATT.19:5-6; MARRIAGE BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN SHALL BE
BINDING FOR LIFE.
- TITHES AND
OFFERINGS: -MAL.3:8,10,11-ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD TITHE TO THE
STOREHOUSE (CHURCH), WHERE THEY RECEIVE SPIRITUAL FOOD.
- THE BLESSED
HOPE-THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAINTS:-ACTS 1:11; 1THESS.4:16,17; ROM
8:23; 1COR.15:51; TITUS 2:13-THE PRE-MILLENIAL COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST IN THE CLOUDS TO CATCH AWAY HIS BRIDE.
- THE SECOND ADVENT
OF CHRIST: -1THESS.4:l6; ZECH.14:5; MATT.24:27,30; REV.1:7;
REV.19:11,20; MATT.25:46; THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST INCLUDES THE
CATCHING AWAY (RAPTURE), OF THE CHURCH (SAINTS), FOLLOWED BY THE
ACTUAL VISIBLE RETURN OF CHRIST WITH HIS SAINTS TO REIGN WITH HIM ON EARTH
FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS.
- ETERNAL HEAVEN AND
ETERNAL HELL: -MATT 25:46; REV.19:11-15; REV.21:8; MK.9:43-48-THERE
WILL B A FINAL JUDGMENT IN WHICH THE WICKED DEAD WILL BE RAISED AND JUDGED
ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. WHOSOEVER IS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF
LIFE, TOGETHER WITH THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS, THE BEAST AND THE FALSE
PROPHET WILL BE CONSIGNED TO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT IN THE LAKE WHICH
BURNS WITH FIRE ANDS BRIMESTONE, WHICH IS SECOND DEATH.
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THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH:
-2PET.3:13; REV.21:1-WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND
NEW EARTH; WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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