| XVI. OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only as through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and sanctified by the Spirit of our God are truly righteous in His esteem, while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked, and under the curse, and this distinction holds among men both in and after death, in the everlasting felicity of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost. Mal. 3:18; Gen. 18:23; Rom. 6:17-18; Prov. 11:31; I Pet. 4:18; Rom. 1:17; I Cor. 15:22; Acts 10:34-35; I Jn. 2:29; I Jn. 3:7; Rom. 6:16; I Jn. 5:19: Gal. 3:10; Rom. 7:6; Rom. 6:23; Prov. 14:2; Lk. 16:25; Matt. 25:34-41; Jn. 8:21; Lk. 9:26; Jn. 12:25; Matt. 7:13-14. XVII. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT We believe that civil government is of divine appointment, for the interest and good order of human society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored, and obeyed except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the coming Prince of the Kings of the earth. Rom. 13:7; II Sam. 23:3; Ex. 18:21-22; Acts 23:5; Matt. 22:21; Tit. 3:1; I Pet. 2:13-14; I Pet. 2:17; Acts 5:29; Acts 4:19-20; Dan. 3:17-18; Matt. 10:28; Matt. 23:10; Rev. 10:6; Phil. 2:10-11; Ps. 72:11. XVIII. OF THE RESURRECTION; RETURN OF CHRIST AND RELATED EVENTS We believe in the resurrection and return of Christ and related events, and accept the sacred Scriptures upon these subjects at their face and full value. Of the resurrection, we believe that Christ rose bodily, "the third day according to the scriptures"; that He ascended, "to the right hand of the throne of God"; that He alone is our "merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God"; that "this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven" - bodily, personally, and visibly; that the "dead in Christ shall rise first"; that the living saints "shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump"; and that "Christ shall reign a thousand years in righteousness until He hath put all enemies under His feet." Matt. 28:6-7; Lk. 24:39; Jn. 20:27; I Cor. 15:4; Mk. 16:6; Lk. 24:2, 4-6; Acts 1:9; Lk. 24:51; Mk. 16:19; Rev. 3:21; Heb. 8:1, 6; I Tim. 2:5; I Jn. 2:1; Heb. 2:17; Heb. 5:9-10; Jn. 14:3; Acts 1:11; I Thes. 4:16; Matt. 24:27; Matt. 25:13; Jas. 5:8; Matt. 24:42; Heb 9:28; I Thes 4:16: I Cor. 15:42-44, 51-53; I Thes. 4:17; Phil. 3:20-21; Lk. 1:32; Isa. 9:6-7; I Cor. 15: 25; Isa. 32:1; Isa. 11:4-5; Ps 72:8; Rev. 20:1-4, 6. XIX. OF MISSIONS We believe the command to give the gospel to the world is clear and unmistakable and this commission was given to the churches. Matt. 28:18-20, "And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Mark 16:15, "And he said unto them, go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." John 20:21, "As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." Acts 1:8, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Romans 10:13-15, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" Acts 13:1-4, "Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus." XX. OF THE GRACE OF GIVING We believe God's plan of finance to be tithes and offerings. Scriptural giving is one of the fundamentals of the Faith. II Cor. 8:7, "Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also." We are commanded to bring our gifts into the storehouse (common treasury of the church) upon the first day of the week. I Cor. 16:2, "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." Under grace we give, and do not pay, the tithe -- "Abraham GAVE a tenth part of all . . . Abraham GAVE the tenth of the spoils," Heb. 7:2, 4, and this was four hundred years before the law, and is confirmed in the New Testament; Jesus said concerning the tithe, "These ought ye to have done" -- Mat. 23:23. We are commanded to bring the tithe into the common treasury of the church. Lev. 27:30, "The tithe is the Lord's." Mal. 3:10, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." In the New Testament it was the common treasury of the church. Acts 4:34, 37, "And brought the prices of the things that were sold and laid them down at the apostles' feet . . . Having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet." |
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