Prayer is an offering up of our desires to God, for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies. (1 John 5:14; 1 John 1:9; Philippians 4:6; Psalm 10:17; 145:19; John 14:13-14)
We should pray to the true God only, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, not to idols, saints, or anything God has created (Psalm 65:2; 1 John...
By everlasting life, we mean a new existence, in which we are united with all the people of God, in the joy of fully knowing and loving God and each other.
God gives eternal life to me and all believers in Christ.
Death being threatened as the wages of sin, it is appointed unto all men once to die; for that all have sinned.
The righteous shall be delivered from death itself at the last day, and even in death are delivered from the sting and curse of it; so that, although they die, yet it is out of...
The holy Christian church is the communion of saints, the total number of those who believe in Christ. All believers in Christ, but only believers, are members of the church (invisible church) (Ephesians 2:19-22; John 10:16; Romans 8:9).
Christ rose from the dead, glorious and immortal, on Easter Sunday, the third day after His death.
By his resurrection, Jesus overcame death and opened for us the way of eternal life.
Christ's resurrection proves that
Redemption is the act of God which sets us free from the power of evil, sin, and death.
God sent the prophets to call us back to himself, to show us our need for redemption, and to announce the coming of the Messiah.
God, out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, having chosen a...
A covenant is a relationship initiated by God, to which a body of people responds in faith.
The Old Covenant is the one given by God to the Hebrew people.
God promised that they would be his people to bring all the nations of the world to him.
God required...
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, being given by divine inspiration, are the Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice. (2 Peter 1:21; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Isaiah 8:20)
The Old Testament consists of books written by the people of the Old Covenant, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to show God at work in nature and...
The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass (Psalm 33:11; Isaiah 14:24; Acts 2:23; Ephesians 1:11-12).
God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence (Psalm 148:8; Isaiah 40:26; Daniel 4:35; Acts 4:24-28; Revelation 4:11).
The Holy Spirit is the third person in the Holy Trinity, true God with the Father and the Son—therefore not merely the power or energy of God (Matthew 28:19).
Because the Scriptures clearly call Him God, teaching that:
