What I Believe

My Belief

There is one God, eternally existent in three persons which is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

He created everything out of nothing for His own pleasure and purpose.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, inerrant and infallible in the original manuscripts, and the supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and life, interpreted by the Holy Spirit to each individual believer.

The church is not a building.  It is the people.  You can have church in your home with two or more people and that will please God. Also, he will be there with you at "church".

The Bible is how we get to know God.  Using other books from writers that are Bible experts is not wrong, but relying on that instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to teach you is a mistake.

Man is evil by nature.  It is dangerous to put your trust in men.

Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father through the Holy Spirit, was born of the Virgin Mary, and is true man without ceasing to be God.


Jesus Christ lived a sinless and perfect life that fully pleased His Father;He died for our sins on the cross, bearing the judgment demanded by God's Holy Justice against sin, thus making it possible for God to remain Just and at the same time to justify those who believe in Jesus.


Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, never to die again, and is ascended to the right hand of the Father, where He intercedes as Advocate on behalf of all who believe in Him on earth.


It is by faith alone and through no merit of our own, that we receive Jesus Christ as Savior and are miraculously born again of the Holy Spirit and become, as children of God, experience His divine nature and receive eternal life.


The Holy Spirit baptizes all true believers into the one true Church, His Body.

The Holy Spirit indwells them eternally, bestows spiritual gifts upon them, and empowers them for service and holy living.

God through His Word promises those who believe, all things that pertain to life and godliness, including not only salvation from the penalty of sin but instruction in righteousness for present sanctification and holy living to the glory of God.


The bodily resurrection (rapture) of the redeemed will occur at the premillennial return of Christ for His Church, when the souls and spirits of those who have died will be reunited with their bodies, now immortal, and that believers who are alive at that time, their bodies likewise transformed into immortality, will be caught up together with them to meet Christ in the air, ever to be with Him.

Therefore I believe the Rapture will occur before the second half of the Tribulation begins.  We should always be watching and be ready.


Jesus Christ will return physically to rescue Israel at Armageddon and to establish His millennial kingdom, reigning over this earth from Jerusalem, and that His redeemed will reign with Him in resurrected bodies for 1,000 years.



At death the souls of the redeemed pass immediately into Christ's presence, to remain there until the resurrection of the body at Christ's return for the Church. At death the souls of the lost go to Hell, where they remain until they are brought before Christ at the Great White Throne final judgment to be judged according to their works and cast into the Lake of Fire, there to remain eternally.

The Fruits of a Christian

Matthew 7: 20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

1 John 4:16 

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

John 14: 26

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Galatians 5: 22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,


When we believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior and God something awesome happens.  The Holy Spirit indwells the believer.  When this happens the desire to know God by his Word grows.  We live with different priorities.  

I believe it is critical to read the Bible regularly.  The Holy Spirit will teach and belief can deepen. After belief  many notice the conviction of the Holy Spirit of our sins.  And then we are to repent of our sins.  We struggle not to sin and hate our sin and try to help others know the one way of Jesus.




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Those that do not believe cannot receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.