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The Bible is the inerrant word of God, a supernatural living book from a living God. Before everything was, he existed. Through him (Jesus) all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made (John 1:3). He is the one true triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Because they are in unity, there is but one God. And we were made in his very image.

Father God is the creator of heaven and earth, of the galaxies, and of all that is seen and unseen. He set the stars in heaven and knows every hair on your head. He created man in his own image. He is the only living, true God who desires a personal relationship with mankind. He is omniscient — knowing everything — omnipotent — having complete power to do anything — and omnipresent — present everywhere at the same time.

Jesus, his only Son, is the Son of God and the son of man. He came as the light of the world. He is the Word of God, kept for us as sacred Scripture. He was born of the Virgin Mary and became fully man.

At the age of thirty he was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. At that moment the Holy Spirit descended upon him, and he moved into a ministry of signs, wonders, and miracles, teaching his twelve disciples. At thirty-three he was brutally beaten and hung upon a cross, offering his body and his blood for our healing and the forgiveness of sin. He became our Savior, redeeming what was lost by the first Adam in the garden of Eden.

Jesus died on the cross and was raised three days later. He descended into hell and robbed Satan of the keys of life and death. He then revealed himself to his disciples and to many others for forty days. When he was raised, so too were we. He ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of Father God. Before he left, he directed his disciples and followers to wait in Jerusalem for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Biblical scholars estimate that Jesus fulfilled from 300 to 456 Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah’s coming, death, and resurrection. The four Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — are the foundational, historical account of his ministry.

The Holy Spirit is our guide, teacher, and comforter, the third person of the triune God. He is the gift the Father gave, to remind the followers of Jesus of all that Jesus said and did. He is the gift behind miracles, signs, wonders, and deliverance in the life of the believer. He brings the gift of speaking in tongues and the authority to trample the enemy.

We are brought into an intimate relationship with him. Because it is a relationship, we can offend him, and his presence can lift. We need only repent of careless actions to restore that relationship. He is the power behind the Christian experience, and the revelation of the churches, then and now.

We believe in salvation, baptism in water for the forgiveness of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the gift of speaking in tongues and the power to do signs, wonders, and miracles. The work of Jesus is established in the four Gospels. The book of Acts unleashes the power of the Holy Spirit into the founding church, and still releases that power into believers who seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

Heaven is our home. God has prepared a place for you and your family to live with him eternally: a place of being loved, with no more tears, only peace and great joy. To enter, give your life to Jesus, accept him as your Savior, and live for him. Then he writes your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Jesus is the only path to heaven. Every other way is a deception and a lie.

Hell is a literal place of constant torment and torture by fire, prepared for Satan and his followers. People go there only when their names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, because they have made a conscious decision not to choose Jesus. Jesus is the only way to heaven. There is no other.

There was a war in heaven. A third of the angels fell, and two thirds stayed with God. Lucifer led the rebellion. He is often spoken of now as Satan. He was God’s lead worship musician. These demonic beings hate God and work without rest to destroy his followers — turning them toward idols, away from Jesus, or into sin — so they have people to torture eternally in hell.

Satan is the father of lies. His language is the language of lies. He lied to Eve at the beginning, and he and his fallen angels are still lying snakes. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. He is not all-seeing. He cannot be in more than one place at a time. He is not all-knowing, and he is not all-powerful. He is a fallen angel, now called a demon. He cannot create anything. Not one thing. He must work inside the limits God has set, and he offers only a negative view.

He can appear as an angel of light, and he can quote Scripture. That is why we must truly understand the Word of God. We overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. Jesus has given us authority on earth to bind him, and authority to trample on snakes and scorpions. Nothing will harm us. Satan is the ruler of hell. It is his delight to steal God’s creation so he can destroy the image of God. Nothing good is found in him.