CHILDREN’S BIBLE MINISTRY Statement of
Faith
CBM MINISTRIES,
INC. serves along nondenominational lines, and as such there are certain
essential truths which we believe. As Christians we believe in the
necessity of the new birth as the work of God, the Holy Spirit to be
obtained only by receiving the Lord Jesus Christ and that men are saved
by grace through faith not by works.
A.
We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New testament to be the
verbally inspired (God-breathed) Word of God, the final authority for
faith and life, inerrant in the original writings (Matt. 5:18; John
16:12-13; II Tim. 3:16-17; II Pet. 1:20-21).
B.
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ as fully God and
fully man; as man, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin; as
God, co-equal and co-existent with God the Father and God the Holy
Spirit (Matt. 1:1 – 2:13; John 1:1-11; 14:16; Phil. 2:5-11; Col. 1:15).
C.
We believe in man’s fallen condition. Through nature, choice and
practice he is guilty before God and is righteously judged fit only for
everlasting punishment (Gen. 3:1-13; Matt. 25:46; Rom. 3:10 & 23;
5:12-21; I Cor. 15:21-22; II Thess. 1:7-10; Rev. 20:12-15).
D.
We believe Jesus Christ offered on our behalf the only acceptable
sacrifice for sin and was raised in the same body from the dead
according to the Scriptures. Christ has secured our redemption through
the shedding of His blood, qualifying the saints for service here, a
like resurrection, and a place in His divine presence for eternity
(Matt. 28; Luke 24:39-43; Rom. 3:21-28; 5:10-11; I Cor. 15:3-4; I Tim.
2:5-6; Heb. 9:11-22; I Pet. 1:18-20; I John 2:2; 5:10-13).
E.
We believe that repentance, forgiveness and becoming a new
creature are several of the many experiences of the Christian who is
kept by God’s power, being secure in Christ forever and that it is the
privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of salvation. (John
6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1, 38-39; II Cor. 5:17; I John 5:11-13.
F.
We believe that God the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts
sinners and who regenerates and baptizes them at the moment of their
salvation into the body of Christ. We also believe that the Holy Spirit
indwells and seals until Christ returns, all who believe, and fills and
empowers for service those who are yielded to Him (John 16:8-11; Rom.
8:9; I Cor. 6:19-20; 12:12-14; Gal. 5:16; Eph. 1:13-14; 4:30; 5:18;
Titus 3:5).
G.
We believe in the visible, personal and imminent return of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His church (John 14:3; Acts 1:9-11; I
Thess. 4:13-18).
H.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved and of the
lost, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting
punishment of the lost (John 11:23-27; Rom. 8:11; Ii Cor. 5:1; I Thess.
4:13-18; Rev. 20:12-15).
I.
We believe that Christ made provision for all the effects of sin
in the atonement and that God heals in answer to believing prayer
according to His sovereign discretion. Healing may not be claimed on
the same unconditional basis as salvation, and the final deliverance
from sickness awaits the believer in glory (I Cor. 15:51-57; II Cor.
12:7-9; :Phil. 3:20-21; I John 3:2).
J.
We believe that the primary purpose for spiritual gifts as given
by the Holy Spirit is for the edifying of the church and the propagation
of the gospel of Christ. We believe that tongues, miracles and the
raising of the dead, as evidenced in apostolic times, were to
authenticate the giving of the new revelation, primarily to the Jewish
nation at that time. These were never a sign of the baptism or filling
of the Holy Spirit, nor are they to be pursued (I Cor. 12:28-31; 13:8-10;
Eph. 2:20; 4:7-12; Heb. 2:3-4).
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