Our Footsteps: A Great Sound

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A Great Sound

This morning in church we were studying various passages in the book of Nehemiah. One did not have to listen very long before hearing a great sound. "Turn to Nehemiah 2:1... now turn to chapter 4... look in chapter 6... now back to chapter 2... go to verse such and such... now keep your hand there and turn to the New Testament and look in 1 Timothy chapter 6". We were turning pages at breakneck speed, keeping pace with the pastor as we got our exercise in our morning Bible drills. The great sound? A couple hundred people turning their Bible pages simultaneously. All those crisp, thin Bible pages turning at the same time sounded like an orchestra to me. It meant that people were engaging in a hearty study of God's Word, and not just being lazy spectators. We were all participating in the same kind of activity that the noble Berean's had been noted for in the book of Acts - not taking someone's word for something, but rather checking out God's Word to see if these things were really so. What a great sound!

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I Believe...

1). I believe that there is one God. I believe God consists of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2). I believe that God is holy, righteous, loving, and just.
3). I believe that mankind is separated from God by sin; that sin entered the world through Adam and death through sin.
4). I believe that, because of sin, man is condemned. Because of God’s utter hatred for sin, there is an eternal conscious punishment in hell for all those who do not come to God on His terms, dealing with their sin.
5). I believe that confessing our sins and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to properly deal with the sin that has infected everyone. Jesus Christ paid our sin debt on the cross; reconciliation by substitution. There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Christ.
6). I believe in the security of the believer, that once he is truly born-again, there is nothing that would cause him to lose his salvation.
7). I believe that upon the death of a true believer in Christ, that he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord, where he will live in everlasting joy in Heaven, experiencing eternal fellowship with God.
8). I believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. I don’t believe baptism is necessary for salvation, but it is a beautiful outward profession of an inward possession.
9). I believe in a literal 6-day creation where God created the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh day.
10). I believe that the words written in the Bible are truth. I believe that the Bible is inerrant in its parts and in its whole. I believe that the 66 books that make up the canon of scripture make the Bible complete and that God inspired the words written therein. The things that were written down in the Bible are sufficient for every need we have. Not only is God’s Word sufficient, but it is far superior to any other method of handling the problems that man faces, since He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness.