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OSBBC Articles of Faith stating what we believe about the faith “… which was once delivered unto the saints.”… Jude 1:3

BIBLE

WE BELIEVE the Holy Bible, the collection of 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation, were written by holy men who were divinely inspired by God.  It is  God supernaturally preserved the scriptures in the English language, as found in the Authorized King James Version, from Hebrew and Greek languages and that it is without error.  It is the only complete and final revelation of the will of God to man and the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21,Proverbs 30:5-6; John 17:17; Hebrews 4:12-13)

GOD

WE BELIEVE that the only True and Holy God is revealed in the Bible.  He is a Spirit, eternally existing in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit.  Each has equal identity and different responsibility for the purpose of redemption; The Father plans, the Son executes, and the Holy Spirit reveals and this three are united perfectly in three persons in Godhead.  This triune God of the Bible is clearly revealed to us in the incarnate Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. (Genesis 1:26; 1 John 5:7; John 16:7-11)

SALVATION

WE BELIEVE that salvation is a free gift of God through faith alone.  Anything that man will add an effort;  good work, church membership, sacrament, in order to save himself is “another gospel” that is under God’s curse. The Gospel is the good news that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he arouse again on the third day according to the Scriptures.  It is purely God’s way through the finished work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that shed His blood for the remission of our sin.  (Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 1:6-10; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Hebrews 9:22)

ETERNAL SECURITY

WE BELIEVE that eternal security begins the moment one receives the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior by faith.  It is God who gives eternal life and therefore it cannot attain and lost by any man’s effort.  The believer is dwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit.  It is maintained by grace and power of God through faith.  It is still God who will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ and therefore we are to “work out” and not “work for” our salvation.  (John 1:12; 1 Corinthian 3:16; Ephesians 1:13; 1 Peter 1:3-5; Philippians 1:6; 2:12)

CHURCH

WE BELIEVE that the visible church, the local assembly of believers, is a congregation of regenerated, baptized believers and governed by the law of Christ, the Head of the church.  Its only scriptural officers are pastor (bishop or elder) and deacon.  Its two ordinances are believer’s baptism by immersion, and the memorial of the Lord’s supper until He comes for His church.  It is an independent local autonomy, governed internally and responsible only to the Lord Jesus Christ.  It is design to glorify God, edify the saints and to be missionary and evangelistic in spreading the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The New Testament speaks also of church as the body of Christ, the divine purpose to make Jew and Gentile a wholly new thing. (Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 3:1-6, 5:23; 1 Corinthians 11:2; Act 2:41-42;Colossians 2:12)

SEPARATION

WE BELIEVE that the Bible teaches that a believer in Christ should be separated unto God from worldly and sinful practices; separated from apostasy and unbelief; separated from disobedient brethren and doctrinal compromise with respect to all ministry and service.  (Romans 12:1-2; 1 John 2:15-17; 1 Timothy 6:3-5; 2 Timothy 2:19-22; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 2 Thessalonians 3:6)

HEAVEN AND HELL

WE BELIEVE that heaven is a real place, the throne of God, of eternal blessedness prepared by God for those whose garments have been “made white” through faith in the shed “blood of the Lamb”.  It is a place where we can hear unspeakable words which is not lawful for a man to utter.  (Matthew 5:34; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4;  Revelation 7:13-17)

WE BELIEVE that hell is a real place of eternal suffering prepared and reserved by God for Satan and his fallen angels. They shall be tormented day and night  in the presence of holy angels and of the Lamb.  It is also a place prepared for those whose names are not written in the “book of life”.  There is no intermediate state in which the unsaved can atone for his own sins. (Revelation 14:10, 20:11-15; 2 Peter 2:4; Luke 16:19-31)

THE SECOND COMING

WE BELIEVE that according to His promise, Jesus Christ shall come again in two stages; the Rapture – the personal, pre-millenial, pre-tribulational and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a twinkling of an eye from heaven.  He will receive the resurrected bodies of those who have “died in Christ” and also those who are presently alive and “in Christ” to meet them “in the air” and this will precede the great tribulation period.  After seven years of tribulation on earth, The Faithful and True will come again bodily together “with His saints” to execute the judgment before the inauguration of His earthly millennial kingdom. The redeemed in Christ in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their rewards and dwell forever with the Lord while the unsaved will be separated from the presence of God and will be thrown forever to a place of everlasting fire together with Satan and his fallen angels. (Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 1 Corinthians 3: 11-14, 15:50-51; Titus 2:13; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:4-15)