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Dedicated to the Everlasting Gospel
The everlasting gospel is the goods news of peace, salvation and the vindication of God's sovereignty (Isa.52:7; Rom.10:15). This good news is embodied in the life of Jesus Christ: His identity and what He did for us (Mark 1:1; Rom.1:1-4). It is the honest belief in this good news that affords us eternal life (John 3:16; 2Tim.1:10). The everlasting gospel was effected in the counsel of peace bewteen the Father and the Son, and is yet again emphasized in these last days as that which must be proclaimed with a loud voice (Zech.6:13; Rev.14:6). We are dedicated to this end-time proclamation, revealing the love of the Father and Son.
Dedicated to the Word of God
We accept the clear evidence that God has over centuries spoken by His prophets (Heb.1:1). In the interest of communicating the fulness of the gospel toward man, God has impressed His agents to record these revelations. God's Spirit moved upon them to prophesy - they were agents of the Spirit of prophecy (2Pet.1:21; Rev.19:10). Much of these have had their words of inspiration preserved to this day, which we find in the Old and New Testaments. The harmony of these recorded revelations, even being centuries apart, is a hallmark of their divine authenticity. Being tested by established Scripture, we take as the Word of God all revelations which bear the true fruit of the Spirit of prophecy (Isa.8:20).
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Dedicated to keeping the Commandments of God
The commandments of God - which inspiration also alternatively calls the ten commandments (Exo.34:28), the tables of the covenant (Deut.9:9), the law of God (Rom.7:25), and the law of liberty (James 2:12) - are revealed in God's Word to be everlasting, perfect and unchangeable in nature (Isa.24:5; Ps.19:7; Matt.5:18). From Genesis to Revelation the testimony is clear that God's commandments have always maintained and will always maintain jurisdiction over humanity (Gen.26:5; Rev.22:14). God's order and man's entire duty are continually represented in those timeless injunctions, "Thou shalt not..." and "Remember..." (Exo.20:3-17; Eccl.12:13). Therefore we stand on the Word, believing that these commandments - all ten of them, including the seventh-day Sabbath - are irrevocably binding, and must be wholly observed by all calling themselves Christians. Upon the time of the Second Advent is the salvific necessity of God's law made especially clear: for those who shall have the faith of Jesus and be reaped from the earth, are likewise those who shall be keeping the commandments of God (Rev.14:12-16).
Dedicated to keeping the Faith of Jesus
We understand that the "faith of Jesus" is not the very same as "faith in Jesus" (Rev.14:12). The faith of Jesus does not merely embrace a personal faith in Jesus. While our own individual acknowledgement of the salvific person of Jesus Christ is essential, the faith of Jesus sets before us also the whole panorama of truths He enjoined upon His followers: "Teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you." (Matt.28:20). All the requirements of the New Testament - alongside those carried forward into the New Testament from the Old - are involved in what is the faith of Jesus. We see the teachings and gospel order set forth by Christ in the New Testament as essential practice for Christians (Col.2:6-7). All such teaching and practice are applicable today and shall be applicable till the Second Advent (1Cor.11:23-26; Rev.2:25, 3:11). No clear teaching is to be relegated or rendered obsolete; no plain truth is to be cast aside by cries of so-called enlightenment, modernism, or higher criticism, etc. (Col.2:8). The faith of Jesus given to the church of the apostles is the same foundation that shall carry through the church of the last days (Eph.2:19-20; Heb.13:8; Rev.21:14).
"If men would but take the Bible as it reads, if there were no false teachers to mislead and confuse their minds, a work would be accomplished that would make angels glad, and that would bring into the fold of Christ thousands upon thousands who are now wandering in error."