Table of contents
  1. The Bible
  2. The Biblical Dispensations
  3. The Triune God
  4. His Virgin Birth
  5. His Person
  6. His Blood
  7. His Blood Atonement
  8. His Soul And Spirit’s Dissension, Bodily Resurrection, Bodily Ascension, High Priesthood, And Bodily Return
  9. God The Holy Spirit
  10. The Creation Of The Universe
  11. The Creation And Fall Of Man
  12. The Christian’s Two Natures
  13. The Christian’s Service
  14. Satan And Fallen And Unfallen Angels
  15. The Fall Of Man
  16. The Righteous And The Wicked
  17. Salvation Only Through Christ
  18. Repentance
  19. The New Birth
  20. Justification
  21. Sanctification
  22. Eternal Security Of Believers
  23. Assurance Of Believers
  24. The Church
  25. The Church’s Great Commission
  26. The Church’s Two Ordinances: Baptism And The Lord’s Supper
  27. Biblical Separation
  28. Civil Government
  29. Israel
  30. The Rapture--The Blessed Hope
  31. The Tribulation
  32. The Second Coming Of Christ
  33. The Eternal State

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What We Believe

GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT

A. His Person And Presence. We believe that the Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God; that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person, equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in creation (Genesis 1:1-3); that the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the blessed Trinity, though omnipresent from all eternity, took up His abode in the world in a special sense on the day of Pentecost according to the Divine promise; that He dwells in every believer; that, as the Indwelling One, He is the source of all power and all acceptable worship and service; that He never takes His departure from the church, nor from the feeblest of the saints (John 14:16-17; 16:7; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 2:22); that He is ever present to testify of Christ, seeking to occupy believers with Him and not with themselves nor with their experiences (John 16:14); that His abode in the world in this special sense will cease when Christ comes to receive His own at the completion of the church in the Rapture (2 Thessalonians 2:7).

B. His Ministries. We believe that, in this age, certain well-defined ministries are committed to the Holy Spirit, and that it is the duty of every Christian to understand them and to be adjusted to them in his own life and experience; that He restrains evil in the world to the measure of the divine will; that He convicts the world respecting sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:7-11); that He regenerates all believers (John 3:6); that He indwells and anoints all who are saved (Matthew 28:20; John 14:16-17; Acts 5:32; Romans 8:9, 15, 23; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 John 2:20-27); that He seals believers unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30); that He baptizes into the one body of Christ of all who are saved (Mark 1:8; John 1:33; Acts 11:16; 1 Corinthians 12:13); that He intercedes for the believers (Romans 8:26-27); and that He fills for power, leading, Grace Baptist Church’s ARTICLES OF FAITH 6 bearing witness, teaching, and service those among the saved who are yielded to Him and who are subjects to His will (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8; John 14:26; Acts 4:8, 31; Romans 8:14, 16; Ephesians 5:18).

C. His Temporary Gifts. We believe that some gifts of the Holy Spirit such as speaking in tongues and miraculous healings were temporary (given only in the Apostolic Age); that although God still heals individuals in miraculous ways, the Apostolic gifts mentioned above are no longer applicable today (we do not believe in “Apostolic succession”); that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism or the filling of the Spirit; and that the deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection (1 Corinthians 13:8-12).

D. His Counterfeit. We believe the Charismatic Tongues Movement is an unscriptural error relating to God the Holy Spirit and is not of God; that genuine tongues in the New Testament were authentic languages rather than the present ecstatic utterances which are counterfeit and spurious; that the sign gifts such as speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, special knowledge, and others, were all sign gifts which were manifested during the Apostolic age; that all such sign gifts ceased with the completion of the New Testament canon around 90 or 100 A.D. (1 Corinthians 13:8-12); that this movement seeks to unite apostates with believers in an unscriptural, ecumenical movement; and that true believers should separate from the Charismatic Tongues Movement immediately and completely. (2 Corinthians 6:14--7:1; Ephesians 5:11)