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WE BELIEVE
That the Bible (in its original manuscript) is the inspired and inerrant Word of God; both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the apostolic writings, B’rit Hadashah (New Testament) are equally inspired by God and serve as our infallible guide in all matters pertaining to conduct and doctrine (Ps. 119:160; Matt. 5:18; 2 Tim 3:14-17; 1 Peter 1:23-25).

WE BELIEVE
The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent, self-revealed "I AM" and has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association, i.e., Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29; Isaiah 43:10, 11; Matthew 28:19). Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus) is the only begotten Son of God who became incarnate. He was both fully God and fully man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Jewish virgin Miriam (Mary). (I John 4:9, Matthew 1:20-23; Luke 1:27-32).

WE BELIEVE 
In the deity and pre-existent incarnation of Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ) of Nazareth (John 1:1-2; Acts 7:37-38); in His conception by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:26-38); in His virgin birth (Is. 9:6; Is. 7:14; Matt.1:18-25); in His sinless life (Is. 53; 2 Cor. 5:21; Lk. 1:35); in His miracles (Matt. 4:23-25); in His vicarious and atoning death on the cross (Is. 53; Dan. 9:24-27; Rom. 3:21-31; Heb 9 & 10); in His bodily resurrection and His ascension to the right hand of the Father, where He makes intercession for His people (Zech. 12:10; 14:1-21; Matt. 28:1-10; Ps. 110; Ps. 16:10; Acts 1:1-11; Heb. 1:1-3; 7:25).

WE BELIEVE
 
That God (YaHuWeH, Yaweh, Elohim) created mankind (male & female) in His own image and likeness (Gen 1:26-27; 2:4). But through Adam’s transgression, sin entered the world and caused mankind to fall from his original state of glory and holiness. ”For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). As a result, every man is born with a sin nature that must be redeemed in order to be saved.

WE BELIEVE
That man cannot be saved (redeemed) through his own good works, but only by grace through faith in the atoning blood of Yeshua (Jesus the Messiah ta was shed on Calvary's Cross (2 Timothy 1:9, Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-9; Romans 5:12-21;
1 Corinthians 15:1-4).  This faith causes us to experience true godly sorrow that leads to repentance, and we become "born again" (spiritually regenerated) to a living hope through the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) from the dead  (1 Peter 1:3; John 3:3-5; 2 Corinthians 7:10; 1 John 5:12.  We believe that Yeshua (Jesus) is the way, the truth, and the life and that no one comes to the Father except through faith in Him (John 14:6; John 6:40; 10:7-9; I John 5:11-12).  


WE BELIEVE
That when a person is truly “born again” they receive the indwelling presence of God’s Holy Spirit which is known as the first fruits of the Spirit (John 20:22; Rom. 8:23). The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify Yeshua (Jesus), to comfort and lead believers into all truth, to convict men of sin and righteousness and judgment, and to empower God’s people unto good works in Messiah (John 15:26; 16:7-16).

WE BELIEVE
That water baptism (mikvah) is a biblical rite that has been practiced among God’s people since the days of Moses (Exodus 29:4) and is considered to be one of the foundational principles of faith in Messiah (Hebrews 6:1; Acts 2:38). Mikvahs (Baptisms) are ritual baths that symbolize repentance from sin and purification from the world. This ritual was practiced by the Levitical Priesthood (Leviticus 16:2-4) and by Yeshua (Jesus), who is the High Priest of the Melchizedek Priesthood (Matthew 3:13-16; Hebrews 7:15-17). Receiving water baptism after accepting Yeshua (Jesus) as Savior identifies us with His death, burial and resurrection (Colossians 2:9-13). It also identifies us as New Covenant priests after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:18-28; Rev. 1:6). The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift that God has promised to all believers and is received subsequent to the spiritual regeneration of the new birth (Matt.3:11; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:1-8; Acts 2:33, 38-39). This baptism releases the supernatural “gifts of the Holy Spirit” to operate in a believer’s life (1 Cor. 12:4-11). Although the initial evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is the gift of “speaking in tongues” and “prophecy” (Acts 2:1-4; 10:44-46; 19:6; Mark 16:17), we embrace all the gifts of the Holy Spirit and encourage believers to know and use them as the Holy Spirit wills.

WE BELIEVE
That God’s people are called to be holy (sanctified) just as God is holy, “for without holiness no man can see God” (Lev. 19:2; 1 Pet. 1:14-16; Heb. 12:14). Sanctification is an ongoing and progressive work of grace that sets the believer apart unto God in spirit, soul and body (1 Thess. 5:23). Faith in Messiah’s shed blood sanctifies us in spirit (Heb. 13:12; 2 Thess. 2:13), and obedience to His Word sanctifies us in soul and body (Ps. 19:7; Matt. 17:17-20; Eph. 5:26; Heb. 9:13-14).

WE BELIEVE
That God’s Torah (five books of Moses) has not passed away, but is the source of all wisdom that leads to salvation by faith in Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah and for instruction in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:15-17; Deut. 4:5-6). The Torah contains God’s laws and commandments (teachings and instructions) that guide and protect His people. Therefore, we encourage New Covenant believers, both Jews and Gentiles, to study and apply God’s Torah as clarified through the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) and the apostles (Matthew 5:17-19, 11:28-30; Acts 24:14; 28:23; I Corinthians 7:19; Revelation 14:12).

WE BELIEVE
That Israel first originated when God changed Jacob’s name to Israel (Gen. 32:28). Then Israel (Jacob) had 12 sons, whose offspring became a mighty nation known as “the sons of Israel” (Exodus. 1:1-7). While in Egypt, Israel became a mixed multitude of Israelites and gentiles - who came out of Egyptian slavery under the blood of the Passover Lamb (Exodus 12:37-38); this mixed multitude of Israel was the “church” [congregation] in the wilderness who followed God (Yehovah) together as one people under one law (Acts 7:38; Lev. 15:15-16; Joshua 8:35). Israel is God’s chosen people, “to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Mashiach (Christ) according to the flesh” (Romans 9:4-5). Israel was called out of the world to manifest God’s Kingdom on earth, but they rejected His voice and refused to walk in His commandments. Israel is the natural olive branch that was cut off for their disobedience and scattered among the nations in the Diaspora of 70 A.D. Today, Israel is a secular nation that God has re-gathered to the Promised Land, where He swears an oath to pour out His Spirit upon them and graft them back into their own olive branch again (Ezekiel 36:7-38; Romans 11:23-24).

WE BELIEVE
That the true Church is composed of New Covenant believers who are saved by grace through faith in Yeshua’s (Jesus’) atoning death on the cross and have been regenerated (“born again”) by God’s Holy Spirit (John 3:3). The Church (ekklesia – called out ones) began as a body of Jewish believers who were “called out” of the man-made oral laws of Pharisaic Judaism and into the New Covenant teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) which consists of writing God’s Torah on the heart (Jeremiah 31:31-33; Hebrews 8:8-10). The Church, like ancient Israel, also became a mixed multitude as gentiles joined with Messianic Jews to proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom among the nations. Although New Covenant believers have been grafted into the commonwealth of Israel (Romans 11:17-18; Ephesians 2:11-13), Yeshua and the apostles did not call them Israel, but specifically refer to them as “the Congregaton/Church” (Matthew 16:18; Acts 9:31; Ephesians 3:8-10; Revelations 2–3; 22:16). God established "the Congreation/Church" as a sect of Judaism that separated itself from the man-made oral laws of Pharisaic Judaism, but not from His written Torah (Acts 13:44-47; Acts 24:14; 28:22). As the Jews increasingly rejected the Gospel and Gentiles increasingly received it, the Church became mostly gentile (non Jews) which was part of God’s plan for taking the Gospel to the nations (Acts 13:44-47; Is. 42:6-9; Romans 11:7-11). As the "Gentile" Church grew in numbers, it largely abandoned God’s Torah which was never His will. On the contrary, the apostolic writings of the New Testament call both Jew and Gentile to embrace Yeshua’s (Jesus’) teaching and proper application of the Torah in their lives (Matthew 5:17-19; 11:29-30; Act 28:23; 1 Timothy 1:8; 2 Timothy 3:14-17). When Gentiles embrace God’s Torah as a way of life, it is known as the “fullness of the Gentiles.” In the last days, this provokes Israel to jealousy which causes them to believe in Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah, and they are grafted back into their own olive branch (Romans 11:11, 22-27). This is when the Church, both Jew and Gentile, comes into the fullness of the “one new man in Messiah” which emerges as the true “Israel [congregation/church] of God” (Galatians 6:16-17).

WE BELIEVE
 
That Yeshua/Jesus and the apostles used many of the customs within the Hebrew culture when clarifying truth in their teaching and ministry of the New Covenant. Therefore, the Hebraic model of ministry and congregational life must be understood and taught in the church in order to fully comprehend the truths found in the apostolic writings of the New Testament (Acts 24:14; 28:23; 1 Corinthians 11:2).

WE BELIEVE
In the Great Commission of discipling the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe all that Yeshua (Jesus) has commanded.

WE BELIEVE
In the five-fold ministry gifts of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, which have been given to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry until we all come into the unity of the faith (Ephesians 2:19-20; 4:11- 12).
In the autonomy of each local congregation, and that ministers should be based out of or related to a local church body with accountability to a senior pastor and/or board of elders.  Israel is symbolized as the fig tree, and that its rebirth as a nation in 1948 is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy which marks the biblical generation that will see “all things fulfilled” (Hosea 9:10; Ezekiel 36:8; Matthew 24:32-34).

WE BELIEVE
That the wheat (God’s righteous) and the tares (the unrighteous) grow up together until they mature and are ready for harvest (Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43). At that time, Yeshua (Jesus) harvests His people into His presence, and the angels harvest the wicked into the winepress of God’s wrath (Isaiah. 26:19-21; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation 14:14-20; 15:1 – 16:21; 18:1-24).  In the literal and personal return of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach (Jesus Christ) in power and glory to establish His kingdom on earth for 1,000 years and to judge both the quick and the dead (Daniel 7:9-14; Matthew 26:64; Acts 1:9-10; 2 Timothy 4:1; Revelation 19 and 20). We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead. The believer will appear before the “Judgment Seat of Christ,” where he will receive his rewards (1 Corinthians 3:12-15; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 11:18; 20:1-6), and the unbeliever will appear before the “Great White Throne Judgment”, where he will be damned and thrown into the lake of fire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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