What We Believe

Wednesday, 18 May 2005

#1873 The Statement Of Faith Of Grace & Truth Ministries

by Jim Brown

1873 WN051805 Predestination: The Statement Of Faith Of Grace & Truth Ministries

Series:Statement of Faith

I have been preaching and teaching Bible for over 50 years. In 1957, I began studying the scriptures diligently after graduating from high school. In 1980, God began dealing with me, bringing me to what I believed was my deathbed in 1985.

In the hospital, I awoke near death crying out to God, "Lord...you are going to kill me if I don't quit living for myself and saying all the truth in my power!!!"

I began to say these blunt plain words that appeal to you elect sheep.   As a result, I began to make more enemies than I could have ever imagined. I was sick and tired of the “mush” gospel that churches were preaching.

My family was confused, and on many occasions on the way home from church, my wife would say, "he said such-and-such last week and he said this-and-that this week contradicting what he said the previous week."

I began to say to my wife Mary, "Don't listen to the preacher, because he doesn't know what he’s talking about."   Finally, I said, "this is a

waste of time! We are going home. We are not going to these churches anymore. I will teach you from our home."

Twenty years ago, we started Grace and Truth Ministries which included my wife, son and one other young man. We startedtaping the sermons shortly thereafter.

Grace and Truth Ministries is now meeting in a building located in Hendersonville, TN.

Last year we gave away approximately 25,000 DVDs free-of-charge.

Regularly we are adding more television, radio and internet to get the truth to the sheep who have ears to hear.

If you're located in a city that does not air our programs, please contact us so that we can let you know how you may help to get this message out to God's predestinated elect family.

We're adding new stations every month.

The Harlot of Babylon

Revelation 17:5 - "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

harlot - [Greek] : porne - an idolator; prostitute; " to sell"
abomination - [Greek] : bdelgma - detestable; to stink
name - [Hebrew] : Shem - honour; authority conspicuous position

The Harlot of Babylon...the "false" world religion has corrupted man throughout history with idolatrous worship.

Genesis 11:4 - "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

In Genesis 11:4 Babylon rebelled against God mothering all idol worship, founding their idolatrous system, when they said, "Let us make us a name."

Pride (honoring self) ) is the foundation of all idolatry.

A man is an idol worshipper of self when he says, "I will make a name for myself. People will know me as an authority (name) by my idols (cars, houses, lands, things.) My position in the community will cause men to look up to me".

This is an abomination. Pride is a stinking smell to God. We are to be living, acceptable, pleasing sacrifices, (Romans 12:1). "Wicked-Spiritual" Babylon is the system of "pride" that will pollute the world at the end of time.

God will return and destroy it.

I fear we live in Babylon !

God Has Chosen

Romans 8:29-30 - "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

Foreknow - to have a personal intimate relationship beforehand.

God predetermined that all who belonged to him before the foundation of the world were to "conform" to the word of God in obedience to Christ.

All that were predestined were "called", "justified", and "glorified" (past tense verbs). These were fixed in the mind of God before the world began. (Ephesians 1:4; Acts 13:48; II Thessalonians 2:13). The election of the saints is unto accountability (I Peter 1:2).

The majority of the protestant church held to this doctrine during the reformation. It is the foundation of "The London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689".

You Baptists are supposed to be believing it and you've discarded this precious doctrine of Grace !!!

Grace and Truth Ministries is located at 394 West Main Street (Johnny Cash Parkway/31E/Gallatin Pike) in the Main Street Plaza building across from the McDonald's restaurant in Hendersonville, TN. Everyone is welcome to come out and join us to study the word of God.

Mail to: P.O. Box 1109
Hendersonville, TN, 37077, USA
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