God exists in a Triune God-head as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is
the supreme creator of the universe and everything that exits within it. He
moves in our lives as a personal and loving God. God created man in His own
image, thus we are not animals or machines produced by a chance-driven
evolutionary process. God is Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent. He came
down from Heaven in the form of man—a God man—to die in our stead on the cross.
God has revealed His plan of salvation, how we should glorify Him, and live
our lives through the infallible Word of God—the Holy Spirit-inspired Bible. God
in His infinite wisdom foreknew those He chose and through His wonderful gift of
free will, man decides to accept or deny that invitation.
Salvation is by grace alone through faith in Christ alone, apart from works.
Justification is that act of God in which the imputed righteousness of Christ
is credited to our account.
All our hopes for heaven rest solely on the divinity of His person and the
sufficiency and finality of His work of atonement. However, as we grow in our
Christian walk, we are mandated by the Bible to become Christ-like in our
nature, actions, and treatment of others. The Bible clearly states that we are
storing up treasures in Heaven. We cannot earn our salvation, but we can
endeavor to earn more of God’s trust and love through our actions on earth.
Christianity is a relationship with God—not a religion! All of the
religions of the world teach that man controls his own destiny. In short, they
claim that we can earn our way into the pleasantry of the afterlife.
Religions teach that we can reach God through our own merit. In fact,
religion is the opposite of Christianity because, in His uncompromising love for
us, He came to earth via the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the long-awaited Messiah and God Incarnate. After the fall in
the Garden of Eden, Eve listened to Satan and Adam listened to her, and their
descendants were dead in sin. God allows this planet to be ruled by its
king—Satan. We are ruled by our disobedience, sickness, and death.
The word of God (the Bible) says that man was made in His image and to
glorify Him through fellowship. As John 18:36 states, "My kingdom is not of this
world" and, as Christians, we cannot be of "this world." A
Christian must be a follower of the right ruler--Jesus Christ. Meaning, we
cannot follow Satan (the ruler of this world) or any of his agents. As 1
John 3:10 explains, "This is how we know who the children of God are and who
the children of the devil are: anyone who does not do what is right is not a
child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother."
A knightly (biblical) Christian is a person who fights his or her worldly
desire to live the "American dream" of riches, fame, and fortune. Instead, he or
she foregoes that worldly pride to acknowledge his or her own human sinful
nature and accepts the love of God to die on the cross for us. Being God, He
then resurrected from death and currently is reuniting us into a living
spiritual life with Himself/God.
To become a Christian is to partake in the actual event of receiving God the
Holy Spirit within our own human spirit, therefore creating a new spiritual life
inside us. It is this spiritual life that unites us and makes us a child of God
our father.
John 3:3, "In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the
kingdom of God unless he is born again."
2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has gone, the new has come!" This passage is the epitome of Knightly
Christianity; it’s knowing we're not perfect, but striving to be. As a Christian
we must wake up every morning and strive to become more Christ-like. We must bow
before our King—Jesus Christ—and learn to hate our sinful desires and grow in
our Christian walk.
