Our Stand - The Hawkins Family Ministry

What We Believe about The Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Bible, as it is in
truth, the Word of God... (IThessalonians 2:13). We believe in verbal, plenary inspiration in
the original writings, and God's preservation of His
pure words to every generation (II Timothy 3:16, Psalms 12:6-8). The Masoretic Text of the
Old Testament and the
Received Text of the New Testament (Textus Receptus) are those texts of the original
languages we accept and use;
the King James Version of the Bible is the only English version we accept and use. The Bible
is our sole authority for
faith and practice.

What We Believe about The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons--Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, co-eternal in being, co-
identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and
perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4; II
Corinthians 13:14).

What We Believe about The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without
ceasing to be God, having been
conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God
and redeem sinful men
(John 1:1-2, 14; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 9:6; 7:14; Philippians 2:5-8; Galatians 4:4-5).

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His finished
work on the cross as a
representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by
His literal, physical
resurrection from the dead (Romans 3:24-25; I Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; I Peter 1:3-5).

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right
hand of God, where, as our
High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Acts 1:9-
10; Hebrews 9:24, 7:25;
Romans 8:34; I John 2:1-2).

What We Believe about The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Person who reproves the world of sin, of righteousness,
and of judgment; and
that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of
Christ, indwelling and sealing
them unto the day of redemption (John 16:8-11; II Corinthians 3:6; I Corinthians 12:12-14;
Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:
13-14).

We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and the gift of
healing, were temporary.
We believe that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the
baptism or filling of the Holy
Spirit and that ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the
consummation of our salvation in the
resurrection, though God frequently chooses to answer the prayer of believers for physical
healing (II Corinthians 12:
12; I Corinthians 13:8; Hebrews 2:3-4; Mark 16:17-20; I Corinthians 1:22, 14:21-22).

What We Believe about Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin
the race fell, inherited a
sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved, and, of
himself, utterly unable to
remedy his lost condition (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12).

The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image
and is mindful of him, and
in that Christ died for man; therefore every individual possesses dignity and is worthy of
respect and Christian love.
(Psalm 8:4-9; Colossians 3:9-11).

What We Believe about The Way of Salvation
We believe that the clear message of salvation is “repentance toward God and faith toward
our Lord Jesus Christ”
(Acts 20:21). We believe that salvation is "by grace" plus nothing minus nothing. We believe
that men are justified by
faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12; I Peter 1:18-19)

We believe that all the redeemed, once saved are kept by God's power and are thus secure
in Christ forever. We
believe that eternal life is the present possession of every believer (John 6:37-40, 10:27-30;
Romans 8:1, 38-39; I
Corinthians 1:4-8; I Peter 1:4-5; Jude 1, 2).

What We Believe about The Church
We believe that the Church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is a
spiritual organism made up of all
born-again persons of this present age which began with Christ and the Apostles, was
empowered at Pentecost, and
will be caught up to be with Christ at the Rapture (Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:25-27; I Corinthians
12:12-14; II Corinthians
11:2).

We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and
defined in the New
Testament Scriptures (Acts 14:27; 20:17, 28-32; I Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11).
We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority or control (Acts
13:1-4, 15:19-31, 20:28;
Romans 16:1, 4; I Corinthians 3:9, 16, 5:4-7, 13; I Peter 5:1-4).

What We Believe about The Ordinances of the Church
We recognize the ordinances of baptism by immersion in water and the Lord's Supper as a
Scriptural means of
testimony for the Church in this age (Matthew. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42, 18:18; I Corinthians
11:23-26).

What We Believe about Biblical Separation
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon
their Savior and Lord; and,
that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and
associations is commanded
of God (II Timothy 3:1-5; Romans 12:1, 2, 14:13; I John 2:15-17; II John 9-11; II Corinthians
6:14-7:1).

What We Believe about The Return of Christ
We believe the "Blessed Hope" of our Lord's return is literal, personal, visible, imminent,
premillennial, and
pretribulational. He will rapture His Church prior to the seven years of tribulation, and at the
end of the tribulation
Christ will return with His saints to establish His thousand-year reign on the earth. (I
Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:
13; I Thessalonians 1:10; Revelation 3:10; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-6;
Psalm 89:3-4)

What We Believe about Our Eternal State
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to
judgment and everlasting
punishment (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28, 29, 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13).

We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present
with the Lord, where in
conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to
be glorified forever with the
Lord (Luke 23:43; Revelation 20:4-6; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23, 3:21; I
Thessalonians 4:16-17).

We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until the
second resurrection, when
with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and
shall be cast into the Lake of
Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment (Luke 16:19-26;
Matthew 25:41-46; II
Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Mark 9:43-48; Revelation 20:11-15).