Tim Kelly speaks on ‘The Kingdom of God.’ Kingaroy Cowboy Church 22/02/09.
The fifth in our ‘What We Believe’ series. Matt Kelly in this teaching shows us what we believe about mankind from the Scriptures.
Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that through
Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God;
man is totally depraved and of himself utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.
The fourth in our ‘What We Believe’ series. Matt Kelly in this teaching shows us what we believe about Holy Spirit from the Scriptures.
The Holy Spirit
We believe that salvation, attested in all Scripture and secured by Jesus Christ, is applied to his people by the Holy Spirit. Sent by the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and is present with and in believers. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and by his powerful and mysterious work regenerates spiritually dead sinners, awakening them to repentance and faith, baptizing them into union with the Lord Jesus, such that they are justified before God by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. By the Spirit’s agency, believers are renewed, sanctified, and adopted into God’s family; they participate in the divine nature and receive his sovereignly distributed gifts. The Holy Spirit is himself the down payment of the promised inheritance, and in this age indwells, guides, instructs, equips, revives, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.
