I BELIEVE" By Stan Metts

The following article was compiled in 1978. The Church that I then pastored had come under internal division. My standards and doctrines were privately and publically questioned. Rumors flew about what I was preaching and teaching. I decided to put down in black and white a statement of what I believed.

I BELIEVE" By Stan Metts

I BELIEVE:
GOD IS ALIVE, ALL POWERFULL,AND TOTALLY SUPREME..............EXODUS 20:1-7
THE BIBLE IS GOD'S ONLY AND COMPLETE REVELATION TO MEN........II TIM. 3:16
THE KJV (1611) IS THE RELIABLE PURE ENGLISH VERSION............MATT. 24:35
SALVATION IS BY GRACE ALONE, NO WORKS REQUIRED...................EPH.2:8,9
GOD CREATED ALL THINGS IN 6/24 HOUR DAYS.......................GEN. 1:1-31
EVERY PERSON INHERITS THE ADAMIC NATURE THUS HIS CURSE........ROM. 5:12-21
GOD IS A GOD OF MIRACLES, NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE....................MARK 10:27
ALL BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS ARE TRUE UNLESS NOTED BY SCRIPTURE...II PET. 1:16-21
THERE IS NO ONE WHO CAN BE GOOD BEFORE GOD BY SELF............ROM. 3:10-19
ALL HAVE SINNED, COMING SHORT OF GOD'S DIGNITY..................ROM. 3:23
THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH (SEPARATION FROM GOD)..................ROM. 6:23
THE ONLY PLAN OF SALVATION IS THROUGH CHRIST.....................ACTS 4:12
ONE WHO DISREGARDS THAT PLAN FACES CERTAIN JUDGEMENT.........HEB. 10:26-31
THAT HELL IS CURRENTLY BURNING WITH REAL FIRE..............LUKE 16:19-31
A REPENTENT HEART IS THE FERTILE SOIL OF THE SOUL............LUKE 13:3
ONE BECOMES A CHILD OF GOD ONLY BY BIRTH......................JOHN 1:11-13
JESUS IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD............................JOHN 3:16
JESUS, THE WORD OF GOD, IS GOD IN THE FLESH....................JOHN 1:1-14
JESUS IS THE NAME BEFORE WHOM ALL MUST BOW....................PHIL. 2:5-11
WATER BAPTISM IS NOT PART OF SALVATION.........................I COR. 1:17
SPIRITUAL BAPTISM IS PART OF SALVATION.........................ROM. 6:1-11
CURRENT 'TONGUES' ARE NOT SCRIPTURAL TONGUES..............ACTS 2:1-12
TO BE FULL OF THE SPIRIT IS TO BE FULL OF CHRIST...............ROM. 8:1-16
SALVATION IS FREE TO ANYONE WHO BELIEVES & RECEIVES CHRIST....ROM. 10:9-17
THE ELECT IS JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF..............................EPH. 1:1-14
WE BECOME ELECT IN HIM WHEN WE TRUST IN HIM......................EPH. 1:12
ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED.......................................ROM. 8:24-39
PROFESSING 'CHRISTIANS' ARE ILLEGITIMATE SONS.................HEB. 12:5-11
THE LOCAL ASSEMBLY OF BELIEVERS IS CHRIST'S BODY..........I COR. 12:1-31
THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH IS THE GROUND OF TRUTH..........I TIM. 3:1-15
THE CHURCH IS BUILT UPON CHRIST AS THE SON OF GOD...........MATT. 16:13-23
THE ORDINANCES OF BAPTISM & COMMUNION ARE THE CHURCH'S.....I COR. 11:18-34
THE CHURCH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SELF INSPECTION................I COR. 5:1-13
THE CHURCH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WORLD EVANGELISM..............MATT. 28:18-20
SOME MINISTERS ARE NOT FROM GOD...........................II COR. 11:13-15
TITHES AND OFFERINGS ARE GOD'S COMMAND IN GRACE...........MATT. 23:23
CHRIST SET THE PATTERN FOR REACHING THE WORLD.....................ACTS 1:8
CHRISTIANS ARE TO BE LIVING & SPEAKING TESTIMONIES...........MATT. 15:7-20
CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO LIVE SEPARATED LIVES...................II COR. 6:14-18
CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT SUE FOR DIVORCE.....................I COR. 7:1-17,39
HUSBANDS ARE THE HEAD OF A GODLY HOME............................EPH. 5:23
A GODLY WIFE SUBMITS TO HER HUSBAND..............................EPH. 5:22
A GODLY HUSBAND LOVES HIS WIFE AS HIMSELF........................EPH. 5:28
GODLY CHILDREN OBEY THEIR PARENTS.................................EPH. 6:1
GODLY PARENTS FAITHFULLY TAKE THEIR CHILDREN TO CHURCH....EPH. 6:4
HOMOSEXUALITY IS ABOMINATION BEFORE GOD.......................ROM. 1:26-32
EXTRA MARITAL SEX IS ADULTRY.....................................EX. 20:14
PRE-MARITAL SEX IS FORNICATION................................GAL. 5:19-21
ABORTION IS CRUEL MURDER......................................EX. 21:22,23
WOMEN OUGHT NOT WEAR JEANS,SHORTS, OR BRIEF CLOTHING...........TITUS 2:4,5
CIGARETTS,DRUGS, & ALCOHOL ARE ENEMIES OF THE SOUL..........PROV. 23:29-35
DRUNKARDS ARE HELL BOUND.......................................I COR. 6:10
LIARS ARE HELL BOUND.............................................REV. 21:8
CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT USE PROFANITY..............................EPH. 4:29
BITTER CURSING COMES FROM AN UNREGENERATE SOUL............ROM. 3:14
THE RAPTURE OF ALL BELIEVERS IS IMMINENT..................I THESS. 4:13-18
THE TRUE BELIEVER HAS NO PART OF 7 YEAR TRIBULATION.......II THESS. 2:1-17
CHRIST SHALL REIGN OVER THIS EARTH 1000 YEARS....................REV. 20:4
THE PRESENT HEAVENS & EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY............II PET. 3:10-14
ONLY THE SAVED SHALL INHABIT HEAVEN..........................REV. 21:23-27
SIN WILL NOT ENTER HEAVEN........................................REV. 21:8
SINNERS WILL BE CAST INTO A LAKE OF FIRE.....................REV. 20:11-15
GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY PERISH.............................II PET. 3:9



This is April of 2007. I still stand where I stood! ______________________________________
Signed - Stan Metts dsmetts










I fully agree with Brother Stan Metts, on these important issues, that church's today need too and must follow to be right with the LORD. Do it right or just don't do it at all. This is in my oppion, thank you again Edwin Morales with thegloryland.com 9/29/2007

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