In its ministry to the Jewish people, Christian Witness to Israel maintains its unreserved allegiance to God's Holy and inerrant Word, the Bible. We also
affirm the historic Reformed confessions of the church. Amongst other things, our Basis of Faith requires that we believe and teach the following -
· That God is one God in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
· That God created man in his own image. By wilfully sinning against God, Adam fell into the sin and misery into which all children of Adam have been born, their natures have been corrupted and every aspect of their being is in bondage to sin. Therefore, Jews and gentiles alike are under the condemnation of God, prone to do evil and liable to eternal death from which they cannot be delivered except through the unmerited grace of God our Saviour and by his own act of redemption.
· That God has not left the world to perish in its sin but, out of his great love from all eternity, has graciously chosen an innumerable multitude of Jews and gentiles to be delivered from their sin and misery, and - of them - to restore his covenant kingdom of righteousness in the world.
· That God, in fulfilment of his promises to Israel, has redeemed his people through the promised Messiah, Jesus our Lord, who, though he was and ever continues to be the eternal Son of God, was born under the law and of the lineage of David. We believe that he bore the penalty for our sins, fulfilled the obedience owed to the righteousness of God, and that he now represents the redeemed before his Father to the praise of the glory of his grace.
· That Jesus the Messiah, our Redeemer, died, was raised for our justification, and ascended into the heavens, where he sits at the right hand of the Father Almighty.
· That the full and final redemption accomplished by the Messiah is applied to all his people by the Holy Spirit through regeneration and sanctification. That the Spirit is granted to the redeemed so that they may do those good works which God has prepared beforehand for them to do.
· That God has one people in the world - his Church - which is made up of believing Jews and gentiles. That he has endowed the church with the ministry of the Word and of his holy ordinances in order that the gospel may be made known in all the world and that its effects be continuously experienced by the redeemed.
· That Jesus the Messiah is to come a second time, in glory, to judge the world. That all who die in Messiah shall then be made perfect in holiness and go home to the Lord, and that all who do not die in Messiah shall consciously abide under the just and eternal wrath of God.
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