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Communion
The Communion Table speaks to us of its origins in the Jewish Passover, which commemorated the deliverance of the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt.
The Communion Table speaks of our deliverance. Jesus, the spotless Lamb of God, was slain so we could be saved, and His blood has been applied to our hearts. Jesus is our Passover Lamb!
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Baptism
Why do you believe in adult baptism?
Baptism in water is by immersion, is a direct commandment of our Lord, and is for believers only. The ordinance is a symbol of the Christian’s identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12; Acts 8:36–39).
The following recommendation regarding the water baptismal formula is adopted; to wit: “On the confession of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and by His authority, I baptize you in the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.”
Baby dedication
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Tithes & Offerings
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Healing
Kenneth E Hagin
The Book of Luke records the story of a paralytic man whose four friends tried to bring him before Jesus. However, when they reached the home where Jesus was, the place was so crowded that they couldn't get in. So they carried their friend to the top of the house, broke through the roof, and lowered him in front of Jesus (see Luke 5:17-26).
Now this paralytic man was not, as is commonly supposed, healed through the faith of the men who brought him to Jesus. No, he was healed through his own faith. His healing was the result of his own exercise of bold, obedient faith.
The paralytic man was not healed the moment Jesus said, "Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house" (Luke 5:24). It wasn't until the man made an effort to rise up off his mat that the power of God was released. The faith of the paralytic man's friends brought him to the feet of Jesus, but it was his own faith that took him off his bed of affliction.
At times I have been led by the Spirit of God to tell people to arise and walk. And as some of them attempted to rise, we had to hold them up. I had to encourage them to keep their eyes on Jesus. "Don't walk in your strength," I would tell them. "Walk in His strength." It takes faith to do that.
One time in 1943 my wife and I went to the home of a woman who was on her deathbed. Her husband had taken her by ambulance to three different clinics in three different cities. The doctors in all of the clinics said the same thing: "Nothing more can be done for her."
This woman was so weak that you had to put your ear just above her mouth to hear what she was saying. It took all of her strength to speak in a barely audible whisper.
When my wife, Oretha, and I went to pray for her, I knelt by the head of her bed and Oretha knelt beside me. As I laid my hands on her and began to pray, the Word of the Lord came unto me, saying, "Take your hands off of her. Stand up and say to her, 'The Lord told me to tell you you're healed. Arise and walk.'"
After I stood up and told the woman what the Lord had said, she had only enough strength to kick one foot out from under the covers. Two of her neighbors were also in the room. I stepped outside while one of the ladies went to the closet and got her robe and slippers, and my wife and the neighbor ladies helped her put them on. Then they lifted her out of bed and called me back into the room.
This dear woman had wasted away to almost nothing. As the neighbor ladies held her up, her knees sagged almost to the floor.
Well, what do you do at such times? It looked as though nothing had worked. I said, "Let's all lift our hands and praise God, because she is healed." The neighbor ladies lifted up her hands while holding up their own hands to praise God. A time or two the woman began slipping out of their grip and almost slid to the floor. My wife tried to help them as they pulled her back up.
We all praised God for a few moments, and then they quit and looked at me with pitiful expressions, as if to say, "What next?" I said, "The Lord said she is healed. Lift up her hands and praise God, because she is."
My wife tried holding her up by putting her hands around her tiny waist, and the two ladies pulled her up by her arms. And we all started praising God again. As we did, His power came upon this dying woman. She jerked loose from my wife and the neighbor ladies, kicked off her slippers, and started dancing barefoot before the Lord! The next Sunday, she was in church testifying about being raised up from her deathbed.
But you see, we made the first move. This woman used what strength she had to act on God's Word. And we praised God by faith for her healing when it hadn't yet appeared.
We have to cooperate with God by believing in Him and doing what we can to act on His Word if we want to get His blessing.
It may seem as if it is impossible, but if we will make the effort, His power will meet us and take over from there. Just as the paralytic man in Luke chapter 5 and the bedfast woman given up by her doctors to die arose from their impossible situations, we, too, can "arise and walk" in the mighty Name of Jesus.
(Editor's Note: This article was adapted from a message Brother Hagin taught in Rhema's Prayer & Healing School on July 1, 1980.)
Communion – Our Passover
The Old Testament Passover commemorated the children of Israel's deliverance from the hand of Pharaoh's tyranny in Egypt. In the Bible, Egypt is a type, or symbol, of sin. The Israelites' deliverance required the blood of a lamb. Today when we take Communion, we remember our spiritual deliverance from the bondage of sin through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Communion could be called a "New Testament Passover."
Jesus instituted this so-called New Testament Passover when He shared His last meal with His disciples. When He was crucified, Jesus became the Sacrificial Lamb offered for mankind so we could be delivered from the tyranny and rule of Satan! Just as the children of Israel observed the Passover to celebrate their deliverance from slavery in Egypt, Christians observe Communion to celebrate deliverance from sin and its consequences. Communion is our "Passover"!
In the Old Testament God said, "When I see the blood, I will pass over you" (Exod. 12:13). When the death angel saw the blood of the lamb on the door, he passed over the people in the house. When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, His blood—the blood of the Lamb of God—is applied to our lives. Therefore, when judgment comes our way, it passes over us because of the blood!
Hundreds of years after Israel's release from bondage, Jesus and His disciples were in the Upper Room celebrating what happened long ago in Egypt. And at this time Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper as an ordinance for the Church.
The Passover Was Prophetic
In the Old Testament, the Passover was prophetic. Through the centuries, the prophecy had been passed down from generation to generation that there would come a great Deliverer—a Messiah—who would again free the Israelites from their slavery. But, unknown to them, the fulfillment of that prophecy required the death of Jesus Christ.
At the Last Supper, as Jesus and His disciples celebrated their forefathers' freedom, Jesus picked up the cup and said, " 'Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins' " (Matt. 26:27–28 NIV 1984). He was referring to His own blood, soon to be shed.
When Jesus took bread and broke it and took the cup and drank from it, He knew what He was doing. He understood that His breaking the bread was a type, or shadow, of His offering His own body to be mutilated, beaten, and pierced. When He offered His disciples the cup, it represented His blood being poured out.
As Jesus and His disciples ate the Passover meal, He told them, "I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God" (Luke 22:16). After saying this about His death, Jesus looked at the 12 men who had walked with Him through thick and thin. Jesus tried to explain the coming events to His disciples, but they wouldn't receive what He was saying. He didn't get upset with their lack of understanding. He simply continued to encourage, minister to, and instruct them.
Jesus did His best to strengthen His disciples—to give them encouragement and hope that would sustain them through the coming hours. He knew that they would be tested to the limit. He understood that they were about to face the most trying three days of their lives.
According to the Scriptures, when Jesus was arrested, the disciples ran away (Matt. 26:56). Even Peter, who had said, " 'Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!' " (Matt. 26:35 NKJV), stood in the courtyard outside the high priest's house and said, "I don't even know who this man is!" (Luke 22:54–62).
When the hour finally arrived, Jesus was beaten, mocked, and scorned as all the forces of hell unleashed their power against Him. Picture in your mind Jesus standing in the judgment hall with the crown of thorns upon His head, blood streaming down His forehead onto His beard and dripping onto the floor, his back cut to ribbons from the stripes that had been laid upon Him. There He stood, condemned to death so we might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10).
Jesus chose to walk up Golgotha's hill. He said, "I lay down My life. No man takes it from Me" (John 10:17–18). Jesus went to the cross willingly. And with three nails and two rough pieces of lumber, He built a bridge whereby mankind could pass from death to life—from the slavery of sin to the freedom of glorious salvation!
Jesus' death on the cross was God's divine plan to deliver mankind from Satan. Satan had walked into God's garden and had stolen man from Him. God had to pay a ransom to buy mankind back, and that ransom was the death of His Son Jesus on the cross. Jesus paid the ultimate price and made the supreme sacrifice. But He arose! God planned the cross so He could ransom us, make us whole, and give us everything that He says belongs to us!
The Communion Table speaks to us of its origins in the Jewish Passover, which commemorated the deliverance of the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt.
The Communion Table speaks of our deliverance. Jesus, the spotless Lamb of God, was slain so we could be saved, and His blood has been applied to our hearts. Jesus is our Passover Lamb!