Mailer Street Gospel Hall

The Universal Fall

The first covenant being made with Adam, for himself and his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.

The sinfulness of that state where-into man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, together with all actual transgressions, which proceed from it.

Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary to it, does, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner; making him subject to the condemnation and the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.

The Incarnation of Christ

Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her without sin.

The Death of Christ

The death of Christ, being a deliberate act of His own voluntary will, was the giving of Himself as vicarious atoning substitute for all men. It is propitiatory in respect of the penalty of sin, expiatory in respect of the final destruction of sin, redemptive in respect of the eternal regeneration of the body and soul.

In its completeness is it once and forever, in its scope it deals completely with full spectrum of sin both in variety and intensity, and for all eternity. In effect it saves all those who believe as an act of their free will, from the unremitting, unmitigated eternal wrath of God, bringing them into the full favor and prepared eternal blessings of God.

Bodily Resurrection of Christ

The Lord Jesus Christ literally rose physically from the dead on the third day after his death as proof of the complete effectiveness of His sacrifice in the total future expiation of Sin in principle, practice, and fact.

Human Responsibility

God has in his wisdom and of his own sovereign will ordained that every man has of his own free will to accept or reject the revelation that God gives of Himself to each and every human being, be that through Creation, or Conscience or the Scriptures. God freely offers to all salvation, and in doing so chooses none to believe, forces none to believe, and excludes none from exercising their will to believe.

Having granted to and obligated man to make such a decision and choice of his untrammeled freewill, God has retained to himself the full right to ensure that the results of such actions or decisions by each individual are completely resolved as to their eternal consequences.

The foreknowledge of God is such that he knows the outcome of each personal decision but other than commanding to repentance he does re-engage himself or preordain an outcome in the delegation he has made to each individual to decide.

Eternal Salvation

Eternal salvation is obtained by the individual as single act of their free will, in which they confess they have no merits of their own before God and rely by faith alone on the merits obtained by Christ in his death on their behalf. At the point of belief, the penalty for all sin past, present and future is transferred from the penitent sinner to Christ as their personal substitute. There is therefore no further need of penances, acts of contrition, or sufferings of purgatories.

Having accepted by faith Christ as Saviour, the believer enters into an eternal covenant with God, the seal of which is the indwelling by faith of the Holy Spirit. This covenant can never be annulled, revoked, negated repudiated or broken by either party, and that irrespective of the subsequent sin or otherwise of the believer.

Having been born into the family of God, one cannot lose this birthright or inheritance; God cannot rescind the forgiveness, recall the earnest of Spirit, or recall the once forgiven to the condemnation of a sinner.

The believer’s failure to serve God, be that by omission or commission, does not in anyway detract from or annul their eternal security but impinges only on their eternal rewards.

Eternal Damnation

The souls of the unbelieving wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection, and judgment of the Great White Throne.

At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels forever.