Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

  When a man is humbled by the law, and brought to the knowledge of himself, then follows true repentance (for true repentance begins at the fear and judgment of God), and he sees himself to be so great a sinner that he can find no means how he may be delivered from his sin by his own strength, endeavor, and works.(Romans 3:19; 7:14; 11:32; Galatians 3:22 ) Martin Luther Elliot Ritzema, 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Reformation, Pastorum Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2013).  A very significant event prior to the Sermon on the Mount is recorded in Matt 4:12–17: Jesus hears that John the Baptist has been thrown into prison; he goes as a light shining in dark lands; and he begins to preach that the kingdom of heaven is near. The significance of John’s imprisonment can hardly be overestimated. Matthew. 3 portrays John as an OT prophet, yet John himself tells us that one greater than he is about to come (Mat.3:11–12).  Matthew immediately identifies Jesus, thro...

 We believe and teach that Christ, in the same flesh in which he died, rose from the dead (Luke 24:30), and ascended to the right hand of God in the highest heaven (Eph. 4:10), which signifies his elevation to the divine majesty and power, but also a definite place (John 14:2; Acts 3:21). The same Christ will come again to judgment, when the Wickedness of the world shall have reached the highest point, and Antichrist corrupted the true religion.  He will destroy Antichrist, and judge the quick and the dead (2 Thess. 2:8; Acts 17:31, 32; 1 Thess. 4:17). The believers will enter into the mansions of the blessed; the unbelievers, with the devil and his angels, will be cast into everlasting torment (Matt. 25:41; 2 Tim. 2:11; 2 Pet. 3:7). We reject all who deny the real resurrection; who teach the ultimate salvation of all the godless, and even the devil. We also reject the Jewish dream of a millennium, or golden age on earth, before the last judgment. We believe and teach that ...