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A Declaration

of Those Things Most Surely Believed Among Us

This loose leaf volume is a collection of 52 Bible studies written by Pastor R.S.Brewer for the Teenage and Adult first-year Sunday School classes of Gilbert Independent Baptist Church. These lessons were written primarily to ground the new Christian in the basics of God’s eternal truth, and as a study guide for GIBC teachers as they prepare to give knowledge and instruction to all from new Christians to Older Christians who have been in churches where the teaching of the Word of God has been pushed to the side. From Salvation to the Second Coming, we desire to teach and preach the whole counsel of God and teach others to “observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” We include several lessons on the Bible itself. Why the King James Bible is God’s preserved Word is covered and why the modern day versions, from the mid 1800’s to the present, mark the Great Falling Away. These lessons are written to ground the believer in God’s eternal truth and create in him an awe for God’s written Word, which the Lord magnifies above His name. (Psalm 138:2) Our hope and prayer is that after the new believer has learned these basic but eternal truths, he will come to the point that he says with the Psalmist. ”Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way.” (Psalm 119:128)

Biblical Philosophy:

Ye Shall know the truth and the truth shall Make you free (John 8:32). As teachers of these eternal truths, our job and our calling is to pass this knowledge on, being careful to make sure it is presented in such a manner as to enable the student to grasp and understand the truth envisioning the day that they will be prepared, in turn, to share the Truth with others. This means they must understand what is taught. Like salvation, though it is simple by Divine design, only becomes salvation when God’s truth is understood and received. This takes a combination of the teacher/soulwinner not only having experienced Biblical salvation himself, but also understanding it so that he might make the student understand it as well. Understanding the basic plan of salvation then enables the student to understand and receive our Lord’s free gift of eternal life This takes the culmination of all that is involved in being a teacher, in partnership with and under the direction of the Holy Spirit’s guidance and illumination of the truth that is taught. (John 16)

Our desire is for the born-again student to come to the point where he understands and acknowledges that the Scripture, perfectly preserved in the King James Bible, is God’s eternal Truth. Thy Word is Truth. (John 17:17) For only the Truth sets man free. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32) May these lessons be part of learning to love God’s Word, the Eternal Truth.

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