OUR BELIEF
GOD’S FAMILY PLAN
VOICES AGAINST IMMORALITY AND ABORTION
SEXUAL IMMORALITY
We, at the New Life Church, firmly believe in and ascribe to God’s family plan. In today’s worldwide society, sexual immorality and abortion are rampant. People are not being taught God’s Word concerning same sex relationships, keeping the marriage bed undefiled, having lustful and wanton relationships between men and women and the blessed, sanctity of life. We want people to be able to discern between the lies taught by Hollywood, television, the media, liberal teachings in liberal churches and the precious, truth taught in God’s Word, the Bible. Our prayers are for everyone’s eyes to be opened to what our Lord and Savior Word’s are concerning sexual immorality and abortion. Our desire is to see everyone set free from the bondage of sexual immorality and to let people know He can forgive anyone of anything when they accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and confess and repent of their sins.
God tells us in Genesis 1:26-28, “Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." God created man as man and woman as woman and intended them to marry and have children. In Mark 10:6-9 it is written, "But at the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." God intends for a man and woman to be united with each other in Holy Matrimony and become as one. God does not intend for man and woman to live together in promiscuity, having a lascivious lifestyle of sexual immorality. God speaks many times in the Bible against sexual immorality. In 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, it is written that, “ It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God..“ In 1 Corinthians 6:18-22 God tells us to “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.In Colossians 3:5 God reminds us to, “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.“ 1 Corinthians 6:13 tells us, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.” God wants us to avoid all forms of sexual immorality and honor God with our bodies.”
God did not intend for men and women to have same sex relationships. His Word tells us in Leviticus 18:22 that, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” and He also tells us in Romans 1:24-28 that, “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.”
God warns us in His word that those who practice any form of sexual immorality will not enter the gates of Heaven. He tells us in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 that, “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” In Revelation 22:14-15 God warns us that, “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.” Continuing sexual immorality will prevent a person from eternal life in Heaven, walking on the streets of gold, partaking of the tree of life and forever worshipping our blessed Lord & Savior. In Jude 1:7, it is written that, “In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.” Do not be deceived, living a life of sexual immorality will only doom a person to an afterlife of suffering, not an afterlife of eternal bliss!
God can deliver anyone from the lustful desires of this world by believing Jesus Christ is His only Son, confessing and repenting of their sins and accepting Him as their personal Savior. Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." - Matthew 19:26. Nothing is impossible with God. At the New Life Church we know and have seen many men and women break the bondage of sexual immorality by becoming a born again believer and dedicating their lives in service to our Lord. At the New Life Church we welcome everyone through our doors who have any type of bondage in their lives. We are here to help them rid themselves of those bondage's by telling them about the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ which can free them. We welcome people to come to our church “Where God is Changing People’s Lives.”
ABORTION
Abortion is one of the greatest tragedies in today’s world. We, at New Life Church, believe in the sanctity of life and preserving family values. Life is precious in God’s eyes. In Deuteronomy 5:17, God gave, as one of His commandments to Israel, “Thou shalt not kill. “ In the New Testament in Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 'This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.” If we love God above all and love our neighbor as ourselves, we cannot kill. And abortion is the death of an unborn child. God has known each and everyone of us since the beginning of time. God spoke in Jeremiah 1:5 and said, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” David wrote in Psalm 139:13-16 that, “ For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” The process of building a human takes place in the womb, (the same meaning as “depths of the earth”) with a purpose already assigned the unborn child by God. This passage verifies the fact that the baby in the womb is an unborn person. There is no explanation of the exact week of pregnancy at which this status is attained, thus there is no safe period of time to abort an unborn child. God has a wonderful plan for every child that is conceived. Proverbs 31:8 says to, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” We, at the New Life Church, do speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, we speak up for the unborn who have no voice and we speak out for the sanctity of life. At the New Life Church we offer a home, the Esther House, as a safe haven for women who are contemplating having an abortion because they have no one to turn to and have no place to go. We desire, and God desires, to see that unborn child be born and live a life pleasing unto Him. He is the Lord, your redeemer, who formed you in in the womb, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens and who spread out the earth by himself as it written in Isaiah 44:24. Children are a reward from God as is says in Psalm 127:3. At the New Life Church we are pro-life therefore we offer pregnant women the choice to come and live in a Christian Home filled with love and support for her and the precious gift of God she is carrying inside of her. If a woman has had an abortion, God will forgive her of that act if she professes Jesus Christ to be her Lord and Savior and confess and repent of her sins. Our God can forgive and forget all sins and iniquities. As it is written in Hebrews 10:17-24, “Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more. "And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” Our God, as we ask of Him, is so wonderful to forgive and forget all of our past sinful and fleshly deeds.
Our prayer, at the New Life Church, is to see all the lost and unsaved come to know Jesus in their lives and live a life full of His Word, His love and His promise of eternal life. We believe, as the Bible teaches us, that continuing sexual immorality and abortion are against God’s teachings and will for us. We also believe that God is just and faithful to forgive us of and forget all of our sins if we accept His only Son, Jesus Christ, as our personal Savior and confess and ask repentance of all of our past sins.
