The Seers See Ministries Statement of Faith

1. GOD THE KING AND THE HOLY TRINITY

WE BELIEVE that God is the Eternal King. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity he exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in power and glory.

2. GOD THE KING: THE CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THINGS

WE BELIEVE that God’s kingdom is everlasting. From His throne, through His Son, His eternal Word, God created, upholds and governs all that exists: the heavenly places, the angelic hosts, the universe, the earth, every living thing and mankind. God created all things very good.

3. DOMAIN OF DARKNESS: THREE REBELLIONS

WE BELIEVE that some divine beings and human beings chose to live according to their desires over God’s desires. Through three distinct rebellions, these divine beings and humans coordinate their desires to usurp  God’s rule, established a counter-domain of darkness and evil on the earth.

4. THE KINGDOM IN THE CREATION OF MAN, THE FALL AND THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN

WE BELIEVE that God created mankind in His own image, male and female, for relationship with himself and to govern the earth as God would. Under the temptation of their own lusts and Satan’s lies, our original parents brought sin, sickness and human mortality to the earth. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam’s sin. Human beings are born mortal, subject to God’s judgment of death and captive to Satan’s kingdom of darkness.

5. GOD’S PROVIDENCE, KINGDOM LAW AND COVENANTS

WE BELIEVE that God did not abandon his rule over the earth which he continues to uphold by his providence.  In order to bring redemption, God established covenants which revealed his grace to sinful people. In the covenant with Abraham, God bound himself to his people Israel, promising to deliver them from bondage to sin, death and dark spiritual forces and to bless all the nations through them.

WE BELIEVE that as King, God later redeemed his people by his mighty acts from bondage in Egypt and established his covenant through Moses, revealing his perfect will and our obligation to fulfill it. The law’s purpose is to order our fallen race, to make us conscious of our moral responsibility, and to protect us from the influence of other divine beings. By the work of God’s Spirit, the Law convicts us of our sin and God’s righteous judgment against us and brings us to Christ alone for salvation.

WE BELIEVE that when Israel rejected God’s rule as King, God established the monarchy in Israel and made an unconditional covenant with David, promising that his heir would restore God’s kingdom reign over His people as Messiah forever.

6. CHRIST THE MEDIATOR AND ETERNAL KING

WE BELIEVE that in the fullness of time, God honored his covenants with Israel and his prophetic promises of salvation by sending God’s Son, Jesus, into the world.  Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, as fully God and fully man in one person, He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God’s Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, inaugurating God’s kingdom reign on earth, overturning the sin of the Watchers, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Gathering his disciples, Jesus reconstituted God’s people as his Church to be the instrument of his kingdom. 

After dying for the sins of the world, Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day, fulfilling the covenant of blessing given to Abraham. In his sinless, perfect life Jesus met the demands of the law and in his atoning death on the cross Jesus took God’s judgment for sin which we deserve as law-breakers. By his death on the cross, Jesus disarmed the demonic powers and ended God’s people’s Exile from God’s presence.

The covenant with David was fulfilled in Jesus’ birth from David’s house, his Messianic ministry, his glorious resurrection from the dead, his ascent into heaven and his present rule at the right hand of the Father. 

As God’s Son and David’s heir, Jesus is the eternal Messiah-King, advancing God’s reign throughout every generation and throughout the whole earth today.

7. THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit was poured out on all flesh at Pentecost in power, baptizing believers into the Body of Christ and releasing the gifts, ministries, and activities of the Spirit to them. The Spirit brings the permanent indwelling presence of God to us for spiritual worship, personal sanctification, building up the Church (the community of holy ones), gifting us for ministry, and driving back the kingdom of Satan by the evangelization of the world through proclaiming the word of Jesus and doing the works of Jesus in the New Creation.

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that Hh is our abiding Helper, Teacher, and Guide.  We believe in the filling or the empowering of the Holy Spirit, often a conscious experience, for ministry today.  We believe in the present ministry of the Spirit and in the exercise of all of the biblical grants, ministries, and activities of the Spirit.  

8. THE SUFFICIENCY OF SCRIPTURE

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of Holy Scripture so that the Bible is without error in the original manuscripts.  We receive the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments as our final, absolute authority, the only infallible rule of faith and practice when interpreted as written by the authors and read by the first audience. 

9. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL OVER THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS

WE BELIEVE that the whole world is under the domination of Satan and that all people are mortals by nature and sinners by choice. All people therefore are under God’s just judgment. Through the preaching of the Good News of Jesus and the Kingdom of God and the work of the Holy Spirit, God regenerates, justifies, adopts and sanctifies through Jesus by the Spirit all who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. By this they are released from Satan’s domain and enter into God’s kingdom reign.

10. THE CHURCH:  INSTRUMENT OF THE KINGDOM

WE BELIEVE in the one, holy, universal Church. All who repent of their sins and confess Jesus as Lord and Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and form the living Body of Christ, of which Jesus is the head and of which we are all members.

11. BAPTISM AND THE LORD’S SUPPER

WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to the Church: water baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Both are available to all believers.

12. THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE FINAL JUDGMENT

WE BELIEVE that God’s kingdom has come in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, that it continues to come in the ministry of the Spirit through the Church, and that it will be consummated in the glorious, visible and triumphant appearing of Christ—His return to the earth as King. After Christ returns to reign, he will bring about the final defeat of Satan and all of his minions and works, the resurrection of the dead, the final judgment and the eternal blessing of the righteous and eternal punishment of the wicked. Finally, God will be all in all and his kingdom, his rule and reign, will be fulfilled in the new heavens and the new earth, recreated by hi mighty power, in which righteousness dwells and in which his will forever be worshipped.