Ordination Flash Cards

Question 1

What is your object for wanting to be ordained?

Answer 1

To make full proof of my ministry.

2 Timothy 4:5

Question 2

What is the duty of an ordained minister?

Answer 2

The duties of an ordained minister are to preach the Word and to carry out the sacraments and ordiances of the church.

Question 3

What is the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God od the Americas concept of God?

Answer 3

We believe that there is but one God revealing himself in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These three are one God equal in power, glory, and dominion.

Question 4

What are the commissions of the gospel?

Answer 4

We are commanded through the commissions to go, teach, preach, and baptize.
Matt 28:19-20
Mark 15:15, 16
Luke 10:1-4

Question 5

How many commissions are there and where are they found?

Answer 5

There are three places where the commissions are found:
St. Matthew 28:19-20
Mark 15:15, 16
Luke 10:1-5

Question 6

What is salvation and how is it obtained?

Answer 6

Salvation is deliverance from sin. It is obtained through repentance and faith in Christ. Romans 8:8-11

Question 7

How many ordinances and sacraments are there? Name them.

Answer 7

There are two sacraments recognized by the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas. They are baptism and the Lord’s Supper. All other decrees of God are ordinances because they were not instituted by Christ.

Question 8

What is atonement?

Answer 8

Atonement is the satisfaction offered through divine justice by Jesus Christ who by his suffering and death took our place. Isaiah 53:4-6, Gal. 3:13, Gal 4:4, 5

Question 9

What is the fundamental doctrine of the gospel?

Answer 9

The fundamental doctrine of the gospel is Jesus Christ, Son of God, born of a virgin Mary, waked upon the earth, suffered under Pontius Pilate, crucified, buried, raised from the dead, ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession and will return in great power and glory.

Question 10

Are you willing to keep the charge committed to your care until otherwise advised?

Answer 10

I am so willing

Question 11

Have you been called to preach the Gospel and can you say as the Apostle Paul said:

Answer 11

“Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel?” I have so been called.

Question 12

Will you “preach the word” without fear or favor, seeking the honor that comes from God only, reproving, and exhorting with all long-suffering, and Doctrine, contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints?

Answer 12

I am so willing.

Question 13

Will you take the Word of God as your charge and rule of conduct, and strive to regulate your life and manner of living by its sacred teachings?

Answer 13

I will live according to God’s word.

Question 14

Having a dispensation committed unto you, will you undertake to preach the Gospel, not as a hireling, nor by constraint, neither as being Lords over God’s heritage, not for filthy lucre, but willingly and of a ready mind, doing all you can for the glory of God and the salvation of lost men?

Answer 14

Having this dispensation, I will so willingly preach.

Question 15

Tell how many “ISMS” you know of and scriptures to condemn the same, or tell where they get their scripture and prove by their scripture that they are imposters true to the knowledge of Christ.

Answer 15

Christian Scientist: Deny a personal trinity. The theory of three persons in one God. Suggest heathen gods. Life, truth, and love constitute the triune God. These statements are taken from The Science and Health p. 277, 152. They do not believe in the atonement, Holy Ghost, heaven, hell, prayer nor angels.

Spiritualists: Deny the foundation of the Christian faith. It makes a gross parody of heaven, denies the resurrection either of Christ, or man and the judgment to come. Spiritualists believe in contacting dead spirits and receiving messages. Scriptures to condemn. (Lev. 20:6, 27; Isa. 8:19-20 and Deut 18:10, 12, 14).

Unitarians: Deny the Deity of Christ. They teach to worship Christ is idolatry. Christ's seven times questioned and seven times affirmed. 
Matt 4:3          Matt. 3:17
John 10:24      John 10:36
Matt 27:40      Matt. 27:54 
Matt. 27:42     John 1:16
Luke 23:35     Matt. 16:16
Luke 23:37     Luke 23:38
Luke 23:39     Luke 23:40

Universalists: Believe and teach that Christ died for all sins of all men and for that reason all will be saved, but F.B.H. we believe that Christ died for the sins of all men, but to be saved one must repent and believe on the Lord Jesus. (Please read Mark 16:15, Acts 16:31)

Seventh-Day Adventism: We indict Seventh-Day Adventism on four main counts.
1. They deny the bible doctrine of the atoning sacrifice of Christ as the only means of man’s salvation. (Heb. 9:22, Lev. 17:11, 1 Peter 2:24).

2. They teach that the Lord Jesus inherited a sinful nature. (Heb 7:26, Heb 4:15)
3. Seventh-Day Adventism believes in soul-sleep after death and conditional immortality.
4. They try to force the believer back under the law and away from grace by their Sabbath teachings.

Mormons: They Teach that God is only an exalted man and that He was once on earth as we are now. They deny that Jesus was begotten by the Holy Ghost. They believe in polygamy- many husbands and wives. The Word condemns the Mormons on all three accounts. (Gen 1:1, John 1:1, Matt. 1:18, 20, Matt. 5:27)

Jehovah’s Witnesses: (1) They believe that while the Lord was on earth He was nothing more than a perfect human being. This statement conflicts with the Word of God. (Matt. 1:23, John 1:1-3 and Heb. 1:7-10). (2) They also believe that Christ in any sense or degree will come again as a human being. The Word says (Luke 24:39, Acts 1:11)
(3) They believe in the sleep of the soul (Eph. 2:1, Luke 16:23, Matt 10:20).

Question 16

Define regeneration, justification, and adoption (Titus 3:7, 1 Peter 1:3; Rom 8:17; St. John 3:17; II Cor. 6:17; Eph 2:1; Gal 6;15; II Peter 1:4).

Answer 16

Regeneration is the impartation of spiritual life to the soul dead in sin and involves a change inwardly wrought by the Holy Spirit by the grace of God. Sometimes we call this experience the new birth because it involves such a radical, moral, and spiritual change, that cannot be adequately expressed except in terms of another birth. Some evidences of regeneration:
A new vision and appreciation for spiritual things: living a better life; love for God and a sense of value for the truths of His World; a different attitude towards and for the children of God; a new walk.

Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again. (St. John 3:7).

Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein He pardons the guilty sinner and accepts him as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ laid to his account and received by faith alone.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. (Eph 1:7).

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (II Cor. 5:21).

Justification in a theological sense is either legal or evangelical.

Legal justification is justification according to the strict demands of the law. Holy Angels are justified in this way, as mankind might now be had they never sinned. Every attempt in sinners is justification by law is in vain. (Rom. 3:20, 28, Ps. 140:3, 4, Ps. 143:2).

Evangelical Justification is the one about which the scriptures principally treats, and it is the same definition that we give for justification: When we repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, God pardons our sins and accepts us as righteous in His sight.

Adoption is an act of a promise to God’s free grace whereby we are received into the number and have a right to all privileges of the sons of God.

Behold what matter of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. (1 John 3:1).

And if children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17).

Question 17

What is the inward evidence of the same?

Answer 17

Freedom from bondage and fear, assurance that we are children of God, etc.
(Rom. 8:15, 16; 1 John 5:10; Heb. 6:11, 12; Heb. 10:22).

Question 18

What is sanctification?

Answer 18

Sanctification is the second definite instantaneous act of God’s grace in the justified believer by which inborn sin is destroyed in the soul and the heart completely cleansed from sin.

While regeneration is the impartation of divine life to soul dead in sin, sanctification is a subjective act by which the “old man” is crucified, and the very nature or body of sin is destroyed (Heb. 10:9-14). In sanctification, the justified believer is cleansed by the Holy Spirit with the blood of Christ; and in the Baptism with the Holy Ghost, Christ is the agent and the Holy Ghost is the element with which He baptizes the sanctified believer (Luke 3:16; Act 1:5).

Question 19

Explain the doctrine of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire.

Answer 19

The baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire is a definite experience like regeneration and sanctification and the initial evidence of the reception of this experience is speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4).

The Bible shows conclusively that a person must be sanctified in order to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Peter said in speaking before the Jerusalem Council, of the Gentile Pentecost at Caesera, “And God, which knoweth the hearts, bear them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.” (Acts 15:8-9). The word purifying is in the aorist tense in the original text, which denotes definite completed action. Hence, rendered literally, it is “having purified their hearts by faith.”

The Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire is God’s grandest assurance of complete redemption.

Question 20

What are the fruits of the Spirit?

Answer 20

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance: against: against such there is no law… Gal. 5:22-24

Question 21

Define divine healing as in the atonement.

Answer 21

The healing of the body by divine power without the aid of natural means. Immediately after the redemption of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, God gave them the Ordinance of Healing.

And he cried unto the Lord: and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them, and said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord they God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandements and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord that healeth thee. Exodus 15:25, 26

Healing is a miracle. When God intervenes and heals the body in answer to the prayer of faith, it is a miracle. ps. 103:3; Is. 53:4-5; Matt 3:16, 17; Mark 16:14, 15; Acts 8:7; James 5:14, 15

Question 22

What is the imminent personal premillennial second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ?