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Omid Media International
( A ministry of Acts 13 Christian Ministries
Inc.) is dedicated to fulfilling the command of
our Lord Jesus Christ to spread the Gospel among
the unsaved Farsi speaking people throughout the
world, and strengthen the new formed Farsi
speaking fellowships and groups through the
proclamation of much-needed, yet often
neglected, truths and revelations of the Word of
God.
This ministry has been
born as a result of much prayer and travail
before the Lord, and through many years of
commitment by the ministry's founder, Fred
Saleh, to steadfastly seek and teach the whole
counsel of God without compromise.
Unfortunately, the
twentieth century church has, over the years,
severely compromised its understanding and
application of the whole counsel of God in
preparing the saints for a truly victorious and
overcoming life. Especially this is so, since
the advent of commercialized and electronic
Christianity. This is a critical negligence of a
vital requirement that will deprive the saints
from ruling in Christ's coming kingdom.
The church-at-large has
departed from preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and has fallen into the trap of
preaching a very shallow salvation message of
hell to heaven, calling it the Good News. Many
of God's children have been kept in darkness as
to their real calling, and as to the
consequences of remaining immature in their
Christian walk, and life.
Omid Media Internatinal
has dedicated itself to reviving, and renewing,
these timeless and hidden treasures of God's
Word for all those dear children of God who
truly desire a deeper knowledge of the Lord
Himself, and a clearer understanding of the
Father's plan and purpose for the Bride of
Christ.
It is with this burden
on our hearts that we have established this
website as a focal point, and to provide
resources, for those who have a heart to
diligently seek the full counsel of God.
Yours
in His Service,
Edwin
Saleh, General Manager
Omid
Media international
The Holy Bible is Acts 13
Christian Ministries'
all-sufficient rule for faith
and practice. The following
Statement of Faith that Acts 13
Christian Ministries subscribes
to, is intended simply to
clarify our beliefs to those
involved in the Ministries, and
to those with whom we interact;
so that we all speak the same
thing (1Cor
1:10,
Acts 2:42).
The phraseology employed in this
statement is not inspired or
contended for, but the truth set
forth is held to be essential to
a living faith. No claim is made
that it contains all biblical
truth, only that it covers our
need as to these fundamental
doctrines.
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We
believe that the whole
Bible of sixty-six books
contained in the Old and
New Testaments is the
Word of God: that it is
inspired of God the Holy
Spirit; that the
inspiration is not the
concept only, but that
the very words of the
original writings were
inspired; that they are
a sufficient and
complete revelation from
God to man. We therefore
build upon the Holy
Scriptures as our rule
of doctrine, faith, and
practice; they are our
final court of appeal.
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We
believe in the unity of
the Godhead and the
Trinity of the persons
therein; Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.
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III
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We
believe that Jesus
Christ was God manifest
in the flesh, born of a
virgin by the operation
of the Holy Spirit.
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We
believe that when the
Lord Jesus went to the
Cross and died, while
His crucifixion was by
man (and that “according
to the predetermined
counsel of God”) His
death was of a deeper
character – the laying
down of His life
deliberately and
voluntarily, and that it
had a threefold
significance, viz.:
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It was
Substitutionary.
That is, He who
knew no sin was
made sin in our
place and bore
all the judgment
and penalty of
sin that man
might be
justified and
acquitted
through faith in
that atoning
death. The
rejection of
this atoning
death involves
the eternal loss
of the sinner.
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It was
Representative.
That is, that
when Christ
died, in the
sight and mind
of God, the
whole race in
Adam as fallen
man died in Him.
We thus judge
that if one died
in the place of
all, then all
died (in Him).
Hence the only
ground upon
which there can
be any
relationship to
God is that of a
new birth from
above by the
operation of the
Holy Sprit.
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It was
Victorious. As
victorious over
sin and the
flesh, so over
all the powers
of Satan. The
Cross of Calvary
registered the
final overthrow
of the entire
Satanic
hierarchy:
securing victory
in life of the
believer now;
authority for
the Church; and
ultimately the
destruction of
that hierarchy
at the time
appointed.
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We
believe in the personal
physical resurrection of
the Lord Jesus, and that
He, in bodily presence,
showed Himself alive
after His resurrection
by many infallible
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We
believe that in the same
bodily form He will come
again in like manner as
He was received up. This
coming, we believe, will
be pre-millennial.
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We
believe that the Church,
according to the word of
God, is composed of
those who upon a basis
of identification with
Christ in death, burial,
and resurrection by
faith, have been truly
born anew of the Spirit,
baptized by (that) One
Spirit into One Body.
This
Church is not an earthly
organization, but a
spiritual organism,
super-national,
super-denominational. We
therefore feel that the
pursuit or propagation
of anything of an
earthly sectarian
character is contrary to
the teaching and spirit
of the Word of God,
therefore contrary to
the Divine mind.
Nevertheless, we would
strongly disfavor the
propagation of this
latter view as such,
believing, as we do,
that any course of
action must be taken by
all concerned
individually upon a
basis of the revelation
and conviction of the
Holy Spirit.
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We
believe that what are
commonly called
ordinances are really
testimonies to spiritual
realities, and that
these are four in
number; viz.:
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Baptism of
believers by
immersion: the
testimony to
identification
with Christ in
death, burial
and
resurrection.
Romans 6:3-11;
Col. 2:12,
etc.
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The laying on of
hands. The act
of
representative
members of the
Body of Christ,
by which a
testimony is
borne to the
oneness of the
Body in all its
members under
one anointing,
which is upon
the Sovereign
Head for all His
members. Upon
this ground not
made by the
laying on of
hands but
testified to
believers are
sharers in that
anointing and
are equipped for
whatever may
have been the
foreknown
purpose of God
in, and through
them. The
principle also
applies to the
oneness of the
ministry in the
Body of Christ
or House of God
(the same
thing).
Psalm 133:2;
Matt. 3:16;
Heb. 6:2;
Acts 8:17,
Acts 9:17;
2 Tim. 1:6, 14;
1 Tim. 1: 18;
2 Tim. 4: 14;
Acts 19: 5, 6,
etc.
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The Lord's
Table. In this
testimony all
the other
testimonies are
gathered
together, and
while the others
have to be borne
as occasion
requires, the
Lord's Table has
to be regular
and continuous.
It sets forth,
or proclaims the
substitutionary
and the
representative
work of Calvary;
His death for
us, our death in
Him. It declares
the corporate
nature of the
Church His Body
One Loaf (1
Cor. 10: 16, 17;
1 Cor. 11: 23-30).
It postulates
the One life
Divine Life life
triumphant over
death shared by
all believers,
for the life is
in the Blood and
the blood is the
life.
Lev. 17:14;
John 6:53,
etc.
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The anointing of
the sick.
James 5:14.
This we believe
to be a
testimony to the
indwelling
Christ as the
life of His
members. He is
anointed from
eternity to be
the life of His
people, and to
give them life.
The anointing
with oil
testifies to
this fact. He,
as the Anointed
of God by the
Sprit has
conquered death.
As within His
members He is,
by the Sprit,
the Earnest of a
full and final
deliverance from
the bondage of (physical)
corruption. This
Earnest is
manifested
either by the
healing of
sickness, or by
a quickening and
energizing to
transcend
infirmity to do
the will of God.
Which of these
two takes place
in each
individual case
is in His
sovereign choice,
both are seen in
the Word of God.
This is no
mechanical
application of a
static ordinance
but a testimony
which can only
be virtuous in
the power of the
Holy Sprit.
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With
reference to the above
testimonies we do not
feel that it is required
of us that we should
seek to propagate them
as a system of teaching,
or as to be blindly
obeyed by all; but to
give them their place
and carry them out as
the Lord's people are
enlightened and led by
the Holy Spirit in
connection with them.
The Spirit must lead in
every case: and it is
ours to expound the Word
as led by Him.
In His
Love,
Edwin
Saleh, General Manager
Omid
Media International
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