The Christian Church in Philadelphia

The Christian Church in Philadelphia is a congregation of believers who have confessed with our mouths the Lord Jesus and have believed in our hearts [spirits] that God has raised Him [Jesus] from the dead. Therefore, with our hearts [spirits] we have believed unto righteousness and with our mouths have confessed unto salvation. Thus, we have been saved! “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation” (Romans 10:9-10, New American Standard Bible). We also have been baptized into the body of Christ “by one Spirit” and therefore are of the body of Christ, and members individually (I Corinthians 12:13, 27, New American Standard Bible). Finally, most of us have been, and the others of us will be, baptized in water to have “...the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him” (I Peter 3:18-22, New American Standard Bible). Moreover, we are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ “...for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes.... For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.” (See Romans 1:16-17, New American Standard Bible.)