God, when He created the sky and the earth at the beginning of time, also created the eternal worlds, heaven and hell. He also created man in His own image. However, since the first man, Adam, sinned before God, all people have to die once. “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

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The Apostles’ Creed does not begin with a description of God, but with the confession “I believe.” The first word of the Latin text is also “Credo,” that is, “I believe.” This is a truly significant beginning, for faith is always in the first person.

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The word apostle comes from the Greek “apostolos (ἀπόστολος),” meaning “one who is sent.” Jesus chose twelve disciples, named them apostles (Luke 6:13), and sent them into the world. An apostle is not a self-made man, but a man who was called and sent. He is not a man who delivers his own words, but a man who delivers the words of the One who sent him. So the authority of an apostle lies not in the apostle himself, but in Jesus Christ who sent him.

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One scene that best shows us what kind of God our Father is, the God we believe in, is found in Matthew chapter 9. As Jesus was passing along the way, He saw Matthew sitting at the tax office and said to him, “Follow Me” (Matthew 9:9).

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After majestically proclaiming the event of God the Word becoming flesh and coming to this earth, John chapter 1 leaves an unexpected, sorrowful record: “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him” (John 1:11). The Creator came to the world He Himself had made, yet the people He had made neither recognized Him nor welcomed Him.

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The second confession of the Apostles’ Creed begins with “I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.” The best door through which to enter this confession is the question that Jesus Himself put to His disciples.

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How is the sin of the world removed? If a man invents his own answer to this question, it becomes religion; if he believes, just as it is, the word of the gospel of the water and the Spirit that God has given, it becomes saving faith. Thankfully, God has recorded the answer to this question in detail in the Scriptures. The place where that answer is revealed most systematically is the sacrificial system of Leviticus.

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Until He was thirty years old, Jesus lived quietly in Nazareth. And as He began His public ministry, the very first thing He did was to go deliberately from Galilee all the way to the Jordan River to be baptized by John the Baptist.

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