- From varied angles was this same question that sometime ago a CNN anchor person questioned metaphorically too on that network. He asked, egg or chicken which one comes first? If your bet is sure to be on chicken then is the rhetoric that it comes from an egg and vice versa. While some others take self-complacency that both come first. But from the etymologies of these words you will have who comes first. Since during the creation of the world God said "let there be birds." Right from the beginning, like this, chicken comes first. There are only two things which God cannot do. God cannot send a sinner into the Kingdom of Heaven nor can He lie. From this perspective of the gospel of water and blood there's no more sin in the world. I believe in Jesus who came to us by water, the blood and the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:6-8). Only with faith in the water (baptism) and blood of Jesus is the absolutely indispensable remission of sin. Otherwise, if you are lukewarm, being neither cold nor hot, like a bat that sometimes is a mammal and other times a bird which prefers the inside of caves during the day and the skyline at night, you would be vomited out of the mouth of Jehovah God. Our thing with this Christ-given gospel is not to vacillate at the back, in front or in-between. Do you believe in it? Anyways the blood alone gospel is unmistakably a useless prank for that matter.
- Dear fellow believers, during a conversation I had with someone in the neighborhood where I live he questioned to assess the afterlife of the woman who was caught in adultery, by saying, "Is it written or not in the Bible if the woman who was caught in adultery in the very act and brought forth before Jesus Christ remained adulterous or continued faithfully and a holy life?" My fellow believers, while attending a Bible school downtown I listened to a homiletical exegesis from John 8:1-12 by an elder of a church about the woman who was caught in adultery in the very act emphasizing the absence and at the same time questioning the whereabouts of her counterpart when she was brought forth before Jesus, it called for a laugh, yet with the thought about it. An immediate understanding may be that you will think of her counterpart as having left away just to say what you think in your mind. Maybe not. In other words emphasizing the absence of her counterpart when she was brought forth before Him is analogous to the no mention of the size of the bronze laver in the outer court of the Tabernacle.
- By not specifying the height, length and width in cubits of the laver in the Tabernacle, which is a characteristic particular only to this bronze basin in the Tabernacle, while setting the size of all other items in the Tabernacle, God in fact demonstrates His endless love bestowed upon us who commit actual sins everyday. This is the love of Jehovah found in the baptism of His only begotten Son, a form of the laying on of hands, which washes away all our sins and the condemnation of our sins on the cruel Cross. That this Son of God, Jesus, took upon Himself our sins with His baptism is infinitely great. Besides not recording the size of the laver apart from every other item in the Tabernacle the laver shows us how immeasurable is God's great love toward mankind. It also tells us that the love of Jesus which has saved us from sins and condemnation is unlimited. After all failing to stone neither Jesus nor the woman who was caught in the act of adultery according to the Law, where do those scribes and Pharisees as well as today's sinners who leave Jesus dropping down their stones in their hand, after wagging at Him with one hand and held stones on the other, from the eldest to the least go? They end up in hell. The Lord Jesus, stooping down at least twice on the ground and wrote with His finger on the ground the first time He stooped down that the sins of man are written on the tablets of his heart and in the Books of Deeds (Jeremiah 17:1; Revelation 20:11-15). Later He raised Himself and said: "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." Then He said to her alone, "Neither do I condemn you." All in all we shouldn't say 'this is what I think' rather 'this is what the Bible says.' Like this, we shouldn't add to or subtract from the Word of Jesus who is God Almighty.
Viewpoints, brothers and sisters, colloquially from sinner Christians and you can see that some of those questions as mentioned above cut across each other and caused me to laugh so much. But the Bible says in Revelation 3:22, "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." And then continues on to say in Revelation 22:18-19, "For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." Put differently, anyone who adds to the Word of God would be heaped with curses so as anyone who takes away from the Word of God his or her name would be removed from the Book of Life. Meaning that you would be inviting damnation and destruction in hellfire unless you otherwise believe wholeheartedly in the righteousness of God that whatsoever the Word of God says is true.
Without a shadow of a doubt the genuinely born-again saint carries out his or her small duty of spreading the gospel of the water and the Spirit to the unbeliever with a Berean spirit. The Bible commended the believers in Berea, where Paul and Silas went into the synagogue of the Jews, for their fair-minded attitude over the Word of God. They believed rationally in His Word as they were taught: "These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men" (Acts 17:11-12). For us the born again saints of the gospel of the water and the Spirit are not into the world but are transformed through the renewing of our minds by pondering on the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit unlike those heretics who are wrapped in their self-deception with a warped mind and who consume staggering volumes upon volumes of biblical commentary and theological works at the beginning and are ever ready to choke the Word with their self-centered thoughts thereby preventing those who want to be born-again.