True Faith in Jesus by Water, Blood and the Spirit
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- Time and time again I tell you to "deny your own thoughts and accept only God's Word." I keep repeating that you have to "deny your own thoughts and accept just the Word of God." Our thoughts are changing depending on our circumstances and environment and fickle like a frying pan which cools down in no time just as it heats up. Our thoughts are thoughts of the flesh and are "not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be" (Romans 8:7).
- With the passing of some great sages of mankind on the questions of where are we from? Where are we going? What is life? Their findings are the results of today's precepts in the teachings of religion and Christianity. And the foundations of such doctrines. The Bible talks about true happiness thereon, which is a holy life, that is a life exceptionally blessed and living apart from sin (Romans 4:7). We are not the ones responsible for our happiness. Salvation is from God who sits on the throne and the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world. For you and I salvation is individual. And salvation belongs to the Lord.
- Jesus Christ who is God Himself was born in the land of Judea in Bethlehem and raised in the town of Nazareth. He is the Messiah and Savior—the true and living God who came on earth to save us from all our sins with the beautiful gospel of the water and the Spirit which washes and cleanses you and me of all the past sins, the present sins as well as the sins that you and I will commit in the future. The Apostle Paul in his epistle says "the sins that were previously committed" (Romans 3:25) with significant importance of Jesus putting an end to the sins of the whole world from the first man Adam to the should-be last man on earth. From the standpoint of the wondrous gospel of the water and the Spirit there is no more sin in the world. This first step in the right direction is the foundation of faith like a house built on solid ground contrary to the faith set on sandy soil. With due time and the forthcoming storms such a house built on sandy ground is just as if swept away by a broom. That is typically characterized by worldly Christians through their orthodoxy or heterodoxy of their denominations and mega Churches they build. Even with all such devotion and enthusiasm throughout their Christian cycles and with this zest and craft is to exhibit another gospel. Put differently, to omit either one of Christ's baptism and blood (1 John 5:4-8) for the blood of the Cross only gospel as the only atoning sacrifice for our sins is on the other hand preaching another gospel. 1 Peter 3:21 tells us, it says, "There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism [of water]." Jesus' water (baptism), blood and the Spirit are one. To believe in the faith of one of them without the other is thoroughly a misplaced faith and misbelieve. More or less an empty gospel—if not, a half baked and incomplete gospel. The blood of Jesus as the only atoning sacrifice for sin is a talisman. Not a few belong. Such are not compatible with us born again of the gospel of water and the Spirit. These so-called Christians with their gospel of the blood of Jesus, that is the Cross as the only redeeming sacrifice for our salvation, makes me laugh out loud more than what performance comedians do. In fact turning them into religious pluralists who remain nothing but the blind man leading blinds of course it does not work.
- Other than that our unwavering and firmer faith of an emboldened heart possessing the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and even apart from the letter which kills is our faith set on a solid rock. Meaning there is no salvation of only the blood of Jesus on the Cross without the baptism of Jesus Christ. Like this, Jesus Christ's death on the Cross would rather become meaningless without Him receiving His baptism at the Jordan River on His head from the laying on of the hands by John the Baptist, the greatest man on earth born of a woman, who is the last High Priest of the Old Testament and the representative of all humankind. God as such planned our salvation even before creation. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, carried out this plan according to His Father's will and the Holy Spirit bears witness to this fact. So, Jesus' birth by the Virgin Mary, His baptism by John the Baptist, His shedding of His blood at the Cross and His resurrection from the dead all at once saved you and I from all sins for all eternity.
- For you who believe in this, you do not have sin intact in your heart though you will continuously be committing sins of the flesh out of your weaknesses until your last breath as a born-again righteous person. These sins out of the shortcomings of the flesh are now considered as dead sins for the righteous, the one who is born again of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, died when Christ died and resurrected along with Him as a new being into this new life as a new creation. The Bible says, "For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin" (Ecclesiastes 7:20). There is not a righteous man who does not sin. All in all we should call sin when it is sin. As a born-again I am not an exception, though I do not have sin intact in my heart, but would inevitably founder and act sinfully because of the fundamental nature of the human flesh. In this case, one has to admit before the Holy God whom we call "Abba, Father" and confess, "Lord, I did such-and-such. Please God the Father, I repent of my wrongdoings" on the premise of faith centered on the gospel of water and the Spirit living the blessed life and doing good of bringing in every lost soul to the flock of the great Shepherd and the Light of the world Jesus Christ.
- May God's love and the righteousness of Christ forever be with you all as well as His great grace and all His bestowed spiritual and heavenly blessings.
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Gerarld (Gerarld) ∙Cameroon
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