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As a living witness I felt the power of the gospel of the water and the Spirit in my heart

  • Ndubuisi Okorie
  • Nigeria
  • 1989
  • 06/26/2023

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RETURN TO THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT [New Revised Edition]

Rev. Paul C. Jong

  • ISBN9788928261925
  • ገጾች፤355
  • ደረጃ፤
As a living witness I felt the power of the gospel of the water and the Spirit in my heart

This book “Return to the gospel of the water and the Spirit” will lead you to the original gospel of being born again. And you will encounter this gospel that has power like dynamite to wash away all your hearts sins.

This book solved the problem of my sins at a single stroke. I have no doubt whatsoever that whoever is tormented by his sin will receive the remission of sins just as I did by reading this book. Jesus Himself gave us this gospel of the water and the Spirit. He told Nicodemus “Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5)

Being born again of water and the Spirit is the only way that leads us to enter the kingdom of God. Water here means Jesus’ baptism and Spirit means He is God Himself who came in the likeness of human flesh. To be born again here does not mean a radical change in a person lifestyle rather it means to be transformed from the status of being a sinner to being righteous through the remission of sins attained by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

There are many people living in the world today who don’t know the meaning of this gospel of the water and the Spirit just like Nicodemus did not understand it initially. And such people’s hearts are chaotic and confused because of the sins in their hearts.

I was also like that before I came across this very book. I had left my village to stay with my cousin in the town, I started to fellowship with him in his church. I was tormented by my sins in the church, I visited our pastor, he could not solve the problem of my sins, he told me not to worry that my salvation is sure, laid his hands on my head and prayed for me. Yet I remained sinful. While all these things were happening, this book was hidden under our bed, yet I never knew. I was tormented by my sins until one Sunday I cried to God, “Why do I remain sinful when I believe in You, is it not better that I don’t believe at all, since I’m going to end up in hell anyway?” The same day, while sweeping the house I found this book dirty and dusty and I read it and received the remission of sins.

This book sheds light on the falsehood of Christian doctrines, making it possible for us to escape from the snares of the Satan’s lies which pseudo Christians and heretics preach. Here the book teaches us who the heretics are and their origin. Heretics are those who believe in Jesus but still have sins in their hearts. If a minister cannot solve the problem of sins of his congregation but only extorts money from them, he is a heretic who has replaced God with golden calves like Jeroboam.

God calls us murderers if we still have sins in our hearts and ask Jesus to forgive us our sins over and over again, such people are actually telling God to send His only Begotten Son again to die for them again. To such people the Bible says in Isaiah 1:21 “How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers.” So now, God is telling us to come and let’s reason together. God is asking us to admit our sins and receive the perfect gift of salvation He is offering to us. We should not reject this offer.

If you don’t have the conviction of your salvation, read this book. You will meet the gospel of the water and the Spirit with which God saved us from all our sins. God saved us by sending Jesus Christ who received all our sins through His baptism and was crucified on the cross to pay the wages of the sins, after 3 days He was resurrected from the dead to give us new life and ascended to heaven sitting at the right hand of God the Father.

The gospel of the water and the Spirit spoken of in this book was revealed in the Old Testament. God commanded Israelites to circumcise their male children. This means we should cut off the sins in our hearts through the baptism of Jesus. Just like the people of Israel were saved from the plague that killed the firstborn in Egypt, through the blood of the sacrificial lamb and the circumcision. God has given us the baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross to cut off the sins in our hearts. So then, circumcision in the Old Testament is the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament. The absolute requirement for the Israelites to eat the meet of the Passover is that they must first be circumcised. They put the blood on the doorposts and the lintels of their houses, and when God sees the blood, He passed over. God cannot pass over anyone who was not circumcised even though he may put the blood on the doorposts and the lintels of the house, such a person was to be cut off from His people. This means that the redemption of God started with the baptism of Jesus which cuts off all the sins in our hearts and also was accompanied by His blood on the Cross He shed for the judgment of the sins. As Apostle Paul said in Romans 2:29 “Circumcision is that of the heart” Those who believe in the baptism and blood of Jesus are not afraid of God’s judgment because God has passed over them.

This book exposes the lies in the theory of predestination and divine election. Such theories have caused so much headache to Christians. The assertion of theologians that God selected some people unconditionally and rejected others are unfounded and painted God as an unjust God. But God is the God of love and justice, He loves every being in Jesus and wants to save them all. The salvation of God is sure, He does not give us an uncertain salvation whereby we would wonder “Am I selected or not?” such theories as predestination and divine election are products of man’s thoughts, the word of God says that God desires all men to be saved “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3–4).

The book taught me how God has changed his law of salvation. Those who are suffering to keep the law of God to be saved should now realize that God has changed His law of salvation. To try to live by the law of God is to make a garment of fig leaves, which will wither way in a single day. But the new covenant which God established for us who are weak is the garment of tunic of skin. When Adam and Eve sinned they made for themselves garment of fig leaves and hid among the trees, but such garment cannot last more than one day, God made a garment out of animal skin and clothed them with His righteousness. This is the gospel of the water and the Spirit which Jesus Christ who did not come according to the order of Aaron but according to the order of Melchizedek, brought to us who have fallen into sin unable to keep the law of God. In Hebrews 7:12 it is written “For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law”.

John said to Jesus “I need to be baptized by You, are you coming to me?” and Jesus said to him “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness”. This means that it is through the baptism of Jesus that we could have our sins passed on to Him and there is no other way to achieve this except through His baptism. He went to the cross carrying the burden of our sins on His head and was resurrected after three days to save us from all the sins, having finished the work of salvation, He is now sitting at the right hand of God. Without faith in the baptism of Jesus, our salvation will be incomplete and we will turn into one of the religious practitioners of the world.

Now, let us all return to the gospel of the water and the Spirit: the only truth of salvation, and this is the will of God the Father. This book will lead whoever reads it to do the will of God. Before I met the gospel of the water and the Spirit, I had also misunderstood the will of God just as many Christians are doing the same now. But Jesus said in Matthew 7:21–23 ““Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” This means believing in Jesus arbitrarily cannot save any soul. Prophesying, speaking in tongues, giving alms, paying tithe faithfully and giving offerings and doing good deeds and such things, are not the will of God. The will of God is for us to know and believe in whom God sent. God sent Jesus Christ and John the Baptist, and have John the Baptist baptized Him to transfer our sins to His head. We must therefore believe in what Jesus did to save us from the sins of the world and believe in what God is teaching us through His servants.