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Thema 1: Die Wiedergeburt aus Wasser und Geist
1-5. Can we, Believing in Jesus, still be sinners?
No. The apostle Paul said remembering the days before he met Jesus in 1 Timothy 1:15, “sinners, of whom I am chief.” These days there are many who think that they are sinners even when they believe in Jesus. But it is not true.
We are all sinners before we believe in Jesus. However, once we believe in Jesus correctly according to His Word, we become righteous immediately. The apostle Paul remembered the time before he knew Jesus and confessed that he was the chief of all sinners.
However, Paul, when he was called Saul, met Jesus on the road to Damascus and realized that Jesus was his Savior and he believed and thanked Jesus. Then for the rest of his life, he witnessed that the righteousness of God, the baptism of Jesus, was to take away the sins of the world and that He had to die to blot out the world’s sins.
In other words, he became a servant of God who preached the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Misunderstanding this confession that he was the chief sinner before he was saved, before he met Jesus, many think that the apostle Paul was a sinner even after he met Jesus.
The truth, however, is that he was no longer a sinner, but one who could face Jesus anytime he wanted. He had lived preaching the gospel of salvation, the redemption of the baptism and blood of Jesus. Even after he went before God, his letters are left to us in the Bible, testifying that the gospel of the water and the Spirit was the gospel of the early church. Hence, the confession of the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 1:15 was a recollection of his old days and a thanksgiving to the Lord as well.
Was he a sinner after he believed in Jesus? No. Before he was born again, he was a sinner. At the moment he believed in Jesus as his Savior, the moment he realized that the sins of the world were passed onto Jesus through His baptism, the moment he believed in the baptism of Jesus and blood of the Cross, he became righteous.
The reason he mentioned himself the chief sinner was that he was remembering the time he tormented the followers of Jesus and thanking God for saving such a hopeless sinner as him.
Who can declare him a sinner? Who can declare that a person who has become righteous by believing in the baptism and blood of Jesus for salvation is a sinner? These are only people who do not know the truth of Jesus’ redemption.
The apostle Paul became righteous by believing in salvation through Jesus and from that time on, as a servant of God, preached to everyone the gospel of becoming righteous by believing in Jesus Christ, the Son of God as the Savior. The apostle Paul was not a sinner, but a righteous servant of God, a true servant who preached the gospel to the sinners of the world.
Can a sinner preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to others? It would never work. How can one preach to others what he cannot do himself! When he has not been saved himself, how can one save others!
If a man was drowning and tried to help the man next to him, both would end up underwater. How can a sinner save others? They would only be taking them down to hell with themselves. How can a sick man save another sick man? How can one deceived by Satan save another?
The apostle Paul was a sinner but became righteous when he believed in the baptism and blood of Jesus and was saved from sin. Therefore, he could become a servant of God and preach the gospel to the sinners of the world. He could save many sinners with the righteousness of God. He himself was no longer a sinner.
He was born again and lived not in the righteousness of the law, but in the righteousness of God. He became a servant and preacher of the righteousness of God who brought many back to God. He was not a preacher of his own fervor or the righteousness of the Law, but the righteousness of God.
Was he a sinner? No. He was righteous. As a righteous man, he became the apostle of the truth of God. Do not call him a sinner because it would be an insult to God as well as a clear misunderstanding of the truth. He was righteous. We should not insult him nor Jesus by thinking otherwise.
If we say he was still a sinner after he met Jesus, it is calling Jesus a liar. Jesus had made him righteous, and it was Jesus who made him a servant of righteousness.
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