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  • No. 217

    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.

    • Ndubuisi Okorie
    • Nigeria
    • 06/26/202349
  • No. 216

    My review of book 25 titled, "Heretics, Who Followed the Sins of Jeroboam (I)"

    This book is an eye-opener, we must reflect on the current state of today`s Christianity through the Word of God revealed in this book. We have to examine our faith with the Word of God in this book to see whether we are not actually walking in the way of Jeroboam. Because our faith today will invariably affect someone else tomorrow, so it is very important for us to have a proper faith so that those who come after us will also inherit a proper faith. If Solomon has given a second thought to this, he wouldn`t have set such an example to the people of God. He made a costly mistake, and I pray through this book no one will make such mistake again and those who have already fallen into the sin of Jeroboam may turn around.It is not an exaggeration to say that almost all Christians living today are heretics before God. For us to identify them, we need to examine their fruit carefully. We can start by tracing back the footsteps of their predecessors. Solomon was the man who opened the gate for heresy, by marrying gentile women, loving them and allowing them bring their gods to Israel, he paved way for the Isreal and their future kings to worship idols. Solomon himself also worshipped these gods more than God just to please his wives. He clung to this idolatry for too long, driving his people into idolatry. It is said in the Bible that when Solomon became old his wives turned his heart after other gods, away from God (1 Kings 11: 1-13). This means Solomon followed his lust of the flesh till his old age. It is also written that God appeared to Solomon twice commanding him not to go after other gods. Doesn`t it also mean that God gave him enough time to turn around? Even now, God is waiting for all heretics in the world today to turn around and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.After Rehoboam and Jeroboam succeeded Solomon, they both followed his footsteps. Like this, the faith of a leader is very important, when a leader goes astray, it is inevitable for the followers to follow the path. But Jeroboam not only worshipped idols, he also replaced God with golden calves. The same tread continues even today, Christians are serving golden calves in the name of Jesus. They are after material blessings while professing to believe in Jesus with their lips. They are the successors following the footsteps of Jeroboam. Not only did Jeroboam build shrines for idols like Solomon, he went further to telling the people that his man-made idol is the God who led them out of Egypt, as that is not enough he changed the way of salvation and appointed ordinary people who are not Levi`s descendants as priests. He changed the Day of Atonement from the tenth of the seventh month to the fifteenth of the eighth month, making sure that no one will receive the God-given salvation from sins, just to maintain his position as king.Christians today are committing the same sins of Jeroboam, they are making money in the name of Jesus while at the same time telling people that they can go to heaven by believing in blood of Jesus alone. This is the same sin of Jeroboam serving golden calves and at the time changing the Day of Atonement.It is really astonishing to see how Jeroboam`s sins have been passed down to today`s Christians. The faith of Jeroboam has truly been passed down to Christians in the New Testament. In the New Testament, the man who also shared in the sin of Jeroboam was Emperor Constantine I, he arbitrarily removed the baptism of Jesus Christ and put forth only His Cross (blood), all in attempt to fulfill his fleshly desires. He was a son god worshipper who changed the way of salvation to maintain his political power. There is no difference between his sins and the sins of Jeroboam. The syncretic religion he created in the First Council of Nicaea is what today`s Christians are still holding onto. These Christians have believed in Jesus Christ within the framework of their own thoughts, they don`t care whether someone has sins in his heart or not. They claim when one commits sins all one has to do is to offer prayers of repentance. But none of them has become righteous through such humanistic mean, and their conscience bears witness that they still have sins.There is a lesson I learned from this: We the born again of water and the Spirit can also turn into heretics when we follow only the desires of our flesh. This is all too evident when we examine the life of Solomon. Solomon followed the desires of his flesh, he was a man of weak spirit as he failed to put up a fence in his heart. He let the door of his heart wide open to idols, material greed and the lust of his flesh, he is truly foolish. Here I learned an important lesson, we must set a definite mark between us and the idol worshippers. We must realize that we are the righteous, the chosen generation. We must live with such a pride everyday. We must draw a clear line of demarcation between us the people of God and those who belong to the synagogue of Satan. I can see that Solomon failed at this, he forgot that he belonged to a royal priesthood, the very nation that the oracle of God was committed to. Consequently, he was carried away by idolatry of the gentile nations, he was like a floating balloon in the air. If Solomon had put up a fence, he would have turned around even if he went astray momentarily like Samson. Even so, God appeared to him twice commanding him not to go after other gods. He considered himself immune from God`s commandment, this man desperately asked for God`s curses. He may be wise in carnal terms, spiritually speaking he is utterly foolish. He wasted his years on this earth, wouldn`t it be better if he was not born? The end of his life was full of regrets, If we follow his path, we will also end up with wounds and regrets in our heart.For the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, by having this event written down in the Bible God is teaching us to guide our hearts against idolatry. For us to avoid turning into heretics before God, we must instead examine the life of a faithful king like David, even though he was insufficient he relied only on God and followed Him in obedience to His will. We must continuously preach God`s righteousness to give everyone an opportunity to receive salvation. We must never give up on serving the gospel of the water and the Spirit no matter what. If we are to abandon this gospel to seek only material wealth and our fleshly desires, it is 100% possible that we will also turn into heretics in a short time. We must remember all that heretics will receive from God are rebukes and severe judgement.Even though today`s Christianity has been reduced to heretical organization, God does not want to leave them alone in their sin of idolatry. He wants them to turn around and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. If they continue to cling to their heretical faith till the end like Solomon, they will surely receive curses from God. Therefore, God has given us the gospel of the water and the Spirit to save all heretics. We must tell them how their leaders are leading them to the path of destruction. They have to learn from us how Jesus Christ worked with John the Baptist the representative of mankind to save us from the sins of the world. They need the gospel of the water and the Spirit.God has shown us the shadow of this gospel in the Old Testament. It is written in the Bible that Aaron the High Priest represented the whole congregation of Israel on the Day of Atonement, and laid his two hands on the head of the sacrificial animals and passed their yearly sins on the animals. Cut its throat and offer the blood to God. So through the laying of hands of the High Priests of the Old Testament and the sprinkling of blood of the sacrificial animals, God saved them from their sins. In the New Testament, God Himself left His throne of glory and came to save us from sins. At the age of 30, He was baptized by John the Baptist who represented everyone in the world and passed all our sins onto Him. At that moment all our sins disappeared and were transfered to the body of Jesus Christ instead, and He consequently received judgement for those sins by dying and shedding His blood on the Cross. This is the only true gospel that has power to save everyone from sins. As believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we have a duty to deliver heretics from the curses of God. It is a sad reality to learn that people living around us are all heretics, they all need this gospel of the water and the Spirit. Because these heretics do not know where to meet God properly, they are seeking God through signs and wonders. They are looking for Pentecostal experience, but they cannot receive the Holy Spirit in such a way. Can we meet God through mystical experiences? When I was in my former church, there were a couple of times I fell down under the so-called "anointing", I was rolling down on the floor and started speaking in tongues. I even got injured because I fell down on a concrete floor! I thought I had received the Holy Spirit. But I later found out despite the mystical experiences, sins still remain intact in my heart. This means I didn`t actually received the Holy Spirit but demons. Such thing is happening to other people now, we must show them the right way to meet God.After Elijah defeated the 850 prophets of Baal and Asherah and made his people to kill those false prophets, Jezebel the wife of Ahab was furious and sought to kill him.However, through the providence of God, Elijah was able to reach Mountain Horeb where He met God (1 Kings 19:1-21). It is written that great and strong wind came tearing mountains and breaking rocks in pieces, and yet God was not found in the wind. Then came an earthquake and God was not found in the earthquake, and then came fire and God was not found there either. After the fire came "a still small voice", there Elijah heard the Word of God! Elijah met God in a still small voice. Like this we can only meet God and receive the Holy Spirit through the Word of God. Those who have received the remission of sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit know how the Holy Spirit descended in their hearts gently, giving their hearts unspeakable serenity, peace and joy! We can only meet God through His Word. The only way to meet God properly is to believe in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit that wipes away our heart`s sins and not through mystical experiences propagated by leaders of heretics today.As believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, God has given us the task of healing the bad water with salt. In the Bible it is recorded that the people of Jericho came to Elisha with their problem. In 2 Kings 2:19, it`s written "Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren.” They acknowledged that their water is bad they however said that the city is pleasant. How can the city be pleasant when the water itself is bad? When the water of a city is bad, nothing good will ever come out of such a city. Crops and fruit trees can only bear fruit where the water is good. How can these people claim that their city is pleasant. Their city was actually awful! This is exactly what today`s Christians are saying to us. They say "We have the biggest churches in the world and our church buildings are magnificent, our pastors are well known. Our churches are all recognized by religious bodies. Though we still have sins in our hearts we are pleasant, we are the people of God. God will consider our faith in the blood of Jesus Christ alone and send us to heaven." These people are also wrong. When one has sins in his heart, no fruit of faith will ever be born out of it, nothing good will come of out a sinful heart.Elisha said to the people “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him." Elisha asked for a new bowl with salt in it not an old one, the people of Jericho needed a new bowl with salt in it. Heretics today also need new faith not the old wine in their old wineskins. As it written "Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ” So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke." (2 Kings 2:21-22).Elisha healed the bad water through the Word of God, and the water was not healed gradually as today`s Christians claim that their sins are forgiven each time they pray for forgiveness. The water was healed once and for all through the Word spoken by God`s servant. The gospel of the water and the Spirit is the salt in a new bowl that we are casting in the worldwide today, heretics must believe in it to receive the remission of their sins once and for all.I am praying and looking forward to seeing the moment when this gospel of water and the Spirit will cover the whole world and heal countless number of people.Amen!

    • Ndubuisi Okorie
    • Nigeria
    • 06/07/202369
  • No. 215

    My review of book 21 “The Relationship Between The Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in The Four G

    If we wish to believe in Jesus Christ properly, we must first know the ministry of John the Baptist. The role of John the Baptist is so important in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The ministry of John the Baptist bridged the gap between the Old Testament and New Testament. So it is wrong if we leave out the ministry of John the Baptist while believing in Jesus Christ. Through this book, everyone in the world will be able to know and believe in the ministry of John the Baptist, so that their faith in Jesus Christ will become fruitful. The simple reason why many Christians still have sins in their hearts even though they believe in Jesus Christ is because they did not know about the role of John the Baptist in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. These Christians belittle or completely ignore the duty John the Baptist fulfilled in the New Testament. It’s time for them to meet the Truth by reading this book John the Baptist and Jesus Christ together fulfilled the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God promised that He would send Elijah prior to the coming of His dreadful day (Malachi 3:5). And this Elijah is none other than John the Baptist. John the Baptist was sent from God the Father, he was born six months before the birth of Jesus Christ. And God filled him with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb. This is to enable him to fulfill his duty as the representative of the world and the Last High Priest that passed the sins of the world unto Jesus Christ, and to bear witness and turn the hearts of the people back God. Concerning John the Baptist, it’s written in Luke 1:77 “To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,” John the Baptist was the one who witnessed the way of salvation to us. After baptizing Jesus Christ, he saw Him the next day and witnessed “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” John could boldly tell people that Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God who received the sins of the world through the laying of his hands during baptism because he passed the sins of the world to the head of Jesus Christ through the baptism he gave to Him. Just like the priests in Old Testament passed the yearly sins of the people of Israel by laying their hands on the head of the sacrificial animals. John the Baptist could witnessed Jesus Christ boldly because he actually passed everyone’s sins to Jesus, even his own sins were passed unto Jesus. So John the Baptist had a first hand experience of his sins being passed onto Jesus Christ, he also experienced “the times of refreshing” (Acts 3:19) that all the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit experience from the moment we first encountered the gospel of the water and the Spirit. It means that John the Baptist himself also experienced how his own sins were transferred to Jesus Christ when he baptized Him. So in the very next day after he baptized Jesus, he said boldly “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” like John the Baptist, we the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are also bearing witness that the sins of the world were passed onto Jesus Christ because we have also seen how our own sins actually disappeared from our hearts after putting our faith in the baptism that John the Baptist gave Jesus. Therefore, it is written in the Bible that John the Baptist came to us in the way of righteousness, “For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him” (Matthew 21:32). This means that John the Baptist came in a way to make everyone righteous by baptizing Jesus Christ. All the sins of world went over to Jesus Christ when John baptized Him. So there is no longer any sins left in this world, Jesus has accepted them all through His baptism. During the time Jesus was in the world, only the tax collectors, harlots and sinners believed that their sins were passed to Jesus when John baptized Him. But Pharisees and Sadducees did not believe, because they could not let go their own human righteousness. Like this, the gospel of the water and the Spirit is accepted and believed by those who recognize their sinful selves. But those who do not know their sins, cannot but reject this gospel even if they come across it several times. God the Father sent both Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. Together these two servants fulfilled the gospel of the water and the Spirit in the New Testament. While John the Baptist is human being like everyone of us, Jesus Christ on the other hand is God Himself. He is not a creature but the Creator Himself, who was conceived in the flesh of man in AD 1 and was baptized at the age of 30 to have the sins of the world passed onto Him, and paid the price of the sins through His death on the Cross. Through the ministry of baptism that John the Baptist administered, the sins of world were transferred to Jesus Christ. The baptism John gave to Jesus Christ is different from the one he gave to the Israelites. Because Jesus Christ is God who has no sins, He could not receive the same baptism that the people of Israel received from the hand of John the Baptist at the Jordan River while confessing their sins. Jesus had no sins to confess because He has not committed any sins. When He was teaching the people He asked “Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?”(John 8:46), no one could convict Jesus of any sins not even Pilate! When Jesus Christ was brought up to the court of Pilate, after examining the case, Pilate said to them, “You have brought this Man to me, as one who misleads the people. And indeed, having examined Him in your presence, I have found no fault in this Man concerning those things of which you accuse Him;”(Luke 23:24). Like this, Jesus Christ had no sins to receive the same baptism that the people of Israel received from the hand of John the Baptist. His baptism is completely different, His baptism was the one that allows the righteousness of God to be fulfilled. His baptism made it possible for everyone to be without sins. All of us must know the relationship between the ministry of both Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. Only when we properly grab their ministry can we be truly be saved from sins. The faith that believes only in the blood of Jesus Christ while leaving out the baptism that John the Baptist gave Him is a false faith that turns Christianity into religion one’s own making. True faith is the one that believes in both the baptism that John the Baptist gave to Jesus and the blood He shed on the Cross as well as His resurrection. If Christians scattered around the world would read this book they would be able to believe in Jesus Christ by first understanding the ministry of John the Baptist. God sent His messenger who prepared the way of salvation before the Lord, that messenger is John the Baptist, he was the one that cried out in the wilderness for the people of Israel to abandon their idols and return to the true Jehovah God. He turned the hearts of the disobedient people of Israel back to God, just as the Elijah of Old Testament single-handedly defeated 850 heathen prophets of Baal and Asherah at Mt. Carmel and turned the hearts of the Israelites back to Jehovah God. Through John the Baptist, all sinners could properly meet their true Saviour and receive the remission of their sins. I hope and pray that those who still do not know the ministry of John the Baptist while believing in Jesus Christ blood of the Cross, would come to know the ministry of John the Baptist that passed the sins of the world onto the body of Jesus Christ by reading this book. We all could also experience that times of refreshing that come from the presence of the Lord by passing all our hearts sins onto Jesus Christ through our faith in His baptism! Amen!

    • Ndubuisi Okorie
    • Nigeria
    • 05/17/202381
  • No. 214

    Mr.

    The Primitive Gospel That Can Overcome The Sins of the World Page 351-352 "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.” We must believe that our God of righteousness is the God of faith. Therefore, since faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, Hebrews 11:1, then we must believe that God has given us this faith to overcome the all our personal sins of Mark 7:20-23 by believing the gospel of atonement of sins to defeat the Devil to live a victorious life through believing the gospel Word of atonement of sins fulfilled by Jesus. This means that if you believe in Jesus emotionally due to feelings while excluding the gospel Word of the “water” of the baptism of Jesus, you can not be saved from all your personal sins. For this reason, Apostle John said in 1 John 5:5-10 that the faith that overcomes the world is the faith placed in the water, the blood, and the Spirit. God the Father had placed all the wages of our sins to Jesus. This is because the wages of sin is death of the sinner; so God commanded that Jesus must bear the death of all men, for God loves all men without precondition, because all men are masses of sin. This why God Himself incarnated into the world in the body of Jesus, and accepted the sins of the human race through the baptism He received in the Jordan River, shouldered all the sins of the world on His body, shed His blood on the Cross, and in this way paid off all the wages of sins of mankind with His baptism and blood. For us to overcome this world, the sins we are born with, we must believe in the gospel of the baptism and blood of Jesus for the remission of sins from the heart. The only faith that enabled us the born-again to overcome this world is the faith that’s placed in the gospel Word fulfilled by the baptism and blood of Jesus, our assured Saviour. If you believe in the gospel of the baptism and blood of Jesus, the gospel of the atonement of the atonement of sins, then your faith will be approved by God; but if you otherwise have no faith in this gospel Word of the baptism and blood of Jesus, then you have not reached salvation yet. Both the baptism of Jesus and Hus blood were indispensable for the atonement of all the sins of the world that Jesus made on this earth, and therefore if you do not believe in either one of them, then far from being saved from all the sins of the world, you will fall into destruction. That is why we call the gospel of the baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross as the gospel of the atonement of sins. Almost all Christians believe in Jesus’ Cross alone, but for you to be truly born again, faith in the baptism that Jesus received from John the Baptist is also absolutely indispensable.

    • Samuel Akpabio
    • United Kingdom
    • 05/14/202330
  • No. 213

    The Blessings that follows the Obedience to God’s command

    The Blessings that follows the Obedience to God’s command This is illustrated in the following scripture: Now the LORD had said to Abram:“Get out of your country,From your familyAnd from your father’s house,To a land that I will show you.2. I will make you a great nation;I will bless youAnd make your name great;And you shall be a blessing.3. I will bless those who bless you,And I will curse him who curses you;And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”4. So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and lot went with him. And Abram was seventy -five years old when he departed from Harlan.Then Abram took Sarai his wife and lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Harlan, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.”   We notice here that it was the obedience to the command given by God to Abram that led to the manifestation of all the promises given by God to Abram. At this point, his name had not been changed, so it was the beginning of the testing that would lead to finally his name being changed by a Covenant between God and him.Likewise, when we compare this to the Word of God in John 3:3-5, ‘Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.’” This means that unless one is born again, he cannot understand the righteousness of in the Kingdom of God or the righteousness of Jesus Christ.‘Nicodemus said Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’”Here we realise that Nicodemus was not verse in spiritual truth; for the Lord was telling him that the soul needed to have a good conscience through being born spiritually of God from Heaven.Then the Lord answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.”Here the Lord has given a parable which all in this world must believe as Abram believed God, from the main passages above. We must believe into the heart, the Word of John 3:5 as it is written so that understanding of it will manifest as we look at the baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:13-17, and to understand the doctrine of Christ in given through Apostle Peter in 1 Peter 3:21, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism(not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Here Peter tells us that the baptism of Jesus, resulted in us, by faith, were baptised into His death and resurrection, because as the Lord also was raised to life by the Father through the Spirit. For all New Testament churches must believe the Word of His power, John 3:5 in order to receive the understanding of the mystery of the salvation of the soul which God had finished before He rested kn the seventh day from His works. Likewise, our Lord finished all His works, and declared, “it is finished” and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, with power and authority in Heaven and earth, and all of the Universe, and gave us the gospel of the water and the Spirit; for us to bring others in in all the nations to believe and to enter the Kingdom of God in the heart, in spirit, because Jesus has solved all the problems of sins in the heart such that we only need to accept the truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and become the priests, saints, servants and the children of God.Returning to the main passages of the scripture, it was the obedience of Abram that preceded the Covenant of faith between God and him.We only have to ruminate in the blessings that we’re promised to Abram of which believers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit have also inherited, because of the obedience of Jesus Christ to wash away all the sin of the world with His water of His baptism and blood and give us the Holy Spirit that indwells our hearts; for He is our Helper and Comforter in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and witnesses the truth in our hearts or conscience and leads us walk in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.Abram also was weak in the flesh as we are, though we are saved from the condemnation of sin; for in Romans 3:23, it written, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But Abram became the father of faith, through his obedience to the Word of God , despite his weakness as a men as we also are weak in the flesh but have received our sinless lives in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Because of our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit we have become the priests of God, and are called to spread this gospel to all nations. We have inherited the same blessings shown shown in the main passages through our faith in the water and blood and the Spirit; for the Spirit witnesses the truth in our hearts, because the Spirit is truth. This blessings are not available to those who reject the truth of gospel of the water and the Spirit, because they are idol worshippers who walk in the ways and practice of Balaam.

    • Samuel Akpabio
    • United Kingdom
    • 04/16/2023101