The title of this book is "WHAT DID WE BELIEVE TO RECEIVE THE REMISSION OF SINS?" This book is teaching us that there is certain Truth we must learn and believe in to receive the remission of sins. In other words, we must not believe arbitrarily according to our own thoughts. We must believe according to the Word of God. True faith must start from knowing who Jesus Christ is. Jesus Christ is God Himself, this is the first step towards having a proper faith. Those who believed in Jesus Christ without first having this faith are all bound to fall as devil will turn them into his toys to be used and dumped.
I was once on taxi to home, on our way I handed over one of our books to the taxi man. He looked at it and turned his head back and told me he only reads Bible. I was curious so I went ahead and told him that we must follow God`s servant whom He raised to avoid falling into false doctrines. I told him that some people do not believe according to the Word of God because they try to learn everything by themselves without waiting for God`s guidance through His appointed servant. I told him that some Christians don`t believe that Jesus Christ is God Himself. He reacted immediately, that Jesus Christ is not God, that He is just the Son of God.
Actually I never knew that this taxi driver was a Jehovah Witness. It was at end of the conversation that he revealed that he was a member of the Jehovah Witness. I asked him in the book of Genesis, God said "Let Us make man in Our own image" Who are the people He was refering to when He said "Us" and "Our"? He said I should know that angels have been created before man (indirectly insinuating that God was referring to angels). So I asked "Are angels then made in the likeness of the image of God?" Apart from man, no other creatures were made in the likeness of the image of God. However this man faithfully hold onto his own thoughts, he didn`t turn around from his mistaken belief, consequently he could not take a second glance at a book that contains the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
Like this, if someone does not believe that Jesus Christ is God, he cannot believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Even if he does believe in it, such faith cannot have healthy root, it will be a spineless faith. Such a faith is built on sand that is bound to collapse under a wind. The faith that Jesus is God forms the stump and root of our faith. Even among the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, if anyone doesn`t believe in Jesus as God, he will abandon this gospel of the water and the Spirit when he falls into spiritual troubles while serving this gospel. And he cannot receive the answers to his prayers. What gives force to our prayers is the faith that Jesus Christ is God, that He has all power to help and protect us. Those who have this faith will fly like an eagle, they will run and will not get tired. Because our God Jesus Christ will renew their strength and helps them in every step of their lives.
The faith that Jesus Christ is God Himself forms the foundation of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. In John 3:5 it`s written "Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." The water means He was baptized to receive our sins onto Himself and the Spirit means He is God Himself who came in the flesh of man. It means that Jesus Christ was seen in appearance as a man but in the Spirit He is fundamentally God Himself. Like this, Jesus said no one can enter Heaven without faith in His Divinity. It`s very important that we have this faith, that`s only way to overcome the world and Satan. Also through many miracles and signs, Jesus showed His disciples that He is God Himself. He wanted them to have this faith because without the faith they will turn into empty shell and chaff that will be blown away so easily by the trickery of the devil.
Jesus Christ is our Saviour God, He is God who momentarily left His glory and became a man to save us. He saved us through His baptism and bloodshed on the Cross. We cannot be saved through our own efforts, we must rather believed in what Jesus has done for us. Many Christians believed that their sins can be forgiven when they say their daily prayers of repentance and do some good deeds. It is like saying that a paralytic can stand up by his own efforts, a paralytic might think "I will get up now, I think there is strength in me." When he tries to get up, he finds out his limps can`t even make a significant move. We are like this paralytic, no matter how much we try we can`t help ourselves. It is Jesus Christ who healed us the paralytic with the gospel of the water and the Spirit. For our sins to be blotted out from our hearts we must believe in Jesus Christ our Saviour God who came through His baptism at the Jordan River and blood on the Cross.
We are the ones who are in need of His help and mercy. He does not need any sacrifice from us, instead He wants to have mercy on us because we are pitiable to Him like a paralytic who has given up on his efforts to get up and said "God help me, I can only be helped if You help me. Help me Lord." Everyone must realise that he is a paralytic who cannot do anything by himself and seek the salvation of God. From this book, I learned what kind of sins we must not commit before God. We must not commit the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Christians all over the world must stop committing this deadly sins. This sin is so great that it can never be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come. This sin is the very sin of rejecting this gospel of the water and the Spirit which Jesus Christ fulfilled for us and refusing to believe in it.
Some Christians do not even believe in the ministry of John the Baptist, because of this they cannot reach Jesus Christ. John the Baptist is the servant of God raised by God to pass the sins of the world unto the body of Jesus Christ through the baptism he gave to Jesus Christ. Without the ministry of John the Baptist, we can never meet Jesus. Those that stand against this ministry of John the Baptist that passed the sins of the world unto Jesus are committing the very blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Sinners must cease from hurting God`s heart by refusing to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This unforgivable is committed by sinners. The righteous do not commit this kind of sin. For it is written in 1 John 3:9 "Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God." The righteous cannot commit this blasphemy against the Holy Spirit as long as they hold onto this gospel of the water and the Spirit, but any righteous man who forsakes this gospel of the water and the Spirit will be committing this sin with the sinners of this world.
Therefore, we must keep this gospel with all diligence. For us the righteous to keep our faith, we must continuously serve this gospel in any way or form. If we do don`t serve this gospel of the water and the Spirit, our minds will be corrupted in no time and be seized by sins and consequently our hearts will be captured by false doctrines. This is reason why when a believer`s conscience is deadened due sins, he will start having false faith and fall into heresies. This is how people betray their true faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This will inevitably happen to those who do not serve God and the gospel of the water and the Spirit from their heart, these are those whose faith and service are halfhearted. This set of people are indecisive, they do not know whether they should serve this gospel of the water and the Spirit or the world. We must resolve our hearts to serve this gospel because Satan is looking for an opportunity devour us and have our faith crumbled down.
Fellow co-workers we must guide our hearts, the world is coming to an end. We must not allow our insufficiencies to suffocate our faith. We must renew our hearts always by meditating on the gospel, thanking Jesus Christ and praying to Him. If we don`t serve this gospel even for a moment, our thoughts will be surrounded by all kinds of filthy thoughts. Have you not experienced this before? I have experienced it. If we are seized by these fleshly thoughts and fail to overcome them, our souls will be cut off from the sunlight. This is the reason we must serve this gospel of the water and the Spirit continuously even though we are weak and insufficient. As long as believe in and serve this gospel our insufficiencies and weaknesses are all tolerable. Fellow saints, we have to serve this gospel of the water and the Spirit because we are the ones who have been given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God.
