Hello. Today I will be reviewing Paul C Jong’s Book number one, the New Revised Edition, titled, `Have you truly been born again of water and the Spirit?`
I read this book and accepted into my heart God’s salvation of the water and the Spirit when I had just begun college. I had no previous Christian doctrines to compare this to, I wasn`t well equipped with Scripture, and I wasn`t raised going to Church.
Thankfully, I believed in my heart the Word of Truth explained so clearly in this book.
On completing the book, I was able to confess, "Yes, God. This is who I really am before you, according to Your Word, a sinner heading to hell for my sins."
As I began to make my way through Paul C Jong’s Book series, I started to comprehend more and more, about God’s heart intention toward mankind. What`s
more, for the first time, I came face to face with my sinful nature recognised through God`s Law.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
Since we have all sinned, we are all destined to hell, and are all equally guilty before God. No one is more sinful or less sinful than anyone else. But thanks be to the tender mercy of God which has saved us from our hell-boud state.
The first thing God did to save mankind was to send John the Baptist to this earth six months before sending Jesus Christ.
"And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest;
For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways" (Luke 1:76).
John the Baptist, born from the lineage of Aaron the High Priest in the Old Testament, came to this world, lived a separate life in the wilderness until he appeared to baptize Jesus in the Jordan River. Before reading book one, I did not know the significance of the role of John the Baptist, nor of the momentous importance of Jesus` baptism in relation to my salvation.
However, now I understand and believe in the complete salvation of the water and the Spirit. Jesus received all the sins of the world when John the Baptist laid his hands on the head of Jesus and transferred over onto Him all the sins of the world. Jesus then, as the Lamb of God, having now borne our sins at His baptism, carried them to the Cross, atoned for them, shed all of His blood and rose from the dead. This is the perfect and complete gospel of the water and the Spirit.
"Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)
This mystery is not preached in mainstream Christianity, but it is the
mystery of the Kingdom of God revealed to those who are truly searching for the Truth.
"You will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29).
I am grateful to God that I accepted this simple, yet life-saving, Truth into my heart.
Before God, I, nor any human being should argue or protest their innocence. We are debauched human beings. We simply need only to look at our own lives, the pain and suffering we have inflicted on others and the hurt we have endured ourselves at the hands of our fellow man. Moreover, human history is full of wars and atrocities that have afflicted our entire existence.
There is absolutely no good in any of us at all.
That is why we should grab hold of the gospel of the water and the Spirit with our whole heart the moment we hear it and then believe in it. There is nothing else in this world more precious, and nothing more that we should prioritise above our salvation.
Life is full of uncertainty, pain and suffering and deception. Then the end is hell eternal for those who refuse to accept the love of God through the remission of their sins.
Why would you pass on this wonderful blessing from God?
I am happy to be amongst the righteous, the ones who have cast aside everything to embrace the love of God.
"Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ" (Philippians 3:8).
I encourage you to read this book and prepare your faith for the eternal life now. Your faith will determine whether you are judged for your sins and go to hell for not believing in the baptism of Jesus, or if you have passed all your sins and judgement onto Jesus by believing in His baptism and thereby enter Heaven.
"Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love" (Ephesians 1:4).
God has chose us in Him through the love of His salvation. It is free for all to believe in and claim for themselves. You need not go to hell for your sins. Believe in the love of the Lord today, read this book and spread the gospel to your family, loved ones and the whole world.
"He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love" (Colossians 1:13).
Thank you for listening to my review on the Revised edition of Book One, titled, `Have you truly been born again of water and the Spirit?` God bless you all.
