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We have no Goodness of our Own before God

  • Kelvin Bwalya
  • Zambia
  • 1350
  • 01/25/2024

English 1

HAVE YOU TRULY BEEN BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT? [New Revised Edition]

Rev. Paul C. Jong

  • ISBN9788928261482
  • עמודים369
  • דֵרוּג

Before I came to read pastor Jong`s book "Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?" I lived a kind of Christian life in which I believed I had the goodness in me that could fight sin, no matter how much I would commit sin, I still believed I could fight sin through my personal sacrifices and with every effort I tried to bring to life whatever good it is I felt that I had inside of me.
After realizing how more of my sins were being revealed, I made a covenant with myself that the day I will ever commit such and such a sin let God kill me; but with that same arrogant covenant made, I still found myself falling in the same sins over and over again no matter how much I fasted and prayed isolating myself from the world.
But God met me with the truth by letting me know how an evil being I truly was before Him when I started reading the book "Have You Truly been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?", I came to fully understand that I had no slightest ability in me to overcome sin, that all that humankind must do is to admit his filthy nature before God and that his fate is hell.
I finally came to see my true self through God`s word in mark 7 as Jesus exposed me to the core and realized truly that was my very nature and I felt it in my heart that truly I was this evil and filthy; I was pricked in my heart and came to believe that indeed mankind was a wicked being.
I can today admit that we human beings have no Goodness of our own; we are such beings who will keep spilling sins until we die, sin can never be suppressed by our own will or efforts.
It is because we are such wicked people that truly we need the saviour to escape from sin and it`s dominion, and Jesus who has come by the water and the Spirit has saved us from sin by Baptism and His blood of atonement.
We must admit our nature before God and receive the truth of Jesus` Baptism and Bloodshed in our hearts in order to enjoy everlasting peace in our hearts and escape from the torment of sin.
I am full of joy today and will remain joyful for all times after realizing that the sins I struggled with all those years were passed onto Jesus through Baptism and that he paid with His blood; this Jesus did because He knew I couldn`t fight sin on my own; rather I was to be cast into hell fire for all eternity, but Jesus saved a wretched being like me by water and blood faithfully and justly. Hallelujah