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נושא 1: לידה מחדש מהמים והרוח

1-6. Can our sin be washed away by praying for repentance?

Our sins can never be washed away by prayer and repentance because redemption can never come through our own works. Rather, in order to be washed of our sins completely and permanently, we have to believe in the baptism and the blood of Jesus and that Jesus is God. True redemption is given to those who believe that Jesus washed away our sins by being baptized and bleeding on the Cross to give us new life. 
Then can we wash away daily sins by praying for repentance? No. All the sins we commit in our lives were already washed away almost 2000 years ago when Jesus took them away with His baptism. We were forever cleansed of all our sins with the baptism of Jesus and the shedding of His blood on the Cross. He became the sacrificial Lamb for us believers, washed away all our sins with His baptism and paid for them all with His blood on the Cross.
Even the sins we commit after believing in Jesus have to be washed away in the spring of salvation of baptism, the truth of redemption; Jesus has already become our Savior and He has taken away all the sins we commit until the day of our death. Jesus came to this world and was baptized “for thus” (Matthew 3:15) and fulfilled all righteousness by taking away all our sins. The Son of God took charge of our sins by being baptized. 
The baptism of Jesus has the meaning of “to be washed.” Because all our sins were passed on to Jesus when He was baptized, we were completely washed of our sins and that set us free from all our sins. 
Baptism also means ‘to be immersed, to be buried.’ Because all our sins were passed on to Jesus, He died for us sinners. And those who believe that all sin was passed on to Jesus through His baptism become clean forever. 
True faith is to believe in our hearts that all our sins, even the sins we commit now, were passed on to Jesus about 2000 years ago when He took away all our sins and ‘for thus’ fulfilled the righteousness of God. 
If He had not washed away our sins all those years ago with His baptism, there would now be no way for us to wash away our own sins. Remember that all our sins were washed away by Jesus a long time ago. 
True faith and spiritual salvation today means bringing our sins before Jesus to make sure that they have been washed away, saying, ‘Lord, You have washed away this sin too, haven’t You?’ and to believe in Him and thank Him. That is why He came, was baptized, and died on the Cross and was then resurrected after 3 days; thus becoming our Savior. 
Blessed are those who wash away their sins and believe in the baptism of Jesus, which washed away all our sins. This is the truth of being washed of daily sins. True faith is to believe in Jesus who took away all the sins of the world through His baptism.
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