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Return to The Gospel of the Water and the Spirit

  • Sarah Nartey
  • United Kingdom
  • 4600
  • 06/05/2022
RETURN TO THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT [New Revised Edition]

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RETURN TO THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT [New Revised Edition]

Rev. Paul C. Jong

  • ISBN9788928261925
  • Halaman355
  • Penilaian

Hi,
I’d like to tell you about a book called, “Return to The Gospel of the Water and the Spirit” by Paul C. Jong.
Because I had already read Paul C Jong’s first book, “Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?”, I had no reservations in reading this Book 2. Although pre- Paul C Jong’s book 1, I was one of those people who said, “I don’t read people’s books, I only read the Holy Bible.”
Book 2 is jam-packed with important knowledge regarding terms and phrases which, although I may have heard of them before, I hadn’t ever understood what they meant. Nor had any minister at my old church, taught or preached about them. 
So, let’s begin. I must say, I love how throughout Paul C Jong’s books, he repeatedly, and I do mean, repeatedly, writes precisely, without a shadow of a doubt, what the gospel of the water and the Spirit, is. He writes, “The true gospel is that Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, came to this world in the flesh of man and was baptized by the representative of humankind, John the Baptist at the Jordan river. He took away all the sins of the world, carried them to the Cross and was crucified to save all people from their sins and final judgement” I love it, because after all, this is all still relatively new to me. So, I was grateful to keep reading what the true gospel of the water and the Spirit meant. And this was only still the preface!
The book was saying that to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, is to have the same faith as the disciples! I found this mind-blowing! Me, having the same faith as the disciples! WOW! 
I was happy to see straight away in Sermon 1 that there were bubbles like how Book 1 had, a short Q & A.  
I read, “If one is to be born again, one generally has to believe in Jesus twice first. First one tends to believe in Jesus in a religious way, recognizing his sins through the Law of God. The first time someone believes in Jesus, it is through the Law of God and the realization of what a terrible sinner he really is”. This was spot on! “Anyone who believes in Jesus as a religion will end up empty handed. He will be left with a heart full of sin, chaos and emptiness. Isn’t this the truth?” Yes! I heard myself saying out loud, “Yes it IS!” All three descriptions resonated with me; “left with a heart full of sin, chaos and emptiness”! This book was like a mind reader who could see right into my soul! It went on to explain that the one who believed in Jesus religiously like that would “end up as a phony, trying hard to appear holy before everyone but failing miserably” Yes! I now understood how and why everyone else at my old church APPEARED holy, yet I felt miserable and ashamed! Oh wow, I’m so glad I left when I did! I’d hate to be a phony or a hypocrite like the Pharisees as the book was explaining. 
The book spoke of the Day of Atonement and how it married up with the gospel of redemption in the New Testament; Leviticus 16:29 and Matthew 3:15. Wonderful! The only thing I remembered about the Day of Atonement as a child was that it was the feast day that I disliked the most because we couldn’t eat anything for a whole day! In fact, I couldn’t understand why it was called a “feast” day when there was no food to eat! Anyway, now I was happy to learn what this special day really meant. Now I could understand what a very special day it was because the Israelites received the remission of their sins for the whole year, and in the New Testament today, we receive the remission of our lifelong sins once and for all by believing Jesus’ baptism took away all the sins of the world and His blood atoned for them. There is a diagram in the book which shows this clearly. In fact, all the illustrations in the books are extremely helpful in teaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit. As the saying goes, “A picture paints a thousand words”
“If you believe in the gospel of the baptism of Jesus and His blood, you are without sin in your heart” The more I kept hearing these words, the more I liked hearing them. I was feeling happy, really happy: a “happy” that I had never felt before! I know I cried tears of joy when I read Book 1 and read that Jesus had taken away all my sins through His baptism. But now I was learning about it in more depth and detail. 
In Sermon 2 I learnt what the word “Heretic” means and how I had actually been a heretic before believing in the true gospel of the water and the Spirit because I had had sin in my heart even though I’d believed in Jesus. It was the correct name for who I had been. I was happy to learn this word that I had never heard of before. 
I really enjoyed reading about Jeroboam in 1 Kings 12 and 13 and how denominations were formed. I knew I was learning very important things through this book, things I hadn’t even had to leave the comfort of my home and attend classes or enrol on a college course to learn! Nor had attending church for many years taught me anything. Let alone how to solve the problem of my sins and be saved from hell! Nothing. But these books had, 100% and they had penetrated deep inside heart and mind. No one could ever take my beautiful, precious salvation away; the gospel of the water and the Spirit. As the book said, it is a special blessing from God.
Through the book I was learning all about the Passover, not how we used to “keep it” at church! No. I was learning what circumcision meant, spiritual circumcision which implies the cutting off of sins from one’s heart which happens by having faith in Jesus’ baptism and blood.  
The book delves deeper into the Sacrificial laying on of hands, and how John the Baptist was the representative of mankind and the last high priest according to the lineage of Aaron. All essential things to know in relation to our own salvation.
I absolutely loved reading pages 155-158! It was about Paul C Jong’s own testimony! I loved it because it resonated so much with my own testimony. I won’t speak of it. I prefer you to read it for yourself. It’s beautiful. 
Again, I read about the correct confession for a sinner to make, and the correct confession for the born again. The book explained why God said that He loved Jacob and hated Esau. I’d always just read over parts in the Bible that I didn`t understand. Afterall, there was no one who knew the answers because they were never preached in my church. 
The book covers predestination, divine election, why God loved Jacob but hated Esau, lawlessness, the Book of Life, righteousness, the changed priesthood, the meaning of the fig leaves Adam and Eve covered themselves with in the garden of Eden. If I were to touch on every precious topic of this book, I would have written a book also! Instead, I will just say, “Return to the gospel of the Water and the Spirit” is a fountain of very important knowledge which no one can know in and of themselves. Of this I am certain. 
I must mention the fantastic story in the book about a man named Chudal Bae in relation to the incorrect understanding and the correct meaning of what the Sabbath day is! Even years after I had left my old church (because I couldn’t carry on feeling like a sinner hypocrite, even though I now know through Paul C Jong’s books that that’s exactly what I had turned into by believing in Jesus while still having sin in my heart: in other words, before I was born again of water and the Spirit by believing in the true message in his books), I still devotedly thought that my they kept the true sabbath day; Saturday. But the spiritual meaning of what the Sabbath day is, has absolutely nothing to do with any day of the week, per se! What a revelation this was to me! 
The last bubble I remember reading said, “Why are the born again unafraid of the end of the world? Because their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit makes them free of sin” Amen! Hallelujah! My old fears of the end of the world coming, or of dying and being sent to hell, were constantly and I do mean constantly, in my mind. I could never silence that dread no matter what I did, to try. But here I was now, years after I thought I had really “give up believing in God” unafraid like the book said! How on earth has this happened?  I’ll gladly tell you …. I read a book called, “Return to the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit” … and I believed every single word of Truth! 
I thank Paul C Jong. 
I thank God. 
I pray you will do too.
Sarah Nartey, UK