Return From the Nicene Creed to THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT

Hi, everyone.

I can hardly express how informative, how important and how precious this latest book by Paul C Jong is for me and, I believe, for the entire population of the world!

Reading Book 69, "Return From the Nicene Creed to THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT", has affected me profoundly and deeply.

Living in this age of AI, it has become more difficult to discern what`s true and what`s not, what`s real and what`s fake. Many people now "want receipts" to demand to know the authenticity of what they`re seeing and reading online.

So, I believe this latest book by Paul C Jong will be treasured by salvation truth seekers who demand the veracity of God’s Word over deception using God’s Word.

I found learning all about the Nicene Creed, who made it, when it was established and the reasons for it, fascinating even though normally I tend to dislike historical dates and events.

Here`s my very brief layman`s understanding of the Nicene Creed. It was a set of beliefs established by Emperor Constantine of Rome (and other religious leaders) in A.D. 325.

It was made because they wanted to address theological disputes—particularly the Arian controversy concerning the nature and divinity of Jesus Christ—and to promote unity within the Roman Empire.

The Creed affirms Jesus` incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and future return.

However, the baptism of Jesus which was how and when all the sins of the world were transferred onto Him, was left out of the Creed. In other words, the gospel of the water and the Spirit believed and taught by all the Apostles and the Early Church, was not included in this doctrinal summary. The baptism of Jesus was omitted. The complete link of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit—“Baptism–Cross–Resurrection”—was broken and replaced with institutionalized Catholic doctrines of only the cross and the resurrection.

Without the starting point of salvation, Jesus` baptism, the actual event of how Jesus specifically received the sins of humanity, it prevented Christians from having faith in it which in turn, kept them in the state of sinners unable to be washed of their sins!

That is why, in this amazing book, through various contrasts of belief, laying bare man-made flawed teachings and outright deceptions, Paul C. Jong shows through the Scriptures that when we believe in Jesus—who was baptized by John, received the sins of the world transferred onto Himself, died on the Cross, and rose again from the dead—as our Savior, apart from church traditions or religious forms, we will receive salvation.

I enjoyed the different style of writing in Sermon 2, where Paul C. Jong is referred to in the third person, contrasting three differing beliefs about how one receives the indwelling of the Holy Spirit: Watchman Nee`s, Paul C. Jong’s, and the Catholic Church`s.

Just as the author has always stated in all his books, he emphasizes that receiving the Holy Spirit is not earned through human effort, asceticism, emotional experience, or merits such as fasting or repentance prayers (which is what the aforementioned parties believe), but rather, since Jesus already took the sins of the world upon His body through baptism by John the Baptist and completed our salvation by dying on the Cross and resurrecting, he states that the Holy Spirit is bestowed as a gift when a person accepts and believes this (the gospel of the water and the Spirit) in their heart.

And I found myself nodding and smiling gently when he added, "At that moment, the true peace given by God comes upon the heart." I could also testify to his saying, "Even after receiving the remission of sins, when one stands upon the faith in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit and lives in the guidance and communion of the Holy Spirit, that peace continues to be sustained." Amen! This peace from God has permeated every nook and cranny of my life since I received the remission of sins no matter difficulties of life occur .

I remember how I felt when I was only halfway through the preface of this book; I had to stop for a minute and give thanks to God, for I just knew that this book was something very special. I was awestruck. Now, again, as I was reading Sermon 3, it was paragraph after paragraph about the universe, scientific facts and figures, and theories held by names such as Galileo and Newton — the only two names I had heard of. I thought it was a clever and impactful way of hitting the nail on the head in showing us that just as people were wrong all those years ago in their theories about the universe, so now also people must accept that they have been wrong in their belief in only the blood of Jesus without the water of His baptism, too.

Further on in the book, referring to the well-known "wide gate and narrow gate," the author neatly sums them up by saying, "The wide gate is the way centered on man, while the narrow gate is the way centered on God. The wide gate depends on works and effort, but the narrow gate is based on faith and grace."

He states plainly and unequivocally that "the source of salvation lies not in human works, but in the righteousness of God completed in the baptism and the Cross of Jesus Christ."

The protagonists in all 69 books by Paul C. Jong are Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. Those who have truly been born again of water and the Spirit by reading his books understand and appreciate that the repetitiveness of his writing about them is very necessary and appreciated. But Sermon 7, in debunking the commonly believed "John the Baptist was a failure" statement, provided, in my opinion, an "extra layer" about John and his special God-given role of transferring the sins of mankind onto Jesus by baptizing Him. I think it was written beautifully — poetic even. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I very much liked this true statement:

"The moment you mistakenly regard John the Baptist as a failure, you become someone who loses the ladder that allows one to cross over to the Gospel of salvation that saves us from the curse of the Law."

Reading this book has taken me on a journey that I intend to take again and again. In parts, I travelled back in history, uncovering dark secrets that have been hidden in plain sight. I was introduced to pioneers, scholars, and world-renowned scientists. I was reintroduced to my predecessors and elders who had courageously passed down the beautiful faith of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, preserved intact by God despite the Nicene Creed, and having thereby disappeared into the back alleys of religion for a time. This book truly has something for everyone.

The penmanship of this Book 69 is second to none. In parts, it has rebuked me for my spiritual complacency. Like a defibrillator, it has shocked me out of my spiritual lethargy. But more than anything, it has humbled me and made me even more thankful for the gospel of the water and the Spirit given to us by God.

I find that the book is written respectfully and fairly. It manages to lay everything out clearly and simply for the reader to understand despite the sheer amount of intricate knowledge contained within its pages.

In closing, I`d like to copy and paste a few of the author`s quotes from the final Sermon 15, that I found immensely powerful and memorable:

"The Bible does not raise its voice, but it speaks clearly. Jesus Christ came by water and blood and the Spirit."

"Therefore, the Lord asks, “Who gave you the right to cut off God’s testimony?” The gospel that God testified of is one, and God testified of His Son with the water, the blood, and the Spirit, and He did not separate their testimonies.

But people have created a blood without water, a salvation without the Spirit, and a doctrine without the event."

Referring to the perfectly titled, "Return From the Nicene Creed to THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT, he writes:

"God speaks clearly. He warns that if you do not return today, tomorrow will become heavier, and if you hear and let it pass by today, you may not hear this voice next time.

God is long-suffering, but He does not wait endlessly. The door is open, but it is not open forever. Therefore, He says to return now. When your heart is still pricked, when this word is still uncomfortable, when you cannot yet bring yourself to hate the truth—that is the very time to return."

In reference to Jesus` baptism in Matthew 3:15-17 that was omitted from the Nicene Creed, he says:

"This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

That joy was not something that arose after the cross, but a joy that began from the very moment the sin was transferred.""

"He tells you to return to the Jordan River. He invites you to return to that place where sin was finished, to that place where judgment is already over. There, a person will finally come to know salvation. Even now, God is speaking. He is calling you to return. And He waits, hoping that this call will not be the last one for a person."

Amen

I cannot recommend this book highly enough!

God`s peace and love to you.

God bless Paul C. Jong.

Sarah Nartey, UK