No. 195

Have you truly been born again of water and the Spirit, by Paul C Jong

  Hi,I would like to tell you about an amazing book entitled, "Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?" By Paul.C.Jong.As with all books, I always turn to the back of the book, the blurb to read what the book is about. And this book said, "The message in this book washed away all my sins."Wow! What a huge statement! I was sceptical but I really hoped it was true.I began reading the preface, the first paragraph read, "God, when He created the Heavens and the Earth in the beginning also created the eternal worlds Heaven and Hell." Great! straight to the point. This grabbed my attention. I wanted to go to Heaven but I knew I was heading for Hell due to the sins I had in my heart and my conscience was so guilty and ashamed before God.That's the very reason that I'd quit attending the church I'd grown up in from a very early age. I was so tried of feeling like a hypocrite, I was weary of praying to God and asking Him to forgive my sins I'd committed, because in no time at all I'd committed them all again. I had wicked thoughts too, and I knew that God knows everything so He knew all about my wicked thoughts too! I wanted to run away and hide from God but of course I couldn't do that. That was impossible. So I thought the very least I could do was to stop going to church and pretending to be something I was not. Other people at the church seemed to be happy and holy. Perhaps they didn't sin as much as I did or maybe I was just an evil person. Either way I had to give up, give up going to church and give up believing in God because I just couldn't do it any longer.  So back to the book-Heaven and Hell. I really hoped this book was going to do what it claimed to do on the back of the back of the book and wash away all my sins. The first thing that I noticed about the book and was really glad of, was that it was really clear and easy to read. I was grateful for this because I had expected it to be really complicated like I would have to study really hard to understand it. But no, this book was really easy to read. In fact, I didn't want to put the book down because I was learning so much already. It was explaining what being a sinner actually means. It explained how all human beings were born with 12 kinds of sins in our hearts from even in our mothers womb. I never knew this before. It means that everybody was born equal before God. The book was explaining that as a sinner born in sin, whether we committed a single act of sin or not, we were born heading to Hell because the wages of sin is death. This was fascinating!Now I also understood why no matter how many times I promised God that I wouldn't sin again or break His commandments I failed miserably and in not time at all, was committing the same sins that I had just promised not to commit. Now I understood why. It was because we are born in sin and can do nothing but sin. This was a revelation to me.  Sermon 3 explained the real true purpose of the Law of God. I'd lived my life trying with all my might to keep the Law thinking I was supposed to. Yet it only left me feeling hopeless and a failure and it is what led me to give up believing in God. I was really happy to learn that the true and real purpose of God's Law was to teach us human beings that we are sinners who can never keep the Law. WOW! I never knew this. All those years of trying and failing, trying and failing over and over, punctuated with prayers of repentance, "Father please forgive me for the sin I've just committed. I won't do it again". And just repeating this cycle over and over. If only I had learned about the true gospel of the water and the Spirit all those years ago it would of saved me years of guilt, shame and confusion.Still I was very excited to learn more.  Every few pages throughout the book, there are what I call 'little bubbles' that had a little question in and the answer. They were very good references points and good to look back on and ruminate on what that sermon was about. For instance, when I read this, the bubble said, "What must we realize about the Law? We can never keep the Law."Amazing! This was the whole purpose of God giving us the Law. It was to show us that we can never keep the Law and to know the punishment of the sins of breaking God's Law.And this realisation will lead us to Jesus Christ.Everything was starting to make sense in my head. Another bubble said, "Who can be saved? Those who give up trying to establish their own righteousness".This book was really making sense. Everything was so simple to understand. After all these years, my decision to leave church and stop going to church even though I thought it was the worse choice I could ever make in my life, was beginning to sound like it was the best choice I had ever made in my life. I had to continue reading more. What I was beginning to understand while reading this book was that, trying to keep Gods Laws while still having sin in your heart is what it means to establish you own righteousness. It was explaining that this is religion and God has no part with religion. God is all about faith. Interesting!  In Sermon 4 I thoroughly enjoyed reading the account in the Bible of the woman who was caught in the very act of adultery. I really could relate to her and I was so amazed at the true spiritual meaning of this account in the Bible. It was wonderful! And then, I read in the bubble, "How much sin did Jesus blot out? All the sins of the world". It said that we should all know and believe in the secret of salvation. Jesus took over all our sins with His baptism and has borne the judgement for our sins by dying on the Cross. Suddenly I could feel how the woman caught in the act of adultery felt being saved by Jesus completely and not being condemned anymore. What a relief! Her whole life must have flashed before her eyes and yet in the most dire situation facing death, she was saved. What an absolutely lovely account in the Bible and a lovely explanation clear and simple in this book. I could not put the book down.The more I was reading the book everyday, the more I was seeing how my own self righteousness, my own standards that I had built up and my own self delusion of who I thought I was, was being all broken down bit by bit. And this was all because I had never know myself before. I did not know what my true sinful nature was. I had lived my whole life without knowing myself. This was eye-opening. As strange as it sounds, I was enjoying being told all about my evil self through reading this book because it didn't just tell me about my evil self and all my sins, it was giving me the solution to the problem of all my sins by telling me that Jesus was baptized to take away all my lifelong sins even the sins that I would commit in the future. So what more could I ask for? I accepted through this book that yes, I am evil, yes I commit sin on a daily basis, even in my thoughts I commit sin. I couldn't deny anything that this book was telling me about myself. The book was quoting the Scriptures for me to read also so it wasn't just the book, I was opening my Bible and seeing, yes, that’s exactly what is says in Mark chapter 7 verses 21-23. It listed all the twelve sins that I was born with. How can I argue with Gods Word? God's Word is true. But I never knew it before, nor had I heard it in all the years of attending church. Nobody had pointed out my sins before. I was happy to be told about my sins knowing that the solution was through Jesus' baptism and blood. This was the gospel of the water and the Spirit that I had never heard before. This is how Jesus came to this world and how He saved not just me from all my sins but every human being from all their sins too. I loved this book and I hadn't even finished reading it yet. I wasn't even half way through.  The book explained from Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 1, how all our sins were engraved on our hearts and the horns of God's alters. And it explained really well what that meant and I felt what that meant because I had been carrying my sins in my heart for all the years I had been attending church but I didn't have the solution, never! Not once!  I learnt how the wages of sin is death and if anybody dies in their sins, they will end up in hell because God's Law says in Romans Chapter 6 vs 23 that the "wages of sin is death".I was enjoying being told the truth of my evil self because it was 100% truth that I could not deny. And the book was using Scriptures to show me.  Next the book explained all about the sacrificial system in the Old Testament in the book of Leviticus. It was excellent! When I used to attend Bible school at the church that we attended growing up, I remember we built a Tabernacle model drawn to scale and it was so intricate and I really enjoyed doing it. However, I was never taught about anything of what the utensils, the building, the materials used, the silver sockets, the bronze fixtures, none of these things were we taught. We were just building a nice model for everybody to look at and say, "oh well done, very good!" But here in this book, it was explaining that every bit of the Tabernacle building and the structure showed how Jesus was going to come to this earth and save us through His baptism, His death on the Cross and His resurrection. It was explaining it. For the first time in my life I was hearing about the laying on of hands-how the high priests would, in order to transfer the sins of the sinner onto the sacrificial offering/animal had to lay his hands onto the animals head and this was how the sins were transferred from the sinner onto the animal. WOW! And that's how, after that procedure, the blood of the animal was shed and poured on the ground after being sprinkled on the four horns of the altar. This was very intricate. But it explained salvation very clearly. It was amazing, I was blown away about the reading of the sacrificial system in the Old Testament. Wonderful!  Then the book shown how the Tabernacle in the Old Testament foreshadowed the coming of the Messiah Jesus as the Lamb of God and it explained how the Scriptures have their mate. So what happened in the Old Testament in the forgiveness of sins had to happen in the New Testament when Jesus came. And it explained the Jordan River where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and He performed the laying on of hands baptism on Jesus and that's how all our sins were transferred onto Jesus. Amazing. This was so clear and simple to understand. I loved this book because as I said earlier, I was afraid I wouldn't be intelligent enough to understand the book. But to my joy and relief, the book is very easy to understand and follow.  By sermon 5 I was beginning to feel more and more convicted, and dare I even say, confident in my own salvation through the Gospel of the water and the Spirit. It was being confirmed in everything I had read so far, with proof upon proof, with the Scriptures. This book was like a smorgasbord of knowledge and truth and proofs. It was like an all you can eat buffet. It was explaining the importance of John the Baptist, his lineage from the Levitical Priesthood, and his roles of baptising Jesus to pass on all our sins in the baptism he performed in the Jordan River and how he testified to everybody the next day after doing this that, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" Truly, I had found it hard to put the book down and then I couldn't wait to read it again.  Quoting 1 Peter 3:21, the book was explaining that it is the sins in our hearts that have been cleansed by Jesus' baptism and blood, not the sins in our flesh. And that the flesh will always commit sin because that is the nature of flesh, but it's our conscience that is a good conscience toward God when we believe in the water and the blood of Jesus Christ. And that is what helps us to have a good conscience toward God. I had never had a good conscience toward God. This was the best news I could ever hear because all I had known was a guilty conscience before God because of the sins I committed, over and over again, without realising why I couldn't stop committing them. I also understood for the first time what it meant to have unrequited love for Jesus, and that is the result of religion and believing in God and Jesus incorrectly. That’s how I had felt going to Church every week, but not being sure whether God heard my prayers, whether God loved me, everything was total uncertainty. But this book, was giving me, for the first time, not only hope but conviction and assurance. I'd never had that before.This book was truly amazing. I was learning what the difference was between religion and faith. There was an analogy in the book of being rescued from drowning by a helicopter, to show the clear difference between believing in God using our own strength and effort, versus believing in God by obeying instructions and relying on Him. Religion versus faith. It was a perfect analogy and I loved it. It helped me to understand the difference very, very well. And I realised that all these years of going to Church every week, trying to keep the 10 commandments, and such, I was living a religious life because I still had sins in my heart and I was trying to be saved by my own prayers of repentance and trying to live virtuously. How clear was this. I was really grateful for this book. It really was highlighting everything that I needed to know. I was learning how to believe in God correctly according to Scriptures and not according to man made doctrines that were taught in the Churches in this world. I read another bubble that said, 'Are we saved gradually, or once and for all? Once and for all.' Thank you God. For the first time my conscience was clean before God. I had felt all my sins disappear by understanding and believing in the baptism of Jesus and His death on the Cross and realising how it was foreshadowed in the Sacrificial system. The two married up absolutely perfectly and God said in one of the Scriptures, that every Scripture has its mate. So now I was understanding the laying on of hands in the Sacrificial system and also the laying on of hands of John the Baptist in the Jordan River when he baptised Jesus and that's how all my sins were transferred over to Him. Not just my sins, but all my families sins, everybody’s sins from Adam to the last person in this world. This book was an absolute treasure. I felt as though I had received the most precious gift in the whole wide world. And it was. It was called the Gospel of the water and the Spirit.  By Sermon 8, I was learning the reason why Jesus washed Peter's feet. What a revelation. It was explaining that although our sins have been washed away by believing in Jesus' baptism and His death on the Cross, we will continue to commit sin due to the weakness of our flesh. And it explained what true  confession was for the righteous. Which was to tell God, 'Yes, I have committed a sin again because of the weakness of my flesh, but I believe that You was baptised to take away even that sin.' That was the whole reason why Jesus washed Peter's feet. It was a really important part of the book for me to read because it answered questions that were going around in my head so I was really grateful for that to know what a true confession is. The book said, 'Can the righteous ever become sinners again? No.' Hallelujah. How could I ever repay God for this perfect gift of salvation, written in the Bible and explained in this book. It said, 'What kind of work is left for us since Jesus blotted out all our sins? All we have to do is to have faith in the Words of God.' Thank you God. I believe I can do this. How could I not. How could I not be thankful for the rest of my life, for You Jesus blotting out all my sins with your baptism and blood. The bubble said, 'Do we need to offer a sacrifice for our sins anymore? Never again.' No more miserable, useless, dreaded daily prayers of repentance that only left me feeling utterly ashamed. Now, instead of my sins being engraved in my heart and mind, it is the salvation of being born again of water and the Spirit, the baptism and the blood of Jesus, that is engraved in my heart and mind. Thank you Jesus.  The book subtitle asked, ' Do you love Me more than these?' “What has made us love Jesus more than anything else? His love for us through His baptism which washed away all our sins, even all our future sins”. Amen. I can say from the bottom of my heart that this book is the best book in the whole wide world, aside from the Holy Bible. However, both have the same author, the Holy Spirit. Finding the gospel of the water and the Spirit is like finding something you didn't realise you were looking for, but once you found it, you knew instantly that it was what you had been looking for, all your life. God bless everyone who chooses to read this book with their Bible. Have you truly been born again of water and the Spirit, by Paul C Jong.

• Sarah Nartey
• United Kingdom
• 06/01/2022129

No. 194

I met the Lord, the true Gospel and I received the true remission of my sins by reading this book.

I met the Lord, the true Gospel and I received the true remission of my sins by reading a book titled; “HAVE YOU TRULY BEEN BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT?”. At first I thought I knew the Word of God, the Bible, well. But this book, the spiritual knowledge in this book, has opened my spiritual eyes and saved me from all my sins, condemnation and the lake of fire!Indeed I have heard many times the words; “The lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” and you must be born again. But never understood why was Jesus called the Lamb and what it means to be born again. I never understood why John the Baptist, the greatest born of women, said; The Lamb of God. I also didn’t understand why was John the greatest, I thought maybe because he was just living a very spiritual life. But I thank God Almighty Jesus, the Creator of the Heaven and Earth, that He, obeying the will of the Father God, came to this earth and took away all our sins through His baptism and blood. I thank God that through His Church I found this book “HAVE YOU TRULY BEEN BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT?” which told me how Jesus saved me once and for all from all my sins according to the Scriptures. It explained to me all about my sins, the Law and the condemnation. When I read that Jesus took away all my sins as a Lamb of God, through the hands of John the Baptist, I came to understand the words; The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” and what it means to be born of water and the Spirit. This book explains in details how to become truly born again according to the Bible. I thank God for opening my heart and let me know the truth, now I know how Jesus set me free once and for all from all my sins by taking them through His baptism, through the laying on of the hands of John the Baptist, that He went to the Cross to be judged for them because “the wages of sin is death”, and was resurrected on the third day. Hallelujah!!! Not only my sins, but the sin of the whole world has been forgiven about 2000 years ago through Jesus’ water and blood. I have no sin in my heart, I shall not be moved, God has always been with me. I can’t thank God enough, that He found me and saved me from all my sins. And I also can’t thank the Church of God enough, the New Life Mission, for this book that saved me from all my sins. I have done nothing good to deserve this mercy, but God who is Love, came to this earth and saved me. I truly thank God for all He has done for me! Praise the Lord!”Aneta Gembalik, UK

• Aneta Gembalik
• United Kingdom
• 05/30/2022101

No. 193

I thank the Lord for saving me from all my sins through His baptism and blood on the cross.

I have learned that being born again is not related to physical and emotional change, but it is related to spiritual change where by a sinner to be born again as a sinless person. And it comes when one believes in the gospel of the water and the spirit.When we believe that, the Lord came in this world by being inconated in this weak flesh, received the baptism from John the Baptist on the Jordan River, shed His blood and died crusfied on the cross and He rose from the dead again on the third day. He ascended into the Heavens where He sits at the right hand of God, and from there He is coming from to judge the the living and the dead.Water means the baptism of Jesus while spirit means God, for Jesus is God. And the water and the spirit is the only condition set by God for us to become born again.We as mankind should respond to His new covenant by believing in His baptism and blood in our hearts. Then live for expansion of His kingdom, and live for His righteousness, and then preach this gospel all over the world for this is our purpose of our living.That, the baptism of Jesus in the new testament and the laying on of hands in the Old testament are mirrors of each other. They are the connecting clasp and loops between the Old and New testaments.God wants us to believe in the works Jesus did. Jesus saved us through His baptism and blood. For this is to do His will. He wants us to be born again of water and the spirit, for He is no longer asking us for good works, but to obtain His righteousness for our sins and work for His kingdom on the basis of this faith.Those who try to preach the word of God without first believing in the gospel of the water and the spirit are the ones who practice lawlessness. They believe in Jesus while having sins in their hearts. They exercise authority and do many works. Matthew 7:22-23. That, the first thing Jesus did in His public ministry was to be baptized by John the Baptist on the Jordan River in order to hand over the sins of the world upon Him to fulfill His righteousness. Matthew 3:15I thank the Lord for saving me from all my sins through His baptism and blood on the cross. Amen!!.Eliot Bwalya, Zambia 

• Eliot Bwalya
• Zambia
• 05/30/2022111

No. 192

This book made me know who I was and I came to know my sins.

Previously, I set the standard of sin upon my own conscience based on social norms. I didn't know that God gave us 613 articles of the Law to be used as the absolute standard of sin. After reading the the gospel in this book, I came to know that I was a grave sinner born with 12 kinds of sin in my heart, as Mark 7:20-23 states, and I realized my sins and the punishment for them.Then, I came to know that only after admitting my sinful state and ask for God's help, I was going to be saved for my works were not going to save me, instead I was going to remain a sinner as Galatians 3:10-11 states.God gave us the Law so that we may realize our sins not to live by them as Romans 3:20 tells us.I learned that we could be saved from all our sins , become righteous, have eternal life and go to Heaven only by believing in the baptism of Jesus received from John the Baptist on the Jordan River and His blood shed on the cross, and be born again of water and the spirit.People should know themselves, for those who don't know themselves life hypocritical lives by trying to hide their sinful selves and end up deceving themselves, and throwing themselves into Hell because of their own deceptions. Only if they adimit that they are sinners who  were born with 12 kinds of sins in their hearts and that they have committed many sins, and ask God to save them from their sins, that is when they can be saved from their sins and the condermination of Hell by believing in the baptism of Jesus and His blood shed on the cross.That God can not redeem those with a bit of sin. But shows pity on those who admit to be a mass of sin and are going to Hell for their sins.Mankind is a mass of sin by nature and doomed to Hell, for all commit sin until death. This is why Jesus did blod out all the sins of the world with the baptism He received from John the Baptist and He paid the price for all our sins by sheding His blood and died on the cross. He rose  again on the third day, asended into the Heavens where He sits at right hand of God the Father.Those who believe in the gospel of the water and the spirit are the blessed and are without sins. They are righteous, Holly and blemeless before the Lord, for Jesus Christ and John the Baptist fufilled the all righteousness on the Jordan River. Matthew 3:13 -17.This is how our bondege to sin has ended, for the love of God is greater than His Justice.I further learnt that John the Baptist baptized people to lead them to repentance of all their sins and to believe in the baptism of Jesus for salvation. For John the Baptist prepared the way, and we can only believe in Jesus through John the Baptist.John the Baptist is the High preast of all Mankind for he came from the lineage of Aaron the High preast. For only the desendants of Aaron could work as High preasts. And this John the Baptist is the greatest born of women.Through this righteous act by John the Baptist and Jesus Christ at River Jordan, we are made righteous for Jesus took away all our sins through the baptism by John the Baptist.I came to know that we are not righteous because we do not sin anymore, no. But because Jesus bloded all our sins through the water and the spirit.Because Jesus took away all our sins of the past, the present and the future, we will not become sinners again if we sin tomorrow.This is the reason why Jesus Christ washed His disciples' feet, including that of Peter because He wanted them to have strong faith in the fact that, Jesus already washed away all their future sins through His baptism. Therefore, we have no sins. We are sinless as Hebrews 10:16-17 says. He washed away all our sins: original sins, our daily sins and future sins.The sins of today and tomorrow, and all the sins through out our all live time. He has not left anyone out of His salvation, and by believing in His eternal atonement for all our sins, we can become true servants of God. Jesus saved us through the water (the baptism of Jesus) the blood (His death) and the spirit (Jesus being God).This is the gospel of Blue, Purple and Scarlett threads. And by believing like this, we are building our House on the Rock, the gospel of His baptism.This gospel of the water and the spirit preached by Jesus Christ, and also by His disciples , is the only gospel truth of salvation.I'm now sinless, righteous, Holy and blemeless before the Lord for I believe in the gospel of the water and the spirit. Therefore, I now love the Lord more than anything else.Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for saving me through the water and the spirit. Amen.Eliot Bwalya, Zambia 

• Eliot Bwalya
• Zambia
• 05/30/2022104

No. 191

Review of the book "The fail-safe way for you to receive the Holy Spirit"

Before meeting with the gospel of the water and the Spirit, I ardently wanted the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to lay hands on the sick to heal them of their diseases and also their financial poverty. I was ready to do everything. And then I got a demon by imposition of the hands of a famous preacher in Christianity. In that time, I spoke an incomprehensible language, and my Christian friends say that I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I was trying to fool many other Christians with this incomprehensible language imposing my hands on their heads. Some convulsed and others were very enthusiastic when I put my hands on their heads.  So I got them money. I did not know I was thus become a servant of Satan. Do you know how Satan works in today's Christianity? Satan works in the heart of those who seek money, fame and supernatural powers. Are you not by chance become a servant of Satan by believing in Jesus? In the Bible (Acts 8: 14-24), there is the story of Simon the sorcerer. Simon believed in Jesus is not it? But, he believed in Jesus in order to be famous, to earn a lot of money and impress people with supernatural powers. For what purpose do you believe in Jesus? What is the condition of your heart before God?This demon that I received by laying on of hands, impelled me to read the Bible, to attend revival meetings, to fast, to pray at midnight and at dawn and to lay hands on the sick in the name of Jesus. Biblically speaking, it was just witchcraft. I was a blind man who tried to lead other blind people only to be famous and financially rich. However, reading this book, I realized that God severely punishes those who believe in Jesus being greedy, supernatural powers and equipment as was the case of Simon. The Holy Spirit does not enter the heart of the vain. So my belief in the Holy Spirit changed and I was able to lead a decent life through my faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Amen. Brother Cédric Patrick, Douala Cameroonwww.bjnewlife.org

• Cédric Patrick Tchako
• Cameroon
• 05/14/2022108