No. 197

The Elementary Principles of Christ by Paul C. Jong

Praise God, everyone. My name is Kennedy Macharia. I am 27 years old. I am a born again saint of the true gospel of water, blood and the Holy Spirit. I believe in my heart when Jesus was born on this earth, He saved us from the sins of the world including mine, sins of yesterday, sins of today, and sins of tomorrow when He was 30 year of the age. three years later, He died at Golgotha on the Cross, bearing the sins of me, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins. Mine is included. Three days later, He was resurrected, ascended into heaven. He sits at the right hand of God. He will be back to judge quick the dead. I am happy to present a short video of review the book by Paul C. Jong. This book is titled, "The Elementary Principles of Christ." This is the book. This is the front page of the book "The Elementary Principles of Christ by Paul C. Jong." This is the back of the book.  This book talks about the apostles' creed. The apostles were delegates called upon by Jesus Himself when He was witnessing the righteousness of God on this earth from His baptism, to His death to His ascension. So the chosen few apostles, the disciples of Jesus Christ, called upon to witness and to preach His Word and His righteousness all over the world. THE APOSTLES CREED:I believe in God the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth,I believe in Jesus Christ, the only son our Lord,conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary,suffered under Pontius Pilate, crucified and died, and was buried, descended to hell, resurrected on the third day and ascended into Heaven, sitteth on the right hand of God the father almighty, from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.I believe in the Holy Ghost , the Holy Catholic church, the communion of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting Amen. That is the creed that the apostles declared as a statement of faith. This is what they believed in their hearts. The book breaks down the apostles' creed into 3 sections. Section of God the father, the section of Jesus Christ the only son and the section of the Holy Ghost that we have, the saints and everlasting life.God the father is in other words called Yahweh or Adonai which means 'one that exists by himself' also means that God the father is the Word of Life and thirdly means that God the father is the one that is, the one that was and the one that is going to be; the alpha and the omega.Jesus Christ being born on this earth was conceived by the Holy Ghost, it was not of the human nature of the conception of the body fluids of a man and a woman but it was a conception of the Holy Ghost making Him an unblemished and pure son of God. We human beings are born in sin. Romans 5:12 tells us that we are all born in sin from the inheritance of the adamic sin from Adam but Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost making Him pure. He was baptized by John the Baptist, the representative of the whole world. Matthew 11:11 states that among those born of women there has risen no greater than John the Baptist, that means he is our representative who was the last High priest of this earth. So he baptized Jesus on the day of baptism at the Jordan river placing on His shoulders all the sins of the world (Mattew 3:15). 3 years later He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified and died on the cross. He was buried and descended into hell. 3 days later He resurrected and ascended into Heaven and He sits on the right hand of God. He will be back to judge the quick and the dead. The quick and the dead will be judged by the books of judgement. The books of judgement are the books of life and the books of deeds. Revelation 20:12 tells us that those that their names are written in the book of life are those that their hearts have no sin and have no deceit and will inherit the kingdom of Heaven. The others that have sin still inside their hearts, others that have not yet believed in Jesus' the only son works of righteousness still remain condemned and they will be judged by the book of deeds. Jesus Christ indeed kept the role of being the High priest of Heaven in whom it is stated in Hebrews that He entered the most Holy place, that is Heaven, with His own blood: not repeatedly but once and for all to forgive the sins of many because the bible tells us that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins hebrews 9:22. Jesus Christ fulfilled His role as a High priest, fulfilled His role as a prophet revealing God's righteousness and He will fulfill His role as the King by coming back to this earth and judging the world by the books of judgment.The last segment of the apostles' creed states that we believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit that witnesses the works of Jesus Christ and God from the beginning to the end. Without the witness of the Holy Spirit everything would be just but a story but the witness of the Holy Spirit seals and convicts our hearts of the righteousness that is fulfilled through the works of Jesus on this earth.Then we understand that we believe in the Holy catholic church. This Holy church means holy without sin, so only those that do not have sin inside their hearts are those that believe in the water and blood, that is the works of Jesus Christ remain without sin in their hearts can indeed dwell in the Holy catholic church that is the communion of the saints.The forgiveness of sins that comes from the baptism of John to Jesus Christ we are all forgiven and with this we have eternal life. Our bodies will indeed resurrect after the physical death and attain everlasting life with God the father the son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever in Heaven! With that is the gist in the book by Paul C. Jong entitled 'The Elementary Principles of Christ' found on the following websites: www.bjnewlife.org or www.nlmission.com.From this book we can find true repentance. Repentance is not the act of asking for forgiveness for one's sins committed.Repentance is the act of turning around from one's proposed deeds and thoughts that he/she thinks have the authority to attain forgiveness from God. Repentance is the act of confession on the realization of one's sinful nature and the acceptance of God's salvation according to the written Word of God.I recommend you to read this book and by the grace of God will be a blessing in your life.Kennedy Macharia Karoga, Kenya

• Kennedy Karoga
• Kenya
• 06/03/2022111

No. 196

Book Review of (book 27) WHAT GOD IS SAYING TO US THROUGH THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS

I want to thank God for enabling me to read this book entitled,:WHAT GOD IS SAYING TO US THROUGH THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS by Rev Paul c.jong, and also get a chance to pen down my honest review of this book.   The author of this book amongst many has shed light properly on how God's church, which is the body of Christ came to existence. He has elaborated clearly how God chose us in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world, so that we should be holy through the works of salvation testified from the Old to the new testament.  God begot Jesus (1 John 5:1) into this world so that we can come to be born again of his baptism, death, resurrection and divinity. The Will of God is for all mankind to be born again of the water and Spirit. The write of this book, Rev Paul c.jong has expounded on how God "who fills all in all", that is, how God through the true Church blesses everything and everyone. Through God's church, I also came to met the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, having been a Christian for 30 years, I was still with sin in my heart. But since God wants to bless the whole world with the truth of salvation through His Church, (Ephesians 1:23), I met the gospel Truth of the water and Spirit (John 3:5). I came to believe that the baptism Jesus received, is where he bore all the sins of the world and paid with his blood. The book has also shed light on how God saved us By His Grace. God has brought us alive who were dead with Sin (Mark 7:21-23) and our trespasses. When Jesus was baptized he bore the Sin of the world, be it sin, iniquities, trespasses, he died for them and resurrected, thus bringing us back alive. This is exactly what the grace of God is. The book thus admonish those who still hold on to their daily repentance and works of the law, that they have fallen away from grace, thus they need to truly turn from their wrong faith and believe the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which has washed away all our sins perfectly and demolished the wall of separation between us and God forever. The book has also made us to understand how the depth, width, and length of the salvation expands even more when we admit our sins every time we commit them and recognize that Jesus bore all our sins by being baptized. The book also explains how there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism in Ephesians chapter 4 and the importance of how we need to trust the church leaders appointed by God and follow them by faith, since God’s Church is the body of Christ. Jesus Christ is the Head of God’s Church. He is the vine and all of us are His branches. God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the trunk of the vine and we are His branches, and just as the trunk of the vine and its branches are one, God and all of us the members of His body are one. God’s Church is His body.  Chapter 5 of this book has also taught us what it means in (Ephesians 5:18) do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit. The book has taught us how to interpret this passage correctly, and how to be filled with the Holy Spirit in our lives. To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to have our everything immersed in the will of God. In other words, filling ourselves with God in every aspect of our lives is what it means to have the fullness of the Spirit. All of us can be filled with the Holy Spirit if we immerse ourselves in God’s work in everything we do, whether we are working at a job, studying in school, or running a business. To do so, it’s absolutely indispensable for us to listen to the Word that God is speaking to us through His Church. If our minds are preoccupied with God’s work, such as where to plant His Church and to whom to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then we can say that we have the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Lastly, the book teaches us the importance of following Our Parents of Faith Who Believe in the Righteousness of the Lord. That as long as our parents believe in the righteousness of God, then the right thing to do is to follow their guidance. So, if our parents are righteous, then we should believe that it’s God’s will for us to wholeheartedly obey them and follow their guidance, and we should walk accordingly.  I hope and pray that this book will also be a blessing to you in your quest to quench your heart with the truth of salvation.I Praise God!Eric Kimani, Kenya

• Eric Kimani
• Kenya
• 06/02/2022106

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