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If You Have Confusion and Emptiness in Your Heart, Seek the Light of the Truth (II)
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If You Have Confusion and Emptiness in Your Heart, Seek the Light of the Truth (II)

Rev. Paul C. Jong

CONTENTS
 
Preface 
1. How to Pray According to the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:5-15) 
2. By What Kind of Faith Can We Receive the Remission of Sins Now? (Leviticus 1:1-9) 
3. How Has Jesus, the Son of God, Saved Us from the Sins of This World? (Romans 3:25-31) 
4. Salvation Fulfilled According to God’s Will (Matthew 11:25-30) 
5. Has the Lord Truly Given Us the Remission of Sins and Resurrection? (John 11:1-42) 
6. Receive God, Who Is the Word (John 1:1-18) 
7. The Lord Wants Us to Be the People of Faith Like Joseph of Arimathea (Luke 23:50-56) 
8. The Lord Has Cleansed Our Hearts (John 2:13-22) 
9. The Lord Who Became the Sin Offering of Atonement (Isaiah 53:7-12) 
10. God’s Providence That Saves Us from Our Sins (Jeremiah 31:31-34) 
11. Which Gospel Should We Believe in to Reach Spiritual Maturity? (Exodus 32:25-29) 
 
This book explains how much the Nicene Creed, produced at the Council of Nicaea in Late Antiquity, has had a bad influence on Christians today.
In this age, in order to meet the truth of being born again, you must study a little more. And you need to know more deeply about the creed of faith that you have believed so far.
Now you must find in this book the meaning of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist that was omitted from the Nicene Creed. So, it should be an opportunity to receive true salvation and peace in your heart.
Now you will discover the true value of the gospel of the water and the Spirit in the baptism that Jesus received. You will come to know more deeply and clearly how the Word of the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist has affected your soul and you will therefore give glory to God by faith.
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  • Receive God, who is the word.
    Brenda Tembo, Zambia

    Receive God, who is the word.
    It is so sad seeing how many people claims to have received and believed in God without believing in the true word of God of His baptism, death and resurrection which is the complete word of God that brings the light before the darkened hearts of every mankind who comes to believe in it and offer such a soul the complete remission of his or her sins. As such the darkness of such souls who believes in the gospel of the water, blood and Spirit can never comprehend the light., which simply means that whoever believes or comes to believe in the gospel of the water, blood and Spirit the darkness in that person’s heart disappears completely without any hesitation as this word of baptism, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ contains the power of eradicating any sort, shape or form of sins or darkness from the heart of every humankind, regardless who it is whether great or small, poor or rich. The power of the gospel of the water, blood and Spirit has no limit whom to save from Sin, for it is the only true Word of light and the very God Himself who gives life to all mankind without favoritism, for He is fair, just, selfless, merciful, compassionate and whole loving.
    Thus it reads in John chapter 1:1-5
    In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God.From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out. Hallelujah.
    To receive God in our hearts, it is imperative for every mankind to understand about the darkness or sins of his or her own heart. In short one must first know his or her true self as a nobody but a pile of sin, covered in total darkness then admit it before God genuinely then can the Lord who is the creator of all creations as well as the source of life and who is the light Himself will be able to reveal the word of Salvation of His baptism, death and resurrection before your dead or darkened soul and permit the light to shine before your soul, as John 1:5 says; The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out. Amen. God who is the creator of the heavens and earth and all that occupies them, is the purposeful God, who does not bring anything to existence for nothing, everything He has made is of a purpose. All His countenance shows the beauty of Him who has brought them forth into existence. Just has God made the natural atmospheric air for the purpose of breathing to mankind, so did the Lord create us, humankind for the purpose of His Glory, honor, praise and blessings to be rendered to Him from us His creations. But how is it possible that mankind can render all that which is worthy to God like worships, praises, honor and blessings? This is only possible for mankind to render all worthiness before God only after receiving God who is the word in ones heart. Then, how can we receive God who is the word in our hearts? This is the most important question which must be taken serious by all mankind. But unfortunately, most people take this question likely as they believe to have received God who is the light in their lives minus having a clear understanding on the testimony of John. Like it has been mentioned above, everything that God does is of a purpose, so was it purposeful before God to send John to this world before Jesus Christ. It is said in John 1:6-7
    God sent his messenger, a man named John, who came to tell people about the light, so that all should hear the message and believe. Praise the Lord!!
    It is said, who came to tell people about the light, so that all should hear the message and believe. Amen.
    Thus it is very indispensable for all mankind to receive the testimony of John in their hearts. And this is the testimony of John before mankind,
    He said to all mankind in John1:29
    Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! Hallelujah.
    John was able to testify about Jesus Christ as the Lamb who took away all the sins of the World, because John the Baptist was the very instrument that Jehovah God used to stand as the representative of mankind and the last high priest on earth who performed his duty of transferring all mankind’s sins onto the body of our Lord Jesus Christ on His baptism in strictly accordance to ordinance of God (Mathews 3vs15)(Leviticus 16vs21). Yes! John the Baptist was the one who transferred all the sins of mankind born on this earth as wretched beings including you and me alike. This is why Peter the apostle of Christ also testified to us all in( 1 Peter 3:21), about the baptism of Jesus Christ as the antitype of our salvation which now saves us all mankind, because it was at His baptism when Jesus Christ accepted the sins of the world upon His righteous body, and was made to become with sin for our sake immediately John laid his hands onto His righteous body and transferred all mankind’s sins that is all the sins of the world and was able to fulfill all righteousness of God the Father, which is to make us is very own children without sin or blame. Now because Jesus Christ had carried away all our sins upon Himself through the baptism He received from John the Baptist was then able to be crucified on the cross and faced a terrible death in order to pay for the wages of all mankind’s sins which He had taken on His baptism from John the Baptist by the shedding of His precious blood. And was able to fulfill His word in Romans6:23 which states that, the wages of sin is death. And on the third day He resurrected from death to give the newness of life to everyone who comes to believe in the power of His name which constitutes His baptism, death and resurrection correctly, and thereby comes to receive Him as their God.
    Nevertheless mankind must have a clear understanding about the only one way of receiving God who is the word in ones heart. Which is the way of believing in the gospel of the water, blood and Spirit which constitutes Jesus baptism received from John the Baptist where He took away all the sins of the world, His blood shed on the cross where He paid for all the wages of all mankind’s sins and by His resurrection through which He has granted the newness to us the believers of this truth and anyone else who comes to believe in this truth. This is the true word of truth and the very God Himself (1 John 5:6-8).
    Thus I urge everyone who have not yet receive God in their hearts through believing in the incarnated Lord our God, Jesus Christ’s baptism, death and resurrection to visit our website www.bjnewlife.org and download yourself free Christian Ebooks and audiobooks which will enable you to receive the remission of your sins once and for all by reading or listening to the message in the books and receive God who is the word correctly.
    Hallelujah.
    God bless His precious work!

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  • HAS THE LORD TRULY GIVEN US THE REMISSION OF SINS AND RESURRECTION?
    Brenda Tembo, Zambia

    HAS THE LORD TRULY GIVEN US THE REMISSION OF SINS AND RESURRECTION?
    To answer the sermon question above, let us read part of the book of John Chapter 11:
    Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” , “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?
    Unless you pass your sins onto the body of Jesus Christ on His baptism received from John the Baptist and die with Him on the cross to pay the wages of sins, and rise from death with Him on the third day to receive the newness of life in Him, you cannot have an answer to the sermon question above. Therefore it is imperative for every human being born in this world to know, that they are born with sins inherited from their ancestors Adam and Eve without even committing a slightest sin, and are thereby running towards death because of their sins. So unless they know themselves and accept their true selves without exceptional then come to believe in the gospel of the Water and the Spirit (John3:5) then can they escape from their predetermined destination of going to hell for their sins by having true faith in the baptism of Jesus received from John the Baptist to take away the sins of the world, His blood shed of the cross to pay the wages of sins and His resurrection to give the newness of life to anyone who believes. It is also indispensable for every human being born in this world to know that, from the day of our birth, we have no choice but to die for our sins. But thanks be to God who had planned to save us before the foundation of world, who sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ to come to this world as a savior for all mankind by receiving His baptism from John the Baptist to take away all the sins of the world by John the Baptist the greatest among those born of women in the Jordan River, and was crucified on the cross, shedding His precious blood to pay the wages of sins, for once and for all, and was raised from the death to give the Newness of life to anyone who believes in His righteous Acts of Baptism, death and resurrection and receive Christ eternally to become the savior to such a person as stated in (1John5:4-8). Thus we who now believes in this precious Gospel truth of the Water, Blood and the Spirit as well as those who are yet to believe in this truth of the baptism of Jesus, His death and resurrection. We are therefore able to be saved by believing wholeheartedly in the true Word of salvation that the Lord Himself has given us, as a new life, to us who were once dead but now we have become alive in the gospel of the Water, Blood and the Spirit and have received the power of His resurrection as our own resurrection. Thus His Word confirms in John11,” I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?
    Additionally, now by believing in the gospel of the Water and the Spirit we are able to answer in boldness that Yes truly the Lord has given us the remission of Sins and the resurrection, just has He was able to rise the dead Lazarus in John11 from his death, so has the Lord raised us to new life and resurrection through the Water of His baptism , Blood of His death and the Spirit His resurrection once and for all. That, even though we may die in the flesh He shall rise us up to life on His second coming as He has given us already the seal of new life in us by believing in the gospel truth of the water and Spirit(John3:5).
    Nevertheless, I urge to visit our website www.bjnewlife.org and download yourself free Christian Ebooks and audiobooks which will enable you to receive the remission of your Sins by having true faith in Jesus Christ as God by believing in the gospel of the Water, Blood and the Spirit and receive Spiritual regeneration and resurrection by faith in the baptism of Jesus, His death and resurrection and escape from eternal death as your destination.
    Hallelujah…!!!

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  • My review of Sermon 6 “Let’s Not Become the Descendants of Cain”
    Shyam Marak, India

    My review of Sermon 6 “Let’s Not Become the Descendants of Cain”
    of book 52 (The Difference between Abel’s Faith and Cain’s Faith)
    It is written in the Bible that Cain left the presence of God and dwelt in the land of Nod. Why would Cain leave God, who reigns over life and death? Even though God was making all effort to make him believe that He is the God who saves every sinner and to thus save him, he still left God. I pondered on why Cain left God so easily and recklessly. When Cain killed his brother Abel, he thought that no one could know and find out. People like Cain are the same people like Judas Iscariot. Judas Iscariot never believed in Jesus Christ as the Almighty God, that was the reason he collected thirty pieces of silver before the Last Supper (Matthew 26:15) and still refused to admit he would be the one to betray the Lord during the Last Supper (Matthew 26:17-25). In this way, even though God questioned Cain about the whereabouts of his brother Abel, he still denied knowing about him asking whether he was his brother’s keeper. People like these think nothing of God. They think of God as big elephant, perhaps big tree or some inanimate objects. They never believe that God is the only omnipotent and omniscient God, who exists by Himself and lives forever. These kinds of people have many gods in their hearts. Cain left God because he did not believe in Him. Cain leaving the presence of God means that he left God’s church. As a result, he became a wanderer, moving from one place to another not setting his heart on one place. He lost the peace of the Lord God, Cain became a fugitive and lived in fear. When people passed by, he hid himself in fear thinking, “Are they coming to kill me?” This is what inevitably happen to those who leave God. The biggest mistake he made was leaving God’s presence because he did not believe in Him.
    There are times even the people of God are on the run, but because they believe in God they do not run away from God but from men, so God always protects and helps them. We see when Jacob ran away from his brother Esau, because Jacob believe in God, He protected and helped him throughout the period. Who will then protect and help us when we leave God’s presence? We should never leave God’s church, no matter what. Looking at Cain and his descendants, we should never take the gospel of the water and the Spirit for granted nor think little of God’s church, even though we are insufficient and make countless mistakes, we should never leave God because He is the only self-existing Almighty God. Because there is no life outside God’s church, I will follow His church wherever God leads His church. I believe this is what pleases God. God told the Shulamite woman many times to return to His church, because He loves her (Song of Songs 6:13). This means that God hates it when we leave Him and try to live with the strength of our flesh. For those who leave God, God follows them around cursing them every step of their way, hoping they will turn around and return to Him. It doesn’t just end with them, God will curse their children and children’s children. There is no one who leaves God and still have peace and joy in his heart.
    When Cain became too downtrodden for killing his brother Abel, God set a mark of salvation on him so that no one should find and kill him. By setting mark of salvation on him, God was telling Cain “Even though you are evil and a murderer, I am the God of salvation. Believe in Me, and receive My salvation into your heart. You will receive protection and all blessings if you abide in Me. But you will face destruction and receive curses if you don’t believe in Me and leave My presence.”
    However, Cain did not believe in God till the end, he left Him instead and faced destruction. Even now God is telling everyone to receive their salvation by believing in the baptism that Jesus Christ His Son received from John the Baptist and the blood He shed on the Cross. But just how many people have left God and are now living outside His church?
    Cain left God, and built a city of his own and protected it with walls. He was the first person to build wall to protect himself. Adam and Eve lived under the protection of God, they never had to build a castle for protection against enemy`s attack. Cain was the first to build castle to protect himself, because he lived in fear all the days of his life. Fearing men, animals and even birds! I know that Cain would fear everything because he lived outside the protection of God. If we leave God, our souls will be bound by darkness again and we will wander to and fro and face death in the end. Even to this day, the descendants of Cain never settle down in one place and one thing, and live struggling with their own strength and die in vain. These kind of people depend on their physical strength and never trust in God, but when they run out of their physical strength they die. When a mouse falls into a bucket of water, it struggles to get out of the bucket. Swimming from one side to another, climbing up and down. In the end it runs out of strength, drinks lots of water and gets drowned. Those who leave God’s presence will struggle all alone and die in the end. But we will live the brightest life in both body and spirit if we believe in God and follow Him because God is the source of everything.
    Cain built a castle to protect himself on his own. When people leave God, they eventually build their castles. They build castles in many ways; they make friends with the worldly people and surround themselves with them and try to gain riches of the world, they try to build good relationship with worldly people and work hard to maintain it and have a happy family, they make up their religion and want to do everything on their own way. We are building our own castle if do not follow the teachings and instructions of God’s church. Those who say “Even though God’s church believe in this way, I do not believe in such way. Even though God’s church is doing the work in this way, I will do the work on the way that suits my own thoughts” are building their own castle, it means that our self-righteousness can be our castle. Those who build their own castle reign over their own lives, they are kings of themselves.
    But such castles will crumble in a single stroke.
    The descendants of Cain were Jabal, Jubal and Tubal-Cain. Jabal was a man of tents and livestock, Jubal was a man of flute and harps and Tubal-Cain was an instructor in every craftsman in bronze and iron (Genesis 4:20-22). By examining the life of these three descendants of Cain, we can see what all the descendants of Cain do all their lives on this earth.
    The first thing those who leave the presence of God do is to work hard with their physical strength to take care of food, shelter and clothing, and that is what Jabal did. After they have taken care of their basic need of food, shelter and clothing they go for pleasure of this world. Jubal was a man of flute and harps, it means that he lived enjoying the pleasures of this world. When those who leave God’s church have taken care of their basic need of food, shelter and clothing they definitely go for pleasure and when they have it they seek for a way to protect their wealth and loved ones. It is written that Tubal-Cain was an instructor in every craftsman in bronze and iron. Put it differently, he was a man of war. This is how human civilization has come to exist. Even in this world today, when a country becomes prosperous they next step they take is to protect their territory and people, they invest heavily in military arms and ammunition. This how human beings will destroy themselves in the future.
    However, God has warned us that He will curse those who follow the path of Cain, He will pass down their curses generation after generation. The curse of God will follow those who leave His church and build their castle.
    Those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are building their own castle with their own thoughts of their flesh. But what await them are God’s curses and eternal punishment in hell. Sinners said they have received the remission of their sins through the precious blood of Jesus Christ alone.
    Strictly speaking, this is just their own castle. It is written in the Bible that Jesus Christ came with both the water, the blood and the Holy Spirit to save us from our sins (1 John 5:6). When He was baptized at the Jordan River our sins were passed onto His head, He was crucified to receive the wages of our sins shedding His blood on the Cross, He rose again from the dead after three days. He has saved us from the sins of the world. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and God Himself, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Virgin Mary and put on human flesh to save His people. Believing in anything outside this Truth is also building our own castle.
    Unlike Cain and his descendants, the spiritual descendants of Abel believe in the Word of God as it is and offer the right faith to God and abide in His church. People like Abel know their weaknesses and therefore trust in God, they do not have anything to depend on but God. They simply know that they cannot survive without the help of God so they never leave God’s church.
    Let’s have the faith of Abel by believing in the God-given gospel of the water and the Spirit and dwell in His church so that we may not receive the curses that follow Cain and his descendants.

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  • HOW HAS JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, SAVED US FROM ALL THE SINS OF THE WORLD?
    Christopher Chibale, Zambia

    Today`s Christian`s are still living in emptiness and confusion because their sins are still intact in their hearts. The word of God tells us the work of Jesus Christ that has been fulfilled when he came into this world to save us from all our sins.
    Jesus Christ is the very lamb of God prophesied in the Old Testament and also our high priest in the order of Melchizedek, who met blessed Abraham with bread and Wine. Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist to take away the sin of of the world, He died on the cross to pay the wages of sin, this is the perfect salvation that God has graced everyone who believes in this Truth.
    Today`s theology has deeply damaged and contributed allot to this confusion in the Christian Community, many churches are mislead by these false teachings originated from these theories which are Oblivious of why Jesus Christ came by water and blood. Jesus Christ is the true bread who came from heaven, received the baptism from John the Baptist to take away our past, present and future sins and He died on the cross to pay the wages of sin. We need to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus by faith for us to receive the everlasting remission of sins. Sin entered the world through our ancestors Adam and Eve, which means all we became sinners by nature because of the very sin they committed. It pleased God the Father at His will, to send His Son Jesus into this world by incarnating in the flesh of man, He took upon the sins of the world on His body through the baptism from John, and died on the cross as our propitiation, and saved us from our sins once and for all.
    For all of us to be saved from all our sins,firstly God gave us His perfect law, with it`s purpose is to make us realize that we are sinner`s (Romans 3:20). The Word of the Law was given to us by God and is very vital to humankind, the 10 commandments together with the 613 articles. The law is Very important to us, it paves a way for us to believe in the beautiful gospel of the water and the Spirit, it continues to be very important after having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, because that`s when we establish it.
    It`s wickedness to nullify the word of the the law after believing in Jesus. The law is righteous and perfect, because it`s the instrument that God uses to communicate to humankind about their sins. Infact the law of God is very important to everyone who believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, because it tells us about the sins we commit everyday before God and how we should admit them by having faith in the baptism of Jesus received from John and His death on the cross...

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  • The gospel of the water and the Spirit which God has revealed to those whose hearts are innocent in this last age
    Ndubuisi Okorie, Nigeria

    All the saints written in the Bible had the true faith that delivered them from the sins of the world. From Apostle Peter to Martha, Lazarus’s sister. We can also receive the remission of our sins and commune with God when we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who took away all our sins once and for all by being baptized by John the Baptist at the age of 30 and crucified on the Cross. Peter said “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” People of faith like Peter will be saved from their lifelong sins and given the right to become the children of God who can pray to Him and receive His help. Because God cannot have fellowship with us unless we first unite our hearts with His will by receiving the remission of our sins. For us to pray to God and receive His help in this end time, we must have the faith that glorifies the name of God. We can live in this turbulent world victoriously only by the help of God, we often face hardships and troubles, that is the more reason we need to have a faith that commune with God. In the end time we will stand before kings and leaders and defend our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Like Joseph of Arimathea we will boldly stand against Antichrist on the last days to glorify God with our martyrdom. Therefore, the first thing a sinner has to do to be able to commune with God is to pray to God to wash away his sins. And God will meet such a person with the Word of the water and the Spirit that Jesus Christ His Son has fulfilled for mankind.
    The faith we need to unite with God is not the one that is based on Nicene Creed created by human being. Our faith must be the one that is comparable to the Word of Old Testament and New Testament. The gospel of the water and the Spirit is the fulfilment of the sacrificial system of the Old Testament. Because God found fault with the first covenant for it could not save anyone perfectly, He sought to abolish it and established the new covenant. God sealed this new covenant with an oath saying, “You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” Moreover He promised that He would put His law in our minds and write it in our hearts, and not on a stone tablet or scroll. This is an amazing covenant. Just as He promised, God sent Jesus Christ His Son In the flesh of a man according to the order of Melchizedek in the age of the New Testament who was baptized by John the Baptist at the Jordan River to receive our sins onto His body, crucified and rose again from the dead to save us from our sins. He has written this Law of salvation — the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit in the minds and hearts of the believers. All the believers have the witness in their minds and hearts and as a result no sins can be found in the hearts of the believers in the Word of the water and the Holy Spirit. God has fulfilled His promise for mankind. Because the faith in the gospel of Jesus’s baptism and blood has been written in our hearts, God said He will no longer remember our sins and lawless deeds. This is the covenant that is fitting for us human beings who are weak.
    The "laying on of hands" of the Old Testament sacrificial system is the baptism of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. It means that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to this earth to save us from our sins through the baptism He received from John the Baptist and the blood He shed on the Cross. In the Old Testament God gave the Mosaic Law to the people of Israel, but because He knew they could not obey the Law, God had also given them the sacrificial system after giving the Law to Moses. You are mistaken if you think Moses came down from Mount Sinai with only the Law of do’s and don’ts when God first gave him the 613 articles of the Law. No. After giving Moses the Law on the Mount Sinai, God also showed him the pattern of the sacrificial system of the Tabernacle right there on the mountain. This further shows us the purpose of the Law and the love of God. By giving us the Law God wanted us to know that we are people who have other gods before Him, we are murderers, we are people who cannot keep all the 613 articles of the Law, and by accompanying the Law with the sacrificial system He made a way for us to receive the remission of our sins. However, the people of Israel in their arrogance pledged to keep the Law. This is like challenging God whose intention in giving the Law was to enable mankind realize their sinfulness and seek the salvation He is offering to them. Even now, there are also still people who are trying hard to keep the Law, and there are also others who claim that the law is no longer needed in their lives. Both kinds of people are wrong.
    The laws was not given for us to keep, nor did God want us to throw it away. Rather it is through the law that we can see our original sinful nature and seek the salvation God is offering us. It is for us to realize that we are beings who are to be condemned for our sins and be cast to hell, that God gave us His law. If we are to void the Law, then we will no longer be able to recognize our sins and praise God for His righteousness that has come through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, nor will any sinner be able to meet the gospel of the water and the Spirit. For those who are working hard to keep the Law, God will wait for them until they realize that they cannot keep the Law, then He will give them the gospel of the water and the Spirit. I pray that everyone will meet Jesus Christ by realizing their sins and their consequences through the Law, just like the man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho met Him on his way. I hope that the Lord will meet them someday when their hearts become innocent, open and show them the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
    This gospel of the water and the Spirit is not cheap, it is more precious than any precious stones. And not just anyone can see this gospel because God does not reveal this gospel of the water and the Spirit to those whose hearts are not innocent. It pleases God to hide it in this way and reveal it to those who truly yearn for it. For those whose hearts have been occupied by the Nicene Creed promulgated by Constantine and his followers in AD 325, the gospel is sealed. However, God has opened and showed the gospel of the baptism of Jesus Christ and His blood to those who are not satisfied with this man-made doctrine or things of the world. Jesus Christ, the Son of God left His throne, came to this earth and dwelt among men. He lowered Himself to such an extent because He loves us. Even though He reigns over heaven and earth as the King of kings, He still came in the flesh of a man. God made Him a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek, this means that the Son of God has saved mankind once and forever. In the Old Testament, the priests were cut off by death, so they ministered just a short time and died. God decided not to send His own Son according to the order of Aaron but according to order of Melchizedek the King of Salem who has no beginning and end of days. Jesus Christ the Son of God existed even before the foundation of the world, He was with the Father when the world was created. He is God of the Word. He created the world with His Word, everything came to exist because the Son commanded them to exist. He is the Son of God the Father and God to us. After creating everything, this God of the Word said “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;” Jesus Christ was with His Father and the Holy Spirit when the world was created. He was the very Creator who made man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being (Genesis 2:7). It is Jesus Christ, the Son of God who did this work of creation and the work of saving man from sins.
    When His creatures fell into the temptation of Satan and sinned against God, He left His throne and came to save His own. He is our Creator, it is fair to Him that He should pity us His own creatures because He love us who were made in His image.
    He came down to save us from our sins. He has delivered us from our sin and death, by being baptized by John the Baptist to have our sins passed on His body through the laying on of hands on his head by John the Baptist. Just before his baptism John had tried to resist Him but Jesus commanded him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” (Matthew 3:15), this baptism is the only way Jesus Christ could receive our sins onto Himself and there is no other way. The next day after baptizing Jesus, John saw Him passing by and witnessed “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). He was saying that Jesus Christ has taken the sins of the world through the baptism he gave Him “yesterday”, just as the sacrificial animal took the sins of the Israelites in the Old Testament through the laying on of hands.
    Three years after receiving baptism from John the Baptist He was crucified on the Cross with our sins on His body to receive the judgement appropriate for our sins and rose again from the dead. He has given us resurrection and eternal life, and now resting at the right hand of the throne of God the Father. This is how the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit have come to receive rest in their hearts. If Jesus Christ forgives our sins each time we ask for forgiveness through the daily prayer of repentance, then He could not be resting now. Rather He must be coming down to this earth each time we offer such prayer, and we cannot truly say with good conscience that we have received rest in our hearts as our hearts will still be bound by the fearful judgement of God because of our sins. Because God has given a law that says the wages of sin is death, it has been fated for those who have sins in their hearts to be cast into hell as punishment for their sins. But through the love of God, we can now receive the remission of our sins once and forever by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that God’s own Son has fulfilled.
    But the gospel that today’s Christians believe in is not the gospel of the water and the Spirit but a gospel that was made at the First Council of Nicaea summoned by Constantine in AD 325. It was unimaginable for Constantine to believe that Jesus Christ is the only Saviour of mankind, seeing that he was a polytheist like other Romans. How could he possibly cast out the numerous Romans gods and believe only in Jesus Christ the Son of God as His Saviour and Saviour of the whole world? Even if he had done so, he would have faced a strong opposition. It would have appeared like a betrayal to the Romans and it would also mean that other Romans gods are not true gods and Saviour. Giving such a situation, how could he possibly have gone unopposed if he had accepted Jesus Christ as the only Saviour? This is unthinkable to him, however he could have believed in Jesus Christ as the only Saviour and become the first Roman emperor to do so, and possibly lead his people also to the gospel of the water and the Spirit. But he did not do this.
    Even so, Constantine had to somehow incorporate the faith of Christians into the his Roman’s belief system, since he had already made it a state religion, having previously had a dream before winning a war. It is reasonable that he did not want to completely wipe out Christian faith but to merge it with existing beliefs. He had to select the part he wanted and reject the other. He selected the blood and threw away the baptism, this is where Christians found themselves today. The Apostle’s Creed that we now have contains the faith in Jesus Christ as God’s only Son. Saying that Jesus Christ is the Son of God means that He is God Himself. Of course, I don’t know whether the writers of the Apostle’s Creed understood it as such but it is true that the Son of God is God. Jesus Christ the Son of God is equal with the Father. We can see this clearly when we go to the Bible, in Philippians 2:5-8 it is written "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross." Apostle Paul is saying that Jesus Christ has always been God. Though Jesus Christ is God who is equal with the Father, He did not hesitate to leave His throne and glory and came in the likeness of men, seen in appearance as a man and even dwelt among men. Even though He was God Himself, He humbled Himself even to the point of dying shameful death for our sins which He accepted with His baptism. We can now see why the Jews sought to stone Jesus when He said He was the Son of God. God the Father is divine so His Son must also be divine. Just in the same way human being give birth to human being.
    Although we can see the word that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the Apostle’s Creed, the makers of the Apostle’s Creed however removed an important part of the gospel of the water and the Spirit — the baptism of Jesus Christ. As Satan the Devil worked with them throughout the session of the meeting that produced the Nicene Creed. They removed the baptism of Jesus Christ and has rendered Christianity as one of the world’s religions. I heard that there is an ancient Roman tactic called “divide and conquer”, for one to keep his power, he caused a disagreement among opposing groups, weakened and subdued them. In some countries, politicians do such by bribing key members of the opposing group. Constantine deployed similar method; by removing the baptism of Jesus Christ he has turned Christians into a toothless bulldog that cannot even bark. Christianity whose faith is based on Nicene Creed has lost the light, so they cannot shine the light of Truth no matter how many times God might command them to arise and shine.
    Now, Christians must realize the origin of their false faith and reform it by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit which was foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ the Son of God came in the New Testament according to the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek king of Salem was written about in the Old Testament. He met Abraham on his way returning from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him. “Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High” (Genesis 14:18). Melchizedek king of Salem is translated as king of peace and king of righteousness. Who then is the king of peace and King of righteousness? It is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Melchizedek was Jesus Christ. Just as the laying on of hands in the Old Testament is the baptism of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. This Melchizedek gave Abraham bread and wine, foreshadowing Jesus Christ of the New Testament who gave us bread and wine. “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 16:26-28). Jesus gave us His body — by being baptized by John the Baptist our sins were passed onto His body. And He took the sins on His body to the Cross shedding His blood for the judgment of those sins dying on it saying “It is finished!” This is the bread and wine He brought to us. By looking at how the Word of Old Testament and New Testament match, we can see how broad the wisdom of God is and what a long plan He took to save us from our sins. There is a proverb in our place that says “Whoever eats with the Devil should use long spoon.” This means for us not to be defeated by Satan the Devil, we must calculate first and think far ahead. In the movie The Matrix Reloaded, Smith thought he could defeat Neo by cloning him into his copy. Towards the end of the movie he cloned Neo, it was not long he saw Neo body cracking and bursting so he regretted saying “Oh, no, no, no. No, it’s not fair.” It is not fair to him because he had thought he could win by cloning Neo, but Neo body bursting means all his copies including he himself will also burst, he lost the fight instead. After Jesus Christ the Son of God had pleased God the Father by taking the sins of the world with His baptism, Satan thought he could end everything by killing Him. He moved men to kill Jesus, but when Jesus said on the Cross “It is finished!”, Satan came to realize that he had lost the fight. This is how wise our God is, He hid the Truth from the evil ones.
    However, Christians in the Late Antiquity fell victim of Satan’s attack. When we study a little bit more about the events prior to the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325, we can see that Devil has carefully laid a trap for Christians. Constantine had a strong opposition named Maxentius, with numerically superior armies. Before going to war with this opposition, Constantine had seen a vision of cross-shaped trophy in the sky formed from light and with the words “in this sign, conquer” written in Greek. It is said that he marked the shields of his soldiers with the cross sign before going to the war. In AD 312 he won the war — the Battle of the Milvian Bridge defeating his closest rival Maxentius who drowned in a river, thus he became an undisputed Roman emperor. After winning the war, he attributed the victory to the God of Christians and in AD 313, he issued the Edict of Milan which legalized Christianity and made it the state religion. Christians then might have felt relieved from their persecution and wanted to enjoy freedom but they never knew they were falling into a trap. Satan had already set a trap for Christians, and in the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325 Christianity was caught in this trap. At this meeting, the baptism of Jesus Christ was removed and only the blood of the Cross was emphasized from then on. The gap between AD 313 when the Edict of Milan was issued and AD 325 when the First Council of Nicaea was held was 12 years. It seems to me that the faith of Christians were weakened greatly for such a long period of not exercising their faith, because they were enjoying religious freedom without persecution. So when the First Council of Nicaea was summoned, they couldn’t resist the Nicene Creed. Constantine therefore distorted the gospel of the water and the Spirit in the Late Antiquity. They knew about the baptism of Jesus Christ before the First Council of Nicaea, they removed it intentionally, but it seems that they never really knew they were committing a great sin against God. They probably thought they were doing service to Christians and their God by editing their faith to become a universally accepted religion and merging it with Roman’s belief system. As a result, today’s Christians are still sticking to only the Cross as their salvation with do-or-die devotion.
    Now therefore, we must never distort this gospel of the water and the Spirit as Constantine did. We have to keep the faith in the baptism of Jesus Christ and His bloodshed. If we follow the wicked thoughts of our flesh we will surely come to disturb the gospel of the water and the Spirit. We can avoid the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit committed by Constantine and his followers by following the Word of God and not our wicked thoughts. If we follow the Word given through God’s servant in His church and the desire of the Holy Spirit, we will never fall into the sin that Constantine fell into. The mistaken thoughts of Constantine and his hired theologians have led Christians far away from the Truth of salvation. No one should follow the Nicene Creed that is sickening the hearts of people today, we must instead be led by the Word of God. The gospel of the water and the Spirit is all that Christians of this last age need to meet the Lord again in joy. However those who fail to believe in this gospel of Jesus’s baptism and blood and follow this Word will miss the Lord and His church. God is telling us that if we fail to hold onto His Word and follow His will to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit all over the world, and instead keep following our own wicked thoughts of the flesh we will be deported from His church someday and miss Him.
    I am happy that I met the gospel of the water and the Spirit while still living in this world, otherwise I would have been cast into hell on the last day. It’s fortunate to live in this century, where one can easily find the gospel of the water and the Spirit if only one will seek it. I am sure that you too will meet the gospel of the water and the Spirit which Constantine and his followers distorted by reading this book. And I thank God for giving us His Word of salvation in this last age.
    Hallelujah!

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