There are so many spiritually paralytics in this world right now. It is tantalizing to witness so many people who are not aware of the fact that they are clearly spiritual paralytics. They are deceived by the Devil and thus think that they can cleanse away their sins on their own by offering prayers of repentance. What can they actually do well when their whole body has become paralyzed? Once a person gains even the slightest bit of strength to move on, they go against the righteousness of God with the thinking that he can do something on their own although they cannot do anything, and thus in the end are destroyed. A healthy person, a person who tries to keep the Law of God well in His presence, cannot receive the remission of sins. But someone, who acknowledges that he is a weak person who cannot but commit sins before the presence of God and knows that he cannot do anything, receives the remission of sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The remission of sins a human receives from God is very simple. If you say, “God, I cannot do anything. I myself cannot even offer any prayers of repentance well and there isn’t anything I can do well,” our Lord then says, “I have come to save a person just like you."
Dear fellow believers, in spiritual terms we are these paralytics who cannot do anything for ourselves. But God has saved us who were unable to do anything. We have not been saved by our own efforts. We are these spiritual paralytics. Thus, we cannot blot out any of our sins on our own. We have the power to do everything else if God allows us, but we do not have the power to blot out any of our sins. This is the reason why God came into this world and blotted out all our sins at once by the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Sichembe Gilbert, Zambia
