Book Review of Book 1, titled - “ Have You Truly Been Born Again Of Water And The Spirit? ”
Written by – Paul C. Jong
Hi! I am Shyam Marak from India.
And here I would like to do a book review on one of the spiritual book series by Rev. Paul C. Jong, that is on the gospel of being born again of Water and the Spirit.
And this is the book that I am doing a review and as you can see, the title of the book is “ Have Truly Been Born Again Of Water And The Spirit? ” written by Rev. Paul C. Jong and also on the back side of the book, it reads – “ The Message In This Book Washed Away All My Sins! ”
So, this is the first book of our time and this last age to preach the true gospel of water and the Spirit, in which all the early Christians and all the Apostles of Christ believed in and preached in strict accordance with the Bible.
Now, the contents of the book has two parts: Part one is of – Sermons, which has a total of 8 sermons and Part two is of – Appendix, which include Testimonies of Salvation, Supplementary Explanation and Questions & Answers.
So, the book starts with sermon 1, that says - “ We Must First Know about Our Sins To Be redeemed.”
So, Sermon 1 talks about the importance of first knowing exactly what our Sinful Human Nature is and to know what is in the heart of all Human Being and to first obtain the correct knowledge on our Sinful Existence and our Fundamental Human Nature through the written words of God, so that by recognizing and knowing our true fundamental sinful nature, we would long for His grace and salvation and completely depend and rely on Him to be redeemed from all our sins and become born again through our faith in the Word of Truth of the Gospel of Water and the Spirit.
Now, Sermon 2 speaks that- “ Human Beings Are Born Sinners.”
In Mark 7:20-23, Jesus said that since all human beings are born as descendants of Adam, all people are inherited and born with the 12 Kinds of Sins in their hearts, such as evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. And all these evil things that come from within human heart that makes a person sinner. Therefore, when we really look at ourselves through the written words of Jesus, it is evident that we are
merely masses of sin, or a person is only a ‘seed of evil’ who cannot help but can only bear the fruits of sin from the day of our birth till to the day of our death and eventually to be thrown as a seed of evil into the eternal fires of hell. And that’s what our destiny was.
And Sermon 3 says that- “ If We Do Things by the Law, Can It Save Us? ”
Here, Sermon 3 teaches and reveals the truth about the purpose and the reason why God gave us the Law. The reason God created the Law and has given us the 613 Articles of the Law was to make us realize how completely sinful we are and to save our souls from such sin. Romans 3:20 states, “By the law is the knowledge of sin.” Therefore, we know that God’s reason for giving us the Law was not to force us to live by it but it has been given to you to recognize yourself as a sinner with evil in your heart and it shows that you are a lump of sin. And it tells us our inability to live by His Law and that we are too weak to completely obey the Law in its entirety and that we should all end up in hell according to His just Law, so that by recognizing the impossibility of being saved from hell without Jesus, we would long for God’s grace to be redeemed from all our sins.
Sermon 4, talks about “ The Eternal Redemption.”
In John 8, there is a story of a woman who was caught in the act of adultery and we see how Jesus saved her and how she received the grace of God. When the scribes and Pharisees dragged the woman who had been caught in the act of adultery before Jesus and set her in their midst asking Jesus to stone her to death, we see that Jesus stooped down twice and wrote on the ground with His finger. So, what was Jesus been writing on the ground? This means God, who created us, writes our sins in two different places. So, according to the Book of Jeremiah 17:1, first, God writes our sins on the tablet of our hearts and secondly, God writes our sins on the horns of the altars, meaning our sins are recorded on the Books of Works or the Book of Judgment. Dear friends! We see that Jesus didn’t condemn the woman because Jesus had already taken away all her sins through His baptism at the Jordan River, and she was already redeemed. Now, Jesus, not the woman, had to be judged for her sins on the Cross.
And Sermon 5, teaches and reveals about the secret hidden truth about “ The Baptism of Jesus and The Atonement of Sins.”
The Gospel of Heaven always starts from the testimony of John the Baptist. And that’s why we can see that all the four Gospels start from the point of the coming of John the Baptist. So, John the Baptist was the last High Priest of the descendant of Aaron and the representative of all mankind. John the Baptist was a servant of God whose mission was to pass all the sins of the world onto Jesus through the baptism
and to bear witness to Jesus in order for all of mankind to repent and be washed of their sins by believing in the gospel of redemption.
So, Hebrews 1:9, says that the law was a shadow of the good things to come. The law in other words, the sacrificial system, was a shadow of the good things to come. The sacrifices of the Old Testament, of sheep and goats, revealed to us that Jesus Christ would come and take away our sins in the same manner in order to blot out our sins. Therefore, the complete and eternal Being, the One without blemish, the Son of God, had to come to earth.
And when we read Matthew 3:13-17, we can see that Jesus went to Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist. But when John tries to prevent Him, Jesus said to John, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” In the Old Testament, when a sacrifice was offered to God, either the sinner or the high priest laid his hands on its head and passed on the sins. ‘To lay one’s hands on’ means ‘to pass.’
So, when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, it was the same as the laying on of hands in the Old Testament. The New Testament is the reality while the Old Testament is its shadow. When a sinner laid his hands on a lamb in the Old Testament, his sin was passed onto the lamb and the lamb was to be killed due to the sins. Likewise, when John laid his hands on Jesus’ head, all the past, present and future sins of the world were passed on to Jesus at the Jordan River and in this way, all the righteousness of God was fulfilled for all human being and that’s why the Bible says, that the very next day John the Baptist testified, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”
Sermon 6 tells that “ Jesus Christ Came by Water, Blood and the Spirit.”
The Apostle John said in 1 John 5:6-8, that the correct faith is to believe in “the witness of the Spirit, the water and the blood.” The complete faith that leads us to true salvation is the faith in Jesus Christ, “who came by water and blood – Jesus Christ.”
And Sermon 7 testifies that “ The Baptism of Jesus Is The Antitype of Salvation For Sinners.”
The Apostle Peter in 1 Peter 3:21, said “There is an antitype which now saves us, namely baptism, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Here, we can see that the Apostle Peter declared water, which means the baptism of Jesus, to be “an antitype which now saves us.”
And finally Sermon 8, tells about “ The Gospel of the Abundant Atonement.”
In John 13, the words Jesus spoke while washing His disciples’ feet are recorded and it talks about the perfect salvation that Jesus had fulfilled for His disciples. While washing their feet, Jesus told them about the wisdom of the gospel of His baptism through which all men could be washed off from all their sins.
Jesus washed His disciples’ feet to show that He had already taken away all our daily sins and even the future sins through His baptism and that is why He took the judgment for them on the Cross.
The book in conclusion, reveals the secret truth hidden in the gate of the court of the Tabernacle. The gate of the court of the tabernacle is described in Exodus 27:16. The materials used for the gate of the court of the tabernacle were blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen thread. These four materials symbolize the blueprint of God’s salvation, by which He would save all those who believed in His Son, through the baptism and the blood of Jesus and in His being God. Therefore, Blue yarn symbolizes the Baptism of Jesus. Scarlet yarn symbolizes the blood of Jesus. Purple yarn symbolizes His Divinity – the status of Jesus as King and God. And the fine linen thread means that He saved all of us without exception from all our sins.
And finally, here I am very glad to recommend this book to each and every one of you living out here today, to reach out to and read this book with the Bible, so that you too also can be able to find out the amazing discovery of ‘the secret of salvation’ revealed in this book, so that you will be able to know the truth and be set free from all your sins.
With faith in the Gospel of the water and the Spirit, I thank the Lord! Halleluiah!
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