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Who is the one that denies Jesus, the almighty God?
It is he who does not believe that Jesus is God who created the entire universe
(Genesis 1:1-3, John 1:10-12).
"Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges
the Son has the Father also" (1 John 2:23).
He who believes that Jesus, who is God and the Savior, came by the gospel of
the water and the Spirit to deliver all sinners from their sins, is saved from all his
sins, and becomes a child of God the Father.
The First Epistle of John states that Jesus, who is God, came to us by the
gospel of the water and the Spirit, and that He is the Son of God the Father. The
Book, in other words, mostly emphasizes that Jesus is God (1 John 5:20), and
concretely testifies the gospel of the water and the Spirit in chapter 5.
We must not hesitate to believe that Jesus Christ is God and to follow Him.
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Paul C. Jong’s
Spiritual Growth
Series 3
The First Epistle of John (I)
Paul C. Jong’s
Spiritual Growth
Series 3
The First Epistle of John (I)
PAUL C. JONG
Hephzibah Publishing House
A Ministry of THE NEW LIFE MISSION
SEOUL, KOREA
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Paul C. Jong’s Spiritual Growth Series 3:
The First Epistle of John (I)
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Scripture quotations are from the New King James
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Table of Contents
Preface ----------------------------------------------- 6
CHAPTER 1
Jesus Christ Is God
(1 John 1:1-10) --------------------------------- 11
Do You Really Have Fellowship with God?
(1 John 1:1-10) --------------------------------- 26
Two Sorts of Confession
(1 John 1:8-10) --------------------------------- 48
Confession in Truth
(1 John 1:8-10) --------------------------------- 81
CHAPTER 2
Jesus Christ Is the True God
(1 John 2:1-5) --------------------------------- 141
Our Lord Who Has Become Our Advocate
(1 John 2:1-17) ------------------------------- 168
Are You Living in God’s Commandment?
(1 John 2:7-11) ------------------------------- 201
Do Not Love the World or the
Things in the World
(1 John 2:15-17) ------------------------------ 221
Who Are the Enemies of Christ?
(1 John 2:18-29) ------------------------------ 242
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Preface
The Apostle John is one of the greatest
spiritual leaders in Christianity. All three Epistles
he wrote are still testifying the most general and
spiritual Truth to the saints in God’s Church. But
there are some passages that are hard for us to
interpret and understand.
We can give 1 John 1:8 as the first example of
the difficult passages in John’s Epistles: "If we
say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us." This passage is hard
to understand, especially when we apply it to the
believers in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit.
The second example is 1 John 1:9, "If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all
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unrighteousness." This has been one of the most
frequently quoted passages when sinners try to
present the biblical ground of their prayers of
repentance. Then, does this passage mean that
sinners should confess their sins to be forgiven
for the sins they have committed? Or, does it
mean that the righteous who believe in the gospel
of the water and the Spirit ought to confess their
sins? We should believe this passage according
to the interpretation of the Holy Spirit, the
Author of the Bible, and to the intention of John
the Apostle.
The third example of a difficult passage is 1
John 2:22, "Who is a liar but he who denies that
Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies
the Father and the Son." This passage is talking
about who the enemies of God are. This verse
clarifies that the enemies of God are those who
don’t believe that Jesus is God. And this also
means that they don’t approve the Father of Jesus
Christ as God.
The fourth one is 1 John 3:6 that says,
"Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever
sins has neither seen Him nor known Him."
Here, when we see the phrase "Whoever abides
in Him," this passage is given to the righteous
who have been cleansed of all their sins by
believing in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit. The righteous cannot deny their faiths in
any circumstances because they believe in the
true gospel. Can there be some who really don’t
commit sins with their flesh? Everyone sins. But,
the believers in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit cannot commit such a sin as denying the
true gospel.
Who are those who believe in Jesus the true
God as their perfect Savior today? They are the
ones who are delivered from all their sins by
believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit
in their hearts. They are the sinless saints because
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they believe in this true gospel. Today, many
people have become God’s enemies, who don’t
believe in Jesus the God as God. Owing to this
unbelief, this world is now full of people who
don’t believe that the Father of Jesus is God.
They are the sinners who don’t believe that Jesus
the true God has saved us from all our sins once
and for all.
The last difficult passage is 1 John 5:5-8 that
says, "Who is he who overcomes the world, but
he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus
Christ; not only by water, but by water and
blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness,
because the Spirit is truth. For there are three
that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are
one. And there are three that bear witness on
earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and
these three agree as one."
What does "the water" mean here? It refers to
the baptism that Jesus received to take all the sins
of mankind at once (Matthew 3:15). This means,
in other words, the baptism Jesus received from
John the Baptist at the Jordan River. This Truth
tells us that Jesus’ baptism was the only way to
save us, all mankind, by blotting out all our sins
(1 Peter 3:21).
Now I would like to explain, through the
allegory of the Galileo case, the result of the
erroneous faiths of those who believe only in the
blood of the Cross, which is far different from
the faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit
that originated from the Apostolic Age.
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What Does the Galileo Case
Teach Us?
You may know well about Galileo Galilei
(1564-1642), who was known to have said the
famous remark, "But the earth is moving
nonetheless." He was an Italian physicist,
astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, and
inventor.
People in his days believed the geocentric
theory, which said that the earth was located at
the center of the universe and that all the planets
revolved around the earth. But, by devoting
himself to the astronomical observation, Galileo
came to advocate the Copernican heliocentric
theory that publicly opposed geocentricism. This
provoked the indignation of the Papal court, and
as a result, he came to suffer many hardships and
persecutions. But because of this, he won the
recognition as one of the greatest scientists who
had contributed to the development of modern
science.
Most people of his days believed in
geocentricism, and it was recognized as an
absolute truth being supported by the blind
faithfulness to their religion. On the other hand,
many geographical and astronomical discoveries
revealed the fallacies of geocentricism one after
another, but people of those days could not say
anything about it because the opponents of this
theory were regarded as the enemies of God, and
therefore, could not avoid suffering persecution.
But Galileo announced his new theory boldly. Of
course, he was persecuted severely by the
mainstream religion of that age, though the truth
could never be distorted or ignored by force or
by the number of its opponents.
As a matter of fact, the absolute majority of
today’s Christians believe only in the blood on
the Cross. They don’t know the Truth that Jesus,
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the true God, took all the sins of the world once
and for all by being baptized by John the Baptist.
They vainly believe in Jesus as their Savior
because they have no idea what the gospel of the
water and the Spirit is. This is like the blind trust
in the geocentric theory. And, if we announce the
decisive fallacy of today’s Christianity that
believes only in the blood of the Cross, there will
be a great disturbance, like that of the Galileo
case.
There is a saying that says, "We never think
twice on the matters that were made solid as the
common senses." As such, Many Christians do
not even think about the possible fallacies of
their faiths for they have believed concretely that
the blood of the Cross is the only truth of their
salvation. That’s why today’s Christianity is full
of such blind believers.
The Word of 1 John teaches us that we have to
know what the gospel of the water and the Spirit
is, and who the false prophets are. Therefore, we
should first properly learn the gospel of the water
and the Spirit to reach and have a deep
understanding of the Word in 1 John.
I pray to God that He will give all of us the
wisdom of discrimination, the Truth of salvation,
and the faith that concretely believes the Truth.
I give all my thanks to God. Hallelujah! ..
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CHAPTER 1
SERMON 1
(1 John 1:1-10)
"Jesus Christ Is God"
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Jesus Christ Is God
< 1 John 1:1-10 >
"That which was from the beginning, which
we have heard, which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked upon, and our
hands have handled, concerning the Word of
life—the life was manifested, and we have
seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that
eternal life which was with the Father and was
manifested to us—that which we have seen
and heard we declare to you, that you also
may have fellowship with us; and truly our
fellowship is with the Father and with His Son
Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you
that your joy may be full. This is the message
which we have heard from Him and declare to
you, that God is light and in Him is no
darkness at all. If we say that we have
fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we
lie and do not practice the truth. But if we
walk in the light as He is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. If we say that we have not
sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is
not in us."
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Why Did the Apostle John Speak of
Jesus Christ Who Was from the
Beginning?
Do you know Jesus properly?
We must know and believe that
Jesus is God Himself.
For us to understand 1 John, we must all first
know Jesus properly, who is God Himself. All of
us must stand firmly on the rock of this faith that
truly knows and believes in Jesus Christ as God.
To know and believe in Jesus the God as our
Savior necessarily means that we would know
that He is the God who created us. For all of us,
Jesus Christ is fundamentally the Creator God
and our perfect Savior. So for God the Father,
Jesus is His only begotten Son, while for us, He
has become our true Savior. It is when we all
know Jesus Christ as God that we can encounter
the true light of salvation and believe in it as
well.
On the other hand, if you do not know Jesus
Christ as God, then only spiritual confusion will
be brought to you. We must, therefore, stand firm
on the Truth that Jesus Christ is truthfully God
Himself, the One who has given us eternal life.
In 1 John 5:20, the Apostle John testifies that
Jesus Christ is the true God, saying, "And we
know that the Son of God has come and has
given us an understanding, that we may know
Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true,
in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and
eternal life." For all of us, in other words, it is
Jesus Christ who is God, and it is He who has
given us eternal life. As such, by placing our
faith in Jesus the God and believing in this
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Savior, we must be washed from our sins and
become God’s children. We must be saved from
all our sins by knowing and believing in Jesus
properly as the God who has given us salvation
through the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
Today’s Scripture Passage from 1
John 1 Is Telling Us from Where
True Fellowship Comes
From where does true
fellowship with God come?
This true fellowship is attainable only
when we know that Jesus Christ is God
for us and believe in the gospel
of the water and the Spirit.
1 John 1:3 tells us that for us to have true
fellowship with Jesus Christ, God Himself, we
must first begin by knowing and believing in
Him as our Savior.
According to the Apostles’ understanding of
the divine Jesus, in other words, He had no
imperfection whatsoever. And the Apostle John
also says in 1 John 1:6-7, "If we say that we have
fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we
lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk
in the light as He is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."
This passage tells us that if we truthfully
believe in Jesus as our Savior, then we can have
true fellowship with Him by believing in the
gospel of the water and the Spirit that He has
given us. The Apostle John is testifying here that
to have this true fellowship with God is to be
washed from our sins by believing that Jesus is
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God Himself and the Son of God the Father, and
by also believing that Jesus Christ took upon the
sins of the world through the baptism He
received from John the Baptist in the Jordan
River and shed His precious blood on the Cross.
This is because the gospel truth of the water and
the Spirit, that Jesus Christ, God Himself, has
saved us from all our sins, lasts forever.
The passage, where it says, "The blood of
Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin,"
tells us the following: Because Jesus had been
baptized by John the Baptist, He could take upon
the sins of the world; and thus, that Jesus was
crucified and shed His precious blood on the
Cross became His meritorious deed that has
washed away people’s sins in consequence. Our
Divine Lord was baptized by John the Baptist to
take upon all our sins, and He was crucified and
shed His blood on the Cross to bear all the
condemnation of sin. Therefore, today’s
Scripture passage tells us that this blood that
Jesus Christ shed on the Cross becomes our
salvation that has atoned all sinners’ sins and
iniquities.
It is indeed through Jesus Christ that we have
been washed from all our sins by faith. We must
believe that Jesus Christ, God Himself, came to
this earth as the Savior incarnated in the flesh of
man; that to blot out our sins, He took upon the
sins of the world by being baptized by John the
Baptist, was crucified and shed His blood on the
Cross, and rose from the dead; and that by doing
all these things He has given us new life
(Matthew 3:13-17, John 19:30). Since Jesus
Christ fulfilled the perfect salvation as such, to
know this Lord Jesus Christ as our God and
Savior, we must first know His baptism and
bloodshed, and by placing our faith in them,
receive the remission of our sins that cleanses us
from all our sins once for all.
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1 John 1:9 testifies, "If we confess our sins,
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." This
passage tells us that if we confess that we are
piles of sin who are born with sin from the day of
our birth (Mark 7:21-22), and if we confess our
insufficient selves who cannot help but sin all the
time, we can receive the remission of our sins by
believing in the true gospel. that our Lord God
has already cleansed away all our sins with the
baptism that He received from John the Baptist,
and that He bore all the condemnation of sin by
shedding His blood on the Cross. In other words,
even though we are such that we cannot but go to
hell, when we admit that we are such sinful
beings and when we believe in the Truth that
Jesus Christ has already washed away all our sins
with His baptism and the bloodshed on the Cross,
seeing this faith of ours, God will then cleanse us
from our sins. This was made possible because
our Divine Lord is the true God who was more
than able to already cleanse away all our sins
with His baptism and bloodshed.
Therefore, we must first confess to our Lord
God saying, "We are evildoers who indeed sin all
the time." And we must know and believe in the
Truth that this Lord has already blotted out all
our sins once for all with the baptism that He
received from John and the precious blood that
He shed on the Cross. This perfect washing of
sin was made possible because Jesus Christ is the
true Savior and the true God for all of us. Our
Divine Lord is the God who has enabled all of us
to recognize and know the true washing of sin
through the gospel truth of the water and the
Spirit. It is Jesus Christ our God who has made it
possible for us to know and believe in the true
remission of our sins through the gospel of the
water and the Spirit. Now, all we have to do is
just know and believe that our Lord has washed
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away all our sins once for all with His baptism
and His bloodshed on the Cross. This Divine
Lord is the true God and the true Savior for us.
The Apostle John said in 1 John 1:10, "If we
say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar,
and His word is not in us." We are such that we
cannot but sin all the time. We need to realize
that if we say to Jesus Christ our God that we do
not sin in our flesh, we would actually be
committing the sin of despising and standing
against the work of salvation that God has done
for us. However, these sins that we commit all
the time as we carry on with our lives are also
included in the sins of the world, and therefore
this means that our Lord God has washed away
all our sins with the gospel of the water and the
Spirit that He has given us. We must also realize
that our Lord said this so that those who neither
know nor believe in the gospel truth of the water
and the Spirit would not be able to receive the
gift of the true washing of sin unless they believe
in this Truth.
If you now truthfully know and believe that
Jesus the God is the son of God, then you will be
able to believe that the Lord has delivered all of
us from our sins by coming to this earth, being
baptized by John the Baptist, and shedding His
blood. In fact, it is only when we first begin by
knowing Jesus Christ our God that it is made
easier for all of us to believe in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit that the Lord has given us. It
is not such a difficult thing for everyone to
believe in this true gospel, because the Bible
clearly says that Jesus Christ, the true God, has
fulfilled this Truth. If it is something that the true
God Jesus has done, then it must be true and
perfect. It cannot be a lie or a mistake, that He
should repent of it, for it is written in Numbers
23:19,
"God is not a man, that He should lie,
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Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it
good?"
Jesus, our true God, has saved us all mankind
from all our sins through His baptism and His
bloodshed on the Cross. He also was resurrected
from the dead, ascended to Heaven to reveal His
original status as the true God, and became the
true Savior for the believers in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit. Truly, it is by our faith in
Jesus Christ, the God who came of the gospel of
the water and the Spirit, that we can have
unfaltering faith in this true gospel.
We Must Know That Jesus, the True
God, Has Saved Us with the Gospel
of the Water and the Spirit
Had today’s Christians begun their journey of
faith from the proper knowledge of and beliefs in
Jesus the true God, they would have been able to
accept it only as natural that He took upon the
sins of mankind by being baptized by John the
Baptist (Matthew 3:15). However, because many
people do not believe that Jesus is the true God,
as a result, they have not yet receive the grace of
salvation that was fulfilled by His baptism and
bloodshed.
Therefore, for you and I to have true
fellowship with God, we must begin from the
faith that believes in Jesus as the true God. Let
me repeat this once more. If all of us do not
begin our faith from this faith that knows and
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believes in Jesus the God, our faith will all be
rendered completely futile. If you have this faith
in the divinity of Jesus, you will then find it
easier to believe in the gospel of the water and
the Spirit. And it is by our faith in this true
gospel that we can be perfected. By believing in
Jesus Christ, the God who has saved us from all
our sins, we can all be washed from our sins once
for all by faith.
If we do not even realize that Jesus is God,
what is the use of believing in Him as our
Savior? And if you do not believe in the gospel
of the water and the Spirit given by this Divine
Jesus, there can be no benefit for you at all. But
if you have this faith in Jesus as the Savior and
God, then by believing in the gospel of the water
and the Spirit given by the Lord, you will be able
to receive the washing of sin and eternal life into
your heart.
Jesus Christ, God Himself, came to this earth
to save you and me from our sins, and by being
baptized by John the Baptist, being crucified and
dying on the Cross, and rising from the dead
again, He has indeed saved us perfectly. It is my
sincerest hope and prayer that you would all
believe in this Jesus Christ who has enabled you
to be saved from all your sins as the Son of God
and the true God Himself.
The problem, however, is that many of today’s
Christians do not know Jesus properly. The false
teachers of Christianity had confused the
spiritual Truth from the Early Church age (Acts
15:24), for they did not know the gospel of the
water and the Spirit at all. To untangle from their
sins those whose faith is all confused like a
tangled spool and who believe in Jesus Christ our
God only vaguely, we have to believe in Jesus
the true God as our Savior even more fervently,
As such, we have the duty to bear witness of the
gospel truth of the water and the Spirit to all
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people. You and I must now know and believe
that Jesus Christ our God is the Creator who
made the universe and all things in it, and that He
is the true Savior.
Jesus the True God Is the Creator
Who Made the Heavens and the
Earth, and the Lord of the Universe
In Genesis 1:1-3, it is written, "In the
beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. The earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was on the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the
waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and
there was light." This God here who said, "Let
there be light," is none other than Jesus Christ.
Let us turn to John 1:1-3: "In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. He was in the beginning with
God. All things were made through Him, and
without Him nothing was made that was made."
This passage tells us that in the beginning, God
created the universe with the Word. So God
created all things, and if anyone asks who He is,
the answer is that He is Jesus Christ, God
Himself.
John 1:10 also says, "He was in the world,
and the world was made through Him, and the
world did not know Him." The pronoun "He"
used here refers to Jesus Christ, the one and only
God. Jesus the true God came to this earth
incarnated in the flesh of man to save sinners.
Jesus Christ is the One who created the
universe and all things in it. In other words, He is
God Himself. Jesus Christ is the God who has
delivered us from all our sins and death by
coming to this earth incarnated in the flesh of
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man, being baptized by John the Baptist,
shouldering the sins of the world and being
crucified, and rising from the dead again. This
divine Jesus is the Son of God, and He has
become the Messiah, our Savior. It is by Jesus
Christ the true God that this world was created.
Therefore, as we believe in Jesus Christ the
true God, though we have never seen God with
our eyes of the flesh, we can still meet Him
through Jesus Christ (John 1:18). God the Father
had sent His only begotten Son to this earth
incarnated in the flesh of man, and through Jesus
this Son of God, He has enabled us to find out
who our Savior is. It is from this knowledge—
"Jesus is God"—that our race of faith must
begin. It is only then that the race can be begun
from the faith that knows the Truth of salvation.
We must all know the Truth that Jesus Christ,
God Himself, came to this earth and has saved us
from all the sins of the world with the gospel
truth of the water and the Spirit.
We must have the knowledge and faith that
the Divine Jesus is God Himself. He who is God,
He who is the Creator who made the universe,
came to this earth as our Savior and has saved us
from the sins of the world. God Himself, in other
words, came to this earth in the flesh of man,
shouldered the sins of the world by being
baptized, was crucified and shed His blood to
death, rose from the dead again, and has thereby
saved us from the sins of the world once for all.
You need to realize here just how much Jesus
Christ had sacrificed Himself to save you from
the sins of the world. Even though Jesus was
God Himself, He had to become a creature to
deliver us from our sins and make us God’s
people, He had to take upon everyone’s sins by
being baptized by John the Baptist, and He had
to sacrifice Himself by shedding the blood of His
own flesh on the Cross. And by rising from the
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dead, He has bestowed His mercy on all those
who believe in this Truth that has made them
God’s own people. It is because we believe in
Jesus the true God that we, who believe in His
baptism and His sacrifice on the Cross, have
received the true power of salvation. This is how
all human beings who believe in Jesus the true
God can now be saved perfectly through the
gospel truth of the water and the Spirit.
Our Lord is, in other words, the God who
came to deliver us from the sins of the world. In
contrast, however, all the world’s great men and
the founders of the religions that have come and
gone in this world are no more than mere
creatures. But the divine Jesus is fundamentally
God Himself. Jesus who is our God is our
Creator, and we are His creation. All human
beings are the creatures made by Jesus Christ. It
is because Jesus the true God created the heavens
and the earth that everything exists. It is because
this divine Jesus said, "Let there be light," that
this light still exists in this world. This is why
Paul said that the knowledge of Jesus Christ is
the most excellent one (Philippians 3:8).
Beginning from the Belief that Jesus
is God, We Must Seek to Understand
the Word of the Bible
When we know and believe in Jesus Christ,
God Himself, there is nothing difficult about the
Truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
The Apostle John tells us that Jesus Christ the
true God has saved His believers from the sins of
the world. If we believe in Him as the
Omniscient God, we cannot but confess before
Him that we are weak and insufficient beings—
in other words, that we are the seeds of sin—and
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come to accept the gospel of the water and the
Spirit. However, if we think of ourselves as
believers in Jesus even as we neither
acknowledge that He is God nor believe in the
gospel truth of the water and the Spirit, we will
ultimately end up deceiving both ourselves and
God, and we will forever be unable to receive the
grace of salvation.
Jesus Christ the Almighty God has saved us
from all the sins of the world with the gospel of
the water and the Spirit. We must know and
believe that to save us from the sins of the world,
Jesus Christ, the true God, came to us through
the gospel of the water and the Spirit. He has
given us the gospel of the water and the Spirit,
and He has enabled all those who believe in this
truth of salvation to have true fellowship with
God.
Therefore, every Christian must recognize this
true God Jesus as the Savior and believe as such.
Those who do not believe in Jesus as God are
unable to understand the gospel Word of the
water and the Spirit written in the Scriptures.
Even though it is clearly written in the Bible that
the Jesus Christ, God Himself, has blotted out all
our sins with the gospel of the water and the
Spirit, they still do not acknowledge this work of
God. It is because they do not recognize Jesus
Christ as their God and Savior that they neither
recognize all the Word of truth written in the
Bible. Do you now believe in Jesus Christ as
God Himself, and as your Savior?
If Jesus is our God, then He is also God for the
entire mankind. It must then be also true that
Jesus has saved us by coming to this earth, being
baptized, dying on the Cross, and rising from the
dead again. Even though Satan has muddled and
twisted people’s understanding of God, the
gospel Truth is, in fact, simple enough to believe.
We need to tell others that they must have
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faith in Jesus as God. Yet when we actually
speak to countless Christians, we discover that
while they believe that Jesus is the Son of God,
not many of them know or believe that He is God
Himself. This is what the Apostle John is
speaking of. Those who do not believe that Jesus
is fundamentally God Himself all have flawed
faith.
The reason why I am saying this repeatedly is
because people throughout the world do not
know the gospel Truth of the water and the
Spirit, which is the truth of salvation that Jesus,
God Himself, has given us. Our duty on this
earth is to know Jesus as the true God and to
preach His salvation, that God has remitted away
all the sins of this world with the true gospel of
the water and the Spirit. What could be more
worthwhile than this?
My dear fellow believers, please pray for me
and for our co-workers also. When those of us
who believe in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit pray, the Divine Jesus Christ and God His
Father hear us, for Jesus Christ has saved us and
become our Savior God, and He is the only
begotten Son of God the Father. Jesus Christ our
God hears our prayers and answers us. I ask you
to pray now that God would save all the people
of this entire world. And I hope that you would
all pray to God by placing your faith in the
Almighty God Jesus.
Let me once again reiterate my admonition for
you here. Believe that Jesus Christ is the true
Savior and God. From henceforth, Jesus Christ,
God Himself, will now protect you from all
danger in your behalf. However, if you do not
believe in Jesus as the true God, then He cannot
lead your faith to the right path.
Satan is trying to corrupt your faith. And this
age is turning increasingly worse. You should
therefore believe even more firmly that Jesus is
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God, and that He has come to this earth through
the gospel of the water and the Spirit. What you
must know is the Truth that Jesus Christ is God,
that He came to this earth incarnated in the flesh
of man to deliver us from the sins of the world,
and that He has saved us through His baptism
and the blood of the Cross—in this must you
believe. I hope and pray that you would all know
and believe in Jesus Christ in the Truth of the
water and the Spirit.
We must also realize that if we lose this faith
in the true God Jesus as our Savior, we are
nothing to God. Satan will persistently try to
corrupt our faith in Jesus our God and in the
gospel of the water and the Spirit. But this is the
very reason why we must hold onto the gospel
Truth of the water and the Spirit that we believe
even more steadfastly.
The strong tide of atheism is flowing all over
the world. After Friedrich W. Nietzsche dared to
say, "God is dead," the people of this world are
publicly challenging God, saying, "Where is the
living God?" Uniting together, they try to stand
against God and to ostracize those who believe in
Him.
However, we the faithful believers have to
swim against this current by standing firm with
our faith in Jesus the true God. It would be only a
tragedy if we fail to keep this faith. Only when
we believe that the divine Jesus is our God do we
truly believe in Him; otherwise, we do not
believe in anything.
As more time goes by, this world will now get
only worse. But by believing in Jesus as our God,
we are still preaching the gospel of the water and
the Spirit throughout this world. I am sure that
Jesus the true God will protect us from all evil
spirits as long as we have faith in His divinity
and the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
I give all my thanks to God. ..