Bible Study 22 | Faith Acknowledged by the Lord
- The NLM
- Sep 17
- 6 min read
Updated: Sep 19
How Should We Believe in Jesus to Believe Correctly?
Are we truly those who have faith that God acknowledges?
Do you still think that keeping the Law and doing good is believing in Jesus correctly?
Do you know and believe the fact that Jesus personally received baptism to take upon Himself all your sins and curses, and that He is God who shed His blood and died on the cross, then was resurrected, having removed all your sins and curses once and for all?
The way we can truly be saved from all sins is not by keeping the Law or repenting of sins, but salvation is achieved by accepting and believing exactly as the Word states the gospel of water, blood, and the Spirit — Jesus’ salvation work of taking upon all the sins of the world through baptism, bearing them, and receiving judgment by shedding His blood on the cross for those sins.
Today’s sermon content is excerpted from “Return to the Gospel of Water and the Spirit” by Pastor Paul C. Jong, a servant of God at The New Life Mission, and delivers to you “the faith that Jesus desires from us” based on the Word of Scripture.
For those who wish to see the topics covered in this book in more detail, The New Life Mission homepage provides free access in e-book and audiobook formats, so please visit the homepage.
Faith Acknowledged by the Lord
Everyone, we need to establish and believe in how to correctly believe in Jesus.
What does it mean to believe in Jesus spiritually in a proper way? It means believing in the gospel of Jesus’ baptism and blood, which saved us from the sins of the world. Those who believe 100% in the merits of Jesus’ baptism and blood, without adding any of their own merits, are the ones who truly believe in Jesus with the right faith.
How about you?
What is your spiritual state when it comes to believing in Jesus? Are you trying to combine your faith in Jesus with your own efforts and strength, thinking that will create a righteous faith?
I have been there too. I once struggled immensely for about ten years with a legalistic faith; it was so hard and tedious. Even thinking about it now makes me cringe. On Sundays, ‘Honey,’ ‘Yes?’ ‘Please wash this.’ ‘Oh, we shouldn’t do laundry on Sunday.’ My pants ripped on a Sunday. ‘Can you mend this?’ But on this holy Sunday, how could we sew it, so we left it till Monday. Oh, the struggle. But in fact, I was even more meticulous than my wife in trying to keep Sunday sacred. It was tough keeping Sunday sacred. Sundays were not relaxing but exhausting, trying to keep the day sacred; I remember those times.
Believing in Jesus correctly means believing in the words that Jesus removed all our sins through His baptism and the shedding of His blood on the cross. Truly believing well in Jesus means believing in all the words, the divinity of Jesus, and all the deeds He performed for our redemption when He came to this earth, including His baptism and the shedding of His blood to remove all our sins.
What does it mean to believe in Jesus?
“It means to believe in the baptism and the blood that Jesus performed.” How simple and easy is that? When the Lord says something, when preachers convey the word, we should check if it aligns with the Bible, and if it does, say, “Oh, is that so? Yes, I understand. I will accept it. I believe.” This is the right way to believe.
“Thank you. It’s different from what I have known and believed, but if the word says so, then that’s how it must be. ‘Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the Law is the knowledge of sin’ (Romans 3:20). I used to think that the Law was good and needed to be followed because it is the Law, and I tried to keep it to gain salvation. But trying to gain salvation through keeping the Law is a mistaken belief; it’s impossible to keep it all! So, God gave us the Law to show that there is dirty and repulsive sin within me, that my wrong actions are sins before God! Ah! Thank you. I misunderstood and kept trying to uphold it. I have arrogantly challenged God’s perfection, but please have mercy on me. Now I believe that Jesus saved me from going to hell for my sins by being baptized and shedding His blood to remove my sins once and for all.”
You must honestly acknowledge and purely believe.
You must believe purely in all the words recorded in the scripture. Only then can you be fully reborn.
What does it mean to believe in Jesus?
Is it something you create? Is believing in Jesus a religion? Religion is something you create. You create your own god and your own faith. You make it and then strive towards your goal; that’s what religion is.
What is faith?
Faith means to believe, and reverence reflects looking up to the Lord’s work. The correct faith is to gratefully believe in your heart while looking up to the baptism Jesus received to take on the sins of sinners and the blood He shed on the cross in our place. This is true faith. There is such a difference between faith and religion. If you discern this, your faith scores a hundred.
Today, unregenerate legalists say that we must believe in Jesus and live righteously. Is living righteously just about good deeds? Of course, we should live righteously.
Where can you find someone who lives as righteously as a born-again righteous person? But when a born-again righteous person says that people should become righteous, they are speaking to those who have not been reborn. The heart of an unregenerate person contains twelve kinds of sins; how can they live righteously? They understand in their minds that they should live righteously, but they commit sins because of the sin in their hearts. For sinners, living righteously is just a theory; in reality, they instinctively commit sins.
Therefore, we must decide in our hearts whether we will live a Law-based faith or believe in the baptism and blood of Jesus Christ, who is our eternal High Priest and God, to receive salvation.
You, who truly believe, know that you have an eternal High Priest.
Recognize Jesus’ true salvation through His baptism and blood, believe in it, and receive salvation from sin once and for all. Let us live a life of faith and enter the eternal kingdom of heaven.
Faith Acknowledged by the Lord
Jesus did not give us the Law to keep it.
The Law was given as a tutor to make us know that we are sinners who will go to hell through the Law, and to lead us to Jesus Christ who accomplished eternal salvation.
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (Galatians 3:24)
Jesus, in order to take upon all the sins of humanity, personally received baptism from John the Baptist, the representative of all mankind, and thus bore all the sins of the world. Since the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), He received the judgment of the cross on behalf of us who would die and go to hell because of sin, and He was resurrected from death to remove all the sins of humanity cleanly.
Having compassion and love for us who would repeatedly repent and ask for forgiveness for the sins we fundamentally possess from birth, only to fall into sin again and go to hell, our Lord Jesus, who is mighty in power, removed all sins of humanity once and for all through baptism and the blood of the cross, and said, “You believe this.”
By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.(Hebrews 10:10)
Now we must hold fast by faith to the “Law of salvation” of water, blood, and the Spirit, and the only thing we must do is to accept the Word of Scripture exactly as it is, not the doctrines or knowledge of the world, and believe correctly in Jesus who removed all our sins with gratitude.
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