NLM Christian Blog

The Lord has allowed difficulties in order to firmly and perfectly establish our faith, for those of us who have become God’s people by believing in the gospel of water and the Spirit.

The One who overcame the world, who overcame Satan was Jesus Christ. He who believes in the word of the water, the blood, and the Spirit of Jesus will also overcome the world.

By being baptized — that is, through the baptism likened to the laying on of hands represented by the blue thread — He took upon Himself all the sins of the world. Just as the atoning sacrifice was slain and its blood shed, Jesus bore the sins of the world and died on the Cross, shedding His blood as the price for those sins. Through this, He completely removed all the sins of those who believe in the work of Jesus Christ, the Savior.

We must not believe merely in the blood of the cross, nor should we try to erase our sins through prayers of repentance. We must believe the fact that the sins of all humankind were definitively passed onto Jesus all at once at the very moment He was baptized by John the Baptist.

God’s will is that the purpose for creating mankind was to send His Son, Jesus, as our Savior to earth so that by believing in what He accomplished to save mankind from sin and judgment, believers may enter the kingdom of heaven.

John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan. Baptism is given in the form of “laying on of hands,” and John the Baptist is a descendant of Aaron and the representative of all mankind. When John put his hands on the head of Jesus Christ, all the sins of the world were passed onto Him according to the Law God had established.

Why Was Jesus Baptized? The Baptism of Jesus was to take away all our sins, the sins that we, the brood of evildoers, commit with our flesh throughout our lives.

God said that anyone who believes that Jesus is the King of all kings, the true God, and the true Savior would be begotten of Him. Those who love God love Jesus, and those who truly believe in God love Jesus in the same way.

Why did Jesus wash the feet of Peter and His disciples on the day before Passover, before going to the Cross? Because He knew His disciples’ weaknesses, and He washed their feet to teach them that all their sins, past, present, and future, had already been washed away, so that sin could not come between Jesus and His disciples after He ascended to heaven.

Since we are born with sin as descendants of Adam, we must acknowledge that we are fundamentally sinners destined for hell, even if we do not commit sins through our actions. And we must have all the sins of our hearts removed through faith in the fact that Jesus, who is God, personally received baptism from John in the flesh, took upon Himself all the sins of the world, died on the cross as the price for our sins, and resurrected from the dead.