NLM Christian Blog

I realized that the water represents the baptism of Jesus, where my sins were passed on to Him; the blood represents the judgment on the Cross, where He paid the price; and the Holy Spirit confirms my new life.

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.

The faith that God desires is to believe that Jesus, who is fundamentally God, came to this earth in the body of flesh, received baptism from John the Baptist to take upon Himself all our fundamental sins and present and future sins, died on the Cross shedding His blood as the price for these sins, rose from the dead, and removed our sins and the sins of the world once and for all eternally, thus becoming God’s children through this faith.

Jesus, who came to this earth as the Lamb of God, received baptism which was in the same form as the laying on of hands in the Old Testament to bear all the sins of mankind, shed His blood and died on the cross to receive the judgment for these sins in our place, rose from the dead, removed all our past, present, and future sins once and for all, and became the Savior of those who believe.

This is the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which is the primary topic of this amazing, Holy Spirit inspired book.