NLM Christian Blog

We must first be qualified to believe in God, and that qualification is to know that man is a seed of evil and to acknowledge that we are destined to go to hell. If we acknowledge that we are sinners bound for hell, Jesus will have mercy on us and save us from sin through the gospel of water (baptism), blood, and the Holy Spirit.

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.

It is a word that God will send God’s servant like Elijah in the Old Testament, and it means that John the Baptist would perform a ministry like Elijah of the Old Testament, turning God’s people who had fallen into idolatry back to God.

God appointed one representative — that is, the high priest representing the people — to lay his hands on the head of the sacrificial goat and transfer all the yearly sins of the people of Israel onto it. Just as the Israelites in the Old Testament knew and believed that their sins were blotted out through this sacrificial law, Jesus Christ came as the trespass offering to receive all the sins of all people in the world.

By receiving baptism from John, Jesus took on all the sins of mankind, and to those who believe this, He gave the removal of sins. Jesus, by receiving baptism, took on the sins of the world and, by being immersed in water, accepted the judgment for the sins of mankind on the Cross. This is the merit of the removal of sin established by God.

Jesus is God to us. As the Bible testifies, Jesus is the God of creation and the God who came as the Judge.

What is the imperishable food that God speaks of? Eating the imperishable food means believing in the One whom the Father has sent. “Jesus answered and said, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.’” (John 6:29)

In whose heart does the Holy Spirit indwell? The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is not achieved through human effort or accomplishment. Only those who believe in the ‘gospel of water and the Spirit’ and receive the removal of sins in their hearts by faith can receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Those who truly meet the Lord come to know that He has saved us from all sins through water and blood, and thus can live a blessed life as God’s people in this world, along with the blessing of eternal life.

Those who believe in Jesus Christ are no longer slaves to sin. This is because Jesus has already paid the price for all our sins through His baptism and blood.