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A Gift of the God to the World
Who Is Jesus Christ? :-
1.Why Did Jesus Come to This
World?
2.Was Jesus God?
3.
Why Did
People Not Receive Jesus into Their Hearts?
4.When We Believe in Jesus,
How Can We Receive Him Truly?
5.We Must Know and Believe in Jesus,
Who Is Both Divine and Human
6.
What Is the Meaning of the Baptism
of Jesus?
7.The Baptism of Jesus and the Blood
of the Cross
Why Did Jesus Come to This World?
Jesus came through the body of a virgin. Reason:
To save human beings from sin, He
had to come in their flesh.
In what form did He come?
He came in a form that had nothing to be desired
of. Jesus came to the nation of Israel, as a
man, and through the body of the Virgin Mary
engaged to Joseph, for He came to fulfill the
Word of prophecy for the sake of mankind. Christ
came to become the light for this dark world.
He came to become and work as the Interceder
between God and mankind. After being baptized by
John and while thus shouldering the sins of the
world, He was crucified and shed His blood on
the Cross. As such, He came to give the
remission of sin and life to those who believe.
Christ came to enable us to enter the Kingdom of
Heaven by believing in His baptism of the
cleansing of sin and the blood of the Cross, and
to allow us to avoid the fiery hell. This world had been a dark and hopeless world.
Before Christ came to this world, there was no
light of true salvation, but worse, it was
locked in pitch-black darkness. To such a world
as this, Jesus came. Why did Jesus come? He came
to shine the light of salvation to this world.
Actually, Jesus was not born in December.
Rather, He was born in a season when the fields
of Israel were filled with green grass, when
shepherds tended their sheep out in the open
field and let them graze there (Luke 2:8). This
verifies the fact that His actual birthday was
not December 25.
Why, then, do we celebrate Christmas on this
cold day of December 25? This was because from
the mid 4th century A.D., the Western Church set
this day of December 25 as the birthday of Jesus
to prevent the spread of the pagan worship of a
sun god. But this day was actually a day of
worshipping the sun god.Aiming to inhibit the
participation in this pagan celebration and to
prevent the adulteration of Christians’ faith,
the same day of pagan festivity was proclaimed
as the birthday of Jesus, in a kind of strategy
akin to fighting fire with fire.
We are not sure exactly when Jesus’ birthday is,
but we do know for certain that the Son of God
came to save the entire mankind, and we
therefore set aside a day of the year to
celebrate His coming, regardless of whether or
not.December 25 had actually been a day of pagan
celebration. Because the whole world celebrates
the day when Jesus was born to save us from oursins, we set a
day, remember it, and thank and praise Him.
When Jesus came to this earth, all the people of
this world had been deceived by the Devil, their
hearts were weighed down by their sins, and they
truly did not know the way of receiving eternal
life. This is why God the Father sent His Son
Jesus to save the people of the world from all
their sins.
The name Jesus is the name of the Savior,
meaning He who will save His people from their
sins. This Jesus came to this world. By bearing
the sins of the world with His baptism, Jesus
was condemned on the Cross and has thereby
blotted out all these sins.
Was Jesus God?
Yes. Jesus was God Himself in His essence. Jesus
is the very One who created the whole universe
with the Word of His mouth. This world, in fact,
was created by God. John 1:3 says, “All things
were made through Him, and without Him nothing
was made that was made.” Jesus was God Himself
who came to save sinners. jesus
created this world and the whole universe in the
beginning. When Jesus said, “let there be
light,” then there was light. When He said, “
let there be the sun,” then the sun came into
existence. It is by this command of Jesus, “ let
there be,” that all
the grasses, trees, the sea, the sky, and even
mankind itself came into existence. Jesus is God
who created all these things in the
beginning(Genesis 1:3-15).
He was nothing that was made without
Him. Why, then, did He come to this earth
incarnated in the flesh of a man?
He came to save all the sinners of this world
from all their sins. The reason that God came to
mankind was to shine the true light to each and
every one of sinner and thereby saving them all
from their sins. John 1:9-12 states,
“ That was the true Light which gives light to
every man coming into the world. He was in the
world, and the world was made through Him, and
the world did not know Him. He came to His own,
and His own did not receive Him. But as many as
received Him, to them He gave the right to
become children of God, to those who believe in
His name.”
The Son of God came to blot out all the sins
that we have inherited from Adam, the father of
mankind, and to drive away darkness from this
world. His name is Jesus Christ, and Jesus
Christ is the Son of God the Father.
Why Did People Not Receive Jesus
into Their Hearts?
Because He has saved sinners from their sins by
coming as a lowly man.Because people did not
cast aside their own faith and their own
thoughts.Because they did not realize that they
had been created by God. Because they did not
know that they are bound to hell because they
have been sinners from the very moment of their
birth. Because people did not know that Jesus is
the Savior. Because they were ignorant of the
truth. Because they did not recognize the Savior
who is God Himself.
Because
they did not respond to the gospel of the water
and the Spirit.
Because they did not know Jesus, who is the
way and the truth. Jesus was born in Bethlehem,
a small, rural town in Israel. Why was Jesus
born in this world? He came to us to save those
who are ill-treated in this world and who are
truly living lowly lives in this world. Jesus
came to save those who are tormented by their
sins, who want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven,
and who want to be clothed in God’s grace. This
is why Jesus was born in a manger.
However, when Jesus came to this world in
the likeness of human beings, the people of
Israel did not recognize Him as God and the
Messiah. They did not realize that He was the
Son of God, the very Creator God who made the
whole universe and everything in it. This is why
the people of Israel did not receive Him. This
is true even now. Many people in this world
still do not know that Jesus is the God of
creation and the Savior who has saved human
beings from all their sins.
Isaiah wrote that when God looked down
from Heaven,
“ He saw that there was no man, and wondered
that there was no intercessor[ Savior]” ( Isaiah
59:16).
God Himself had to come up with salvation, and
He Himself had to come to this earth and make us
sinless— that is, make the sinful sinless.
Coming to this earth, to bring down the wall
that had sprung up in our relationship with God
the Father as a result of our sins and separated
us from Him, He took all the sins of mankind
upon Himself with His baptism and bore the
condemnation of all these sins of mankind by
being crucified and shedding His blood on the
Cross. He has thereby saved those who believe.
No matter how human beings have no
righteousness of their own, no matter how
insufficient and weak they are, and no matter
how many sins they have committed, if they only
realize that Jesus fulfilled all righteousness
by taking upon their sins with His baptism and
shedding His blood on the Cross, and if they
accept this truth into their hearts, they can
all be saved from all their sins.
As such, there is only one true Savior in this
world, and this Savior is only Jesus. The name
of Jesus itself means “ He who will save His
people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). By doing
what can we enter Heaven? Can we enter Heaven by
doing good deeds? No! Being born into this
world, can we live without ever sinning?
No!
It is impossible for us not to ever sin. We
cannot help but sin for the rest of our lives
until
our own demise. Can people enter Heaven when
they have a sin as small as a penny?
No!
Is there anyone in this world, then, who can
enter Heaven by his own strength?
No!
By whom can we then enter Heaven? We can enter
Heaven by believing in the
gospel of the water and the Spirit given by
Jesus Christ.
For He will save His people from their sins” (
Matthew 1:21).
God made us, and when we fell into sin, He
became a man and came to this earth to make our
sins disappear. The One who thus came to this
earth, was baptized, and died on the Cross is
none other than Jesus.
When We Believe in Jesus,
How Can We Receive Him Truly?
John 1:12 says,
“ But as many as received Him, to them He gave
the right to become children of God, to those
who believe in His name.”
To those who believe that Jesus has become their
Savior and blotted out all their sins, He has
given them the right to become God’s children.
Have you received the gospel of the water and
the Spirit?
What is receiving the truth? One can receive
the truth only when he/she knows the truth of
the water and the Spirit. When someone is
knocking on the door, we open the door only
slightly and first ask who it is, and if it is
someone whom we
know, we then open the door fully and ask
him/her to come in. This is receiving.
Although we have not actually met Jesus
face to face, we still believe that He accepted
all our sins passed onto Him by being baptized
at the Jordan River. I
thank God for this truth. I may not be able to
extend any loan guarantees, but
what I can guarantee definitely is the Word that
we can enter the Kingdom of God if we only
believe in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit. That you are made sinless is, in itself,
becoming God’s children. That you receive
eternal life by
faith is the truth.
The faith that receives the blessings of Heaven
is the faith in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit given by God. This means believing not
only that Jesus bore all your sins with His
baptism, but also that He came to this earth and
took away once and for all every sin that you
would commit for the rest of your lives and
until the end of the world. Jesus, whom I
believe, has made us sinless all at once by
taking away our sins of the world once and for
all.“ Believe.” Faith is a beautiful word.
“Receive.” I accepted the truth that Jesus is
my Savior into my heart. I am no better than
anyone else. Yet even so, the reason why I can
speak in confidence and at times even be proud
is because of my faith in the gospel of the
water and the
Spirit.
By all means, I hope that you would all know and
believe in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit. It is only when we know the truth of the
water and the Spirit and believe in it that we
can finally be born again, become sinless, and
thereby also become God’s children.
Do you know and believe in the truth that Jesus
took all your sins upon Himself when He was
baptized at the Jordan River? Jesus accepted the
condemnation of all the sins that you have
committed throughout your entire lifetime and
was vicariously punished on the Cross in your
place. He then arose from the dead in three days
and now sits at the right hand of the throne of
God the Father. Even now, our God is alive.
John 1:9says,
“That was the true Light which gives light to
every man coming into the world.”
This Light is the Light of Jesus who took upon
the sins of the world by being baptized by John
and dying on the Cross. All that we have to do
is just receive this true Light shone by our
Lord. We must accept into our hearts the truth
that Jesus came as the Savior of us the sinners.
We must believe that Jesus bore all our sins by
being baptized at the Jordan River. When we
believe that He thus fulfilled all the
righteousness of God, we can then be saved from
all our sins.
In our flesh, we are unable to believe in
Jesus. But in our hearts, we can know the
righteousness of God, believe in it, and thereby
receive it. Once, we had been in pitch-black
darkness. That this darkness is removed by the
true Light shinning in our hearts means the
removal of our sins from our hearts by our faith
in the Word of truth. This true Light is the
Word of the truth through which we have been
born again of water and the Spirit, and the true
Light gives us light because we have believed in
and accepted into our hearts the baptism that
Jesus received from John and His bloodshed on
the Cross.
It is appointed for men to be born once and
die once. The Bible tells us that our lifetime
is about 70 years, or 80 if we are strong (
Psalm 90:10). Every human being goes through the
trials of life, and, at its end, must stand
before the Lord. How pitiful would it be if we
were to die without knowing the truth of the
water and the Spirit? Even if we were to live
beyond 80, we must all die once at some point.
But we do not simply cease to exist after dying.
Judgment follows our
death. Whether we are welcomed into Heaven or
cast into hell is determined by whether we have
the faith that believes in the water and the
blood of Jesus Christ. While we are still living
on this earth, we must therefore receive the
blessing of
believing in Jesus’ baptism and accepting it
into our hearts.
Some people say, “ I am not someone who
can believe in Jesus. Why? Because I was born as
a natural sinner, whose propensity to sin is
boundless.” But even these people need not
worry. Their sins, too, were all passed onto
Jesus
through His baptism and blood, and, as such, all
that they have to do is just entrust everything
to Him by believing in this Word. I beseech you
to leave all your weaknesses and flaws of your
hearts, which you cannot ever control on your
own, at the feet of God, for if you would only
entrust all your sins to Him, our Lord, being
the Almighty God that He is, has already solved
all the problems of your sins through His
baptism and blood. While we live in this world,
we must always believe in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit in our hearts. We must live
with our faith always prepared to enter Heaven.
And when we believe in the gospel of the water
and the Spirit given by Jesus, we are then born
again. When you do so, you should realize, the
blessings of God are then spread throughout the
entire world through none other than yourselves.
When we believe in gospel of the water and the
Spirit given by God, He then protects us. We
must receive Jesus by believing that He has
become our Savior. And let us also thank Him for
being our Savior.
We Must Know and Believe in Jesus
Who Is Both Divine and Human
(John 1:14)
The Apostles believed in the Son of God our Lord
as the Savior. The name Jesus means “ the
Savior,” and the name Christ means “ the
anointed One.” This
means that Jesus fulfilled His role as the
Prophet, that He is the King of kings, and,
therefore, He also fulfilled the role of the
High Priest of the Kingdom of Heaven. First of
all, the Old Testament clearly specifies that
the Christ to come is God Himself. A
representative passage of this is found in
Isaiah 9:6, which states,
“ Unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is
given; And the government will be
upon His shoulder. And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.”
In addition, our Lord’s own Word bears witness
to this truth. To show just a couple of
examples, Matthew 5:17 says,
“ Do not think that came to destroy the Law or
the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to
fulfill.”
No one else but the Savior God Himself alone
can fulfill the Law. Also, in Matthew 9:6, Jesus
said,
“ But that you may know that the Son of Man has
power on earth to forgive sins.”
Paul
said in Philippians 2:5-6,
“Let this mind be in you which was also in
Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did
not consider it robbery to be equal with God,”
and in Colossians 2:9, he said,
“ For in Him dwells all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily.”
Above
all, the signs that Jesus performed while on
this earth clearly show us that He is God. With
only five loaves and two fish, He fed over 5,000
people, not counting women and children. On
another occasion, He fed 4,000 people with just
7loaves and 2 fish. Jesus also brought down
winds with His rebuke. He walked
on water, and delivered Peter who sank into
water. Matthew 11:5 states,
“ The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers
are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are
raised up.”
All these things cannot be done by mere mortals,
but they can be accomplished only by God. As
such, Christ is clearly the living God and the
Savior.
What Is the Meaning of the Baptism
of Jesus? (
Matthew 3:13-17)
We must believe that Jesus took the sins of the
world upon Himself by being baptized by John the
Baptist ( Matthew 3:15). This baptism that Jesus
received from John was to bear all the sins and
iniquities of the sinners of this world. To
realize this truth, we must first understand the
meaning of the word “ thus.” This word “ thus”
is “
ou{tw"
( hoo’-tos)” in Greek, and it means: 1) just in
this way; 2) most fitting; and 3) there is no
other way besides this. In other words, when
Jesus
came to this earth, He had to be baptized to
accept the iniquities of sinners passed onto
Him. If we do not believe so, our sins cannot be
blotted out.There are some people who have
misunderstood the baptism of Jesus and
mistakenly think that He was baptized to show us
His humility. But this is not the case. The Word
of the baptism of Jesus by John clearly bears
witness to the truth that He was thus baptized
in order to take upon all the sins of this
world. Jesus could become the Savior of those
who believe in Him because He, coming to this
earth, accepted
all the sins of this world passed onto His body
in a single instance by receiving His baptism
from John once and for all. We cannot keep the
Word of this truth of
Jesus’ baptism covered. Why? Because what Satan
seeks after from sinners is to make them unable
to know the Word of the baptism of Jesus, the
most important aspect to mankind’s remission of
sin, and to incapacitate them from believing in
it.
The Baptism of Jesus and the Blood
of the Cross
The baptism that Jesus received from John is the
work of salvation through which He took the sins
of mankind upon Himself. 1 John 5:4-6 tells us
that Jesus’ baptism is essential to our
salvation. The reason why Jesus was baptized by
John at the Jordan River is as the following.
That Jesus was baptized by John means that He
fulfilled all the righteousness of God— that is,
Jesus accepted all the sins of the world passed
onto Him. When Jesus was baptized, His
submersion in water tells us of His death, and
His emersion from water tells us of His
resurrection.
Jesus’ baptism corresponds to the Word of the
Old Testament found in Leviticus 16, where
sacrificial offerings accepted the sins of the
people of Israel with the laying on of hands.
That this was done so had the same reason as to
why Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. It
was the same reason for which Jesus commanded
John, “You shall baptize me. Permit it be so. It
is thus fitting for us to fulfill all
righteousness.” He said, “By my being baptized
by you, and by your baptizing me, it is fitting
to fulfill all righteousness.” What is it that
everyone in this world desires and wishes the
most? It is to become sinless in their hearts,
in other words, to become the sinless children
of God. The Bible tells us that for us to
become so, we must believe in the Word that
Jesus blotted out all the sins and iniquities of
sinners by being baptized and shedding His blood
on the Cross, and it tells us also that it is by
thus believing that we can receive the
righteousness of God. What, then, is all the
righteousness of God? It is the Word telling us
that as Jesus was baptized by John in this
world, the iniquities of all sinners left them
and were then passed onto the body of Jesus.“For
thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all
righteousness ( making all sinner righteous).”
Jesus told John, in other words, that it is by
being baptized by John that He would fulfill all
the righteousness of God. To fulfill God’s
righteousness, Jesus had to be baptized and
thereby accept all the sins and transgressions
of sinners passed onto Him. On our part, what we
must do is to believe in the baptism that Jesus
received.
Jesus came to make all the sins and iniquitiesof
sinners disappear. But those who do not believe
in the truth are bound in their eternal sins
forever and cannot escape from them at all. In
the Bible, there is no way by which sinners can
be saved from all the sins of the world but only
to believe in the baptism of Jesus and the blood
of the Cross written in the Word of God.
Even so, there are still many contrasting
opinions as to the method with which Jesus
Christ has blotted out the iniquities of
sinners. Some people say that the Word of
salvation from sin is only the Word of the blood
of the Cross. But the Word of God written in the
Scripture tells us that the Word of the baptism
of Jesus is the most fitting for Him to make all
the sins and transgressions of sinners
disappear, for Jesus was thus baptized all at
once and died on the Cross once and for all.
There are others who ask, “ Is there no other
method but this, that Jesus cleansed away the
sins of the world by being baptized and shed His
blood on the Cross?” But our Lord has told us
clearly that the salvation of sinners comes only
from His own providence, and that it is far from
our place for us to question or blame the Word
for how Jesus chose to save sinners.
There is a saying, “ A taffy peddler does as he
pleases.” Likewise, when it comes to God’s
salvation of sinners from all their sins, if He
Himself tells us that He has saved them through
this method— that is, through the baptism of
Jesus by John and His crucifixion— then all that
we can do is just believe in what He tells us as
it is. Who can then possibly object to the Word
of God? People may refuse to believe in the Word
of the baptism of Jesus received from John and
of the blood of the Cross, and they may reject
what God has told them, but they will certainly
not be able to avoid hell. Do you believe in the
Word of God?
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