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Who Do You Follow Now? In the Bible, the people of Israel claim to worship God, but ultimately, following Jeroboam, they were worshipping the golden calves. In fact, more than 2/3 of the history of Israelites was a history of having worshipped the golden calves, thinking them to be God. Ultimately, even now, they continue to go on living without realizing the fact that Jesus Christ, who has come by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, is their true Savior. In spite of it all, there are many Jews who are waiting for their Savior, even now.

Then, how is the faith of you who claim to be taking part in Christianity in this New Testament Era? Do you currently believe in and follow God with a proper understanding of Him? If not, aren’t you perhaps worshipping golden calves with a misapprehension of them as God? If you are like that, then you must become aware of the fact that you are worshipping an idol before God like the people of Israel. Then, you must revert back and meet the Lord who has come by the gospel of the water and the Spirit. I am sure that you will be able to believe in the gospel Truth when you truly realize before God what the Truth of the salvation in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is, won’t you?

I wish to testify before you the true faith and the Truth under the title, “Heretics, Who Followers the sins of Jeroboam.” By all means, I hope you will be a person of the same faith as that of mine.

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Heretics, Who Followed the Sins of

Jeroboam (I) PAUL C. JONG

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Heretics, Who Followed the Sins of Jeroboam (I) Copyright © 2005 by The New Life Mission All rights reserved.

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.

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Table of Contents Preface ----------------------------------------------------- 8 1. Who Are Heretics before God? (1 Kings 11:1-13) ----------------------------------- 11 2. Who Are Christians That Believe in Jesus within the Framework of Their Own Fleshly Thinking?

(1 Kings 12:25-33 ) --------------------------------- 42

5. Today’s Christians Who Have Replaced God with Mammon Are Idolaters before God (1 Kings 11:1-13) ---------------------------------- 119 6. How Does God Save Heretics?

(1 Kings 19:1-21) ---------------------------------- 139 7. You Must Believe That John the Baptist Is the Representative of All Mankind (Matthew 11:1-19) -------------------------------- 165

3. Following the Desires of the Flesh Will Make You Turn into a Heretic Automatically (1 Kings 12:1-18) ----------------------------------- 69

8. Seven Types of People Who Will Be Cursed by God (Matthew 23:1-36) -------------------------------- 195

4. In Which Gospel Do You Now Believe?

(1 Kings 13:33-34) ---------------------------------- 93

9. Heal Bad Water with Salt (2 Kings 2:19-22) ---------------------------------- 232

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Preface These days, so many Christians aren’t aware of the fact that they have become heretics by having followed Jeroboam. If they had known that fact, they would have reverted back, and then they would have come to realize for certain what the love of God is and what the God-given salvation is by having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Then, the history of Christianity all over the world would surely have changed. But unfortunately, Christians now all over the world are still following Jeroboam’s sin.

What is the basis for the claim that Christians now all over the world are following Jeroboam’s sin? The basis for which I make such a claim is first of all the fact that they right now believe in and worship golden calves as their gods, instead of the true God, just as Jeroboam during the Old Testament Era had believed in the golden calves in place of God. To put Free book request www.nlmission.com

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this simply, the Christianity today is following in Jeroboam’s footsteps instead of being able to depart from the sin committed by Jeroboam during the Old Testament Era. For them, there can only be the pursuit of this world’s material blessings under the cover of the name, Jesus Christ. Christian leaders today only seek to fatten themselves and to make their own church chapel bigger by extracting donations and extorting services from their church members.

In the ancient Middle Eastern region, people worshipped Baal and Asherah. Back then, because agriculture and livestock breeding were their ways of survival, they were in need of much labor power. So, fertility was considered a family blessing. As a result, they had created and served Asherah, a goddess of fertility, and Baal, following their own greed.

Christians today are the same. In conclusion, they say they believe in God because all they want is for their flesh to be well-off. As a result, Christian leaders today are guiding their church members in

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the direction of worshipping golden calves. By teaching church members that if they were to believe in Jesus, they will receive material blessings and their pursuit for glory, power, and children’s well-being will go smoothly. By emphasizing material blessing instead of the well-being of the soul, they are making Christians worship golden calves in the end result.

Christians today have fallen into such a great spiritual chaos, void, and darkness. It is because many Christian leaders are like so, and what is worse is that they do not even realize that their spiritual state is currently deep in chaos, void, and darkness.

This is why the history of Christianity continues to be on a path of worshipping golden calves instead of God. It can only be described as truly tragic and unfortunate.

Christians today do not know what the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit that the Lord has made and given us is. Thus, they continue to believe in the doctrines of Christianity and not the gospel of the water and the Spirit. For that reason, the fact of

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the matter is that despite their claim of having faith in Jesus, they continue to believe in and follow golden calves.

We must discern those that worship golden calves as God within Christianity. And by coming back before God of the Truth, we must offer the sacrifices of righteousness to God. The sacrifice that God receives with rejoice is the sacrifice of righteousness that people offer by faith after having received the remission of sin by having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Before God, you must seriously think about whether or not you are offering the sacrifice of God-given righteousness by the faith of believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

All those Christians who are now living in this declining world must collect their minds and start believing in the gospel Truth, the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Once more, you must think about “Perhaps in truth, isn’t it that I believe in golden calves in place of God? Isn’t it that I love material fortunes more than God?” If yes, then, you must

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come back before God who is righteous, just, and benevolent and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Should you be in doubt after reading this book, I wish for you to examine your faith once more in reference to the Word that God speaks through me, the author. Now, I declare that Christians spread all over the world worshipping golden calves to be a true heretic before God. Aren’t you perhaps someone who is worshipping golden calves as God now? If so, I hope you will revert back and by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, worship the true God of the Trinity—God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. I send before you this message in the name of Jesus Christ who has saved us all from all our sins, given us everlasting life, and allowed us to receive the inheritance of Heaven.

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Who Are Heretics Before God? < 1 Kings 11:1-13 > “But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.’

Solomon clung to these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and

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after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as did his father David. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. So the LORD became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded. Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, ‘Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out

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of the hand of your son. However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.’”

Today, I would like to address the following question as our main topic: How has collective heresy emerged in the Church of the New Testament?

When we turn to the Old Testament, we see that the people of Israel were able to meet with God through their forefathers of faith. In other words, the Israelites were able to encounter God through His Law that was given through Moses, and through His prophets. And according to the sacrificial system, they could be remitted from their sins through the sacrifices offered in the Tabernacle. Therefore, the love of God and His salvation of the remission of sin, which were manifested through the Tabernacle and its sacrificial system, were very important to them,

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constituting the indispensable Truth that they infallibly had to believe in and obey in order to attain life and salvation. As such, for the people of Israel, the sacrificial system, manifested in the Tabernacle system and instituted for their just salvation, was as precious as life itself.

Having inheriting Abraham’s faith, the people of Israel had kept their faith in God as their Savior until the days of King David. However, from the days of David’s son Solomon, they came to serve idols against God’s wish, and as a result, they drifted far away from the God of Truth and justice. At that time, on account of King Solomon’s sin of idolatry, God tore ten tribes from the twelve tribes of Israel and handed them over to Jeroboam. Israel was therefore split into two separate kingdoms. However, Jeroboam, the first king of the northern kingdom, feared that his people would return to the southern kingdom where the Temple was located, and to prevent this, he made two golden calves for the people to worship in place of God, and he also

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changed the sacrificial system that had been instituted by God. As a result, the northern kingdom of Israel turned into a nation of collective heresy serving idols before God. That is how both the northern and southern kingdoms ended up turning into nations of collective heresy, and through the work of Satan, this faith of idolatry was passed all the way down to Christians living in the age of the New Testament. In other words, by making even today’s Christians serve idols, Satan has turned them into collective heretics. The people of Israel had fallen into the sin of idolatry, and as this very same sin has prevailed even in today’s Christianity, it has rendered even those who believe in God’s love to be accursed. Like this, the collective heresy begun by Jeroboam continues to prosper and grow in today’s Christianity, but few Christians actually realize this.

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Why Did Israel Turn into a Nation of Collective Heresy?

Why did the people of Israel turn into heretics before God? This originated from the sins of one man, Solomon. King Solomon was the first king of the Israelites to take foreign women as his wives and accept the idols worshiped by them. As Solomon married Gentile women and loved them, these foreign women turned the king’s heart away from Jehovah God and made him serve their idols. And since the king of Israel served idols, so did its people come to worship idols. As a result, the Israelites built shrines in high places throughout the country, and it became very common for them to worship idols. The sacrifices that they offered to these idols were akin to shamanistic rituals, worshipping and bowing before some inanimate objects. Yet God had appeared to King Solomon no less than twice and commanded him, “Do not follow any other gods but Me. If you serve idols before Me, I will tear your kingdom into ◄

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two and give one of them to someone else.” But Solomon did not listen to God’s warning. And so the Kingdom of Israel was eventually torn into two, northern and southern kingdoms, just as God had said.

As a consequence of this, collective heresy began to emerge in Israel during the days of Rehoboam and Jeroboam. This is described in 1 Kings 12:25-33 as the following: “Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and dwelt there. Also he went out from there and built Penuel. And Jeroboam said in his heart, ‘Now the kingdom may return to the house of David: If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah.’ Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, ‘It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!’ And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Now

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this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. He made shrines on the high places, and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi. Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made.

And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made. So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense.”

On account of King Solomon’s sins, God split the nation of Israel into two kingdoms during the days of Rehoboam. Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, succeeded his father to assume the throne of the Kingdom of Israel. When he assumed the throne, the people asked him to reduce the burden of forced labor. His father

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King Solomon had mobilized the Israelites in forced labor for 7 years to build the Temple of Jehovah and for 13 years to build his own palace. This means that Solomon had coerced his people into forced labor for no less than 20 years to build the Temple and his palace. That’s why the people were pleading King Rehoboam to no longer impose such forced labor on them.

However, after hearing this request from his people, King Rehoboam responded harshly, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!” As a result, ten tribes from the people of Israel abandoned King Rehoboam, crowned Jeroboam as their new king, and established another kingdom in the north. The nation of Israel had been one state, but now, it was split into two kingdoms, with the Kingdom of Israel in the northern region ruled by Jeroboam, and the Kingdom of Judah in the southern region ruled by Rehoboam.

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Rehoboam were in the southern kingdom. But Rehoboam was followed by only two tribes, Judah and Benjamin. Jeroboam, on the other hand, became king virtually by accident, as a by-product of Solomon’s idolatry and God’s punishment of his sins.

Jeroboam should then have learned a lesson from Solomon’s case, resolve himself not to fall into sin like Solomon, return to God’s arms, and serve Him, but far from this, he led the northern kingdom of Israel to fall into collective heresy.

It was because of Solomon’s sin of idolatry that Jeroboam had become king of Israel. This should have served him as a warning, but instead, he was now obsessed with his own selfish desires to keep his power, to defend his honor, and to protect his throne.

As the Day of Atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month, approached, he thought to himself that the people in the northern kingdom would go to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices, and they might then defect to the king of the southern kingdom. He was worried, thinking, “Wouldn’t the people of Israel

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return to King Rehoboam in the south and kill me?”

So he eventually came up with an evil scheme to dispel his worry. His solution was to replace God with golden calves. He thought, “I can then be freed from the God-established law, and my people won’t have to go to Jerusalem either! Instead of believing in the God of Israel according His law, I should just make up another religion that worships idols.

Wouldn’t the people of Israel then serve me as their only king?” With this evil plan in mind, he made two calves of gold. He then set one up in Bethel, and the other in Dan, saying to his people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!” (1 Kings 12:27-29).

Jeroboam also changed the Day of Atonement, altering its date to the fifteenth day of the eighth month. Originally, the sacrifice of the Day of Atonement was set for the tenth day of the seventh month. There was a full moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and at that time, he made the

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people of Israel think of the golden calves as their God and sacrifice to them. This was the very sin committed by Jeroboam that turned his people into collective heretics before God. He not only changed God’s sacrificial system and feasts, but he even changed the statutes governing the qualification of priesthood (1 Kings 12:31-33). Like this, Jeroboam was at the forefront of idolatry.

All on his own, Jeroboam also appointed ordinary, non-Levite people to priesthood and made them offer sacrifices. Originally, only the Levites could become priests before God, and only the descendants of Aaron could be High Priests, but King Jeroboam appointed to priesthood anyone who wanted to become one, even among the common people. So, King Jeroboam had changed everything on his own.

The Bible says that because of this, he became the chief of all heretics. It is from here that collective heresy emerged in the Old Testament’s time, and this tradition has continued onto the Church in the age of the New Testament, inflicting untold harm on today’s

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Christianity.

Long before this, Cain had turned into a heretic individually for not believing in the Word of God himself, but now, the entire people of Israel were turned into heretics collectively. It’s all because of Solomon and Jeroboam that the people of Israel ended up turning into a nation of idolatry. This passage in 1 Kings provides the answer to the question as to why today’s Christianity has been reduced to nothing more than a religious body of collective heresy. In the Old Testament, it was Jeroboam’s evil scheme that had led the people of Israel to collectively fall into heresy. Likewise, in today’s Christianity, it’s because of the work of Satan and the selfish desires of Christian leaders that even those who want to believe in Jesus have fallen into collective heresy.

Today’s Christian ministers want to draw as many people as possible into their fold, but because they consider ordinary worship is not enough to draw people into their churches, they have come up with

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evil schemes. These evil wiles of the flesh include emphasizing mystical gifts in Christianity and underscoring only material benefits, claiming, “If anyone believes in Jesus, his material blessings, the heath of his body, and the happiness of his family are all guaranteed.” Such schemes are used only as a tool to increase church membership. So, deceived by such sugarcoated sermons, the people of the world have begun to flock to Christianity. And the church buildings have begun to grow larger and larger. Thus in outside appearance, Christianity has seen a great deal of revival, but inside, it has turned into a heresy, resulting into idolatry with its followers serving golden calves as their Lord. Therefore, today’s Christian leaders must realize this fact, that they are now serving golden calves, and come into the righteousness of God by believing in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit as soon as possible.

Christianity in the present age must turn around, for it has turned into a collective heresy worshiping golden calves before God.

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To find out the cause that explains the emergence of collective heresy in today’s Christianity, it is very useful to examine how Jeroboam came to commit his sin of idolatry. By looking at his sins, we can realize why heresy arose, and also understand clearly why in this age and time Christianity has been reduced into a collective heresy that worships golden calves.

To Save Everyone from Sin and Collective Heresy, God Sent His Son Jesus Christ to This Earth The name of the Son of God is Jesus Christ. Jesus was born on this earth incarnated in the flesh through the body of Virgin Mary, and when He turned 30, He was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River.

This baptism that He received from John the Baptist was to take upon all the sins of this world. By such a method—that is, by being baptized by John the Baptist—the Lord shouldered the sins of the entire Free book request www.nlmission.com

human race in this world and washed them all away.

As Jesus was baptized by John, all our human sins were passed onto Jesus, and therefore, it is through this baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross that our sins were cleansed away.

Every Christian and every human being must realize this gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit and believe in it. It’s by believing in all this Truth that one can be delivered from all his sins. Therefore, everyone must know and believe in Jesus Christ as his Savior, who has come by the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This is absolutely indispensable. For three years, Jesus bore witness of Himself as the Savior, and He was eventually crucified to shed His blood to death. But He rose from the dead on the third day, and He has thereby saved every Christian and the entire human race to perfection. Jesus Christ is our true Savior. God the Father wanted to save mankind justly by sending His Son to this earth, and it is according to this will that Jesus has saved us through the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit.

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In other words, the Lord has saved us through the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

That is why it’s written in 1 John 5:4-8: “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.”

This passage means that God the Father has saved mankind from all its sins by sending His Son to this earth—that is, through the water, the blood, and the Spirit. Put differently, the Lord was born on this earth to save us from all our sins, destruction, and curses, and it’s because He shouldered the sins of this world

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and our sins by being baptized by John the Baptist, and because He paid off the all the wages of these sins by being crucified and shedding His blood, that anyone who believes in this Truth can now be washed from all his sins by this faith. The condemnation of our sins is already complete, for Jesus Christ was baptized and shed His blood on the Cross in our place. To put it simply, this Truth is the gospel Truth of the water, the blood, and the Spirit.

It’s by thus coming to this earth and establishing the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit that Jesus has saved us. God has saved from all sins everyone who believes in this gospel of Truth.

This Truth, the gospel of the water and the Spirit, has come from the Triune God in its entirety. It was God’s perfect plan of salvation for mankind to send His Son Jesus Christ, make Him take upon this world’s sins by being baptized by John the Baptist, and blot them all out. The Lord has blotted out our sins with the water and the blood. This is the gospel Truth, that the Lord came by the water and the blood

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and has saved us from the sins of the world.

Thus, the Apostle Paul said in 1 Peter 3:21, “There is also an antitype which now saves us— baptism.” It means that the Lord has saved us from all our sins in this way, that is, through His baptism.

All the Apostles and the saints of the Early Church believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

From the Apostles Paul and Peter to the Apostles James and John, it was by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that every disciple of Jesus Christ was saved. And they all preached this gospel of the water and the Spirit to countless people. That is how we have also reached our salvation, by believing in the same gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Although the Apostles in the Early Church times all believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, today’s Christians believe in the golden calves of their own making instead of God, just like King Jeroboam. Because they worship and revere their own carnal desires as their gods, they have

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collectively turned into heretics, and because of their greed, Christianity is being corrupted into an even more heretical religion. In their mindset, today’s Christian leaders have already taken golden calves as their God, believe so, and are preaching so on countless times either directly or indirectly, all in order to maintain the honor and authority that are granted by their sacred duties into which they were ordained. Even though it is written in the Word that God has saved us from all the sins of the world once for all through the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, they do not believe in this Word as it is, but instead, they have altered it. Just as King Jeroboam had changed the date of the Day of Atonement from the tenth day of the seventh month to the fifteenth day of the eighth month, so have they corrupted the gospel of salvation itself. Why did Christianity replace God with golden calves? It’s because Christian leaders have consistently thrown away any belief that is not helpful for them to amass a fortune, as if it were an old shoe.

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Have today’s Christians received the remission of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit given by the Lord? No. In their own mindset of the flesh, they believe that they have received the remission of their sins by believing in the blood of the Cross alone. But this kind of faith is a perversion of the God-given gospel of the water and the Spirit. The true gospel is the gospel of the water and the Spirit, not the gospel that proclaims only the blood of the Cross. To advocate only the blood of the Cross is to advocate a false doctrine of one’s own making.

Today’s Christians are so ignorant of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Since they believe in the blood of the Cross alone as the true gospel, even as they believe in golden calves instead of God, they don’t even realize that they have now fallen into a heretical faith. In other words, even as they are now serving golden calves as their God, they have no idea what it is that they are doing wrong. All the foolish people in today’s Christian communities who believe

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in golden calves as their Lord are heretics before God. In the age of the Old Testament, Jeroboam had appointed any ordinary person to priesthood if he only desired. Likewise, in this age and time also, just about anyone can now become a minister with simple approval from a seminary or his denomination. When some Christians fail at their businesses, they think on their own that it was God’s will for their businesses to fail, and that God is somehow calling them to be His servants. So they start attending a seminary in old age, trying to become ministers. Some young Christians, on the other hand, enroll in a theological seminary simply because their grades are not good enough to gain admission to a regular college.

Simply put, such people have done nothing more than turning to Christian seminaries as their refuge.

In the age of the Old Testament, only the descendants of Levi could become priests lawfully.

Yet despite this, Jeroboam appointed even ordinary people to priesthood, if they just wanted to join.

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be appointed as a minister, even if he has sin in his heart; all that he needs is approval from his theological professors and pastors of his denomination. Today’s Christian leaders are committing the same sin committed by Jeroboam. To expand their denominational influence and relish in the authority that comes with it, they are ordaining into ministry anyone who graduates from a seminary.

But is this really right? Is confessing Jesus to be one’s Savior all that’s needed to become a minister, and is this sufficient for him to be ordained, even if he has sin in his heart? The fact that people are unconditionally ordained into ministry even if they have not received the remission of their sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, is because the appointers and the appointees are all spiritually blind.

When you look at this with clearer understanding, you can see that many Christians are now committing the same sin that Jeroboam had committed in the age of the Old Testament. Today’s Christianity has forsaken God and is worshiping golden calves in His

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place, and as a result, it has already turned into heresy.

Just as the northern kingdom of Israel had turned into a nation of collective idolatry because of the evil wiles of Jeroboam, so is today’s Christianity turning into a collective heresy because of the greed of its leaders. Everyone under King Jeroboam had turned into a heretic. Likewise, today’s sinners imprisoned

by Christian doctrines have also fallen into collective heresy altogether. How did today’s Christianity collectively turn itself into heresy? This happened because countless pastors and believers, and the many who call themselves God’s servants all over the world, do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, do not believe in it, and do not preach it before God. Why have today’s Christians become heretics before God? That’s because they have followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam, who had believed in gold calves to be his God, and committed the same sin.

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According to the Bible, how did Jesus Christ blot out the sins of mankind? He took upon our sins through His baptism in the Jordan River, and He paid off all the wages of these sins with His blood on the Cross.

When the Lord came to this earth, He shouldered mankind’s sins by being baptized by John the Baptist, blotted out all our sins, cleaned them once for all by being crucified to death and rising from the dead again, and at once saved all of us who believe in this Truth. We must understand and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and we must also spread it.

If, however, you believe in and preach only the blood of the Cross, rather than believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then how could people’s sins ever be eradicated from their hearts?

That’s why in God’s Church, absolutely only those who have received the remission of their sins are appointed as ministers. Among those who have been born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, God’s Church appoints those who have set their hearts to serve the gospel alone as

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God’s workers. In contrast, those who serve golden calves as their gods are willing to ordain just about anyone as a priest of God, even if he hasn’t received the remission of his sins. They appoint anyone as a minister or an evangelist, so long as he has graduated from a seminary, holds a diploma, belongs to some denomination, and believes in the doctrines advocated by them. This is the evidence of the fact that Christianity is worshiping golden calves. It’s because of this kind of faith that Christianity has been reduced to a collective heresy.

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and take them to the Kingdom of God, but in reality, the fruit of their ministry is nothing more than serving golden calves. Isn’t this true? They have a great deal of interest in which denomination is larger, which church pays high salaries, and which church gets more offerings. Such pastors hastily conclude that a minister awarded with a hefty remuneration from the congregation is a competent and spiritual pastor, while a minister at a small church with a meager salary is incompetent and unspiritual.

Simply put, today’s pastors are also serving golden calves. The laymen also think that if someone is materially blessed to prosper on this earth, he is a man of good faith, while if someone is not materially blessed, then it’s all because of the lack of faith. As a result, the more time goes by since Christians first believe in Jesus, the more awful they actually become, with an even more hardened and idolatrous heart. So the object of their faith is no longer God, but it’s golden calves. Of course, they still call on the name of God and pray and praise in this name, but

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the existential worth of this God is only for their own material gain (money), which is what they really love.

That’s why there are so many elders and deacons who, after serving golden calves, now find themselves in prison. I am not just rebuking them here for their acts, but I am saying that it’s because they have replaced God with golden calves and trusted in them instead that they now find themselves in jail.

Even today, many Christian leaders do not hesitate to ordain into ministry someone who does not even believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and therefore has not received the remission of his sins, as a minister to serve the golden calves that they had made. Most people believe that anyone can become a pastor simply by graduating from a seminary. But for a pastor to fulfill his priesthood, which entails the duty to blot out sin from other people’s hearts, at least one question, if nothing else, must be asked without fail: “Do you believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit?” In other words, only someone

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whose heart has been cleansed from his sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit should be appointed as a servant of God. Therefore, even from now on, Christian leaders should ask everyone aspiring to join ministry like this: “Have you been saved?”

“Yes, I have.”

“Do you then know the gospel of the water and the Spirit? And have you really been washed from your sins and born again by believing in this true gospel?”

“Professor, I do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit.”

“How can you then seek to become a pastor before God? Isn’t it all to serve the golden calves of your own making? That is nothing more than your carnal lust. It’s something that came out of your worldly desires.” Like this, with careful discernment, anyone who is not qualified enough should never be ordained as a pastor.

Rather than misleading people to serve golden

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calves, we should preach the true gospel to them, the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and make them receive the remission of their sins. Yet seminary professors do not even ask their students whether they believe in the Truth about the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Nor do they want to hear any testimony of salvation from the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit confessing how God has blotted out their sins. When God’s servants hear someone’s testimony of salvation, they can discern whether or not this person has sin in his heart, and whether or not he is serving golden calves as his God. For the righteous who have been saved from all their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, their testimonies of salvation are invariably the same, for they have all clearly reached salvation by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The testimony of salvation in its essence is not something that’s different for each person. For all Christians, there can be only one testimony of their

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salvation from sin: It is that they have been remitted from all their sins by believing in the God-given gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. This means that there is no other way to attain the remission of sin but to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Your remission of sin is not attained by serving golden calves, but it is received only by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Regardless of when it was that you came to hear the gospel of the water and the Spirit, it is only by believing in this gospel with your heart that you can be remitted from your sins. There can be no other testimony of salvation before God. That’s because it is not any golden calf that has washed away your sins and mine, but it is Jesus Christ the Son of God the Father who has saved us through the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, made us God’s people, and turned us into His workers. Therefore, believing in this Truth, thanking God for it, and bearing its witness are what the testimony of salvation is all about.

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As such, someone who still retains his sins intact by refusing to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is categorically not qualified to become a pastor, and such people are too deficient to be even saints. While being insufficient in one’s acts doesn’t constitute a disqualification, if one has sin in his heart, then he cannot become a minister. There is no one in this world who is not insufficient in his acts.

However, there are those who have been made sinless by believing in Jesus who came by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and then there are those who believe only in the blood of the Cross, and whose hearts still remain sinful. Such people who believe in a false gospel, and consequently have their hearts’ sins retained, must never be allowed to become ministers. Not only is there no way for these people to ensure their own souls’ escape from the curse, but they will also end up leading their congregation to death.

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it even as they know it, are actually serving golden calves, and that is how they have led countless Christians to collectively fall into heresy by propagating their false Christian doctrines. Even though people obey Christian doctrines and believe only in the blood of the Cross as taught by Christianity, in reality, their hearts still remain sinful, and they actually believe in golden calves rather than fearing God truthfully. Today’s Christians think that they believe in God faithfully even as they are worshiping golden calves. Even as they remain completely oblivious to the gospel of the water and the Spirit that brings true salvation, they think that they can be saved if they just believe in the Lord blindly. So, many pastors think all on their own that since they believe in Jesus, they have been saved, even though they still remain sinful.

However, the gospel that the Bible speaks of is the gospel of the water and the Spirit that brings the remission of sin into the heart. The Bible makes it clear that one can receive the remission of his sins in

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his conscience only if he believes in this gospel.

When we turn to 1 Peter 3:21, it is written, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Here it’s said that the baptism of Jesus is the infallible evidence of our salvation. This means that Jesus shouldered our sins by being baptized. That the Lord came to this earth and saved us from our destruction and our sins is all because He was baptized by John the Baptist. It’s because the Lord had taken upon our sins through His baptism that He had to die on the Cross, and it’s because of this that He rose from the dead again and was able to save us. That’s why the Apostle Peter said, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” When it’s said here, “not the removal of the filth of the flesh,” it means that when you receive the remission of your

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sins, it’s not your body that is cleansed to never commit sin again, but it’s your conscience that is cleansed.

Anyone who has been saved is bound to answer God in a good science. If you really want to be saved from your sins, then you must receive the remission of your sins in your conscience. Do those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit before God have sin or not? They have no sin. Why do they then have no sin? They have no sin in their hearts precisely because the Lord took upon their sins by being baptized by John the Baptist when He came to this earth, and therefore all their sins were passed onto Jesus. As for me, I have also been saved by faith, for the Lord accepted all my sins through His baptism, carried them to the Cross, shed His blood on it, and rose from the dead again. In other words, because I believe that the Lord came to this earth for me, bore my sins by being baptized, died on the Cross, rose from the dead again, and has thereby saved me, my conscience has been freed from my

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sins and I have attained my true salvation. The Bible said that true salvation is “the answer of a good conscience toward God.” Whoever believes in the gospel of the water and the blood can be saved from all the sins of his conscience. Even though our flesh still remains insufficient and continues to be weak, our consciences have been saved by faith. That is why our salvation is called the salvation of the soul.

My fellow believers, there is no one in this world, not even one, who does not make mistakes and commit sin with his flesh. Even for us the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, there is no one who does not commit sin. The Bible clearly says that salvation does not mean the removal of the filth of the flesh. Do you think that our salvation from sin was reached by being removed of the filth of our flesh once for all so that our flesh would never commit sin again? Do you want to be saved so that you would be sanctified in your flesh? Do you believe in Jesus as your Savior so that you would stay away from your vices, not to drink and not to

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smoke? No, that’s not the reason why you believe in Jesus.

You believe in Jesus because you want to go to God in a good conscience. The Bible mentions good conscience here precisely because it is our hearts that have been remitted from our sins, as the Lord has saved us through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. We were all helpless before our fate, destined to be cast into hell for our sins, but our Lord saved us by coming to this earth, being baptized by John the Baptist, and dying on the Cross. So in this light, not to believe in this Truth, that the Lord has saved us from our sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, is the evilest of all. In contrast, when we innocently accept this Truth into our hearts and believe in it, and thus reach our salvation, it is then that our conscience is made a good conscience.

Given how the Lord has saved us so perfectly, for us not to believe in this is to render our conscience to remain perpetually evil.

My fellow believers, it is by believing in the

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gospel of the water and the Spirit that we have been remitted from all our sins. Our bodies as human beings will rot away when we die. However, when the Lord returns, this body will also be resurrected.

Although we will be resurrected into imperishable bodies at that time, while we are still living on this earth, we cannot help but continue to commit sin with our flesh, for the flesh is still insufficient, even though we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and have received the remission of our sins.

That is why the Apostle Peter said, “Not the removal of the filth of the flesh.” In other words, this is what Peter was saying: “It is not to commit any sin with our bodies that we have been saved. Because the flesh is weak, we are bound to commit sin until the day we die. But that is irrelevant to our salvation. It is our souls that have been saved, so that we may go to God boldly with a good conscience. God has blotted out all our sins.”

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deacon, not even a saint—indeed, no such a person should ever be allowed to assume any church office at all. Anyone whose heart is sinful is someone who still remains outside Christ (Romans 8:1). He is not someone who has come into Christ. That’s why such people must first be saved in their conscience.

Recently, while riding a cab, I had a chance to talk to its driver. The cab driver seemed like a good Christian, as he had some gospel tracts in his cab. So without revealing that I was a pastor, I asked him, “How is your conscience? Is it sinless?”

He then said to me, “How can anyone’s conscience be free of sin?” Yet he also claimed that he was saved, even as he had sin in his heart, just because he believed in Jesus. So I asked him, “How were you saved?” The driver then quoted Romans 10:10 to show that he was saved. Romans 10:10 says the following: “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

However, this passage does not mean what the

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driver made it out to be. The entire chapter of Romans 10 was spoken by the Apostle Paul to the people of Israel. The people of Israel were well aware of the sacrificial system and therefore knew well that the Messiah had to be put to death after taking all their sins through their representative laying his hands on Christ. That is how one of the thieves that were crucified with Jesus could be saved by faith. In short, the Israelites had the basic knowledge of how to be saved from sin.

The real meaning of Romans 10:10 is that one is made righteous and saved from sin only if he believes with the heart in the righteousness of God that Jesus fulfilled with the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and confesses it with the mouth. Just because someone believes in some Christian doctrines with the heart, this does not mean that he is saved even if he ignores the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are the ones who have truly been saved by God. What about you then? Has your conscience been saved from all your sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? How did you reach your salvation? Did you attain it by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Or did you reach it through your own godly acts? You received your salvation by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. What is this faith then? It is to believe in the just salvation of the Lord, that He has saved us from our sins by coming to this earth, receiving His baptism, and being crucified to death. This is the very faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Christians in the era of the Early Church believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and preached this gospel. The New Testament is the Word that was written during the Early Church era. The Early Church believers were saved in their conscience by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

They kept their faith in this gospel even as they were

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persecuted. However, in 313 A.D., as Emperor Constantine I of the Roman Empire issued the Edict of Milan and granted religious freedom, many people came to believe in Christianity. According to historical records, by 312 A.D. Constantine I was facing an unavoidable clash with his adversary Mexentius over a struggle for political leadership. At that time, Maxentius held uncontestable military superiority over Constantine I. The night before this historical confrontation took place, Constantine I saw a vision, in which he was told to put “the sign of Heavenly God” on the shields of all his soldiers before heading into the battle. So he did so accordingly, and he actually won the battle. Crowned as emperor, he then unified both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, and granted legal recognition to Christianity.

This man, however, ended up committing the same sin that Jeroboam had committed. As the Emperor of Rome, he made himself the ruler of Christianity. He called the First Council of Nicaea

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and presided over the conference himself. He was not just the ruler of an empire, but he had made himself ruler over Christianity as well. So from then on, Christianity began to turn into a worldly religion, ultimately reduced to a collective heresy.

How did today’s Christianity fall like this to be nothing more than a collective heresy? That’s because its leaders served golden calves like Jeroboam. It’s because Christian leaders have replaced God with their golden calves that today’s Christianity has turned into a worldly religion that worships such inanimate idols. In Christian communities nowadays, anyone can become a priest just by graduating from a seminary and affirming the doctrines advocated by his denomination, even if he does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and even if his heart has not been washed from his sins. Just by enrolling in a seminary, paying the tuition, and graduating with enough credits, anyone can be ordained as a pastor and begin ministering, no matter how his heart still remains sinful. That’s why

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today’s Christianity has turned into a collective heresy worshiping golden calves. Even if one has sin in his heart, if he can just teach Christian doctrines with some competence, then he can easily become a minister. Such pastors are committing the same sin that Jeroboam had committed in the Old Testament age.

Despite the fact that Christianity today has collectively turned into a heresy, Christians themselves do not even realize that they are actually serving golden calves. Today’s Christians think, “Surely, true salvation can also be found in Christian doctrines,” and are convinced of themselves that they not serving gold calves. This, however, is not true. In Christian doctrines, the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit is nowhere to be found. Far from believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, Christianity today is serving golden calves, and therefore as long as you remain in this religion, you can’t help but believe in all its useless doctrines. Isn’t this the case?

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and the Spirit, they have not received the remission of sin in their conscience, and since they therefore have no Holy Spirit in their hearts, they neither understand nor preach the gospel of Truth. That is why Christians who have not been born again cannot help but believe in and follow their idolatrous golden calves intoxicated and blinded by Christian doctrines.

I, too, was like them before. But the sins in my conscience had at least compelled me to think, “Something is wrong to believe like this.” For a while, however, I continued to be tormented by my heart’s sins, and there was nothing that I could do but only offer my own prayers of repentance in tears all the time. Yet even so, God eventually met with me through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This event was the greatest of all miracles. For you also, the fact that you heard this gospel Word of the water and the Spirit is the greatest of all miracles. That I am preaching the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit is for your sake and for the sake everyone in the world. It was not that easy for me to preach this

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Truth to you. You should realize that preaching the Word of Truth is not so easy. If I didn’t know the Bible, and if I didn’t know the history of Christianity and its doctrines, then I would not be able to boldly refute its collective heresy and false doctrines, nor preach that only the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the Truth.

All on their own, many of today’s pastors and missionaries think that they have been remitted from their sins in their conscience just by believing in the blood of the Cross, even as they do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit. How misguided they are! It’s precisely such phenomena that are driving today’s Christianity further toward collective heresy, turning it into nothing more than a heretical gathering. Christians must therefore realize this and turn away from such a religion of collective heresy.

They must return to God by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. They must return to the Word of God that has come by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and thus bring joy to God’s

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heart. Today’s Christians must know the Word of God, listen to it with their ears, learn it, believe in it, and be saved from all their sins. You must now believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and let your conscience be washed from all your sins.

Therefore, today’s Christian leaders should not ordain just anyone into ministry. It’s a great mistake to ordain anyone who graduates from a seminary as a pastor. Nowadays, we are living in such a competitive society that it’s not so easy to succeed by graduating from a mediocre university. So, faced with an uncertain future and unable to find a suitable job, some people think that they would be better off to just attend a seminary and become pastors. Even if they have sin in their hearts, they can begin ministering just by graduating from a seminary. They can preach by copying off some Christian doctrinal books, and they can boast their knowledge by plagiarizing someone else’s commentaries. From this, they may even come to be highly respected as God’s servants in Christian communities and prosper. They

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live with an honorable title, always called “Reverend.” Gas prices may go up through the roof, but do they worry about this? No, the church pays for it all. The church also subsidizes them for all kinds of different expenses, from their children’s tuition to their book purchases and travel allowances. On top of all these, the church also pays them a substantial amount in honorarium. I don’t visit any church member’s home, but it’s a common practice for the congregation to provide an honorarium to their pastor when visited by him. So it’s said that if a pastor’s monthly salary is $10,000, then the money that he gets under the table is more than $10,000. That’s because church members are approved for their lives of faith when they are favored by their senior pastor more than God Himself.

By any chance, is there anyone among you who wants to be a pastor at a worldly church? The very moment you become one, you will surely fall into Jeroboam’s sin and be cursed by God. God will not spare any of these false prophets, but He will put

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every one of them to death. That’s because they have committed the same sin that Jeroboam had committed. All the people of Israel had followed this sin, and as a result, they all ended up committing the sin of idolatry. Even though God had told them, “Do not walk in the way of Jeroboam,” they followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps, practicing his acts and committing his sin, and they were consequently all condemned by God and perished away.

Those who do not believe that the Lord has saved us through the gospel of the water and the Spirit are heretics. It’s none other than these people, who do not believe in the God-given gospel of the water and the Spirit, that are heretics. The Lord said, “You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy” (Leviticus 11:45).

He also said, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). Even though we cannot be holy in our acts, by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, our conscience can be made holy. Is it God’s will for us to still have sin in our hearts even as we believe in Jesus? No, that is

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not His will. Those whose hearts still remain sinful even as they profess to believe in Jesus are heretics.

Combined together, Catholics and Protestants constitute about 1.5 billion Christians, but almost all of them have fallen into heresy. Yet despite this, they are completely oblivious to what heresy really is and how they themselves now belong to heresy.

Nowadays, Christians in general consider as a heretic anyone whose beliefs are even slightly different from the doctrines of their own denominations. In contrast, the Bible writes that a heretic is someone who has condemned himself even as he believes in Jesus.

Paul said in Titus 3:10-11, “Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being selfcondemned.” A divisive man, that is, a heretic, has not received the remission of his sins, and therefore he condemns himself as a sinner, for his heart is full of sins. In other words, such people admit themselves that they are sinners even as they believe in Jesus, saying, “Lord, although I believe in You, I confess

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that I am a sinner before You. I cannot but be a sinner.” They say this because they do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and even if they know it by any chance, they do not believe in it.

That’s why they say, “I was a sinner before I believed in the Lord, and I am still a sinner after believing in Him. Before I believed in the Lord, I was a genuine sinner, and now that I believe in Him, I am a saved sinner.” Even though they confess their faith based on theirs own doctrines, saying, “I have been saved from my sins through the precious blood of Jesus,” their sins still remain intact in their hearts, and so they describe themselves as saved sinners or Christian sinners. My fellow believers, today’s Christianity is worshiping golden calves, believing in the bizarre doctrines of their own making. None other than this is the evidence that Christianity has turned into a collective heresy.

The present day heretics in Christianity are those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and worship golden calves instead. Spiritually

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speaking, anyone who has fallen into Jeroboam’s sin is a heretic. The vast majority of Christians in this age and time have fallen into idolatry to worship golden calves. Yet they do not even realize that they have fallen into heresy, and the reason for this is because they have turned into heretics all together. In other words, because almost all Christians do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they cannot discern heresy, and because virtually all mainstream Christians are leading their lives of faith in this way without even receiving the remission of their sins, they adhere to the faith of heresy, thinking that what they believe is right. If just one pastor teaches wrong, then everyone in the congregation ends up misbelieving like this. The reason why so many Christians today are destined to hell, unable to blot out their sins even as they believe in Jesus, but instead piling up even more sins, is precisely because they are now serving the golden calves of Christianity. Therefore, to escape from such heresy, no one must reject the God-given gospel of the water

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and the Spirit.

Too many Christians still continue to retain their sins in their hearts. Could such people go to Heaven, just because they now believe in Jesus? Could they avoid the just judgment of God? No, anyone who has sin in his heart will be cast out to hell by God, regardless of whether he is a self-professing Christian or not. When Christians are asked, “If you have sin, will you go to Heaven or hell?” most of them would say that they would go to hell. When they look at themselves, they are compelled to admit that they are bound to hell. However, they don’t try to eradicate their sins by believing in the true gospel that we are preaching.

If you look into your conscience and find sin there, then you have a serious problem at hand. In contrast, for those who know and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, even though they may be too weak to avoid committing sin, they can still affirm to their conscience that they have no sin, for they believe in this gospel of Truth. They can say with a

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clear conscience, “I am absolutely sinless. Because the Lord has saved me, I have no sin. Thank You, Lord!” That’s why the gospel power is so amazing.

And that’s why we are so thankful to the Lord. Those who have truly received the remission of their sins raise their voices to praise the Lord and His grace.

The gospel power of the water and the Spirit is tremendous. It has freed you and me from all our sins and saved us all. This gospel of the water and the Spirit has delivered us from all our curses. It has saved us from our destruction. That’s why we are so thankful. Its power is so marvelous.

Most Christians throughout the world, Catholics and Protestants alike, claim in their ignorance that they have been saved from their sins simply by believing in the passion of Jesus, in the blood that He shed on the Cross. Even Catholic priests say that one is saved by believing in the blood of the Cross. How has the blood of the Cross alone saved us? It’s because the Lord had shouldered our sins by being baptized by John the Baptist that He carried them to

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the Cross and was condemned for them by shedding His blood, and it’s by believing in this Truth that we have been saved from our sins. To instead believe blindly that the Lord has saved us just by being crucified is akin to serving golden calves. If you now believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then you can be washed and saved from all your sins once for all.

In today’s Christian communities, those who still remain sinners even as they believe in Jesus have turned into heretics before God without even realizing it themselves. However, when the end times come, countless people will believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and return to God. In the days to come, countless Christians will believe in the God-given gospel of the water and the Spirit and return to Him. After the passing of the Early Church era, myriads of Christians had collectively turned into heretics by believing in golden claves, but now, Christians will come to know and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and thus return to

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the Lord altogether. When the end of the ages nears, people all over the world serving gold calves will come to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit in mass. Once a few people begin to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, countless people will follow in their footsteps and also believe in this gospel. All this time, Christians have mistaken golden calves to be their gods and misbelieved to this day, and so even now, they must believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and reach their true salvation.

Is there any sin in your heart or mine? No, as you and I believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, there is no sin in our hearts. My conscience is completely free of sin. Even though my acts are insufficient and I even curse someone once in a while, I am still sinless in my conscience. How is your conscience then? Is your conscience also free of sin?

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water and the Spirit? Apart from you and me, and our coworkers all over the world who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, who can look into his own conscience and say that he has no sin? Only those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can say with a clear conscience that they have been made sinless.

This gospel of the water and the Spirit is the very gospel of power through which the Lord has saved us.

The power of salvation is brought to those who believe in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit.

That’s why the Bible says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes,” and it also says, “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith’” (Romans 1:16-17). It is by faith that we the born-again live, believing that the Lord has blotted out our sins once for all with the gospel of the water and the Spirit. It is by knowing and believing that the Lord has saved us that we are made righteous, for

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God has indeed saved us through the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

The God-given gospel of the water and the Spirit truly has the power of dynamite to blow away all our sins. Now, if anyone no longer deceives his own conscience and admits his sinfulness, we must teach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to such people, let them know how the Lord has blotted out all their sins, and lead them to believe in this. By coming to this earth, and taking upon the sins of the world through the baptism He received from John the Baptist, the Lord has saved all who believe in this Truth. Therefore, if anyone wants to be saved, he must understand properly and exactly how Jesus has saved him before he believes—that is, you must realize and believe clearly that the Lord has saved you by accepting all your individual sins when He was baptized by John, dying on the Cross, and rising from the dead again. Anyone who believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can be made a sinless person and a person of clear conscience

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before God. That is the power of the gospel. The gospel is like dynamite. If anyone believes in it, all the sins committed throughout his entire lifetime will be blown away once for all, just as a stick of dynamite will blow away this entire building when lighted.

If anyone hears the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit and believes in it, then he will surely put on God’s power of salvation. So many sins that had once plagued him will then be all blown away, and he will be made sinless. Whoever believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit will see all his sins disappear completely. That’s how you are made a sinless person with a clear conscience before God. And that is how you are shaped into a worker of the righteousness of God. Believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we have now thrown away golden calves from the presence of God. We all hope and pray that Christians throughout the whole world would also stop serving golden calves, believe in the gospel of

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the water and the Spirit, and return to the arms of God. I thank God for using us for such a precious ministry.

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Who Are Christians That Believe in Jesus within The Framework of Their Own Fleshly Thinking? < 1 Kings 12:25-33 > “Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and dwelt there. Also he went out from there and built Penuel. And Jeroboam said in his heart, ‘Now the kingdom may return to the house of David: If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah.’ Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, ‘It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here Free book request www.nlmission.com

are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!’ And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. He made shrines on the high places, and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made.

And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made. So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense.”

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I read along with you today the Word of God from the First Book of Kings chapter 12 verses 25 through 33. The words of today’s Scripture passage are frequently dealt with as a topic of a sermon that we get to hear often, but in truth, so many Christians do not know very well the spiritual meaning hidden in this Word of God. And so, along with fellow workers at home and abroad, I wish to look into heretics, a wicked group, as shown in today’s Scripture passages.

The outline of the passage we read today is as follows. Originally, a man named Jeroboam wasn’t a member of royalty. Because Solomon had sinned before God, Jeroboam became the king of Israel, and in order to defend his kingship, he made two golden calves and set them up in Bethel and Dan. Then, by telling the people of Israel, “Here are two calves of gold, gods which have guided you,” he had the people of Israel worship the idols, and in doing so, he had turned them into collective heretics.

God really hated this sin of Jeroboam. All the sins

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people commit before God because of their insufficiencies and weaknesses should all receive the remission of sin by having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but the sin of having people believe falsely and be cursed by altering this gospel of the water and the Spirit can never be forgiven before God. Like so, those who altered the sacrificial system that God had set as the Law of salvation in the Old Testament could not avoid punishment for the sins they have committed. Even in this current day and age, there are many people who have received the remission of sin by believing in the way of salvation set by God and having faith in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. However, all those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit but instead stand against it are heretics. It would be fine if such people were to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit even now, but if they do not, they do not get to receive the remission of sin forever.

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is like the sin of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit in the New Testament (Matthew 12:31, Hebrews 10:29). As from the Word of God, only the sacrificial system set by God is what can save humanity from all their sins. However, because Jeroboam had committed the work challenging and demolishing the plan for salvation set by God from its very foundation, God had reproached and destroyed him, his children, and even his people.

In order to keep his throne, Jeroboam had changed God’s sacrificial system arbitrarily and offered sacrifices to the golden calves by setting them in his temples and saying that they were gods. And also, he had appointed priests from every class of ordinary people who were not of the sons of Levi, and that was a great sin that had all the people fall into ruin.

King Jeroboam, in his own heart, had replaced God with the golden calves. And also, in his own heart, he had installed false priests, not the duly qualified priests God had ordained, and had people offer sacrifices to the idols. Because of the things that he

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had set according to his own heart, he had his soul destroyed, as well as all the souls of the Israelites under his reign. Thus, God tells us through the Scripture passages that the curse of God fell upon the house of Jeroboam and all those living inside his house and that the same curse of God also fell upon his successors.

There Are Christians Currently Leading a Life of Faith within the Framework of Their Own Thinking Today, Christian leaders have also made a strange faith in accordance with their own thoughts. So far all the Christian denominations have defined Christianity as a religion of the remission of sin, and they have made the doctrine of the remission of sin with Jesus’ blood of the Cross and believed in it. The doctrine of salvation of current Christianity is composed of the blood of the Cross and the doctrine ◄

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of sanctification. Thus, Christians have a firm conviction that their sins get cleansed by the faith of believing in the blood of the Cross. In other words, thinking within the frame of thought they have created, they have a firm conviction that Jesus came to this earth and remitted the sins of people by the blood of the Cross. In this manner, people tend to believe that one can receive salvation if he believes in Jesus having cleansed all his sins by coming to this earth and by shedding His blood on the Cross.

Christians have created the doctrine of salvation according to the framework of their own thinking and spread such faith to others. However, such doctrine is nothing but a fabricated doctrine that was created out of the framework of their own thinking. That no one can receive the remission of sin no matter how ardently one may believe in this doctrine proves that it is not the Truth based on the Word of God. Thus, as a result, the doctrine of prayers of repentance gets added on as a central doctrine of Christianity.

Doctrines created by religious reformers or

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theologians in each of the denominations within Christianity are mostly similar. First of all, the doctrine of Christianity states “Christianity is a religion of the remission of sin.” It means that Christianity is a religion that cleanses people’s sins.

Christians believe that if they believe in the Precious Blood that Jesus Christ had shed on the Cross, all their sins will disappear. It is saying that all they have to do is to believe in Jesus Christ having remitted all our sins by being crucified and dying. And so, they say that “Whoever believes in the Precious Blood that Jesus Christ had shed on the Cross, the doctrine of repentance, and the doctrine of sanctification will gain salvation” is the formula of faith by which they are able to receive salvation. They have all created a doctrine of salvation within the framework of their own thinking and have had people believe in it.

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Christian doctrine that the leaders inside Christianity had created within the framework of their own thinking. If one can receive the remission of sin just by believing only in the blood of the Cross, those who really believe so must have theirs sins be gone, but the reality isn’t so. Right now, did you become the righteous who has no single piece of sin by believing only in the blood of Jesus? No, we did not.

However, many people believe like in this manner.

The current doctrines of Christianity have all been created within the framework of human thinking, and they are nothing but false doctrines. They teach that whoever acknowledges one’s own sins and believe in Jesus having blotted out our sins by being crucified and shedding His blood will receive the remission of sin. And, they teach people to think that whoever steps into that doctrine by faith will receive salvation despite having sins.

Having created a fabricated framework for salvation inside their hearts like so and even though their sins haven’t actually disappeared, Christians

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continue to believe in Jesus in vain by hypnotizing themselves, “I have received the salvation.”

Christians today have created a formula for the remission of sin within the framework of their own thinking by basing it on the blood of the Cross, and they go on believing that if one were to believe according to that formula, they would receive the remission of sin. However, because people who believe in the blood of Jesus only have sins, in actuality they continue to go on living always as sinners because it is nothing but an absurd doctrine.

It is just like people who do not believe in Jesus continuing to go on living as sinners until death.

People often have the tendency to create a certain hypothesis within their frame of logic and then to wish that to be the truth. However, the true gospel of salvation before God is the gospel of the water and the Spirit, rather than the gospel of the blood of the Cross. Whoever it may be, people can receive salvation only when they are born again by believing in this gospel of the water and the Spirit, and this is

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the Truth.

Within the framework of his own thinking, Jeroboam believed in the idols as God. What was its result? God’s curse fell upon him. According to his own heart, he had changed the Day of Atonement from the tenth day of the seventh month to the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and by making priests from every class of ordinary people, he had them worship the idols.

God had built the Temple in Jerusalem for the Israelites. But, by building temples in the regions of Dan and Bethel and putting golden calves there, Jeroboam had people of Israel believe in the idols by saying to them that these were their gods which have guided them. Still not satisfied, he had made shrines that seats idols in every village, and in Bethel he himself had personally ordained the priests. In order to worship the idols according to the framework of his own thinking, he had installed the priests arbitrarily. However, the Bible states that only the descendants of Levi can become God’s priests. This

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was something set forth by God. But, Jeroboam had believed in God according to his own thinking. His faith, which was manifested by his own thinking, was something gravely inaccurate.

Among the descendants of Levi, the men selected from the family of Aaron were set forth by God to become the High Priests as they reach the age of thirty, and the ordinary priests from the sons of Levi were to be installed at the age of 25. God has made it so that the priests came from the family of Levi, and especially, a person who was born into the house of Aaron and had reached the age of 30 without any physical or mental problem was an instrument to be used by God as a High Priest. Therefore, when the people of Israel went to the Temple of Jerusalem, this is where they were able to meet the High Priest and the descendants of Levi. When the people passed on the offering to a priest after having laid their hands on it, the priest drew the blood of the sacrificial offering, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and poured the remaining blood onto the

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ground. And then, the priest offered the sacrifice to God on behalf of the people by burning its flesh on the altar. Thus, God had set all such works to enable His people to receive the remission of sin.

People had weaved together a framework for salvation according to their own thinking which stipulates that if one were to just believe in Jesus Christ’s blood of the Cross, they would receive salvation, but then again, what about the Lord’s will?

Didn’t the Lord set the framework for our salvation by the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Whose frame of thinking must we believe in then? Of course, shouldn’t we believe in the framework for salvation set by the Lord? If you are those who fear God, you will believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that God has set forth as the framework for our salvation. The fact of the matter is that God had saved us by setting forth the framework for our salvation by the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

God does not change the law of salvation provided for us in accordance with circumstances. This man,

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Jeroboam, had altered the framework of salvation according to his own heart.

We Must Believe in the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit According to the Provided Framework of Salvation Set by the Lord We have no objection to believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that the Lord has made for us.

When the Word of God says something is so, we accept it to be as such. And, there is no use in putting forth one’s own thoughts before the Word of God by saying that our thoughts are such and such. That is a short cut toward becoming heretics by departing from the providence of God. Today’s Christianity opposes the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit by having created Christian doctrines according to their own thinking. People have conjured and set up a framework for salvation in their own way of thinking ◄

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thus providing a human person’s belief. And so, they think, “Jesus Christ threw away the Throne of Heaven and came down to this earth. And by being crucified, suffering a harsh ordeal, shedding His sacred blood, and being resurrected from the dead, He has saved us. The Lord has cleansed us of all the sins of this world completely.” Put differently, those who still believe within the framework of their own thinking think, “Without making much of His only begotten Son, God had sent Him to this earth in order to blot out our sins, and by having Him crucified, He has blotted out our sins.” Therefore, they go on saying that those who have sins, whoever they may be, can receive the remission of sin by believing in Jesus as the Savior.

Having made a framework for salvation on their own accord, which claims that whoever it may be, anyone who believes in Jesus Christ’s blood of the Cross can be cleansed of any kind of sin, in this manner they go on believing. Because people, whoever they may be, generally believe in such a

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doctrine of the Cross created within the framework of their own thinking, people go on believing as it is without a doubt as long as such a doctrine fits their way of thinking. Thus, the thought that the gospel only of the blood of the Cross is the truth has become an inaccurate standard among Christians today.

Therefore, it has become such that now even if there are sins inside their hearts, they are no longer able to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and to receive the cleansing of sins. Thus, it has become such that sins will always remain inside their hearts. Christians who now believe only in the blood of Jesus Christ according to the framework of their own thinking cannot make their sins go away.

Because they believe in the Christian doctrines that they have created with the framework of their own thinking, they are now unable to cleanse their sins by such a faith. As Christians today, even though sins still remain in their hearts, believe in accordance with their own hearts by having set up a framework for salvation out of their own thinking, they are truly

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being foolish. Because Christians these days have believed only in the blood of the Cross through the Christian doctrines created by human beings, in the end, sins have come to remain intact inside their hearts.

The true gospel isn’t just having faith only in the blood of the Cross. The only genuine gospel that the Lord has given us is the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The gospel of the water and the Spirit is the greatest Truth of salvation that the Lord has given to us human beings. The true gospel is like this: Our Lord didn’t just get crucified by coming to this earth.

Rather, in order to save us from the sins of the world, He had taken on all our sins once and for all by having received the baptism from John the Baptist in the Jordan River. And, by shedding His blood on the Cross and by being resurrected from the dead, the fact is that He has given those of us who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit the true salvation for an everlasting life.

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What Is the True Gospel God Has Given Us? The gospel of the water and the Spirit is the Truth of salvation. What is the gospel Truth set by God in order to save us from all our sins? It is called the gospel of the water and the Spirit. However, sins haven’t yet disappeared from the hearts of most Christians because they continue to recklessly believe in Jesus as the Savior within the framework of their own thinking according their own heart. If those Christian sinners continue to not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit until the very end, they will become someone like Jeroboam in body and spirit. As for all the sinners who have inherited the faith of Jeroboam, starting from Jeroboam, God has promised let no single person live. When Jeroboam’s son became a king of Israel, he led many people to their death also, by committing the same sins as Jeroboam had committed. God cursed those possessing such a faith. God said, “The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city,

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and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field” (1 Kings 14:11). The fact is that God had cursed in this manner those who had committed the same sins as Jeroboam.

Why did God do so? It was because they had created a religion that worships idols according to the framework of human thinking and believed in it, and it was also because that they had preached this belief to others as well. The sins Jeroboam committed before God were sins that can never be cleansed.

They are the same as today’s sin of a false faith in which one believes that people can receive the remission of sin by believing only in the blood of the Cross, that is, by believing in Jesus Christ according to the framework of their own fleshly thinking. It is the sin of standing against the will of God and deteriorating the Truth of salvation by the gospel of the water and the Spirit that was planned by God the Father even before the Creation for Jesus Christ to blot out all our sins. The sins of such people are such that they cannot be remitted but by believing in the

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gospel of the water and the Spirit.

In the Gospel of John chapter 3, Jesus said that unless one is born again of water and the Spirit, he can neither enter the Kingdom of God nor see God the Father. Jesus said, “Every one must be born again by the water and the Spirit,” and it is written in the Bible that all the twelve disciples, including the Apostles like Peter, Paul, Matthew, John, and Mark, had believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and preached it. However, the leaders of Christianity and the church members in this day and age do not realize the fact that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the Truth, and they go on believing only in the wrongful doctrines of Christianity. Inside Christianity today, there are many people who believe in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit set by God by altering it according to their own heart.

This is believing in God according to the framework that people have created with fleshly thinking.

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can see pastors who are said to be great preachers of sermons getting invited and delivering sermons over the broadcast. I also have once watched one of the so-called “Great Sermons.” The preacher claimed that Christians have to think positively, instead of having negative thoughts. The main theme of that sermon was “If a person thinks positively, then that person’s life also becomes positive, so even if there are sins in your heart, think that you are the righteous.”

Because thinking positively is something good, I don’t intend to criticize and say that the content itself claimed by the preacher is incorrect. Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that no matter how positively one may think, a person who has sins cannot become a sinless person by believing in a gospel that is of just the blood of the Cross, which is only half of the gospel at best. People’s sins can only be cleansed by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

People today have believed in Jesus Christ as the Savior with a positive attitude, but in truth, there are

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sins still inside their hearts. Even though people these days do have sins in their hearts, they are under their own illusion that they have received the remission of sin because they think that Jesus Christ has cleansed their sins by being crucified. However, their sins do not go away just by believing in a doctrine of the blood of the Cross that people have concocted within the framework of their own fleshly thinking.

When there is a sin inside one’s heart, that person’s conscience, first of all, gives an account of his sin to God. After that, the Law of God points out a person’s sin truthfully. Thus, it is the case that sins inside one’s heart get cleansed only by having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Today’s Christians urge people to have a positive thought as follows: “I have received the remission of sin. Even though I have sins, I have received the remission of sin.” But such faith is nothing but holding fast to a preposterous logic that says, “I am a drowning man right now, but I am also someone who has been saved from drowning.” In spite of it all, a pastor who

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is a so-called renowned preacher tells people to think positive, saying, “I have received the remission of sin by believing in Jesus. Jesus has saved me by dying on the Cross and then being resurrected. And so, I have received the remission of sin. Though there are sins in my heart, God has blotted out my sins.” And the audiences respond by repeatedly saying, “Amen.

Amen.” The fact of the matter is that today’s Christianity has degenerated into heresy, down to a level that is more infantile than a kindergarten student.

Try to think positive as hard as possible, but the fact of the matter is that even if you so do, the sins of the heart will never go away. The preacher referred to that faith as “the faith of the fourth dimension.”

Dear fellow believers, sins inside one’s heart do not go away just by changing one’s thoughts to being positive, but instead, such a faith is like deceiving one’s self. When a person thinks positive, the thoughts become enterprising and the heart may feel at ease for a short while, but the fact of the matter is

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that one can never deceive the fact that the sins of one’s conscience still remain intact in his heart before God.

Having Conjured up a Doctrine that says, “One Receives the Remission of Sin by the Blood of the Cross,” According to Their Own Thinking, Christian Leaders Continue to Believe with a False Faith In the First Epistle to the Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18, the Apostle Paul said, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Here, “the message of the cross” refers to the very gospel of the water and the Spirit: It speaks of the Cross with an assumption of the baptism of Jesus.

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Jesus hadn’t taken on the sins of the world by receiving this baptism, the fact is that He would not have had a reason to die on the Cross. The Bible clearly states, “The way of salvation set by God is such that He has sent the Son of God to this earth, and by His Son taking on our sins by receiving the baptism from John the Baptist, receiving the judgment at the Cross, and being resurrected from the dead. It is the case that those who believe in this doctrine properly get saved from sin by the true faith.”

However, people have distorted God’s Truth of salvation by using doctrines that they have created within the framework of their own thinking. People have created false doctrines using the framework of their own thinking that says so long as one believes in Jesus Christ’s blood of the Cross, the person should receive salvation from the sins of the world and gain everlasting life, and they go on believing in Jesus within such a framework. Those people saying, “I have sins, but I have received the remission of

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sin,” is a sophistry similar to saying, “1-1=1.” How can they make and believe in such a selfcontradicting doctrine that insists, “Jesus has wiped away all our sins through the blood of the Cross, but it is correct that I still have sin in my heart.” That is like hypnotizing oneself and saying, “I am blessed, even though I still have sin,” and living with an illusion that one has actually received abundant blessings. They continue to hypnotize themselves thinking, “I have received the remission of sin. Jesus saved me by shedding His blood on the Cross and being resurrected from the dead.”

They hold onto the Word from Isaiah 53:5 that says, “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities,” and believe in the doctrine of the blood of the Cross that was made from human thinking. But, because sin remains in their heart, they went on to write another precept that reads, “Think in all matters positive.” That’s how they became heretics and many people became sinners like Jeroboam. They believe in Jesus with a

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gospel that they have distorted to their hearts’ pleasure, like Jeroboam who had built shrines, put up golden calves, burned incense before the idols, and killed the lambs. He had also anointed unqualified people as priests and made them to offer sacrifices.

And those Christian sinners say, “We are people of God who fear God, and God is our God.” People become heretics and heads of heretics because they believe in Jesus according to the framework of their fleshly thinking rather than having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that God has established as the plan of salvation.

Such faith brings down a curse upon not only himself, but also to his family and all his followers. Today’s Christians have formulated wrongful doctrines and do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit as proclaimed in the Scriptures, and this is a grievous sin. The faith of believing in only the blood of the Cross is a faith completely different from the faith of believing in the righteousness of God manifested in the Scriptures. The Scriptures do not

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say that the salvation is attained by believing only in the blood of the Cross. A great collective heresy called Christianity has emerged in this world because people have made and believed in such wrongful doctrines. And the leaders of this collective heresy continue to hypnotize people with such wrongful doctrines.

What is the essential difference between true Christianity and other religions of the world? A religion of the world is a belief system or a system of doctrines that people have created and believe in within the framework of human thinking. But Christianity is different from other religions of the world. In true Christianity, the faithful accepts the God-given Word of salvation as it is given. The true faith of Christianity is simply believing in God’s Word whether It accords with our thinking or not.

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given us the true gospel of the water and the Spirit, and we will not become heretics if we were to believe it exactly as is. Paul talks about “the message of the Cross” in the Scriptures, and by that, he is actually referring it to the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

But, after Paul, Christianity has made false doctrines according to the framework of its own human thinking. As a result, heretics became prevalent in Christianity and Christians are blocked off from receiving the true remission of sin. They cannot lead their family members, friends, and all the people with whom they share the gospel to receive the remission of sin because they themselves have not yet received the remission of sin. Those who have believed in Jesus prior to the others are leading many people who come after them to hell. That’s why they are all headed toward destruction together.

Therefore, they have come to emphasize only the carnal blessings of this world. Every Christian believes in Jesus by focusing on material blessings,

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saying, “One will become rich by believing in Jesus; become healthy by believing in Jesus; do well in business by believing in Jesus, and so on. They are all heretics.”

Christians today believe in the Christian doctrines they have formulated with the framework of their own thinking just as Jeroboam had substituted God with the golden calves and believed in them.

Jeroboam installed common people as priests, changed the Day of Atonement to the 15th day of the eighth month, and substituted God with the golden calves. Is gold divine? Can gold be God? Can material things become God? Can we find God in a materialistic domain? Jeroboam did so according to his thinking in order to maintain his power. As a result, he committed an irreversible sin before God. For that, he and all his family as well as all his people were cursed by God. These days, Christians say, “Believe in the blood of the Cross, and you shall receive salvation,” but this is a wrongful faith deriving from their

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misunderstanding and misbelieving in the Truth of God’s salvation. Many people think they can receive salvation from their sins through the blood of the Cross alone, but this is incorrect. Look at both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Let’s look at the 33 years of Jesus Christ’s life on this earth. The Bible has given us a record of Him up until the age of 12, and then has the record of Him receiving the baptism by John the Baptist at the age of 30 up until the age of 33 when His ministry was finished. We can see that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the real Truth just by looking at His ministry during this three-year period.

Jesus Christ came to this earth and received the baptism from John the Baptist to bear all our sins of the world at the age of 30. In Matthew 3:13-17, there is a scene of Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist. “‘Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then he allowed Him. When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened

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to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him” (Matthew 3:15-16).

Why was Jesus baptized? Jesus was baptized to bear all our sins - the sins of all humanity, the sins of the world. After being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus nurtured and taught His disciples and testified of God’s Word to people for three years before dying on the Cross. Jesus took all the sins of this world upon Himself through the baptism, shed His blood and died on the Cross, was resurrected from the dead after three days, witnessed His resurrection for forty days, and ascended up to heaven in the clouds while many people were watching Him. And, He promised to return at some future day.

Dying on the Cross alone could not save us from the sins of the world. We must pay attention to the fact that the very first thing that He did during the three years of His public ministry on this earth was getting baptized by John the Baptist. Also, we must recognize that all the four Gospel Books commonly record the baptism of Jesus as the beginning point of

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the gospel. God began the work of our salvation by sending John the Baptist to this world and having him cry out, “Repent, you, the children of serpent.”

After having prepared the hearts of the people in that manner, Jesus, Himself, appeared and the first thing He did was to receive the baptism from John the Baptist to take upon Himself the sins of the world.

That’s how the Lord took upon Himself all our sins.

And then, He died on the Cross. Jesus died on the Cross because He had taken upon Himself all our sins by being baptized, and saved us, at once, by being resurrected from the dead on the third day. Did Jesus really save us from all the sins of the world just by shedding His blood on the Cross? No, He did not.

Many Christians still live as sinners despite having faith in Jesus. They believe in the false doctrine of salvation they have created based on the framework of their own fleshly thinking, and the fact is that sins inside their mind cannot be wiped away with such a false gospel. That’s why they have become heretics before God, and go on accumulating

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sins that they commit with their mind and body. They sorrowfully mourn for their sins in repentance, but they continue to commit more and more sins before God. We must believe in God’s Word as it is recorded in the Scriptures. Even though you have believed with the wrongful faith thus far, if someone shares with you the gospel of the water and the Spirit, you should then listen to it very carefully and search through the Scriptures to see if it is true. And, you should believe it without reservation if it shown to be true. Why do people try to believe within the framework of their fleshly thinking? Everyone needs to break through one’s framework of fleshly thinking.

Modern Christianity, after the Reformation, has formulated Christian doctrines based on a new framework of fleshly thinking. However, Christians can come back to God by breaking these false doctrines and believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. I want to destroy all the incorrect Christian doctrines with the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. Where in the Scriptures does the Lord speak

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only of the blood of the Cross? The Scriptures clearly speak of the gospel of the water and the Spirit as the true gospel. All the people who have not broken the framework of their own thinking and do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are those who have gone crazy over their desire to receive God’s damning curse. Those who are trapped in such sin and believe in such fabricated Christian doctrines must, without hesitation, break the framework of their fleshly thinking and come out from such an accursed situation. Otherwise, God’s curse shall fall upon them.

Today’s Christian doctrines are just convenient hypotheses that people have made up within the framework of their own fleshly thinking. Christians have fabricated a series of strange religious doctrines within the framework of thinking to ease their conscience. That’s why people still have sins even though they believe in Jesus under the name of Christianity just like people who have sins in their hearts despite their belief in Buddhism or any other

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religion of the world. In the same manner, those who believe in Christianity, Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism, or any other religion, have sins inside their hearts. Christians still remain sinners despite their faith in Jesus because they believe in such erroneous doctrines. Believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that the Lord has given. Is there a sin inside the heart of a Christian if he throws away his old faith and believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? No there isn’t. All sins are exterminated when a person believes in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. However, if a person believes only in the blood of the Cross, he is merely thinking himself to be without sin, but the fact is that sins still remain intact in their conscience.

This is the very heretical faith. All those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit according to God’s plan of salvation are heretics.

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dare to think that the doctrine, which says “Jesus wiped away our sins by shedding His blood on the Cross,” is wrong? Who would dare to challenge this doctrine Christians have believed in for nearly two thousand years? But, what’s wrong is wrong. And what is wrong must be corrected. Christians must destroy all such doctrines with the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit and correct the misguided aspects of their faith with the Truth.

Then, some people may ask, “Are there any evidences of washing away sins with water in the Old Testament?” Let’s take a look. The Israelites first crossed the Red Sea when they were heading for the land of Canaan, but they were faced with another test to enter the Promised Land. It was the Jordan River.

The Jordan River overflows all its banks during a flood season. But the water stopped flowing when the priests, as commanded by God, stepped into the river with the Ark. The Scriptures say that the water of the Jordan River rose in a heap very far away at the city named Adam, when the priests stepped into the water

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(Joshua 3:15-16). The Jordan River stopped flowing and rose in a heap just like the Red Sea had parted when the Israelites were crossing the Red Sea. The water from the Jordan River rose in a heap like a mountain very far away from them.

How can such a thing happen? This was a special work of God. Through this event, God is telling us that, even in the Old Testament, He washes away our sins with water and gives us salvation through water.

Look at Naaman, a commander, in 2 Kings chapter 5.

Didn’t he go to the Jordan River and wash himself 7 times? Naaman’s body was cleansed after Naaman had immersed himself in the Jordan River 7 times.

This event speaks to us about how Jesus took upon Himself the sins of the world through the baptism He had received from John the Baptist and washed away our sins. Like so, the Old Testament also speaks to us on numerous occasions about the “water.” On many occasions, God speaks to us about washing our sins with water.

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Apostle Peter says, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (I Peter 3:21). The Scriptures actually ask us how we could, with a clear conscience, say that Jesus was not able to take upon Himself all our sins and wash them away even though we know that Jesus came to this earth, took upon Himself all our sins by receiving the baptism from John the Baptist, and died on the Cross.

Following God the Father’s plan of salvation, the Son came to this earth, received the baptism from John the Baptist, died on the Cross, was resurrected from the dead, and thus, saved us from all the sins of the world. That is why our conscience does not allow us to go before God with sins in our hearts after having realized this Truth and believing faithfully in it.

Rather, we go before God with a clean and good conscience that has received the remission of sin. We cannot but go before God with a clean conscience because we have faith in Jesus having received the

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baptism from John the Baptist, dying on the Cross, being resurrected from the dead, washing away all our sins, receiving judgment in our place, and saving us from the curse, the death. That’s why the Scriptures say, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism.” Jesus Christ received the baptism from John the Baptist to take upon Himself all our sins, and shed His blood and died on the Cross to wash away our sins.

Do Christians These Days Understand the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit and Believe in It by Faith?

There aren’t many Christians who are aware of the fact that Christianity all over the world has fallen into the sin of Jeroboam. And that grieves me. Who can dare say and imagine that the Christian doctrine that claims, “Whosoever believes in the blood of the Cross shall receive the remission of sin,” is wrong? ◄

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But such Christian doctrines are something imperfect people have conjured up. As Jeroboam had set up the idols and priests according to his heart’s desires, the theologians have made Christian doctrines to be in the same manner. John Calvin of France, Martin Luther of Germany, and many others have fabricated the Christian doctrines. That’s why many believe, without question, only in Jesus having died on the Cross.

But, what do the Scriptures say? The Scriptures speak of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The Scriptures inform us of the gospel of the water and the Spirit and witness it. It is impossible for anyone to receive the remission of sin without having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Today’s Christians around the world believe in Jesus only through the man-made doctrines, and that is wrong. It is wrong because people have made up and believe in the doctrine that says Jesus, having come to this world, wiped away their sins just by dying on the Cross. People do not get to receive the

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remission of sin even though they believe in Jesus because this is a doctrine that was formulated on the basis of human thought and because they believe in it and share such a faith with others. Ask someone who believes in Jesus as his Savior and Lord, “Do you have sin in your heart?”

Only those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit do not have sins, but all the others have sins. Some people say that they have no sin even though they believe only in the blood of the Cross.

Even though they actually have sin in their hearts, those people say so only because they believe firmly in the Christian doctrines of their own making. They say they have no sin, but they are not saying that because they truly do not have sins in their hearts.

Because they believe in the wrongful Christian doctrines and because it sounds strange to say that they have sins when they claim to have received the remission of sin through the blood of the Cross, they are professing their faith positively despite having sins in their hearts.

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But those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit do not have sins in their consciences.

Although they are insufficient, they do not have sins in their consciences because they believe in Jesus having saved all humankind by taking all the sins of the world upon Himself through the baptism received from John the Baptist, dying on the Cross, and being resurrected from the dead. Those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit cannot say that they have sins. Why? It’s because Jesus came to this world, received the baptism, took all our sins upon Himself, received the terrible suffering, died on the Cross, was resurrected from the dead, and thus, saved us from all our sins once and for all. How can we, with a good conscience, say that we have sins when Jesus has saved us with the gospel of the water and the Spirit? We cannot conscientiously say that we have sins because we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Because the Lord has blotted out all our sins and because we believe this Truth, we can’t say that we have sins, and the fact of the matter

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is that we have clearly received the remission of our sins. That’s why we don’t have sins in our hearts. Is this just our imagination? Is this gospel something we’ve made up? Is this something that I’ve created?

This is the Truth and the fact is that it is not of our own making.

This gospel of the water and the Spirit is the gist of the Scriptures. When studying a certain subject, understanding the key point of the subject unravels all else that follows. God came to this world to save sinners, and the key point of the salvation is Jesus Christ receiving the baptism from John the Baptist in the Jordan River. He took upon Himself all the sins of humankind by receiving the baptism from John the Baptist. That’s why He was able to give us the true salvation by getting nailed, dying on the Cross, and being resurrected from the dead. We have received this salvation by understanding and believing in this Truth.

But what is Christianity like these days? In this day and age, Christianity has formulated false

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doctrines based on the framework of fleshly thinking, and it is turning Christians into hypocritical legalists.

They teach people, saying, “How can we not believe in the Lord when He has come to this world and shed blood on the Cross for us? And how can we not live virtuously after having come to believe in the Lord?”

Thus the Christian leaders are making their followers ethically praiseworthy people. They teach, “You must live a righteous life because you are a Christian.

Your behavior must change. Then you will receive blessings. Live according to God’s Word. Then you will receive blessings. Believe in the blood of the Cross. Even though you have sin in your heart, God will forgive all your sin if you believe in the blood of Jesus Christ. Think in such positive ways and become an ethically upright person. Live a good upright life and become an ethically decent person.”

So, how can Christians today not be heretics?

We have received salvation by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and we are in service to the Lord because we have received

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salvation. We believe in the Lord, sing praises, worship Him, and support preaching of the gospel because the Lord has saved us with the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. If we were to claim that we have been saved only by believing Jesus died on the Cross, then Jesus, from His side, has not completely washed away our sins, and also from our side, we won’t be able to receive the remission of sin by believing in this manner of Jesus. Although He is the only begotten Son of God, it would have been degrading, dishonorable, and deceitful of Jesus. And our sins wouldn’t even have been washed away if Jesus Christ had just said, “I am dying for you. All of your sins are washed away,” and died on the Cross. If the Lord has come to this earth to save us the sinners, there must be a process of the Lord taking upon Himself all our sins. Without the process of taking all the sins upon Himself, it is indecent, even for God Himself, to say, “I will die on the Cross. Just believe in me.” This would be an unreasonable request to us.

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should believe without any questioning? Jesus would give a reason for us to believe, He would not just demand us to believe without having given us a reason or any logic.

These days, Christian doctrines have turned people into collective heretics. That’s why they are leading other people into hell as well. The faith of believing in wrongful Christian doctrines is different from the faith of believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Do you think that there seems be only a little difference? You may think so, but they are worlds apart from each other. Let’s think about it for a minute. Are all the other gospels besides the gospel of the water and the Spirit heretical, or are they not?

They all are heretical. I feel horrible just thinking about this fact. People are being deceived by doctrines that humans have made up, and they are going to hell because they believe in the fallacious Christian doctrines even though they believe in Jesus Christ. I cannot help but preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit when I think of this. I have to

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talk about heretics when I think of this.

There are so many heretics in the world. There are about 6.5 billion people in the world, and about 1.5 billion people are Christians in total. And to think that only a few thousand people have been born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and that all the others believe in an incomplete and thereby wrongful doctrine makes me speechless.

Doesn’t it? Most of them are heretics. This thought makes me feel miserable.

Something that looks similar but is not actually the same is called “pseudo.” The Christian leaders who are not the born-again preach, “You must be the light of the world.” But, people cannot become the light or the salt of the world merely by trying hard.

People yearn to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth, but that will not happen no matter how hard they try. Why not? Most Christians cannot become the light of the world or the salt of the earth because they are just clinging onto a fabricated fallacious doctrine. That’s because they do not know

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the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and thus, they can neither believe in it nor possess it. People become the light and the salt of the world of their own accord owing to the work of the Holy Spirit, for if they just believe in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, the Holy Spirit indwells within them.

But, that’s not happening because they depend on doctrines that have come out of human thinking.

Sharing this truth is a great responsibility. If there are 1.5 billion Christians in the world, almost all of them are heretics. That’s the problem. If at least 10% of those Christians have the correct faith, there would be no problem because the 10% would do the work of the gospel according to their faith. But, there is a big problem because all the Christians of the world, like Jeroboam, think whatever they want to think and make up doctrines in any way they want to and believe however they want to. It is a big problem, when not even considering the unbelievers. I feel so frustrated.

But, what can we do? We can only share paper

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books and electronic books with people around the world. What else could we do? Although we do not have much, we do God’s work because God has given us the task. Jeroboam is the head of heretics, and there are many like him among Christians today thinking and believing any way they please. We must consider such reality.

What is a heretic? A heretic is someone, like Jeroboam, who thinks and believes any way he or she pleases. Heretical faith is something that may seem similar to true Christianity, but it is actually different.

It is what we call, “pseudo-Christianity.” Even if you say, “He really treats the topic of heresy relentlessly once he gets started. He speaks of the heresy again today even though he spoke of it during previous worship services,” I cannot but deal with this topic ceaselessly.

We must not believe in a ludicrous doctrine that says things that are as foolish as “1-1=1.” There is no difference between a doctrine that claims, “Jesus Christ has removed all our sins through the blood of

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the Cross, but I still have sin” and an erroneous calculation of “1-1=1.” We must not make up a doctrine based on our own thinking and then believe in it. Christians must know and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

We must pray for those heretical Christians. We must pray that all such people of the world would come back to the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit and receive salvation by believing in it. We must save those who believe in God within the framework of their own thinking.

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SERMON 3

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Following the Desires of The Flesh Will Make You Turn into a Heretic Automatically < 1 Kings 12:1-18 > “And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king. So it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it (he was still in Egypt, for he had fled from the presence of King Solomon and had been dwelling in Egypt), that they sent and called him.

Then Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.’ So he said to them, ‘Depart for Free book request www.nlmission.com

three days, then come back to me.’ And the people departed. Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who stood before his father Solomon while he still lived, and he said, ‘How do you advise me to answer these people?’ And they spoke to him, saying, ‘If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.’ But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. And he said to them, ‘What advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?’ Then the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, ‘Thus you should speak to this people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us’—thus you shall say to them: ‘My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s waist! And now,

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whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!’’ So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had directed, saying, ‘Come back to me the third day.’ Then the king answered the people roughly, and rejected the advice which the elders had given him; and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, ‘My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!’ So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from the LORD, that He might fulfill His word, which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying: ‘What share have we in David?

We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.

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To your tents, O Israel!

Now, see to your own house, O David!’

So Israel departed to their tents. But Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah. Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of the revenue; but all Israel stoned him with stones, and he died.

Therefore King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste to flee to Jerusalem.”

Today’s Scripture passage that we just read records the events that occurred when Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, assumed the throne. Rehoboam was King Solomon’s son by blood. When King Solomon died, the people of Israel came to Shechem to see his son Rehoboam, and made a request to him. At that time, a man called Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, returned from his exile in Egypt and came to see Rehoboam together with the people of Israel.

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“Your Father Made Our Yoke Heavy; Now Therefore, Lighten the Burdensome Service of Your Father” Jeroboam and the people of Israel requested to Rehoboam, “Now that you’ve become our king, show some consideration for our weariness. Let your rule be lighter than your father’s rule. If you also impose heavy burdens as your father has done, we will no longer be able to endure this yoke. Promise us therefore that you will lighten our burdens. We will then serve you wholeheartedly.” Yet despite this, even though the people of Israel asked Rehoboam not to rule them as his father had done, Rehoboam the son of Solomon rejected the people’s request and spoke to them even more harshly. His rejection of the people’s request stemmed from his arrogance.

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to restrain himself, saying to him, “If you really want to serve them and answer them with kind words, then they will be your servants forever.” However, King Rehoboam did not listen to their advice. Instead, he consulted the young men who had grown with him, asking the same question. These young men then counseled King Rehoboam to say to the people, “My father was inferior to me. My little finger is thicker than his waist. If my father had ruled you with a heavy yoke and whips, then I will chastise you with scourges!” So following the advice of these young men, King Rehoboam answered the people harshly, “Though my father had ruled you with whips, I will rule you with scourges.”

When the people of Israel saw how the king did not listen to them, they returned to each of their tents, saying to him, “Look after your own house!” Not long after, Rehoboam sent Adoram to mobilize them into forced labor, but the ten tribes of Israel stoned him to death. And these ten tribes from the twelve tribes of Israel made Jeroboam their king. Because of

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this, Jeroboam rose to the throne of the Kingdom of Israel, but he ended up sinning against God, replacing Him with golden calves and making priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi (1 Kings 12:28-32). The Bible says that it’s because of Jeroboam, because he had followed his private greed, that the nation of Israel and its people turned into heretics collectively, something that they would regret for a long time to come. From then on, and until the time Jesus Christ came to this earth, Israel turned into a nation of idolatry. And King Jeroboam was forever tainted with infamy as the very man who brought forth collective heresy in the domain of faith.

We need to consider here carefully how exactly King Jeroboam led the people of Israel to fall into collective heresy. Jeroboam had followed his desires, and it’s precisely because of this that all his people ended up falling into heresy. All those who have led today’s Christianity to fall into collective heresy also follow their desires of the flesh. God says in the

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Bible, “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil” (1 Timothy 6:10). God also says that those who belong to heresy do not follow His righteousness, but far from it, they actually stand against this righteousness, and therefore they eventually become His enemies. Heretics are those who seek only the pleasures of their flesh.

For those of us who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, when we think about heretics, we think that they are fundamentally different from us.

Just like us, however, they also believe in God the Father and Jesus Christ, they also call the name of Jesus, they also praise Him and pray to Him, and they also sacrifice themselves and labor for His name’s sake. The only difference is that they do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that we believe in; other than this, they have the same Bible as we have, and there is little difference between their form of worship and ours. We often are not able to discern heresy, and this is all because we do not quite understand what the heretics are seeking after.

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In fact, heretical Christianity has also branched out from God’s Church, that is, from corrupted groups of believers. How is it then possible for heresy to arise out of God’s Church? Actually, the origin of heretical groups goes a long way back, all the way to the days of Jeroboam, even to the days of King Solomon. It’s from the days of Jeroboam that the entire people of Israel turned into heretics. We can see this more clearly if we take a look at how King Solomon had walked. Because King Solomon had sought and followed only the desires of his flesh, he ended up allowing both himself and his people to serve idols, and in the end, he turned into a heretic in the presence of God. From Solomon, we can see that if anyone follows only his private desires, then he will turn into a heretic before God. So it was to warn us of such risks and to teach us a lesson that God wrote this story of the Old Testament for us.

Solomon had inherited the throne of his father David as well as all his wealth and splendor. By waging many wars, his father David had defeated

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countless enemies, brought the neighboring nations to submission, and built a great deal of wealth from their tributes. David was a man whose heart was in harmony with God’s heart, and he was also a good king of Israel. All through his life, David was rebuked by God harshly only once, and this happened when he took Uriah’s wife out of his lust. Except for this, there was virtually no other occasion when David was harshly rebuked by God. In contrast, all that King Solomon did was just enjoying all this wealth and serving idols. King Solomon built God’s Temple as the very first accomplishment to do once he succeeded to his father’s throne. He raised a 30,000-strong labor force from the people of Israel, injecting 10,000 men in shifts, to work for a month and rest at home for two months (1 Kings 5:14). Since it’s also written that there were 70,000 carriers and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains (1 Kings 5:15), while the Temple of God and Solomon’s palace were being built, all the people of Israel were likely mobilized into forced

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labor for at least several months a year. While King Solomon imposed this burdensome labor on his people, he himself lived a life of extravagant wealth and splendor.

The Bible writes that during his lifetime, Solomon spent silver as if it were as common as stones in the ground. He squandered his wealth like this throughout his lifetime, and he had no less than 1,000 wives. He also forced his people into labor for seven years to build the Temple of God. And to build his own palace, he made them work for 13 years. If he had really cared about the people, then he should have had them work just a year or two at most to build his palace, and then let the people rest and serve their families.

Think about it yourself. Imagine if I had conscripted you into forced labor to work for 13 years just to build my own house. I would be faced with stiff resistance from you. That’s why when the reign of Solomon’s son began, the people of Israel came to King Rehoboam and asked him to lighten up

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their burdensome labor. The king should have listened and granted their request, but he foolishly rejected it, thus triggering their rebellion. But it was all in God’s will that King Jeroboam refused to grant the people’s wish. As King Solomon had served the idols too much, which God hated, his son Jeroboam was allowed to make this blunder so that God may render His judgment for the sins of his father Solomon.

Why Does Heresy Emerge from within Christianity?

Heresy springs forth in Christian communities because there are people like Rehoboam or Jeroboam in them. Let’s now examine more closely why it is that heresy has emerged from within Christianity.

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those inside Christian communities as well, if they believe in Christianity only as a matter of religion, rather than leading their lives of faith by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then they will also be seen as heretics in God’s sight. Although it’s only natural for this to happen to nominal Christians, you must realize that even if one follows God, if he only seeks his private desires, then he will also turn into a heretic.

Even for the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, if they live only according to the desires of their flesh, then they may also turn into heretics before God. Jeroboam had followed his private greed.

That’s why he turned into a heretic in God’s sight.

King Jeroboam was a heretic before God. That’s because he had followed only the lust of the flesh according to his heart’s desires. Heretics spring forth from their heretical predecessors. Jeroboam had witnessed Solomon’s walk while serving in his court.

That’s why he committed the same heretical sins as King Solomon. Like this, because the people of Israel

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also followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam and repeated the same sins that he committed, they turned into heretics hated by God. There are many in today’s Christian communities who are imprisoned by collective heretics. In today’s Christianity, all those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are in fact God’s opponents, but it’s not because they actually wish to stand against God that this happened. Rather, it’s all because they are unable to cast aside the lust of the flesh that’s in their hearts. If one is not born again, and therefore his heart is not indwelt by the Holy Spirit, then he is incapable of throwing away the lust of his flesh, and that is why he ends up belonging to the gathering of collective heretics. It’s so frustrating when I think about such people who are following their own lust before God. How can a pastor seized by his own carnal lust be called a leader of Christianity? Such pastors do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit nor believe in it, and therefore they have many sins in their hearts. Then

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how can these pastors, who are ignorant of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, stand before their congregation and preach to them, far less spread this gospel of Truth to sinners?

It’s said that a lot of worldly perks follow when one becomes a pastor. Kings are guaranteed various royal prerogatives, but it’s said that pastors are guaranteed even more privileges than kings. So they don’t want to give up their line of faith, even when they come to know it is wrong, for they would lose every privilege as pastors of mainstream Christianity.

It’s because so many pastors today are ministering according to their private lust only to satisfy this greed that they don’t even try to correct their mistaken direction. That is why pastors and their followers are unable to escape from collective heresies of the so-called mainstream Christianity.

In today’s Christianity also, many leaders are living according to the lust of their flesh, just like Jeroboam. All these people are walking on the way of heresy before God. Heretical pastors are

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ministering to pursue their individual greed. Some pastors emphasize the so-called “blessings of the three-fold gospel.” These pastors all seek only the blessings of the flesh. Citing 3 John 1:2, which says, “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers,” they claim that if anyone believes in Jesus, he would not only be saved but also receive the blessings of the earth and be healed from all his physical illnesses.

Such beliefs are nothing more than placing one’s faith in crude, false doctrines that are no better than a crass comedy. Armed with the argument that claims, “All problems will be solved if one believes in Jesus,” they incite those who seek their own lust, and turn them into fanatical followers of their own teachings. For such people, Jesus is little more than an insurance provider that guarantees their success.

Deep in the center of their hearts, it’s not Jesus that is found, but golden calves.

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Those Who Belong to Collective Heresy Are Followers of the Lust of Their Flesh Today so-called leaders of Christianity neither know nor believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and yet they are all pretending to be churchmen in Christian communities. In the end, they are not only living for their own flesh, but their flesh is honored all in the name of Jesus Christ. It’s because they want to serve golden calves that they are ministering as churchmen. In some cases, there is nothing else that they can do out in the broader society; in fact, some of them can’t even make a living otherwise, and that’s why they are working as ministers. Such people exploit foolish souls, armed with the puny theological knowledge and a few Christian doctrines that they learned in seminaries, and fronting famous theologians or martyrs boasted by their own denominations. Yet even as they are nothing more than piles of greed, their flesh is honored in Christian communities. It is these people, Free book request www.nlmission.com

who are not only incapable of casting aside their private desires, but are actually ministering to satisfy them, that have become heretics in Christianity.

Even for all our ministers, our workers, and our saints who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit today, if they follow only their private greed, then they may also turn into heretics before God. Ultimately, those who embark on the way of heresy do so because they put their own carnal lust in God’s place and serve it as their god. This is the tragedy of today’s pastors who are now serving golden calves in Christian communities. Even if one believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, unless he serves this gospel and lives his life for its proclamation, then such a righteous person may also turn into a heretic.

And this is even truer for the many pastors who are now ministering in today’s Christianity without being born again. Why have ministers and their followers in today’s Christian communities turned into collective heresy? It’s because they have followed only their own private lust.

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Any king of Israel should wage war against its enemies and rule his nation under a theocracy, but far from this, a certain king not only brought foreign women into his court as his wives, but he spent all his life boasting only his own wisdom, intellect, and virtues. This king was a heretic. Do you know who he is? He is none other than Solomon. Such a king cannot help but ultimately drive his own people to idolatry.

What did Solomon say as he approached the end of his life? Didn’t he say, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity”? (Ecclesiastes 1:2) Solomon had experienced everything on this earth. He had lived according to his greed, but wasn’t all his labor in vain? We can then find a great lesson here from God. Our ministers, our male and female workers, and our saints are now following the righteousness of God, having received the remission of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. However, the lust of the flesh still remains in our hearts also. Nevertheless, we must devote ourselves to the work of spreading

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the gospel of the water and the Spirit, believing in and following the righteousness of God. Even for the righteous, if they follow only their carnal lust, then they will ultimately turn into heretics. It’s because one follows his own private desires that he is unable to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and, as a result, turns into a heretic. The same lesson applies to us as well: Although we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, if we put too much emphasis on our private desires of the flesh, surrender ourselves to these desires, and follow only the lust of the flesh, then we will also turn into heretics. This is the lesson that we must also learn here.

We have to keep in mind that even those who have been born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and receiving the remission of their sins may follow idols. I am certain that even in God’s Church, if our ministers, workers, and brothers and sisters follow only the lust of their flesh, then it will take little time for them to also turn into

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heretics to serve idols. Some people may then say, “We believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and so how could we become heretics before God?” But this is not so impossible. We, too, may be reduced into a heretical church that serves idols 100 percent. For those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, it’s only a matter of course for them to serve idols. However, even we the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit may end up like Jeroboam.

My fellow believers, would King Jeroboam have been ignorant of the Law of God? No, he knew all about it. He knew very well that the tenth day of the seventh month was the Day of Atonement, and that whenever the Day of Atonement or Passover came around, all the people of Israel had to gather together around the Temple of Jerusalem for the High Priest to offer sacrifices on their behalf and make it possible for them to receive the remission of their sins. He was also fully aware of the fact that ordinary people could not be appointed to priesthood, and that only

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the descendants of Levi could become priests. He also knew very well that only someone who descended from Aaron could be appointed as the High Priest. Yet despite knowing all these requirements, Jeroboam still went ahead and corrupted the Law of God, making a mockery out of it. All the changes he made were preposterous. Only the Levites could become priests, and only the tenth day of the seventh month was the Day of Atonement established by God. It was all dishonoring to God to change them. Altering the God-established law is something that is done only by heretics, and it is a grievous sin that changes the statutes of God. It’s because Christians have all followed their own private greed that they have turned into collective heretics. Jeroboam chased after his own individual greed. The other kings of Israel that succeeded his throne drew territorial borders to prevent the people of Israel from sharing fellowship with the people of the Kingdom of Judah, lest they move across back and forth and make contacts with their brothers in the

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south. When the ten tribes from the northern kingdom, Israel, invaded the southern kingdom, the king of Judah even offered money to another nation’s king and bribed him with gold and silver, asking him to kill the king of Israel and all its people in exchange.

The Israelites asked other countries like Babylon to kill their counterpart on their behalf. Israel and Judah had become enemies to each other. Why did this happen? It’s because their kings had failed to cast aside the greed of the flesh. Had these kings cast aside their private greed, believed in Jehovah God as the only true God, and appointed priests and made them sacrifice according to the sacrificial system established by God, then all the people would have received the remission of their sins and glorified God as well. If King Jeroboam had appointed the descendants of Levi to priesthood; knew and served the will of God through His prophets; allowed fellowship to take place with the southern kingdom of Judah through the same faith; gathered his people together at the Temple in Jerusalem and worshiped

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God with the people of Judah on such festivities as the Day of Atonement, Passover, the Feast of Harvest; and united with Judah to defeat foreign tribes, then the nation of Israel would have been blessed by God and enjoyed peace. He would then have secured his legitimacy, and his descendents would also have led the people to the right way. Yet Jeroboam did none of these things, but instead, he broke off his kingdom’s relations with the southern kingdom of Judah and prevented his people from having any contacts with the people of Judah, just to satisfy his own greed.

Even today, people throughout the world who have not been born again are wary of those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

These people do not know what the gospel of the water and the Spirit is. If anyone says to them that his heart has been made sinless by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they blindly paint him as a heretic. Why do they treat the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit like this? They

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do so in order to satisfy their private greed. It’s because they are afraid that if the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit come to their churches and teach their congregation the true gospel, they would no longer be recognized as pastors by their own congregation. And if they are no longer recognized as pastors in their own churches, then they won’t get paid, they won’t be honored, they won’t even hear anyone calling them pastors, and they won’t be respected by their own congregation.

That is why they accuse the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit to be heretics.

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group of heretics. Although it was clearly wrong for King Jeroboam to serve idols, this came about precisely because Solomon had taught him so. Put differently, the reason why Jeroboam went astray like this is because of his king Solomon, because Solomon had served idols habitually and taught his heretical faith to the people. Then who is to be blamed for the emergence of collective heresy in today’s Christianity? It’s all because of the Christian leaders who are following idols in their lives. And it’s because of those who follow their private greed of the flesh even after believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and being born again, that heresies have sprung forth in Christian communities.

Therefore, as those who now believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we must grasp just how important our responsibility is. To our ministers throughout Korea, as well as to all our coworkers and brothers and sisters all over the world who believe in this gospel of the water and the Spirit, I would like to make the following point clear: There is no guarantee

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that we would never turn into heretics before God. If we serve idols like Solomon according to our individual greed, then we will also turn into heretics.

King Ahab is Omri’s son. The sins committed by Jeroboam or his successors pale in comparison with the sins that this man Ahab committed. Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him (1 Kings 16:30). He even made images of Baal and Asherah and set them up in the temple of Baal in Samaria. He built an altar there, bowed before these idols and burnt incense to them, and thereby stood against God. Whom did this man Ahab marry? He married a foreign woman named Jezebel. To his core, he had absolutely no fear of God. How could a man of God marry a foreign woman? Today, many people are marrying across different nationalities, and by no means am I saying here that this is somehow carnal or wrong. Rather, I am pointing out Ahab’s spiritual wrongdoing, as his marriage to Jezebel was a sin, akin to the sin that the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit

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would be committing if they shared fellowship of faith with any other Christians that do not believe in this gospel of Truth.

Because I have been born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, I think little of those who do not know this gospel, no matter how great and marvelous they may be. Can the people of God cater to and befriend just anyone? No, of course not. Can our brothers and sisters who have been born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit share fellowship with those who belong to heresy? No, they can’t. They may have done this when they did not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but they can’t do this once they have faith in the true gospel. Among the born-again, when those who follow their private desires marry someone who does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they try to rationalize their carnal behavior, saying to themselves, “It’s ok; once I get married, I will preach the gospel to my spouse and lead her to salvation.” To such people, I have the following

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words to say: “Nonsense! You might as well try to be God yourself!”

My fellow believers, why do some righteous people find themselves unable to discern what is spiritually filthy? This happens when they follow only the lust of their flesh. The excrements of the body are not the only things that are filthy. Those who are ministering without believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are also filthy. Are the things that are visible to the eyes of the flesh the only things that are filthy? Aren’t those who follow only their own private greed of the flesh, even after being born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, also spiritually filthy? They are in fact spiritually unclean. Are you really preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit by faith? If you are only after material prosperity, even as you call yourself a righteous person, then you are not actually preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Is anyone who follows only his individual desires really serving the gospel of the water and the Spirit? No,

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even though such people claim to serve the gospel, in God’s sight they are not actually serving it, for their ultimate purpose lies on material prosperity. These people are idolaters. We must have the spiritual discernment to sort out such heretics, preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to them, and thus lead them to really become God’s true children.

Therefore, we have to keep in mind that even we, who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit today, can turn into heretics if we seek only the material things of the world. You must realize that if you just follow your greed, then ultimately, you will drift far away from the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and you will find yourself turned into a heretic serving idols. I myself must realize this, and so must you also grasp this. For the born-again who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and for those who have not been born again alike, they all have the greed of the flesh. From today’s Scripture passage, we must grasp how collective heresies arose. I am not saying here right now, “This denomination is a

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heresy, and that denomination is orthodox.” Rather, I am pointing out for your understanding that the Christian leaders and believers who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit all belong to heresy.

Today’s Christianity all over the world has turned into a collective heresy precisely because it does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Those who have collectively turned into heretics try to distance themselves from the believers in the true gospel to cover up their mistaken faith, since their false acts would be exposed if they associate with the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Even worse, they actually stand against those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. In reality, they have become heretics because they do not know and do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, not because they are inherently more evil than the born-again. On the other hand, even if one believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, if he is someone who follows only the lust of

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his flesh, then he is an idolater before God, and he will ultimately turn into a heretic that stands against the righteousness of God. Even though the desires of the flesh keep arising in our hearts, we must still dedicate our insufficient bodies to the work of God and serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and it is when we thus serve the righteousness of God with all our hearts’ dedication that we come to fear God. If we follow God’s righteousness by faith, then we will be cherished by Him. God will also protect us, and we will receive His abundant blessings.

We can’t lead a proper life of faith individually all on our own apart from God’s Church. A while ago, a few ministers who had worked with us challenged the authority of the Church, thinking to themselves, “We’ll just leave God’s Church, establish our own church, and let ourselves be its leaders and ministers.” Confident that they could also establish their own version of God’s Church, they left God’s true Church following the lust of their flesh. But would God use just anyone? And would it really be

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congruent to God’s will for anyone to follow his own greed? It’s only because we are led by the Holy Spirit, who provides us with bread for both our bodies and spirits in His time, and who makes the will of God known to us, that we are now living according to the will of the Lord, having dedicated all our bodies and hearts to Him. It’s because God holds us steadfast and leads us with His Word and through the Holy Spirit that we are now used by God as His instruments.

Not just anyone can become a leader of God’s Church. In contrast, whoever believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can spread this gospel and support its proclamation. While all of us can preach the gospel, not all of us can please God’s heart, be led by Him, think about His work rather than following the private greed of the flesh, and obey and serve the will of God. I am not saying this to somehow boast my merit, but to explain that not just anyone can carry out the duties of leadership in God’s Church. If anyone could do this, then God

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would have used everyone!

My fellow believers, let me once again make it clear here that even the born-again who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit may turn into heretics. Let there be no doubt that even for us, if we follow the lust of the flesh, then we will also turn into heretics. This Truth applies equally to the saints who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. If anyone follows his own lust of the flesh, then he will turn into a heretic. The same goes for me as well. Do you agree with this?

It’s absolutely imperative for us to learn about the will of God. And we must also know in detail exactly what God is saying through His Word. When we look at present-day Christianity by shedding the light of the Word of God on it, we can see that it has all turned into a collective heresy. Citing 3 John 1:2, which says, “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers,” today’s Christian leaders say, “We are doomed to live in the three curses of Satan, but God

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has substituted the three curses of Satan with His three-fold blessings.” But in reality, they lay stress on material blessings rather than spiritual blessings.

Emphasizing material blessings the most is actually something that is done by heretics.

We must therefore understand the Word of God properly, apply it to ourselves, and learn how we should live before God. We must learn about the will of God, realize this will and follow it. Our thoughts are not what is important. We still have a long way to go. Although the desires of the flesh tempt us until our last breath, we must be single-mindedly devoted to the work of spreading the gospel of the water and the Spirit until the day we stand before the presence of the Lord, realizing that if we give into this temptation and follow only the lust of our flesh, we would end up turning into heretics. For us also, who have already been made righteous, it’s indispensable to examine our hearts as often as possible. And we must actively participate in the work of spreading the gospel of God. We must do whatever necessary to

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carry out the work of God, and we must continue to support the gospel ministry to bring its flowers to blossom.

My fellow believers, when we work hard in this world to make money, and serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit with this money, that is how we can support the preaching of the gospel. In these days, people do not like it when they are approached by strangers trying to strike a conversation with them.

So as God has given us wisdom, we have already been spreading the gospel through our literature and Internet ministries now for ten years. We are now seeing how tremendously effective this strategy has been for the spreading of the gospel. All these works are done by God Himself, through His servants.

Maybe you are thinking to yourself, “Well, it’s now been a long time since I believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and so there is no way that I would turn into a heretic.” However, if you follow the greed of your flesh, then you, too, will be ruined without fail. King Jeroboam turned into a heretic

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before God, making himself the head of collective heresy. We must learn from the Word of God that King Solomon also failed at his life of faith because he had followed the desires of his flesh.

To everyone, from myself to our ministers, our workers, and our saints, I would like to say the following clearly: “Who turns into a heretic before God? It’s someone who follows the greed of his flesh that turns into a heretic. And if anyone does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and instead preaches any other gospel, then he will turn into a heretic.” All of us must remember this clearly.

For us also, if we want to avoid turning into heretics before God, then we must have faith, follow the will of God, and always live by faith. Some of us may think that now that they know a few things, and have accomplished a few achievements and grown up a bit in the last ten years, they know what the pastor will preach as soon as he addresses the main passage for his sermon. This, however, is not the case. We have barely taken the first step, and we still have a long

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way to go. True faith is attained only when the Word of God is understood in our everyday walk and firmly planted in our hearts by believing in it. Our progress of faith is made only if we believe in the Word and put it into our practice step by step—after all, what benefit could we gain just by knowing the Word of God only as matter of intellectual exercise and theoretically? Knowledge makes one arrogant (1 Corinthians 8:1). Even if we know a lot, how much do we really know? All our knowledge is nothing more than garbage, not even enough to fill a few volumes of an encyclopedia. Even the Apostle Paul considered all his knowledge as complete garbage.

The way ahead of us, where we have not gone before, still remains long. There still remains so much work to do.

Do you want to turn into a heretic? I ask you this question because while we may set aside those who have already turned into heretics before God, since there is little that we can do, at least we must not allow ourselves to turn into heretics. Do you think

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that our ministers who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit would never turn into heretics?

Far from it! No matter how they are born-again ministers, unless they continue to work to serve and spread the righteousness of God and the gospel of the water and the Spirit, it’s 100 percent possible for them to also turn into heretics. Before, it used to be hard for me to say such things, but now, I am more than able to say them.

Those who fear God and obey His will in their lives can prosper in both body and spirit. Even if this were not the case, we must still live for the righteousness of God and spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit throughout the whole world.

Everything in this world was made by God, and all things are in His hands. That is why all these creatures are living in peace within the providence of God. Like this, if we, who are now living before God, dedicate our lives to the work of spreading the gospel of the water and the Spirit throughout the whole world, then God will take care of all of us and bring

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prosperity in His time. There are, of course, times when we find ourselves struggling too much.

However, as there is a saying that goes, “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet,” if we continue to serve spiritual work through both good times and bad times, we will prevail in the end. Have we not seen how God blessed us when we fulfilled our duties to the best of our abilities in obedience to His will? Let us therefore not give up our present effort to follow the Lord, nor fall into despair, but live our lives according to the righteousness of God until the very end.

In fact, if we fight against our flesh and bring it to submission, rather than following our individual greed, and if we follow the will of God, then our hearts will be filled with indescribable pleasure and joy, comforted by the Lord. I am sure that you’ve experienced this before, when your heart was joyful, even though your body felt completely exhausted.

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righteousness. From today’s Scripture passage, we should all realize that even the born-again, righteous people may turn into heretics, if they follow their private greed and the lust of their flesh. I truly hope and pray that this would never happen to you and me, where we end up turning into heretics by serving idols. I myself must not allow this to happen to me ever. How could I allow myself to turn into a heretic?

How could I betray the gospel of the water and the Spirit and follow the world instead? I can never let this happen. If, however, I end up following the greed of the flesh for whatever reason, then I will surely end up turning into a heretic. All those following me will also turn into heretics, and you will turn into a heretic as well. If this happens, then eventually, we will no longer preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but know it only theoretically, and our faith will be rendered completely obsolete. In the end, we will become like the servant who received and returned one talent, and therefore, God will appoint us our portions with the hypocrites

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(Matthew 24:51).

That is why your church life is so important. It’s absolutely critical for you to abide in the Church. It is through the Church that God speaks. Both you and I alike must listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to us through the Church. We are now engaged in various businesses in order to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit all over the world. Just as the Apostle Paul had raised money by making tents with his own hands, so are we sharing our books with people all over the world with the money that we have earned through our various businesses. Running just one business is so hard. When the business is running smoothly, some of us may think, “Well, it’s running quite well on its own. But that’s only expected; if God blesses, then it should succeed.” But that is not always the case. Even when it comes to God’s work, for it to succeed, it requires that much labor and dedication of our hearts. Only if our businesses succeed can we fulfill the will of God, and so it’s indispensable for those of us who have been

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entrusted with these businesses to devote their lives to their work and fulfill their entrusted tasks.

Placing our faith in the righteousness of God, we must continue to offer our bodies to His righteous work relentlessly. We cannot afford not to carry out the works that we have launched for the gospel, and when we do carry them out, we must do so faithfully and meticulously. We can’t just carry out God’s work halfheartedly in whatever way we choose. While one may be careless when it comes to the affairs of the world, no one with the duty to preach the true gospel can allow himself to be careless, for he is not doing this work just to make his own living. God’s work must be fulfilled without fail. It must be accomplished 100 percent. Because we are not trying to feed just ourselves, but to feed everyone all over the world with the spiritual bread, and with the food of the flesh if necessary, all of us must work hard to ensure such blessings. That’s why we are weary from all our labor. I am no exception; I, too, feel exhausted quite often.

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You probably feel exhausted as well, right?

Perhaps you are thinking to yourself, “This should be good enough. The Church has all it needs. It already has several vehicles, its finances are backed with sufficient funding, and I’ve done my share of work for this end. Haven’t I then served the gospel faithfully? Shouldn’t this be enough?” If the Lord were indeed pleased by what we have done so far, then we wouldn’t need to work anymore. However, if we stay complacent here, and no longer serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then we will turn into heretics. If we follow only our own petty desires of the flesh and live our lives solely for them, we will turn into spiritual monsters. We will become like Jeroboam. This is 100 percent guaranteed to happen.

I, for one, have no desire to become like Jeroboam, nor do I want to become like King Solomon. Even though it’s humble, I want to become a worker of God. And when the Lord comes, I want to hear Him commending me, saying to me, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few

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things, I will make you ruler over many things.”

Until the day I go to the Kingdom of Heaven to forever enjoy all the wealth and glory enjoyed by God together with Him, I want to live out my faith waiting and hoping for this day. That day will come without fail.

Many people do not take heretics seriously enough, even though they are repeatedly warned about them. Those who belong to heresy, however, are totally evil. All those who serve idols before God could not be more wicked.

It’s my hope and prayer that God would protect all the servants and saints in His Church. In these end times, I pray to God to protect all our fellow coworkers and saints throughout Korea and all over the world. I admonish you all to fear God in these last days, to serve the gospel in the Lord, and to prosper in both body and spirit. May God bless us all to believe in His righteousness. Amen.

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In Which Gospel Do You Now Believe? < 1 Kings 13:33-34 > “After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.”

It’s raining softly. Yesterday, while watching TV, I saw Bill Gates saying in an interview that it’s now possible to implant computer chips in the human body. Until now, chips had been implanted in inanimate objects and animals to keep track of them,

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but now, it’s possible to implant computer chips deep in the human body. This speaks to the fact that the end times described in Revelation chapter 13 are fast approaching. Previously, chips could be implanted in a limited range of bodily parts, such as the thigh or the back of the hand, but as these chips could easily be removed through a simple surgical procedure, they are now implanted deep in the organs of the human body, so that they may not be removed so easily. According to Bill Gates, this is now more than possible. The people of the world, of course, would be quite excited about this new technology. There are certain conveniences that come with this technology; for instance, if someone is kidnapped, you could track him down and locate him by using GPS via satellites. When I heard this news yesterday morning, I was reminded that the age of Revelation is nearing us faster and faster.

We just read some verses from 1 Kings. Recently I have been preaching about heresy, and I am a bit worried that some people may be offended by what I

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am saying. But now is the time for me to preach about heresy, and I have to continue to do this until our minds can clearly recognize who the real heretics are. I believe that people all over the world must also have the right understanding of heretics for the gospel of the water and the Spirit to be spread even more.

Today’s Scripture passage comes from 1 Kings 13:33-34, and it is written here, “After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.” It is also written in 1 Kings 12:33, “So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense.”

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Both these passages speak about Jeroboam, a man who had committed great sins before God. He had made golden calves to replace God, changed the date of the Day of Atonement arbitrarily on his own, and appointed ordinary people to priesthood instead of Levites. Even worse, he himself performed sacrifices to God. At that time, a servant of God appeared and rebuked Jeroboam’s deeds, saying to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on you’” (1 Kings 13:2). However, Jeroboam did not turn around from his evil way, but continued to make priests out of ordinary people to serve in the shrines and offer sacrifices. This was a grievous sin before God. As the Bible mentions, Jeroboam built many shrines throughout Israel. Sacrifices were offered mostly to idols in these shrines. Jeroboam set up

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golden calves in Dan and Bethel, and made the people of Israel worship them. And he built shrines practically everywhere across the whole northern kingdom of Israel, where the ten tribes of Israel were living. Jeroboam had set up golden calves in Dan and Bethel because he was afraid that the people might return to the southern kingdom of Judah. This alone was a great sin, but he went even further by building a shrine in each village and making his people sacrifice to the idols. Jeroboam’s sins were enough to provoke the wrath of God, and it was because of these sins that his household and his kingdom were destroyed. Jeroboam not only offered sacrifices himself, but he made priests out of ordinary people for them to worship idols at the shrines. He appointed anyone who volunteered as the priests of the shrines.

By thus making the people of Israel serve idols, Jeroboam provoked the wrath of God. As such sins of Jeroboam provoked God’s great wrath, the people of Israel were destroyed by God. It’s because of these sins that Israel lost its

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sovereignty and its people were massacred by foreigners. This happened all because of the sins that Jeroboam had committed, and because the people of Israel had followed his sins. The destruction of the people of Israel was not because of anyone else’s sins.

They were destroyed all because of the sins that Jeroboam had committed against God, and such sins continue to arise endlessly in today’s Christianity also, committed by false prophets. Even in presentday Christianity, such fallacious faith continues to be passed down.

It Is Wrong for Those Who Are Now Ignorant of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit to Become God’s Workers When today’s Christian leaders ordain pastors, they do so arbitrarily to their own liking, just like Jeroboam. Churchmen are trained at seminaries, and whoever graduates from a seminary can work as an ◄

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evangelist or a minister. Some seminary students are there simply because they could not adapt themselves to social life. In many such cases, where people find it hard to make a living, they think that this somehow means that God is calling them, and so they attend a seminary out of their own volition. In present-day Christian communities, anyone who wishes to become a pastor even without knowing the gospel of the water and the Spirit, far less receiving the remission of sin, is committing the same sin that Jeroboam had committed.

The duties of pastors or evangelists are actually given to serve the work of God. Such church offices are established by God Himself for His work. We can see this by looking at how Jesus had called and raised His disciples during His three years of public life.

Such disciples of Jesus as Peter, Andrew, and John were seamen making their living out of fishing. But when Jesus went to Galilee and saw them, He had said to them and called them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men” (Mark 1:17). Jesus

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Himself had called His disciples. As they followed, Jesus took them in as His disciples and taught them, personally raising them to work as God’s servants.

Matthew was a tax collector when he received the Lord’s calling. It was the Lord Himself who had made him His worker. The Apostle Paul also said in 2 Timothy 3:14, “But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.” If anyone receives the remission of sin and is nurtured inside God’s Church, then he can teach and lead others with certainty.

God’s workers are either established by God Himself or appointed by His servants, who call those who are qualified to become God’s laborers. The qualification of God’s servant is not attained through the curricula of the seminary system. Only those who have united their hearts with the gospel of the water and the Spirit are qualified to become God’s laborers.

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who pick His workers. So not just anyone who wants to become God’s worker can actually become one.

Through His servants, God Himself personally calls and raises those who would become His laborers, and He uses them for His work. He thus selects those who would become His servants, trains them, and raises them firmly as His laborers. This is the way how God raises His servants.

In contrast, Jeroboam simply asked anyone he saw fit, “Do you want to become a priest,” and if the answer was yes, then he appointed him as a priest. In other words, after building a shrine in every village, Jeroboam would ask, “Raise your hand if you want to become a priest of this shrine.” Some people would then raise their hands. Jeroboam would then pick someone he liked and say, “You are the priest in charge here.” This is how he appointed priests. The priests that were thus appointed bowed before idols, burnt incense to them, held feasts, and practiced evil, saying, “This idol is the god that has led you.” What Jeroboam did was therefore a great sin before God.

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Today, one who is qualified to become God’s servant must be, first of all, someone who has been washed from all his sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and second, he must be someone whose heart is united with God’s work.

Those whose faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is rock-solid, who are fitting in God’s sight, and who have set their minds before the Lord—it is such people who are raised as God’s workers through the preceding servants of God. God’s workers are raised as Elijah had raised Elisha in the Old Testament. Elijah ran a mission school in the Old Testament time, just as we are now running our Mission School. So he had many disciples. But of these disciples, there was a man named Elisha who followed Elijah particularly closely. Elisha followed him so closely that he called him his lord. He used to fetch water for his teacher to wash his hands. One day, Elisha asked Elijah, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me,” and he finally came to take Elijah’s garments

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and received twice the power that Elijah had received.

So he succeeded Elijah as God’s servant to lead the people of Israel.

Like this, God Himself establishes His servants personally. Today, God’s servants who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit know that God Himself raises His laborers through His servants.

Only the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are qualified to become God’s servants. It is the servants of God, whom God had approved first, that select and appoint those who are fit to become workers from the people of God. That is how one becomes God’s worker. Just as this was the case in the age of the Old Testament, so does the same principle apply to the age of the New Testament.

Whom did the Apostle Paul establish as God’s servants? The Apostle Paul raised many people as God’s workers, but of these, he established Timothy, his spiritual son, as one of the most faithful servants of God. In turn, Timothy also raised more disciples.

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preceding servants of God. Of course, they must believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

In contrast, during the reign of King Jeroboam, any of the common people could become a priest just by volunteering. The same thing is happening today also. When some people struggle with their businesses, they think on their own, “Is God blocking me? Should I then attend a seminary?” In many cases, that’s how people find themselves in a seminary.

When someone goes to a seminary like this, he graduates after earning enough credits, and is ordained as a pastor in his denomination. He is then unconditionally recognized by people as a servant of God, but he actually teaches a half-gospel, not the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This is one of the greatest evils of today’s Christianity, and it constitutes a grievous sin before God.

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Why Has Today’s Christianity Become So Desolate?

The reason why today’s Christianity has turned into a den of wolves in sheep’s masks that serve golden calves is because it has turned into an interest group. My fellow believers, before God, just because one attends a seminary, this does not mean that he can become a minister unconditionally. Only those who have truly received the remission of their sins by believing in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit with their hearts are able and qualified to become God’s servants. God asks them, “Have you washed away your sins as white as snow by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Did you crucify your old self with Christ? Will you indeed go left if the Lord commands you to go left, and right if the Lord commands to go right?” If one answers the Lord’s questions with yes, and wants to abide with the Lord and live his life united with Him, then he can become God’s worker.

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Man cannot raise God’s workers and His servants arbitrarily. The servants of God who first believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit must examine one’s faith with the gospel of Truth, and only if his faith is found fitting is he raised as a worker of God. God’s servants are not raised by sinners. Some of you may then ask, “Even in God’s Church, it’s the predecessors of faith who raise male and female workers, and so how can you say that it’s God who raises them, rather than man?” In God’s Church, God Himself personally raises His laborers through His servants from those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Our church had also raised many workers at its very beginning. At that time, the Church was in desperate need of God’s workers. Although our workers now go through a much more rigorous and detailed selection process, in those days, anyone who professed to believe in the gospel was raised as a laborer in the Church. All volunteers in Christ were accepted 100 percent. And I myself as the leader of

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the Church had to kneel down and beg, saying, “Please join the Mission School for training. You don’t have to go through the full six-month training period; just three months should be enough. We would be so happy if you would just stick to the program until the end, even if you don’t like it.” As a result, among those who were raised to be workers like this at the beginning, many ended up leaving the Church, as they were not faithful.

This, however, is no longer how workers are raised. If anyone wants to become a worker in God’s Church, he has to be raised by the servants of God who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

In contrast, take a look at Jeroboam. All on his own, he made a priest out of anyone who wished. This was a grievous sin before God, and as it also led the people of Israel to commit such abominable sins, they were all destroyed together in the end. We must never forget this fact.

Even today, countless people who commit the same sin of Jeroboam continue to arise in Christian

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communities. Nowadays, if anyone graduates from a seminary run by his denomination, then he is ordained as a servant of God, even if he does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Although not everyone with seminary training actually becomes a servant of God, once someone graduates from a seminary of his denomination, he can still be ordained if he wishes. And once he is ordained, he is made a pastor in his denomination. So when he introduces himself to people, he says, “I am a pastor of so-and-so denomination.”

In contrast, our gathering first asks whether or not a pastoral candidate truly knows the gospel of the water and the Spirit through which the Lord has saved us from sin, and whether or not he has indeed been washed from his sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit with his heart. Every pastoral candidate must be able to answer sincerely with yes. Unlike us, however, many pastors in today’s Christian communities are ministering even as they have sin in their hearts. Are today’s

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seminaries teaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Are they making their students receive the remission of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Is there any seminary course that teaches this gospel of the water and the Spirit?

Do seminary professors know this true gospel? Are they teaching this gospel of the water and the Spirit to their students? Do they appoint their students as God’s servants after teaching this gospel and making them believe in it? No, that is not the case. In today’s seminaries, there is no professor who teaches the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and therefore the students do not know this gospel either. Moreover, faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is not even the standard on which one is ordained as a minister. On the contrary, each denomination appoints those who believe in its own doctrines as its men of the cloth, not those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Anyone who wants to become a true servant of God must be someone who, first of all, believes in

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the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and who has also set his heart to live for the spreading of the gospel. He should also have a gift that is fitting for his office in the eyes of his preceding servants of God, and received from God the ability to minister. It is when he is thus judged to be a vessel fit to serve the gospel that he can be appointed as a servant of God. Today, however, many people are unconditionally ordained as pastors solely based on their theological training, even as they do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Moreover, the standard on which pastors are ordained is not found in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Anyone who simply believes in and adheres to the doctrines of a given denomination is appointed as a minister. That is how today’s pastors are ordained in their respective denominations. And that is why they are heretics in Christianity.

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through the gospel of the water and the Spirit that one is remitted from all his sins. It is when people believe in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit that all their sins are blotted out from their hearts.

This means that if a seminary does not teach the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and it does not limit God’s servants to only those who believe in this genuine gospel, then such seminaries are all nothing more than institutions that yield heretics. That is why today’s seminaries are said to be so flawed.

1 Kings 12:32 says that Jeroboam installed his priests at Bethel. He gathered together all who wanted to become priests, and from these people he chose and made priests all on his own. Jeroboam appointed priests on his own whim, basically saying, “You shall be a priest at this region; you shall be a priest at that region.” Then the chosen people went to their respective regions and played the role of a priest at the shrines.

Today also, anyone can attend a seminary simply by volunteering. The reality is that if one studies at a

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seminary and graduates from it, moves onto a graduate school, and lives his life according to the teachings of his own denomination, then he is ordained as a pastor even if he does not know and does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Do the preceding pastors who ordain such people into ministry preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to them? Are today’s seminary professors preaching this true gospel that washes people’s hearts from their sins? Far from preaching this gospel, they are unconditionally appointing anyone with seminary training as a man of the cloth and a pastor, and therefore their denomination is ultimately turning into a den of collective heretics.

It’s because of this, because today’s Christians who are ignorant of the gospel of the water and the Spirit are ministering as pastors upon their graduation from seminary, that heretics are being produced. Since these people are appointed as pastors in every region, they gather people all over the village into the churches established by their respective

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denominations and preach a false, half-gospel that proclaims only the blood of the Cross instead of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, thus leading all their followers to turn into heretical Christians who serve idols.

For Those Who Have Not Washed Away Their Sins with the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit, Emphasizing Only the Gift of Healing Is the Shortcut for Them to Turn into Heretics Nowadays, those who are ministering in Christian communities are trying to receive the gift of healing because they think it is the critical factor for them to prosper in the flesh and to minister successfully. All that they say to their congregation is this: “I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, no matter whether your soul prospers or not.” Holding revival meetings and inviting people to experience Free book request www.nlmission.com

healing, they draw even unbelievers into their fold.

They run ads and say to people, “Pastor so-and-so is holding a revival meeting at the so-and-so stadium on so-and-so date. Come at that time. If you come, you will be healed from your physical illnesses. The work of healing will arise in you if you come. All kinds of sick people are healed from their illnesses when this pastor prays, from cancer patients to the lame. Many people who came were actually healed at the last revival meeting.”

People then flock to the revival meeting to experience healing and listen to the Word of God. When the preacher says, “Come forward if you want to believe in Jesus,” many would walk forward. Then the preacher would make them pray to receive Jesus as their Savior. It’s so simple for such a pastor to make them believe in Jesus. The pastor would tell them to repeat after him, saying, “Jesus, I am a sinner.” He would then tell them to repeat after him again, saying, “Lord, I had been destined to hell for my sins,” and people would repeat his words. The

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preacher would continue to say, “But You died for me on the Cross, and I thank You for that. You shed Your blood for me, washed away my sins, and saved me from my sins. So I believe in You now. Today, I accept you as my Savior. I prayed in the name of Jesus.” When anyone thus gives the same prayer, he is then approved as someone who has received Jesus.

Pastors affiliated with the Pentecostal Church often preach as follows: “God said, ‘I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.’” God also said, ‘He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.’ Our Lord took away all our illnesses and our iniquities.

My fellow believers, our Lord has healed all our diseases. At this hour, I ask you to lay your hand on where it hurts.” Then everyone who is sick would lay his hand on wherever it hurts, from the head to the hand, the heart, the pelvis, the leg, the chest, and so forth. And then the pastor would pray audaciously, “I

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command in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, get away all diseases! Be healed from all illnesses! I prayed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!”

When the pastor is finished with his prayer, the congregation would be all overwhelmed emotionally and say amen to his prayer. He would then say, “Those who were healed at this hour, please come forward and testify,” and someone would step up and say, “I couldn’t raise my hand before, but when I laid my other hand on it while praying at this hour, it was all healed and I can now raise it. Amen! Hallelujah!”

Others may say, “I had a heartburn, but now that I prayed, my heartburn is gone.” “I couldn’t walk before, but now at this hour I can stand up and even run.” “I couldn’t see well, but now that the pastor prayed for me, I can see. The Lord has really healed my sickness.” Many at the revival meeting would testify in turn like this.

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be healed if I believe in Jesus. I would become rich, and I would also go to Heaven if I believe in Jesus.”

However, when these people return home, the heartburn would return and their sight would once again be lost. They would be nothing more than victims of spiritual fraud.

Today, heretics who follow the way of Jeroboam draw people and pray for them under a banner advertising the gift of healing in their revival meetings. Many sick people are desperate. Whatever their ailments may be, they all want to be healed.

When neither medicine nor any surgery can heal them, when their greatest desire is to be cured from their illnesses, they are told that they would receive the gift of healing if they believe in Jesus, and that’s why they flock to these revival meetings. And since the seemingly gifted pastor prays for them, it’s possible for them to feel temporarily relieved or improved, depending on their minds’ condition.

However, once they are back home, they are very likely to relapse, and their illnesses may grow and

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even kill them eventually.

My fellow believers, you have to remember that deceived by the Charismatics, countless people are now perishing away both in body and spirit. Among the heretics in today’s Christian communities who do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, it’s the so-called ministers who are deceiving people the most with the gift of healing, all the while invoking the name of Jesus. When these false prophets stand before the presence of the Lord, they would all say to Him, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” But the Lord will say to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!” (Matthew 7:22-23) This is what the Lord will say to such swindlers: “Even as you neither believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit nor were washed from your sins, you borrowed My name to hold revival meetings only to rake in money, and yet you were respected by people as pastors. When you were living on this earth, you

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could live comfortably in your flesh, but now is the time for your judgment. You shall be cast into hell!

And everyone who listened to you shall be also be thrown into hell.”

My fellow believers, just how many people today are being deceived by the Charismatics? That is what today’s Scripture passage is saying to us. The Bible says that Jeroboam did not turn around from his evil way even after he was warned about his sins, and he kept making priests from every class of people, allowing anyone who wanted to become a priest to serve at the shrines. As this was a sin, both his household and his people were all destroyed.

Changing the law of God’s salvation is such a grave sin that follows the way of Jeroboam. So many frauds are being committed like this in Christian communities all across the world by the modern-day versions of Jeroboam and those raised by them. Even today, the ministry of deception is thriving. A particular characteristic of these deceivers is that they preach only the blood of the Cross, not the gospel of

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the water and the Spirit. Having made their own framework of salvation claiming that one is washed from his sins through the blood of the Cross alone, they are preaching this false doctrine to their followers. Since they don’t know anything beyond the blood of the Cross, they deceive even themselves into believing that they have been washed from their sins, when in fact there is sin in their hearts. So they eventually hypnotize themselves, thinking on their own, “I am one of the chosen people washed from sin.

I belong to God’s people.” Everyone deceived by false prophets is bound to fall into this kind of hypnosis.

Such people are pseudo-saints residing in Christian communities. They are false Christians who are not of God’s people, but only pretending to be so.

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genuine saints are pseudo-saints and heretics residing in the Christian communities. Such Christians and ministers are not just a handful on this earth, nor are such denominations few and far between. There are many collective heresies inside Christianity. Across Christian communities around the world, there are many who have collectively turned into heretics.

I had also ministered before I was born again. I was young at that time. Yet despite this, I used to be treated with so much respect even by the elderly, as they thought that they would be blessed if they treated God’s servant well. But before I was born again of water and the Spirit, my heart still had sin.

Whenever I gave my sermon, my conscience would be so troubled afterwards that I couldn’t even look into the eyes of my congregation. So I prayed to God, “Lord, I preached to them even as I have sin in my heart and I am not without shame. While the words that I preached may be right, I am not upright before You.” At that time, I was ashamed of myself because of my sins, and I was a sinner.

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The Lord then spoke to me through a passage from Psalm: “Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain” (Psalm 127:1). God was saying to me, “Did I raise you as an evangelist? Have I ordained you as a pastor? Didn’t you become a minister all on your own? Aren’t you now trying to become an evangelist and then a pastor all on your own? Did I raise you?

No, I did not raise you as My servant. You raised yourself as My servant. You are a spiritual swindler.”

I knew at that time just how wrong it was for me to tell the congregation to receive the remission of their sins even as I myself had sin in my heart. So I thought about giving up my ministry. At that time, I confessed to God, “Lord, I cannot fulfill this work.

My conscience cannot tolerate what I am doing.”

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and I had studied it very hard to attain its theories and knowledge in detail. But the problem of the sins that were in my heart was not solved. That’s why I was so worried about my sins before God. It was all because I did not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit at that time, but instead believed only in the blood of the Cross. In those days, all the theologians across the world and every minister alike were preaching only the blood of the Cross.

I prayed and prayed to God anxiously. Eventually, God enabled me to realize the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. I thought that if the High Priest in the Old Testament had passed the Israelite’s sins by laying his hands on the sacrificial animal, then there must be something similar to this in the New Testament also. That’s because the Word of the Old Testament clearly has a corresponding match in the New Testament. So I searched through the Word of God, thinking, “If the Israelite’s sins were passed on with the laying on of hands in the Old Testament, then it must also be written in the New Testament

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how mankind’s sins were passed on with the laying on of hands.” Whenever I read Matthew 3:13-17, I had always wondered why Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and was troubled by my lack of understanding, but one day, the light of the Truth came into my heart, and by the grace of God, I realized the Truth once and for all.

It said, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness” (Matthew 3:15). At that moment I realized who John the Baptist was.

John the Baptist was not just a prophet, but he was God’s servant who would pass the sins of mankind onto Jesus Christ once for all. I then searched the Bible to find out more about John the Baptist. Since Jesus called him Elijah, I looked for Elijah’s account from 1 Kings to Malachi in the Old Testament. I also turned my attention to the birth of John the Baptist, and I found out that he was raised as the representative of mankind. Jesus Himself bore witness of John the Baptist, saying, “Among those born of women there has not risen one greater than

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John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

If John the Baptist was the greatest of all those born of women, then he was greater than Moses, Elijah, the Prophet Isaiah, and the Prophet Daniel. He was the representative of all mankind. He was the spiritual High Priest who would pass our sins onto Jesus Christ. He was the last prophet of the Old Testament era. I realized that the sins of the world were to end with John the Baptist baptizing Jesus. I grasped that when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, all my sins and all the sins of the entire world were passed onto Jesus, and that Jesus fulfilled all the righteousness of God by accepting each and every sin of the whole world. At that moment, my mind reached an understanding, realizing, “Oh, so this is the gospel of the water and the Spirit! That is why Jesus spoke about all righteousness in Matthew 3:15!”

What does “all righteousness” mean? It means everything that is right. It means that by “thus” being baptized in a form of the laying on of hands, Jesus

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fulfilled everything perfectly right. The word “for thus” here is “hoo’-tos gar; (οϋτως γάρ)” in Greek, which means “just in this way,” “most fitting,” or “there is no other way besides this.” In other words, by receiving His baptism from John the Baptist, Jesus fulfilled all righteous work fairly and justly.

“Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness” (Matthew 3:15). By receiving the baptism given by John the Baptist, Jesus fulfilled all the righteousness of God. Just as the High Priest in the Old Testament had passed the sins of his people once and for all by laying his hands on the head of the sacrificial lamb, so did John the Baptist pass all the sins of this world once and for all onto Jesus by laying his hands on His head and baptizing Him. It’s through this baptism that Jesus Christ took upon all the sins of the world. It is by receiving this baptism from John the Baptist that Jesus bore the sins of the world. I realized this Truth thanks to God, as He taught me the gospel of the water and the Spirit. To find out more about the

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gospel of the water and the Spirit, I searched through both Testaments, and I read every Bible version that I could read, including its original text. Our knowledge of this Word must be biblically accurate, and therefore we have to read and interpret the original text of the Bible exactly as it is.

After I met the Lord through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, I tried to preach this gospel on my own. I had never done anything like this before.

All my life I had done virtually nothing but study.

But once I knew the gospel of the water and the Spirit, my lips just did not stay quiet. Whomever I met, I had to tell him about the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and I couldn’t help but speak this Truth. Until this person received the remission of sin, I preached the gospel of the water and the Spirit to him. I did not care whom I was speaking to; whether it was a young maiden, a housewife, or a grandma, I had to sit down and talk, and she had to listen to the Word of the Bible. Even though people were not pleased at first to hear the gospel of the water and the

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Spirit, they all thanked me eventually, once they realized and believed in this gospel and received the remission of their sins. They were all grateful, saying that they couldn’t be happier. It’s here that I found my reward.

Then, as I had majored in theology, I knew very well that there wasn’t any theologian preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit. No matter how extensively I researched through the literature, I could not find any such theologians. Today’s Christian leaders appoint just anyone to priesthood and accept anyone into their seminary. When some members of the congregation have a tough time trying to make a living, what do their pastors say to them? They say, “Why don’t you attend a seminary?”

At the same time, when some members show some dedication to the church work, they are also told, “Have you considered seminary?” Pastors recommend everyone and anyone to go to seminary.

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Korea. And once he completes his seminary education and is ordained into ministry, he becomes a pastor from then on. He would then plant a church upon his ordination.

There are many heretics on the face of this planet.

It’s because theologians and pastors appoint anyone as a priest that they constitute heretics. In today’s Christianity, anyone can become a churchman, even if he does not know the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, nor has he received the remission of sin as white as snow by believing in this gospel with his heart. Consequently, under these unredeemed, blind leaders, Christians are now hearing and learning about only the doctrine of the blood of the Cross. As a result of believing in this Christian doctrine that claims, “All our sins were washed away with the blood of the Cross,” they are sure that as far as doctrinal issues are concerned, they are sinless, even though their sins remain intact in their hearts.

Everyone who learns under such ministers is a heretic. That is why so many Christians have become

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heretics. These people have nothing to do with Jesus.

This is the difference between worldly churches and God’s Church.

When worldly Christians find a serious problem in their hearts and have to ask God for His help, their lips cannot open and say straightly, “God, please help me,” for there is sin in their hearts. So when heretics pray, the very first prayer that they offer is a prayer of repentance. Even when they are praying to ask for God’s help, they usually have to offer their prayers of repentance first. While some may give a long prayer of repentance and others may offer a short one, that is about the only difference; whenever they approach God, they all first make sure to offer their prayers of repentance.

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and washed them all away by shedding His blood on the Cross. However, those who neither know nor believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit must offer prayers of repentance every time they come out to the Lord to pray to Him. Because their hearts still have sin, they cannot help but offer prayers of repentance, saying, “Lord, please forgive me, for I have sinned.” Whenever they try to approach God and pray to Him, they attempt to be washed from their sins by first offering their own prayers of repentance.

Unlike them, those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit ruminate on this gospel time after time. The minds of the righteous meditate on the gospel all the time, reminding themselves of the following: “I have no sin. With the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the Lord has washed away all my filthy sins as white as snow. Through His baptism He bore all these filthy and muddy sins of mine, washed them away clean by shedding His blood and rising from the dead again, and has thus made me as

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white as snow.”

Therefore, we the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can boldly come out to God and pray to Him. Even though we may be insufficient in our deeds and commit sin, we can still pray to God boldly, “Father, please help me.” That’s because God said, “The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17).

That is why those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are God’s children, His people, and His workers. And they are always helped by God. In God’s sight, it is these believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit who are orthodox.

In contrast, those who do not know and do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are all heretics. Those who preach only the blood of the Cross and believe that one is somehow saved just by believing in Jesus, even as he has sin in his heart, are also all heretics. Such people are committing none other than the very sin of Jeroboam described in today’s Scripture passage, and all these people are doomed to face the judgment of God. They will be

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exterminated from the face of this earth, just as it is written, “This thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.” In the end, they will not be able to enter Heaven. And they are cursed on this earth as well. There are far too many people who are cursed in this world even as they believe in Jesus.

Even among those professing to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, there are many who have come into the Church without completely realizing this Truth at first, and are leading their lives of faith accordingly. Such people must examine their hearts truthfully once again, asking themselves, “Do I really believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit?” We must believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit truthfully. We must hold onto the gospel of the water and the Spirit wholeheartedly.

Only then can we walk with God. Only then do we abide in Christ and avoid turning into heretics. And only then are we not cursed by the Lord. Anyone who does not believe in the gospel of the water and

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the Spirit is accursed.

What about you then? Do you believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? As God led us to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we have received our salvation. And God has thus raised us as His servants. That is how we have become the kind of people who are able to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit throughout the whole world, and point out how heretics really are before God. I want you all to realize that I am not condemning anyone here, but I am giving such a sermon only to help them reach the right judgment and escape from these heretical groups. I ask you all to realize this.

Now is the time for people to escape from heresy.

Many people are mired in the sin of heresy. They, too, must be saved from the sins of the world. They, too, must escape from collective heresy, receive the washing of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and thus reach their true salvation. Yet just how many people still remain unable to bring themselves to do this? That is

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precisely why we must preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit throughout the whole world. We must tell Christians all over the world about heresy, and explain to them why it is that they have become heretics, realizing its reason ourselves first.

It’s such a frustrating tragedy for me to see so many Christians all over the world mourning under the weight of their sins. That is why I am preaching God’s Word on heresy, and why I am going to publish a sermon book on this issue. And this book will be translated into every language of the world to be distributed throughout the entire world. People all over the world will then realize upon reading this book, “I have been trapped in heresy all this time!” It is my sincere desire that many would realize this, accept the salvation that has come by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and thus return to God. It’s for this reason that I am now preaching this Word.

But it is not enough to preach on this issue just once or twice. After all, aren’t we surrounded by so many heretics? It is among those professing to

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believe in Jesus that these heretics are found so prevalently. You believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and so is there any sin in your heart or not? You have no sin at all. But what about those who claim to have received the remission of their sins just by believing in the blood of Jesus alone? Do their hearts remain sinful, or are they sinless? Of course they still have their sins remaining intact.

They themselves confess that their sins are still there, and they do actually remain sinful. All that they are doing right now is leading a religious life trapped in heresy before God. They are nothing more than heretics, having fallen into collective heresy.

You must be able to discern those who are trapped in collective heresy from the truly born-again who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. You must be able to distinguish the genuine gospel from the pseudo-gospels. Those who preach only the blood of the Cross are pseudo-Christians. Even though it may seem as if it’s okay to believe in and preach only the blood of the Cross, it is a fallacious and fake faith.

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It’s absolutely critical for us to be able to sort out pseudo-believers and not be deceived by them.

Even among newspaper reporters, there are authentic reporters and fake reporters. Fake reporters extort money out of unscrupulous people by threatening to publish their misdeeds. One should demand identification from these fake journalists.

Such reporters would then flash their ID quickly and put it away. One should then say, “Show me your ID again. Let me write it down. Let me call up your newspaper and confirm your ID.” They would then retreat and run away. In the spiritual realm also, there are so many false prophets pretending to be God’s servants. Any pastor who seems genuine but is actually fake is a pseudo-pastor. In fact, it’s hardly any exaggeration to say that virtually every pastor is a pseudo-pastor.

Among today’s Christians professing to believe in Jesus, only those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are real Christians. In contrast, those who believe only in the blood of the Cross and

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whose hearts remain sinful are false Christians, even though they may appear to be genuine. Such a person whose faith appears to be genuine but is in fact false is nothing more than a pseudo-Christian. Therefore, all those who still remain sinners even after believing in Jesus are false Christians and heretics. In some ways, it may seem as if they are more genuine. Since far more people believe collectively as they do, it looks as though they are more authentic Nonetheless, true Christians are only those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. It is these believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit who are the genuine people of faith.

Whenever someone teaches something to me, I always make sure to confirm its veracity. I am not the kind of man who is easily deceived by a few words of theologians. First of all, I confirm the exact meaning of the Word by turning to the original Bible text in Hebrew and Greek. I look at the fundamental source, in other words. The first thing that I look for whenever I come across any teaching is whether or

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not it is biblically sound. I don’t just dismiss anyone’s teaching blindly. Instead, I first examine whether or not it is biblically founded, and whether or not it is supported by the Scriptures. And when the teaching is found to be biblically sound, then I accept this teaching. I don’t just communicate of my own arguments. Nor do I claim that anything other than mine is unconditionally wrong. I fully accept other people’s teachings as well, as long as they are biblically sound.

The problem, however, is that every gospel preached by today’s Christian heretics is false, and that is why I cannot accept it into my heart. There is nothing wrong now to call false Christians for who they really are, as fake believers. Those who believe in the blood of the Cross alone claim to be authentic Christians, but when I ask them, “Then, tell me how your sins have disappeared,” they say, “I’ve washed away my sins with the blood of the Cross.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes, that’s all.”

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“How then did Jesus wash away your sins?”

“He washed them away by shedding His blood.”

“Then what happens if you commit sin afterwards?”

“I would then turn into a sinner again, and so I would have to offer prayers of repentance.”

However, they can’t answer me when I ask them, “The Bible says that the wages of sin is death, and so if you have sin, blood must be shed without fail.

Does Jesus then have to shed His blood again to blot out your sins on your behalf?” I then say to them forcefully, “That’s not how the Lord blotted out our sins. He took upon our sins once and for all by being baptized after coming to this earth, and then carried these sins to the Cross and shed His blood on it.

That’s how the Lord eradicated our sins.” Not to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is heretical. That’s why I say boldly that today’s Christianity has fallen into collective heresy.

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a fight with us, as they get offended and their pride is hurt. This is why I’ve put my sermons into a book format to share with people. If anyone does not like my book after reading it, he can just throw it away. A reader may be offended by my book, but at least he won’t try to fight me personally. I, too, travel to various places to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but among those who have heard this gospel from me, many have turned into my enemies.

That’s why we are pooling our strengths together to carry out our literature ministry to both those who are abroad and in Korea alike.

Believing in anything else other than the gospel of the water and the Spirit is heretical. Perhaps you feel that I am repeating myself too much here, but I keep underscoring this point because of its critical importance and vast implications. All those who believe only in the blood of the Cross are heretics.

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Spirit and preach this gospel that are orthodox.

We must rescue souls from heretical Christianity.

We must devote all our lives to this endeavor. In these end times, we must make it clear to everyone to see who really is a heretic and who is an orthodox believer, and thus lead all Christians to return to the gospel of the water and the Spirit. We have now preached the gospel of the water and the Spirit to some degree so far. As such, from now on, we should point out and expose in detail the errors that today’s Christians are making in their lives and the fallacies of their doctrines by comparing them to the real Truth. We have to teach them on this issue ceaselessly while we continue to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to them. Only then can they reach their salvation. God has entrusted His work to you and me.

I give all my thanks to our God. I give true thanks to Him.

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Today’s Christians Who Have Replaced God with Mammon Are Idolaters Before God < 1 Kings 11:1-13 > “But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.’

Solomon clung to these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

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heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as did his father David. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. So the LORD became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded. Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, ‘Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear

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the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.’”

The Bible records that King Solomon took the daughter of Pharaoh to be his wife. Solomon had no less than 700 wives and 300 concubines. As the king of Israel, Solomon should have led His people to God, but far from it, his heart actually ended up leaving God. By letting his heart drift away from God, and worshiping countless foreign idols, Solomon blasphemed his God.

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The Israelites’ Offense to God Toward the end of the days of the Judges, the Prophet Samuel, a servant of God, was ruling and leading the nation of Israel. So at that time, the people of Israel were living under a theocracy.

However, the Israelites saw that the foreign tribes living in the land of Canaan were under the monarchy system, rather than a theocracy. These Gentiles were serving men as their kings, instead of God. As their kings had standing armies, they ruled with an iron fist backed by military strength, and with this background they were harassing the people of Israel. That’s why the Israelites were envious of these foreign countries’ humanistic political system.

So the people of Israel eventually came to request God and Samuel to adopt monarchy instead of theocracy, saying, “Now let us also have a king to rule over us.” This means that they wanted to serve a man as their king instead of God. The people of Israel now desired to be ruled by a man rather than

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God, and they came to voice their objection, saying that they no longer wanted God’s servants to rule over them.

In response, Samuel the servant of God said to the people of Israel, “With what you are asking, you are not forsaking me, but you are forsaking God. Don’t do this. This will provoke God’s anger.” But God said to the people of Israel, “I will grant your wish.

But from now on you should be responsible for everything that happens to you.” So Saul eventually was crowned as the first king of Israel. However, King Saul was not the man God wanted to establish, and his reign was different from the kind of reign that God wanted. So God decided to raise David, who was humble before Him and believed in and followed His Word wholly, as the king of Israel, and eventually He crowned him as the new king. After assuming the throne, David defeated all the neighboring enemies and established a strong, united kingdom. With his conquest of the neighboring countries, King David made Israel wealthy from the

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tributes coming from the subdued nations.

After the passing of King David, Solomon assumed the throne of Israel, and at first, King Solomon seemed to serve Jehovah God with humility.

Before long, however, Solomon was seized by his own carnal desires. The faith of King David was absent from his son Solomon, and in the end, Solomon turned himself into God’s enemy. King Solomon served Jehovah God only in words, and in reality, he was his own king. As soon as he assumed the throne of Israel, he disobeyed the will of God by bringing the daughter of the king of Egypt and taking her in as his wife. He also brought and married princesses from such foreign tribes as Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, and Sidonians. Later on, this man turned into a model of evildoer, just like Jeroboam. Even though God had told him not to love foreign women, as the king of Israel, Solomon considered himself immune to God’s commandments, and so he followed his own lust to ultimately reach his destruction.

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This applies to us also. In leading our lives of faith, who are we to ourselves? Are we each our own king, or is God our King? We have been saved from all our sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but has God really become our King, or are we each still our own king? We are bound to follow one of these two cases, and depending on this choice, we are either blessed or cursed by God. All of us must believe in God as our King and reach our spiritual victory by faith.

However, those who cannot bring themselves to submit to the sovereign rule of God are their own kings, and such people live not according to the will of God, but according to their own will. That is why King Solomon had no less than a thousand wives.

Even though Solomon believed in God, he served his own flesh, while in contrast David had served God. On account of this, Solomon turned into a spiritual heretic before God. He was such a carnal man that he spent 13 years to build his own palace, and he mobilized all his people into forced labor to seek

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such fleshly pleasures of his own. Because Solomon was his own king and lived only for his own flesh, it was inevitable for him to turn into a heretic in the end.

So he became the pioneer that led the people of Israel away from God to serve idols as their gods.

The history of Israel’s theocracy had continued on from Moses to Joshua through the days of the Judges onto the reign of David. In this age of theocracy, God’s servants had ruled over the people of Israel, and they had also led them spiritually to have the right faith. However, the people of Israel did not realize that such a theocratic system was a fathomless blessing for them. So even though the nation of Israel had been blessed so much in the era of its theocracy, once it began to be ruled by man, it fell into spiritual corruption to worship only idols, and the kingdom itself was eventually destroyed as well. As a result, Israel turned into a tributary state, ruled by such great powers as Assyria, Babylon, and Rome in succession until the coming of Jesus Christ. Even when Jesus Christ came to this earth incarnated in the flesh of

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man, the people of Israel did not accept Him, but far from it, they demanded the Roman procurator to crucify Jesus, saying, “His blood be on us and on our children” (Matthew 27:25). As a result, the Jewish people lost their nation, and scattered around the world, they suffered countless tragedies for almost 2,000 years.

What Did Solomon’s Beloved Wives Do to Him? Solomon’s wives turned his heart away from Jehovah God to worship idols. As Solomon was not a man of faith like his father David had been, and as he did not treasure God the most, he worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, followed Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, and also built a shrine on a hill east of Jerusalem for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did Free book request www.nlmission.com

likewise for all his foreign wives. Solomon and his wives followed idols more than God. How many wives did Solomon have, including countless foreign women? He had no less than 1,000 wives. How many idols would all these foreign wives have brought into the nation of Israel? That foreign religion flourished so much in the nation of Israel is the evidence of the fact that Solomon’s wives had brought that many idols of their own to worship. For example, if we assume that 30 foreign religions were introduced into the nation of Israel, it means that King Solomon approved all these idols to be worshiped. In other words, Solomon allowed his wives to bring these idols that they had worshiped in their homelands into his own palace, to bow before them, and to also build shrines for them on the mountain. Yet this was not enough for Solomon, for he himself went to these idols and worshiped them instead of God. Even though he was the king of Israel who had to worship only God, he instead worshiped the idol of Milcom, served a goddess called

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Ashtoreth, and was also delighted by an idol called Chemosh. He also built shrines for all the idols that his wives had, so that they may be worshiped freely.

So given this, weren’t Solomon’s acts enough to provoke God’s furious wrath?

In the end, as Israel ceased to be a nation serving Jehovah God as the only Divine Being, and came to serve idols instead, it was now turned into a spiritually Gentile nation. During his reign, David had believed in and followed only Jehovah God. In contrast, all that Solomon did was just building the Temple of God merely as a visible edifice, and all the while his heart was actually serving idols as his gods.

He left the people of Israel alone to worship idols as they liked. Since the king and his queens were all worshiping idols, what was to stop the people from worshiping idols like them? In fact, since Solomon’s heart had left Jehovah God, he had already turned into an idolater. It was during the reign of King Solomon that theocracy in Israel was completely finished, as man became king instead of God, and

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Israel fell into the abyss of destruction.

Since a man like Solomon was the king of Israel, its queens were bound to serve idols. And it was only a matter of course for the people of Israel to also worship and follow foreign idols. They were serving Jehovah God only in words, while in reality, they had turned into heretics before God. After Solomon’s death, his son Rehoboam succeeded the throne of Israel, but at that time, God split the nation of Israel into two, dividing it into the northern kingdom of Israel and southern kingdom of Judah. Even so, God still allowed the house of David to maintain its dynasty, though its kingdom was now reduced to a small one ruling over the southern portion of Israel.

God had kept the promise that He had made to David.

However, King Rehoboam of the southern kingdom also worshiped idols and left God just like King Jeroboam of the northern kingdom of Israel, and in the end, the Kingdom of Judah also turned into an idolatrous nation. So all the people of Israel came to worship idols instead of God. Ultimately, the nation

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of Israel turned into a nation of collective heresy. It is actually from this point on that the history of Israel wholly turned into a history of heresy. That is how the Israelites came to serve idols from then on, only to be struck by God and enslaved by foreign nations in the end. In fact, it’s because the people of Israel did not believe in God and were instead delighted by idols and followed them to God’s abomination, that the nation of Israel and its people ended up turning into heretics. As such, God rebuked His people when they followed foreign idols.

Even though Solomon was the king of Israel, he worshiped idols so much. Ultimately, he was the man responsible for turning his own people into heretics.

He degraded the entire nation of Israel to a nation of heretics. By serving idols, Solomon drove his people to turn into heretics collectively. It’s because Solomon’s heart had left God with his idolatry that the people of Israel also followed in his footsteps. It’s because King Solomon had lived only for his own flesh that the people also lived for their own flesh.

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Not only did Solomon mobilize the people of Israel into forced labor to build his own place for 13 years, but he also made peace with other foreign kings by marital relations.

Unlike Solomon, David did not enter into friendly relationships with the Gentile nations. No matter how much he struggled, he only relied on God, as he confessed, “For by You I can run against a troop, By my God I can leap over a wall” (Psalms 18:29). He never allowed his enemies to live beside the Israelites.

In contrast, Solomon, Rehoboam, and Jeroboam did not eradicate their Gentile enemies and their idols, but far from it, they kept them near to them like close friends, actually served their idols, and loved them more than God Himself. That is why they all turned into heretics before God. Although Israel occasionally saw a few kings who feared God, most of its kings turned out to be worthless heretics serving idols as their gods. These kings left God and ended up worshiping foreign idols as their gods. So what else can this mean, other than that all these

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kings had turned into heretics?

This may also apply to you and me today, who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Even though we have received the remission of our sins from God by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, if we were to serve the golden calves that are worshiped by today’s collective heretics, then we would also turn into heretics in God’s sight. If we worship golden calves like Solomon, and all the while consider his faith to be the right kind, what would we then become? We would also become heretics. We must therefore stay away from idols.

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Rehoboam. Solomon faced severe judgment, for he had worshiped idols before God. At the end of his life, right before his death, Solomon said, “Vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities, all is vanity” (Ecclesiastes 1:2). All this time he had lived his life according to his own lust of the flesh, but he found himself confessing that all his life had been completely in vain.

By worshiping idols, Solomon turned his own people into idolaters. Like Solomon, many Christians today also worship something else other than God as their idols. That is why they have collectively turned into heretics. Heretics are desperate only to gratify the lust of their flesh. Christians who have turned into collective heretics are eager to accumulate their own wealth. Their leaders come up with all kinds of schemes to raise their salaries. They build huge church buildings, pack these buildings with as many people as possible, and then compel them to make all kinds of offerings from tithes to thanksgiving offerings and construction donations, as well as

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forcing them to volunteer their services under various excuses. Invoking the name of Jesus Christ, these leaders incite the congregation with all kinds of sweet words to make them serve themselves and their churches. Meanwhile, however, the purpose of their ministry is only to accumulate their own wealth. In other words, they minister as pastors just to wring material benefits out of their congregation.

Today, among so many Christian ministers, we often come across countless people serving only idols.

Many of these people, who all profess to believe in Jesus Christ as their sole Savior, are said to pull in over $1 million a month in offerings. After presiding over just a few worship services, they can easily coax several hundred thousand dollars a week. It’s common knowledge that if the church membership reaches about 3,000, this is enough to generate over $1 million a month in offerings. But what do these pastors do with all this money? Do they invest it into God’s work? How much do they really spend to help the poor? Even though they all pretend to be

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generous, they don’t provide that much help at all.

They claim to help the less fortunate kids in their churches, and yet to a great fanfare, they actually provide only $50 - $100 a month. This is all in spite of the fact they collect at least hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in offerings!

Where do they then spend the rest of the money?

They spend it all on building mammoth church buildings for their eyes to see. Even though they are already worshiping in huge church buildings, they don’t hesitate to demolish them all to build even bigger church buildings, draw in even more people, collect even more offerings, and get paid even more money for their salaries. Ultimately, this means that they are not really serving God, but they are actually serving golden calves. Many in today’s Christian communities are heretics worshiping golden calves.

The Lord said that a tree is known by its fruit.

Heretics all live only for their own flesh. How wonderful would it be if they were to spend their church offering for the true gospel? If they set aside

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just 70-80 percent of the offerings to serve the gospel, there would be amazing work arising everywhere.

But what percentage of the offerings do they actually spend for the spreading of the gospel? Five percent?

Twenty percent? If they even spend just 10 percent, they would be spending a lot for the gospel. Actually, since they do not even know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they can’t work for this genuine gospel either, but even so, where do they spend all this money? Where else do they spend it all but to adorn their own churches? Even worse, some pastors even have church properties registered under their names only to pass them onto their own children as inheritance. Among today’s pastors, there also are some ministers who do not even flinch to spend tens of millions of dollars. Many pastors serve golden calves like this because there is so much offering pouring into their churches, all in the name of Jesus.

All their ministries are nothing more than heretical ministries.

Solomon built his palace for 13 years for himself,

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and yet for God, he only spent 7 years to build the Temple. But this was not enough for him, for he had no less than a thousand wives, and even worse, he built a shrine for each queen to serve, all financed with state treasury. So it was inevitable for Israel to turn into a nation of heresy. Because of this, idolatry was repeated in the days of King Jeroboam and King Rehoboam alike, thus turning Israel into a nation of collective idolatry. The entire nation of Israel came to resemble an expo of world religion. That is why even today, heretics who forsake their faith in God and instead serve golden calves as their gods are continuing to emerge. So it is from there that collective heretics have emerged, but they are all to be cursed by God. When we look at the heretics that appear in the Bible, they are so ridiculous. They followed their only carnal greed only to turn into heretics. Just like them, today’s Christian leaders have also collectively turned into heretics by basing their ministry on materialism. Jesus Christ came to this earth, and

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remitted away the sins of mankind by giving us the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Therefore, Christians must first receive their salvation by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and they must live the rest of their lives to spread this God-given gospel of Truth throughout the whole world. We should all serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit, never forgetting that Israel turned into a nation of heresy because of its kings’ idolatrous worship of golden calves.

The Early Christianity had defended its faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit even under severe persecution, but once the Roman Empire declared Christianity to be its state religion in 313 AD and granted favorable treatments to it, from then on it replaced Jesus Christ with golden calves and believed in them instead. This is the very reason why the servants of God and the born-again saints who believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit had disappeared from this earth. And that is why today’s Christianity has turned into an idolatrous religion of

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collective heresy that believes in and preaches only the blood of the Cross. Therefore, today’s Christianity must repent from its sin of worshiping golden calves before God, and return to Him by the genuine faith that is placed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which the Lord has given to us. Unless Christians do this today, they will remain as heretics forever. They will remain as heretics to be cursed by God.

Isn’t It Worshiping Golden Calves for Today’s Christians to Preach and Serve Only the Blood of the Cross?

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Christians who are now leading their lives of faith for material gains are serving golden calves before God. Countless Christian leaders and pastors claim in their sermons to their congregation that if one believes in Jesus, he would receive material blessings and be healed from his illnesses. This means that Christianity today has been corrupted into a religion worshipping golden calves. Such is the reality of today’s Christian faith.

When we take a closer look at the life of Solomon, he was actually a completely worthless idolater.

Some may then say how I could speak so ill of someone written in the Bible, but in reality, Solomon was a wretched man whose flaws are too many to mention. Don’t you agree with my assessment? He had a thousand wives. He could hardly recognize his own wives. When one of his wives met him on the streets by chance and said to him, “Greetings, Your majesty,” he probably said, “Do I know you? Who are you?” Since he had a thousand wives, how could he possibly have known each and every face of all

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his wives? Isn’t this the case? He was the king of Israel, God’s chosen nation, and yet he had no less than a thousand wives! It seems as though whenever he went to another country, he took whichever princess that he saw there and took her in as his wife, as if he were on a shopping spree in a department store. That’s why Israel was reduced into an idolatrous nation.

The worst king of the worst is none other than Solomon. His father had feared God so much and obeyed all His commandments despite his insufficiencies. Yet even as Solomon was David’s son, unlike his father, Solomon lived for himself from the very moment he succeeded his father’s throne, the very moment he secured his crown. King Solomon was far from being a good king. He was an evil and tragic king who had produced so many heretics. It was because of him that the people of Israel had collectively turned into heretics. Since Solomon had abandoned God and worshipped other gods, he himself was a heretic. Why, then, has

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today’s Christianity on this earth turned into a heresy worshiping golden calves? It’s because Christians today do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that they have come to serve golden calves and turned into heretics collectively. For us also, if we now forsake the gospel of the water and the Spirit and worship mammon instead as our idol, then we will also turn into heretics.

As for Jeroboam, he had also left God, built golden calves to replace Him, and said to the people, “Here are your gods that led you out of Egypt.” And he himself also believed so. He had believed in mammon and followed it as his god. This is a typical characteristic of the faith of heretics. So God said that liars are known by their fruit. Whether they are true believers or heretics can be distinguished by looking at what they seek. If someone seeks only the things of the flesh even as he claims to believe in Jesus, then he is a heretic for sure. Such people do not serve the Lord. They don’t believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit even when it is preached

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to them. On the contrary, they stand against this gospel. Despite professing to believe in Jesus, they actually live for the sole purpose of ensuring only their carnal prosperity.

Christians throughout the whole wide world are now trapped in the sin of idolatry. Although they worship God in the name of Jesus Christ and preach to others to believe in the blood of the Cross alone, they argue based on their own Christian doctrines that if one believes in Jesus as his Savior, then even if his heart’s sins do not disappear, that is not a problem at all, and that he will still go to Heaven.

And they make others worship idols, telling them to continue to offer prayers of repentance. What today’s Christian leaders are actually interested in is to squeeze out as much offerings as possible all in the name of Jesus. Money continues to pile up for them.

At every opportunity, they come up with a program to wring out more money. They collect offerings under all kinds of titles, from construction offerings to mission offerings and the so–called “thousand

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times offerings,” which is derived from the story of the thousand burnt offerings that Solomon had offered at Gibeon (1 Kings 3:4). They demand offerings from their church members at every meeting and every time they visit the members’ homes. With the money squeezed out in this way, they reward themselves with hefty salaries and build huge church buildings, which explains why they are so obsessed with money, all in the name of Jesus Christ.

There are many Christian businesspeople who prefer big churches. Why do they prefer big churches? These people actually attend church only for the purpose of making more money. For example, let’s say someone running a business has moved into a town. He first searches the biggest church in terms of membership and finds one. He then visits its senior pastor and introduces himself, saying, “I was a deacon at so-and-so church, but now that I’ve moved to this city, I would like to join your church.” He then registers his membership, and donates a large sum of

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money as his thanksgiving offering. The pastor at this church would then call him before the whole congregation the next Sunday and introduce his business, saying, “This deacon runs such-and-such business at so-and-so location.” And this information would also be included in church newspaper. If the church that this businessman just joined has 20,000 members, then 20,000 new customers would have been created. Isn’t this the case? Although not everyone at the church would go to that store, wouldn’t many members visit that store and make their purchases there, thinking that it’s a good idea to help each other? So pastors and elders scratch one another’s back, as the former are paid hefty salaries in the name of Jesus Christ, while the latter see their businesses flourish, all the while claiming to serve in the name of Jesus Christ also. That is why it’s natural for big churches to prosper. A church with a large membership is bound to have even more idolaters.

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congregation won’t be of that much help to their businesses. That’s why when such carnal people come to our church, they don’t stick around for long.

And it’s also because we don’t seem to be that wealthy in their eyes.

Pastors and laymen trapped in heresy usually claim to be doing God’s work, but they invoke the name of Jesus Christ only to gain their own carnal benefits. That is how they minister and lead their church lives, claiming to lead their lives while helping each other. And that is why big churches grow even bigger.

But can such a disposition be applied to us also, who now believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Is money everything even for us the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? No, that is not the case. Money is nothing if one decides to spend it. Isn’t a million dollar a considerable sum of money? Let’s assume here that you have a million dollars, and that you’ve put this money in your bank and you are now paid $3000-$4000 a month in

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interest payment. Many of us drive a car, right? If you drive a car, enjoy a few things in life, contribute to the Lord’s work to serve Him and lead your life of faith, and take in some cultural pleasures, then $10,000 a month would disappear in no time. Don’t you agree? It’s because we are now making money and spending it for serving the gospel of the water and the Spirit that our lives are worthwhile and our hearts are rich. Otherwise, even if you had half a million dollars in cash sitting in your bank and were living on its interest, you would realize that it’s not much at all. It would barely be enough to just get by.

After spending their entire lifetime at work, most schoolteachers or public servants in Korea retire with a severance pay ranging from $200,000 to $300,000.

Let’s assume that you are one of them, and with this money, you bought a small apartment, a car, and a few things necessary for your retirement. About $200,000 would be gone in no time. Let’s then say that after spending $200,000, you put the remaining $100,000 in a savings account. The interest payment

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would not even reach $500 a month. Try to spend $500 in a month and see if it would last that long.

Even $300,000 in severance pay isn’t much at all.

Besides, a life that relies on material possession is nothing, whether you have $3 million or $300 million.

Even so, countless pastors in today’s Christian communities are serving golden calves as their divine beings, as their gods. They all want to minister at a big church. Why? Because they all want a high salary.

There are many pastors who get over $10,000 a month as a basic salary, and who find the joy of their ministry in this money. Even though few pastors may receive such a high salary officially, there are plenty of pastors who are paid in that range unofficially. I am not saying these things to ask you to pay me more, but to point out the prevalence of materialism in today’s Christianity. These worldly pastors are worried to death that they might be defrocked from their high-paying churches. Take a look at the pastors of this world. When I look at them standing and speaking behind the pulpit, I see that most of them

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have a glossy face. They hardly look like the ordinary people struggling in the world. They look different because they live such an opulent life.

Heretics are those who worship the money of this world as their god. Even though they speak of Jesus Christ every time they open their mouths, they actually worship material wealth as their god. Given the fact that today’s Christians leaders are worshiping money as their god and their followers are merely leading a religious life, strictly speaking, they are not serving God, but they are ultimately worshiping golden calves.

Heretics are obsessed with the desire to expand their church buildings. They are singularly fixated on their wish to extract money from the congregation by whatever means and build a bigger church. Wherever you go, even in some remote countryside, you would often discover that the biggest structure is a church.

The village may only have rundown houses that are little better than a barn, but false pastors serving idols wring money out of even such poor people to build

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such a big church. Although the church may be majestic and colossal, the congregation’s houses are all dilapidated. Even if everyone in that village were a member of this church, is it really necessary to have such a huge place of worship? Yet sadly, this is the case nearly everywhere you go.

My fellow believers, we must regard gold like a stone. God says, “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine” (Haggai 2:8). God provides for all our needs.

Our material possessions were given to us so that we would spend them to serve the gospel as needed; money itself is not our god. A chunk of gold is not divine. A nugget of gold itself is nothing to us.

For us, who have been born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, material possessions are nothing, but this is not the case for collective heretics residing in today’s Christian communities. For these heretics who do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and who have not received the remission of their sins, none other than material possessions are their gods. They actually

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follow the value system of pagans. Pagans even put money inside a coffin for a dead person. They put money, gold and silver, and jewelries inside a coffin to be spent on the way to the next world. Influenced by such pagan practices, even some Christians think that money can solve everything. So they spend a lot of money to carve some marble statues of fearful creatures like lions or tigers to be raised in front of their graves after their death. They do this to prevent evil spirits from defiling the grave. It’s a ridiculous notion to think that material possessions would somehow be useful even after death.

My fellow believers, mammon of this world is not a god for us. Even though Christian heretics think that money is everything, money is not everything.

The Lord said that a heretic is known by his fruit.

Heretics are madly obsessed with church construction. The purpose of their life-long ministry is to build huge church buildings. What is the vision of every pastor who is starting a new church? It’s to succeed in his ministry to build a big church and a

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big house for himself. Ten out of ten, the greatest wish for all the pastors who have not been born again is to build a big church, since that’s how they can draw in more people into their fold.

They don’t call their church building simply as a chapel or a “place of worship,” but instead they invariably call it a “temple.” Rather than saying that it is a place where God is worshiped, they call it “God’s holy temple.” But such a place is not a temple.

To call it a temple is complete nonsense. It is just a place of worship, where the saints gather together to worship God. What matters is not the place; you can worship God anywhere you choose, here and there.

The place of worship itself can be anywhere; what is important is the people actually worshiping God. It saddens my heart whenever I think about today’s Christianity that has scooped down so low. It saddens me to think of Solomon, as it also saddens me to think of present-day Christianity. I, too, had been trapped there, but God has saved me through the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, and He has

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also saved you and all the other saints. It is a miracle.

We were destined to live only for material possessions and be cast into hell, either crushed under the weight of too many material possessions or perishing with too little, but God had so much compassion for us that He met with us like this in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. When I think about this, I am truly thankful. I am so thankful that the Lord has met with us through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, even though we are indeed nothing, born on this earth as ephemeral beings to live only for a short while and disappear like morning mists.

That is how we’ve come to know who Jesus Christ is, and to spread this gospel around. Whenever I think about how I’ve now come to serve the gospel of God, I am overwhelmed by gratitude. Are you also thankful?

My fellow believers, we must save these heretics from their sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The very last work that we will have to carry out is saving heretics from sin. Together, you

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and I will preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to all these heretics residing in today’s Christianity. And we will boldly tell them what heresy really is.

Even though you and I were Christians before, in God’s sight, we had actually been heretics. However, now that we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we have become true believers before God. We the justified have now come to bear the fruit of righteousness by our faith in the righteousness of God, and for this, I give all my thanks to our Lord.

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How Does God Save Heretics? < 1 Kings 19:1-21 > “And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.’ And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, ‘It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!’ Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, ‘Arise and

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eat.’ Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again. And the angel of the LORD came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God. And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ So he said, ‘I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.’ Then He said, ‘Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD.’ And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but

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the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave.

Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ And he said, ‘I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.’ Then the LORD said to him: ‘Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria. Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and

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whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.’ So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him. And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, ‘Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.’ And he said to him, ‘Go back again, for what have I done to you?’ So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.”

Elijah (“My God is Jehovah”): A prophet of Israel, born around 9th century BC in Tishbe, Gilead. His

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ministry left a profound impact not only in his days, but also in the age of the New Testament.

I. The Life and Ministry of Elijah A. Elijah’s Early Ministry: Elijah was a witness of faith who believed in Jehovah God. During the early reign of King Ahab, when Elijah began ministering actively, Baal worship was widespread under the influence of Queen Jezebel (1 Kings 16:2933). So the Prophet Elijah declared to King Ahab that Israel would suffer from a severe draught (1 Kings 17:1). This reflected God’s will to make the people of Israel return to Him realizing that Baal, the god of prosperity and rain, was a useless idol.

After prophesying this draught, Elijah hid by a brook, and he lived there eating the food brought by ravens. The draught lasted for three years and six months (1 Kings 18:1). When even the Brook Cherith dried up, God ordered Elijah to go to Zarephath. In

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Zarephath Elijah performed two miracles, one of which was making a widower’s bin of flour and jar of oil always full, and the other was reviving the widower’s dead son (1 Kings 17:7-24).

While the northern kingdom of Israel was suffering under the long-lasting famine, Elijah appeared before Obadiah, an official in charge of King Ahab’s house, and told him to go to Ahab and let the king know that he was there. Elijah then proposed King Ahab to hold a match before the people of Israel between himself and a total of 850 prophets of Baal and Asherah, and settle who was the real God. King Ahab accepted his proposal. Elijah then told Baal’s prophets, who were God’s enemies, to pray to their god first. But their prayers were in vain. The idol Baal that they believed in was incapable of answering their request, for this idol was nothing more than an illusion created within the frame of the human mind.

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fire from the heavens, burn the sacrifice and wood placed on the stone altar, and consume even the water that was poured on the altar (1 Kings 18:20-38).

God answered his prayer with fire and power. On account of this event, the people of Israel woke up from their deep spiritual sleep and returned to Jehovah God. Elijah then ordered the people of Israel to take all the prophets of Baal to the Brook Kishon and execute them (1 Kings 18:39-40). Now that idolaters were destroyed, Elijah told King Ahab that rain would come, and then seven times he prayed earnestly to God to bring down rain. When the rain finally came, Elijah ran in joy from Mountain Carmel to King Ahab’s palace, about 27 km away, and outran Ahab’s chariot.

B. Elijah’s Latter Ministry: Upon hearing the news that all the prophets of Baal and Asherah were killed on Mountain Carmel, Jezebel was enraged and threatened to kill Elijah (1 Kings 19:2-3). Afraid that he might be killed by Jezebel, Elijah ran to the south, and asked God to take away his life (1 Kings 19:3-4).

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However, an angel brought food to Elijah, and strengthened by this food, he walked all the way to Mountain Horeb without resting, where Moses had received the Law centuries ago (1 Kings 19:5-8).

Inside a cave in Mountain Horeb, Elijah complained about the Israelites’ disinterest and indifference to Jehovah, and he made it known to God that his life was now threatened (1 Kings 19:9-10). After this, amid “a still small voice,” he experienced the presence of Jehovah God (1 Kings 19:11-13).

In this still small voice, Jehovah God entrusted Elijah with three tasks. These were anointing Hazael as the king of Syria, anointing Jehu as the king of the northern kingdom of Israel, and anointing Elisha as God’s prophet (1 Kings 19:15-16). As soon as Elijah came down from the mountain, he anointed Elisha as a prophet (1 Kings 19:19-21). But the remaining two tasks were carried out later on by Elisha (2 Kings 8:7-15; 9:1-10).

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II. The Importance of the Ministry of Elijah A. In the Old Testament: Elijah, one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament, was active mostly in the northern kingdom of Israel, trying to awaken its people to realize that only Jehovah God was the true living God, and to also restore their spiritual faith to worship and praise only this God. The Prophet Malachi mentioned Elijah’s spiritual ministry for the end times, and Jesus Himself testified that this Elijah was John the Baptist. So considering this, we should all remember that his ministry was an indispensable part to the work of salvation. The Prophet Malachi spoke about the role of Elijah for the end times. He prophesied that before the coming of the dreadful day of Jehovah, Elijah would come to this earth once again, and he would work to turn the hearts of the children to God the Father (Malachi 4:5-6).

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and New Testaments: To complement the mysterious ascension of Elijah and the promise of his return, “The Wisdom of Ben Sirach” (48:10), one of the Apocrypha, writes that Elijah would carry out the task of pacifying the wrath of God and reuniting the twelve tribes of Israel. And in “1 Enoch,” it is written that Elijah would become the High Priest to preach the Second Coming of the Messiah, who would bring peace and salvation in the last age.

C. In the New Testament: The Jewish people were still burning with high expectations for the return of Elijah and his apocalyptic ministry.

Therefore, according to Matthew (27:47, 49) and Mark (15:35-36), the Jews interpreted Jesus’ agonizing cry of suffering on the Cross as a voice calling for Elijah. Some Jews identified John the Baptist, who had shouted out in the wilderness to repent, as Elijah, and some other Jews equated Jesus to Elijah (Matthew 16:14; Mark 6:15). Although John the Baptist himself declined such an honor, Jesus Himself testified that Elijah to come was none

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other than John the Baptist. We the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are now spreading this fact far and wide, so that everyone may know it (Matthew 11:14, 17:10-13).

According to the accounts of the events that took place on the mountain of transfiguration, which are written in all the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus spoke to Moses and Elijah about his impending death in Jerusalem. In other words, the Lord talked with Elijah and Moses about the suffering and death of the Cross that He was about to face (Luke 9:30-31).

We can see that the ministry of Elijah, who had tried hard to turn around the depraved hearts of the people of Israel, was completed with the ministry of John the Baptist in New Testament times. After baptizing Jesus Christ to pass all the sins of the world onto Him once and for all, John the Baptist completed his work as a messenger of God and returned to Him (Matthew 3:13-17; 11:14; 17:12; Mark 9:12). As we know and believe in the ministry that Jesus Christ fulfilled to save all sinners, and the

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ministry of John the Baptist who baptized Jesus, we are all immensely thankful to God. Quoting the Old Testament, the Apostle Paul testified that in this age also, there still are 7,000 servants of God who have not knelt to Baal (Romans 11:4; 1 Kings 19:18). We should remember that this passage refers to the servants of God who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and who are now preaching it in this age and time. The Old and New Testaments both testify that John the Baptist fulfilled the same ministry as that of Elijah. The Truth of the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist is the completion of salvation fulfilled by the righteousness of God. And the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit is now being fulfilled in people’s hearts through God’s servants. You need to grasp here that today’s servants of God who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are also carrying out the same ministry that John the Baptist had carried out.

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glorious if Elijah had not fled but embraced his martyrdom when Jezebel, King Ahab’s wife, tried to kill him after he destroyed 850 prophets serving Baal and Asherah. This, however, is not a spiritual thought from God, but our own carnal thought. Even though God knew Elijah’s weaknesses and insufficiencies, He was still pleased to use him as His servant. Unlike our fleshly thought, God wanted to use Elijah on this earth for much longer. By using Elijah in Old Testament times and John the Baptist in New Testament times, God fulfilled His will through His grand plan that was designed to turn the people of Israel and the entire human race back to God.

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God. So it was because of John the Baptist’s ministry that now, in this age of the New Testament, a way was opened for the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit to return to Jesus Christ and receive the remission of their sins. In New Testament times, John the Baptist fulfilled by himself the same ministry as Elijah’s ministry in Old Testament times.

If Elijah had ministered to the people of Israel in Old Testament times to return to God, then in New Testament times, it was John the Baptist who ministered to the entire human race to return to God and be saved. As the representative of mankind who turned the entire human race back to Jesus Christ, John the Baptist passed all our sins of the world to Jesus Christ through His baptism, thus making it possible for His believers to give thanks and glory to God. Put differently, John the Baptist is an indispensable servant of God for all Christians to realize the relationship between the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit and the baptism Jesus

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received from John the Baptist. The baptism that John the Baptist gave to Jesus in the Jordan River was the critical event that passed all of our sins to Jesus once and for all. A landmark event occurred in the Jordan River, in other words, in which Jesus Christ accepted all the sins of mankind once and for all through the baptism given by John the Baptist.

That’s why Jesus was crucified to shed His blood to death and rose from the dead again, and that’s why from then on, anyone who ate the flesh of Jesus and drank His blood by faith could be forever saved from all his sins. This is how Jesus Christ was able to save the entire human race through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. By baptizing Jesus Christ, John the Baptist had fulfilled the ministry of passing all the sins of this world to Jesus once and for all.

The baptism that John the Baptist gave to Jesus fulfilled God’s plan of salvation for mankind.

Because God loved the spiritual people of Israel— that is, those who looked for God—and had pity on them, He was waiting for them to return to His arms

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forever. Likewise, in the age of the New Testament also, God wants everyone to become sinless by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, rather than remaining sinful only to be condemned.

Rather than living in confusion, God wants us to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and to live a truthful and upright life. And God doesn’t want anyone to be cursed for his sins. He rather wants to bestow His great blessings on everyone in this world.

Since the people of Israel had turned into an idolatrous nation from the days of King Solomon, their suffering and curses were more than justified.

Yet even so, God still sent His servants to them and admonished them endlessly to return back to His arms, so that He may clothe them in His love and salvation. Fundamentally speaking, the Israelites were a chosen people, who should have actually received blessings rather than curses from God, but because they did not believe in the words of His servants, they were suffering in the bondage of Satan.

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That’s why God’s servants had shouted out to them, “Throw away your idols and return to God! You will then receive eternal life!”

Elijah was God’s treasured servant who singlehandedly confronted 850 pagan prophets serving the idols of Baal and Asherah all by himself, and showed who was the real God. After fighting this spiritual war, Elijah needed some rest. But at that time, Elijah heard the venomous words of Jezebel: “I will take your life by this time tomorrow.” Elijah became afraid after hearing this. Having fought a great battle, he wanted to rest his exhausted body, but after receiving such a threat, he now entrusted his body and heart to God. He prayed under a broom tree, saying, “Lord, I would rather have You take away my life than let me be killed by Jezebel.”

God then sent an angel to Elijah and gave him bread and water to eat and drink, and when Elijah still could not get up, God touched him through His angel and admonished him to eat the bread and find the strength. So he once again ate the bread and

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drank the water, and with this God-given strength, he reached Mountain Horeb in 40 days and 40 nights. At last, he arrived at a cave in Mountain Horeb, and there he heard God’s commandment.

How Does God Work?

God spoke to Elijah lying in the cave, “What are you doing here?” So Elijah said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword.

I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” God then said to him, “Go and stand outside the cave.”

Then “a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still

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small voice.” Here, we have to pay particular attention to the phrase, “after the fire a still small voice.”

Last night, I played soccer with my coworkers at Inje. Pastor Sang-chan Lee played very well in that game. He hung around the goal post and scored so many easy goals that all our coworkers were commenting about how smartly he was playing. But while playing, they heard some strange, splitting noise quite a few times. As they found out later, it was the sound of breaking roots, coming from a big Korean white pine tree that was about to fall. But they didn’t know this at the time, and so they were all concentrated on the game and chasing the ball across the field. All of a sudden, the pine tree on the other side of the stream fell with a thundering sound and crashed onto the fence of the soccer field. I saw this from far away, but the top portion of the pine tree broke apart when it hit the fence and fell over the very place where Pastor Lee had stood only a few seconds ago after scoring a goal. The tree fell with

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such a thundering force that it broke the fence like a twig and kicked up a gale wind. If Pastor Lee were struck by the falling tree at that time, it would have crushed every bone in his body.

It is written in today’s Scripture passage that a gale wind also arose before Elijah, but no doubt it was of a far greater force, since it tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks. However, Jehovah was not in this wind, and even when the wind was followed by an earthquake and a fire, Jehovah was neither in the earthquake nor in the fire.

But after the fire, there was a still, small voice. This gentle voice came to Elijah and asked him, “What are you doing here?” Elijah then answered as the following: “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life” (1 Kings 19:14).

God asked Elijah no less than twice, “What are you doing here?” He then said to him, “Go, return to

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Damascus, and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria, and anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel.” This means that King Ahab was to be deposed, as God had now told Elijah to anoint Jehu to be king of Israel even though King Ahab was still alive. God also told Elijah to anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat as his successor.

So Elijah continued to carry out the work of God. After Elijah was taken up to Heaven in a chariot of fire, Elisha succeeded him to carry out God’s work.

However, this Elijah appeared again in the age of the New Testament as John the Baptist. Of course, this does not mean that Elijah came in the same body as his past one, nor does it mean that the same soul was reincarnated to return again. Rather, it means that John the Baptist came to open the age of the New Testament as the man responsible for carrying out the same ministry of Elijah.

God was neither in the mighty wind nor in the fire, but far from it, He revealed Himself in a still small voice, and it was from this gentle voice that He told

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Elijah what to do. What we can see clearly here is that God did not manifest Himself in a rushing mighty wind. Although today’s Christians all believe in God, they long for mystical spiritual experiences like a burning fire, thinking that this is how the Holy Spirit works. However, when God comes into our hearts, He does not come by such a fire, nor by forceful tremors, nor by mighty winds.

This Amazing Word of God Enables Us to Discern the Work of Satan Unfolding in Today’s Christianity Many Christians think that when the Holy Spirit descends on them, He makes them tremble all over their bodies, fall backwards to become unconscious, see strange illusions, and spew out weird words from their mouths. They think that these are the works of the Holy Spirit—that is, they think they are prophesying, speaking in tongues, and seeing visions. ◄

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However, Jehovah God did not dwell in such works.

On the contrary, He indwelt in a still small voice. We must realize what the Word of God is saying to us.

People receive the remission of their sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit only when we explain God’s Word to them in detail and preach it through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. It was while we preached the Word of God in detail that He descended and worked there to blot out people’s sins, came into their hearts, and made them God’s children.

That is how God’s work unfolds. Indeed, God works in the minds of people when we give a detailed account of the Scriptures. Take a look at Acts 8:2640. Philip the Deacon met a eunuch from Ethiopia, and explained the Scripture passage he was reading in his chariot. Philip gave a detailed account of the Scripture passage until the eunuch reached an understanding on the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and as a result, he came to have faith in the baptism of Jesus. As such, we have to explain the Word of God to the confused souls in great detail.

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A misperception common to many of today’s Christian believers is the notion that God descends amid fire, startling tremors, a rushing mighty wind, or mysterious dreams and visions, but that is not actually true. God always speaks to us and works in our lives through His fine and detailed Word. It is through His Word that God has revealed Himself to us, and so when today’s self-claimed servants of God raise all kinds of ruckus and rackets to speak in tongues or prophesy, that is not God’s work. I once read someone claiming in his book that when he experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit, his whole body trembled and shivered all over. But even if this person’s body did in fact shake, by no means does this indicate that his spirit was truly born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

After all, I had also seen visions of Jesus even while my eyes were wide open. But all this was nothing more than a demonic work. That’s because there still was sin in my heart, for I did not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit. As such, God works among

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us when we preach the Word of God in detail for people to receive the remission of their sins. In other words, it is through His written Word of Truth that God works to bring the remission of our sins to us.

So in today’s Christian communities around the world, particularly in churches affiliated with the Pentecostals, the widespread practices of speaking in tongues, prophesying, and exposing someone else’s sins under the so-called gift of discernment are all works of demons. That is not how God works. He works with His fine and detailed Word, making us realize and believe in His grace through the Word.

What Does “God’s Still Small Voice” Mean?

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in detail that our Lord Jesus has saved us from all the sins of the world by coming to this earth, taking upon our sins by being baptized by John the Baptist, dying on the Cross, and rising from the dead again. It is with this Word that God works in every soul.

Likewise, we are also preaching the Word of God silently and calmly through our literature ministry.

So as a result, many people have now realized that God speaks concretely to their knowledge, thoughts, and hearts; that He actually comes looking for them through His detailed Word; and that He works in their lives flawlessly through this pure Word.

When it comes to preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit to everyone all over the world in this age, God has instructed us to teach it step by step in detail through our literature or the mouths of His servants, so that people may be able to understand it.

Only when we preach the gospel in such a great detail can they be freed from the trap of heretics, receive the remission of their sins, and reach their salvation. That is how God works. God watches over

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His servants, encourages them to preach His concrete Word in detail, and save souls moaning under sin through these servants.

God wants us to save Christians throughout the whole world trapped in heresy from their sins. How then can we achieve this work? All that we have to do is just preach the concrete gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. God wants us to save people from sin by teaching them the gospel of the water and the Spirit step by step based on the written Word of God. Even now, God is working continuously for the salvation of souls through His servants who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Take a look at today’s Scripture passage again. Didn’t God hold and use Elijah? God fulfills His work through His servants. It is through His servants that God carries out His work. It’s also through His servants that God speaks about how the history of the world will unfold.

The Lord God ordered Elijah to anoint Hazael as king over Syria, Jehu as king over Israel, and Elisha

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as a prophet in his place. In Israel during the age of the Old Testament, when a king was raised, oil was brought in a horn and this oil was then poured on the head of the new king. Prophets and High Priests were also anointed when they were installed.

“Christ” in the name Jesus Christ means “anointed.” So the name Jesus Christi means that that the Lord Jesus is the Savior whose offices include King, Prophet, and the High Priest. In other words, Jesus Christ was entrusted with three offices by God. The name “Jesus” means the Savior, and the name “Christ” means that He was entrusted with three offices by God, and therefore the name “Jesus Christ” means that He is the Savior who has saved you and me from all our sins by fulfilling these three offices while on this earth.

In the days of Elijah’s ministry, Ahab was the king of the northern kingdom, Israel. But God deposed him from his throne. And He said, “Kill him.

Let the dogs lick the blood of his dead body. Let the birds peck on his flesh.” Just like the Lord had cursed,

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Ahab was shot by an arrow in the battlefield and died from this wound, and dogs licked up his blood (1 Kings 21:19; 22:38). It was all because Ahab had walked in the way of Jeroboam and worshiped idols before God. The same thing happened to Jezebel’s body as well; when she fell from the balcony, dogs came and licked her blood, and birds ate her flesh.

Her body was shattered completely, and according to God’s Word of prophecy, dogs devoured her dead body (1 Kings 21:23). God had brought down His wrath on them. This woman Jezebel might have seemed like a powerful woman, but she was completely cursed by God. He cursed King Jeroboam, King Baasha, and everyone else who walked in the way of Jeroboam. Those who followed the sins of Jeroboam, God let their bodies also be torn apart and eaten by dogs. The people of Israel may have committed such sins out of their ignorance, but the leaders of the nation should have known better; so God killed mercilessly all the leaders who led His people to the way of idolatry.

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God Is Still Working through His Servants God works through His servants. Through them, He works to spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit all over the world. Although God loves everyone in the whole world, many Christians are actually trapped in heresy, even as they profess to believe in God. Through whom does God then turn these people around back into His arms? He does this work through His laborers and servants. All the saints abiding in His Church and serving the gospel now are God’s servants.

Like this, it is through His servants that God works, and it is through them that He fulfills His will.

Why does God then work through His servants?

That’s because they know what God wants to accomplish and obey this will. In other words, it’s because they obey the will of God that they are called God’s servants, and it’s because they are working in obedience to this will that God ultimately wants to work thorough these servants of His. Through you

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and me, who abide in the Church, God is working to spread the gospel throughout the whole world. Even at this very moment, God is carrying out the work of salvation all over the world. With a very quiet and detailed voice, with the Word of the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, God is turning people all over the world back into His arms. He is working tirelessly so that everyone would return to Him and receive His blessings. The very fact that we are now engaged in our literature ministry is the proof that you and I are being used as God’s instruments for this work.

God told Elijah to anoint Elisha as a prophet to succeed him. With this, Elijah was not forsaken by God, but rather he was made to complete all his duties. Later on, God eventually lifted him up in a chariot of fire. Like Enoch, Elijah went to God without tasting death. This is a shadow of rapture. It shows us that when the Lord returns, those among the living who have been born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit will be raptured

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like this.

You and I are now preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit to the entire world. Just how many heretics are there among today’s Christians?

What is it that these Christians now believe in? Do they not believe in golden calves, having replaced Jesus Christ with them? Ultimately, the purpose for which today’s pastors are ministering is to exploit their congregation for money. Invoking the name of Jesus Christ, they are squeezing money out of their congregation by emphasizing material blessings and physical health. None other than this is the evidence of the fact they have replaced God with golden calves and are worshiping them instead.

What about laypeople then? What do they ask the Lord when they come to church? They, too, mostly ask for the things of the flesh. For instance, they pray for their sons and daughters to do well in their college entrance exams and gain admission to their preferred schools. Together with their leaders, they are really following only the things of the flesh. In

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other words, rather than praying about how they and their children can be completely remitted from their hearts’ sins, and how they can carry out God’s work, they pray about how their children can gain college admission, how they can become rich, how their businesses can succeed, how their flesh can prosper, and how they can live an affluent life in the present world. These are the very evidences proving that these Christians are now worshiping golden calves before God. Jeroboam replaced God with golden calves and worshiped them as his gods. If he had recognized and worshiped Jehovah as the only God, lived by faith despite his insufficiencies, and tried to follow the Lord, then God would have made Israel the most powerful nation in the whole world and blessed its people abundantly. But because Jeroboam replaced God with golden calves and worshiped them, God was provoked to anger. Likewise, for today’s Christian leaders and believers all over the world, golden calves have now become their gods and are

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being worshiped as such. What they demand from God are carnal things. It’s because Christians today are serving golden calves as their gods just like the people of Israel that God is so angry, and they will all be destroyed as a result. They have fallen into heresy today. Pastors worshiping the god of mammon have led their congregation to believe in golden calves as their Savior, instead of Jesus. They believe in Jesus merely as one of many gods, and their ultimate goal is to ensure worldly success by believing in Jesus.

Today, material blessings are what virtually all Christians want from God.

Golden Calves Are Not Your Gods How can golden calves be your gods? It’s because you are serving golden calves as your gods that they’ve become your gods. Indeed, when we examine what today’s Christians are praying for in their churches, we see that most are actually serving

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golden calves. They write all kinds of requests on their offering envelopes, from asking for the success of their new businesses to their children’s college admission and their health, and when these envelopes are submitted to the pulpit, the pastor calls them out one by one. So in the end, they don’t really believe in Jesus as their God, but they believe in golden calves, in material prosperity, as their gods. Rather than worshiping God, they worship mammon as their god.

That is why they’ve become heretics. And that is why they are collective heretics. I am writing to warn heretics in this age. I will tell them why so many people in today’s Christian communities have become collective heretics, and why this has happened. My point is not that just a handful of today’s Christians are heretics, but virtually all of them are heretics. So I shout out to them: “You have turned into collective heretics because you are worshiping golden calves instead of God. Even though you say that you believe in Jesus as your Savior, you believe in Him only in words. Haven’t

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you made up fallacious Christian doctrines all on your own, and don’t you now believe in golden calves? You believe in golden calves, but have your sins disappeared? Have you really become God’s people?” Even though these nominal Christians have not become God’s people, they seek only the prosperity of their flesh, and that is why they have in the end turned into heretics worshiping idols before God. To save these heretics from the sin of worshiping golden calves, we must pray for them and bear witness to them. Regardless of how they react, whether they get angry with me or not, I will do what I am supposed to do. We must testify to them and explain why they are heretics. This is all to save them from the sin of worshiping golden calves. That is why I am preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit to Christians all over the world. If we are indeed God’s servants, then we must save all these Christians trapped in collective heresy from their sins.

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worshiped idols. They served golden calves instead of Jehovah God. In the northern kingdom of Israel, all its ten tribes bowed down before golden calves, burnt incense to them, and sacrificed burnt offerings to them. Were they really worshiping Jehovah God as their only God? How was it possible for them to serve idols? This happened because while their eyes could not see Jehovah God, they could see the visible golden claves with their naked eyes. Put differently, because what their eyes saw were these golden calves, they found them far easier to believe. The same thing is happing to today’s Christians as well. They worship golden calves because rather than hearing the gospel and following the invisible God, they keep hearing more about and seeing others who supposedly became rich from believing in Jesus, whose children gained admission to a good college, and whose businesses prospered. All that they keep hearing and seeing are some elders who, upon assuming their eldership, were supposedly blessed so much by God

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that they became spectacularly successful.

Like this, for today’s Christians, what their eyes can see are golden calves and the gift of healing. In other words, they follow golden calves promising to bring them visible prosperity more than they follow God. But golden calves are not divine beings. They are no gods. Yet despite this, Christianity today has also come to worship golden calves. Far from believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, Christians today are also slaves to materialism. They are serving mammon as their god.

Christianity Today Has Indeed Turned into a Heresy Before God What evidence is there to prove that today’s Christians are not heretics before God? Heretics are those Christians who neither follow nor serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which is God’s Truth, but far from it, are actually worshiping golden ◄

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calves as their gods against the will of God. Even for the born-again who now believe in the gospel of the water and the Sprit, if they ignore the Lord’s will to spread the gospel all over the world and live only for their own flesh, then they are also heretics before God. Simply put, any Christian who worships idols is a heretic. Many people think that only peculiar cults are heretical, but in reality, there are many heretics even in the so-called orthodox Christian denominations. Those who are yet to believe in Jesus as their Savior are simply non-Christians, not heretics before God. However, among those professing to believe in Jesus, there are many heretics.

When you look at the world with this realization, you’ll be able to see that it is indeed filled with too many heretics. I wonder what people would say after reading this book. Perhaps some people would get so angry that they might grab stones and throw them at me. But I am not afraid of them at all. Regardless of how people may respond, if they realize their heresy from reading this book, then they can turn around,

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believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and return to God. If not, then they are free to attack me all that they want and vent their anger at me for calling them heretics. That’s not what matters; what matters is whether or not they can provide any evidence to prove me wrong, whether they can show me the proof that they have indeed served God, not golden calves. It is with this disposition of the heart that I am writing this book.

My fellow believers, our God works through the Word of the water and the Spirit, amid a still, little voice. Some Christians claim that while in a revival meeting, they felt tremors all over and saw people speaking in tongues and falling backwards in ecstasy, and all kinds of seemingly miraculous things happened, but these things are not God’s work. Some pastors claim that while in their room, they felt a strange presence, and all of sudden their bodies vibrated all over and their noses smelt a refreshing aroma, but nor are these works from the Holy Spirit.

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not even received the remission of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, how could anything happening to them constitute God’s work? Put differently, the Holy Spirit never works among sinners. It’s not the Holy Spirit’s work, but it is the Devil’s work. The work of the Holy Spirit arises when one believes in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, the detailed Word of God. Some may ask, “What then do the events of Pentecost mean? When the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and disciples of the Early Church on the Day of Pentecost, what seemed like tongues of fire had set on each of them, and their mouths had opened to speak in various tongues.” This means that because the Apostles and saints of the Early Church were already holy people who believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, God had given them power to preach the gospel. By no means does this account mean that the power of the Holy Spirit descended even on those who were not yet born again. Therefore, if any Christian screams all of a

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sudden and trembles all over, then what’s happening to him is clearly Satan’s work. Such things are not God’s works.

People must return to the gospel of the water and the Spirit by faith and affirm their salvation with the concrete, detailed Word of God. God’s work is achieved when the gospel of the water and the Spirit works in human hearts in detail. It’s not God’s work when Christians worship golden calves. That is no work of God. Yet Christianity today has reduced itself to a superstitious level, with its adherents claiming that they’ve become rich and prosperous from believing in Jesus, received the gift of healing, and have been instantly healed from tuberculosis when a certain charismatic pastor laid his hands on them just once. Some people testify that they were born with deformed legs, but when some pastor laid his hands on their heads, their legs were all healed and they can now walk normally. But such things are the Devil’s works. Is anyone’s deformed leg really healed with the laying on of hands? No, of course not.

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Do you know a man named Uri Geller? He became famous for claiming that he could bend spoons and keys by using his supernatural power. But James Randi, a former magician, offered one million dollars to anyone who could perform a scientifically proven supernatural act, and he proposed Geller to test his claim on TV. By exposing Uri Geller’s tricks, James Randi earned his nickname as “the psychic hunter.” Traveling around the world, he held daring events called “One-million Dollar Challenge,” and while there were countless people who rose to his challenge, to this day, no one has yet passed even the first stage of testing. To all those claiming to possess paranormal power, he shouted out boldly: “If you really possess supernatural power, perform it in front of me. Come to a public forum and exercise your power. If you really have such supernatural power, then I will give you one million dollars. I will give you enough money for you to live comfortably for the rest of your life. So let’s make a bet. Let’s see if you really are a psychic or a fake. Pastors are

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welcome too. Was anyone really healed with the laying on of your hands? Was a deformed leg really straightened out? If you really have this kind of power, then I will give you a million dollars.”

But among charismatic pastors in Korea, there was no one who rose to his challenge, not to mention anyone who succeeded. Because Randi himself was a magician, he knew very well that all such supernatural claims were nothing more than tricks.

Some pastor in Korea once claimed that he could raise a dead person back to life by laying his hands on him. However, when James Randi came to Korea and challenged all such people claiming to hold supernatural power to step forward at his televised event for “One-million Dollar Challenge,” none of these pastors in Korea who were boasting their gift of healing made an appearance. This is the proof that all such claims were nothing more than lies and deceptions.

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Spirit, there are cases when the Lord heals their illnesses if they trust in the Lord and pray earnestly to Him to heal their illnesses. But the Lord heals them very quietly, not by raising all kinds of empty commotions. God never works like this.

In the history of Christianity around the world, God’s servants in the Early Church did carry out the ministry of healing. However, they did this only to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Think about it yourself. We can see in the Book of Acts that various supernatural works such as tremors and speaking in tongues were accompanied with the ministries of the Apostles. But we have to understand the historical background to that age. In those days, because the Israel was ruled by Rome, many Israelites were living scattered all over the world. But they had to visit Jerusalem according to the Law. Yet due to their long residence abroad, many of them could not communicate with each other. They had lost their mother tongue and the faith inherited form their ancestors.

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Of course, there also were many Gentiles living in Jerusalem. The Gentiles at that time did not know the sacrifice of the Day of Atonement, far less Jesus.

They knew nothing about Jesus. For all these people, both the Jews abroad and the Gentiles residing in Israel, to believe that Jesus was the Son of God and their Savior, they needed signs, and therefore God had given His servants the power to perform signs and miracles and preach Jesus through them. You also have to pay attention to the fact that the tongues spoken by the Apostles in Acts chapter two were clearly “the languages of various legions” that could be understood rationally. And their contents were all equal: The gospel of the water and the Spirit. That’s why people who heard the Apostles speaking in tongues said, “We hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” That’s why, at that time, God had given His servants supernatural power, so that they would preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit (Acts 2:28-35).

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gospel of the water and the Spirit was completed to perfection from Genesis to the Book of Revelation, God has made us spread the gospel through His concrete Word, and He no longer performs signs and miracles. If such miracles and wonders were still needed even in this present age, then we should all try to practice them. But to be saved, one must know the Truth of the water and the Spirit. And to enable everyone to know this Truth of the water and the Spirit, we must preach it in detail based on the concrete Word. If we were to speak in tongues all of a sudden while preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit, could anyone really understand what this gospel is? If we just say to them, “Believe in Jesus unconditionally,” could anyone be saved just by believing like this? Is this how one is saved from his sins?

That is why I am saying that the history of Christianity all over the world has been marked by collective heresy. I know a few things about the history of Christianity in this world. When I hear a

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certain pastor preach, I can tell what Christian ideology he believes in. So I know almost all pastors have not been born again yet. These so-called pastors today are fake ministers and heretics, who neither know the gospel of the water and the Spirit nor believe in it. These people are bona fide heretics.

We must save heretics in Christian communities.

We must fulfill this task. To do so, we must pray to God. We must ask Him in our prayer, “Lord! Please save all the heretics in Christian communities around the world!” There isn’t much that we can do for nonChristians at this point. Our priority should be on Christians who are bound to hell despite believing in Jesus Christ. We must lead these Christian sinners first, and make them realize the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. That’s because it’s in this gospel Truth that the work of God and His will are all contained, and it’s here that God’s salvation of mankind is found.

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He also had them labor for Him. Like this, through His servants, God is speaking in detail to Christians all over the world with the concrete gospel Word of the water and the Spirit: “How did Jesus accept people’s sins? Jesus Christ accepted the sins of the world by being baptized by John the Baptist. And Jesus carried the sins of the world to the Cross, shed His blood to death, rose from the dead again, and has thereby saved you. He has saved you and me through the water, and the blood, and the Spirit.” It’s by speaking this Truth in great detail that God is saving sinners.

We know that we must participate in God’s work of salvation by placing our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and that we must also fulfill our duty to spread the gospel. Let us therefore all labor diligently, so that everyone all over the world would be saved from sin, and Christians trapped in heresy would also receive true salvation. We must pray to God to save Christians throughout the entire world.

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Spirit by faith. All Christians must believe in this gospel of the water and the Spirit. Only then can they avoid turning into heretics before God.

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You Must Believe That John the Baptist Is The Representative of All Mankind < Matthew 11:1-19 > “Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities. And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Him, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?’ Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he Free book request www.nlmission.com

who is not offended because of Me.’ As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: ‘What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.’ Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! But to what shall I liken this

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generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions, and saying: ‘We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not lament.’

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.’”

John the Baptist was a servant of God, who lived alone in the wilderness and whose food was locusts and honey. He wore clothes made out of camel’s hair, sleeping and eating in the wilderness. That’s why regarding John the Baptist, Jesus said the following: “Why did you go out into the wilderness? Did you go

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out to see a reed shaken by the wind? Or a man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses! Didn’t you go out into the wilderness to see John the Baptist? Yes. John the Baptist is the greatest of those born of women. He is greater than all the prophets of the Old Testament.”

Jesus said this because John the Baptist was really the greatest of those born of women. He was raised

by God to be the representative of all mankind. In God’s sight, John the Baptist was greater than all the countless judges and prophets of the Old Testament, from Moses to Joshua, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Obadiah, Haggai, and the rest.

What did Jesus call John the Baptist? He called John the Baptist a messenger of God. Describing John the Baptist, the Lord quoted a passage from the Old Testament: “Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me” (Malachi 3:1).

“My messenger” here refers to John the Baptist in the New Testament. God the Father had sent him to this earth six months prior to the birth of Jesus Christ. So

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as the one who was to prepare the way of Jesus Christ, John the Baptist gave baptism of repentance to people. Baptizing many people in the Jordan River, he called them to repent. Shouting out to the people of Israel, “Repent, you brood of vipers!” John the Baptist called them to turn around from their idolatry and return to God.

We Must Realize That John the Baptist Is the Greatest of Those Born of Women— That Is, He is the Representative of All Mankind As Jesus Himself bore witness, John the Baptist is the greatest man among all those born of women.

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baptized. God had raised John the Baptist as the representative of mankind, and it was through him that God accepted all the sins of the world onto His own body once and for all. Raised as the representative of mankind, John the Baptist was able to pass all the sins of this world to Jesus by baptizing Him once. John the Baptist was the only man in this world who could pass all the sins of this world to Jesus once and for all by baptizing Him. However, some people doubt this and wonder, “Where is it written in the Bible that John the Baptist is the representative of mankind?” I can address this question with the following answer: John the Baptist is the representative of mankind because Jesus Himself said that he was the greatest of those born of women. In other words, I can say that John the Baptist is the representative of mankind precisely because Jesus Himself testified that he was the greatest of all those born of women. So John the Baptist is the representative of mankind, and as the actual representative of mankind, he passed the sins

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of this world to Jesus by baptizing Him. You may also wonder about this, but isn’t the answer written here in Matthew 11:11? Didn’t Jesus say here, “Among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist”? This passage is the proof that John the Baptist is the representative of mankind. Jesus Himself personally bore witness to all of us that John the Baptist is the representative of all mankind.

Applying this passage to the Old Testament, we see that John the Baptist was a greater prophet than even Moses. Moses was the greatest prophet in the Old Testament. He had met God face to face. No other prophet in the Old Testament time was even comparable to the Prophet Moses; although Isaiah, Hosea, Jeremiah, and Daniel were all remarkable prophets, they paled in comparison to Moses. But John the Baptist was greater than even Moses. He was thus in a league of his own, far greater than all the other prophets. John the Baptist is the representative of mankind raised by God Himself,

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and he baptized Jesus as the High Priest of this earth.

I Have Every Confidence to Say That John the Baptist Is the High Priest of the Earth Who Passed the Sins of the World to Jesus I can say this with every confidence because of what Jesus Himself said in Matthew 11:13, “For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.” It is none other than John the Baptist who worked to bring all the Law and prophecies of the Old Testament to be completed in Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, the High Priest had passed the sins of the people of Israel on the Day of Atonement by laying his hands on the sacrificial animal. Likewise, John the Baptist, who came to fulfill the same spiritual ministry as that of Elijah, passed all the sins of this world to Jesus once and for all by baptizing Him. In other words, Jesus is saying that He has saved us from the sins of the world by “thus” shouldering them all (Matthew 3:15). ◄

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The Bible says, “‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ‘God with us’” (Matthew 1:23; Isaiah 7:14). To blot out all our sins, God Himself came to this earth through the body of the Virgin Mary, incarnated in the same flesh as ours.

God had promised countless times in the Old Testament that Jesus Christ would come to this world and take upon Himself all its sins. This Truth, that Jesus would bear all the sins of the world once and for all through the baptism received from John the Baptist, was fulfilled by God according to the promise of His Word revealed in the Old Testament’s sacrificial system of salvation. None other than this is what is meant by the passage, “For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.”

So what you must realize clearly here is that John the Baptist is the representative of mankind. To fulfill all the Word of prophecy in the Old Testament, John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ in the Jordan River, and by doing so, he submitted himself to the will of

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God, so that Jesus would be able to fulfill all the righteousness of God. John the Baptist is the very man who passed all the sins of the world to Jesus Christ by baptizing Him. He is God’s servant who fulfilled his ministry in obedience, so that Jesus Christ would take upon the sins of this world once and for all. He had labored to fulfill Jesus’ ministry of salvation to deliver mankind from sin. Put differently, John the Baptist is a messenger of God, and he is also the servant of God who brought the Word of the Old Testament to be fulfilled in Jesus Christ. You must believe this and be saved, that as the last prophet of the Old Testament, John the Baptist preached the will of God to save mankind from the sins of the world, and that through the baptism he gave to Jesus, he also passed the sins of the entire human race to Jesus Christ once and for all.

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However, Many People Still Do Not Believe in This Fact Many Christians do not understand the role of John the Baptist properly. As a sad result, they are unable to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Like them, the Pharisees had also misunderstood John the Baptist and Jesus. So the Lord said, “For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children” (Matthew 11:18-19). We humans are judged to be wise or foolish according on our acts.

Who is then wise? The wise are those who understand the will of God and follow it with an obedient heart. And they are the ones who have the wisdom of Heaven even though they are devoid of earthly wisdom or knowledge.

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found in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which has properly saved all mankind from all its sins once and for all. This wisdom was accomplished and revealed by Jesus Christ and John the Baptist when they were on this earth. How and with what kind of faith did Jesus Christ and John the Baptist obey God the Father when they came to this earth? How did they save all human beings from all their sins once and for all?

The method by which God has saved mankind from sin—that is, the wisdom of Heaven—says the following about the gospel of the water and the Spirit: “Jesus Christ came to this earth and saved mankind once and for all through His baptism received from John the Baptist, His death on the Cross, and His resurrection.” In other words, God’s wisdom is all contained in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, the gospel through which God has saved sinners from their sins by sending His Son Jesus Christ to this earth. Jesus Christ, who was baptized by John the Baptist, is speaking of all the

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wisdom that came from Heaven in His baptism and His blood on the Cross (1 John 5:4-8).

To fulfill all these things, God the Father sent His Son to this earth. And to raise the Son as the Savior of mankind and to fulfill this work, the Father had sent John the Baptist to this earth six months earlier.

God was preparing the way of our salvation by sending John the Baptist six months prior to Jesus’ birth. This was to fulfill our salvation through the baptism Jesus would receive later from John the Baptist. John the Baptist prepared and waited for 30 years to baptize Jesus Christ. Until he turned 30, he had waited for the day he would baptize Jesus. That’s because the sons of the High Priest of the Old Testament could be anointed as the High Priests and assume its duties only after they reached 30 years of age (Numbers 4:3). When John the Baptist turned 30, Jesus also turned 30, and as John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ to pass the sins of this world, Jesus was able to fulfill all the righteousness of God. By “thus” receiving the baptism that fulfills all the

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righteousness of God in the Jordan River, Jesus was able to save mankind from the sins of the world once and for all. By being baptized by John, Jesus took upon Himself the sins of this world, and having shouldered our sins, He shed His blood and died on the Cross, and rose from the dead. He was thereby able to fulfill the purpose for which He had come to this earth. That is how Jesus was able to save us, who now believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, from all our sins.

The very fact that Jesus was baptized by John was none other than God’s wisdom, and it was the very work that brought salvation to us. Just how wisely did God blot out our sins to save us? The true wisdom of God was manifested in the baptism Jesus Christ received on this earth, the blood He shed, His death, and His resurrection. That’s why the Bible says, “Wisdom is justified by her children.”

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decide the size of the house; second, we have to come up with an appropriate blueprint; and third, we have to calculate the cost. After this, we must then supply construction materials on appropriate times to appropriate places, and direct the laborers to work properly. Only then is a house built. A man who builds his house like this is a wise man. In contrast, someone who does not have any plan or budget will work randomly, only to give up in the end without even building a proper foundation.

To fulfill our salvation, God revealed His amazing wisdom. Indeed, John the Baptist also obeyed the will of God that had been set up by His wisdom, and by doing so, he made it possible for all of us to be saved in Jesus Christ. We must therefore realize just how wisely God has saved everyone all over the world, you and me alike, from all its sins. We can see that by sending John the Baptist to this earth and making him carry out His work, God ensured that our salvation would be fulfilled with His justice and love.

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mankind, God passed the sins of the world to Jesus Christ, having Him accept and bear all the sins of the world once and for all. Having thus shouldered all our sins, Jesus then shed His blood on the Cross, suffered our death, rose from the dead again, and thereby fulfilled our everlasting salvation.

None other than this is God’s wisdom. This is the very wisdom of God and the love that He fulfilled with His justice. All of us must obey God the Father by faith, realizing just how wisely and justly He has saved us from our sins and destruction.

Everyone Must Know and Believe in This Amazing Truth of Salvation The Lord said to all of us, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He also said to us, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow.” And the Lord says that He has already washed away our sins

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with the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Yet despite this, those who are deceived by liars in today’s Christianity are overlooking His perfect salvation. Even though Jesus has already blotted out our sins, people do not pay attention to this gospel Truth. They do not dance even as we who know the Truth play the flute for them, and they do not weep even as we point out their sins and hell-bound destiny.

Today’s Christians and unbelievers alike are neither interested in the work of salvation that Jesus has done for them, nor worried about their sins and God’s condemnation. They even despise and stand against God’s work that He has done to save them from all their sins. Yet they don’t even realize the consequence of their own action.

However, in spite of all this, God has wisely saved everyone from all his sins once and for all through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Everyone must realize God’s providence, love, and justice that have now made it possible for anyone to be saved without exception, if only he believes in the gospel of the

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water and the Spirit with his heart. To make the gospel of the water and the Spirit known to us, Jesus showed the wisdom of God by using John the Baptist.

When God loves us so much like this through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, why on earth should we still remain bound by the sins of the world unable to be freed from them?

God the Father sent John the Baptist to this earth and made him baptize His Son Jesus Christ. To fulfill this work, God raised John the Baptist as the greatest of those born of women, and He made him pass the sins of the world to Jesus as the representative of mankind. God the Father “thus” made His Son Jesus fulfill all His righteousness. Just as the High Priest of the Old Testament had passed the sins of the people of Israel once and for all by laying his hands on the head of the sacrificial animal, so did John the Baptist pass all the sins of the world to Jesus Christ by baptizing Him in a form of the laying on of hands, making it possible for Him to fulfill the righteousness of God once and for all. By being baptized once by

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John the Baptist, Jesus accepted the sins of mankind once and for all. He then shed His blood on the Cross while shouldering the sins of the world, rose from the dead again, and has thereby saved all of us who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Just how amazing and wise is God’s salvation?

Just how perfectly and justly has God saved us?

None other than the gospel of the water and the Spirit is of God’s wisdom. It is in this gospel of the water and the Spirit that the wisdom of God is contained.

God’s wisdom has made it impossible for us not to believe in our salvation from sin that He has provided for us. With His wisdom, God has completely and perfectly blotted out all the sins of each and every one of us all at once. Through the role of John the Baptist, who baptized His Son Jesus Christ, God the Father ensured that all the sins of this world would be completely passed onto His Son, and by doing so, He has made us the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit completely and perfectly free from sin. What an amazing Truth and

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wisdom of God is this gospel of the water and the Spirit?

Through the power of God, Elijah had turned the people of Israel back to Jehovah God. And God the Father had promised to send Elijah again to this earth (Malachi 4:5-6), and He fulfilled this promise through John the Baptist. Elijah had been raptured in a chariot of fire. But God had promised that He would send him again to this earth, “Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD” (Malachi 4:5). The people of New Testament time were also waiting for this Elijah to come.

This Elijah was none other than John the Baptist.

Just as Elijah had turned all the people of Israel back to Jehovah God, when John the Baptist came to this earth, he passed the sins of mankind to Jesus Christ by baptizing Him, and bore witness to everyone that Jesus was the very Savior to come. He testified of Jesus by declaring, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), and with this testimony, he made everyone realize that

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Jesus shouldered all the sins of this world through the baptism He received from John. In other words, John the Baptist affirmed to the people of this world that whoever desired to know and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit would be able to reach his salvation by faith. Thanks to the testimony of John the Baptist, if anyone just believes that Jesus Christ accepted all his sins through John the Baptist, he can now have all his sins washed away. Like this, God has fulfilled our salvation completely, so that anyone who believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit would be saved from his sins by faith.

God’s Faithful Witnesses Do Not Lie Proverbs 14:5 says, “A faithful witness does not lie, But a false witness will utter lies.” John the Baptist, who was testified by Jesus Himself, is God’s servant. That’s how we know that the testimony of John the Baptist is true. John the Baptist testified that

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he passed the sins of mankind to Jesus Christ by baptizing Him; that Jesus accepted these sins through him; and that Jesus was condemned on the Cross for the sins of the world. In other words, Jesus embraced and shouldered all our sins, was crucified to be punished for these sins and bear their condemnation, rose from the dead again, and has thereby become our true Savior.

In contrast, the Bible says that false witnesses utter lies. This means that false witnesses make fallacious claims for they do not believe in what John the Baptist did on this earth. Put differently, they do not believe in the wisdom of God.

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until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew 11:12). The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who take it by “force”—that is, by bold faith. Jesus was sent to this earth as the Savior by God the Father. And God the Father had sent John the Baptist six months before sending Jesus. The Kingdom of Heaven suffered violence from the days of John the Baptist until now.

Put differently, the Kingdom of Heaven is wide open to the invaders of faith who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Because John the Baptist passed the sins of mankind to Jesus by baptizing Him, and because Jesus accepted them through His baptism, anyone can now take the Kingdom of Heaven by force and make it his by realizing and believing in this fact. “To take the Kingdom by force” here refers to charging ahead and taking Heaven by bold faith. In other words, if anyone hears with his ears, understands with his head, and believes with his heart in the baptism that Jesus received from John the Baptist, the passing of the sins of this world

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to Jesus Christ, and the work done by Jesus, then he will be saved.

However, countless false witnesses spew out lies, saying, “What John the Baptist did means nothing.

The baptism Jesus received is nothing but a formal ritual.” But we must realize just how wrong they are to make such claims, and believe unwaveringly that Jesus Christ was indeed baptized by John the Baptist to take upon our sins, and that John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ in order to pass on all the sins of mankind to Him. If you thus believe with a clear knowledge of understanding, demolish and drive out all your doubts, and hold steadfastly to the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit and believe in it, then you will receive the remission of your sins and enter Heaven. When we say that Heaven is reached by faith, the object of this faith is none other than the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This is something that Jesus Himself said.

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the blood, Jesus has saved you and me perfectly from all the sins of the world once and for all. No matter how false prophets are deceiving Christians with their own Christian doctrines and lies, God has still saved all of us who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. These liars teach that one is made sinless when he is gradually sanctified after believing in Jesus, but such claims are all lies. God’s wisdom of salvation has saved us perfectly from the sins of the world once and for all through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. By sending His only begotten Son to this earth, God the Father has saved us from all our sins and clothed us with His love. God has saved us perfectly like this, so that we would never become sinners again, no matter how insufficient we are. There is therefore no need for us to be deceived by liars any longer.

Protestantism around the world has been in existence for only about 500 years, from the Reformation until now. Not knowing the Truth that Jesus took upon Himself the sins of the world

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through His baptism, Christians all over the world now believe only in His blood on the Cross. But from the viewpoint of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, this kind of faith is a half-faith. It’s because John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ that the sins of this world were passed onto Him once and for all. On that basis, you and I have also been saved by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

False witnesses utter lies. They claim that one can be saved even without believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but such teachings are way much different from the teachings of the Scriptures.

As such, you must believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit and escape from these liars in Christianity. You can be saved from your sins only if you now truly believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. In other words, you must take the Kingdom of Heaven by “force” and make it yours.

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the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit with your ears, believe in it with your heart, and thereby be delivered from your sins. That Jesus Christ took upon the sins of the world by being baptized by John the Baptist when He came to this earth is the Truth of perfect salvation. So why won’t you submit yourself to this Truth? What a perfect and wise completion of salvation is the gospel of the water and the Spirit before God? John the Baptist passed the sins of the world onto Jesus. By receiving this baptism from John the Baptist, Jesus accepted the sins of the world, carried them to the Cross, was crucified and shed His blood to death, rose from the dead again, and has now become the true Savior for all those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Everyone must therefore believe in the God-given gospel of the water and the Spirit. God has saved us from the sins of the world with such perfect wisdom. With His perfect wisdom of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, Jesus Christ has saved us from the sins of the

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world once and for all. He has delivered us perfectly from the sins of the world through the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

The Lord said, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32).

He also said, “Among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he” (Matthew 11:11). These passages show that the faith of the born-again is different from the faith of those who just believe only in the blood of the Cross alone.

It means that since John the Baptist is the greatest of those born of women, he is the representative of mankind. But he was said to be least in the Kingdom of Heaven. Why is this so? This passage means that even the greatest on earth per se cannot be comparable to the least in Heaven. Even John the Baptist could have been the least in the Kingdom of Heaven if he hadn’t believed in the gospel of the

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water and the Spirit. Human righteousness cannot be a match for the righteousness of God, which is attained solely by believing in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. No matter how virtuous a person is, he cannot enter Heaven with his own merits or goodness. That’s because no one can be saved from his sins unless he believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Someone who has not been saved from his sins is therefore the least in both body and spirit. If anyone has sin in his heart, then he is nothing even if he were the greatest of those born of women. However, if people receive the remission of their sins by knowing and believing in the role of John the Baptist and the ministry of Jesus Christ, they will then become God’s children. To become a child of God is to become greater than even the representative of mankind.

We are now sharing the Word about the role of John the Baptist. God says that He raised John the Baptist as the representative of mankind. John the Baptist was sent by God, as Jesus Christ was also

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sent by God the Father. You must realize that the act of righteousness jointly fulfilled by John the Baptist and Jesus was carried out to save you and me from the sins of the world. No matter what people may say, I believe that Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist to save us from the sins of the world.

Yet some people speak ill of John the Baptist, saying, “This man is nobody. Since the Lord said, ‘He who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he,’ John the Baptist is insignificant.” And they believe that John the Baptist had lost his faith in Jesus while he was in prison. They think that John the Baptist sent his disciples to Jesus to recover his weakening faith. So they use this passage to teach their congregations like this: “You should defend your faith in Jesus no matter what hardships you may face. The servants of God especially should keep their faith unwaveringly.” They misinterpret this passage to mean that it is showing how Christian ministers on this earth should live. Their understanding of the Bible is therefore mistaken.

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So people today say, “The role of John the Baptist is insignificant. The baptism he gave to Jesus Christ was nothing more than a ritual. Jesus allowed this just to show His humility.” This, however, is a complete lie. Such claims are uttered by liars. Where does the Bible say so? Matthew 3:15 clearly shows that before Jesus was baptized by John, He Himself had said, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Just as the Israelites’ sins were passed onto their sacrificial animal through the laying on of hands in the Old Testament, so did Jesus also accept the sins of mankind once and for all by being baptized by John the Baptist—this is the Truth.

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lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them” (Isaiah 34:16). The Bible says that the Old Testament’s laying on of hands is matched by the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament. We should recognize here that the sacrificial animal of the Old Testament was the antitype of the body of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. The role of the High Priest in the Old Testament, on the other hand, was the role of John the Baptist in the New Testament. Just as the scapegoat in the Old Testament suffered the death of atonement after accepting the Israelites’ sins through the High Priest’s laying on of hands, so did Jesus shed His blood and suffer the death of atonement after He was baptized by John the Baptist.

However, some people say that the role of John the Baptist is insignificant, but their words are all lies.

Such pastors are lying to their own congregation, even as their salaries are paid by them. These liars are trying to block even those who now want to know and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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So the wrath of the Lord is heaped on these people: “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in” (Matthew 23:13).

There are now many such people ministering in Christian communities throughout the whole world.

When God eventually calls us back home, all that we have to do is just go to Him with hallelujah. But for now, we must still speak and preach about the heretics that reside in Christianity. Why? Because countless Christians are trapped in heresy, and without even realizing that they are heading to hell, they are all devoting themselves to false prophets. So on the one hand, we must let everyone grasp the reality of Christianity today, which has turned into nothing more than a collective heresy, and on the other hand, we must preach the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit to everyone.

People tend to unconditionally trust in the doctrines of their own respective denominations. So

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they think, “As long as everyone believes as faithfully as possible, and abides in his denomination, then I don’t see any problem.” However, such people do not realize who are heretics in Christian communities. Everyone who belongs to a worldly Christian denomination must infallibly examine the gospel he now believes in to see how it’s different from the God-given gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Yet despite this, most people have no desire to ruminate on the Word of God carefully, and so they just believe in Jesus halfheartedly, without even realizing that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the true gospel. Honestly speaking, most of them do not even know that there is the gospel of the water and the Spirit. So when we preach to such people, “Only the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the real Truth,” they say, “Is there such a gospel in the Bible? Are you then saying that all these countless people are misbelieving? Is everyone who does not know the baptism of Jesus a misbeliever, even though he believes in Jesus as his Savior?”

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The answer is yes. All such people are indeed misbelievers. What points out their misunderstanding and mistaken belief? The Bible, the everlasting Truth, clearly testifies that only the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the gospel of salvation, and that there is no other gospel. However, for these Christians to realize this, someone must teach them exactly what the difference is. That is why we are laboring so hard to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to them.

I’ve told you this before, but there was a time when I was so troubled by my inability to understand why Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. I had prayed to God on my knees, and I had even fasted, asking, “Lord, I want to know why Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. Please teach me.”

Auspiciously, there came a time when the Lord taught me this Truth. While reading Matthew 3:13-17 on some occasion, God’s light of Truth came into my soul. I realized, “Oh! Now I get it! It was by being baptized by John the Baptist that Jesus fulfilled all

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the righteousness of God! When Jesus said, ‘Thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness,’ He meant that He would take upon all our sins by receiving His baptism in the form of the laying on of hands!”

The words “for thus” in Matthew 3:15 are “hoo’-tos gar” (οϋτως γάρ) in Greek, which mean “the most fitting,” or “no other way but this.” The phrase “all righteousness,” on the other hand, is written as “pasan dikaiosunen” (πάσαν δικαιοσύνην) in the Greek Bible, and this expression denotes a just righteousness that is legally flawless. Therefore, by receiving His baptism from John the Baptist, Jesus took upon the sins of mankind most justly, was crucified to death, rose from the dead again, and has thereby saved us all once and for all. God’s Word is exact in every aspect. The meaning of the Word of God is exact in both the original Scriptures and translated versions.

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everyone from sin, that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. To fulfill “one Man’s righteous act” (Romans 5:18), John the Baptist also played an important role. In other words, even though people today must be cast into hell as their hearts are sinful, our Lord bore all your sins and mine by being baptized by John the Baptist. So it is by receiving His baptism from John that Jesus fulfilled the most righteous salvation for us. The light of the knowledge of this Truth came into my soul while I was reading Matthew chapter three. What John the Baptist did when he came to this earth was absolutely not in vain, just as there was nothing futile in God’s righteous work that has saved us from all our sins. It was not in vain that Jesus took upon our sins by being baptized

by John the Baptist, shed His blood to death on the Cross, and rose from the dead again.

Jesus said, “Wisdom is justified by her children.”

Isn’t it then true that the Lord came to this earth and took upon Himself our sins by being baptized by John the Baptist? Didn’t He have to blot out your

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sins and mine in this way? If Jesus had said just in words, “I will shoulder all your sins,” died on the Cross, appeared later on, and asked, “Do you believe?” would such a salvation be of the wisdom of God? Or was it right for Him to take upon Himself all the sins of mankind, yours and mine alike, carry them to the Cross, be crucified and shed His blood to death, rise from the dead again, and save us the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit from all our sins? The Lord has given us the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit that truly saves us from sin. God’s wisdom is forever right in us. The wisdom of God is approved for its rightness through “one Man’s act” that has fulfilled this just salvation.

Who Is Wise? Man or God? The Bible says, “The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” (1 Corinthians 1:25). When we look at the

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baptism that God received for us, His death on the Cross, and His resurrection, we can see that God is indeed wise. When we say that God is truly wise, we say this on account of the gospel of the water and the Spirit that Jesus fulfilled on this earth. Yet despite this, most Christians do not believe in this wisdom of God. God’s wisdom of salvation is perfect. The foolishness of God is better than the wisdom of men.

Just how perfect is the wisdom with which God has saved us from sin? By raising His servant John the Baptist, God made him carry out the work of justly passing the sins of mankind onto His Son. In the Old Testament, the High Priest had passed all the yearly sins accumulated by the people of Israel to the sacrificial goat by laying his hands on its head (Leviticus 16:20-22). This was God’s amazing and wise method of salvation that had saved the Israelites from all their sins by fulfilling the just Law of God that says, “The wages of sin is death.” And this sacrificial system was a shadow of the good things to

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come (Hebrews 10:1). What an amazing and perfect Truth of salvation is it then, that Jesus Christ accepted the sins of the world through the baptism He received from John the Baptist? Isn’t this the Truth of justice and the merciful love of God? Yet despite this, those who do not believe in this Truth say, “How can we have no sin when we still commit sin even now? We should all believe in Jesus, but we should do so in a way that’s compatible with our thoughts.” However, God has saved us perfectly from all our sins through a far more perfect and wiser method that is beyond our minds’ reach—that is, through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This gospel of the water and the Spirit is untouchably amazing. But once we humbly begin to listen to the gospel Word, we can find out that it is far more logically consistent than the other man-made gospels.

God is not an inanimate idol, as if He were a stone.

God is the King of wisdom, Truth, love, and justice.

He is the King of love, the King of justice, and the King of Truth. God lacks nothing. Through the

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gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, He has saved mankind from its sins so perfectly. Do you then believe in this Truth? I, for one, believe in it.

However, the absolute majority of Christians do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit to be the Truth. Simply put, present-day Christianity is trapped in a terrible delusion. Christians today believe in the words of theologians more than the Word of the Bible. That is wrong, but even more importantly it is sin with a one-way ticket to hell.

We can understand all the ideas of Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, Ulrich Zwingli, and David Livingston just by reading a few of their books. No matter how someone may have been acknowledged as the greatest theologian for hundreds of years, we can grasp his arguments quickly just by reading some of his books. And we can easily find out that his arguments are utterly useless. The Bible says, “Before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth,

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and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground” (Genesis 2:5-6). Likewise, for those who lack the tiller of the field of their hearts—that is, Jesus—their thoughts are nothing more than a mist.

Such man-made thoughts disappear as soon as they are replaced by new theoretical conjectures. And every theory is abolished when Jesus shines the Word of Truth like the sun radiating its warmth all over the world.

No matter how elegantly anyone may have propounded on his theological ideas, unless the Word of God approves these ideas, all his arguments are in vain. And if it is written in the Word of God that John the Baptist is the representative of all mankind, then this Word is the Truth. The Word of the Scriptures writes clearly that in His wisdom, God sent John the Baptist to this earth and passed the sins of the world to Jesus. Through John the Baptist, Jesus accepted mankind’s sins once and for all, was crucified once, shed His blood to death, rose from the

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dead again, and has thereby become the everlasting Savior of those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. If this is what’s written in the Bible, and if this is what the Bible says to us, then we should just believe it accordingly. This is where faith sprouts forth. If we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we will be freed from all our sins.

Whoever believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit will be saved from his sins. So why do you rely on the words of theologians, who are all human beings just like yourself? Are they really that smart?

Didn’t Calvin, Luther, and all the other theologians propound on their own ideas? Some people also claim, “God spoke to me while I was praying,” or, “The Lord appeared in my vision and spoke to me.”

But we must realize that apart from believing in the written Word of God, no experiential faith has any meaning. Even though our eyes do not see any visions and our ears do not hear any voices, as long as we affirm our salvation through the written Word of God, know what this Word is saying to us now,

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and realize that true salvation is reached by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then we have received the true remission of sin. Isn’t this the case?

The written Word of God says to us that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the Truth.

Despite this, however, many Christians still yearn after experiential faith. But when they testify to which they went to a mountain to pray and heard some strange sound there, is it the Truth that they are testifying? Christians must now realize clearly what heresy is. Heresy starts off similarly, but its end is different. Even though people claim to believe in Jesus as their Savior in order to be saved from their sins, their actual purpose is to attain the prosperity of this world and their own fame and health, rather than their salvation from sin. All Christians believe in Jesus, regardless of what may have led them to this, but some people have set their hearts on golden calves rather than Jesus, while for others, their hearts have been washed clean from their sins by believing

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in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The latter are God’s children. They are one family with God. In contrast, those who have sin in their hearts even as they believe in Jesus do not belong to God’s family.

That’s why Jesus calls such people heretics, saying to them, “You are different from Me.” And that is why they are heretics.

Anyone Who Has Sin in His Heart Even as He Believes in Jesus Is a Heretic If anyone has sin in his heart now, then he is a heretic regardless of how long his family may have believed in Jesus, and even if he himself have believed in Jesus throughout his entire lifetime. Once in a while I watch Christian channels on TV, and I’ve seen so many ridiculous preachers. They are funnier than even comedians. That’s because I know all about the ideas they are propagating with their lies.

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preacher’s sermons, I know what their denominations are and what ideas they are preaching, and so I can easily predict their next step. Most of them do not deviate that far from my expectations. Since theology is all that they learned in their seminary training, they only discuss theology and Christian doctrines, just as I speak about the gospel of the water and the Spirit everyday.

That’s the reality of today’s Christianity. There are many heretics in Christian communities who worship golden calves instead of God. That’s why Jesus said, “There are many on the broad way, but few on the narrow way. Because the narrow way is difficult, few find it, but it is the way to life. In contrast, the broad way is the way to destruction.”

Even though countless people believe in Jesus, they just believe in the blood of the Cross alone. They believe in and follow the words of heretical leaders, who claim, “It’s normal for you to have sin in your heart even after believing in Jesus. It’s okay to have sin. You can solve this problem just by offering

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prayers of repentance.” As a result, they themselves have also become heretics, and they will all be destroyed by God. Once born, it is appointed for everyone to die once, but if his end is destruction, then he is the most wretched. This person, whose end is destruction, is completely hopeless.

Those who have been saved from all their sins, those who are following God, those who practice His righteousness and His wisdom by faith, and those who believe in and follow the gospel of the water and the Spirit—these are the wise people. I am so thankful to God. I am so grateful that whenever I speak while preaching the Word of God, I am speaking the Truth. I trust that you are also thankful to God. That’s because what you are hearing is the true Word, not a lie, nor something to kill time, but genuine. So shouldn’t you be all thankful? Are you grateful to hear the gospel of the water and the Spirit? I am sure that you all are thankful for this. If I were only discussing humanistic ethics and morals from the pulpit, you wouldn’t be able to hear the

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gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit with your ears. So how wonderful is it that you are now hearing the Word, and that your heart is inspired and quenched by this Word? You should realize just how happy you are.

Faith in the righteousness of God comes from hearing the Word of God. Faith is formed by hearing with your ears. That’s why the Bible says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). Therefore, a pastor must preach the Word of God to his congregation; only then do their hearts grow from hearing this Word.

That is how you become a happy person.

Those who still have sin in their hearts even though they believe in Jesus have not been saved yet in God’s sight. I am not speaking to those outside Christianity, but to those inside Christian communities who profess to believe in Jesus.

Although there now are countless famous people in Christian communities, they are living as heretics before God without even realizing it themselves.

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Apart from pastors, myriads of believers have also turned into heretics. I took a ride in a cab today, and while the cab driver was a Christian, upon closer examination, he was actually a heretic; one of my neighbors, a cleaner by profession, also believes in Jesus, but he is actually a heretic; a lady selling vegetables in the market is a Christian as well, but she, too, is a heretic; and even though there are many world-famous, great preachers, they are also heretics.

So just how many heretics are around us?

God said that His wisdom is justified by her children. How did Jesus blot out our sins when He came to this earth? By being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus bore our sins once and for all, and rising from the dead again after being crucified to death, He became our Savior. How wise is this? Is it wise or not? Isn’t it wise? Isn’t this the clear answer of salvation that becomes even clearer the more you hear it? Christians must believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit first. Today’s pastors just tell their congregation to believe in Jesus unconditionally,

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but can any of them really know the gospel of the water and the Spirit in this way? When Christians believe in Jesus without even knowing how He has saved them, what exactly do they believe in? Before we tell anyone to believe in Jesus, we must first explain clearly based on the Word exactly how Jesus has saved him. That is how we can really lead others to believe in Jesus.

How Wise Is It That John the Baptist Baptized Jesus and Jesus Received This Baptism from Him? The baptism that John the Baptist gave to Jesus was ultimately a product of God’s wisdom. How amazing is God’s wisdom? If all the 6.5 billion people living on this earth were to pass their sins to Jesus by laying their hands individually on the head of Jesus, wouldn’t He then become bald? And if everyone had to lay his hands on Jesus’ head

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personally, then except for those who had lived in His time, no one would even have any opportunity to do this. Moreover, it would take over 190 years for 6 billion people to lay their hands on Jesus’ head in a row, even if each of them took only a second.

However, in His wisdom, God fulfilled our perfect salvation through John the Baptist and Jesus. We believe in this. We believe that the sins of this world were passed onto Jesus through the baptism that John gave on His head.

Jesus said that wisdom is justified by her children.

How wise was it then for the Lord to come to this earth and accept our sins once and for all by being baptized by John the Baptist? Wasn’t this amazingly wise? It was indeed truly wise, for God solved away the problem of sin once and for all with the principle of representation. John the Baptist, the representative of mankind, and Jesus the High Priest of the Kingdom of Heaven, met with each other in the Jordan River representing the human race and God. Jesus then said to John, “Baptize Me. I will accept

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your baptism and take upon Myself the sins of mankind,” and through this baptism, He bore the sins of the world. He was then crucified to shed His blood, and through all these things, He has saved us. Just how wise is this? Just how certain is it?

Is there anything more important in the Bible other than the gospel of the water and the Spirit?

Although the Bible speaks of many other things, the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the core message of salvation. But people do not believe in this. Even though the history of Christianity spans almost 2,000 years, today’s Christians still say that they have been saved just by believing in Jesus’ blood on the Cross alone. But the gospel of the water and the Spirit says that this is not the case. So they protest, saying, “But countless people died after believing only in the blood of the Cross. Does this then mean that all these people went to hell?”

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clearly went to hell. What’s more important is whether or not there is any sin in your heart at the present. If you have sin, then you will be cast into hell. Do you claim to be sinless? Whom are you kidding? Of course you have sin! How can you not have sin, when you don’t even know that God in His wisdom bore your sins by being baptized by John the Baptist, far less by believing in this. The Bible says that your conscience will convict you if you have sin.

The Truth of God, His Word, speaks to your heart: ‘Your sins still remain intact, you are bound to hell, and you are a child of the Devil.’”

We the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are so thankful to God. We are so utterly grateful to Him. As we have now dealt with the issue of heresy on this occasion, we cannot help but thank God even more. How can we not thank Him, when we have been freed from heresy by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? If you were a heretic before God, just how tortuous would it have been for you to sit here in this place? Once I begin

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something, I always make sure to compete it. So I will preach the Word until Christians all over the world admit that they belong to heresy and surrender to God. When such sermons on heresy are published and shared, Christians will come to realize from reading this book who is a heretic before God, and who is a true believer.

And the saints scattered around the world, who have received the remission of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, will be strengthened and realize from reading this book, “Since I have been saved from my sins by believing according to the Word, I am a true believer before God, and all those who have stood against me for believing like this are heretics.” Won’t our saints then have compassion for these heretics and preach the gospel to them? Just because our saints have been born again, do they simply condemn heretics cruelly?

No, they have compassion for everyone, even for heretics.

I am so thankful to God that I am not lying to you.

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I am also utterly grateful that I have become a true believer in His sight. Indeed, I cannot thank God enough for the fact that I have been saved by His wisdom, that I have reached my salvation thanks to His righteous act. Words cannot express just how grateful I am.

God has saved us perfectly from our sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. So whenever I think about it, I am overwhelmed by thankfulness.

The salvation that you and I have received by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit with our hearts cannot be more assured. That’s why I am so thankful to God. No one else but the saints of the Early Church had received this kind of salvation.

Once the Emperor Constantine recognized Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire, the spirituality of Christianity was completely destroyed. As the powerful emperor embraced Christianity only to further his own interest, the Christian faith was degraded into a means of success. Christianity was destroyed like this, all

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because Christians ended up replacing God with golden calves. It’s said that in the old Korean military, if a battalion commander attended church, then all the company leaders became Christians. The subordinate officers did anything and everything to please their superior officer, as they were afraid that they would otherwise be disadvantaged in their promotion.

However, it is God who moves the history of the world. Even though it may seem as if human beings are driving the history of the world, it is actually moved by God Himself. And I am sure that God will unfold the last stage of His plan for us in this age and time. That’s why we are devoting ourselves to the spreading of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, for we believe in this true gospel, and we are grateful to God for bringing it to us.

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and pray that they would all get up from their mistaken places, believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit instead, and thus receive their salvation.

I ask them all to make up their minds now before the throne of God and to turn around from their heretic faith.

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Seven Types of People Who Will Be Cursed by God < Matthew 23:1-36 > “Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: ‘The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments. They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’ But you, do not Free book request www.nlmission.com

be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.

Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is

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nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it. And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside

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they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and

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scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.’”

The First Type of People Who Will Be Cursed by God In Matthew 23:13-28, the Lord spoke about seven types of people who will be cursed by God. It’s very important for all of us to clearly understand what kind of people are cursed by God and be careful, so that we can avoid such curses.

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to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.” The Bible says that God’s curses are brought on those whose faith is like that of the scribes and the Pharisees. These are the ones who pretend to believe in the righteousness of God even though they do not know it. It is such people whose faith is hypocritical that will be cursed by God. The reason why these people have fallen into hypocritical faith is because they do not believe in God’s Word of righteousness as the real Truth of salvation. God will punish hypocrites who do not believe in His righteousness but only pretend to believe.

Rebuking religious leaders like the Pharisees, the Lord said, “You shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.” Here Jesus said that the first sort of people to be cursed by God are those who shut up the Kingdom of Heaven from others. It’s because these people do not believe

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in the Word of God that they are condemned as those who shut the gates of Heaven. Despite the fact that God has made it possible for everyone to receive the remission of sin by finding and believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, some people put up various obstructions to prevent the gospel from being spread. For this, they will be subjected to God’s curses. Such wretched people obstruct and prevent the truth-seekers who yearn to know the gospel of the water and the Spirit from believing in it, even though countless people can now encounter this true gospel through the gospel books or their e-book editions that we are sharing, or through the saints who were born before them. These people stand against the witnesses of the gospel of the water and the Spirit because they believe that only Jesus’ blood on the Cross constitutes true salvation. That’s why they are constantly trying to prevent others from believing in this true gospel.

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is clearly written in the New Testament, is completely irrelevant to our salvation. But in the Bible, what did the Lord say about the gospel of the water and the Spirit? 1 Peter 3:21 says, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism.” Yet this baptism that Jesus received from John the Baptist is the absolute Truth, underscoring that Christ bore our sins personally. However, those who actually know this definitive Truth of salvation are too few today, while those who ignore this amazing Truth of salvation, the gospel of the water and the Spirit, are too many. That’s because these Christians have already been contaminated by a false gospel, and therefore even when they have a chance to encounter the true gospel of the water and the Spirit, they don’t actually believe in it. Invariably, these people are all trying to deceive their own conscience and even God. Christians today must realize without fail that the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist is the Truth, that through this baptism Jesus took upon Himself not only their sins but all the sins of the

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world once and for all. When some people first come across the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, their eyes can see only His Word of the Law, and so it seems to them that only their sins are pointed out.

As a result, they fail to realize that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the biblical gospel. This stems from the fact that their spiritual eyes are still closed, as they have not yet received the remission of their sins yet. Since a false gospel is covering their spiritual eyes, they stare at only their own sins, and since they are prisoners to the preconceived notion that the only way to solve these sins is offering prayers of repentance, they can’t escape from their spiritual blindness. Those among today’s Christians who still believe that Jesus’ blood on the Cross alone constitutes the Truth of real salvation are the spiritually blind. Because of their own faith, which is placed only in the blood of the Cross, they are imprisoned under sin. That is why they are unable to put on the grace of true salvation through the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist and the blood

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He shed on the Cross.

This grace of true salvation is received when one believes in the Truth that Jesus took upon the sins of the world once and for all by being baptized by John the Baptist when He came to this earth. God’s grace is the Truth of salvation manifested in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The grace of salvation that Jesus has bestowed on us is found only in the baptism He received from John the Baptist and His blood of the Cross, and therefore anyone who does not believe in this true gospel of the water and the Spirit will face the terrifying judgment of sin, for he has committed an extremely grievous sin before God. So those who ignore the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist and His blood of the Cross are ultimately pushing their own souls into hell. In the end, by shutting up the gates of Heaven, not only are they themselves unable to enter it, but they also prevent others from entering Heaven. Therefore, you must now realize that only the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the Truth of real salvation.

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So those who practice spiritual hypocrisy before God are the first targets of His wrath. Because they do not believe in God’s gospel—that is, the gospel of the water and the Spirit—but instead believe that only the gospel of the blood of the Cross is the real gospel, they are still under the shadow of sin.

Moreover, since they have joined forces with countless people who share their same faith and are together standing against the people of God, they will be cursed even more. Yet despite this, they still say that they believe in Jesus as their Savior. They will therefore be punished by God even more severely for their sins of hypocrisy. Such people will be judged

by God harshly for their sins, and it is these people who are spiritually vile heretics in God’s sight.

In spite of this, however, many Christian leaders have no idea that the gospel of the water and the Spirit God has given to mankind is the definitive Truth of salvation, and yet profess to believe in God all in vain. They don’t want to believe in this gospel of Truth because it is different from the gospel that

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they have learned from mainstream Christianity. In the passage where Jesus said, “One must be born again of water and the Spirit,” they teach that the “water” here refers to the Word of God. But 1 Peter 3:20-21 clearly states that there is also an antitype of water which now saves us—the baptism of Jesus.

They are unable to be delivered from all the sins of the world precisely because they have dismissed the baptism that Jesus received from John the Baptist, saying that it means nothing to them. They will therefore have to be judged by God for the sins they are committing against Him. It’s because of this misunderstanding that they have turned into heretics in God’s sight.

The Bible says that the true faith of salvation is to believe in Jesus Christ who has come by the water, the blood, and the Spirit. That is so self-evident. The water, the blood, and the Spirit manifested in the Bible all constitute one Truth of salvation coming out of God’s plan. 1 John 5:5-8 says that Jesus came by the water, the blood, and the Spirit, and that these

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three are one. The Triune God whom we believe in— that is, God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit—have fulfilled His plan of salvation in Jesus Christ: By being baptized by John the Baptist when He came to this earth, the Son of God took upon all the sins of the world once and for all. Having thus shouldered all the sins of this world by being baptized by John the Baptist, the Lord was then crucified to death, rose from the dead again, and has thereby become the Savior of all sinners. Even at this very moment, He is saving those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The Truth of salvation that the Lord has given to mankind is all contained in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

This gospel of the water and the Spirit is the joyful news of true salvation that saves the entire human race from the sins of this world.

The gospel of the water and the Spirit is the only gospel of Truth written in the Bible. However, most Christians today believe only in Jesus’ blood of the Cross. That’s why I am so saddened. In fact, if

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anyone wants to receive the remission of his sins, he must believe in both the baptism of Jesus and His blood of the Cross. Is it then really in vain to believe only in Jesus’ blood on the Cross? Yes. You can never receive the remission of your sins by believing like this. For you to be saved from all your sins, you must wholeheartedly believe in both the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist and His death of atonement shown on the Cross. Christians who do not want to know this gospel of Truth nor to believe in it cannot avoid God’s judgment. So those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit even after hearing it must realize that they are now standing directly against the gospel of the righteousness of God. They are committing a grievous sin by not only rejecting the gospel of the water and the Spirit by themselves, but also preventing others who would otherwise believe in this true gospel.

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whoever has sin in his heart. Can you then afford to let yourself be such a person who is to be judged by God for your sins? When the Lord has saved us from all our sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, how could you not believe in this gospel as the real gospel of Truth? Even though today’s Christian leaders deny that the gospel of the water and the Spirit given by the Lord is the real Truth of salvation, if the Bible says in both the New and Old Testaments that this gospel is indeed the real Truth, then it is the real Truth. As such, everyone who still does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit must repent and believe in it.

The gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit is not something nonessential that has no relevance to your salvation whether you choose to believe in it with your heart or not. Far from it, this gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit is the absolutely indispensable Truth that everyone must believe in order to attain salvation. For everyone, salvation is attained only if he believes in the Truth about the gospel of the water

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and the Spirit. Yet despite this, many Christians reject this gospel, insisting that they can be saved just by believing in Jesus as their Savior. But regardless of where they may have attained this kind of faith, they can never wash away their hearts’ sins with such a faith.

You must realize that true salvation can be attained only by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and that only this faith is approved by God. You must therefore believe that only the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the Truth that brings the real remission of your sins. Only then can you solve away all the past sins that have been piling up in your hearts, and all the future sins that you will ever commit with your acts as well. It is only by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that you can receive the true remission of your sins and enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

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The Second Type of People Who Will Be Cursed by God Who is the second type of people that are cursed

by God? Matthew 23:15 says, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.”

The Bible continues to say that hypocrites will be cursed by God. The Pharisees were spiritual hypocrites. They pretended to believe only in outside appearance. Like them, today’s Christians also believe only in the blood of the Cross, rather than believing in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. Such people are all spiritual hypocrites before God. These people will face terrifying woes from God. Yet in Christian communities, it is such people who are now prospering, honored by many all in the name of Jesus. Some of them are very zealous with their evangelical effort, traveling all over the world to Free book request www.nlmission.com

proselytize and convert people of other faiths to Christianity. But since these people are only spreading an imperfect gospel around the world, those who hear this false gospel from them and come to believe in Jesus through their teachings are unable to be washed from their sins, even as they confess Jesus as their Savior. These people will be cursed by God. That’s why the Lord said, “You travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.”

There are so many such people in today’s Christianity. The problem is that these people are evangelizing even more zealously. It would be far better off if they would just stay home and do nothing. Then those who know the gospel of the water and the Spirit properly would now be able to preach the Word to all those who do not know this gospel.

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save themselves. What’s the result? They end up turning others into the same sinners as themselves infected by legalistic faith, making them drift away even farther from believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. What then results from the faith of today’s Christians? As Christians believe in Jesus without any proper understanding of the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit from the beginning, they make countless people twice as much children of hell as themselves. Like this, among the so-called “good” Christians today, almost all of them have not been able to be washed clean from their sins, for they do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit properly. Therefore, those who have believed in Jesus until now without a proper understanding of the gospel of the water and the Spirit must turn around as soon as possible, receive the remission of their sins first by knowing and believing in the gospel of Truth, and then spread this true gospel. This is what God is admonishing them so earnestly.

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The Greatest Sin of All Is Not to Believe in Jesus Who Has Come by the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit as the Savior Those who still haven’t even begun to believe in Jesus as their Savior are okay, since they have an opportunity to believe in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. However, those who profess to believe in Jesus without knowing the gospel of the water and the Spirit must examine their salvation once again to see if it is whole, and believe in this gospel Truth. These Christian sinners can also be saved if they meet the evangelists sent by God, as they will be able to know the gospel of the water and the Spirit properly and believe in it.

However, those in today’s Christianity who do not know and do not believe in the correct gospel of salvation—that is, the gospel of the water and the Spirit—despite professing to believe in Jesus as their Savior, have many spiritual problems. Some people preach to others that one can be saved just by ◄

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believing in the blood of Jesus. But the reality is that they themselves have no proper knowledge of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. You have to realize that this kind of faith is seriously flawed.

Those who have their sins remaining intact in their hearts even as they believe in Jesus as their Savior will face the terrifying wrath of God. What is the gospel of the water and the Spirit that God has given to us? It proclaims that Jesus has saved us from all the sins of the world through the baptism He received from John the Baptist and the blood He shed on the Cross when He came to this earth. Why is it then people don’t believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit with their hearts?

By being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus took upon Himself our sins, and by shedding His blood on the Cross, He bore all the condemnation of our sins.

He has thereby saved us from sin and death. So how could anyone then foolishly follow those who preach only the blood of the Cross? Such foolish people do not realize that the gospel of the water and the Spirit

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is the Truth of perfect salvation. Among those who believe in Jesus as their Savior today, such people who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit even as they know it will be cursed by God. That’s because in His sight, it’s none other than these people who are heretics.

The Scribes and the Pharisees Rebuked in Today’s Scripture Passage Refer to Today’s Christian Leaders The so-called “leaders” in Christian communities have the responsibility to lead their followers correctly. This responsibility is of utmost importance.

If they fulfill this duty faithfully, they will receive many rewards from God, but if they fail, they will receive far more punishments than rewards. That’s why the Bible says, “My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment” (James 3:1). Although there are ◄

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many Christian leaders in every denomination, most of them do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and so they are leading their followers with their spiritual hypocrisy. They are not only unable to truly recognize the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit and its witnesses, but even worse, they are actually obstructing those who try to proclaim this gospel.

Even though today’s Christians have misunderstood the gospel of the water and the Spirit, if they are taught by those who know this gospel of Truth properly, then they can still attain the right faith and reach their salvation. If any Christian sinner meets with a born-again witness and hears the Word, then he can realize, “Oh, all this time I had been ignorant of the gospel of the water and the Spirit and believed only in the blood of the Cross! I knew only a half-gospel!” If this person thus turns around and believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit as the Truth of salvation, then he will reach his perfect salvation. However, the so-called “Christian leaders”

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have not only failed to realize that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is the Truth of salvation, but even worse, they are at the forefront to obstruct this gospel of Truth from being spread. The problem is that they are intentionally refusing to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Even before this true gospel, they only cling to their own pride in their mistaken stubbornness. They are like Jeroboam in God’s sight, and so they must turn around from such a mistaken faith and repent, or otherwise they will be cursed by God. Jesus said that such people travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, they make him twice as much a son of hell as themselves. Like this, as today’s evangelists do not really know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they are committing the same sins that false prophets in the Old Testament had committed. These people sin before God precisely because they do not know the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. Traveling all over the earth, when they win a believer, they make

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him twice as much a son of hell as themselves. The problem, however, is that such people are not restricted to Korea, but are present everywhere around the whole wide world. Even the so-called “Evangelicals” today do not know the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit properly, and so they believe only in the blood of the Cross as the Truth of salvation. Many of the world-renowned evangelists do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and yet they still claim to be preaching a gospel that brings the remission of sin and makes everyone righteous. They are the very leaders of Evangelicals.

They think mistakenly that they have already received the remission of their sins by believing in the blood of the Cross. This means that they are leading their own congregation astray.

Such people are foolish in my assessment. I say this not because of my own merits, but because this kind of faith is not approved in the Kingdom of God. These people boast that they alone have the conviction of salvation. They also argue that because

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Jesus took charge of all the past, present, and future sins of mankind on the Cross, whoever believes in this has no sin. They insist that they are righteous.

But have they really received the remission of their sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit?

My fellow believers, if someone believes fallaciously, and he adds his own flawed knowledge to preach to his congregation, can this person really be approved as a servant of God? By learning from those who preach only the blood of the Cross, and believing according to their teachings, you can never reach your salvation no matter how much you have learned. Many proselytes want to know and believe in Jesus as their Savior out of their sincere desire to rely on God, but Christian leaders today are actually preventing them from receiving their salvation by teaching a false gospel, and they are also standing against God’s servants who preach the gospel of the water and the Sprit to them. So how severely would they be judged for this sin then? Most Christian leaders are committing such sins.

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You may then say, “If you know all this, then why don’t you do something about it?” Actually, that’s precisely why I feel that my calling is to spread this Truth in this present age. Until now, I’ve tried to avoid controversial subjects as much as possible, thinking that it was better for me to first preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit through my books.

So through my gospel series and spiritual growth series, I’ve been preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit to people all over the world. But now, I believe that my calling is to teach Christians about heresy, so that they may know exactly who in today’s Christian communities are heretics. So I will preach on this subject until all Christians know whether they are now heretics or not.

I am so thankful to God for all our coworkers abroad. In their emails sent to us from every corner of the world, they all testify that they had been heretics before, but now they have been saved through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. They say that all this time they had considered themselves

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good Christians, and so they didn’t realize that they were actually heretics, but from reading our books, they’ve now realized the Truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. It’s no exaggeration to say that virtually all ministers in Christian communities still do not realize the fact that they are heretics. So even at the risk of facing many criticisms and denunciations, I can’t help but shout to these heretics who dominate mainstream Christianity, “Your faith is wrong! Turn around and believe in the gospel of Truth!” I do this because only then can many people escape from the swamp of heresy and be saved by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

If a watchman does not shout, and as a result many people die from the enemy’s attack, then the watchman is entirely responsible for this. I am now preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit to you. And I know which Christians are heretics before God. I know who are heretics in God’s sight, and who will be cursed by Him. That’s why I have to preach this Truth to you. Who will be cursed by

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God? Whoever is a heretic before God will be cursed.

That heretics will be cursed by God means that they will be judged for their sins. What kind of judgment will they face then? Condemned for their sins, they will be cast into the everlasting fire of hell and suffer for eternity. In other words, they will be condemned to be hated and abandoned by God forever. It’s for this reason that I am now preaching this Word of Truth, in order to save them from the woe that will descend upon them.

The Lord makes the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit God’s children because He is the God of Truth. Put differently, because Jesus is God Himself, He infallibly fulfills everything according to His Word of promise. And He will surely judge today’s Christians who have the faith of heresy.

Because we’ve been called to be God’s messengers, we are trying to reconcile people to God as intermediaries. So I ask you to understand us from this point of view—it’s to save people that we are now spreading the gospel of the water and the Spirit

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and preaching about heresy.

The Third Type of People Who Will Be Cursed by God Matthew 23:16-17 says, “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ Fools and blind!

For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?” In Matthew 23:16-22, the Lord says that spiritually blind leaders will be cursed by God. These spiritually blind leaders are those who do now know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but sadly, it is such people who are now leading many in present-day Christianity.

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swore by the Temple in Jerusalem, but they were tolerant enough to say that it didn’t really matter whether such vows were kept or not. However, when someone swore to offer gold to the Temple of God, then this vow had to be kept without fail. The Lord said that such teachings are teachings of the blind.

Even now, spiritually blind leaders think that a pledge of monetary commitment is more important than a vow made in the name of God. So if their church members pledge to offer money, they teach that this promise must be kept without fail. This means that the blind leaders put more emphasis on financial commitments than any other promise made to God. When a Christian today vows in his pastor’s presence, and says, “God, I will live virtuously and devotedly from now on,” then the pastor would just say, “Good! Action is more important than words for repentance. So do your best to keep your vow.” Such a vow is considered inconsequential; even if it’s broken, it’s not a big problem. However, if this

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believer had vowed to offer money to God, instead of pledging to live in a certain way with his will and words, then the pastor would compel him not to break this vow, saying, “Why don’t you offer the money as you had pledged?” In other words, if this believer had promised to offer money to God, then the pastor would press him to keep the promise without fail. In cases like this, the minister would visit this church member and say, “Why don’t you keep your promise? Why don’t you fulfill your vow that you had made to God? If you don’t keep your vow to Jehovah God, you will be cursed by Him.” This is all because pastors nowadays are worshiping golden calves. These worshipers of golden calves heap curses upon their own congregation all in the name of Jehovah. Such pastors are interested only in money, rather than believing in and following the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the Word of God. That’s why these people are spiritually blind people, and real heretics who worship golden calves before God. The Lord

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said woe to the spiritually blind.

My fellow believers, what is more important to God? Gold or His name? Can there be anyone who doesn’t know the answer to this question? Yet pastors in this age, who are ministering falsely as spiritually blind leaders, are interested only in the offerings of their congregation. Is it okay for someone who vowed by the Temple of Jerusalem to break this vow, but someone who vowed by his gold must keep this pledge without fail? When their vows and the values of these vows are assessed, the vow that was made in the name of God is far more important. However, the spiritually blind Jewish leaders had attached more importance to the vow made with money. The same thing is happening today. When we look at the pastors who serve golden calves, we see that they consider money to be more important than God Himself. Most pastors now worshiping golden calves are like this.

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email. According to the news sent by them in their emails, there is a certain gathering of Evangelicals where its members must accept the words of their leader with the same authority as God. The leader of this gathering is a missionary sent from Korea, and apparently, he’s been teaching his congregation to keep his own words as if they were the same as the Word of God. To quote one of the members of this church, “We had to submit to this missionary’s words, even unto our poverty.” It would be nice if their offerings had been given to God by faith, but in fact, they had been exploited.

This missionary is said to have always taught his congregation like this: “Since our Lord has saved us by coming to this earth, shedding His blood to death on the Cross, and rising from the dead again, we should also offer all our possessions to Him. When the Lord was on this earth, He didn’t even have a house to call His own. Since the Lord has saved us like this, if we really believe in this love of the Lord, then we must obey Him unto our material poverty.

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We, too, must offer our everything for the Kingdom of the Lord and live in poverty.” Who then takes all the money offered by the members of this church, and where is it spent? In other words, are these offerings dedicated to God really spent properly?

Is this kind of faith correct? It is wrong for this missionary to invoke the name of Jesus only to take his congregation’s money and wring out offerings from them through such fallacious sermons. Do these believers somehow not deserve to have their own house? For them to serve the Lord until He returns, they also need a house and other possessions. But the missionary had taught them that they had to sell their houses and offer the proceeds to God. He is exploiting His congregation with this kind of logic.

How much money would Christians in Africa really have? Yet because this missionary has been exploiting the members of his congregation in this way, I was told that now, there is hardly anyone in this church who has his own house. When such pastors minister in Korea, they also say to their

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congregation, “Sell your house and offer the money to the Lord. You can live in a rented place.” This kind of ministry is indeed the same as Jeroboam’s worship of golden calves. These pastors invoke the name of God to press their church members to offer more money, and driving them to compete against each other to see who would offer more, they impoverish every member of the congregation. When the congregation has little money, they tell them to serve by whatever means possible, either by going into business and finding another job, and even when the congregation has no money left, they make them leave the church by criticizing them, “It’s because you have no faith that you can’t serve with your material possessions.” If some people are still left, they tell them to find a job for the Lord, take out a bank loan with their salaries used as collateral, and serve the Lord with this money.

In today’s Christianity, it is such people who are worshiping golden calves. They are more interested in the wealth of their congregation than the work of

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God. Without exception, they are all more interested in golden calves. Among Christians leaders today, those who will be cursed by God are those who are worshiping golden calves as their gods. The Bible says that such people will be cursed by God. Their faith is characterized by the fact that they have little regard for God’s Word of righteousness, and instead they are only obsessed with accumulating more wealth. Ultimately, the purpose of their ministry is to exploit their congregation for money. So in the end, it’s not these leaders who are disappointed, but it is the congregation who get disappointed after offering all their possessions. Such ministries are foolish ministries. To whom do they say money should be offered? They say it’s to themselves that money should be offered. This kind of ministry is a heretic’s ministry.

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What Would Have Happened , If Their Faith Were Like Ours, Who Now Believe in the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit Those who are ministering properly before God would teach their congregation like this: “I want you all to serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit as much as possible. And to serve this gospel, it’s more important for you to dedicate your heart, body, and mind to the Lord than to offer your material possessions. That’s because serving this gospel of the water and the Spirit must be done by faith. So to this end, let us pool our strengths together and devote our energy to spreading the gospel of the water and the Spirit.”

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why you should offer what is within your means, and why it is better for you to think of the Lord’s work and serve it by dedicating your body, heart, time, and mind to Him than offering all your possessions.

But what do the pastors intent on exploiting only money say to their congregation? They tell them to offer contributions even by selling their houses, the very basis of their livelihood, and so in the end, the congregation is left with nothing and ultimately leave the church. That’s why these pastors are so evil. Those who mislead the congregation like this are not good shepherds before God, but they are wicked shepherds.

They are nothing more than thieving wage-earners. So in the churches ministered by such pastors, someone who offers the most money is honored the most. In the churches that worship golden calves, it is the rich, and those who contribute a lot of money, that receive the best treatment. That’s why the Lord called the scribes and the Pharisee as blind leaders. Such blind leaders are interested only in gold. Their sole interest lies in the congregation’s money.

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All the heretics in today’s Christian communities are ministering like this. Even though they abide in Christianity, they don’t believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and they are just interested in money. Their faith is filled with confusion and hypocrisy. They gloss this over by saying that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is right, but it’s also right to believe only in the blood of the Cross. They cite the Word of God to their advantage according to different circumstances, but what they ultimately want is the congregation’s money. It’s as if they are mad about money. They confiscate the congregation’s wealth invoking the name of Jesus Christ. In the end, it’s the believers who are robbed and abandoned that are pitiful. The wrath of God will descend upon those who are ministering like this.

They will surely be judged by God. All those who are now interested only in the congregation’s money will be cursed by God. That’s because without fail, the fruits of their faith are nothing more than golden calves.

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The Fourth Type of People Who Will Be Cursed by God Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!” (Matthew 23:23-24) Just like the third type, the fourth type of people who will be cursed by God are the scribes and the Pharisees who practiced hypocrisy. These people paid a tithe of mint, anise, and cumin, but neglected the more important matters of the Law, such as justice, mercy, and faith. This means that the fourth type of the accursed people are those who have legalistic faith.

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denominations than on the Word of God. They also lead a life of faith that emphasizes only human ethics and morals. Dismissing the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they rely more on their own denominations’ doctrines than God’s Word. They lead their lives of faith motivated solely by how the other believers may perceive them. Believing in the Word of God is not that important to them; what’s important to them is only the approval from their fellow believers. When we look at such church leaders and Christians who’ve been taught under them, we can see that they are experts at making only their outside appearance seem upright. When someone attends church for the first time, they teach him about offering a tithe, then offering thanksgiving alms, and then keeping the Lord’s Day faithfully.

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Christianity merely as a religion that teaches human ethics and morals, will be cursed by God. Offering such things as the tithe, anise, and mint to God is not wrong in itself. While it is only a matter of course that we should serve God by tithing and offering other services and contributions, we must not forsake our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that constitutes the righteousness of God. In other words, as God has given us the gospel of the water and the Spirit out of His love for us, and as His righteousness is contained in this gospel, we shouldn’t just emphasize our formal rituals and duties to God, such as tithing and volunteering, while neglecting our faith in this Truth and the blessing of serving this gospel. Those who do so are neither mindful of the righteousness of God nor do they serve it. We must never forsake our faith in the Word of Truth—that through our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit we have received our salvation, eternal life, and the remission of our sins; that we have become one family by this faith; and that we

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will go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

For instance, is it wrong to offer tithe to God? No. This, too, is something that God told us to do. So our Lord says, “These you ought to be done, without leaving the others undone.” But do we, the bornagain, offer only a tithe to God? Those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit offer ten out of ten; giving a tenth of what they have is nothing.

After all, haven’t we dedicated our entire lives to the Lord? Just as the Bible says, “The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17), we trust in God and serve Him wholly in our entire lives. However, the problem is that legalistic Christians emphasize only formal rituals of worship and ethical beliefs outlined by Christian doctrines, for they do not know the gospel of the water and the Sprit nor believe in it. They wonder why anyone should believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. In other words, this gospel of the water and the Spirit is unimportant to them.

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righteousness of God is important. They attach more importance to their own righteousness than the righteousness of God. So for them, what’s important is what they’ve done and sacrificed for God. In other words, they believe in a religion of their own making.

What’s important for them is establishing their own righteousness before God; the righteousness of God, which Jesus Christ has fulfilled for us humans by being baptized by John the Baptist and shedding His blood on the Cross, is not that important for them.

Even though Jesus Christ took upon all our sins once and for all by being baptized by John the Baptist, was condemned for them by being crucified, rose from the dead again, and has thereby at once saved us the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they are incapable of thanking Him by believing in this Truth. Put differently, they are ungrateful to God even though He has saved us from the sins of the world through His power. This powerful righteousness of God is not important to them.

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even though such people are spiritually blind before God, they wield so much power and influence as its leaders. These people are sinners who strain out a gnat and swallow a whole camel. They are still unable to be delivered from their sins. Because they are spiritually blind, they moan over the smallest sin in their everyday lives and offer prayers of repentance for it, but they don’t think twice before committing the sin of not believing in the righteousness of God. In other words, while they are good at identifying and sorting out a negligible sin that’s like a gnat, they have no hesitation to commit a grievous sin that’s like a camel. The gravest sin that condemns one to hell is disobeying the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This is the sin of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 10:26-29). Yet so many Christians are now swallowing the greatest sin before God in its entirety.

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However, many Christians put more emphasis on such blessings as a peaceful relationship between fellow believers, wealth, fame, and power, and they consider them more important than the righteousness of God. That’s why they do wrong by just straining out the slightest sins like gnats. For instance, if they’ve raised their voices and fought against another fellow believer, they say to God, “Lord, I’ve committed such and such sins. It’s my fault; please forgive me.” When they do something wrong to each other, they admit their fault easily, but they don’t care about their unbelief in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that constitutes the righteousness of God. Out of His love for us, God has blotted out our sins once and for all with the gospel of the water and the Spirit. So Christians should show their thanks to God by believing in His righteousness that He has bestowed on them through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but far from this, most of them are too busy to establish only their own righteousness,

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boasting about how much in tithes they’ve offered for God and their churches, how much offering they’ve contributed for church construction, and what services and sacrifices they’ve made. Such people are spiritually blind, and yet today, many church leaders are exactly like this. If a church leader who is supposed to guide the congregation is blind, then all the rest of the congregation are also blind. Those who are living their lives of faith like this will be judged

by God.

The Fifth Type of People Who Will Be Cursed by God Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and selfindulgence. Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also” (Matthew 23:25-26). ◄

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In other words, the Lord said that although the heretics in today’s Christian communities who worship golden calves try to look clean in their outside appearance, inside their hearts they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. The Pharisees’ hearts are filled with extortion and self-indulgence. But they pretend to be impeccably clean in their outside appearance. They are always proud of themselves, saying, “I am leading a godly life like this.” In reality, however, they are trying to deceive themselves, their congregation, and even God. A certain pastor in Korea is prone to boast his frugality, saying, “I am living on only $700 a month.” With these words, he is indirectly implying that his coworkers who spend more money for living expenses than he should all repent. In the end, he is just saying that his junior coworkers should be more thrifty, and that since he is serving the Lord with such frugality, he should be respected. Who is this pastor? He is a famous leader in an evangelical denomination whom most people would recognize. I

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heard this from a sister who used to attend our church, but moved to this pastor’s church. This sister visited me and said, “The leading pastor of my denomination says that he spends only $700 a month for his living expenses. He doesn’t even take any money when he travels. But he says that when he prays, God provides for him right at that moment. This is how he says God provides for his traveling needs: When he gets on a bus without any money, he would meet one of his church members on the bus, and this member would not only give up her seat to the pastor, but would also give him enough money to cover his traveling expenses.”

So this pastor claims that wherever he goes, God provides for all his financial needs if he just prays to Him, and therefore $700 a month is enough for him to make a living. It’s become official for his congregation to believe that his living expenses are only $700 a month. Their church newspaper writes that he spends only $700 for his monthly living expenses. And his congregation takes a great deal of

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pride to say this to new church members. So the ministers under him mistakenly think, “The leading pastor of our denomination is so spiritual. Not only are his voice and appearance spiritual, but his everyday life is spiritual as well. He only spends $700 for his monthly living expenses. He doesn’t even take any money when he travels. When he prays, God provides for all his needs in no time.” But weren’t this pastor’s traveling expenses paid by his congregation? Is the money in his pocket all that counts, as if his congregation’s money somehow does not count? In fact, whenever such a pastor visits one of his affiliated churches, this church would pay for all his expenses and give him plenty of allowances as well. It’s nothing more than a fraud for this pastor to boast that he spends only $700 for his monthly living expenses, when in reality he spends plenty of other people’s money. Isn’t this man’s logic preposterous?

With such people in mind, the Lord said, “You cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside

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they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.” The pastor in the above story carries plenty of debit cards and credit cards as well. Just by sitting around, he would receive at least a million dollars a month in cash, since all his branch churches would try to outdo each other by sending more and more contributions to the mother church. If he had spent all this money for the gospel, and really cut down on his living expenses to spend only $700 a month, then he could indeed be described as a servant of God worthy of respect. But since the reality is far different from this, he is nothing more than a swindler.

People like him are the same as the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees that the Bible speaks of. They are spiritually blind leaders. That’s because rather than exalting the righteousness of God, they are fronting only their own rightfulness. Their faith is one that will be cursed by God. God keeps saying to them, “Woe to you! Woe to you hypocrites!” There are so many such pastors in this world.

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communities will be cursed by God. They are heretics who actually worship golden claves. The very fact that pastors and laypeople in today’s Christianity are practicing hypocrisy before God is the evidence of the fact that they do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. It proves that they do not believe in the Truth, the gospel of the water and the Spirit, either with their acts or with their hearts. All their faith is a false faith that has deviated from the righteousness of God. They are no more than practitioners of a religion in God’s sight. God’s curses are waiting for such people. God said to such hypocrites, “Spiritually blind Pharisee, cleanse your inside, and your outside will also be clean.”

If any of us realizes and believes that the Lord came to this earth for us, and blotted out our sins by being baptized by John the Baptist, then this person can wash away all sins and become a righteousness person forever. When we receive the remission of our sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit with our hearts, our inside is cleansed. The

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Lord says that when our inside is cleansed first, our outside is also cleansed. What happens when you are cleansed inside? Even though you are insufficient, as you believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, you will come to serve the Lord always and receive His blessings in your life. The life that serves the righteousness of God is so worthy.

Unless we believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit wholeheartedly, then regardless of how much or how little we may carry out the work of God, our hearts are bound to be drawn to the world and be defiled. In today’s Christian communities, those who pretend to be spiritual leaders without even believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit make so many demands from their congregation, but they themselves don’t even raise a finger. All that they are doing is just raking in money from their congregation and building huge church edifices.

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they call themselves leaders of their respective churches. They just keep telling their followers to believe in the blood of Jesus alone. Insisting on their congregation to offer prayers of repentance, they just teach Christian doctrines, saying: “Since you believe in Jesus as your Savior, you were chosen even before the foundation of the world. Therefore you are one of God’s people, and God approves your faith. You have already received the blessing of salvation from Jesus Christ. But to receive even more blessings, you have to offer more money to your church.” This essentially captures of the gist of the sermons preached by the hypocritical heretics who worship golden calves. That is how the spiritually blind leaders of present-day Christianity preach.

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will be cursed as the following: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness” (Matthew 23:27-28).

Here, Jesus is speaking to those who minister without having been born again as of yet. It means that those who lead a life of faith that’s like a whitewashed tomb will be cursed by God. It’s hard to understand this passage without knowing its background. In Korea, graves are made out of earth. Korean graves have round mounds of earth over the top. So everyone can tell a grave by seeing this mound. The burial customs of the Israelites were different though. They usually buried their dead by interning them in caves carved out of rock and enclosing them with large boulders. The outside of these tombs were then whitewashed to make them look tidy and seal them, so that nothing

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would seep into the graves, not even rain. So the Israelites could tell a grave when they saw a whitewashed boulder.

A grave that’s embellished like this may look white and clean outside, but inside it’s filled with filthiness. For the heretical pastors who worship golden calves before God, their faith is just like this grave. They have sin in their hearts. Christians who are now taught by these heretical pastors who worship golden calves also have sin in their hearts.

Since church leaders have sin, it’s only a matter of course for laypeople to also have sin. Even though these pastors claim to be good Christians, they are just robbing their congregation’s wealth, murdering them spiritually, and turning them twice as much into children of hell as themselves. So when the congregation wants to know the gospel of the water and the Spirit and ask their leaders about it, far from answering them, these leaders threaten them, saying, “If you try to dig too deep into such things, you will go spiritually astray.” They claim that it’s dangerous

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for a layperson to try to understand the Bible too deeply.

A while ago, while riding a cab to church, I had a little talk with the driver. This man started to preach to me. So I told him that he seemed like a good Christian. I then asked him how long he had been a Christian. He told me that it hadn’t been that long, about four years. He said that he had been an alcoholic before, but not anymore. I told him that it was very fortunate for him. But this cab driver didn’t stop preaching to me.

So I asked him, “But mister, does your conscience have sin or not?”

He said, “No, it doesn’t.”

“If you believe in Jesus, then of course you have no sin,” I said. Then I asked him again, “But we still commit sin in our lives, and so can you really say with a clear conscience that you have no sin before God?” He said that even so, he still had no sin, since his sins were condemned on the Cross as he believed in

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the blood of Jesus. He said that the wages of his sins were already paid off by Jesus Christ on the Cross, and so he had no sin. He was sure that he was sinless.

So I asked him again if he really had no sin in his conscience when he stood before God, that is, when he examined his conscience before His presence. The driver then began to get upset and balked at me, saying, “Of course not!” Even so, I asked him again, “You are actually convinced like this as you believe in the Christian doctrine of the blood of the Cross.

You are free to have such conviction, but are you really sure that you have nothing bothering your conscience?” I asked this because without believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, no one can claim to be sinless with a clear conscience. Those who know the gospel of the water and the Spirit and truly believe in it cannot have any sin in their conscience. That’s because the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit has saved us from sin and set us free, and therefore there is no sin in our conscience.

When we commit sin, we feel uneasy in our

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conscience, but because the Lord has blotted out our sins and saved us through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, by believing in this Truth, we can boldly say that we have no sin. But when I asked this cab driver about his conscience, he got so upset and angry that if I pushed him any further, he would have run out of control. So I told him, “Let’s stop here.

Anyways, you have a good faith. Don’t’ drink, drive safely, and best wishes.” I barely managed to calm him down, and as I had almost reached my destination, I got out of the cab.

Even though this man said that he believed in Jesus ardently, in reality, he believed in his own emotion. So while he was witnessing Jesus to me, he seemed as if he really believed, but if he stands before God one on one with his conscience, not only will he remember his sins, but because of the sins written in his heart, he will also be tormented unbearably, unless he believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. That’s why the Lord has given us true salvation through the gospel of the water and

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the Spirit. Among Christians living in this world, those who believe that Jesus’ blood on the Cross alone constitutes their salvation infallibly have sin in their conscience. That’s because they do not have the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. No matter how such people may boast to be revivalist preachers, and how they quit drinking and smoking, they are still sinful. Just because someone quits drinking and smoking, does this mean that he believes in Jesus properly? That’s not so hard to do; anyone can quit drinking and smoking. However, if one is taught under the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, then he comes to think that such outward changes are the evidence of becoming a good Christian. As a result, even though he may seem upright outside, inside, he is full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. He is rotting away inside his heart, and there, Satan is working together with sin.

Among the men of the clothe in today’s Christianity, there are many who have become pastors from making a mistaken vow to God. They

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had mistakenly vowed to God that they would become pastors, and it’s because of this that many pastors are now working as ministers. However, their hearts still remain sinful, and they are ministering as God’s holy men even as their sins have not been washed away yet. That’s why those who have become pastors on account of their own vow to become one have many spiritual problems, and most of them are ministering fallaciously among the rank of heretics without knowing the gospel of the water and the Spirit. If you still had sin in your heart, and yet despite this you vowed to God that you would become a pastor, is this right? When the first bottom is misplaced, it’s inevitable for the second bottom to be also misplaced. As such, everyone must first receive the remission of his sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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The Seventh Type of People Who Will Be Cursed by God Who are the seventh type of people that will be cursed by God? The Lord said in Matthew 23:29-30, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’”

I’ve explained that the Pharisees and the scribes in the Bible refer to today’s worshipers of golden calves.

When those who do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit read the Bible, they say, “If we had lived in those days, we would have recognized righteous people and not killed them.” However, the Lord said that those who say so are witnesses against themselves testifying that they are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets in the Old Testament. And the Lord said, “Fill up, then, the Free book request www.nlmission.com

measure of your fathers’ guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?” (Matthew 23:32-33) Jesus Christ called them the Devil’s children. In other words, Jesus was asking how heretics, the children of the Devil, could ever escape the condemnation of hell. Even though God has saved us by coming to this earth, being baptized, shedding His blood on the Cross, and rising from the dead again, heretics do not believe in this even as they know it, nor do they preach it exactly as it is. They rather spread lies by adding to the true gospel, mislead others to believe in these lies, block those who want to go to Heaven, and make them twice as much children of hell as themselves. So how could these heretics ever escape from the condemnation of hell? They are all bound to hell.

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to become a heretic himself. Whom do these people persecute? Just as their forefathers had imprisoned and killed the prophets in the old days, they persecute the righteous in this age. And heretics are experts at lying. They are all nothing more than liars.

Christians throughout the world are very interested in this question of who heretics are. But what use is it to preach only about heresy, without teaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit? It’s useless to just teach about heresy without teaching about orthodoxy. So I’ve now decided to speak frankly about heresy along with the genuine gospel of the water and the Spirit. Although I haven’t addressed this issue at a great length so far, I believe that the time to teach this has come. Now is the time to preach, “Who are heretics before God? Who actually are heretics in Christian communities? They are those who are like Jeroboam.”

You must grasp just how tragic and accursed it is that Christianity all over the world has been corrupted into a religion of this world. The very fact

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that corruption arose from within Christianity means that it has turned into a heresy in God’s sight. My fellow believers, you must be orthodox believers before God. You must understand properly what the Word of God is really saying, and you must believe in this Word. First of all, through the gospel of the water and the Spirit that remits away your sins, you must realize the Truth and believe in it—that is, you must know just how much the Lord loves us, how He sacrificed Himself for us, and how and by what method He has saved us from our sins. Through this gospel of the water and the Spirit, you must grasp and believe that God has done good things for us, and that He has done what’s right for us. You must believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit properly. Only then can you quench God’s heart.

I am so fond of God’s love of righteousness and His grace that I can’t help but preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit; and so despite my insufficiencies, I will dedicate my God-given talent to the Lord and serve Him with all the abilities and

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gifts that God has given me. And I will preach this gospel. We must become such people before God. However, in Christian communities today, there are too many people who have not been born again, and it is these people who have become heretics. This world has too many people who have become heretics in God’s sight by believing in Jesus according to their own doctrines, without knowing the gospel of the water and the Spirit. There are countless people in Christianity who have turned into heretics. Yet despite this, they don’t even realize that they’ve become heretics.

To such people, the Lord says, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”

(Matthew 7:23) My fellow believers, the reason why I am saying these things and preaching this Word is to admonish you to know the gospel of the water and the Spirit and return to it. Unless heretics return to God’s gospel of the water and the Spirit, they will be destroyed. It doesn’t matter that your acts are insufficient, for God loves us so abundantly. To truly

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save us from all our sins justly and correctly, the Lord came to this earth incarnated in the flesh of man, took upon our sins by being baptized, bore the condemnation of sin by being crucified to death, rose from the dead again, and has thereby saved us. We must realize and believe that the Lord loved us rightly like this, that He has saved us justly with the Truth, and that this is the righteousness of God. Understanding the gospel of the water and the Sprit, we must believe in and exalt the righteousness of God manifested in this gospel. We must be thankful for Gods’ righteousness with our faith. So whether we are alone or in a crowd, whether we are working, sleeping, or awake, whether we are eating or drinking, the love of the Lord must always reign in your hearts and mine. We must always thank Him for His love that has saved us so abundantly, rightly, truthfully, and perfectly. The righteousness of God that has saved us to perfection like this must abide in our hearts all the time by faith.

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faith. All unrighteousness will disappear, our sins will be blotted out, and our filthiness will be eradicated. We will be made holy, and our mistakes will be corrected and our curses will be lifted. We will receive the remission of our sins, and everything that we’ve done wrong, whether in our thoughts or acts, will be redressed to return to normal. We will then realize through our faith that God loves us rightly, abundantly, and perfectly; and we will be saved by faith, become righteous and sinless before God, enter His Kingdom, and receive His blessings.

However, those who have not been born again as they do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit keep fronting their own acts. Yet they don’t know what to do when their acts go astray. Because they are incapable of solving the problem of their sins, they are constantly ridden with spiritual problems, and because their hearts are defiled, they keep seeing other people’s filthiness. Since they keep digging out their filth but can’t solve this problem, they fall into the swamp of their weaknesses and

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perdition, saying to themselves, “I have even more filthiness!” Like a pig that has fallen into filthy water, they struggle in their filth, but their days are numbered and they cannot avoid hell.

It is our Lord who has washed away all the filthiness of this world with His Truth, and this Truth is the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Our Lord has blotted out all our sins. We must therefore thank God with our faith, realizing and believing that the Lord has saved us from our sins so abundantly, perfectly, and justly, and that He has made us His children, all through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. We must return God’s love by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Even though our brothers and sisters, our workers, and I myself are alike so insufficient and have so many shortcomings, God has perfectly saved all of us from our sins. We must thank Him for this. We must become such people of faith. Every Christian must escape from heresy as soon as possible.

Every time I come across God’s Word and preach it like this, I am so grateful for His perfect love and

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His perfect grace of salvation. Sometimes it’s too hard for me to carry on with my work, overwhelmed by its burden and with my body getting wearier. Our workers also get exhausted. So to carry out God’s work, I try to systematize our tasks. When we work systematically, we can work very efficiently and predict the progress of our work. Each of us may try hard and run around by himself, but this will achieve nothing. We are now running some businesses to raise our mission fund. For instance, a few ministers and workers are now running sewing machines in a small plant, and while right now this is how we are running one of our businesses under the prevailing constraints, in the future, we will expand the plant and run it more systematically for large-scale production.

As I am now carrying out such business-related tasks, sometimes I get so engrossed in my work that I don’t even know what day it is, whether it’s Tuesday or Wednesday. I am so busy nowadays that this morning, when I woke up from asleep at our

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Discipleship Training Center in Inje, I thought that it was my home. That’s how busy I am these days.

Even though I am so mindlessly busy like this, what never changes, what never disappears from my heart, what I must remember in my heart, and what is imperishable, is the fact that God has saved me perfectly like this through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. As such, those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit are made true believers.

It’s not because of our own merit, but it is God who makes us true believers like this. That’s why I am so grateful to God. It is my hope and prayer that all Christians would now escape from the faith of heresy and be able to thank God truthfully. I pray that all those who want to worship God would thank Him in the Holy Spirit and in the Truth. I give all my thanks to our Lord.

I wait for everyone on this planet to return into the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Those who have become servants in the Lord are admonishing you in Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Heal Bad Water with Salt < 2 Kings 2:19-22 > “Then the men of the city said to Elisha, ‘Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren.’ And he said, ‘Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.’ So they brought it to him. Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, ‘Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’’ So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.”

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Christianity Today Has No Life Because It Is Preaching False Gospels Rather Than the True Gospel Churches nowadays are unable to correctly interpret and preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit based on the written Word of God. Put differently, many people in today’s Christian communities are not preaching the Word of God, but their own thoughts. This is due to the fact that Protestant churches, which appeared in this world in the aftermath of the Reformation, believe in Christian doctrines that they had already made according to their own thoughts. Anyone who believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can see that today’s Christianity is filled with false doctrines stemming from man-made thoughts. This has made it impossible for today’s church attendees to attain their goals. They attend church in order to listen to the Word of God and believe in it. And they are also trying to receive the remission of their sins and enter ◄

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Heaven by believing in Jesus faithfully. However, even after believing in Jesus for 10 or 20 years, they see no change in body and spirit because their teachers are totally unaware of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. As a result, many Christians are still seated in accursed places, as their sins remain intact in their hearts even as they believe in Jesus.

There also are some people who may seem to believe in Jesus faithfully at first, but give up their faith after a time, or come to regret that they believed in Jesus. There are many Christians who try hard to believe in Jesus faithfully, but only end up disappointed despite their effort. This is all because of the fact that even though these people have attended church, heard the Word of God, and believed in Jesus as their Savior, they were ultimately unable to receive the remission of their sins. So for them, believing in Jesus is as hard as carrying the Cross that Jesus bore. Since they have no joy in their hearts even as they believe in Jesus as their Savior, many of them pray fanatically to receive the Holy

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Spirit, only to find themselves seized by demons in the end and unable to avoid living as slaves to Satan.

This is the consequence of the fact that countless Christians have misunderstood Jesus, and they have believed in false gospels rather than the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Why is it then that so many people are unable to be saved from their sins despite believing in Jesus, and find themselves giving up their lives of faith after a time? And why do the so-called “good” Christians today end up being seized by demons? What explains this inevitable outcome for so many Christians? This is all because of the flawed faith of today’s pastors preaching the Word of God. Such pastors cannot lead their congregation to receive the remission of their sins and the Holy Spirit by believing in the baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross. It’s because these pastors are unable to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to their congregation, which would make it possible for them to receive the remission of sin and the Holy Spirit, that all their

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followers are actually drifting away from God even though they try to learn His Word. On the other hand, however, if a leader who believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit preaches this gospel to people, then those who hear it will ultimately receive the remission of their sins into their hearts and the Holy Spirit as well.

What Is the Word That Saves One’s Soul?

While God’s servant Elisha was staying in Jericho, its inhabitants came to him and said, “Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren” (2 Kings 2:19). The land surrounding Jericho was very fertile. The Israelites lived on farming, planting vineyards, barley, wheat, and so forth. There also were some who engaged in stock farming. Jericho was surrounded by a wide, fertile plain, but the problem was that its water was bad, and so the

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ground was not that productive. That’s why the people of Jericho had come to the servant of God with this problem and asked him to solve it for them.

All farming requires good water. Only when the water is good do the crops grow well and produce ripe fruits for harvesting. But if all the fruits fall before getting ripe in the middle of farming, wouldn’t this be a huge problem? Just how disappointed would a farmer be, if his crop were to fail not at the beginning, but after spending all his labor and effort to grow it? Water is absolutely indispensable to every living creature on this planet, to both animals and plants. Good crops and fruits are produced only when the water is good.

Likewise, today’s Scripture passage is speaking about people’s fruit of faith. People can be made righteous and enter Heaven only if they believe in Jesus and receive the remission of their sins. So if one does not have the Word of Truth that enables him to receive the Holy Spirit into his heart as soon as he receives the remission of his sins, such people

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can never bear any fruit before God. It is by believing in the baptism of Jesus and His blood that we are transformed from sinners to righteous people.

Therefore, your heart must infallibly have the gospel Word of the water and the Sprit that brings the remission of your sins. If you don’t have this Word, then your faith is an imperfect, flawed faith.

Most Christians are happy when they first believe in Jesus. But with passing time, after 5 or 10 years go by since they first believed in Jesus, they reach a point where they want to give up their faith in Jesus, all because they do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit that constitutes the righteousness of God. It is therefore critically important to clearly know and believe in the Truth—that is, the gospel of the water and the Spirit—from the very beginning when you believe in Jesus for the first time.

Otherwise you will become even more of a sinner, more hypocritical, and increasingly serve more as a servant of the Devil than a servant of the Holy Spirit, even as you may appear to be a good Christian. There

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are so many people like this in Christian communities. How could this kind of faith be the real faith? Today’s Scripture passage says, “The water is bad, and the ground barren.” God is saying this to today’s Christians. This passage is the Word of God that shows what kind of work is being perpetrated by those who are unable to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which enables one to receive the Holy Spirit, and are instead preaching an imperfect gospel.

Sermons Affect the Hearts of the Hearers It’s clear that no matter how good any Christian’s faith may be, he is bound to be influenced by those who preach the Word of God to him. Therefore, for those who preach the Word of God, whether or not their congregation would receive the remission of their sins from God depends on whether or not they preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the

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gospel that enables one to receive the remission of sin and the Holy Spirit. God’s servants are now preaching the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, having first believed in this gospel that enabled them to receive the remission of their sins and the Holy Spirit.

In contrast, for the pastors who do not preach the gospel that enables people to receive the Holy Sprit, all their sermons are invariably nothing more than sermons on ethics and morals. These are not sermons that contain the Word of the water and the Spirit.

Even from now on, therefore, all Christians must listen to the Word of God and the gospel sermons that enable them to receive the Holy Spirit.

The Liars Who Are Feeding Bad Water However, even at this very moment, countless pastors remain incapable of preaching the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, for they themselves

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do not know this Word that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit. If preachers know the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit and preach it correctly, then their congregation will receive the remission of sin from God and the gift of the Holy Spirit, and thus restore their peace with God. When a preacher of the Word of God explains and preaches the Word concerning the baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross, the Word that enables the hearers to receive the Holy Spirit, then they will be freed from their sins and their relationship with God will be restored properly. In contrast, if the preacher does not preach this Word of God regarding the water and the Spirit, then for those Christians who learn from this pastor, their sins will not disappear from their hearts even as they confess to believe in Jesus as their Savior.

To enable people today to really receive the Holy Spirit, the preacher must know and teach exactly how God has saved us humans from the sins of the world through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and how He has remitted away our sins. But not just

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anyone can give such sermons. These sermons can be given only by those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit based on God’s Word of righteousness. The only gospel that enables people to receive the Holy Spirit is the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Many pastors say to today’s Christians, “Jesus shed His blood and died on the Cross in your place. That’s all. There is nothing more to teach about His salvation.” So they only keep saying, “Believe in Jesus as your Savior. And be a good person, spreading your faith in the blood of the Cross.”

As such pastors cannot preach the Word of the water and the Spirit correctly from the pulpit, they are turning all their congregation into religious formalists and leading them straight to hell. Unless these preachers preach the Word that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit, no one among the congregation can ever receive the Holy Spirit. Yet despite this, some people say, “Well, I am not influenced by any preachers.” But you must realize

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the fact that every Christian is influenced by the faith and knowledge of the pastor preaching to him. So you must examine yourself to see if the sermons you are listening to are really coming from someone who knows the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

There are many Christians today who are stumbling from drinking bad water. Many people say that although they had attended church before, they are no longer leading a life of faith. In its description of Jericho’s bad water and its barren land, today’s Scripture passage is telling us that if Christians do not listen to the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit until the end, then it will be inevitable for them to be cast into hell for their sins. The Bible says that the reason why so many Christians were unable to bear the fruit of salvation despite believing in Jesus is because they were unable to hear the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. Many Christians have not heard the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit with their ears, the gospel that enables them to receive the Holy Spirit, and so they give up their faith

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halfway. The reason for this is because even those who had preached the Word of God to them had not heard the Word of the Truth that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit, and even if those preachers heard it, they did not believe in it, and instead gave dogmatic sermons to their congregation according to their own thoughts.

There are many people in this age who believe in Jesus. But how many of these Christians can be classified as true fruits of faith? As a result of not hearing the gospel of the water and the Spirit, many Christians renounce their religious lives after a time, and even for those who hold onto their dogmatic faith until the end, their souls perish away in a sinful state, and therefore they end up falling into hell. Such phenomena are actually all too evident in Christian communities. The so-called “servants of God” do not know His Word of the water and the Spirit, and therefore they are not preaching this Truth correctly.

As a result, they are sending countless people who believe in Jesus as their Savior straight to hell. This is

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all because of the fact that the faith and gospel of these preachers are not correct. So just how tragic is this? After all, you believe in Jesus to receive the salvation, to attain the remission of your sins, and to enter Heaven. What a tragedy is it then that even as you believe in Jesus, far from entering Heaven, you will actually be cast into hell as a sinner? If you are under such a preacher, then you must escape from him as soon as possible.

Is Your Church Leader Teaching You the Gospel That Enables Your Soul to Receive the Holy Spirit?

It’s said that there are over a billion Christians on this planet earth, and yet tragically, so many preachers remain incapable of bearing any fruit of salvation, for they are not preaching God’s Word of the water and the Spirit exactly as it is. By mixing the Word of God with this world’s ethical lessons in their ◄

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sermons, these preachers have made people’s souls ignorant only to perish away. What would you do if your pastor had prevented souls from being saved, and blocked them from hearing and knowing the gospel of the water and the Spirit, thus making them all perish away? This is the reality of Christianity today. Do you know and believe in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit?

Even though today’s Christians all believe in Jesus, they remain unable to be saved from their hearts’ sins. That’s because there is something wrong with the contents of the sermons to which they are listening. It’s all because they have not heard the gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables them to receive the Holy Spirit. For Christians today who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they cannot help but make the following confession common to all: “I have not been saved, even though I believe in Jesus.” This is akin to what was said in today’s Scripture passage: “The situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water

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is bad, and the ground barren.” Is this something negligible? The passage describes what was happening in Israel in the days of Elisha, but it also describes what is happening to Christians all over the world today, showing that they are also now in such a spiritually barren situation.

Although we are prone to think, “Faith is up to each individual; it has nothing to do with anyone else preaching the Word of God,” the Bible says that this is not the case. It makes clear that no matter how fertile the ground may be, if the water is bad, then the tree cannot bear any fruit. Likewise, if preachers cannot correctly preach the Word that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit, then the congregation cannot receive the remission of their sins nor the Holy Spirit.

In contrast, if they preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to their congregation, then the Bible says that they will bear good fruits without fail.

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The Bowl That Holds the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit Many of today’s Christians say that even though they think they have been saved from their sins by believing in Jesus, they are too ashamed to call themselves righteous people. This is all because there is something wrong with the gospel that their leaders have. So for all those who confess, “Although I believe that I have been saved from sin, my heart still remains sinful,” they must realize clearly that the contents of the sermons they are listening are problematic. It’s all because their preachers have not preached to their congregation the Word of the water and the Spirit, which is God’s Truth.

To see how Elisha solved this problem, let’s turn to 2 Kings 21:21-22. “Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’”

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the word of Elisha which he spoke.”

Whoever speaks the Word of God to you on His behalf must believe in the baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross without fail, and he must preach God’s Word by this faith. The Lord said in Matthew, “New wine must be put into new wineskins.” And our Lord also said, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Before being born again by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we were clearly sinners, but now, by believing in the perfect gospel that Jesus Christ fulfilled with the baptism he received from John the Baptist and the blood He shed on the Cross, we have become righteous, redeemed people.

Therefore, from the servants of God who have become new vessels by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, sinners must hear the gospel Word that enables them to receive the Holy Spirit, and believe in this Word. Only then can they receive

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the remission of their sins into their hearts. To heal one’s heart from the illness of sin, he must listen to and believe in the true gospel preached by the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

You must put the Word of faith in the bowl of your spirit and spread it around. The salt here refers to the Word of God found in the Old and New Testaments.

The Old Testament is all about the promise of God that our Lord would come to save us, while the New Testament records the Lord’s actual fulfillment of this promise. So the salt mentioned in today’s Scripture passage is the gospel Word that enables you to receive the Holy Spirit.

It was said, “Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, ‘Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’’” We have to interpret and understand this passage spiritually. I am not exaggerating this passage. What I know now is that when those of you who wholeheartedly believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit preach the

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Word of God, Christians who hear this gospel Word from you are made completely righteous by believing in God’s Word, and are able to bear fruits before God. In other words, those who hear with their ears the gospel that enables them to receive the Holy Spirit— that is, the gospel of the water and the Spirit—rather than the gospel of the blood of the Cross alone, are made forever righteous to become God’s children whose hearts are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. This passage that we just read is being fulfilled exactly as it is even now. It teaches that if sinners really want to receive the remission of sin into their hearts, then they must look for the preachers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the gospel that enables them to receive the Holy Spirit, and hear the Word of God from these preachers.

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come out to stand before God, you must take His Word, the spiritual salt. Pastors must also remember without fail that unless they have the Word of God, the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and preach it by believing in this Word of God exactly as it is, their listeners cannot receive the remission of sin but live as sinners even as they believe in Jesus, only to be forsaken by God in the end. With the gospel that just preaches the blood of the Cross alone, your sins can never be blotted out. You must remember clearly that the gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit is the very gospel of which the Bible speaks.

Those who have received the remission of their sins believe that by “thus” being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus shouldered all their past sins, present sins, and even future sins; that He went to the Cross and was condemned by being crucified; and that He has thereby blotted out all their sins once and for all.

So when we clearly and by faith preach to those who still have not received the remission of their sins,

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saying, “Since Jesus also bore your sins and was condemned on the Cross to make atonement, your sins have already been washed away, and therefore you have no sin,” the Truth that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit is also delivered to these people. And as this gospel Word enters them, they, too, receive the remission of their sins just like us. To all those who still have not been saved even after believing in Jesus, we must sow the gospel of the water and the Spirit, God’s Truth.

If Christian leaders today were to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit exactly as it is, then everyone would all receive the remission of sin. The remission of sin is not received just because a preacher is an excellent speaker. It is only when the preacher preaches by faith the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit, the real gospel of God, that those who believe in it are saved from their sins. If you have preached the gospel to someone once, but this person stubbornly refused to receive the remission of sin, then you must admonish him by

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faith one more time to try to make him understand the Word of God, sow the Word of the baptism of Jesus and His blood once more, and preach using examples so that he may understand.

When the person thus understands the gospel message with his head first, he can then realize in his heart also, “Ah, that is so true. I have no sin. My sins have disappeared.” That Elisha in today’s Scripture passage healed the water by sprinkling salt implies that it is when we preach the gospel Word that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit that people can attain the remission of their sins. The gospel that has made us sinless with the baptism of Jesus and the Cross is none other than the gospel of salt of which today’s Scripture passage speaks.

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who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:1-4).

This passage from Romans says to us, “There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

The law of the Spirit of life has set you free from the law of sin and death.” It also tells us that even though our flesh is too weak for us to ever reach righteousness by keeping the Law, God the Father sent His Son in the likeness of the sinful flesh of man, passed all the sins of every human being onto the Son’s body, and placed them on the flesh of Jesus.

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blood of the Cross. In other words, when it says here, “What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did,” it refers to the very remission of sin that was accomplished by the baptism of Jesus and His blood. This is the gospel that enables you to receive the Holy Spirit, and this is the true gospel of Jesus.

What does the Law demand? The Law sets out requirements for our lives, saying, “You shall live like this.” Yet we are incapable of meeting the Law’s demand. Those who try to reach righteousness by keeping the Law will be cursed, just as the man who tried to rebuild Jericho from ruins and set up its gates was cursed (Joshua 6:26, 1 Kings 16:34). Then why did God give us the Law? He gave us the Law for us to know what sin really is. When we look at God’s commandments, we can discern what is good from what is evil. The Law itself is holy, just, and good (Romans 7:12). When we examine the God-given Word of the Law, every Word is right enough. Since God is the Creator who made us, it is only fitting for

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us to worship only God and listen to His Word. But do you really have the ability to obey the Word of God? You should consider this first before you attempt to keep the Law. Are you really able to keep the Law of God? When the Bible says, “What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did” (Romans 8:3), it means that it is God who has fulfilled the gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables every believer in this gospel to receive the Holy Spirit. While all the Law of God is right in its entirety, because mankind’s flesh is too weak, it’s simply impossible to keep this Law. Whenever we face God’s Word of the Law, we say amen in our hearts and minds and agree that every statute of the Law is right, but in reality, our flesh cannot keep the Law as commanded. Even though our hearts and minds may be able to follow the Law, our flesh cannot obey it according to the Word, nor can we practice it as commanded.

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do in his weak flesh, Jesus achieved it. In other words, by making Jesus receive His baptism from John the Baptist, God the Father made Him bear the sins of the world, and by making Jesus shed His blood on the Cross, the Father at once washed away all the sins committed by weak sinners. Put differently, through His baptism and His blood on the Cross, Jesus has washed all sins from the sinners of the world, thus delivering them from condemnation, and saving them from all curses. This is the gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables people to receive the Holy Spirit. Did God say that your flesh can be justified by keeping the Law? No, He said that no one can achieve this, for everyone’s flesh is weak.

For every sinner, it is only when he believes in and accepts the salvation that Jesus Christ has brought through His baptism and blood, that he can receive the remission of sin into his heart.

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All of Us Must Believe in the Perfect Gospel I am satisfied with the righteousness of God. Because the Lord was baptized by John the Baptist for me, shed His blood on the Cross, and saved me from all my sins, my heart is fully content. However, there was a time when I had also believed only in the blood of the Cross. In those days, I could not be satisfied by this half-gospel. Everyone is the same in his utter inability to live according to the Word of God. This inability is inherent to everyone’s weak flesh, regardless of whether he is a Christian or not, and whether he is a born-again person or not. This applies to all of us, you and me alike. No one can live according to the Law of God. What does this then mean? It means that every human being cannot help but turn into a sinner before the Law of God. How, then, can the entire human race be freed from sin?

Can it be freed by offering prayers of repentance? No, it’s impossible to be freed from sin through one’s own prayers of repentance. Is it written anywhere in

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the Bible that we can be freed from sin by offering prayers of repentance? No, that is written nowhere.

Only our faith in the righteousness of Jesus Christ makes us free from our sins. When Jesus was baptized, He said that He fulfilled all the righteousness of God (Matthew 3:15). At that time, through His baptism, Jesus bore all the sins of the world, including each and every one of our sins, all at once. If this is true, if Jesus in fact took upon all the sins of mankind through the baptism He received from John the Baptist, then it can only mean that your sins, my sins, everyone else’s sins, and even the sins of the people of Jericho here were all passed onto Jesus once and for all when He was baptized by John the Baptist.

All the sins that Christians commit out of their insufficient flesh were also passed onto Jesus Christ at once. It’s because our sins were passed onto Jesus Christ once and for all that we believe in God; it’s because we believe in this Word of Truth that we have been freed from our sins and become holy; and

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it’s because all our sins were passed onto Jesus that we have come to receive the Holy Spirit by believing in the perfect gospel with our hearts. If the sins of this world were not passed onto the body of Jesus through the baptism He received from John the Baptist, then how could you and I reach our salvation by believing in Jesus?

Jesus Christ is the God of the entire universe. It’s written in the Book of Genesis, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” and it’s also written, “God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” Similarly, John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” and John 1:3 says, “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

As such, Jesus, who came as our Savior, is God Himself in essence. It had been prophesied beforehand through the Prophet Isaiah that to save us, God Himself would be born from the body of a virgin incarnated in the flesh of man. About 700

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years after making this promise, God fulfilled it exactly as He had promised. And when the Lord came to this earth, He was baptized by John the Baptist, the representative of mankind, in order to save us from all our sins, since our flesh is too weak to reach salvation on our own.

Do You Believe in the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit as the Truth?

Jesus, the only begotten Son of God the Father, accepted all the sins of this world once and for all and washed them all away. And He shed His blood on the Cross for us. By doing so, He has made the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit forever sinless. Jesus has made us holy, who believe in this gospel. He has made all its believers righteous.

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Himself all of mankind’s sins, for both His believers and non-believers alike. Therefore everyone who believes in Jesus correctly is saved from sin through the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

The gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit is the Word of God that is put in a new wineskin. As this gospel, God’s real Truth, has been sowed in the hearts of sinners, God has made it possible for them to be saved from the sins of the world.

How did the Lord say that He has saved us from the sins of the world? The Old Testament writes about the endless sacrifices that were offered by the people of Israel, whereby their sacrificial animals of atonement accepted their sins through the laying on of hands and bled to death in their place. Like these sacrifices, our Lord came to this earth as the Lamb of God, received His baptism, died on the Cross, rose from the dead again, and has thereby become the Savior of all who believe in Him. Weren’t your sins and mine then passed onto Jesus through His

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baptism? Of course they were. Because of our weak human flesh we could not reach righteousness by keeping the Law, but Jesus fulfilled the righteousness of God for us by taking upon the sins of the world through His baptism.

Believe in the Real Gospel of the Water and the Spirit!

My fellow believers, today’s Scripture passage says that when Elisha cast salt into the source of the water, there was no more barrenness, regardless of whether it was muddy water or even rotten water. It’s written, “Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.” (2 Kings 2:21-22). Jesus accepted all sins by being baptized. This then means that all your sins were passed onto Him. This is the gospel that the Bible Free book request www.nlmission.com

speaks of, the gospel that enables you to receive the Holy Spirit. It is the very original gospel. Do you then have sin or are you now sinless? You have no sin. Has your soul been healed by faith or does it remain unhealed? It is all healed now.

Because mankind’s flesh is too weak before God, no one can avoid being cast into hell, nor can anyone live according to the will of God. However, if anyone believes in the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist and His blood on the Cross, then he can be saved from sin. Salt does not change. The gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit never changes. Salt prevents rotting.

It is Jesus who has thus fulfilled all the righteousness of God. Jesus has saved sinners once and for all through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables us to receive the Holy Spirit forever protects the faith of its believers. Do you believe this?

Elisha put salt into a new bowl and cast it into the source of the water. The water was then healed. Like

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this, with the gospel that enables one to receive the Holy Spirit, our Lord has saved all who believe in this gospel. The Lord has saved sinners through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. If anyone believes in this gospel that enables him to receive the Holy Spirit, he will be saved from all sins.

Jesus has saved His believers by coming to this earth by the water and the blood (1 John 5:4-8). What we could not achieve in our weak flesh, our Lord achieved it for us. Through the gospel of the water and the Sprit, the Lord has saved us from all sins. He has thus healed us in both body and spirit. Therefore it is by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that we are saved. Yet because Christians today are listening to bad sermons, they get disappointed even as they believe in Jesus, they remain sinners even as they believe in Jesus, they are sad even as they believe in Jesus, and they are cursed even as they believe in Jesus. However, God has healed every sinner with the gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables us to receive the Holy Spirit.

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I’ve been to many countries, from Japan to China, Taiwan, and Russia, and I’ve met many Christians there. But because the gospel Word that they had heard was not complete, they were all invariably unable to receive their salvation from sin. Even though they had heard the Word of God and believed in Him for a considerable time, every one of them was still a sinner. However, when I preached the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit that enables everyone to receive the Holy Spirit, they, too, were saved as they accepted the gospel of the remission of sin right away. This gospel of the water and the Spirit is the gospel that enables everyone to receive the Holy Spirit, and it is also the product of God’s work and compassion toward us.

The Lord heals the hearts and spirits of those who have been hurt by sin. When the redeemed servants of God go to sinners and preach His Word by faith, and when these sinners believe in it innocently, then they will all be saved from their sins, regardless of status or circumstances. Anyone who believes in the

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gospel of the water and the Spirit is no longer a slave to sin. Even though we cannot help but commit sin again, we will never turn into sinners again. That we cannot help but commit sin in our weak flesh, and that we are therefore inevitably bound to hell, are set by the law of sin and death. However, through the gospel of the water and the Spirit that enables us to receive the Holy Spirit, our Lord has saved us from the law of sin and death. I praise the Lord who has saved us through the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Were all your sins passed onto Jesus Christ by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Of course they were! Has Jesus saved us from all our sins? We have indeed been healed in both body and spirit by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Just as Elisha had healed the water of Jericho and turned it into good water, so has our God also healed you and me, who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and transformed us from sinners into righteous people. He has saved us from all our

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sins, so that we, who had once been bound to hell, can now enter Heaven. The Lord has saved us perfectly from all sins. I praise the Lord who has saved us from all our sins.

What Those Who Have Put the Holy Spirit in New Vessels Must Do What is it that we must do in this age, as those who have the gospel of the water and the Spirit? As someone who has received the remission of sin, you must take the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit to those who still do not know this Truth, and labor to sow the real Truth into them. This work must be carried out by the righteous who have received the remission of their sins.

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This is a common occurrence everywhere in the entire world. Even though they have learned about Jesus and His blood on the Cross, they still remain sinners. And their hearts remain unchanged to this day. What is clear, however, is that God achieved what we could not achieve because of our weak flesh: Our Lord has made us His believers sinless by accepting all the sins of the world through His baptism. Do you believe in this, my fellow believers?

There is so much work to do in this world.

We must spread this genuine gospel all over the world. We must preach this gospel of Truth even to those who are worshiping golden calves. Yet this is not an easy task; it takes a lot of effort and hardship.

Even so, we cannot afford not to carry out this work now. Countless people remain unable to become righteous even as they believe in Jesus as their Savior.

You must realize that myriads of souls are perishing away, all because they have not heard the gospel that would enable them to receive the Holy Spirit, and you must therefore renew your strength again and preach

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this gospel to those who belong to heresy.

Indeed, those who have become new vessels must put salt—that is, the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit—in their hearts and spread it to people all over the world who are thirsting after this gospel. Let us all preach this gospel of Truth by faith.

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