Paul C. Jong’s Spiritual Growth Series 4 - The First Epistle of John (II) - Softcover

Paul C. Jong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8983144750 ISBN 13: 9788983144751

Publisher: Hephzibah Publishing House, 2004

Synopsis

If you are a true Christian, you should know God's love more than just abstractly. Those who know and believe Jesus as their Savior must know God's love concretely in their remission of sins that was accomplished through the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. We have to become true believers of this true gospel in order to know God's love in depth. In this true gospel, the love of God manifests itself concretely and in detail. If we are to know God as love, our knowledge has to come from God's concrete love for us that is revealed in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. Only then can we lead others to the true love of God. The Apostle John testifies that Jesus Christ, who came by the water, the blood, and the Holy Spirit, is the Savior and God Himself. The essence of his testimony is the Truth of the remission of sin, which belongs to the water, the blood, and the Holy Spirit. As it is written in the Word of God, the water signifies Jesus' baptism that He received from John the Baptist, and the blood signifies the judgment He received for all our sins. Again, the evidence of our salvation lies in the Holy Spirit, the water, and the blood (1 John 5:8). The ministries of the water, the blood, and the Holy Spirit are those of God through which He has delivered sinners from all their sins.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The essential thing for us to know is that Jesus received the baptism from John the Baptist at the River Jordan so that He may take the sins of the world onto Himself before He was to be crucified on the Cross. Yet, a big problem is that many people are not aware of this fact. Hence, we have to hold fast that Jesus' baptism was to take the sins of this world onto Himself at once before He was crucified on the Cross. Knowing and believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, who came to the world by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, is very important to blot out all our sins.

From the Inside Flap:

Who is the one that denies Jesus, the almighty God?

It is he who does not believe that Jesus is God who created the entire universe (Genesis 1:1-3, John 1:10-12).

¡°Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also¡± (1 John 2:23).

He who believes that Jesus, who is God and the Savior, came by the gospel of the water and the Spirit to deliver all sinners from their sins, is saved from all his sins, and becomes a child of God the Father. The First Epistle of John states that Jesus, who is God, came to us by the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and that He is the Son of God the Father. The Book, in other words, mostly emphasizes that Jesus is God (1 John 5:20), and concretely testifies the gospel of the water and the Spirit in chapter 5. We must not hesitate to believe that Jesus Christ is God and to follow Him.

¡°Whoever abides in Him does not sin¡± (1 John 3:6)

What does this passage mean? It means that the born again do not commit the sin of denying the Truth that Jesus is our God and Savior, and that He has blotted out all the sins of the world through the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

The Lord God has washed away all our sins once and for all by coming to this world with the truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. I am sure that the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can easily understand and powerfully preach the Word of 1 John, even though this Epistle may contain several difficult passages which are hard to comprehend.

From the Author

About this edition

• Publisher: Hephzibah Publishing House
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8983144750
• ISBN 13: 9788983144751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344