Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?

350 Pages·1999·1.71 MB·English

by  Paul C. Jong

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This is the first book of our time to preach

‘the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit’

in strict accordance with the Scriptures

Many of you are surely not familiar with the gospel of being born again

of water and the Spirit. So I tried to lay great emphasis on the gospel of the

baptism of Jesus and His Cross in every sermon.

If there had been no baptism of Jesus. His Cross would be meaningless

to all of us. These are the reasons why I have stressed His baptism

repeatedly.

My purpose is to make it clear to you. Until you are all blessed with the

gospel of the water (the baptism of Jesus) and the Spirit, I would like to

repeat it for you.

I eagerly desire that all of you come to believe in the gospel of His

baptism and the Cross in order to be saved from sin. And I am sure these

sermons will lead you to be born again.

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PAUL C. JONG

Hephzibah Publishing House

A Division of THE NEW LIFE MISSION
SEOUL, KOREA

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Thanks

We would like to offer a prayer of thanks to

the Lord for giving us the words of salvation and

blessing us with the gospel of being born again

of water and the Spirit.

Thanks also to all the servants of God,
Have you truly been born again of water and the Spirit?
including Rev. Samuel J. Kim and Rev. John K.
Copyright © 2002 by The New Life Mission Shin, who provided invaluable services in the
All rights reserved.
publication of this book; to Mrs. Jungpil Sul for

translating it; to brothers and sisters in the
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any Hephzibah Publishing House; and to Elaine
means–electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
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otherwise–without the prior written permission of the
Wallace of THE KOREA TIMES. They have all
publisher and copyright owners.
worked hard on this book. Thank you all again.
Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.
I hope and pray that this book and the tapes

accompanying it will help many souls to be born
ISBN 89-8314-035-6
again, and I want to give real thanks again to all

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of those who worked so hard with us.

I sincerely wish that our Lord will permit us to

spread the gospel of being born again of water

and the Spirit all over the world through those

who believe in Jesus.

With undying faith, I thank the Lord.

PAUL C. JONG

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8 Preface
Preface

We Must Be Born Again of Water

and the Spirit

God, when He created the heavens and the

earth in the beginning, also created the eternal

worlds, Heaven and hell. He created mankind in

His own image, but, since the first man, Adam,

sinned before God, all people have to die once.

“And as it is appointed for men to die once, but

after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

The death of our flesh is the passageway to

eternal life. Those who are without sin shall enter

the eternal world of Heaven and everlastingly

enjoy being the children of God, while sinners

will be thrown into “the lake of fire and
brimstone” (Revelation 20:10) and be tormented

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9 Preface
day and night for all eternity. humankind.
Therefore, all of humankind must be born In the Old Testament, God gave Israel the
again. We have to be born again through our merciful law of redemption. This was so that on
faiths, be redeemed from all our sins and become the Day of Atonement, all the sins of Israel for
righteous. For only then can we enter the eternal that year could be expiated through the High
Kingdom of Heaven. The Bible says, “Unless Priest, Aaron, by laying his hands on the head of
one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot the ‘scapegoat’ and passing all the sins onto that
enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). “To be scapegoat.
born again of water and the Spirit” is the only These were the words of revelation, which
way we can enter the eternal Kingdom of God. foretold the sacrifice of eternal atonement. It
What, then, is this ‘water’ and ‘the Spirit’ that revealed the truth that all the sins of humanity
allows us to be born again? The ‘water’ in the would be passed onto Jesus all at once, who
Bible refers to ‘the baptism of Jesus.’ came in the flesh of a man, according to the will
Why was Jesus, who is God, baptized by John of the Father. And He was baptized by John the
the Baptist? Was it to show His humility? Was it Baptist who was the descendant of Aaron and the
to proclaim Himself the Messiah? No, it wasn’t. representative of all humankind.
When Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist When Jesus was baptized, He said to John,
by means of ‘the laying on of hands’ (Leviticus “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us
16:21), it was ‘one Man’s righteous act’ to fulfill all righteousness” (Matthew 3:15).
(Romans 5:18), which took away all the sins of Here, ‘for thus’ means ‘by the laying on of

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hands,’ in order to pass all the sins of the world received the complete judgment for them in our
onto Jesus, so that all righteousness might be place.
fulfilled for all of us. The word ‘righteousness’ is
‘dikaiosune’ in Greek, and its meaning is “the
fairest state” or “to be just in character or deeds The Water, Which Means
with the implication of being righteous or the Baptism of Jesus, Is the Antitype
fitting.”
of Salvation
Jesus had fulfilled all righteousness for all

people through His baptism in a just and fitting
Therefore, without having ‘the faith in the
manner. Because Jesus took on all the sins of
baptism of Jesus,’ we cannot be saved. That is
people through His baptism, the next day, John
why the Apostle Peter declared the water, which
the Baptist testified, “Behold! The Lamb of God
means the baptism of Jesus, to be “an antitype
who takes away the sin of the world!” (John
which now saves us” (1 Peter 3:21).
1:29)
Today, most people who believe in Jesus do
With all the sins of humankind on His
not believe in the baptism of Jesus, the ‘water,’
shoulders, Jesus walked toward the Cross. He
but only believe in His death on the Cross. But
vicariously took the judgment for all the sins He
will this kind of faith save sinners? Can we be
had taken on Himself through His baptism. He
redeemed from all our sins by believing only in
died on the Cross, saying, “It is finished” (John
the blood of Jesus? Can it give us salvation?
19:30). He took all our sins onto Himself and

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