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The sin of the world wasn't placed on Jesus during his baptism in water but on the cross.

God had established the LAW that sin MUST be TRANSFERRED to a sacrificial ANIMAL through ‘the LAYING ON OF HANDS' in order for all mankind to receive the REMISSION/ FORGIVENESS of sins.

Thus, in the days of the Old Testament, sinners IST had to lay their hands on the head of a sacrificial animal in order to TRANSFER THEIR SINS onto its head, before they now shed it's blood.( Leviticus 4: 27-29) However, as it was cumbersome for them to be performing these sacrifices daily and individually, God instituted that Aaron the High Priest offered this sacrifice of atonement for all the people of Israel as their REPRESENTATIVE, on a yearly basis. (Leviticus 16:21)

In exactly the same way, John the Baptist, having been allowed by God to be born into the house of Aaron as a high priest, performed the very task of TRANSFERRING ALL the sins of mankind upon Jesus, as their REPRESENTATIVE, by laying hands on Him through His BAPTISM, since it is impossible for the entire mankind to TRANSFER their own sins upon Jesus individually.

And so Jesus with His BAPTISM, TOOK AWAY ALL the sin of everyone including original and daily sins, thereby making us all SINLESS and RIGHTEOUS before Him, fit to enter heaven. Therefore we MUST have faith in the BAPTISM of Jesus as well as His DEATH on the cross in order to be truly bornagain and righteous. Jesus's BAPTISM is an indispensable element to our salvation , which if we omit, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to attain TRUE SALVATION.

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WE SHOULD LEAD a SPIRITUAL LIFE. NOT OUR DEEDS BUT OUR FAITH IS IMPORTANT IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

The leaders of the church want to celebrate someone like Chudal Bae because they want to show off the superiority and orthodoxy of their own denomination. It is just like the hypocritical Pharisees who challenged Jesus. There is nothing we can learn from LEGALISTS. We should learn about spiritual faith. We should ponder WHY Jesus had to be BAPTIZED and BLEED on the Cross, and inquire into the NATURE OF THE GOSPEL OF THE WATER AND the SPIRIT. We should try to find answers to those questions first, and then try to spread the gospel to all the people of the world, so that they may be born again.

We should devote our lives to spiritual works. If a preacher tells you, “Be like this young man Chudal Bae. Keep the Sabbath holy,” he is only trying to get you to come to church on Sundays.

Here is another story which may prove enlightening. There was a woman who had to go through many trials to go to church on Sundays. Her parents-in-law were not Christians, and they tried hard to prevent her from going to church. They told her to work on Sunday. But she went out into the fields on Saturday nights and worked under the moonlight so that the family wouldn’t have any excuse to prevent her from going to church on Sunday.

Of course, it is important to go to church, but is it enough to come to worship every Sunday just to show how faithful we are? SUCH IS AN EXAMPLE OF A LEGALISTIC FAITH.

Numerous people have been possessed by demons through the teachings of false prophets.

Ordinary believers lead a humdrum religious life, but demon-possessed people use the power of evil spirits and seemingly lead passionate religious lives. What are the abilities they display? They have the abilities to heal, to speak in strange tongues and lead others to be possessed by demons through the laying on of hands. We should know that the laying on of hands is a method of passing something on to others and that the demons’ kingdom has been greatly expanded through this means.

One thing we must understand clearly is that those who say “Do not accumulate wealth. Give all you have to the Lord because you will be raptured before the Tribulation” are all FALSE PROPHETS. And those who claim to have received the remission of sin without the Holy Spirit within them are not truly the righteous before the Lord. We must also understand is the fact that the Tribulation as mentioned in the bible will definitely happen and we should believe in the coming of the Lord, living faithfully serving the gospel, and preparing our hearts.

The Lord tells us, “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” We must do exactly what He tells us to do. These are the times in which we are living of much deception, propagated by the false prophets. They keep telling us, “Now is the time just before the Tribulation.

But we will be raptured before the Tribulation because we are the born-again. We will go before the presence of the Lord anyway. So people let’s give all the material wealth to the Lord and prepare ourselves to meet the Lord.” They keep deceiving the people in this manner.

And let him who thirsts come. And whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. " (Revelation 22:17)

THE LIKES OF CHUDAL BAE

Why did God set aside the Law? Because it was of no use to save us from sin.

There was once a young man named Chudal Bae. In 1950, during the Korean War, the communist soldiers came and ordered him to sweep the yard on the Sabbath day in a bid to rob him of his steadfast religious faith and make him a communist. But this religious young man refused to obey their orders. They insisted, but the young man refused again. Finally, the soldiers tied him to a tree and pointed rifles at him. “Which do you want, to sweep the yard or to be killed?” When forced to make a decision, he said, “I would rather die than work on the holy Sabbath day.” “You made your choice, and we will be glad to oblige you.”

They then promptly shot him dead. Later, the church leaders appointed him a deacon posthumously to commemorate his unshakable religious faith. Despite his strength of will, his religious faith was misguided. Why couldn’t he have swept the yard and preached the gospel to those soldiers? Why did he have to be so stubborn and die for it? Would God praise him for not working on the Sabbath day? No.

They teach people about the methods of receiving the Holy Spirit, thinking that it is possible to receive Him by offering prayers of repentance. However, this method of receiving the Holynot based on God’s words. In spite of this, they say that if a believer in Jesus speaks in tongues and makes prophecies, then this is proof of the coming of the Holy Spirit on him.

Because many people don’t truly understood the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, they believe that they can also receive the Holy Spirit by learning and following the teachings of false prophets. This is how Satan was able to fill Christians with the spirits of demons and reign over these people. All of these methods are the traps of Satan.

There are many around who claim to have been born again and to have received salvation. But the reality is that those who have not been born again through the gospel of the water and the Spirit do not have the Holy Spirit within them. Those who do not have the Spirit within them are not essentially the righteous, no matter how much they claim that they do not have sin.

You must truly become the righteous, not just claiming to be the righteous superficially. What does God’s Word in Matthew 24:41 tell us, “Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left,” This verse means that God will look into people’s hearts and see whether or not they have received the remission of sin through His gospel of the water and the Spirit and thus have the Spirit within them, and He will take only those who have the Spirit within them. Those who merely claim to have been born again just by lip service will not be lifted up.

I once knew someone who was a fervent believer in Jesus and looked as if he possessed many powers from God. He encouraged people to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit and led revival meetings in which he cast out demons through the laying on of hands, also performing wonders such as speaking in tongues and healing. He became an object of envy and respect through his works of wonder. Scores of thousands of believers followed him. However, soon he began to deny Jesus saying, “Jesus Christ is a failure. He isn’t the Son of God.” He cursed Jesus Christ and even claimed that he was God himself. He finally killed Jesus Christ in his heart and in the hearts of many Christians.

People like this reject the gospel of the water and the Spirit because Satan is their guide. They come to have the mistaken belief from the beginning because they have an illusion that they possess the same powers as the Apostles, to see their abilities, to make people speak in other tongues and to cast out demons through the laying on of hands. They have the firm belief that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit has come on them.

During the Tribulation period, most of the born-again believers will be martyred. But some of them will escape and survive. The Lord will finally destroy this land at a time when the gospel can no longer be evangelized, and He will appear in the heavens and catch all of us up with Him in the sky. He will first lift up the brothers and sisters who are sleeping in the grave, and then He will transform all the surviving believers everywhere in this world and lift them up too.

The Lord told us this clearly in the Word. Therefore we shall not be deceived by the false doctrine of pre-tribulation rapture. Do not be deceived. One thing is very clear: We will be raptured after the Tribulation. Our Lord said that He would send His angels to gather us from every corner of the earth after the Tribulation. We must believe in this steadfastly and unwaveringly.

When people make up special new garments of fig leaves, they may last as long as two or three months. But sooner or later, the garments become rags and they have to make up a new set and carry on with their hypocritical lives. This is the life of legalists who try to live up to the law in order to be saved. They have to continuously make new garments out of fig leaves.

Legalism is the faith of fig leaves. Legalists tell you, “You have all sinned over the past week, haven’t you? Then, repent.” They shout at you in a loud voice. “Repent! Pray!” A legalist knows how to make his voice sound holy. “Lord! I am sorry. I didn’t live by the Law. I didn’t keep Your commandments. Forgive me Lord, forgive me just once more.” They can never live by the Law even though they try valiantly to do so. In fact they are challenging the law of God and God Himself. They are arrogant before God.

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 King Solomon had mobilized the Israelites in forced labor for 7 years to build the Temple of Jehovah and for 13 years to ild 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!”

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One can never become sanctified without believing in Jesus. The word “gradual sanctification” came from idol worshippers of the heathen religions. The Bible says, “There is none righteous, no, not one.” How can one become sanctified by training oneself? A human being cannot become righteous by himself/herself. There is no one who will become righteous or who became righteous by oneself. There is no one who is sinless by his/her efforts. It is possible only by the FAITH in God’s word. The Bible says, “There is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God” (Romans 3:11).

If I were so sure that the rapture would take place before the Tribulation, even I would be up there with them telling you also, “Give everything you have to the Lord and go before the Lord without having any money left over.” However, we find in the Scriptures that the time of the rapture is definitely not before the tribulation.

The Seven Year Tribulation can be distinguished by he first three and a half years and the second three and a half years. The Scriptures inform us that the Antichrist will appear after the first half of the Tribulation and set an idol in his own image in the Temple of the Israelites, claiming, “I am God.” The Antichrist will rule over the world during the latter half of the Tribulation and persecute the righteous people of God, and the rapture will occur during the second half of the tribulation although the Lord did not specify exactly when it would occur.

Why does He not make this clear to us? It is because the lives of the believers would be in danger if the exact time of the rapture were to be known. Those unbelievers would persecute the bornagain believers to death if they knew exactly when the rapture would occur. God the Father has not specified the exact date of the rapture, because it is for our protection even though we understand that it will happen some time during the second three and a half years period of the Tribulation. This is the WISDOM of God.

WHAT ’s HUMAN ’s BIGGEST PROBLEM? THEY LIVE WITH MANY MISTAKEN ILLUSIONS.

Luke 10:28, “Do this and you will live.”

People live with many mistaken illusions. It seems that they are especially vulnerable in this respect. They seem to be intelligent but are easily deceived and remain unaware of their evil sides. We are born without knowing ourselves, but we still live as if we do. Since people do not know themselves, the Bible repeatedly tells us that we are sinners.

People talk about the existence of their own sins. It seems that people are incapable of doing good, however, they are inclined to characterize themselves as good. They boast of their good works and show off, though they say they are sinners with their lips. They don’t know that they neither have good in them nor the ability to do good, so they try to deceive others and sometimes even deceive themselves. “Come on, we can’t be completely evil. There’s got to be some good inside of us.”

WHAT ’s HUMAN ’s BIGGEST PROBLEM? THEY LIVE WITH MANY MISTAKEN ILLUSIONS.

Luke 10:28, “Do this and you will live.”

People live with many mistaken illusions. It seems that they are especially vulnerable in this respect. They seem to be intelligent but are easily deceived and remain unaware of their evil sides. We are born without knowing ourselves, but we still live as if we do. Since people do not know themselves, the Bible repeatedly tells us that we are sinners.

People talk about the existence of their own sins. It seems that people are incapable of doing good, however, they are inclined to characterize themselves as good. They boast of their good works and show off, though they say they are sinners with their lips. They don’t know that they neither have good in them nor the ability to do good, so they try to deceive others and sometimes even deceive themselves. “Come on, we can’t be completely evil. There’s got to be some good inside of us.”

WHAT ’s HUMAN ’s BIGGEST PROBLEM? THEY LIVE WITH MANY MISTAKEN ILLUSIONS.

Luke 10:28, “Do this and you will live.”

People live with many mistaken illusions. It seems that they are especially vulnerable in this respect. They seem to be intelligent but are easily deceived and remain unaware of their evil sides. We are born without knowing ourselves, but we still live as if we do. Since people do not know themselves, the Bible repeatedly tells us that we are sinners.

People talk about the existence of their own sins. It seems that people are incapable of doing good, however, they are inclined to characterize themselves as good. They boast of their good works and show off, though they say they are sinners with their lips. They don’t know that they neither have good in them nor the ability to do good, so they try to deceive others and sometimes even deceive themselves. “Come on, we can’t be completely evil. There’s got to be some good inside of us.”

They continuously have to pray and practice wonders and signs by the name of Jesus. People who say, “I have received the gift of preaching the gospel,” continuously have to preach the gospel because if they don’t, their pseudo-happiness soon disappears. If these people are not loyal to the demon’s gifts of speaking in tongues, healing, or prophecy, in other words, if they are not faithful to the works of Satan, then Satan may make them become sick for no particular reason. It is just like a fortuneteller or a shaman gets a lingering illness when he neglects the role as Satan’s servant. This is why they have to use the gifts they have received from Satan ardently lest they are abandoned in misery after they have used up their powers.

We Must Not Be Deceived by the Doctrine of “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”

The Evangelicals claim the theory of “pre-tribulation rapture,” that is to say; the rapture will come before the Seven Year Tribulation. Therefore they claim the following, “You will not even have an opportunity to spend the riches of this world when you are raptured. So instead you should give the riches of the world to the church as an offering and use it for the Lord’s work.” This is really a fantastic idea for requesting offerings and donations. It is their intentions to sanctify their religious leaders and to accumulate vast riches of this world with this false doctrine of the rapture.

Even in our locality, I am really dumbfounded to see that there is a certain church that is collecting funds to build a three million dollar edifice of a church in these economically difficult times. These people are tragically using the false pre-tribulation doctrine of the rapture to accumulate their own wealth.

Legalists seem pious, but you should know that they have to make new garments every day. Legalism is the faith in garments of fig leaves, the wrong faith. Many people try so hard to live piously according to the law of God. They bellow at the top of their lungs on the mountains so that their voice begins to sound quite pious.

Legalists cut an impressive figure when they lead prayer meetings at church. “Holy Father in Heaven! We have sinned this past week. Please forgive us...” They break into tears and the rest of the congregation follow suit. They think to themselves, “He must have spent a long time in the mountains praying and fasting. He sounds so pious and faithful.” But because his faith is legalistic, even before the prayer ends, the legalist’s heart begins to fill with arrogance and sin.

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 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.