You cannot know this secret just because you believe in Jesus. Only those who believe in God’s righteousness know it. Be advised you wrong believers in God that you should understand and believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which is God’s righteousness. Then you will be able to free yourselves from the suffering curse.

If a man says that he has sin in his heart even when he believes in Jesus, it means that he believes in the wrong way and has to believe in the true gospel that bestows God’s righteousness. No matter in what denomination people believe in Jesus, if they claim to believe in Him somehow, yet hold sin in their hearts, they are committing the sin of ignoring God’s righteousness. What is the right result of believing in God? If you believe in Jesus as your Savior in truth, you will surely be sinless. However, if you have sin in your heart even after believing in Jesus, it means that you have not fully understood God’s righteousness.

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The Lord who saved all the sinners from their sins has already come in flesh, saved the sinners, and become the Savior of all believers. Then, can a person who truly believes in the water and the Holy Spirit have sin? The person should not have sin if he/she truly believes in God’s righteousness from the moment he/she first believes in Jesus. But it is because he/she ignores God’srighteousness while believing in Jesus somehow that his/her heart comes to have sin.

Therefore, you have to give up your stubbornness right now. “I have believed in Jesus wrongly! Then in what way should I know Jesus and believe? I have come to understand that the Cross is important in believing Jesus, but His baptism is also very essential. Now I come to understand that Jesus was crucified on the Cross and received vicarious judgment because He took over all the sins of the world through the BAPTISM.” You have to realize these truths and believe them.

Those who remain stubborn against the Lord will receive God’s retribution in accordance. The result is being put into the fires of hell. That is why Matthew 7:22 states, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’” When the Lord comes again, those who do not believe in God’s righteousness and have sins in their hearts while outwardly pretending to believe in Jesus will be judged before God. They will say to the Lord, “Have I not believed in You well? Have I not cast out demons in Your name and spoken in tongues? Have I not served You, Lord?”

However, the Lord will say, “Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness (this indicates those who do not believe in God’s righteousness)! How can you say that you believe in Me when you do not believe that I have blotted out all of your sins by receiving baptism and dying on the Cross? Liar, you shall enter the eternal burning fire. Your sin is that of a false prophet and have led many people to hell.” Those who do not believe inHis righteousness and give up their stubbornness will receive God’s fearful wrath.

The biggest example of this kind of faith is of the Jews, and they still remain stubborn before God. To this day, they do not believe in God’s righteousness through Jesus Christ. Even among the Protestants, there are so many stubborn Christians who say that their daily sins can be forgiven every time they offer prayers of repentance. These people should give up their stubbornness of not believing in God’s righteousness in order to avoid His indignation.

Does Jesus forgive those for their self-crimes whenever they repent and pray for His forgiveness everyday? He doesn’t. John the Baptist, who was the last High Priest of the Old Testament and the representative of all mankind, baptized Jesus 2000 years ago and He shed blood on the Cross. For thus, He fulfilled the righteousness of God and blotted out all of mankind’s sins at once.

Where did Jesus take over our sins? Jesus burdened himself of all the sins of mankind all at once when He was baptized by John at the Jordan River. He also saved the believers eternally from sin by going up the Golgotha to shed blood on the Cross and receive vicarious judgment for all the sins. But all the Christian-sinners are still stubborn and do not believe in God’s righteousness.

If their hearts have already been cleansed of all sins by the blood on the Cross, then why do they have to ask for forgiveness for their sins until they pass away? They are being stubborn. Jesus’ blood on the Cross is important, but Jesus’baptism received from John is also so important that people should believe and have their sins forgiven in one time in order to obtain God’s righteousness.

Everyone is stubborn! But before God, you should give up your stubbornness of rejecting His righteousness. Those who believe in God should obey and believe in His words. I am also a very stubborn person, but I gave up my stubbornness before God and became righteous by His grace.

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Heb 10:18

Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.


Heb 10:2

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins

True repentance is giving up one’s stubbornness and receiving the remission of sins by accepting the righteousness of God in mind. After being forgiven, we have to change our wrong ways and acknowledge our mistakes, trying to live better lives spiritually in front of God. The latter is the repentance in actual life of a born-again saint.

Those who believe in Jesus, yet do not know God’s righteousness will be destroyed. These people should give up their stubborn ways, repent, and believe in the baptism and the Cross of Jesus for the remission of their sins (Acts 3:19). The Lord gave us this commandment in order for us to receive the remission of sins in one time by believing in His righteousness. We have to listen to God and listen to His words so that we can be perfectly righteous people and be forgiven for all our sins at once by believing in the truth that Jesus atoned all our sins through His baptism and crucifixion. When a person believes in God’s righteousness, he/she will be forgiven for all sin and receive the Holy Spirit as a gift. All the Apostles and disciples of Jesus believed in God’s righteousness and received the remission of sins in one time.

You, too, should not be stubborn before the truth. You should be stubborn at the right times. If you do not understand the spiritual circumcision well, you have to learn and believe it. It would not do to remain stubborn. You have to repent and believe correctly.

People reject the truth and mock it without knowing the truth of spiritual circumcision saying, “That is wrong! How can a person become righteous when he commits sins everyday? You know, God just calls the believers in Jesus righteous even though they are still sinful. It is the Doctrine of Justification. You are not called righteous because you really do not have any sin in your heart.” However, you should know it is a very erroneous teaching.

In the Bible, God said that through the gospel of spiritual circumcision that gives us the remission of sins, “I have blotted out all of your sins. You are sinless now. Because I have taken over all of your sins, you are righteous.” “Do you believe in My righteousness? If you believe in the words of the spiritual circumcision, then you are one of My people and you are sinless.”

God talks about His complete deliverance, but nominal Christians slander and mock the born-again Christians who believe in spiritual circumcision. They say, “How can a person become righteous when he/she commits sins ceaselessly? You can call a person ‘as sinless’ only through the Doctrine of Justification. How can we think of a person as really sinless? A person cannot help but sin every day.” They slander like this and remain stubborn because they do not believe in the righteousness of God.

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Deu 10:16 "Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.

What is the spiritual circumcision?

It means the remission of sins accomplished through Jesus’ baptism and His blood on the Cross. The blood of the Lamb is the vicarious judgment and Jesus’ baptism from John means that the sins of the world were passed onto Jesus. Even today, Christianity cannot ignore the Old Testament because then, it cannot believe in the New Testament. In the Scriptures, we can find that the spiritual circumcision and the blood of the lamb at the Passover ritual are closely related.

In 1 John 5:6, it says that Jesus came “not only by water, but by water and blood.” Jesus did not come only by water or by blood, but by both. You have to believe in the spiritual circumcision contained in the words of the water, the blood, and the Spirit in order to be delivered from all your sins.

Circumcision means to cut out

Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah, Jesus Christ would receive the vicarious judgment for our sins by being wounded and bruised. Therefore, there is something we should know before we go on. Why did Christ have to be crucified on the Cross?

In the Old Testament, a sinner had to lay his/her hands on a sacrificial lamb to pass on the sins and then had to kill the lamb. Then, the priest took some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and poured the rest of its blood at the base of the altar (Leviticus 4:27-30). A sinner of the Old Testament Age could be remitted of his/her sins this way. Then wouldn’t Jesus, who came as the Lamb of God (John 1:29) to save us from our sins, had to have had hands laid on His head as in the Old Testament in order to take all of mankind’s sins?

Then, when and how did the Lord take the sins of the world?

Is that not shown in Matthew 3:13-17, where John baptized Jesus at the Jordan? This is as in Leviticus of the Old Testament where it continuously says the sinner “shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering” (Leviticus 1:4, 3:8, 4:29) to pass on the sins. The High Priest in the Old Testament had to lay his hands on the head of the lamb and pass on his and all the Israelites’ sins (Leviticus 16:21). Then, he took some of its blood and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and poured its remaining blood at the base of the altar. They received the remission of sins this way.

In a way like this, our remission of sins was made possible by Jesus’ baptism from John and His blood on the Cross. This was God’s righteousness and the spiritual circumcision that God wanted to give us within the Bible. Therefore, we who believe in God’s righteousness had our sins cut off by Jesus’ baptism from John and His blood on the Cross.

When we perceive the meaning of Jesus’ baptism in the New Testament in relation to the circumcision in the Old Testament, we come to believe in God’s righteousness and we truly come to receive the spiritual circumcision in our hearts.

The true spiritual circumcision in the New Testament

Let us see Matthew 3:13-15. “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?’ But Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then he allowed Him.”

John the Baptist baptized Jesus at the Jordan. He laid his hands upon Jesus’ head and baptized him. (To baptize, ‘baptizo’ in Greek, means to immerse or to submerge under water.) In order for Jesus to die on the Cross for our sins, He first had to take our sins through the baptism. So, He was baptized by John first, and then submerged under water. Why was He baptized? It was because when He was baptized, all of God’s righteousness could be fulfilled. It was just and fitting that He took mankind’s sins through baptism and that He became our God and Savior. It was very suitable for Jesus to die on the Cross bearing all our sins on His body through His baptism.

The first thing Jesus ever did in His public life was to receive baptism. Baptism, ‘baptisma’ in Greek, implies “to wash, to bury, to transfer and to pass over.” In the Old Testament, the 10th day of the seventh month was the Day of Atonement of the Israelites, and Aaron laid his hands upon the sacrificial goats to pass on all of the sins of the Israelites. Of the two goats, one was offered to God and the other was made as an offering for atonement in front of the Israelites (Leviticus 16).

In the New Testament, Jesus received all of our sins by being baptized by John. On the next day of His baptism, John pointed his finger at Him and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)

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WHAT IS THE BIBLICALLY TRUE GOSPEL OF SALVATION

You have to admit that the spiritual circumcision is not possible only by the faith in His blood.

Let us see starting from 1 John 5:4. “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. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son. He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:4-12).

What is the proof of the spiritual circumcision?

It is the faith of believing both in Jesus’ baptism and His blood as our salvation. The victory that has overcome the world is the water and the blood. “This is He who came by water and blood─ Jesus Christ; not only by water, but also by blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is truth. And there are three that bear witness on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood.”

These witnesses, that show God is our God and our Savior, testifies that God came to earth in human flesh, took all of our sins unto His body through His baptism, shed blood on the Cross on our behalf, and thus delivered us from all our sins.

In the New Testament, the gospel of the spiritual circumcision consists of the water and the blood. In the New Testament, the water is the baptism Jesus received from John and the blood means His death on the Cross. Jesus’ baptism is the counterpart to the circumcision in the Old Testament.

Jesus’ baptism from John is proof that our sins have been passed onto Him by it. Those who believe in the truth will be able to stand in front of God and say, “God, you are my Savior. I believe in Your righteousness, therefore, I have no sin. I am your flawless child and You are my God.” What is the basis in the Scriptures that let’s you confidently shout in this way? It is the faith in Jesus’ baptism and His blood on the Cross, which constitute God’s righteousness. Accepting God’s righteousness as my righteousness cannot be possible only by Christ’s blood. Both His baptism and blood create it.

Let us look at the passage about the indispensability of Jesus’ baptism in our salvation. 1 Peter 3:21 is the proof of this truth.

“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.” The Apostle Peter is now talking about the doubtless evidence of our salvation. Jesus’ baptism is the circumcision in the Old Testament. Do you understand? As the Israelites cut off their foreskins for circumcision in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, Jesus was baptized by John and took all the sins of the world, enabling us to receive the spiritual circumcision. The baptism and the blood on the Cross created God’s righteousness. The spiritual circumcision and the baptism mean the same thing. You have to understand that Jesus’ baptism implies the spiritual circumcision to all of us. “There is also an antitype which now saves us─baptism.”
How do we receive God’s righteousness? By believing that Jesus was baptized and died on the Cross for our sins. Matthew 3:15 states, “For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Because all of mankind’s sins have passed onto Jesus’ head, sinners’ sins are blotted out absolutely. Every sinner becomes righteous by believing in Jesus’ baptism and His blood. Jesus Christ shed the blood of judgment on the Cross after bearing all the sins of the world; all of mankind’s sins were atoned this way. Believing that Jesus took over the world’s sins by being baptized and that He received vicarious judgment on behalf of us is to have faith in the truth that will bring God’s righteousness to believers. Believe in this truth.

John 1:29 states, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” Jesus is God’s Son and as our Creator, He fulfilled His promise of circumcision by taking all sinners’ sins. This is the true faith that brings in our hearts the spiritual circumcision, which is God’s righteousness. Jesus is our true righteousness. We must thank Jesus. We must thank Him for His baptism and blood that enables us to receive the spiritual circumcision.

1 Peter 3:21 continues, “Not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God.” A person’s filth of the flesh is not removed just because he/she believes in Jesus as his/her real Savior. You can receive the remission of sins by believing that all your sins have been passed onto Jesus by His baptism and His blood shed on the Cross.

Receiving the remission of sins by confessing Jesus as your Savior occurs in your heart. It takes place in the believer’s heart. If you believe in the Savior with your heart, you will be remitted of your sins, while your flesh is still filthy and commits iniquities everyday; but there is no sin. You receive God’s righteousness by believing that when Jesus was baptized, all of the sins were passed on to Jesus and that there are no more sins in your heart.

You have to believe in the truth to make it yours

In John 1:12, it says, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” What words have you received and accepted? You have to accept the things that were done by God’s Son. What was God’s work? God’s Son came to earth in the likeness of sinful flesh, and when He was thirty, He got baptized to take all of mankind’s sins and gave us the spiritual circumcision so that our sins would be blotted out. Then He died on the Cross as the Lamb of God and made atonement for us. The Lord became the eternal sin offering for all sinners and saved us eternally. This is true faith.

We become righteous by believing in this truth. Can we receive the spiritual circumcision only by Christ’s blood? No, we cannot. Jesus’ baptism cut out the sins from us and the judgment He received on the Cross by shedding blood for the sinners was the vicarious judgment for you and me. We are saved from sin and are exempt from judgment because we believe in the gospel of God’s righteousness, that is, the gospel of Jesus’ baptism and blood on the Cross. Receiving Jesus as the Savior can blot out all the sins in a sinner’s heart. Receive the spiritual circumcision in your hearts. Then, the righteousness of God will become yours.

True spiritual circumcision should take place in the heart

In Romans chapter 2, the Apostle Paul says, “Circumcision is that of the heart.” How do you circumcise yourself in your heart? This is possible by believing that Jesus Christ came toearth in human flesh, that He was baptized to take all “the sins of the world,” that He died shedding blood on the Cross, and that He resurrected again to be our eternal Savior.

The Apostle Paul said that circumcision should be done in the heart, and you can be circumcised in your heart by believing in Jesus’ baptism. If you want to receive the spiritual circumcision in your heart, believe in Jesus’ baptism. Then, you will truly become one of God’s children. Righteous is the person who believes that Jesus’ baptism and blood delivered him/her from all his/her sins. Amen

Until He was 29 years old, Jesus lived a private life supporting His family, but when He became 30, He started living His public life. During His public life, He blotted out all of mankind’s sins and delivered all the sinners from their sins.

The first thing He did was to receive baptism in order to deliver the sinners from their sins and make them righteous. “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him” (Matthew 3:13). Why did Jesus try to be baptized? We have to know that He did this in order to take all the sinner’s sins. We must not misunderstand the true meaning of His baptism. Baptism is to wash away sins by transferring them. That is why Jesus, in order to take sinners’ sins, asked John to baptize Him.

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Who is this John who baptized Jesus? John is the representative of all mankind. This is explained well in Matthew 11:11-14. “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.”

Starting from the days of John the Baptist, the age of God’s Covenant ended. This is because Jesus, the Person who was to fulfill His promises, had come. Then, who were the persons that were to fulfill the promises in the Old Testament? They were Jesus and John the Baptist. John the Baptist passed the sins onto Jesus. John the Baptist was the last prophet in the Old Testament who was sent to pass all the sins onto God’s Lamb, who came in the New Testament. John did this task by laying his hands on Jesus’ head according to the lawful way established in the sacrificial system. All the sins of the world were cut off and transferred onto Jesus when He was baptized. “For thus,” God gave the spiritual circumcision in all the hearts of mankind.