The Baptism and Blood of Jesus Save Sinners [Christian Sermon 22]
We must listen to the Word of the God who created us.
What is the “good conscience” mentioned in 1 Peter 3:21? As the Scriptures testify, it refers to those who accept and believe in their hearts the gospel of the baptism and blood accomplished by Jesus, thereby enabling them to approach the Lord with a conscience that is sinless and clean.
We can never obtain a “good conscience” through our own righteousness, efforts, or prayers of repentance.
To become those who can approach the Lord with a “good conscience,” we must know and believe the true meaning of the baptism that Jesus received, and thereby have all the sins in our hearts removed.
Through “Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?”, the first sermon book by Pastor Paul C. Jong, a servant of God from The New Life Mission, we must now examine the fundamental sins of our hearts in the light of the Word. Furthermore, we must learn how our conscience can be made sinless, good, and clean through the word of the gospel of water and the Spirit.
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Jesus Christ is our Savior, and it is testified in 1 Peter 3:21,
“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).”
The water of the baptism of Jesus is a must for the salvation of sinners.
Jesus washed away the sins of all sinners by taking these sins upon Himself through His baptism. Do you believe in the baptism of Jesus? Do you believe that our hearts are washed clean of all sins through the baptism of Jesus? Our hearts are washed clean of all sins, but our flesh still sins.
‘Someone is redeemed’ does not mean that he will not sin again.
We do sin. But our hearts stay clean of sin because of our faith in His baptism. It means,
“Not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God” (1 Peter 3:21).
Since Jesus washed away my sins, and since God accepted judgment for me, how can I not believe in Him? Knowing that Jesus, who is God, saved me through His baptism and blood, how can I not believe in Him? We were saved before God and now our consciences are clean. We can no more say before God that Jesus didn’t completely wash away our sins, just as we cannot say that God doesn’t love us.
Our conscience is extremely sensitive and it tells us whenever we do wrong. If our conscience is bothered even a little, we cannot be completely free of sin without believing in the baptism of Jesus. It is the only way we can have a good conscience.
When our conscience bothers us, it means that something is wrong.
The water of Jesus’ baptism cleans away all the dirt of sin. Jesus took away all our sins with His baptism and washed us clean. When we really believe this, our consciences can also be truly cleansed. How can our conscience be cleansed? By believing in the baptism and the blood of Jesus. Everyone has an evil and dirty conscience from birth. But if we believe that all our sins were passed on to Jesus, we can blot out all our sins.
This is the faith of the born again.
It is not something that you consciously admit. Is your conscience clean? Is it clean because you have lived a good life, or is it clean because all your sins were passed on to Jesus and you believe in Him? It is only through this faith that you can obtain a clean conscience.
There are words with life and words without life.
How can the conscience of all people be cleansed? The only way that we can be righteous and have a clean conscience is to believe in complete redemption through Jesus.
When we are sanctified by believing in His baptism, it does not mean the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God. For that, He came and was baptized and died at the Cross and was resurrected from the dead and now sits at the right hand of God.
When the time comes, He will come to this world again.
“To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation” (Hebrews 9:28).
We believe that He will come to take us who eagerly wait for Him, who believe in His baptism and blood.
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To save sinners is to be born again as the righteous without sin through faith in the ministry of Jesus, who is the High Priest of heaven, King, and Prophet.
The ministry of Jesus is this: To take away all the sins of mankind inherited from Adam, which destined us for hell, Jesus came to this earth in a body of flesh. He personally took upon Himself all the sins of the world through His baptism by John the Baptist, the representative of mankind. Then, by shedding His blood on the cross, He was judged in our place as the price for our sins, and by resurrecting from the dead, He cleansed away all of my sins and your sins — the sins of all mankind.
Through this, the meaning is just as 1 Peter 3:21 says: “not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God.”
Therefore, those who accept and believe in their hearts the ministry of Jesus, who took away all the sins of mankind through His baptism and the cross, can approach God at any time with a good and clean conscience, regardless of the weaknesses or faults of their flesh.
We give thanks for the grace of Jesus, who became the sacrificial offering for our sins, wholly saved us from sin through the power of His baptism and the blood of the cross, adopted us as His children who are saved by faith in the Word, and leads us on a good path.
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