Have you truly been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?

© 2024 Elizabeth. All rights reserved. Today’s message is a summary of a sermon by Pastor Paul C. Jong, a servant of God from The New Life Mission . If you visit The New Life Mission website, you can download Pastor Paul C. Jong’s sermons covering the entire Bible in the languages of each country for free as e-books, audiobooks, and bilingual books. Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit? Let’s look at James 1:1–4 :  “James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” This passage is a letter written by the Apostle James to the 12 tribes who were scattered and living in hiding due to severe persecution during the early church. The Apostle James also truly suffered much persecution and ...

This article summarizes the Sunday sermon of Pastor Paul C. Jong, the servant of God at The New Life Mission. You can visit The New Life Mission website to download Pastor Paul C. Jong's sermons in various languages as e-books, audiobooks, and bilingual formats for free. © 2024 Elizabeth. All rights reserved. Let's look at today's scripture. Matthew 7:21, "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven." Looking at the scripture verses preceding our main text, Jesus spoke about false prophets and said to enter through the narrow gate. The main text states that to enter the kingdom of heaven, one must do the will of My Father in heaven. Who are those who do the Father's will? When people hear that they must do the Father's will, they think they must do something themselves. Many people think they need to do something on their part, such as living righteously before the Lo...

 The following text is excerpted from  "Have you truly been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?" , the first book among many sermon books by Pastor Paul C. Jong, a servant of God at The New Life Mission. You can visit The New Life Mission website to freely download numerous books by Pastor Paul C. Jong in multiple languages as e-books, audiobooks, and bilingual books. © 2024 Elizabeth. All rights reserved. Now, it is written in Matthew 3, ‘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”’ (Matthew 3:13-15). We have to know and understand why Jesus was baptized when He was 30. He was baptized to atone for the sins of all people and to fulfill all the righteousness of God.  To save all people from their sins, Jesus Christ, the One with...

 The following text is an excerpt from  "Have you truly been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?" , the first book among many sermon collections by Pastor Paul C. Jong, a servant of God at The New Life Mission. You can visit The New Life Mission's website to freely download Pastor Paul C. Jong's numerous sermon collections in various languages as e-books, audiobooks, and bilingual books. © 2024 Elizabeth. All rights reserved. When one who has drifted away from God realizes their sins, and thanks Jesus for washing them away, and comes back to God, this is called repentance.  All of us are lumps of sin.  True repentance is to admit the following truth. We must admit that we are sinners before God, and that we cannot but sin all our lives and go to hell when we die. We must also admit that we have to receive Jesus by believing that He came to this world to save sinners like us, and that He took away all sins (through His baptism) and died and was resurrected to save us...

The text below is a summary of the sermon by Pastor Paul C. Jong of The New Life Mission, written after listening to his sermon. If you visit The New Life Mission website, you can download his sermon books on the Bible's teachings for free in various languages, available as e-books, audiobooks, and bilingual formats. © 2024 Elizabeth. All rights reserved. Today's scripture reading is from Revelation 22:7-17.  ‘“Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.” Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let...

The following is a summary of a sermon by Pastor Paul C. Jong, a servant of God from The New Life Mission. If you visit the New Life Mission website, you can download many of Pastor Paul C. Jong's evangelistic books for free in both e-book and audiobook formats. Genesis 6:5-8 “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” God says that all the thoughts and all the plans of man are always evil.  But what about man? Because man does not know that his thoughts are always evil, he holds onto the correctness of his thoughts, stubbornly following them.  As a result, acc...

The following is a summary of a sermon by Pastor Paul C. Jong, who is a servant of God at The New Life Mission and has authored numerous books, including “Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?” which is published on The New Life Mission website. Let’s look at John 14:1–7 ‘“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”’ The core of this passage is, ‘Jesus said...