In Jesus Christ



People say that if we believe in Jesus, we are saved from the judgment of God. What do you mean that believe? This means the faith to believe what Jesus said.『From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.(Matthew 16:21)』

They who believe in Jesus are equal with the faith of Jesus. Believers also were died, and were raised again the third day with Jesus. This faith is not a future faith but a present faith. Therefore, this faith is expressed by baptism.

『Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.』(John 3:5) Water represents the death. If they had lived in Noah, they to be baptized would had been killed by floods. The dead man by water on the baptism are born again by the Holy Spirit and become righteous.『For he that is dead is freed from sin.(Romans 6:7)』

The reason that people must be died on the cross is on account of the evil in the body. God doesn't forgive this evil. This evil is a desire to be like God. Everyone has an evil mind that wants to be like God. They cognize that evil mind must be die. So we must be die with Jesus. God opens the way of salvation to those who united Jesus' death on the cross. I believe that Jesus was died for me, and that I also am died with Jesus.

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