On the salvation

Q/A 1: What is the meaning of salvation? Salvation is saving the spirit. Spiritual salvation comes to those who earnestly desire and seek to know about the kingdom of God. If people see this world beautifully and living in this world is considered a blessing, they will not be interested in the spirit or the kingdom of God. Salvation is what spiritually poor people in this world seek for the kingdom of God. The spiritually poor are those who realize that they have left God, mourn, and have a heart to escape from spiritual darkness. Like the Israelites trapped in Egypt and enslaved, the situation of crying out to God comes as a means of salvation. The process of salvation can be explained as a journey like the Exodus. It is the process of exodus due to the blood of the Lamb, crossing the Red Sea and being cut off from Egypt (the world), the old man dies in the wilderness, and the new man crosses the Jordan River into Canaan. Canaan symbolizes Christ. Q/A 2: painting lamb's blood The Israelites cried out to God. So God chose Moses and sent him to Pharaoh to ask him to free the people from oppression, but Pharaoh refused. God inflicted ten plagues on Egypt, and the death plague of the last tenth son. The house painted with the blood of the Lamb on the gate allows the messenger of death to pass, and God frees the Israelites from Pharaoh. Pharaoh means Satan, and the blood of the Lamb symbolizes the ransom death of Jesus Christ. The ransom means giving the blood to Satan and buying slaves. The people of the church believe that Jesus' death on the cross is the death to redeem my sins. But this belief is not the end of the journey of salvation. Q/A 3: Water baptism across the Red Sea Crossing the Red Sea means breaking with Egypt. Egypt symbolizes the world (sin). Water baptism across the Red Sea means that you are dead for the world and the sins of the world. The saints escaped from Satan and became spiritually free. In Hebrews 11:29, 『By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. 』, In 1 Corinthians 10:1-2, 『In addition, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 』 Q/A 4: The law received at Mount Sinai The Israelites were free from Pharaoh (Satan) and escaped from Egypt (the world and the sins of the world), but God gave the Israelites the law, making them realize that they were departed from God. So, while they keep the law, they find the hidden Christ in the law, and come back to the kingdom of God. However, the Israelites thought only of the provisions of the law God commanded to keep, and did not realize the secret hidden in it. They believed that if we obey the law, we will reach God's righteousness. In today's church there will still be many people who are still bound by the law. Such a faith that follows the law and believes in Jesus is a false faith. Q/A 5: Death of an old man in the wilderness Before the people entered the land of Canaan, they asked Moses to have the spies enter the land of Canaan. So, God had each of the twelve tribes to spy on Canaan, and when they returned, they said, "If you enter, you die" except for the two (Joshua and Caleb). Believing the words of these ten spies, that night all the people cried and cried. God was angry, so that only two spies, children under the age of 19, and new men born in the wilderness, entered Canaan, and all the Israelites died in the wilderness. Express these as old man. The Bible says that the old man (greed) must die. This old man is the heart of greed that originated in the flesh, and it means his righteousness to become like God. Jesus said to deny himself. At this time, oneself becomes the subject of greed. The heart that comes from the flesh is greed. It means to deny this before the words of the Bible. Those who deny themselves God raise their spirits. In John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 』The reason the old man must die is to save the spirit. All humans have a spirit dead from birth. It is dead because the spirit is trapped in the body of sin. The death of the spirit means that the relationship with God is broken. Q/A 6: The law of the heart received in Moab Before entering Canaan, God told the new man who was born in the wilderness in the land of Moab the words of the new covenant to be kept in Canaan. It is to keep it in mind. In Deuteronomy 29:1, 『These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 』 They received the covenant engraved on stone tablets at Mount Sinai (Mount Horeb). However, in the land of Moab, he received the word of the covenant engraved in his heart. In Deuteronomy 30:14, "But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. The Bible says, "The law that the Jews received on Mount Sinai was "thing that the Jews could not keep, but now the new man can do it" This new covenant was defined by the prophet Jeremiah. In Jeremiah 31:33,『But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 』 In 1 Corinthians 11:23-25, 『For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it , and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. The new covenant is to keep in mind that we are united with the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Q/A 7: A new man crosses the Jordan River and enters Canaan Although the Bible describes a person who was reborn in the wilderness at the time of the Exodus as a new man, the new man means a person who died with Jesus Christ and was born again by the Holy Spirit. This is the very essence of salvation. How do you know if the old man is dead? "The old man is dead" is the new man whose spirit is reborn in the body of a spirit. So, they are those who realize that they are one with God in Christ. A spirit man who is reborn in a spirit body becomes the goal of life to save another person's dead spirit. This is the foundation of loving God and loving neighbor. Those who think that the work of this world is more important than saving the spirit are those of whom the old man did not die.

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