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Circumcision and the baptism

Circumcision is a ceremony to cut a part of the body. Circumcision means the faith to take off the fresh and receiving promise of the seed from God. Israelites circumcised in eighth day after they were born in the Old Testament. But they forgot all the meanings contained in the circumcision, and did not recognize the Messiah. Baptism is the ceremony that is dies in water and is born again by the Holy Spirit. So they go into and out of the water, or they consume water. They believe that the former is dead and the be newborn through this ritual. So they gain the life associated with Jesus Christ who was died on the cross. Every day they act as the life of self-denial. Only the repentant lives as this life because the repentance is the life of the self-denial. They turn to the word of God from the love of the world. Circumcision and the baptism have the same meaning. Circumcision and the baptism are the death of the oldself and the be born again. Circumcision is the belief that it will b...

The worship

The worship is the respect of the mind to give self to God. In Old Testament times, sacrifice was offered by the death of animals in worship. The death of an animal is same as the death of a sinner. In the New Testament times, Jesus Christ was died on the cross. So sinners believe that they are died together on the cross. 『I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.』(Galatians 2:20) The worship is the determination of the mind to confirm that Jesus was died with the cross and move to a new life. 『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.』(Romans 6:4) The worship is the ritual an extension of baptism, is an extension of the sacrament. 『I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,...

The covenant

The first covenant between God and man was contrated in the garden of Eden.『But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.』(Genesis 2:17) They must eat the fruit of the tree of life, and keep spiritual being. God had brought them out of the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve broke the covenant. God made a new covenant. 『And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.』(Genesis 3:15), God destroyed the people except the eight by the flood because the people were corrupt again. God made a covenant with Abraham. He said he would give the promised land and promised seed. So, God say to Abraham obey. Circumcision means the promise that have a descendant of the salvation. The descendants of the promise is Jesus Christ. The last is a covenant of blood through the cross of Jesus Christ.『Likewise also the cup a...

The Law of the old Testament and the Law of the Holy Spirit

The law of God is like a jail that holds sinners. This law is called the law of sin and death. The law is a command of God who judges if Israel does not obey many laws. The law is the one God gave to the Israelites to make them cognize that human beings are sinners who can not but be judged. So the law means teacher that lead to Christ for repentance to return to God through sacrifice. But the Bible says that few repentance. The law of the Spirit applies to those who are guided by the Holy Spirit. God bought those who repented and were associated with Jesus Christ who was died on the cross from Satan. Let them to be born again by the Holy Spirit and be God's people. Those who obey the law of the Holy Spirit are unrelated to the law of sin and death. So God does not ask the sins of those who follow the Holy Spirit. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ...

The sacrifice and the cross

(4) The comparison of Old and New Testaments The sacrifice and the cross The sacrifice of the Old Testament was the thing to kill the beast without blemishes devour instead of the sinner. In the days of the Old Testament priests offer sacrifices. The Old Testament sacraments were given to God continually and repeatedly to eliminate sin. The cross of the New Testament era was a sacrifice to redeem all sinner for the repentant only one time. Redemption is that God pay a price and buy a sinner for Satan. Redemption is that God pays to Satan the price of Jesus' blood and buy the repentant. The Old Testament sacrifice is for forgiveness of sins, but the New Testament cross is a shedding of blood to buy the repentant. So God cleanses the sins of those who belong to him. 『Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the en...

Being justified by the faith.

『Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ』(Romans 5:1) being justified by faith. The faith is the one of Jesus Christ. A sinner can not meet God. If the sinner is not righteous, he can not meet God, because God is holy. Those who was died on the cross with Jesus can enter into the faith of Jesus Christ.『 For he that is dead is freed from sin.』(Romans6:7) 『The death of the cross and the righteousness of God are in accord. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.』(Romans 6:4) It isn't simply confession as that we believe in Jesus. We must believe that we have been buried with Jesus in our mind because we have been baptized. Baptism is a ceremony of the declaration that my fresh was dead. The repentance is to abandon the flesh's mind and to turn to God. I believe that I am a dead, and believe tha...

The life of newness to be born again

The life of newness to be born again is the another creature. 『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) The life of newness to be born again is the resurrection. The resurrected body is different from the previous one. After the resurrection, Jesus suddenly appeared to the disciples.『And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.』 (Luke 24:36-37) He transformed himself.『After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.』(Mark 16:12) We can not see the resurrected body because of the flesh. We just accept it by faith. Why should we be born again? We can enter the kingdom of God only when we are born again. To be born again, we must believe that we become the dead same Jesus who was died on ...

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 i...

The repentance

Repentance is a event to turn to way of the life. It isn't that abandon a bad mind and have a good mind. Although there is conscience in mind of human beings, evil mind appear in any situation. Human beings do not change their mind with any effort. So the oldself must be dead and must be born again to new man. Although Jesus was the Son of God, God made Jesus to die to save the repentant. The repentant cognize that the death of Jesus is the same his death. So, God makes the repentant to die with Jesus also, makes to born again with Jesus too. This is the salvation of the repentant. Baptism is a covenant. Baptism is a covenant between God and the repentant.『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.(Romans 6:4)』 Those who don't want to remember the past life, they know means that to be born again. Repentance is returning to the way of the life...

Those who are called, and those who are chosen

(3) New Testaments Those who are called, and those who are chosen The meaning of the『person who is called』is the expression that the person who comes to the church with the grace of God and believes in Jesus. If the faith did not come from God, but he believed in himself.『But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.』(Galatians 3:23) They are people who think that their sin have been forgiven for the blood of Jesus who was died on the cross. But it isn't unless one is born again. If you aren't born again, hadn't chosen, you can't enter the kingdom of God. Those who are chosen are persons who are born again by water and Holy Spirit. The person to born again believes that the flesh from the parents was died with Jesus. The expression of『being dead』is baptism.『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also s...

The tree of knowledge of good and evil

The tree of knowledge of good and evil on earth means the law. The law is the water under the sky. Through the law, the fruits of the heart who want to be like God themselves appear. In other words, the tree that knows good and evil is the law, and the fruit on the tree is its righteousness (fruit). The seed of the fruit does not become life to itself, nor to others. The word "died" is a state in which the human spirit is dead. And it says, "People die again." The spirit died once because it was trapped in this world, but it is judged and dies by eating the fruit of the tree that knows good and evil again. The death of the body is included in the first death. Living in this world is the first death in the eyes of God. So, God speaks on the premise that "the body must die someday". "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die". In the original text of the Hebrew language, it says, "He will die and die." Since there i...

The seed to be promised

『And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul』(Genesis 2:7), The seeds that God plant can be the spiritual body to alive the spirit. That seed is the one to be promised.『And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.』(Genesis 3:15) Then God commanded Abraham to Circumcise. Circumcision is the ritual of taking off the body from parents and receiving the promise of seed from God. The seed of promise is Jesus Christ. God gives new life to Saint who is died on the Cross with Jesus Christ. This is baptism. 『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.』(Romans 6:4) Those who have the seed to be promised are saved. God promised to the seed. One who does not believe in the pro...

The circumcision

(2) Old Testaments The circumcision 『This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.』(Genesis 17:10-11),『He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.』(Genesis17:13) This was a testament of the people of God in the Old Testament times. Circumcision is a ceremony in which an oldself is dies and becomes a covenant people of God.『Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.』(Isaiah 52:1) God also calls for that the Israelites must to be circumcised in the mind.『And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, t...