[Chapter 8-12] Who Would Dare to Stand against Us? (Romans 8:31-34)
(Romans 8:31-34)
“What
then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against
us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,
how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall
bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he
who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who
is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.”
In
Romans 8:31-34, Paul testifies on Christ’s inseparable love of the
believers by summarizing the gospel of the water and the Spirit and
reaching its final conclusion. This passage proclaims the great joy of
salvation reached at the zenith of faith.
Paul
said in Romans 8:31, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is
for us, who can be against us?” Like Paul, we have experienced that the
gospel of the water and the Spirit radiates as time goes by and becomes
an even greater gospel of salvation as more of our weaknesses are
revealed. The more we serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the
more we are filled with conviction and joy.
Paul
called the gospel in which he believed as, “my gospel” (2 Timothy 2:8).
The gospel that Paul bore witness to was none other than the faith in
the baptism and the blood of Jesus.
“My
gospel” that Paul preached does not refer to the gospel of the Cross
that the religious people believe in, but the gospel of the water and
the Spirit that proclaims the blessing that Jesus took away all the sins
of mankind once and for all.
This
gospel made Paul a man of great courage. Since he received the
forgiveness of sins, the righteousness of God filled his heart and thus
his heart was also filled with the Holy Spirit. He devoted himself to
bearing witness to the gospel of the water and the Spirit all his life.
The gospel of the water and the Spirit has the power and authority to
take away the sins of mankind all at once.
Who,
then, can dare to be against the gospel of the water and the Spirit
that Paul believed in? No one! Romans 8:31 tells us, “What then shall we
say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Who in
this world can be against those who believe in the gospel of the water
and the Spirit? When God saved the mankind from the sins of the world
through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, who can take His power
in vain? Neither those who believe in Jesus in name only nor Satan
himself can fight against or win over those who believe in the gospel of
the water and the Spirit.
He justified us all at once
Romans
8:29-30 states, “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be
conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among
many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom
He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.”
This
tells us that God the Father planned to save all the sinners in Christ
and called them through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, washing
away their sins all at once to make them His children. When our Lord
delivered all the sinners from their sins through the gospel of the
water and the Spirit, who could be against what He has done?
Who
could possibly be against and win over those who have been justified by
believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? This is nonsense.
You must know that anyone who is against those who have been justified
by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is against none
other than God Himself. You must believe in the gospel of the water and
the Spirit to be saved from all your sins at all costs. If in your mind
and heart you are against the gospel of the truth, then you cannot be
saved from your sins and you will be condemned to hell.
No one can be against those who have the righteousness of God
“What
then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against
us?” (Romans 8:31) That God is for us represents the fact that He has
taken away all our sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit
and has saved us. Who, then, could be against those who have been
redeemed of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit, and who could possibly say that such faith is wrong? It would be
a useless exercise in vain. God has approved the faith of those who
believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
How
can anyone challenge this? Jesus took away all the sins of the world
through His baptism and His blood on the Cross. Who can say that those
who believe in this are wrong? No one!
In
Romans 6:3 Paul said, “Or do you not know that as many of us as were
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?” Paul meant
that he believed in the baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross,
through which all his sins were passed onto Jesus and were cleansed, and
by which Paul died and was resurrected with Jesus.
Galatians
3:27 also tells us, “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ
have put on Christ.” This passage tells us that Jesus took upon all the
sins of the world with His baptism, was crucified on the Cross for these
sins, and was resurrected, all to bestow us with the blessing that
those who believe in this truth would become the children of God. Paul’s
faith was grounded in the belief that he was baptized into Jesus, died
on the Cross with Him, and was resurrected with Him. Therefore, once you
believe in the baptism of Jesus, all your sins are cleansed, and you
become a child of God by being resurrected with Christ.
“As
many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” In other
words, those who believe that Jesus came to this world and was baptized
by John the Baptist to take upon all the sins of the world, are baptized
into Jesus. Moreover, they also believe that they died on the Cross
with Jesus, and that by their faith they were resurrected with Him.
Anyone
who believes in the baptism of Jesus and His blood will therefore be
saved from his/her sins. Just as surely as Jesus is the Son of God,
those who are redeemed of their sins by believing in the baptism and the
blood of Christ will become God’s children. “For as many of you as were
baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” When we believe in the gospel
of the water and the Spirit, we put on the righteousness of Christ to
become the children of God.
Paul
spoke of Jesus’ baptism because he received a great blessing by
believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. But many are yet to
receive such a blessing from God that comes with the gospel of the
water and the Spirit. Most people think that the gospel that Paul
preached was the gospel of the blood on the Cross, but the truth is that
he believed in and spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which
combines the baptism of Jesus and His blood on the Cross.
Why,
then, are the followers of Jesus today unaware of this gospel of the
water and the Spirit? It is because the gospel of the water and the
Spirit preached in the Early Church period has changed with time. In the
Early Church period, all the believers believed in and preached the
gospel of the water and the Spirit.
In
time, however, the gospel was altered and preached as only the blood of
Christ while His baptism was increasingly marginalized. This explains
why, even now, many people believe only in the blood on the Cross, which
deviates from the true gospel of the Early Church period.
These
people still have sin in them. They are ignorant of the gospel of the
water and the Spirit, in which the righteousness of God is revealed, and
as such, they are still sinners, and they still stand against this
righteousness of God, even if they say that they believe in Jesus.
What
could a spiritually blind person see? The blind may try to understand
an elephant by touching it. A blind person may touch an elephant’s leg
and say that it is a pillar, and yet another blind person may touch its
nose and say that it is something long, for neither has seen an elephant
before. Likewise, a spiritually blind person cannot talk of the
greatness of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
Therefore,
those who do not know the blessing of the water and the Spirit cannot
preach it. Those who have seen can easily understand what someone tries
to explain with words, but a blind would never really understand it.
People
are born sinners. Because we were spiritually sinners from our very
birth, we do not know the truth of the gospel of the water and the
Spirit. Those who only believe in the blood on the Cross have made a new
version of Christianity on their own. How could their sins be washed
away when they claim that they believe in Jesus and yet only believe in
the blood on the Cross? Only more and more sins would pile up as time
goes by.
Those
who believe only in the blood of Jesus as salvation are those who are
not yet spiritually awakened. But Jesus tells us clearly in John 3:5,
“Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom
of God.” We must therefore believe in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit in order to be blessed with the glory of becoming the children of
God and entering His Kingdom.
Since
Paul believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, he said by
faith, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31) Can
those who do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit be against
the children of God? They could be against God’s children, but they
could never win over them. Those who only believe in the blood on the
Cross cannot win over those who believe in the gospel of the water and
the Spirit.
Those
who are against the righteousness of God can only become His foe and
thus can never receive His blessings. No one can receive salvation or
have the faith that takes him/her to heaven without believing in the
gospel of the water and the Spirit, the gospel in which the
righteousness of God is revealed. Those who believe in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit can thus overcome the false gospel and return to
the true one. The children of God can overcome the world and the devil
himself.
Some
do not clearly understand the baptism of Jesus and His blood, and their
misunderstanding lead them to false faith. If you believe in the blood
on the Cross but do not think much of receiving the forgiveness of sins
by believing in the gospel of the baptism of Jesus, then your faith is
wrong.
Those
who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit before God are
the ones who will attain His righteousness and have the true faith. God
tells us that those who believe only in His Son’s blood on the Cross are
mistaken. Those who do not believe in His righteousness do not believe
or recognize the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but those who
believe in His righteousness also believe that both the blood of Christ
on the Cross and His baptism took away their sins.
We
must throw away our stubbornness. Those who disapprove the gospel of
the water and the Spirit insist that their false beliefs are true. Those
who believe only in the blood have a half faith in His righteousness.
Only those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit have
the whole faith, and they alone also believe in the righteousness of God
and attain His righteousness (Matthew 3:15, 11:11).
The
books written by those who believe only in the blood are turning paper
into waste. The doctrines once discussed by theologians are now ignored
by Christians, but the gospel of the water and the Spirit is receiving
much attention. This truth has existed since the Apostolic Age and will
never change. The Word of God exists forever, but those who believe
solely in the blood are being erased from peoples’ memories. What is the
reason? It is because the blood, which has only half of the
righteousness of God, has no effect on sinners by itself.
Frankly
speaking, most people today, whether they are Christians or
non-Christians, commit so many sins. How could all these sins be
forgiven by believing only in the blood? The doctrines that emphasize
only the blood on the Cross teach people to pray for forgiveness
whenever they sin, but for how long can they pray for their sins to be
forgiven? No matter what they say, they cannot receive the forgiveness
of sins.
Did
Jesus come to this world and simply bleed to death without being
baptized? You know that this is not true. Jesus came to this world and
took upon all sins by being baptized (Matthew 3:15). He was baptized by
John before He bled on the Cross, allowing Him to be crucified on the
Cross. This is how Jesus fulfilled all righteousness. There is no need
for you to cry for His mercy to be forgiven of your sin everyday if you
believe in the baptism that Jesus received from John. Instead, believe
in the righteousness of God and receive the complete salvation.
Jesus
was baptized to take upon all the sins of the world on His shoulder and
was crucified to be judged for the sins of the world once and for all.
Redemption can be obtained only by believing in the baptism of Jesus and
His blood.
Did Jesus give us a salvation that is greater than the sins we commit?
The
redemption given by Jesus is far greater than all the sins that we have
committed and will commit. If the baptism of Jesus and His blood were
not greater than the sins of the mankind, then we could neither believe
in Jesus as the Savior nor receive redemption. However, the goodness of
the Lord is so great that He took away the sins of the world all at once
through His baptism.
Likewise,
the gate to Heaven is wide open, but no one can enter this gate without
believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. You can be against
those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but you
cannot hide from the dreadful judgment of God. Therefore, do not think
that you can win over the faith in the baptism and the blood of Jesus,
through which the righteousness of God was fulfilled.
Many
of those who were against the gospel of the water and the Spirit were
also against Paul the Apostle. But no one could say that the gospel of
the water and the Spirit that Paul believed in was wrong. They only
admitted that Jesus was the Son of God and their Savior.
Romans
8:32 tells us, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up
for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”
God the Father sent His only begotten Son to the world and made Him bear
all its sins through His baptism, die on the Cross, and rise again from
the dead in order to deliver us from our sins.
In
order to save us from the sins of the world and make us His children,
as Jesus was, God the Father gave us His only begotten Son. For God to
make all those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit,
His children and the blessed and righteous, He sent His only begotten
Son to be baptized. God had planned to bestow all mankind with His
heavenly blessings and the gospel of the water and the Spirit. One of
these blessings is to become His child by believing in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit.
“He
who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how
shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)
“All things” here refer to God’s gifts. What gifts? God gave those who
received Jesus and believed in His name the right to become His
children—that is, those who believed in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit are made the children of God. Those who believe in the gospel of
the water and the Spirit are without sin. They are righteous and are
truly the sanctified children of God.
Those
who become the children of God by believing in all these will be gifted
with the Thousand-year Kingdom and the Kingdom of Heaven. The righteous
are blessed to inherit all the glories of the Heaven.
“Freely
give us all things” has been interpreted by some as the giving of the
Holy Spirit. They think, “Does this mean that once we believe in Jesus,
the Holy Spirit is given to us separately?” This is not true because
when you believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, you receive
the remission of your sins and the Holy Spirit all at the same time. The
Holy Spirit cannot dwell in a sinful heart. The Holy Spirit comes to us
at the very moment when all our sins are forgiven.
There
is more for the believers than receiving the Holy Spirit. God’s gifts
do not end until all the heavenly blessings are given to us. In this
world, people tend to think that such abilities as healing, speaking in
tongues, and prophesizing are gifts, but the gifts mentioned in this
passage refer to all the heavenly things that our Father possesses. By
gifts, Paul is talking about all the things that God bestows on His
children who have the righteousness of God.
God
said that He would give all good things as a gift to those who believe
in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God gave the gift of being
born again to those believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
God gives all things of Heaven as a present to those who believe in the
gospel of the water and the Spirit. Christians suffer so much living
while in this world but when the Kingdom of God comes, they will be
endowed with the glory of Heaven.
Do not say you are the elect for no reason
Romans
8:33-34 states, “Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is
God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and
furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for us.”
“Who
shall bring a charge against God’s elect?” Could you bring a charge
against those whom God saved with the gospel of the water and the
Spirit? Of course not!
Theologians
quote Calvin by saying that some were unconditionally selected while
others were not. However, we must never use the term “unconditionally”
in the presence of God. By doing so, they prove that they do not know
God at all, and that their doctrine is false. Unconditional selection
means that God loves some for no reason and hates others for no reason
as well. How could we say that God is righteous when He loves some and
hates others? This is not our God. Our God loves and cares for all
mankind in Christ.
Here,
in verse 32 it is said, “He who did not spare His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give
us all things?” God gave us His Son in order to save all mankind.
Through Him, God made us believe that He has taken away all our sins
through the Word of the water and the blood. In verse 33 it is written,
“Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?” Here, the word “God’s
elect” does not imply that God selects some unconditionally. God selects
those who cannot live without Jesus Christ and those without their own
righteousness in order to clothe them with His own righteousness.
Those
who are chosen by God’s righteousness are the ones who believe and rest
in the truth that Jesus came to this earth, was baptized, and
sacrificed Himself on the Cross to take away all our sins. They are the
ones who believe in God, He who has saved them from the sins of the
world and clothed them with His righteousness.
Who,
then, could bring a charge against the righteous? No one! No one can
say that our faith is wrong. No one can judge those who are saved from
their sins and are chosen as the children of God by believing the gospel
of the water and the Spirit. Those who believe in only the blood of the
Cross can neither say that those who believe the gospel of the water
and the Spirit are false, nor bring a charge against them before God.
Some
people misjudge those who are clothed with God’s righteousness by
believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. But is that right?
No! The faith of those chosen to be righteous in the presence of God can
never be wrongly judged by anyone.
Who
could say that those who believe in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit are sinners and wrongly judge their faiths? We have long been
preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit, in which the
righteousness of God revealed, to all the people in the world.
But
no one has brought a charge against us for preaching the gospel of the
water and the Spirit. There were just a few who asked us to approve the
faith of only the blood of the Cross. Even they could not say that
having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit is wrong.
The
true gospel of the water and the Spirit is the gospel that contains the
righteousness of God. This is the true gospel, and all other gospels
are incomplete. Paul the Apostle, who preached the gospel of the water
and the Spirit, said that there could never be another gospel beside
this true gospel, and he asserted, “But even if we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to
you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if
anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received,
let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8-9).
No
one can say that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is biblically
wrong. Those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit are against it. If you believe that the gospel of the water and
the Spirit given by God is false, then go ahead and protest to God. We,
too, have to and are able to fight against the incomplete false gospels
that emphasize only the blood of the Cross. How could Jesus be crucified
for our sins without first taking them upon Himself through His
baptism?
Do not say that the believers of God’s righteousness have sins
To
“bring a charge” means to ask for the judgment on a trial. The only one
who could bring a charge against those who believe in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit is an evildoer. Those who believe in the gospel of
the water and the Spirit have faith in God’s righteousness, so who
could wrongly judge their faith? Who could say that they are wrong?
There is none, for it is God who justifies them. No one can accuse the
believers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit of having any sin.
“It
is God who justifies” (Romans 8:33). Who can declare the believers of
the gospel of the water and the Spirit to be sinless? Only God can. He
declares by His righteousness that the believers of the gospel of the
water and the Spirit are justified.
“Justified”
is not applied to those who still have sin, but it is applied to those
whose sins were actually forgiven, making them “sinless and justified.”
When God says that the ones who believe in the gospel of the water and
the Spirit are sinless, who can dare to say that they are wrong and do
not have the righteousness of God? No theologian in this world can say
so.
Christianity
of today has been corrupted by the Doctrine of Sanctification that
tries to attain religious holiness. A theologian in England, after
asking, “Is the church of God holy?” claimed that the church of God,
too, had flaws. Clearly, this theologian neither knew about the gospel
of the water and the Spirit nor had faith in God’s righteousness.
But
every believer in the church of God believes in the gospel of the water
and the Spirit and is completely sinless. Although he/she may be weak
in the flesh, he/she still has the perfect and the flawless
righteousness of God.
Is
everyone in the church of God without sin? Yes! The church is a place
where the believers who are sanctified and without sin gather together
in Christ. If the believers have sin, then they are not God’s children.
What made them sanctified? It is, of course, the faith in the gospel of
the water and the Spirit that made them sinless by receiving the
righteousness of God. The theologian said that even the church of God
had flaws because he did not believe in or even know the gospel of the
water and the Spirit.
Who
dares to say that the believers of the gospel of the water and the
Spirit are sinners? It is God who ‘justified’ them. Can we, those who
believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, be with sins only
because we are weak? We certainly cannot! Then does this mean that we
have no sin even as we still commit sins? Yes, we have no sin! This is
why we need to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. People
do not intend to commit sins on purpose, but because of their
weaknesses.
There
are very few people who actually intend to commit sins; almost all
iniquities are caused by the weaknesses of human beings. The ones who
believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit do not have sin in
their hearts because they have the righteousness of God. We are without
sin because God did away with all our sins with His righteousness. That
is why the Bible states, “It is God who justifies.” It is God who
declares that the believers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit
are without sin because they have His righteousness. We have been
delivered from all our sins by believing in the gospel of the water and
the Spirit.
If
Jesus had not taken away even our future sins, how could we be redeemed
of our sins and how could we say that we are sinners no more? If we,
after believing in the righteousness of God, commit sins and live in
sin, then does this make us not sanctified enough, or disqualify our
redemption, and thus destine us back to hell again? The answer is no! If
our salvation comes by self-sanctification, who in the world could ever
be saved? No one! No one can live a perfect life in the flesh and be
sanctified by keeping the commandments completely. So the Bible states,
“There is no righteous, none at all” (Romans 3:10).
In nature, human beings cannot receive God’s righteousness by their own deeds
God
sent His only begotten Son, who was baptized by John the Baptist, and
put Him to death on the Cross to save all mankind from the sins of the
world. Those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit have
become righteous by their faith. This is why there could be the
righteous even in this world. Abraham also became the father of faith by
believing in the Word of God.
Even
though many Christians say that they can receive God’s righteousness
through the Doctrine of Justification, they in fact are ignorant of it.
What is God’s righteousness? It is far different from human
righteousness. In what gospel is God’s righteousness revealed? In the
gospel of the water and the Spirit is this righteousness of God
revealed. If we reject the gospel of the water and the Spirit without
believing in it, that means we are standing against God.
No
one can be delivered from sin or receive God’s righteousness without
having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Can anyone be
against God’s righteousness even a bit? I have long believed in and
preached the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but I have never seen
anyone who could stand against this gospel. No one can be against the
gospel of the water and the Spirit on the basis of God’s Word because
this gospel of the righteousness of God gives us the perfect and
complete redemption of our sins.
Who can condemn those who have the righteousness of God?
Let’s
read Romans 8:34. “Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and
furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for us.” Could anyone condemn those who believe
in God’s righteousness to be sinful? No one can.
Could
anyone condemn the believers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit,
who have been delivered from their sins by faith, to be sinners? No!
“Who is he who condemns?” Who can say that the believers of the
righteousness of God are sinners?
The
wages of sin is death. If you have sin in your heart, you are going to
go to hell. God judges people because they have sin. But those whose
sins have been taken away by their faith in the righteousness of God are
not judged by God, because they no longer have any sin to be judged.
When God Himself does not judge those who believe in the righteousness
of God, who can dare to condemn them? If a believer in Jesus Christ is
with sin, he/she is a sinner and will be judged and condemned by God.
Sinners will be judged by God for their sins in their hearts and will be
shunned by other people. But if a believer in Christ believes in the
gospel of the water and the Spirit and receives the righteousness of
God, that person is sinless before God and no one can condemn the
person. Nor is there sin in the conscience of such people.
“Who
is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also
risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession
for us.” Jesus, the Son of God, came to the earth to give us God’s
righteousness, received baptism from John the Baptist to bear all our
sins, died on the Cross shedding His blood, and rose again from the dead
to become our Savior. He now sits at the right hand of God and makes
intercession for us as our Savior.
The
Holy Spirit also prays for those who have the righteousness of God.
Jesus prays for us in Heaven. The Holy Spirit, too, prays for us to God
the Father, but in a different way, with “groanings” that cannot be
uttered whenever we are weak in our hearts.
How
perfect is the righteousness of God in the hearts of those who believe
in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? The perfection of God’s
righteousness tells us that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is
also flawless and perfect.
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