Wisdom of the Primitive Gospel

What Do You Think the Primitive Gospel Is?

The primitive gospel mentioned in this book is the original gospel called the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Until now, however, the vast majority of Christians have not known that the gospel of the water and the Spirit is in fact the original gospel, and as a result have mistakenly believed in ‘a half-gospel’. That is why their faith has made no progress, and has made it impossible for them to see any spiritual growth. Their faith has always been imperfect, characterized by legalistic or mystical beliefs. As a result of this they could not help themselves but live with their hearts remaining in a sinful state.

What spiritual power could these Christians really have when their sins still remain intact in their hearts? Because they have become powerless Christians, their lives in this world are also useless. We may say then that today’s Christianity possesses a half-gospel ever since the passing of the Early Church. As such, all of us must rediscover the primitive gospel now before it’s too late, know the true love of God and believe in this love of truth.

WISDOM OF THE PRIMITIVE GOSPEL

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2007 by The New Life Mission

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.

ISBN 978-89-282-1052-7

Word of Acknowledgement

I thank God who has given us the Word of salvation which make us sinners become born again through the blessed gospel of the water and the Spirit. I also thank the servants of God and all my co-workers working at the Hephzibah Publishing House. And I cannot give enough thanks to Brother Phil Grahn in New Zealand and Pastor Jim Montgomerie at the Holland Branch of The New Life Mission for their faithful proofreading of this book. They worked really hard for this book. Thank you.

I thank my Lord and my coworkers in advance by faith for the success in helping numerous souls become born again through this book. I expect that God will bring about the great work of the gospel of the water and the Spirit among Christians all over the world. I give thanks to God by faith.

PAUL C. JONG

Table of Contents

Preface

1. What Is the Original Sin of Humans? (Mark 7:20-23)

2. Is the Gospel Fulfilled by the Blood Alone, or by the Water, or by Both? (Exodus 12:43-49)

3. The Relationship between the Ministry of John the Baptist and the Gospel of the Atonement of Sins (Matthew 21:32)

4. What Is the Original Meaning of Being Born Again? (John 3:1-15)

5. The Changed Sacrifice (Hebrews 7:1-28)

6. The Lamb of God Who Takes Away the Sin of the World! (John 1:29)

7. The Gospel of Atonement That Has Blotted Out All Your Personal Sins (John 13:1-17)

8. The Primitive Gospel That Can Overcome the Sins of the World (1 John 5:4-9)

Preface

Here is the book of Wisdom of the Primitive Gospel. The word ‘primitive’ implies that the gospel is the original gospel with a very long history, and ‘wisdom of the gospel’ refers to the gospel that compensates for sin. The Bibles says, By wisdom a house is built (Proverb 24:3). Our Lord is the owner of the wisdom in the whole universe. It was His wisdom that He came down to this earth to save sinners, received the baptism from John the Baptist, died on the Cross to compensate for the sins of the world, rose again and saved sinners. The Lord saves whoever believes the wisdom of the gospel, that is, the wisdom of the Lord, from all the sins of the world. His wisdom is unfathomable. With the wisdom of primitive gospel, in other words, through His baptism, His blood, and His resurrection, He saved us from all sins. We the believers in Jesus just bow our heads and thank God for the gospel of compensation for sin. I hope you will learn the Lord’s wisdom from the primitive gospel and be thankful to Him. I pray that all the people on earth can be saved from their sins by putting their faith in the gospel of wisdom that God has granted them.

This book is the fruit of our effort to provide you with an easy and clear witness of the truth of salvation based on the Bible so that you may receive salvation. You can be saved without fail by believing that you are a sinner who is bound to go to hell fundamentally and that Jesus has compensated for all the sins of the world by bearing them through His baptism received from John the Baptist and by dying on the Cross and by being resurrected. I am sure that this book will bring you the greatest gift of being born again. You must be saved from your sins by gaining wisdom from the primitive gospel, which is the gospel of compensation for sin. You should become born again. You should become saints who have received salvation without sin in your heart in reality rather than as a mere theory. To do so, you need to put your faith in the Word of salvation, which is the wisdom of primitive gospel of compensation for sin.

By reading this book, you will come to the precise and clear understanding of salvation that Jesus gives through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. You may also have questions as these: Then what is the gospel I have believed so far? Then do I have to forsake the old gospel and believe in the primitive gospel of wisdom? I want you to contemplate before God whether the old gospel or the primitive gospel is true. I hope you will find the Truth as you compare the primitive gospel with the Bible. The Word of God will help you discern the true gospel.

You will find differences between the old gospel you have known so far and the primitive gospel of wisdom. But if you compare the old gospel with the gospel of the water and the Spirit based on the Gospel of John chapter 3, you will gain better understanding and confidence in the Truth. So, I hope you to read this book while comparing it with the Bible. All your judgment and faith should be based on the Word of God.

You are now listening to the gospel of wisdom that compensates for sins and makes you born-again. I hope that you will become born again. Please do not hesitate to believe. Be delivered from the sins of the world by learning the wisdom of the gospel.

Now is not a time for you to worry about other souls. There is no time to think about what other denominations believe. Above all, your soul should receive salvation from all your sins, and you should check on your soul whether you have been compensated for all your sins through this book. I hope you to be born again by the Word of the water and the Spirit in the presence of God.

Have you become sinless after you believed in Jesus, or do you still have sin?

I hope and pray in the name of Jesus Christ that your soul will be filled with faith. About two thousand years ago, our Lord gave up His heavenly throne; came down to this earth; received the baptism from John the Baptist to pay the penalty for the sin of the world; carried the sin of the world to the Cross; shed His blood and died; rose again from the dead in three days; and gave us the gospel of eternal salvation from sins.

Let us now place our faith in the wisdom of the primitive gospel. Let us receive the remission of sins by faith. I devote this book to those who haven’t been born again even though they have believed in Jesus for a long time.

SERMON 1

What Is the Original

Sin of Humans?

< Mark 7:20-23 >

And He said, ‘What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.’

When we really understand humans, we realize humans are all a mass of sin. Humans are the seeds of lewd sin that cannot but commit sin throughout the entire life. Therefore, humans commit sin filled with lewdness, pride, evil thoughts, hatred, murder, theft, and all kinds of evil sins. Would you believe if I told you humans are beings who do such things? Do you believe that humans are beings that swindle and steal much? Would you believe if I told you that humans are beings that commit adultery? Would you believe if I told you that you were such people?

All such people are humans. Do you believe in the Word of the original innate sin according to the Scriptures that says all humans are born with evil sins and commit a tremendous amount of evil sins? Human flesh only commits sin throughout the entire life. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the body of a human is a factory producing sin. The human body lives on sin that God hates as a daily meal. The flesh of a human likes to commit sin; it enjoys committing adultery, the sin of lewdness, and going against God.

A human body commits sin from birth until the moment of its death. Not only does a human body like to commit sin, but it also likes to follow only its carnal desires. Isaiah 1:4 records that humans are a brood of evildoers, and Isaiah 59 records that there are all kinds of filthy and disgraceful things inside a human heart. Hence, a human is a mass of sin. Then, if we could deduce conclusively from God’s Word that A human is a mass of sin, then, we must receive this Word of God in our heart. And we must acknowledge before the presence of God that we are such sinners and then wait for the teaching of Jesus.

Humans are lewd. When a person looks at himself clearly, he can conclude that he is lewd and that lewdness is the person himself. A person who is honest with himself would accept that a human possesses the twelve kinds of sins God speaks of. Even so, there doesn’t seem to be many persons who acknowledge that he himself is lewd, that he is a mass of sin. Many people live a life like beasts in this world because they do not think they are lewd.

Humans make the culture of lewdness themselves because humans are a brood of evildoers. One would be embarrassed if he was the only lewd person in the world doing lewd behaviors, but they have made such a lewd culture so that they are not embarrassed because everyone else is also lewd. However, everyone’s heart feels embarrassed in one’s conscience about his behaviors of sin. It’s because God has given conscience to humans. The human conscience is the servant of God that He has sent as His deputy.

Adam and Eve hid themselves between many trees after committing sin. Many trees imply a human society that is covered with lewd culture. However, they could not hide the evil in their heart. Even now, many who are a mass of sin go in the midst of many people and hide themselves behind the culture of evil sins and go on living like a prisoner waiting for execution.

Everyone Lives with Misunderstanding of Oneself

Humans go on living with the misunderstanding of themselves. When a shocking and depraved incident occurs, there are people who question how a person can do such things and how a son or a daughter can do such horrible things to one’s parents. And they insist that they are not like that originally even if all the other people are like that. But, humans are beings that we cannot really understand. And for one to understand oneself accurately, he or she must come before the original gospel and be born again by the original Word of the gospel of wisdom.

There are many people on this planet who die without knowing their true selves even after living their entire life. When we look at this world carefully, there are so many bizarre events. When we look at people carefully, we can see that there are some people who pretend to be very righteous. Even when someone speaks vulgarly, they say, What in the world is that! How can an educated person say such a thing? They say one should not say such a thing even when the person is pointing out something that is wrong. They say that we should call a thief Mr. Thief. That is hypocrisy and arrogance.

God Says, Know Yourself.

When we look at such a person, I come to know that this person does not know himself. Even though Socrates said, Know thyself, people really do not know themselves at all; they do not know what sins are stored inside them. The Gospel of Mark chapter 7 verses 21-23 records that there are 12 kinds of sins inside the heart of a person originally. The heart of committing murder, the heart of lust, the heart of envy, the heart of thievery, the heart of evil thoughts, the heart of foolishness and many other sins are inside them, but I see them living without knowing that they themselves are hypocrites and that they are merely speaking the disguised words of goodness even though they have the poison of a serpent inside their hearts. That’s because they do not know themselves.

There are so many people in this world who do not know themselves. Therefore, there are many people who fall into hell after deceiving themselves and living their entire life being deceived by themselves and not believing in the salvation of the original gospel. There are many people who go to hell deceived by themselves originally and fundamentally. When some people go to hell after living in this world, the Prince of Hades would ask, Why have you come to hell? And those people would reply, I thought I would at least go to Heaven even though I thought Mr. so-and so who lived next door should have come here. It is not fair that I have come here. They would probably think, I thought I was at least a little better than the other people. I don’t know why I came here. All people who do not know themselves and do not know and believe in the gospel of the original salvation have gone to hell.

What is a human? As I have said in the introduction, a human is a lewd being. A human is an offspring of a brood evildoers.

It seems to be okay to say that everyone is lewd, but if I singled out a person and said, You are a lewd person, he would pack up and leave from this place immediately. But, even if I had pointed out any certain individual and said, You are a mass of sin and you are a lewd person, it would be totally true. We are all like that before the presence of God. When a person hears that man is originally an offspring of evildoers, he just thinks, Oh, is that so, and hears it nonchalantly like it is about the other people. However, if you reply, Yes, I am, when you are told, You are precisely such a person, then, you are an honest person. However, there are many people who make excuses and blame the other people. Such a person is a basically ignorant person who cannot see himself yet. He himself, you yourself, and me myself are all a mass of sin. We are a brood of evildoers who cannot but be lewd originally. We needed the wisdom of the original gospel of Jesus because we are lewd offspring of sin, otherwise, if we just had some shortcomings and we were not of lewd offspring, why would we need the wisdom of the original gospel of Jesus? Jesus would not have had to come to this world if we were not evil originally.

Humans Spill Sins Every Moment Because They Are Originally Sinners

Sins have filled up the heart of a human, inside a human soul. Let’s say the water inside this cup is the sin of a person’s soul, and then, the sin inside this cup would spill over whenever the person is wavering while living in this world, wouldn’t it? It would spill over. It spills over whether one is shaken from side to side. People go all around the world dripping sins like that throughout their entire life. Humans commit sin while living in this world because they are a mass of sin.

People do not know well what kind of sinner they are. Although we are the people who harbor the heart of sin as a mass of sin and commit sin throughout our entire lives, we think, I am not originally lustful. I have become like this because someone pushed me to be lustful. I am not originally a lewd person. I just need to wipe away the lewd sins I have committed actually. They say, I am not originally lewd!" and they constantly wipe it away with good deeds or the prayers of repentance whenever their sins spill over outwardly. Doesn’t the sin spill over again when you wipe it away? It does spill over. Because the inside of a person’s heart is a mass of sin, he commits sin behaviorally as well. It does not matter how much a person wipes away the outside of a person. No matter how much a person wipes the outside (works) ethically or morally, it is useless if he has sin inside his heart. One commits sin throughout the entire life with the heart of murder, the heart of adultery, the heart of thievery and so on. Hence, humans commit many sins here and there throughout their entire lives.

Humans Try Hard to Cover Themselves When They Do Not Know Themselves

People try hard to cover themselves when they do not know that they are originally a mass of sin. Let’s say for example, the sin inside a person’s heart spilled out a little. He spills out more sin after wiping it away, and he has to wipe it off constantly with a handkerchief and a towel. Then, when that is not enough, he has to wipe it again and again even with a carpet, and it would be great if one did not have to drip sin after somehow resolving to not commit sin, but it just doesn’t become clean no matter how many times one wipes away the flowing sin. We drip sin until the moment we die. Humans are beings that commit lewd behaviors until the moment of death. Therefore, a person who commits sin must receive Jesus as the Savior who has saved him from his sins in order to receive salvation. And to receive the remission of sins, one must first know his original self as it is.

Let’s say there are two certain individuals who have same sins inside them like two same cups here full of water. One person looks at himself and thinks, I am of lewd offspring originally, and therefore he gives up trying to improve himself and seeks to find the Savior. The other person cannot look at the mass of sin inside himself and thinks, I am somewhat decent. A person who believes that he is a decent person wipes away his sin throughout his entire life. And he is careful that his sins do not overflow and spill out, and throughout his entire life he tries hard to hide that he is originally a mass of sin covering this sin spilling over here and covering that sin spilling over there.

Like this, there are people who consistently live carefully in fear of sin overflowing while living their entire life with full of lewd sins inside their heart. Living so cautiously would not be of much help in going to Heaven since they already have a mass of sin inside them, but they don’t even know that living cautiously like that has become the footsteps to hell. They just go to hell after living cautiously. A person living cautiously is actually a sinner who commits all kinds of sins in hiding although the mass of sin does not spill out as much.

Do you admit that a person has the lewd heart, the evil thoughts, the heart of thievery, and the prideful heart inside a person’s heart? We can know that a human is of lewd offspring by seeing people committing all kinds of lewd sins well even though no one has taught them. A person does not know it well when he is young because it does not show up much, but there is no way to hide the person’s mass of sin as he becomes older. One cannot but spill out his sins constantly. He drips sin a little here and a little there, and then he regrets. He regrets, saying, I should not have done so, but continues to spill out sin throughout the entire life even though he regrets everyday like that. He is like that because he has been born as a mass of sin.

I am saying that one can receive the perfect remission of sins the Lord gives only if he knows that he is originally an offspring of evildoers. A person who knows himself as a mass of sin before the presence of God would believe without hesitation if someone told him that Jesus blotted out all his sins by doing such and such righteous work. However, a person who says, I have only committed this much sin until now and not committed that many sins, would fundamentally reject and not believe in the fact that Jesus took all his sins upon Himself by receiving the baptism and carried all the sins to the Cross. However, a person who deserves to be saved receives the remission of sins by believing that he is a total mass of sin and by believing in the Word of the Truth that the Lord has resolved all the sins on the Cross perfectly after receiving the baptism at the Jordan River.

I am saying that we are living with gross misunderstanding of ourselves regardless of whether one has received the remission of sins or not. We do not have sin if our Lord has blotted out all the sins of us humans by His baptism and the blood and we receive the remission of sins if we believe in it.

Therefore, God made a new covenant, saying, Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah (Jeremiah 31:31). It means that God will establish a new covenant instead of the old covenant. The new covenant was of God’s will that the Lord Himself would come to this world and save the treacherous sinners by taking upon Himself and blotting out perfectly all the original sins and the personal sins, the sins of the lewd offspring who commit lewd sins throughout their entire life. It was with the new covenant that God would save these people and become their God. He said, I will blot out all the sins of the lewd people and become their God and they will become my people. The new covenant goes on saying, No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more (Jeremiah 31:34).

The new covenant of God is that we cannot become the righteous by keeping the Law for we cannot become the righteous by trying to keep the Law. Legalists are committing this many sins again and ask the Lord, Lord, cleanse my sins. I have done some wrong today. Cleanse me, Lord, cleanse me, please This is legalistic faith. In the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, one had to pass over the daily sins by laying his hands on the head of a goat or a lamb and also pass over the yearly sins by laying on of the High Priest’s hands, and they therefore continued offering up the sacrifices, but one still was a sinner if he committed sin again. Therefore, the pardon of sin is not possible by the Law. Thus, the new covenant of God was necessary to every sinner, as the Lord said,For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

God had decided to have such lewd people like Hosea’s wife as His wife. As in the example I have given before, both two individuals are full of sins. They were born with same flesh with same sins. But one lives carefully in order not to spill sins; he even believes in Jesus very cautiously. It means that some people are very cautious about their sins overflowing. And when a drop of sin spills out somehow, they offer prayers of repentance to wipe out this sin, saying, Lord, I have committed a sin today. Please forgive only this sin." They cleanse and believe only as much as they have confessed. They are always sinners inside and they are always depressed although they pretend to be good Christians in hypocrisy on the outside.

Dear fellow believers, we are the lewd people. You and I must know that we were the people going to hell. Only then, we are thankful that the Lord has blotted out all our sins and we are also grateful after receiving the remission of sins whenever our sins spill out and whenever we remember the fact that the Lord has saved such lewd offspring like us. We can always be thankful then.

There are so many treacherous prisoners among the people who are imprisoned. Among them, some were sentenced to death while others were sentenced to life imprisonment. And there are many kinds of sinners who are imprisoned for robbery, who are imprisoned for theft, and who are imprisoned for many strange offences. And when I go there to preach the Word, they say, Pastor, haven’t you ever committed sin? We are imprisoned because we were unlucky and we got caught, but you, the pastor, are living out there now because you sin in hiding very well and you have not been caught. Do you think you are much better than us? Why do they lock us up like this? What sin have we committed when we are compared with the average people? Like this, the prisoners never think that they have committed sin.

Strictly speaking, they are actually correct. Although we have not beaten someone to death, we have hated people in our heart. Then, it is same as committing murder from God’s perspective. It means that whether one has actually killed a person or just had hatred toward a person, they are all considered same sin in God’s eyes. It says that God looks at the center of a person’s heart, not the outward appearance. Then, we also should have been imprisoned.

When we used to go to a farm long ago, there were manures covered with straw mats. Unless one uncovered the straw mats, the manures could not be revealed. Humans also are so filthy like that; when we take off the coverings of human goodness and the pretentious acts of righteousness, there is no creature as filthy as humans with so many sins. There are all kinds of sins inside a person when he takes off the coverings completely and looks inside before the presence of God. But the Lord has made the person who admits honestly, I am such a person, as a righteous person by the salvation of original gospel according to His new covenant.

We must know that we have received the remission of sins because of the righteousness of God. We have received the remission of sins because the righteousness of the baptism that brings us the original salvation of Jesus. No one can receive the remission of sins by his own righteousness. A person who shows off his good deeds and does not believe in the righteousness of God cannot receive the remission of sins. A person who does not have any righteousness of his own receives the remission of sins by going before the presence of the Lord and believing in the righteousness the Lord has given.

God Has Not Saved Little Sinners

God does not save little sinners. It means that God does not even take a look at a person who says, God, I have a few sins. Then, who does God care for? God looks at the people who have become complete sinners that say, God, I am going to hell. I am a complete mass of sin. God, please, save me. The Lord saves a person who entrusts himself to the Lord completely praying, Lord, I will receive salvation when You save me, and I will go to hell if You do not save me. I cannot offer the prayers of repentance anymore. I will sin again even after offering the prayers of repentance. Lord, please, save me.

A person cannot escape from sins by offering the prayers of repentance. A person who professes, God, have mercy on me and save me from sins, can receive salvation by believing that Jesus has atoned for all his sins completely by taking sins upon Himself through the baptism received from John the Baptist.

It is written in the Book of Isaiah chapter 59 verse 1,

"Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened,

That it cannot save;

Nor His ear heavy,

That it cannot hear."

God cannot consider humans as acceptable because they are originally a mass of sin. God might have considered someone acceptable if he just had one or two sins, but God could not look at any person like that because every one is a complete mass of sin. The Word in the Book of Isaiah says that God’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, and that His ears are not heavy that they cannot hear the crying words that are yelling, Please forgive my sins. God said, But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear (Isaiah 59:2), and it means that even though God has opened the blessing of Heaven, the door of Heaven, no one can enter it because humans have too many sins in God’s eyes.

If a person who is a mass of sin were just forgiven of a certain wrongdoing that he has done each time by offering the prayers of repentance, then, God would have to kill His Son each time the person prays for forgiveness for his sins. However, God did not want to kill His Son over and over again. Therefore, God said, Do not come to Me with the sins you commit every day. And I will instead send My Son to save you from all your sins by blotting out all your sins. Therefore, understand how My Son took all the sins you commit and see whether this is true or not and receive the remission of sins by believing in the gospel of salvation that My Son has fulfilled for you. This is the greatest love. He said, Receive salvation by believing in My Son. I, the Jehovah God, will send My Son and blot out all the masses of sins, all the personal sins, and all the iniquities of all you people. Believe in My Son and receive salvation from your sinful selves which are a mass of sin.

The Scriptures record what kind of sins are in the heart of a person. Let’s read the Word from the Book of Isaiah chapter 59 verses 3 to 8.

"For your hands are defiled with blood,

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken lies,

Your tongue has muttered perversity.

No one calls for justice,

Nor does any plead for truth.

They trust in empty words and speak lies;

They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.

They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;

He who eats of their eggs dies,

And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

Their webs will not become garments,

Nor will they cover themselves with their works;

Their works are works of iniquity,

And the act of violence is in their hands.

Their feet run to evil,

And they make haste to shed innocent blood;

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;

Wasting and destruction are in their paths.

The way of peace they have not known,

And there is no justice in their ways;

They have made themselves crooked paths;

Whoever takes that way shall not know peace."

It is written, For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity. This means that a person commits sin throughout his or her entire life. Everything that a person does is sin. Next, it is written, Your lips have spoken lies. It means that