The everlasting strength of human beings can be found nowhere. Should such weak beings, then, be hardened in their hearts and not believe in the Word of God? Having nothing to be proud of, nor pretend to be strong at—this is what human beings are.

  As such, we must realize our own weaknesses, recognize our insufficiencies and sins, and believe in the gospel of truth. Could your sins have been blotted out had Jesus not taken upon your sins by being baptized? Could you have passed your sins onto Jesus and washed them away without believing in the baptism that Jesus received? 

  The answers are no, no, and absolutely not! It is because Jesus shouldered the sins of the world with the baptism received from John the Baptist that He was crucified and bore the condemnation of all sins with His own blood. Could you then have been saved without the baptism of Jesus and the Cross? Of course not! That Jesus was baptized was to take upon our sins once for all and wash them away, to cleanse away our sins. And that He was crucified was to bear the punishment of our sins. It is by believing in this truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit that we can be remitted of all our sins.

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