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Salvation Through BORN AGAIN The Forgiven Servant 41 II Understand a parable, which God, the consuming fire, said – 42 “A servant went into the battle field. Then a man took one per- son to him and handed him over to him. He said to him to watch him over. 43 In case, if he escapes, you should give two silver coins for his life. 44 After some time, that servant went out here and there for his work. Meanwhile, he escaped. 45 But the one who handed him came and forgave the servant for his mistake. He accepted him. In the same way, entering the hea- venly kingdom takes place.” The Lord will forgive the sins of a sinner by His word and accepts him/ her as his son/daughter. It is a main work of the Holy Spirit to make him to enter God’s kingdom. The reader should understand this. CHAPTER 59 WHO can understand the suff- erings of the Lord on the cross which He bore for His children? Who can bear the sacrifice whi- ch the Lord made for His chil- dren? 2 Jesus grew up before him like 114 The Salvation Is The GIFT Of GOD a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground. Jesus had no form or comeliness and when we shall see him, there is no bea- uty that we should desire him. 3 Jesus was despised and reje- cted by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering’. 4 ‘Like one from whom men hide their faces, Jesus was des- pised and we esteemed him not. 5 Surely Jesus has borne our infi- rmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered Jesus strick- en by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted. 6 But Jesus was pierced for our transgressions. Jesus was bruis- ed for our iniquities; the punish- ment that brought us peace was upon Jesus, and by His wounds we are healed. 7 We all, like sheep, have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way; and the God has laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. 8 Jesus was oppressed and aff- licted, yet Christ did not open His mouth; He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is sil- ent, Salvation Through BORN AGAIN 9 ‘By oppression and judgment Jesus was taken away. Who can speak of Jesus descendants? For Jesus was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgr- ession of My people Jesus was stricken. 10 Jesus was assigned a grave with the wicked in His death, tho- ugh Jesus had done no violence, nor was any deceit in Christ mo- uth’. 11 Yet it was the God’s will to bruise Him and cause Him to su- ffer. Though the God makes His life a guilt offering, 12 Jesus made Himself as the sin offering. 13 Jesus poured out His life unto death and was numbered with the transgressors. For He bore the sin of many and made interc- ession 1 for the transgressors’. 14 The Lord Himself defeated the death before which we are defeated. 15 As His children, we have flesh and blood. So also He became flesh and blood for us. 16 In order to help us, who are tempted, Jesus was tempted but didn’t sin and defeated the ene- my for us. 1 Isa 53:1-12. 115 The Salvation Is The GIFT Of GOD 17 ‘Jesus was resurrected to make us righteous and He bec- ame a reason for our hope. 18 The holy water, which was shed from the body of Jesus to wash away our sins, is the word. So we are justified as blameless through Him with the help of His word’. 19 II Paul says that we should bath through the word, which is symbolical to the water. What is the spiritual bathing? Not in literally. 20 It is being convicted by the gospel of every sin we commi- tted with our body (top to bot- tom) and being forgiven by the word, which is the water’. 21 Being born of water is cou- nted by the living word as the blameless after sins are forgiven when we confessed. 22 ‘Understand that being born of spirit (the old stage of spirit) is the internal change (renewing) caused by the Holy Spirit which is related to the repentance that leads to salvation. 23 Paul, who is a great apostle, said that one can get salvation by being Born Again’.