Who can become the children of God by believing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, “who came by water and blood” (1 John 5:6), and receiving the remission of sins once and for all?
They were the ones who were the last in their own righteousness—Zacchaeus the chief tax collector, Lazarus the beggar, the man left half dead after being beaten by robbers, the woman with a flow of blood for twelve years, and the younger son who returned home as a beggar. These were the ones who met Jesus and were saved.
The thief on the cross, the very last in his own righteousness, confessed Jesus as his Savior and entered Paradise. But the Pharisees and the scribes, rich in their own righteousness, did not receive “salvation through the remission of sins” (Luke 1:77).
Only those who are least in their own righteousness can be saved. That is the consistent message of the Gospel of Luke.
Pastor Samuel Jungsoo Kim was born in 1952.
He majored in Policy Studies at the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy and the Graduate School of Yonsei University. He worked as a professor in the Department of Public Administration at Dongwoo College starting in 1981.
During his tenure, he served as an advisory professor for IVF (a Christian students’ fellowship) and led an urban community church.
After encountering the “Gospel of the Water and the Blood” in 1991, he was called by God and worked as a pastor and missionary in China, Russia, Bangladesh, and the United States.
Now retired, he devotes himself to evangelism through literature, serving as the CEO of Uijedang Press and the president of Original Gospel Mission.