The Faith of the Apostles’ Creed - The Elementary Principles of CHRIST

It was because Jesus was baptized by John, through which He accepted the sins of the world passed onto Him. In Matthew 3:15, we see Jesus taking all the sins of the world upon Himself by receiving His baptism from John. The reason why Jesus was baptized by John was because He had to shoulder the sins of the world through this baptism. It was because this was God’s own desire, as stated in Isaiah 53:10, “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him….” Therefore, the purpose of God in sending Christ to this earth was to “bruise Him” because of His bearing of our sins and death.

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The Apostles affirmed their faith in the resurrection of Jesus by confessing, with the Apostles’ Creed, “The third day He rose again from the dead.”
Acts 1:3 says, “To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” The phrase, “after His suffering,” refers to the complete death of Christ. There are many proofs showing us that Christ died completely, but in particular, John 19:34 states, “But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.”

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Acts 1:1-2 testifies the Ascension of Jesus Christ saying, “The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen.”
Christianity is not a theory-driven religion, but it is the real truth. The Bible thus is authoritative. In particular, the Gospel according to Luke is not a product of the physician Luke’s subjective and superficial knowledge, but it is the living record that “through the Holy Spirit” he wrote of Jesus’ ministry “until the day in which He was taken up.” When we can believe in historical documents left behind by mere mortals, how can we not believe in this Bible that was written through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who is God Himself?

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This world will be judged by the Lord for its sins. In particular, we must pay attention to the fact that the Lord Himself will be the Executor of the Last Judgment. Like this, the Apostles’ Creed confesses, “(I believe in) He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.”
In all things, if there is a beginning, then there must be an end. As God Himself, Jesus therefore is both the Creator and the Judge. Because the Lord is the Savior of mankind, He is also the Judge. He is “the first and the last.”

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As Apostles’ Creed states, “(I believe in) from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead,” the entire mankind, from its father Adam to the end of the world, will be subjected to God’s judgment. Hebrews 9:27 says, “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.” Like this, everyone must die once, and then he or she cannot avoid God’s judgment after death.
At the beginning of Revelation 20:12, it is stated, “And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God.” Here, the phrase “small and great” does not mean adults and children, but the “great” refers to kings, presidents, and other such high-ranked politicians and the powerful, while the “small” refers to ordinary citizens and common people.

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Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!”

Jesus tells us here that those who have received the remission of sin should give the gift that Moses commanded as their testimony. They say that it takes six years from the time of leprosy infection for people to realize its subjective symptom. The disease remains dormant for the first 6 years, but on the 7th year it breaks out openly. This is a particular pathological characteristic of leprosy.

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God sent His Son Jesus as the One who “will save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). To take upon the sins of mankind, the Creator of the universe Himself incarnated through the Virgin Mary and came to this earth as the Lamb of Sacrifice. Jesus’ ministries began with His baptism. When Jesus turned 30, He was baptized by John the Baptist.

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Must Christians know God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as one God, and confess their faith in all of them? Yes. The reason is as follows.
God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit all led the ministry of creation and gave life to mankind. But God the Father is the Father of the Holy Son. The Son fulfilled the ministries of the remission of sin—that is, He was baptized by John and crucified to save mankind from sin. The Holy Spirit took the task of bearing witness to those who believe that the baptism of Jesus and the blood of the Cross fulfilled the works of the atonement of mankind.

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The Holy Spirit, “Ruwach Qadowsh” in Hebrew, and “Πνεῦμα ἅγιον” (pronounced pnevma aghion) in Greek, is the third Person of the Trinity. The Apostles’ Creed makes a very terse confession of faith in the Holy Spirit, only stating, “I believe in the Holy Spirit.” It is very important that the saints know correctly who the Holy Spirit is and what His works are. And we must also know about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which will be discussed later part of this section.

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