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1 | Praying for my husband | Bible general Archive 2 | CDBJ | 116743 | ||
A group of us from our Sunday school class went to see the Passion and I put an article together for the following Sunday’s class; I will share it with you. After the Passion then What? Believe in Jesus Christ for Eternal Life The Bible is very adamant with regards to some very popular New Testament verses speaking of Jesus, who died on a cross over 2000 years ago, and how it should affect us. What should my reaction be after knowing such a fantastic truth as portrayed in The Passion? These are but a few of the verses that speak of believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life. John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. John 6:29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." John 11:26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" Acts 16:31 They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household." The Question? What exactly does it mean to believe in the Lord Jesus? The word “believe”, as we have it in the English language, doesn’t fully convey the meaning of the word, “PISTEUO”, that was penned in the Greek of the original New Testament. Example I can look at perfectly good chair that looks very strong and sufficient to hold me up and say that I believe it’s a chair, and that would be true as far as the English language is concerned, I believe it’s a chair but it really isn’t doing me any good until I act upon what I believe. To believe in a chair, with the meaning the Bible speaks of, I must realize that the new found chair will totally support me, and get up from where I am resting now and go over and turn around and plop down on it with my feet coming off of the ground; I am entrusting. I must depend on the chair 100 percent to support me and hold me up. I must put all my faith or trust in the chair, not holding onto anything else for support but the chair, i.e. totally rely on the chair to support me completely without added assistance. Faith or believe, as mentioned in the Bible, isn’t a little bit of this, and a little bit of that and the other thing. The object of believe, in the Bible, with regard eternal life, must be an undivided total reliance on the person of Jesus Christ and what he did for us on the cross! This is what the Bible means when it says believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. It’s like the “reverse” of the old saying don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. With Jesus it must be a total faith in him alone, or it will be none at all. God has a gift for the human race and this gift is eternal life, as with any gift someone must pay for it, there is no free lunch; all we can do is accept God’s gift or receive it and thank the giver. Ephes. 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9not by works, so that no one can boast. Jesus paid the price for our gift and God the Father was satisfied with the price that Jesus paid, it cost Jesus his life on a cross when he was separated form God. God the Father judged our sins in the person of his Son; that was the total reason for the passion of Christ. Have you thanked God yet for what he did for you through the person of his Son? Tell God, in prayer, in your own words that you are trusting 100 percent in what Jesus did for you on the cross; that you would like him to personally reveal himself to you and come into your life, and receive Jesus as your personal Savior. Trust in God’s Word the Bible and believe the promises that God has given us. 1 John 5:10-13 Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. Speaking of Jesus, John 1:11-12 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God-- The passion of Jesus was for us. 2 Cor. 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Have a great new life in the Lord by putting your confidence in Jesus. CDBJ |
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2 | Praying for my husband | Bible general Archive 2 | kalos | 116758 | ||
"Belief in the N.T. denotes more than intellectual assent to a fact. The word (Gk. pistis, noun; pisteuo, verb) means *adherence to, committal to, faith in, reliance upon, trust in* a person or an object, and this involves not only the consent of the mind, but an act of the heart and will of the subject. "Whosoever believeth in him" is equivalent to "whosoever trusts in or commits himself to him [Christ]." Belief, then is synonymous with faith, which in the N.T. consists of believing and receiving what God has revealed" (New Scofield Reference Bible, Oxford, 1967). | ||||||