Bible Question:
Hello, my questions is regarding my husband. He's a born again believer that is not faithful to things of the Lord. After seeing the movie "Passion for Christ" he stated that he wouldn't tell anyone about that movie because it was so graphic and he really didn't like it. He's 34 and watch every scary, movie out there that has all the blood and everything. I said so you are saying what Jesus went through was nothing to you and I took it serious, because no one is going to go through anything like that for no one, I don't care who you are. And I took it personal, because he went through all of that for me, you and my husband and for you to say that. But anyway I just felt in my spirit or it could have been feelings that I was going to stop praying for him because he knows the word and he knows what he has to do, so I just put him in God's hand. But since then he has been cranky and grumpy, could that be because I had stopped praying for him and he has no covering? Another thing the Lord laid on my heart to start back prying for him out of my "Power of a Praying wife book" I'm going to read each prayer each day until he is transformed I don't care if it takes 2 months, I'm going to do this. I would really like to know is that the reason for his attitude? Thanks so much |
Bible Answer: 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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