Believe in Jesus Christ what it entails

There are many who may express belief in Jesus Christ, and no one can doubt their sincerity, but there may be the possibility that these people who truly believe in the person of Jesus Christ may not necessarily believe His mission, and His message.

Believing in Jesus Christ is more profound than simply believing in the person of Christ, He came to perform a particular work, in order to fulfill a particular purpose, and His coming to earth in the form of a man, offering His flesh to eat and His blood to drink, suffering, dying and paying the price for man’s sins, resurrecting from the dead and giving humanity a new life in the spirit, ascending to heaven and now seated at the right hand of the Father are all part and parcel of the preparatory work necessary to accomplish the real work itself, which can fulfill the infallible purpose which God had in Christ for man.

Believe in Jesus Christ is an ideology that has been professed and embraced by all in the Christian community, but what does it truly means to believe in Jesus Christ! What does it entails? To believe in Jesus Christ is to believe that He is the way, the truth and the life, and that no one comes unto the Father except through Him.

Believing this is the most important criterion of our salvation as alluded to by the apostle Paul who wrote; “We ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.” “Those who are perishing perish because, they refused to love the truth and be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, 10).

But what is the truth about Jesus Christ? In praying to the Father on behalf of His disciples Jesus said; “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” The truth therefore is Jesus Christ the word of God, who became flesh and made His dwelling among men, and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth (John 17:17; John 14: 6; John 1:14).

Believing Jesus Christ who is the word of God that was made flesh and dwelt among men is to believe everything the scriptures say about Him, and what He accomplished, which can be subdivided into eight (8) intrinsic parts.

1.        Believe that Jesus Christ is the Beloved Son of God

The first important thing concerning Jesus Christ one ought to believe is that Jesus Christ is the Beloved Son of God, Who proceeded and came forth from the Father, and that the Father Himself loves us because we have loved Jesus Christ and have believed that He came from God.

Jesus said, “I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father. In His prayer to the Father He said, “And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the foundation of the world” (John 16:28; 17:5).

To believe that Jesus is the Beloved Son of God is to believe that He is the Word of God, Who was in the beginning with God, and that all things were created by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. It is to believe that, He is the express image of the invisible God, and in Him all things in heaven and earth were created, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominion or principalities or authorities; all things were created through Him and for Him, and that He is before all things and in Him all things exists.

Therefore, to believe in Jesus Christ as the Beloved Son of God is to believe that He is the One who from the beginning gave the following instructions:-

• "Let there be light"; and there was light.
• "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
• “Let it divide the waters from the waters."
• "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself on the earth."
• "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth."
• "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."
• "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
• "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind";
• "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
• "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
• "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food";

I made mention of all these simply to impress on our minds who exactly are we dealing with, when we referring to Jesus Christ, and professing to believe in Him.

Now at the end of it all we are told; “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made” (Genesis 2:1-3).

To be continued