What does believing in Jesus Christ entails
Believe that Jesus Christ is Lord
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” (2Thesalonians 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 (John17:17; 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.
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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