We must not fall into the trap of saying “I believe in Jesus because He has given me what I asked for.” Some who never go to church and are ignorant of the Bible have assured us preachers they knew they were saved and heaven-bound because God had answered their prayers. Pay attention, He was saying, and come to your own conclusions.ģ) PRAYER. Watch this!” Instead, He taught and worked and blessed, then told people, “The works I do bear witness of me” (John 5:36). It’s tiny little things like the Lord telling Nicodemus, “No one has been to Heaven except the One who came from there” (John 3:13) and “If you’re not going to believe when I tell you earthly things, how will you ever believe when I speak of Heaven?” (3:12) It’s the way Jesus did not go around like a modern-day scam-artist announcing, “Hey everyone, look at me. It’s these–the Lord’s heart, His teachings, His miracles–and a thousand things more. And it’s not just the miracles–Mark 2’s paralytic, Luke 18’s Bartimaeus, and John 11’s Lazarus–although the accounts of His miracles are pure gold in themselves. It’s not just the teachings–the wisdom of the parables, the just-rightness of the Beatitudes, the insights about Heaven–although those are as remarkable as anything we can imagine. It’s not just the heart of our Lord–His love for the little people, His patience with the leprous and the fallen, His rebuke of the hypocrites–although that’s pretty special in itself. There is no getting around this and no other way to say it: I believe in Jesus because of Jesus.
How did He know this about me?!”Ģ) JESUS. What if you held in your hand the entire Bible? How I would love to hear what you have to say about that!”Īs I read the Bible, everything inside me stands on tiptoe and calls out, “This is so true.
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I read that and think, “Moses, you only had a sliver of the full revelation. Moses once said to the Israelis, “What great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?” (Deuteronomy 4:8). What a debt of gratitude we owe to those who safeguarded it through the centuries, and delivered it to our generation intact. I shudder to think where we would be without it. The Bible is one of the great miracles of this planet. I am almost daily impressed by the profound wisdom, the practical applications, and the consistent theme of the Holy Scriptures from beginning to end. There is nothing else on Earth like this book which lies on the table to the right of my laptop. But today, here are my top ten reasons for faith in the risen, living, ever-present, soon-coming Lord Jesus Christ….ġ). If you had asked ten years ago why I believe in Jesus, my answers would have been somewhat different. And no one knows the Father except the Son (moi!) and they to whom I reveal Him” (Matthew 11:27, my paraphrase). After all, our Lord said, “No one knows me except the Father. In my mind, to believe in Jesus is to believe in God, and vice versa. The way I read Scripture, He was equating the two. Our Lord said, “You believe in God believe also in Me” (John 14:1).
The other 5 reasons should be posted here tomorrow.)ĭriving hundreds of miles to (and from) two funerals of dear friends last week, I spent a lot of time reflecting on this thing of believing in God, serving in ministry, and going confidently into “the valley of the shadow of death.” Deacon James Gatewood and Minister Bill Hardy showed us how it’s done, from their daily faithfulness in good times to the difficult and dark days of suffering. (I started this thinking these reasons would be easy to express and thus the article would be concise. “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
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