Believe God

Salvation :  Hear - Believe - Repent of Sin - Confess Christ - Be Baptized - Live Faithfully

Believe in God – Believe God – Believe Jesus is the Christ

Believe God, as He will not save if we will not believe that He is and that he sent his Son to save us.  Jesus said, “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” (John 8:24).

We must believe God, based on the evidence we have heard, that Jesus is the Christ (Hebrews 11:6).  Biblical belief is not the “leap of faith” that the world defines as belief.

Then, having come to intellectually believe God, we must actually believe God by taking action.  Belief, or faith, that causes no action, no change in our lives, is vain and useless. We must proceed to changing our lives as a result of believing God to have a living faith.

See James 2:14-26 for examples of action being needed for faith, or belief, to be effective and living, not vain and dead.

James 2:14-26

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works ywhen he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.