{"id":106970,"date":"2020-12-21T03:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T09:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=106970"},"modified":"2020-12-16T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T12:46:56","slug":"17-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/21\/17-y\/","title":{"rendered":"17.y. From Pathway to Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1 John 5:13\u00a0 \u201cThese things I have written to you who believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acts 16:31\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBelieve in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

John 11:25\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cHe who believes in Me will live even if he dies.\u201d<\/p>\n

John 3:16\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cGod so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

James 2:19\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYou believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.\u201d<\/p>\n

John 3:14-15\u00a0 \u201cAs Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The way to know whether you\u2019re really saved or not is whether you believe. What does it mean to believe? Over and over again you see the word \u201cbelieve\u201d in the Bible.\u00a0 But what does it mean to believe? Belief is not an intellectual assent to a set of facts about Jesus. It\u2019s not agreeing that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died for the sins of the world, and that He rose again on the third day. We think if you believe intellectually all the right things about Jesus, then you can be saved. Did you know some of the greatest professions of faith in history were made by demons? In Matthew 8:29, the demons said to Jesus, \u201cWhat business do we have with each other, Son of God?\u201d In Mark 1:24, a demon said to Him, \u201cWhat business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are\u2013the Holy One of God!\u201d The demons knew the truth. Demons know the truth about who Jesus is, but are demons going to be in heaven? No, \u201cbelieve\u201d is not just believing the right things about Jesus.<\/p>\n

The word \u201cbelieve\u201d means to trust in, to cling to, to put your whole faith and trust in. The best illustration I know of what \u201cbelieve\u201d means when Jesus was talking to Nicodemus. Nicodemus wanted to know how he could be sure he had eternal life. Jesus talked about the importance of being born again by believing in the Son of God. Nicodemus didn\u2019t understand that, so Jesus used an illustration that Nicodemus was familiar with.\u00a0 Nicodemus recognized the story from Numbers 21. The children of Israel were being disobedient to God, and they were bitten by fiery serpents. So they begged Moses, \u201cIntercede with God; save us!\u201d Moses went to God, and God said, \u201cThis is the way of salvation. Make a bronze serpent, put it on a pole, hold the pole with the serpent up in the air, and tell the people if they will look at the serpent, they will be healed.\u201d God\u2019s message was \u201cLook and live.\u201d All those Israelites had to do was to acknowledge they were dying and by faith look at God\u2019s provision that was lifted up, and they would be healed. That\u2019s the illustration that Jesus used of what it means to believe. Whoever recognizes they are lost (dying in their sin), the need for salvation, and trusts in Jesus’ provision (salvation, redemption, forgiveness) – whoever believes in Him, will be saved and have eternal life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1 John 5:13\u00a0 \u201cThese things I have written to you who believe.\u201d Acts 16:31\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBelieve in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.\u201d John 11:25\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cHe who believes in Me will live even if he dies.\u201d John 3:16\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cGod so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that … Continue reading “17.y. From Pathway to Victory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107082,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106970\/revisions\/107082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}