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Did you ever stop to seriously consider what it means to believe on Jesus?
There's a tendency in modern theological preaching to tell us that to believe in Christ is merely a work of the mental powers. We merely come to the place where we're willing to give mental assent to Christ.
Perhaps we change a few of our ideas and readjust our thinking a bit thus giving mental allegiance to Christ alone.
Now this is an important step, we do need to change our minds from the natural thoughts to the thoughts of God and Christ, but far too often we stop right there, and we say, "I believe."
We may do certain things that reveal a change in our thinking, but too often we deny our belief by not going any further. In fact, the Bible says in James 2:19 that the devil believes in God. Now even a casual observer would admit that the devil is not going to be saved even though he does believe in Christ.
The devil knows that Christ is right. He even knows that he is a lost cause himself. He knows that the coming of Christ is eminent and that his time is very short.
All of these things are revealed in the Bible. Even though Satan believes all this, belief alone will not save him. Thus, we must surely see that unless belief is accompanied by more than theory, it is nothing.
There's a tendency in modern theological preaching to tell us that to believe in Christ is merely a work of the mental powers. We merely come to the place where we're willing to give mental assent to Christ.
Perhaps we change a few of our ideas and readjust our thinking a bit thus giving mental allegiance to Christ alone.
Now this is an important step, we do need to change our minds from the natural thoughts to the thoughts of God and Christ, but far too often we stop right there, and we say, "I believe."
We may do certain things that reveal a change in our thinking, but too often we deny our belief by not going any further. In fact, the Bible says in James 2:19 that the devil believes in God. Now even a casual observer would admit that the devil is not going to be saved even though he does believe in Christ.
The devil knows that Christ is right. He even knows that he is a lost cause himself. He knows that the coming of Christ is eminent and that his time is very short.
All of these things are revealed in the Bible. Even though Satan believes all this, belief alone will not save him. Thus, we must surely see that unless belief is accompanied by more than theory, it is nothing.
