Why Believe in Jesus?
HOW CAN WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?
Please don’t wait on this information, but consider the story of a man asking Jesus “What must I do to have eternal life?”
And as he (Jesus) was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”
And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”
And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.”
Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
*Excerpt from ESV.org
CONSIDER JESUS OF NAZARETH
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to God the Father, but through him.
Jesus is both Lord and Christ (Messiah).
Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost.
Jesus was a friend of sinners.
Jesus is the exact representation of the invisible God.
Jesus is the Lamb that was slain to take away the sins of the world.
Jesus came that we would have life abundantly.
Jesus said, “Come to me all who are weary and heavy burdened and He will give us rest.”
