Back to Basics

As I move myself deeper into God's word I find I know less and less than what I felt I knew. And as I get deeper I find, the basics start to fade from memory. Over the next period of time I'm going to go back to the basics again. This is also in light of people I've realized that believe in Christ, but really don't have a relationship or understanding of Christ.

First I'm going to jump into the book of John.

JOHN 3:16

For GOD so loved the world he gave his only begotten son, so that all those that believe* in HIM would not perish but have everlasting life.

For GOD so loved the world??

~GOD loves us, he is the lover of our souls, he showed us this when he sent his son to die for us on the cross. HE loves us, in John 15:13 it says "Greater LOVE has no man than this that he lay down his life for his brothers".

so that all those that believe* in HIM

I starred BELIEVE for a reason, in Greek it is 2 words Be Lief. Be-To Live, Lief-According to, In the way that. To believe, be-lief is to live in or according to how Jesus lived.

And in such we would not perish but have everlasting life.

Because GOD loves us, loves his people,he sent his son Jesus Christ to die on the cross, so that those who follow him, and live in Jesus, would have life everlasting.

It really opens our eyes to see this this way. This is the most common verse everyone knows, even non-christians know of this verse. And many use it to justify anything they do. That because Jesus died, we can do whatever the heck we want, and get away with it. Faith alone, nor deeds alone, does not mean salvation. By the grace of God through Faith you are saved, not deeds (Eph:8-9) but Faith without deeds is dead (James 2:26). Truely, like in John 3:16 the path to salvation is in living our lives in Christ Jesus in all matters of Conduct, Speech, and Purity.