Right you can't believe in Jesus and trust in your own works
Your it that's not salvation because believing in Jesus doesn't mean to just believe that Jesus existed
Believing in Jesus means your trust is in Jesus your faith is in Jesus
You're believing in him as your only way to heaven see a lot of times people
Misunderstand the term believe in okay, so let me just explain this if I said to you
I believe in aliens
Okay, which I don't but if I said I believe in aliens
I'm basically saying that I believe that aliens exist
When I say that right, but let's say for example
You're gonna take a big test tomorrow. Okay, and I came to you and said hey listen, man. I believe in you
Now am I saying I believe you exist
No, that's different. Isn't it? I'm saying I believe in you meaning I have faith in you
I'm trusting you. I believe that you're able to do
What you've set out to do or what you've said you're going to do. That's what believing it
So when we believe in Jesus, what are we what do we believe that?
He's able to do what he said he would do that. He's our Savior that he's our way to heaven
We're putting our trust in Jesus. In fact, the Bible will use the words faith believe and trust
Interchangeably flip over if you would to Ephesians chapter 1
It's just a page or two to the right in your Bible. Look at Ephesians chapter number 1 it
says
in verse number 13 Ephesians 1 13 in whom ye also
trusted
After that ye heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed
ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of
Promise which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession
Unto the praise of his glory. This is a great passage here because it helps to define the word believe as
Trusted. Okay. Now some people will say well the trusted is in italics in verse 13
Well, the trusted is coming from verse 12 because it says in verse 12 that we should be to the praise of his glory who first
Trusted in Christ in whom you also trusted after that you heard the word of truth, etc
Don't be one of these people that says well, that's an italics throw it out
Okay, this is what a person who is ignorant of Bible translation would say
Well, that's not in the original take it out. But here's the thing. There is a difference between
Greek and English they're two different languages
So sometimes when you bring something into a new language
It takes more words to express the same thing in that language. For example, when you translate anything into Spanish
It's usually about time and a half as long as it is in English. You ever wonder why they talk so fast
It's because they have to say time and a half as much to get the same point across
So when you translate things into Spanish they get longer
So if you want to for example dub a movie into Spanish you have to cut out whole sentences or talk really really fast
In order to make it fit. So it's the same thing between Greek and English
They use different amounts of words to say the same thing
It's not that the King James Bible is just pulling this word trusted out of thin air
It's pulling it from verse 12
But the way the English language works it has to be restated in verse 13 in order to make sense
See in Greek there are sentences that don't even have a verb. Well, you know what that's not gonna fly in English
Is it we need a subject and a verb in every sentence? Okay different rules of grammar
So don't be one of these people that thinks that you're so smart that you know more than the 54
experts who translated the King James Bible
because you looked at a Greek book once for a couple days or because you took a couple semesters of Bible college Greek and you
Know you run into these people all the time who tell you
Well, you got to go back to the Greek and all the King James is wrong here
And these people could literally not even order food in a Greek restaurant
They wouldn't even be able to ask for extra tzatziki on their gyros
Okay, but yet they're gonna sit there and tell you well, unfortunately the King James is an error here, you know
and pastors do it all the time and
Literally
99% of these guys probably
99.9% of these guys are not fluent in the language or anywhere near being fluent
But they know more than all the experts who were fluent who translated the Bible in the early 1600s