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Believe

The Hebrew word translated believe is from a root meaning "establish" or "confirm".

Belief is one of the most important ideas in all the bible, because a person must believe God in order to be saved from sin.

Whenever the Scriptures, whether the old or new testaments, state that a person "believed in the Lord, it signals that the person has made a decision to treat God's word as certain and has made a commitment to do what God wants.

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name

The Greek word for believe literally means "to place one's trust in another". To believe in Jesus is to believe in His person and to trust in Him completely for salvation.

Many of Jesus' contemporaries believed in Jesus' miraculous power, but they would not believe in Jesus Himself (John 6:23-26).

Others wanted to believe in a political Messiah, but would not believe in the One who suffered for their sins (Mark 15:32 - Their offer to believe in Christ if He would descend from the cross was empty mockery. True evidence alone does not turn a soul toward God. A sinful heart must be convicted of the need of God's salvation).

We must be careful to believe and trust in the Jesus presented in the Scriptures, in the Son of God who sacrificed His life for our sins (Galatians 1:3-4, Philippians 2:5-8).