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You Believe

IL DIVO Ancora Taiwan w/box CD New Celine Dion I Believe In You Heroe Ave Maria $29.99

TRYAD / …IF ONLY YOU BELIEVE IN LOVIN’ MINI LP CD new $19.99

PUBLIC ENEMY DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE GET ALONG WITH YOU & CRIB UNDERGROUND 3LP LOT $9.99

1910 HAPPY HALLOWEEN CLAPSADDLE WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT ANTIQUE MAILED OLD POSTCARD $24.99

MAGNET Davy Jones YOU CHOOSE 1 From 12 Listed/Shown MONKEES NEW Daydream Believe $5.25

God Attachment: Why You Believe, Act, and Feel the Way $8.88

Precious Moments Plaque True Beauty Emerges when You Believe in Yourself $1.99

Sugar Poster Believe What You’re Saying Promo $50.00

Believe In The God Who Believes In You, Robert Schuller $2.99

You Won’t Believe Your Eyes!/Book and Poster (Books for World Explorers), Cather $6.89

Do You Believe? [Single] by Beatnuts (The) (CD, Apr-… $1.87

CD 3″ NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK BABY I BELIEVE IN YOU JAPAN $9.99

NEW COACH POPPY YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE GLAM TOTE # 14980 NWT IVORY PURPLE NWT $129.99

Did It ever Occur To You Believe Motto Postcard-gg26 $9.49

Matt White Poster Do You Believe Promo $15.00

HARRIETTE BLAKE Why Don’t You Believe Me/ Love Me with All Your Heart 45 CRYSTAL $6.00

JONI JAMES**WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE ME?**CD $3.95

Free Healing from God: Do You Believe? NEW $24.08

Ricky Nelson IMPERIAL 5503 Believe What You Say- VG or better $0.99

Kylie Minogue/I BELIEVE IN YOU/CD Single/3Trk+Video/NEW $24.99

CD EP Our Tribe I Believe In You 5 tracks UK ’93 $12.99

(2) Ricky Nelson 45 RPM- IMPERIAL 5483 Stood Up w/ pic slv 5503 Believe What You $1.99

Ricky Nelson IMPERIAL 5503 Believe What You Say- VG $0.99

BOWS AND ARROWS:I Don’t Believe You 2:00-You Know What You Can Do 2:33-U.S.7″ DJ $98.98

You Gotta Believe by Marky Mark (Cassette , 1992) $2.94

7″ BAY CITY ROLLERS YOU MADE ME BELIEVE IN MAGIC JAPAN $9.99

THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS – LP – IF YOU CAN BELIEVE YOUR EYES AND EARS -ON DUNHILL $9.99

Jamie Shaw : When you believe (incl. 2 versions, 1999/2 $2.91

KYLIE MINOGUE Ultimate Taiwan w/Box 2-CD+Promo 2 Book Best Hits I Believe In You $29.79

WHITNEY HOUSTON The Preacher’s Wife Soundtrack Taiwan CD I Believe In You And Me $15.79

CHANTAY SAVAGE – If You Believe ~ 12″ Single PROMO $14.21

CD KYLIE MINOGUE BELIEVE IN YOU EU ’04 $9.99

Unamerican – I So Really Want To Believe You CD Single $1.90

NEW Sugar – Believe What You’re Saying [Maxi CD Single] $1.00

“What You Believe You can Become” 12 Step Recovery AA $7.47

IMPRESSIONS “YOU MUST BELIEVE ME” MINT / UNPLAYED. $1.56

CD 3″ WHITNEY HOUSTON I BELIEVE IN YOU AND ME OST JAPAN $28.99

Billy Fury,I’m Lost Without You b/w You Better Believe It Baby,7″ $11.84

And Now Are You Going to Believe Us: Twenty-Five Years $30.22

If You Only Believe: A Blessed Collection of Spiritual $18.42

You Won’t Believe It’s Gluten-Free!: 500 Delicious $5.78

Rare Whitney Houston “I Believe In You And Me” CD 1996 Bobby Brown Johnny Gill $6.99

Billy Fury,I’m lost Without You,You Better Believe It Baby,Large Centre Hole,7″ $7.10

Believe What You Want: Poetry NEW by H.K. Monzello $19.52

DON WILLIAMS “I BELIEVE IN YOU” AUSSIE 7in RECORD $5.92

BOOK – RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! ENTER IF YOU DARE! – GEOFF TIBBALLS $18.75

MANHATTANS you’d better believe it 7″ promo but has number on label b/w it’s so $11.05

MARCELLA DETROIT i believe 7″ b/w i want to take you higher (lon347) pic slv uk $11.05

MART RODGER MANCHESTER JAZZ i believe in rainbows 7″ b/w i’ll be loving you alwa $11.05

MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL onion song 7″ b/w i can’t believe you love me (tmg $11.05

MEL TILLIS i believe in you 7″ b/w she don’t trust you daddy (mca384) uk mca 197 $11.05

MICHAEL RIGG don’t you believe it 7″ b/w i just can’t hold on (roo105) pic slv u $11.05

MICHAEL ST. JOHN believe me 7″ demo b/w for you for me (tgt124) uk target 1977 $11.05

MICHAEL TROY i’d like to get to know you 7″ b/w i can’t believe it’s over (tgt14 $11.05

Why Don’t You Believe Me (1952) Joni James, Lew Douglas & King Laney #2098* $0.99

MARSHA HUNT c’est la vie 7″ b/w do you believe in voodoo (watt1) uk electric 197 $13.14

Believe What We Tell You by Sleeping – No Case – CD and Booklet Only $2.00

KIRSTY MACCOLL you still believe in me 7″ b/w queen of the high teas (2059432) s $15.38

Duran Duran 45 Do You Believe In Shame? $4.00

Can You Believe Your Eyes? NEW by J. Richard Block $50.99

Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Scho $4.76

Sharon Benson With Simon May ‘I’ll Always Believe In You’ RARE CD SINGLE $11.06

THRASHING DOVES another deadly sunset 12″ 3 track b/w you don’t believe in me pa $12.63

You’ll See it When You Believe it NEW by Wayne W. Dyer $17.35

TEE SET – COLOSSUS – IF YOU DO BELIEVE IN LOVE $2.99

NINA BADEN-SEMPER i can’t believe i’m losing you 7″ promo b/w add it up (7n45263 $11.05

NOEL PHILLIPS if you could believe in me 7″ promo b/w such is the meaning of you $11.05

Matt White Poster Do You Believe Promo $15.00

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch , Audio CD, You Gotta Believe $3.89

You’ll See It When You Believe It by Dr. Wayne Dyer Cd $5.02

BLANCMANGE – BELIEVE YOU ME NEW CD $22.27

How Great God Is If You Just Believe in Him and His Wor $29.56

Billy Fury-It’s Only Make Believe/Baby What You Want Me To Do UK 7″ VG Cond $4.73

Vince Gill , Audio CD, I Still Believe in You $3.89

PERSUASIONS good old acappella 7″ b/w you must believe me (mus1222) uk mca 1973 $14.76

You Believe

Everlasting Life – The Believer Of John 3:16

Who has everlasting life?  Is it the man Jesus spoke of in John 3:16 when he said, “whoever believes in him (speaking of himself – DS) should not perish but have everlasting life” (NKJV) or is it the man he spoke of in John 5:24 when he said, “I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life” (NKJV)?  First,  Jesus says in the former passage believe in him for everlasting life while later in the latter passage he says hear my words and believe in him who sent me (God the Father).

Many cling to John 3:16 with the idea being that all Jesus requires of man for salvation is a belief in Jesus without ever giving any real serious thought as to how Jesus would define a believer in himself, one whose faith is sufficient to save.  They merely assume they know so every man becomes a law unto himself, declares himself a believer, and is in his mind (and often in his family and friend’s minds) saved without ever offering any real concern about God’s commands or any serious obedience to them.  Many have made no real attempt in years to worship God or read his word let alone put him first in their life yet they are saved.  We go to the funeral home for visitation and we hear how this man or woman is now in a better place. 

Jesus never taught even once what such men have assumed.  John 5:24 offers a commentary on John 3:16 as do many other passages throughout the New Testament concerning who the believer of John 3:16 is.  When Jesus says in John 5:24, “he who hears my word” (and, of course, believes in God the Father) will have everlasting life he is not adding to what is required of man for salvation for hearing the word of God has been required of man every  since Adam and Eve.  But, who is the believer in Jesus who will be saved?  Who is that man?  It is the man who hears Jesus’ word.  A man cannot hear Jesus’ word, disregard it or consider it unimportant, even unnecessary, and at the same time in truthfulness say he believes in Jesus.

It goes without saying when Jesus spoke of hearing his word he was not speaking of hearing with the physical ear but of heeding the words or put another way of obeying those words.  The next verse, verse 25, makes this clear.  “Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.” (NKJV)  The dead spoken of here are not the physically dead but the spiritually dead and the meaning is not that just by hearing Jesus speak one would be saved but rather if you hear what he says and you believe it enough to act on it (obey it) you will live.  No man has truly heard Jesus who does not believe what he says enough to take him at his word and obey him.

Further proof is provided in John 5:38 (a verse in the same chapter) where Jesus speaking of himself tells those he was speaking to, “Him (me, Jesus – DS) you do not believe.”  (NKJV)  They heard him okay with the physical ear but they had not heard him in the sense Jesus spoke of in John 5:24.  They were not heeding the message he was delivering.

Jesus closes this conversation in verses 46 and 47 where he says, “For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?” (John 5:46-47 NKJV)  You see it is not enough to just believe in Jesus that he is the Son of God.  (See John 12:42-43 as an example of those who believed that but were nevertheless lost.)  You must, as Jesus put it, “believe my words” and that is where the rub comes in with so many people.  They are glad to believe in Jesus as being God’s son, to believe in Jesus as being the Savior, but they are not glad to believe in other words he spoke and indeed reject many of them.  Belief cannot be a smorgasbord of Jesus’ sayings where we get to go down the line and say I will take this, and I will take that, but I will have none of that.  How can we do that sort of thing and say we believe in Jesus?  Do we really believe him if that is what we do?  If we don’t “believe him” how can we say we “believe in him?”

Most people do not believe Jesus when he said, “He who believes and is baptized will be saved” (Mark 16:16 NKJV) but rather believe “He who believes and is baptized, or not (either way), will be saved” (Mark 16:16 – man’s version not God’s).  In the Great Commission, as found in Matt. 28, Jesus commanded that disciples be baptized (Matt. 28:19) but man while he says he believes in Jesus  says it does not matter whether a disciple is baptized on not.  He can be saved without it, says man.  Yet, this very man declares his faith in Christ, faith in the very being whose word he questions.  Believe in Jesus but just don’t believe everything Jesus says seems to be the idea.  You will then be saved by faith in Jesus.

The world may believe this kind of perverted logic (?) but I am not among their number.  It all comes down to a question of “what is belief in Jesus?”  Of what does that faith consist?  We are worlds apart on that.  To believe in Jesus is to believe what the Son of Man, the Son of God, said.  If you can’t believe or won’t believe what the Son of man – the Son of God – said you are not a believer in him.  If I can’t believe a man’s word out in the everyday world it is quite a stretch to say I believe in him.  It is no different in the Bible as one considers Jesus and his word.

When Jesus declares a man has everlasting life based on a certain condition then that condition becomes mandatory and is not a matter of personal preference as to whether it is required for salvation or not.  The same holds true if he phrases it some other way – for instance uses the term “eternal life,” or the phrase “is saved,” or the words “will see the kingdom of heaven.”  Whatever Jesus states as necessary to salvation under any and all such descriptive terms is required of man, man’s thoughts to the contrary notwithstanding.  To fail to believe Jesus (fail to believe what he says) is to fail to believe in him.

A good example of what I am talking about is found in Matt. 7:21 where Jesus says, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven.” (Matt. 7:21 NKJV)  If you really believe in Jesus you must believe what he said here and thus understand that salvation is dependent on keeping the commands of God.  You will either believe that or else you will not believe Jesus and thus do not believe in him in any sense of having a faith that will save you.

We must always remember that while we are saved by faith it is only a certain type of faith, a faith that is inclusive of trust and obedience.  James makes light of a non-obedient faith, “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?  Can faith save him?” (James 2:14 NKJV)  “Faith without works is dead.” (James 2:26 NKJV)

So, in closing, I ask who is the believer of John 3:16 who has everlasting life?  I answer by saying he is not the man most of the world thinks he is.  He is a man who has the faith of Abraham of whom the Bible says, “By faith Abraham obeyed.” (Heb. 11:8 NKJV)  To what extent did Abraham obey?  To the extent he was in the very act of offering Isaac as a burnt offering to God because God had commanded it before God stopped him.  This is the Abraham of whom the Bible says is “the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also.” (Rom. 4:11 NKJV)

The believer who is blessed of God, the believer in Jesus of John 3:16, is the believer who does not question Jesus or declare some of his commands as unnecessary but obeys them all to the best of his ability because in believing in Jesus it necessarily follows that he believes Jesus.  He only is the true believer of whom it can be said he has everlasting life.

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