Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6:29
The context makes it obvious that "this is the work of God" doesn't mean "this is a work God does", but something required by God. Yeshua wasn't saying that believing is a "work" in the sense of earning your salvation. He was redirecting the people's attention from following a list of do's and don't's to putting their faith in the Messiah.
Did you know that the entire book of Deuteronomy is structured as an ancient suzerain-vassal treaty in the same basic pattern as those used by other Ancient Near East cultures of the time of Moses?
Tomorrow night at 7 PM Central the Common Sense Bible Study crew will be live with Daniel McGirr to talk about ancient covenants like this one!
If you're into Bible study and common sense, you'll appreciate this community. Sign up for free at https://CommonSenseBibleStudy.com !
Why am I a REAL Noahide?! In this video I explain from the Torah and Jubilees what is the Hidden and REAL Covenant of Noah why I am a REAL Noahide and at the same time expose all the Jewish Noahides are FAKES!
Rhy Bezuidenhout Nick Liebenberg Garth Grenache Peter Rambo Jay Carper David Martin Patrick Lauser Camp Ephraim TriumphInTruthAdmin Chris Deweese Justin Breithaupt
People will always follow someone who can put on a good show, work some flashy miracles... Not so much someone who wants to change their behavior and priorities. Believing in Yeshua doesn't mean believing he exists or that he loves you. It means believing what he said, what he promised, what God promised in him, and it means obeying his instructions.
John 6:25-40
And all went to be registered, each to his own town.
Luke 2:3
This Roman census reflects the patrilineal nature of the census of Israel more than 1200 years earlier in Numbers 1.
Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.
Numbers 1:2