Entrusting Yourself to Jesus

There’s something interesting going on in a passage in John’s gospel. 

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. John 2:23–25 

 

John writes that ‘many believed in his [Jesus’] name’. Then, he also writes, ‘Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them’. What’s interesting is that the word translated ‘believed’ is the same word that is translated ‘entrust’. The very same word. And that helps us to understand something that is actually very important. 

Believing in Jesus

This morning we’re going to deal with one of the basics of following Jesus. This morning we’re going to deal with believing. There is a lot going on in that little phrase, and what John has written in our text will help you get a handle on some more of that. My hope is that understanding better what it means to believe in Jesus will lead to following Him better. Now, please listen as I read our text, John 1.11-13.

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.