What are the two different Jesuses you can believe in when someone says 'believe in Jesus'?
One is the Jesus of the three years He ministered to Israel; the other is the Jesus who went to the cross and rose from the dead. The distinction matters because true faith must rest in the crucified and risen Son of God, not merely in an incomplete cliché about believing.
Les explains that when someone says “just believe in Jesus,” you must ask which Jesus is meant. One option is the Jesus of the three years He ministered to Israel; the other is the Jesus who went to the cross and rose from the dead. He says there is no problem if a person takes the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior based on the whole body of truth: the Son of God became flesh, went to the cross, shed His blood, was buried, and rose again. But he warns that many people cannot do that. The danger is being led into false security by simply taking clichés, such as “take Jesus into your heart,” without knowing the full truth that Christ can be in your heart only because of what He did on the cross. He ties this to being saved by the power of God from the preaching of the cross.