Wes Huff to Steven Bartlett: Jesus Will Change Your Life
“The Diary of a CEO” host Steven Bartlett also asked if belief in God is sufficient for salvation—or if you need “some sort of active commitment and evidence” in your life.
“What makes the good news so good,” responded apologist Wes Huff, is that “Jesus has taken on that hell on your behalf.” Believing isn’t “just an incantation,” however. “Jesus lived the life you couldn’t and made the sacrifice you can’t on your behalf in order to establish that right relationship with God,” Huff explained.
Because Jesus “rescued” us as our Savior, Huff said, we submit to him “in obedience and repentance” as our Lord. Quoting Scripture, the apologist said salvation is “received, not achieved” and explained the life transformation that results.
Huff emphasized that the cross wasn’t “a contingency plan” but “the plan all the way along”—and that God was “glorified” through it. Although humans can’t understand all the “complexities and mysteries” of God, Huff said, people who are convinced in God’s existence willingly submit to him and see radical “life change.”
Bartlett, who talked about the “deep crisis of meaning” today, asked what Huff would say to anyone who feels lost. The apologist responded:
You have purpose and you have meaning more than what society tells you is going to give you that meaning and purpose…There’s a God who loves you, and he loves you so much that he stepped out of eternity and into humanity, and he lived the perfect life that you couldn’t, in order to establish and create the union of the relationship with God that you’re actually seeking.
Huff encouraged seekers to read the Bible, starting with the Gospels, to discover who Jesus is. Although Jesus “was a genuine historical character…he’s also so much more than that,” Huff said. “And in discovering who he is in relation to who you are, that’s going to change your life.”
