Rom 10:9,10 How to Be Saved

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How to Be Saved

Rom 10:9,10 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

This is an example of the word of faith which Paul preached. Of course many presentations of the gospel we find in the Bible elaborate upon many of these points. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John elaborate extensively on who Jesus is and give the factual history of his death and resurrection. And in particular the first three elaborate upon Jesus being Lord, while John speaks much of the concept of salvation through faith in Christ, as does much of Paul's writings.

Consider the essential elements upon which salvation is contingent:

1. Confessing with your mouth - is speaking of a genuine conviction upon which you're willing to take action, rather than a mere opinion which one keeps to themselves. And while such an opinion may be characterized as "faith", it is not the kind of faith that saves.

Paul writes in 2Cor 4:13 It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak. Thus speaking of one's conviction is an outworking of the kind of faith that saves. In contrast are those unwilling to take a public stand for the faith. For example it says in John 12:42 "Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith" And there are those who to this day claim to have faith in Christ but refuse to take a public stand on that faith, whether it be avoiding getting baptized, or neglecting to be involved in evangelism, or shunning association with the Christian community.

2. Jesus as Lord

To accept Jesus as Savior is not sufficient. Many are not told that "he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again." 2Cor 5:15 To confess Jesus as Lord is to pledge allegiance to obey Him. Eternal life is free like joining the army is free. It's not merely like signing a fire insurance policy.

3. Believing in your heart

At the same time it shouldn't be mere confession. For Jesus said, "Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?" Luke 6:46 Mere lipservice is not the same as heart belief.

4. The Resurrection

Jesus's resurrection is essential part of the gospel. Paul writes, "What I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" 1Cor 15:3,4
 

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[Desopixi Seilynam]

The word I command thee this day is not hidden from thee.

It is not in heaven that you should say, who will go up for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it.

It is not under the sea that you should say, who will go down for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it.

Deuteronomy 30:11-13

 

Romans 10:6-8

the righteousness which is of faith speaks in this manner;

say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven (that is to bring the Messiah down from above)

Or, who shall descend the deep (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)

(Paul is quoting Deuteronomy 30:12-14 making note that Christ is the word of God come down from heaven)

It says: The word is near thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. Romans 10:8

Deuteronomy 30:14 The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that you may obey it.

 

And that is the word of faith which we preach, 

that if you admit with your mouth that Jesus is the word of God come down from heaven

(the Messiah Deuteronomy 18:18-19 that we may hear it and do it!) 

and believe in your heart that God rose Him up from the dead, you shall be sealed with the promised Holy Ghost.

For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth profession is made unto salvation..

For how shall they hear without a preacher.. for faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Romans 10:9-17 [Romans 2:4, Galatians 5:24]

 

The seed is the word of God. Luke 8:11

Fruit are therefore people that hear the word of God and grow to produce more seed.

 

"I am the true vine and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away;

and every branch that bears fruit He prunes it that it may bear more fruit." John 15:1-10

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As I understand salvation:

Working with a believer the Holy Spirit will illuminate a scripture when calling a person to the Lord.  Along with the Call to the Lord is a call to repentance.  If there is a godly sorrow in response to the call to repentance and they believe the word of God and confess Jesus as Lord, Jesus puts a mustard seed of faith into the person's soul, which is faith in Jesus as their savior.  At that same time the Holy Spirit takes up residence in their Spirit, making them to be one with the Lord and baptizes them into the body of Christ.

As more promises are illuminated by the Spirit and believed upon then that person's faith can grow so that birds can perch upon its branches and that one becomes a partaker of the Lord's divine nature and can grow to spiritual maturity.

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[steve morrow]

GETTING  SAVED 

EPHESIANS 2:8  for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of  GOD 

JOHN 1:17  for the law was given by moses but grace and truth came by  JESUS  CHRIST 

 

TITUS 2:11  FOR  THE  GRACE  OF  GOD  THAT  BRINGETH  SALVATION  HATH  APPEARED  TO  ALL  MEN  --2:12-- TEACHING  US  THAT  DENYING  UNGODLINESS  AND  WORLDLY  LUSTS  WE  SHOULD  LIVE  --SOBERLY--RIGHTEOUSLY--AND  GODLY-- IN  THIS  PRESENT  WORLD

 

ROMANS  15:18  for I will not dare to speak of any of those things which  CHRIST  hath not wrought by me to make the gentiles obedient by word and deed 

2 CORINTHIANS 13:5  examine yourselves whether you --YOU  BE  IN  THE  FAITH-- prove your own selves know you not your own selves how that  JESUS  CHRIST  is in you except you be reprobates 

 

2 TIMOTHY 1:13  HOLD  FAST  THE  FORM  OF  SOUND  WORDS  WHICH  THOU  HAST  HEARD  OF  ME  --IN  FAITH--  AND  LOVE  WHICH  IS  IN  CHRIST  JESUS

--13:8-- FOR  WE  CAN  DO  NOTHING  AGAINST  THE  TRUTH  BUT  FOR  THE  TRUTH 

 

MATTHEW 12:37  FOR  BY  THY  WORDS  THOU  SHALT  BE  JUSTIFIED  AND  BY  THY  WORDS  THOU  SHALT  BE  CONDEMNED 

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST 

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50 minutes ago, steve morrow said:

GETTING  SAVED 

EPHESIANS 2:8  for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of  GOD 

JOHN 1:17  for the law was given by moses but grace and truth came by  JESUS  CHRIST 

 

TITUS 2:11  FOR  THE  GRACE  OF  GOD  THAT  BRINGETH  SALVATION  HATH  APPEARED  TO  ALL  MEN  --2:12-- TEACHING  US  THAT  DENYING  UNGODLINESS  AND  WORLDLY  LUSTS  WE  SHOULD  LIVE  --SOBERLY--RIGHTEOUSLY--AND  GODLY-- IN  THIS  PRESENT  WORLD

 

ROMANS  15:18  for I will not dare to speak of any of those things which  CHRIST  hath not wrought by me to make the gentiles obedient by word and deed 

2 CORINTHIANS 13:5  examine yourselves whether you --YOU  BE  IN  THE  FAITH-- prove your own selves know you not your own selves how that  JESUS  CHRIST  is in you except you be reprobates 

 

2 TIMOTHY 1:13  HOLD  FAST  THE  FORM  OF  SOUND  WORDS  WHICH  THOU  HAST  HEARD  OF  ME  --IN  FAITH--  AND  LOVE  WHICH  IS  IN  CHRIST  JESUS

--13:8-- FOR  WE  CAN  DO  NOTHING  AGAINST  THE  TRUTH  BUT  FOR  THE  TRUTH 

 

MATTHEW 12:37  FOR  BY  THY  WORDS  THOU  SHALT  BE  JUSTIFIED  AND  BY  THY  WORDS  THOU  SHALT  BE  CONDEMNED 

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST 

 

Act 16:30,31 "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved"

John 5:24 ""I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life."

[steve morrow]

DO  YOU  BELIEVE ???

JOHN 7:38  he that --BELIEVETH  ON  ME--  as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water

ISAIAH 12:3  therefore with --JOY-- shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation  

 

JOHN 8:45  AND  BECAUSE  I  TELL  YOU  THE  TRUTH  YOU  BELIEVE  ME  NOT

JOHN 8:46  which of you convinceth  ME  of sin and if  I  say the truth ---WHY  DO  YOU  NOT  BELIEVE  ME---

 

ACTS 3:22  for moses truly said unto the fathers a prophet shall --THE  LORD  YOUR  GOD--raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me  HIM  shall you hear --IN  ALL  THINGS  WHATSOEVER  HE  SHALL  SAY  UNTO  YOU--

--3:23--AND  IT  SHALL  COME  TO  PASS  THAT  EVERY  SOUL  WHICH  WILL  NOT  HEAR  THAT  PROPHET  ---SHALL  BE  DESTROYED  FROM  FROM  AMONG  THE  PEOPLE 

 

LUKE 4:4  AND  JESUS  ANSWERED  HIM  SAYING  IT  IS  WRITTEN  THAT  MAN  SHALL  NOT  LIVE  BY  BREAD  ALONE  ---BUT  BY  EVERY  WORD  OF  GOD---

 

REVELATION 22:18  for I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book --IF  ANY  MAN-- shall add unto these things  GOD  shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book

--22:19-- and if --ANY  MAN-- shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy ---GOD  SHALL  TAKE  AWAY  HIS  PART  OUT  OF  THE  BOOK  OF  LIFE--- and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book

 

PSALM 60:11  GIVE  US  HELP  FROM  TROUBLE  FOR  VAIN  IS  THE  HELP  OF  MAN

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST