Confess with your Mouth and Believe in Your Heart Romans 10:9

Paul the apostle told the people in Rome, “The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;”, and in chapter ten and verse nine of Romans, Paul told his readers what happens if you, “confess with your mouth...and believe in your heart” where we read:

That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,

and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

The verse begins, “That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,” Paul began with the words, “that if you shall” which means “because and since in case Paul's readers will” “confess” which means “say the same thing as another, agree with, not refuse, assent and declare openly” “with your mouth” or “by the orifice used for speech in the front of the face of Paul's readers” “the Lord” or “he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master and the title given to God the Messiah” “Jesus” whose name means “Jehovah is Salvation” and is “the Son of God, the Savior of mankind and God incarnate”. Paul presented the condition of “saying the same things as and agreeing with” the “Lord Jesus” Christ.

The verse continues, “and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.” Paul added the words, “and shall believe” which means “and will think to be true, be persuaded of, credit and place confidence within” “in your heart” which means “within Paul's readers' soul or mind as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes and endeavors” “that God” or “that the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit” “has raised him” which means “aroused, awoke, resurrected and stirred up Jesus” “from the dead” or “away from and separate from those who have breathed their last, departed, deceased, are without life and inanimate”, “you shall be saved” which means “those who believe will be keep safe and sound and rescued from danger or destruction”. Paul gave the second condition as “having faith and confidence within one's mind and soul that God raised “Jesus from the dead” to be “rescued from danger and destruction” by God.

When we meditate upon these words of Paul, we see the two necessary elements to “salvation” from God - “confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus” and “believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead”. When a person complies with these, God promises they shall be “saved” from eternal “danger, destruction and damnation”. God knew people were on a path to “eternal death” and “separation” from Him, and He sent His Son Jesus to die for their sins, raised Him from the dead and received Him into Heaven as an “appeasing sacrifice” for every person. Now all that is necessary is for a person to “agree and say the same as God” and “have full confidence and trust” that God “raised” Jesus “from the dead”. When these things happen, “salvation” is theirs. May all who read these words comply with God's initiative, and “confess” and “believe” today.

Next time we see Paul tell his readers, “with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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