These are #10 in the google list and is #44 in the biblegateway.com list and is highlighted in the 'Hands On' Bible.
Romans 10:9-10
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
SIS
Matthew 10:32
Confessing Christ Before Men
(Luke 12: 8,9)
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.
Acts 16:31
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
1 Peter 1:21
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
HIJ
Now to confess that Jesus is Lord, is not just to say that He is in charge of your life, though He is. There is another aspect to this, in Rome you were living in the midst of a Caesar cult-like enviroment, and in that context to say Jesus is Lord is a dangerous thing. For to say that anyone apart from Caesar was your God, put you in jeopardy.
And that makes the belief in Jesus' resurrection all the more vital, as Paul would point out,
1 Corinthians 15:17
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
So it is needed for our faith to have value and our salvation to be sure.
It has all been done by Christ, and so salvation is not based on it. Saying that, our faith is to be manifest, not a secret thing, a truth made evident, not a secret kept hidden.
Monday, 28 January 2013
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