Because if…; Day638

Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9

Because if…
When I am in the middle of a chaotic situation helping others dealing with their personal problems, I wish I can tell them a direct answer to their problems-‘”acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe that God raised Him from the dead”.  That’s it.  Just a very simple and quick solution.  Don’t ask why but that is the solution to your problems.  Until the time you do that, your issues in life will never go away. I don’t have the time to spend hours inspiring you on how to live a quite and a peaceful life nor the logistics to counsel you every time you have issues in life, but remember this verse when you can’t find me for answers. Start a “change of heart” and the rest will follow.  The salvation mentioned above pertains not just what takes part in heaven after our death but pertains also to the moment you start your confession – that salvation becomes part of you.

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0500, End of Sleep,
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0530, Study Romans 10:9 [read more]

Barnes on Rom 10:9 –
That if thou shalt confess – The word here rendered “confess” ὁμολογέω  homologeō is often rendered “profess”; Mat_7:23, “Then will I profess to them, I never knew you;” Tit_1:16; Tit_3:14; Rom_1:22; 1Ti_2:10; 1Ti_6:12-13, 1Ti_6:21; Heb_3:1, etc. It properly means to “speak what agrees with something which others speak or maintain.” Thus, confession or profession expresses our “agreement or concord with what God holds to be true, and what he declares to be true.” It denotes a public declaration or assent to that, here expressed by the words “with thy mouth.” A profession of religion then denotes a public declaration of our agreement with what God has declared, and extends to all his declarations about our lost estate, our sin, and need of a Saviour; to his doctrines about his own nature, holiness, and law; about the Saviour and the Holy Spirit; about the necessity of a change of heart and holiness of life; and about the grave and the judgment; about heaven and hell. As the doctrine respecting a Redeemer is the main and leading doctrine, it is put here by way of eminence, as in fact involving all others; and publicly to express our assent to this, is to declare our agreement with God on all kindred truths.
With thy mouth – To profess a thing with the mouth is to speak of it; to declare it; to do it openly and publicly.
The Lord Jesus – Shalt openly acknowledge attachment to Jesus Christ. The meaning of it may be expressed by regarding the phrase “the Lord” as the predicate; or the thing to be confessed is, that he is Lord; compare Act_2:36; Phi_2:11, “And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” Here it means to acknowledge him as Lord, that is, as having a right to rule over the soul.
Shalt believe in thy heart – Shalt sincerely and truly believe this, so that the external profession shall correspond with the real, internal feelings. Where this is not the case, it would be hypocrisy; where this is the case, there would be the highest sincerity, and this religion requires.
That God hath raised him – This fact, or article of Christian belief, is mentioned here because of its great importance, and its bearing on the Christian system. If this be true, then all is true. Then it is true that he came forth from God; that he died for sin; and that God approved and accepted his work. Then it is true that he ascended to heaven, and is exalted to dominion over the universe, and that he will return to judge the quick and the dead. For all this was professed and taught; and all this was regarded as depending on the truth of his having been raised from the dead; see Phi_2:8-11; Eph_1:21; Act_2:24, Act_2:32-33; Act_17:31; 2Co_4:14; 1Co_15:13-20. To profess this doctrine was, therefore, virtually to profess all the truths of the Christian religion. No man could believe this who did not also believe all the truths dependent on it. Hence, the apostles regarded this doctrine as so important, and made it so prominent in their preaching. See the note at Act_1:3.
Thou shalt be saved – From sin and hell. This is the doctrine of the gospel throughout; and all this shows that salvation by the gospel was easy.