8 But what saith it? The word is near thee, even in thy mouth, and in thine heart. This is the word of faith which we preach. 9 For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved: 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth man confesseth to salvation.
The Epistle to the Romans 10:8-10 (GNV Translation Ed. 1599)
See also Matthew 10:32, 16:16; Luke 12:8, 24:17-32; John 6:69, 9:35-38, 11:25-27 Acts 8:37
Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ
In order to understand this better, we must understand the righteousness of God. It is true that He is a God of love, for if not, the offer of grace would not have been made. Yet more importantly, He is a God of righteousness, and truth. In order for Him to give us grace, we must understand that we cannot attain that righteousness on our own. As such, we must now rely on the righteousness as brought to us through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This is to say, that to do so, we must confess our sins, believe in God’s ability to rise Christ from the dead with all our heart Who thereby defeated death, (the wages of sin), and we are therefore covered now under a new covenant, by God’s righteousness.
No comments:
Post a Comment