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Continuing in Faith As We Have Begun |
| Faith's Confession of God's Word |
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At the Lord's Table |
| Romans 10:9,10 |
| 9 "That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." |
Here is the most foundational lesson in the importance and power of faith's confession found anywhere in the Bible. The principle is established at the very beginning of our life in Christ. Just as salvation (God's righteous working in our behalf) is appropriated by great belief and spoken confession, so His continuing working in our lives is advanced by the same means. The word "confess" (Greek homologeo) has the connotation of "a binding public declaration by which a legal relation is contractually established" (Kittel). Thus, as our words "contract" from our side the salvation God has fully provided from His by Christ's saving work and power, so we have a principle for all of life. Beginning in this spirit of saving faith, let us grow in active faith - believing in God's mighty power for all our needs, speaking with our lips what our hearts receive and believe of the many promises in His Word. Let us accept God's "contracts" for all our need by endowing them with our confessed belief - just as when we were saved. |
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