Learning to walk and then learning to talk
Romans 10:9 That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet (the walkers) of those who bring good news (the talkers)!” 16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. NIV
Believing in your heart = change our walk = what we really do – what our life is really about.
Confession with our mouth = change our talk = the abundance of our heart (negative, hope etc…)
- Learning to walk and learning to talk
- Learning to walk
- Believing in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead.
- Are we simply to believe that God can do miracles? That Jesus is alive? Why is this fact, the pivot point of eternal life?
- with your heart that you believe (in the resurrection of Christ) and are justified
jus•ti•fied; jus•ti•fy•ing (Just-as-if-id not done anything wrong)
1 a : to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable 1 b to show to have had a sufficient legal reason (2) : to qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property 2 a: to administer justice to b: absolve c: to judge, regard, or treat as righteous and worthy of salvation
1343 [dikaiosune /dik·ah·yos·oo·nay/]; AV translates as “righteousness” 92 times. 1 in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God. 1a the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God. 1b integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting. 2 in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due.
- Learning to talk
- Confessing it with our mouths, letting this become the message of our lives that Jesus is Lord. What we live with our mouths will reveal what we have on the inside. What are we communicating?
- it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved
Fourfold salvation: saved from the penalty, power, presence and most importantly the pleasure of sin. A.W. Pink[1]
Faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
Doing both, not one or the other.
All talk no walk vs. all walk no talk
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