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NASB | Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 10:9 because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. |
Subject: when a I saved and when baptised |
Bible Note: Greetings revjackl! Welcome to the Study Bible Forum! I was reading your post and brother lionheart's response to you. I have to admit, I'm a bit like brother lionheart regarding your post. Perhaps it is just the way you worded it that has us confused on your teaching. I don't mean to speak for brother lionheart but I see his point and had some of the same thoughts when I read your post. Would you mind expounding a bit on the last part of your post? Let me say this so perhaps you can understand my confusion regarding your post. When you say " When you have truly accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior you will know and as yo go through witnessing that you have accepted him in your heart, that assurance of being saved by grace through faith is anchored inside of you. When this happens you will want to be baptized as a sign the you know you are forgiven of your sins and adopted into the royal family of christian believers. " Can we point to scripture that teaches this? Why do we teach this and fail to point out to the new converts that baptism was instituted by God Himself John 1:33 . Christ confirmed this when speaking to the chief priests and elders of the Jews Matthew 21:25 . And lets not forget, it is a commandment of our Lord that His disciples be baptized Matthew 28:19 . I completely agree with scripture and the teaching found in Ephesians 2:8-10 . I am in no way pushing salvation by works. But I firmly believe as a child of God we are expected to be obedient and comply with the commandments of God as He has commanded them. We should not get baptized as a sign that we know we are forgiven of our sins etc... but as an act of obedience to the commandment of our Lord. It may publicly symbolize to the church what has taken place in our hearts but I would argue the important thing is that in our hearts we should be motivated to please God through obedience to His command! We should instruct the new converts that their obligation is to God first and foremost and in what ever God has commanded of His people, we are required to be obedient. I fear we fail them and dishonor God when we lead them to believe compliance of His commandments is of their own choosing or in this case it is a matter of a sign to the individual and/or church what has taken place. It has nothing at all to do with legalism or salvation by works etc... but everything to do with humbling ourselves in submission to God in obedience to Him! Steve H. |