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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: Romans 10:9: is it too simple? |
Bible Note: Dear brother John: Paul could say "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Gal.6:14 I think that when many seriously consider what has happened in our lives when we were saved, we would agree that the work was all of God. When we heard the gospel as lost sinners it was God by his spirit that brought the word to us and convicted us of our need of Christ and our sinful and lost condition. It is by his spirit that we were made to realize the exceeding sinfulness of sin and it was by his Spirit and in his time that the truth of the substitutionay work of Christ was revealed to us. It was God by his spirit who gave us confidence that we were born again and changed our lives from within. Even after we are saved by his grace, we are still without strength within ourselves, and it is God who empowers us to live for him. Robert |