Romans 10:9-10
What did you do when something breaks? The other day I had a piece of plastic break on the bottom of my car. I had to pull off the road and use a small piece of rope to tie up the broken part and keep it from banging around as I drove down the road. Right now you could look under my car and see the rope and know that I am telling the truth. You have heard my confession of what I have had to do and you believe that what I said is true. You can affirm the truth and agree with my story because of what you see. As Paul writes this passage he uses the this same idea in relation to salvation. To confess with our mouth simply means that we affirm or agree with something by what we say. What are we to say? Paul says that in order to be saved we need to confess or say that Jesus is Lord. This word Lord simply means master or the one in control. Salvation comes by confessing that Jesus is now the one that is in control of our life and by believing that His is raised from the dead. He died on the cross to pay for sin and He rose from the grave to show His power over sin and death. Without the resurrection the death of Jesus has no power because everyone dies. However, Christ is alive and that is what the believer in Jesus Christ holds on to. So to review, salvation has two parts a confession that Jesus is now the one in control of my life and a belief that is from the heart that God raised Him from the dead. Paul states that when you do that you will be saved. Have you done that? Who else do you know that needs this simple message of hope to fix what is broken and experience new life?
What did you do when something breaks? The other day I had a piece of plastic break on the bottom of my car. I had to pull off the road and use a small piece of rope to tie up the broken part and keep it from banging around as I drove down the road. Right now you could look under my car and see the rope and know that I am telling the truth. You have heard my confession of what I have had to do and you believe that what I said is true. You can affirm the truth and agree with my story because of what you see. As Paul writes this passage he uses the this same idea in relation to salvation. To confess with our mouth simply means that we affirm or agree with something by what we say. What are we to say? Paul says that in order to be saved we need to confess or say that Jesus is Lord. This word Lord simply means master or the one in control. Salvation comes by confessing that Jesus is now the one that is in control of our life and by believing that His is raised from the dead. He died on the cross to pay for sin and He rose from the grave to show His power over sin and death. Without the resurrection the death of Jesus has no power because everyone dies. However, Christ is alive and that is what the believer in Jesus Christ holds on to. So to review, salvation has two parts a confession that Jesus is now the one in control of my life and a belief that is from the heart that God raised Him from the dead. Paul states that when you do that you will be saved. Have you done that? Who else do you know that needs this simple message of hope to fix what is broken and experience new life?
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