The Mounth Confesses What The Heart Believes
- by Charles Spurgeon
“If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
There must be confession with the mouth. Have I made it? Have I openly acknowledged
my faith in Jesus as the Savior whom God has raised from the dead, and have I done
it in God's way! Let me honestly answer this question.
There must also be belief with the heart. Do I sincerely believe in the risen Lord
Jesus? Do I trust in Him as my sole hope of salvation? Is this trust from my heart?
Let me answer as before God.
If I can truly claim that I have both confessed Christ and believed in Him, then
I am saved. The text does not say it “may” be so, but it is as clear as the sun
in the heavens: "You ‘will’ be saved."
As a believer and a confessor, I may lay my hand on this promise and plead it before
the Lord God at this moment, and throughout life, and in the hour of death, and
at the Day of Judgment.
I must be saved from the guilt of sin, the power of sin, the punishment of sin,
and ultimately from the very being of sin. God has said it--"You will be saved."
I believe it. I shall be saved. I am saved. Glory be to God forever and ever!