Saved by Heart and Mouth
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Introduction
Introduction
As I was thinking about what baptism recently, my mind went back to a passage in the book of Romans, chapter 10.
Did you catch these promises?
Did you catch these promises?
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.
In fact:
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Did you notice the impact of what we say? “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” and earlier in vs 10: “it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.”
That got me studying this whole idea further and I was amazed at how much weight God puts on the words we say.
Our Mouths Matter!
Our Mouths Matter!
Could what we believe . . . AND what we say really change our destiny? Seems hard to believe, doesn’t it? Look at some related verses:
32 “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
42 Many people did believe in him, however, including some of the Jewish leaders. But they wouldn’t admit it for fear that the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue.
15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
In addition to these examples, he are some other ways this same term appears in our Bible:
Confess, Admit, Promise, Tell plainly, Fulfill, Make a confession, Claim and Acknowledge
In fact, more than 30 verses have this same Greek word and the variety of ways it is translated for us tells me it is a very rich term.
What’s in a Word?
What’s in a Word?
It is a compound word with 2 root ideas:
HOMO-/-LOGEO
So, what’s the big deal?
Maybe the best way to answer that is to look at the exact opposite of a “say-the-same” acknowledgement. Let me tell you the story you probably already know well:
(pic of denial?)
54 Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. 55 And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. 56 A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.” 57 But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said. 58 A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” “Man, I am not!” Peter replied. 59 About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.” 60 Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. 61 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.”
(pic of reconciliation?)