![]() It means death can't keep us down either, since He has promised to share His victory with us and raise us from the dead, too. God would not raise a liar! It means Jesus succeeded in what He came to do, and death cannot keep Him down. ![]() What does it mean to believe in the resurrection? It means that we know Jesus is exactly who He said He was-God's Son, sent to be our Savior from the power of death, sin, and evil. It means that Jesus is in charge of me, and not me myself. It means that Jesus is God come down to earth to live and suffer and die and rise for us, to make us His own. What does this mean? It means that Jesus is in charge of everything, not us, and not any of the powers in this world that think they are so great. Do you want to know what a Christian looks like? The apostle Paul tells us in this verse.Ĭhristians confess that Jesus is Lord. He was describing what life looks like after the Holy Spirit saves us-after He gives us life, forgiveness, and salvation through Jesus our Lord. Now that I am older, I realize that Paul wasn't laying down a set of instructions. No wonder we were worried and uptight all the time! In the end, that made us responsible for saving ourselves. We thought everything depended on us- we had to say the right words we had to believe the right things and do things correctly. The problem, of course, was that we were reading the verse wrong. If you did these two things, you were home safe. ![]() And second, you had to be absolutely sure you believed in Jesus' resurrection. If you wanted to be saved, you had to do two things: First of all, make sure you said the words "Jesus is Lord" at least once in your life, preferably in public-maybe at your Baptism or when you were witnessing to someone. When I was a teenager, I had a problem with this verse: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Most of my Christian friends were non-denominational, and they thought this verse was a kind of do-it-yourself manual for salvation. For "everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be saved." For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in Him will not be put to shame.". For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim) because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:6a, 8b-11, 13 - But the righteousness based on faith says.
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