Scripture

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.

Observation

Paul longs for the people of Israel be saved. They are zealous for God but don’t understand that Christ has accomplished all that the law was given for.

Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to the commandments.

The message of God is this: 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.

Believing makes us right with God and confessing Jesus as Lord saves us. Jews and Gentiles have the same means of salvation. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Application

The gospel message is simple. God has provided the means of salvation through Christ’s death on the cross. As Paul writes it here, we have to confess a Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead.

No complicated rituals and costly sacrifices. The Lord has provided a sacrifice beyond price.

This is God’s love in action. He did not want any person to perish, so He sent Christ into the world to pay the price for our sins.

Now, everybody who truly believes that Christ is alive and they confess aloud that Jesus is their Lord, they will be saved.

Promoted from the kingdom of darkness to the light of God’s glorious grace. Rescued from the destiny of eternal torment and put on the road to heaven and eternal joy.

Our God is a loving and gracious God.

Prayer

Thank you Lord for the good news of salvation. You have rescued me from the dominion of darkness. Hallelujah!