Confession To Salvation
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“A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.” - F.F. Bosworth
Let’s look at the word here for confession.
Point: homologeō
Confession also carries the meaning, To agree with, to assent to, covenant. Confession is our opportunity to come into agreement with God. If you say things outside of scripture, then you are not in agreement.
sōtēria
Salvation also carries the meaning of rescue or safety (physically or morally):—deliver, health, salvation,
It is written in the Scriptures, “I believed, so I spoke.”Our faith is like this, too. We believe, and so we speak. 2 Corinthians 4:13 (NCV)
D.L. Moody, the famous preacher said, "Believing and confessing go together; and you cannot be be saved without you take them both. "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation." If you ever see the kingdom of heaven you have to take this way."
Let’s read Romans 10:9-10 again.
“that 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. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Let’s look at what the Psalmist wrote in Psalm 91
9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
10 No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
God is a refuge and our protector, but how do we make him Our protector?
Psalm 91:2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them, but it did not profit those that heard the word without mixing it with faith. - Hebrews 4:2 (KJV)
“A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.”
― F.F. Bosworth
May God's Richest and Best be Yours,
May God's Richest and Best be Yours,
