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Post by dan Lash on Aug 23, 2021 23:21:20 GMT -6
Sorry for the spelling errors in previous post.
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Post by Bob Bauman on Mar 9, 2024 7:59:58 GMT -6
Is Ro 10:9-10 the gospel? — “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” No, here Paul is addressing converted Jews telling them that the gospel must go to the Gentiles, too.
This letter was written to the Jewish converts in Rome who had never evangelized. They had come to God in the OT manner of repentance (Job 33:27-28, Isa 55:7, Ez 18:30-31, etc.) toward God for justification but knew nothing about His death and resurrection from the dead so that they might receive the Holy Spirit (Ro 4:25). They could rightly confess that He was Lord (LORD was the Son’s title in the OT) and believe in their hearts that He would come to set up His kingdom.
So a converted Jew would already have “called on the name of the Lord repenting and would be able to confess with his mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in his heart and received the righteousness of God” (Ro 10:3, 2Cor 5:21). So how do we convert the Gentiles?
Read Ro 10:9-15 in reverse: Send a preacher so they hear the gospel, believe, call on the name of the Lord repenting and turning to God. (Acts 26:20, Lk 24:47, Acts 2:38), an are saved.
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Ro 10:13)
Then the Gentiles, too, will righteously be able to say that they “believe in their hearts that God has raised Him from the dead and confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord.”
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