Romans 10:9

Hey Brethren:

I am so blessed this week.  I have been praying that God would provide me with a Brother to go  witnessing with and this week I had two men call me.  One is a man named Tony who goes out in Fresno and Oakhurst on his horse.  He goes to the gangs in Fresno and God has blessed him richly in the work of evangelism and the other man is also from Fresno.  His name is Frank and he shoes horses.  When he is shoeing horses in Fresno he evangelizes in Fresno and when he is working on horses in Oakhurst, he evangelizes in Oakhurst.  There is another man I am waiting to call me from Oakhurst named Joe.  Joe recently accepted Christ from meeting Tony and the Lord immediately blessed him with a burden for souls.  Be praying for all of us as we reach out to the lost.

Todays verse is Romans 10:9.  I use the topic, "confess and believe". Then the verse goes like this,

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved".

As I mentioned in the beginning of my blogs, we are commanded to preach the Gospel.  All of us.  When you go to church on Sunday, your pastor isn't the only guy who is ordained to tell people about Jesus.  Jesus gave us the command to go out into all the world and preach the Gospel, that includes you and anyone who accepts Christ.  Are you ashamed to confess Christ?  You shouldn't be, Christ said, "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.  Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you".  Matt. 5:11,12

Even if we are rejected or persecuted, we should rejoice because we are building rewards.  That is exciting to me.  We are also told that if we confess Christ before men, Christ will confess us before His Father in heaven Matt. 10:32.  Then in the next verse, v. 33 He says that whosoever denies Him before men, He will deny that person before His Heavenly Father.  Then in Luke 12:8 Christ also said, "Also I say unto you, whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the son of man (Jesus) confess before the angels of God".

The next part of that verse concerns belief.  Do you really believe?  I question a lot of people who say they are Christians.  I believe that a lot of the reason why those who say they are Christians never confess Christ to others is their lack of real belief in Christ in their heart.  Not only do you believe, but do you believe that God really raised Him from the dead in His earthly body?
Remember and think about this thought.  The devil believes in Christ, that's why the devil seeks to rob, destroy and kill every person on earth.  The devil knows that Christ is real and that Christ died to defeat him (the devil) and save all mankind if mankind will confess and believe in Christ.  But the devil doesn't want you to believe unto salvation and escape the devil's destruction.  Jehovah's witnesses are an example of belief that isn't unto salvation.  They believe that Christ died on the cross for man's sins, that He died and was buried, but they believe that when He rose from the dead, He rose as a spirit creature, He didn't rise in the flesh.  This is one of the reasons they are missing the mark.

God brought Christ back to life as he was before he died, He was risen from the dead.  If He would have risen as a spirit, He couldn't have deafeated death.  All men whether they are saved or lost become a spirit when their bodies die and they either go directly before God or they go directly to hell.  If Christ was only a spirit after His death then He would be no different than anyone else and He couldn't have defeated death.  I hope I haven't gotten too deep into something that ends up confusing you more than helping.  Feel free to write me if you need any help with understanding what I am saying here.
This  verse we are learning this week is a very important verse and I hope you will meditate on it and pray about  it and know how to share it as you learn to witness.

So remember, confess and believe, Romans 10:9, 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. Romans 10:9

Until then remember that He is risen, He is risen indeed.

God bless you,
Brother Bill
aka: River Rat