that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
The gospel requires confession with the mouth, owning Christ in all danger, and belief in the heart that God raised Him. The resurrection article presupposes and includes His incarnation, death, and passion; without the resurrection, His death had availed us nothing.
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To confess with the mouth is to declare openly and publicly our agreement with God's truth. The profession of Jesus as Lord means to acknowledge Him as having the right to rule over the soul, and such outward confession must correspond with sincere inward belief.
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Moses speaks of the mouth by way of the whole face or presence, and Paul rightly adopts this: where God's word stands before us, it must bring forth fruit in confession. He puts mouth before heart following Moses' order, yet in verse 10 he reverses it, the heart believes first, then the mouth confesses what flows from it.
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