Tuesday, August 12, 2025
If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:9-10
What does Paul say that we are to do to trust in Jesus? Have you done this? If so, when? What does Paul say is the result of trusting in Jesus?
How To Trust In Jesus
Chapter 9 of Romans ends with Paul speaking about Israel’s rejection of Jesus – the Messiah. Israel did not believe in faith that Jesus Christ could save them apart from themselves. They still believed that they must be saved by works of the law, rejecting that salvation comes only from Jesus who was crucified for their sins. Paul is heartbroken because they just don’t get it, or they refuse to listen to him. They are choosing to reject the truth that the only way to God is through faith in Jesus Christ. After following the law for their whole lives and trying to keep all the laws so they would be good enough you would think that they might welcome the relief that it is actually not something they could ever achieve on their own.
Paul begins chapter 10 praying for them and their salvation, and in verses 9-10 he gets to the heart of what truly brings salvation for everyone: If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
There is nothing we can do to save ourselves from the penalty of our sins which is death. No amount of works can do for us what only Jesus can. He came to earth as a baby and gave his life on the cross to pay that penalty for us. It is a gift given and all we have to do is to believe it and receive it. It is our belief in him as the Son of God who was raised from the dead that results in our righteousness. When we confess with our mouth our belief in him as the Son of God it results in our salvation. All we have to do to trust in Jesus is to believe, receive, and confess.
For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame, since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord of all richly blesses all who call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Romans 10:11-13
Paul goes on in verses 11-13 to say that salvation is available for all – Jew and Greek alike. Paul specifically said this because the Jews believed they were better than the Gentiles (Greeks). Jews were also known as Israelites or Hebrews, and they were the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They were God’s chosen people that he had a covenant with. All other non-Jewish people were Gentiles. The way the Jews viewed it, they were chosen and everyone else was not. But Paul sets them straight here.
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved – no matter who they were, what they have done, or where they come from. Everyone is the same in the eyes of the Lord as he loves us all equally and offers salvation to everyone, from every heritage and walk of life.
What about you? Have you called on him and trusted him with everything in your life?
What are you still holding onto that you don’t want to turn over to him?