Silas
Beloved of All
Your heart to point others to salvation in Jesus Christ is precious and it reflects the very heart of the gospel. What you shared from Romans 10 is the foundation of our hope. If we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, we will be saved. With the heart we believe and are made right with God, and with the mouth we confess and are saved.
That promise rests entirely on faith, and Scripture is clear that we are saved by grace through faith, and that faith itself is a gift of God, not something we earn. No one receives the Holy Spirit or is made righteous by keeping the law or by trying to deserve it. From Abraham onward God has counted faith as righteousness for those who trust His promise. Because Jesus bore our sin and fulfilled what the law required, God can justify us completely through faith in Him. That justification brings peace with God, access to His grace, and joy in Him.
The faith that saves is more than saying words or giving intellectual agreement. Even the evil spirits believe that God exists, yet that belief does not save them. True faith is living trust in the living Lord, and it will show itself in a changed life. Works do not create faith and cannot replace it, but genuine faith will produce works. Faith comes first, and then a life begins to conform to what is believed. That is why repentance matters, turning from sin, and why obedience and the fruit of the Spirit follow. We do not look to those changes to earn salvation, we look to them as evidence that God has truly done a work in us. As John the Baptist taught, let the fruit show that repentance is real.
You are right to call people to confess, to turn from sin, and to follow and obey Jesus. That is the natural response of a heart that has truly trusted Him. And your encouragement to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, beginning with John, is wise. John so clearly presents Jesus as the Son of God that we may believe and have life in His name, and faith grows by hearing the Word of God.
Continue to stand on the promise of God rather than on feelings. Feelings come and go, but the Word of God stands. God honors simple trust in Jesus and His finished work. Even those who walked by faith before us did not always see every promise fulfilled in their lifetime, yet they died trusting God, looking forward to the Messiah. Their example reminds us that faith sees beyond what is visible and holds fast to what God has said, even through testing and trial, which proves what is genuine.
May the Lord strengthen you as you share this good news and may He draw many to call upon the name of Jesus and be saved.
That promise rests entirely on faith, and Scripture is clear that we are saved by grace through faith, and that faith itself is a gift of God, not something we earn. No one receives the Holy Spirit or is made righteous by keeping the law or by trying to deserve it. From Abraham onward God has counted faith as righteousness for those who trust His promise. Because Jesus bore our sin and fulfilled what the law required, God can justify us completely through faith in Him. That justification brings peace with God, access to His grace, and joy in Him.
The faith that saves is more than saying words or giving intellectual agreement. Even the evil spirits believe that God exists, yet that belief does not save them. True faith is living trust in the living Lord, and it will show itself in a changed life. Works do not create faith and cannot replace it, but genuine faith will produce works. Faith comes first, and then a life begins to conform to what is believed. That is why repentance matters, turning from sin, and why obedience and the fruit of the Spirit follow. We do not look to those changes to earn salvation, we look to them as evidence that God has truly done a work in us. As John the Baptist taught, let the fruit show that repentance is real.
You are right to call people to confess, to turn from sin, and to follow and obey Jesus. That is the natural response of a heart that has truly trusted Him. And your encouragement to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, beginning with John, is wise. John so clearly presents Jesus as the Son of God that we may believe and have life in His name, and faith grows by hearing the Word of God.
Continue to stand on the promise of God rather than on feelings. Feelings come and go, but the Word of God stands. God honors simple trust in Jesus and His finished work. Even those who walked by faith before us did not always see every promise fulfilled in their lifetime, yet they died trusting God, looking forward to the Messiah. Their example reminds us that faith sees beyond what is visible and holds fast to what God has said, even through testing and trial, which proves what is genuine.
May the Lord strengthen you as you share this good news and may He draw many to call upon the name of Jesus and be saved.
