BELIEVING AND SAYING THE KEY TO FAITH !

SAYING AND BELIEVING THE KEY TO FAITH: Notice the words of (Romans 10:8), "But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even IN THY MOUTH, and IN THY HEART: that is, THE WORD OF FAITH, which we preach." How does this compare with the words of Jesus in (Mark 11:23) ? Paul's writings to the Romans agreed exactly with what Jesus told his disciples when He said, "whosoever shall say. . . And shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe. . . Shall have whatsoever he saith." We see here the basic principle inherent in the God kind of faith: believing with the heart and saying it with the mouth. Jesus believed it, and He said. God believed it, and He said, speaking the earth into existence. You say a lot of things that perhaps you do not believe: and yet you are having what you say ! Verse nine and 10 of the same 10th chapter of Romans said, "That if thou shalt confess with the mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Here, it is not saying confess the name of Jesus ! It is saying confess the Word unto deliverance, unto soundness, unto preservation, unto healing ! A measure of faith is dealt to the sinner through the hearing the Word. Then he or she uses it to create the reality of deliverance, or soundness, or healing, are preservation or temporal evil in his or her life. When believers are asked, "when were you saved ?" Many of them answer by saying something like, "about 9 o'clock on the night of July 10." They are mistaken, however. God save them nearly 5000 years ago ! It only became a reality to them when they believed it and confessed it. Salvation belongs to everyone. Every man and woman, boy, or girl in this world has a legal right to salvation. Jesus died for the whole world, not just for you and me. When the truth is preached to the sinner, it causes faith to come. When religion is preached it causes fear and bondage with doubt ! When he or she believes and confesses, that creates the reality of it in his or her own life by his or her faith. The god of this world which is Satan "but That if our gospel be hidden it is hidden to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world or age hath blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

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