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Can I Be Sure
Contributed by Ron Murphy on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: A basic Romans Road message, as our church begins a concentrated outreach into our community.
B. We are offered life, because Christ offered His own life.
VII. It is ONLY through His death, that we are offered life.
A. God does not look past our smoking, our drinking, our cussing, or our lack thereof and say, “Well it doesn’t matter. I love them.”
B. God says all that stuff does matter, and they deserve death, but I offer live through Christ.
VIII. But there is one requirement; we must believe.
One Requirement
I. Before you turn to the next verse, put Romans 10:9 beside Romans 5:8 - that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; 10 for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
II. The verse says, “confess” and “believe”
A. Maybe I should have said two requirements, but they are kind of a simultaneous action.
B. That which we believe, we are not afraid to confess.
III. God says that for us to be the benefactor of His offer of life, we must believe that Jesus Christ died in our place.
A. Notice this verse does not say we suddenly must go to church every Sunday.
B. It does not say that we must start teaching Bible studies, or know and do all that the Bible says to do.
IV. This verse really says one thing,
A. “We must believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins.”
B. And when you believe it, “confess” or speak about it with our mouths; that means to pray and say “God I realize who I am and who Christ is, and what He did for me.
V. That simple, that quick, that painless.
Conclusion
I. I close with these questions,
II. Were you to die today, what will happen next?
A. Why? How do you know?
B. If you believe that Jesus died to make it possible for you to live, have you ever said so to God?
C. If not, why not today?
D. All you have to do is say a prayer something like this, and you don’t even have to say it out loud; God can hear your thoughts.
III. There is one more verse you may want to mark in your Bible, and that is Romans chapter 5, verse 1 - Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
IV. If you have said “Yes” to Jesus, you now have peace with God.
