How To Be Saved?

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you saved?

Yes. JESUS saved me from sins and hell while I'm still alive, I know I am SAVED.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD saves us from His Divine efforts by merely assenting to His WORDS and believing that He raised JESUS from the dead.

IV. TEXT:

Romans 10:9 (Amplified Bible)

Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9 (New King James Version)

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are LORD over my entire life, in all areas of my life and GOD raised You from the dead.

VI. TITLE:

How to be saved?

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Apostle Paul

B. Date written: 57 A.D.

C. Place written: From Corinth

D. Purpose: To prepare Roman believers for his long awaited visit.

E. To whom written: Roman Christians

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Romans 10:9 (Amplified Bible)

Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9 (New King James Version)

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

A. Confess with your mouth the LORD JESUS

"Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord"

Confess or "homolegeo" from the Greek language meaning: "to assent, covenant, acknowledge, give thanks, promise"

Assent - the act of the mind in admitting, or agreeing to, the truth of a proposition. [Source: Webster's dictionary] The LORD JESUS CHRIST is a Gentlman of all gentleman, and He will not "push" His ideals in us eventhough they are perfect because it is Himself, but rather, would be contented with us assenting to His will, which is a weaker word compared to consent.

ASSENT = agree while

CONSENT = agree + effects

How I love the LORD JESUS CHRIST!! If the LORD JESUS were to use "consent", I will fully obliged. Giving thanks is just the manifestation of it, or just say "JESUS IS LORD!"

To differentiate from "consent"

Consent - an agreement to some proposal or measure which affects the rights or interest of the consenter. [Source: Webster's dictionary]

We go for the effects not just for the confession (show-off) for me, just a lip-service. We go for the application of GOD'S WORDS in our lives.

ILLUSTRATION: Our church is JESUS IS LORD CHURCH and our pastor is Bro. Eddie Villanueva which is a very powerful man of GOD, always goes to say "JESUS IS LORD!" over this and that is right and correct. We do this so that thing, event or person is fully under the agreement with the LORD JESUS, we fix it by saying JESUS over every thing, even the word "fix" is no human effort at all, it came from the effort of the HOLY SPIRIT, not us.

Romans 14:11 (Amplified Bible)

For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God [acknowledge Him to His honor and to His praise].

Isaiah 45:23 (Amplified Bible)

I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear [allegiance].

Philippians 2:10-11 (Amplified Bible)

That in (at) the name of Jesus every knee should (must) bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

And every tongue [frankly and openly] confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

1 John 4:2-3 (Amplified Bible)

By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source];

And every spirit which does not acknowledge and confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh [but would annul, destroy, ever, disunite Him] is not of God [does not proceed from Him]. This [nonconfession] is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you heard that it was coming, and now it is already in the world.

so let's do the confession now with effects in our lives, say these lines out loud: