Abraham Believed God, Part 4
Today we will finish our study on Abraham believing God.
Yesterday we were talking about confessing with our mouth and believing in our heart. It takes both according to Romans 10:9,10. We found that confession is made unto salvation. We also saw that when you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the dead you will be saved. In both definitions of saved and salvation, we notice the word “soundness.” And we saw the definition of soundness from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary.
Romans 10:9,10 has a reference to Deuteronomy 30:11-20. Let’s do a summary of these verses in Chapter 30. The commandment we have been given is not hidden. 1 John tells us that commandment is to love. And the word is near us in our mouth and in our heart, that we may do it. God has set before us life and good and death and evil, and we are commanded to love the Lord our God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, that we may live and multiply, and the Lord shall bless us in the land where we go to possess it. Heaven and earth witnesses what is set before us: life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, we are to choose life that both we and our children may live. We are to love the Lord our God and obey His voice, cleave unto Him, for He is our life and the length of our days.
When we talk about soundness, I have to look at 1 Thessalonians 5:23: …may our spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless, faultless (sound and complete)….
In the Strong’s Concordance we see the meaning of preserve as this: To guard from loss or injury prop. By keeping the eye upon. The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary tells us that preserve means to keep or save from injury or destruction; to defend from evil; to uphold, sustain; to save from decay, to keep in a sound state; to keep or defend from CORRUPTION.
According to 2 Peter 1:3,4, we have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. God has given them to us. He, the Word, Love Himself, His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. And then look what happens. By these precious promises of His Word (1 Peter 1:23: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever.) He Himself, the Word Himself with His life and divine energy, we become partakers of His divine nature and escape the CORRUPTION that is in the world through lust (covetousness, greed, desire for fleshly pursuits, desire for that which is contrary to God’s desire for us).
The bottom line is this:
You proclaim the Word of God about you whether it’s that way or not in the natural realm.
God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness.
How did He give these to us?
Through His great and precious promises.
We are to BELIEVE in our HEART that these great and precious promises are ours, and then we are to CONFESS with our MOUTH that they are ours.
We call for them.
We call them to us.
They become reality in our lives personally.
And remember that the Word of God does produce results; what we have to do is stay with the Word until our minds are renewed and conformed to God’s way of doing things. It is a process.
Confess this with your mouth: I BELIEVE I RECEIVE!
I CALL, DECLARE, PROCLAIM, DECREE, CONFESS GOD’S WORD.
Yesterday we were talking about confessing with our mouth and believing in our heart. It takes both according to Romans 10:9,10. We found that confession is made unto salvation. We also saw that when you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the dead you will be saved. In both definitions of saved and salvation, we notice the word “soundness.” And we saw the definition of soundness from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary.
Romans 10:9,10 has a reference to Deuteronomy 30:11-20. Let’s do a summary of these verses in Chapter 30. The commandment we have been given is not hidden. 1 John tells us that commandment is to love. And the word is near us in our mouth and in our heart, that we may do it. God has set before us life and good and death and evil, and we are commanded to love the Lord our God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, that we may live and multiply, and the Lord shall bless us in the land where we go to possess it. Heaven and earth witnesses what is set before us: life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, we are to choose life that both we and our children may live. We are to love the Lord our God and obey His voice, cleave unto Him, for He is our life and the length of our days.
When we talk about soundness, I have to look at 1 Thessalonians 5:23: …may our spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless, faultless (sound and complete)….
In the Strong’s Concordance we see the meaning of preserve as this: To guard from loss or injury prop. By keeping the eye upon. The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary tells us that preserve means to keep or save from injury or destruction; to defend from evil; to uphold, sustain; to save from decay, to keep in a sound state; to keep or defend from CORRUPTION.
According to 2 Peter 1:3,4, we have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. God has given them to us. He, the Word, Love Himself, His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. And then look what happens. By these precious promises of His Word (1 Peter 1:23: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever.) He Himself, the Word Himself with His life and divine energy, we become partakers of His divine nature and escape the CORRUPTION that is in the world through lust (covetousness, greed, desire for fleshly pursuits, desire for that which is contrary to God’s desire for us).
The bottom line is this:
You proclaim the Word of God about you whether it’s that way or not in the natural realm.
God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness.
How did He give these to us?
Through His great and precious promises.
We are to BELIEVE in our HEART that these great and precious promises are ours, and then we are to CONFESS with our MOUTH that they are ours.
We call for them.
We call them to us.
They become reality in our lives personally.
And remember that the Word of God does produce results; what we have to do is stay with the Word until our minds are renewed and conformed to God’s way of doing things. It is a process.
Confess this with your mouth: I BELIEVE I RECEIVE!
I CALL, DECLARE, PROCLAIM, DECREE, CONFESS GOD’S WORD.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 5:15 AM
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