“For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the scripture says, ‘Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Belief from the heart that Jesus is Lord gives us justification, and confession from the mouth and repentance from the past grants us salvation. All elements are crucial in order to bring us in right standing with God and give us eternal life. God makes no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, and when we place faith in Him and call on His name He will bestow His riches on us. So how then are those who do not believe going to hear the wonderful gospel of redemption? It must be preached and proclaimed to all the nations. For how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news! So let us be sent in boldness and filled with the Holy Spirit to do the works that God has predestined us towards. Let the ears of the lost be open and attentive, so that faith may pierce their hearts and convict their conscience. And let the Word of Christ spring forth to pluck those from the fie. And let those who believe never be put to shame, but allow them to boast in the Lord for the new found life they have in Christ.
