Matthew 12:37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned

Did you know that a man could believe that Jesus died and was raised from the dead for his justification, and still end up in hell? That’s because to merely believe that He died and was raised from the dead isn’t enough to guarantee salvation. The Bible says
even the devils believe and tremble (James 2:19),

but that doesn’t make them saved. There’s more required for salvation than just believing. We must confess the Lordship of Jesus over our lives to be saved!

The word “confess” is the Greek “Homologia” which means to declare openly by way of speaking out freely a deep conviction of facts. Thus when we make confessions, we’re proclaiming that which God has said concerning us in His Word.

Romans 10:9-10
“…if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

In other words, when God’s Word comes to you, and you believe it, your heart is made right with God. But confessing the Lordship of Jesus over your life is actually what launches or catapults you into salvation. This is when you come to the realization that Jesus Christ is Lord of your life and that you belong to Him.

Confession however doesn’t end with receiving salvation from sin alone, for salvation is an all-inclusive word. It refers to your preservation, prosperity, peace, health, victory, success and all the wonderful benefits that ensue from the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In fact, Christianity itself is referred to as the “great confession.” It’s a life where you get what you say. So you have to be a talking-Christian. You have to confess God’s Word and see it come to pass in your life, health, job, family and finances.

The Lord Jesus emphasized this in Mark 11:23, when He said
“…he shall have whatsoever he saith.”
So declare God’s Word concerning everything that pertains to you today, and you’d definitely see the results in your life!

Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Mark 11:23
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

well said
but i will like to ask with biblical explanation how a person who can not speak nor hear recieve salvation without speaking apart from sign language

thanks

We have special ministry to the blind and deaf. We even have special rhapsodies we send to them free .every one can be reached in language they van understand

Well is good to emphasize this, i bet lots of church goers only belive in thier heart but to come to the point of cofession is not what lots of them have done consciously

actually i am evangelizing from this perspective

Being born again starts truly with beleiving and confessing

i hope most of the chraistain hopefuls will take a cue from this

What's all these drama?

manmacho:

Well is good to emphasize this, i bet lots of church goers only belive in thier heart but to come to the point of cofession is not what lots of them have done consciously

actually i am evangelizing from this perspective

Being born again starts truly with beleiving and confessing

i hope most of the chraistain hopefuls will take a cue from this

Thank you for your contribution , many people don't really understand the power of words, they erroneously feel confession unto salvation Is too simple because they don't understand the power of spoken word. Some believe a man has to beg God very seriously by repeating "SAVE MEN, SAVE ME,SAVE ME" several times or days until they feel saved! Words are not mere sounds. Words are spirits. When a man a man declares Jesus as lord and openly confess him . Those words are tangible in the spirit realm. He is launched into salvation.

Image123:

What's all these drama?

What is your problem man, is this the kind of life you want to live always expending and investing your God given energy and productive time agueing and not making sense or progress and for the most part those since you don't want to learn you won't allow others with sincere approach to learn.
Go and open your own thread and let people learn- thats if there's anything to learn anyway other than perhaps to ague. Please we didn't come to nairaland to waste our time engaging in unproductive discuss sessions. Back off! Thank you
CHANGE! CHANGE!! CHANGE! ! !

@joagbaje
Please people like that Image123 of a guy doesn't deserve your attention, l would suggest that you kindly concentrate and engage in meaningful dialogue sessions with more reasonable persons who really love God passionately and can only seek more effective means to reach out to more people for Christ, considering the fact that with the several world events and happenings we are more than ever awaken to that sense of urgency to evangelize the world for Christ hitherto Jesus said ", l must work the work of Him that sent while it is day for the night cometh when no man can work again, " that night is fast approaching so we don't have any spare time for such expensive frivolities in the form of engaging in unproductive arguments no different from what Mr. Image123 is offering.

Joagbaje:

Thank you for your contribution , many people don't really understand the power of words, they erroneously feel confession unto salvation Is too simple because they don't understand the power of spoken word. Some believe a man has to beg God very seriously by repeating "SAVE MEN, SAVE ME,SAVE ME" several times or days until they feel saved! Words are not mere sounds. Words are spirits. When a man a man declares Jesus as lord and openly confess him . Those words are tangible in the spirit realm. He is launched into salvation.

Tell me something, you know l once thought that we had seen the last of such mundane and childish prayers until l observed some group of persons (l mean no disrespect and l do not mean to be critical at all) who were ferociously and vehemently with consistency nodding their heads back and forth repeating the phrase you used above so they sounded like "SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME, " These only the words one could only hear l mean please isn't this ridiculous?

manmacho:

well said
but i will like to ask with biblical explanation how a person who can not speak nor hear recieve salvation without speaking apart from sign language

thanks

Note the question above, and compare to the pharisaic action film below

Joagbaje:

We have special ministry to the blind and deaf. We even have special rhapsodies we send to them free .every one can be reached in language they van understand

Sure, you can produce a better 'commercials' than these.

Newmi
When i suggested that Joagbaje needed genuine counsel, i didn't have you in mind. What's with your coming here screaming 'CHANGE' and offering? Were you posting from a public bus, or must you point others to filthy lucre? And then you end up by trying to ridicule another denomination. If they start on you now, we'll start hearing about accuser of brethen and lord's anointin and washing dirty linen in public. May God open your eyes and ears.

Joagbaje:

but that doesn’t make them saved. There’s more required for salvation than just believing. We must confess the Lordship of Jesus over our lives to be saved!

Joagbaje:

When a man a man declares Jesus as lord and openly confess him . Those words are tangible in the spirit realm. He is launched into salvation.

Can you provide some clarifications here Jo,

One, can this confession be done in the bedroom with just the Lord in attendance or must it be a public show with ‘men’ also in attendance.

Two, (slightly related to manmancho question but with a different objective) – you said confession via spoken words is required, what happens to the man that is mute? For one that is un-able to utter a single word, is salvation still attainable?

Zikkyy:

Can you provide some clarifications here Jo,
One, can this confession be done in the bedroom with just the Lord in attendance or must it be a public show with ‘men’ also in attendance.

Prayer of salvation can be made everywhere. Even alone in the bedroom

Two, (slightly related to manmancho question but with a different objective) – you said confession via spoken words is required, what happens to the man that is mute? For one that is un-able to utter a single word, is salvation still attainable?

Point if correction we have ministration to the blind and not to deaf mute. Some people are skilled in communicating with special cases. Honeslty I don't have detail information. But if I must get a dog saved I must learn the language of barking.

Maybe we should create a thread on that and the specialist on such can enlighten us .What of mad men ?  Mental cases, imbeciles, austism patient,  the man in a coma  etc. It's not every human person that can be ministered to.

Joagbaje:

Point if correction we have ministration to the blind and not to deaf mute. Some people are skilled in communicating with special cases. Honeslty I don't have detail information. But if I must get a dog saved I must learn the language of barking.

Maybe we should create a thread on that and the specialist on such can enlighten us .What of mad men ? Mental cases, imbeciles, austism patient, the man in a coma etc. It's not every human person that can be ministered to.

Thanks for the communications bit Jo, but you missed a part of the question. You said our confession has to be spoken; i just needed to know if the mute will be exempted here.

^^^that's what the bible says. I don't understand sign language to know how they communicate. We can both do a study on it.

Joagbaje:

^^^that's what the bible says. I don't understand sign language to know how they communicate. We can both do a study on it.

Okay sir. No problem.

Question for Joe agbaje.
Talking about confessing,if confession plays a vital role in our salvation what about our daily life.I askedthis to say this.if repeatedly saying save me save me or help me help me is the not the main thing I the salvation of a person.what will you say then to a person that repeatedly say a particular word while praying generally for example words like.Jesus thank you Jesus thank you,or help me lord help me lord.does it mean that repeating a particular word during prayer is not acceptable or right.

@biox

Biox:

Question for Joe agbaje.

The name is joagbaje pls.

Talking about confessing,if confession plays a vital role in our salvation what about our daily life.I askedthis to say this.if repeatedly saying save me save me or help me help me is the not the main thing I the salvation of a person.what will you say then to a person that repeatedly say a particular word while praying generally for example words like.Jesus thank you Jesus thank you,or help me lord help me lord.does it mean that repeating a particular word during prayer is not acceptable or right.

well that will derail the thread , I'm talking about salvation. But for the confessions of faith for living. You can open a thread on that . I will be glad to contribute.

@joagbaje
my sincere apologies,

@poster

You are not saved just by verbally proclaimaing Jesus as Lord as saviour but by also Living your life as a son/daughter of Jesuis christ.

Even if you beleive in your heart that Jesus is Lord and verbally proclaim him as Lord and saviour without abstaining from lying ,fornication,stealing,murder e.t.c you will still be damned to hell.

pls, i'll like us to get these things right. when ever we obey any commandments of the bible say ''confessing our sins, believing in God, praying, preaching'',we are doing the works of the law. 1st thess 1:3. God also tells us that non of our works can get us saved. Gal. 2:16; We can only hope and wait quitely for the salvation of God. lamentation 3:26. We become saved if and only if God had chosen us from the foundation of the world. Eph 1:3-5. [color=#000099][/color]

thank you so much joagbaje i have being following you on this forum, maybe you might not know me, but i have controibuted in some of you post. and have read this one too, i have also read the replays. and i have afew questions for some of us but sir i will start with you, if salvation comes first by beleiving then confession and we understand this from Rom 10:9-10 this scripture all of the of the new testament scripture were writen by the desiples of christ, i want to know sir were the desiples born again and if yes what confession did they do to be born again. i ask this because i am a christain born again, full of the holy ghost tongue talking, but i was cofronted with question whail carring out my responsibility of the ministry of reconciliation. thank you.

@chukwudi.

chukwudi44:

You are not saved just by verbally proclaimaing Jesus as Lord as saviour

We shouldn't add to scriptures. A man gets born again by faith alone.

Romans 10:9-10
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

but by also Living your life as a son/daughter of Jesuis christ.Even if you beleive in your heart that Jesus is Lord and verbally proclaim him as Lord and saviour without abstaining from lying ,fornication,stealing,murder e.t.c you will still be damned to hell.

 No child of God love to live wrong life. Execpt he is not saved. The love of God compels us to live right . But if a Christian sins, that doesn't make him lose his salvation. There is repentance from errors and forgiveness.

1 John 2:1
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us[ our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

No child of God love to live wrong life. Execpt he is not saved. The love of God compels us to live right . But if a Christian sins, that doesn't make him lose his salvation. There is repentance from errors and forgiveness

In otherwords even if a christian dies in sin he is still saved?

well look at what Jesus himself had to say about such people in matt 7:21-27

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

24 Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock:

25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock.

26 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.



luke 6:46-49






46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

47 Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like:

48 he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.

49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great

chukwudi44:

In otherwords even if a christian dies in sin he is still saved?

well look at what Jesus himself had to say about such people in matt 7:21-27

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.  

 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? 

 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 

 24 Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: 

 25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock. 

 26 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: 

 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof. 

luke 6:46-49

 46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 

 47 Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like: 

 48 he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded. 

 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great

It's possible to backslide or depart from the faith. By what is called apostasy .

 Hebrews 6:4-7
4 For[ it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put[ him] to an open shame. 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

There is sin unto damnation and there is sin not unto damnation.  

1 John 5:16
16 If any man see his brother sin a sin[ which is] not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 

It's not every sin that leads to damnation. Do you know how many sins you have committed that you don't even know or remember. Some of the insults on this forum alone just to mention few. They are all sins. Evil speakings, insults and abuses.  If God should pick on every mistake for damnation. Will you stand?

There is forgiveness in christ . For every sin. A Christian is not looking for which sin to escape with But rather how to please God. BecAuse the love of God is shed abroad his heart. But those who are always sin conscious are the ones always fallen into sin the most. The more righteousness conscious a man is the more he pleases God.

There is sin unto damnation and there is sin not unto damnation

Iknow about mortal and venial sins but I thought you protestants don't beleive in it.

There is forgiveness in christ . For every sin. A Christian is not looking for which sin to escape with But rather how to please God. BecAuse the love of God is shed abroad his heart. But those who are always sin conscious are the ones always fallen into sin the most. The more righteousness conscious a man is the more he pleases God.

I know all this but my point is this Supose a christian who has verbally proclaimed Jesus as Lord and saviour falls into temptation say adultery/stealing and dies in the act without having the chance to ask for forgiveness,will his verbal proclaimation of Jesus as saviour still save him?

From my level of u derstanding , it depends on the state of his heart and Gods love he has. There are some errors we make that we don't even know are errors. And when we realise we repent of them. I've met individuals who didn't know they had a challenge with covetousness or unforgiveness. But they love God , and were nice Christian , some were abused by parents and find it hard to forgive and love them. They hold their parents responsible for certain pains they go through, but they love God sincerely. But when the word of God came to them in that areas of darkness ,they repented . But supposing they had died in that error not really knowing better. It's still a sin anyway. God will not cast them away. They love God sincerely and are serving him. The holy spirit can only convict us based on the level of our knowledge. A child makes childish mistake. A young convert makes mistakes
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1 Corinthians 13:11-12
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

It's not every sin a man may know to confess. Everything depends on his relationship with God . He has not denied the lordship of christ. And he is not delibrately living in sin. There have been things I did wrong many years ago thinking it was right, only for me to realise that I was wrong by the knowledge I have now. For some it's selfishness. They can't inconvenience themselves for others, they always want their own. But if they had died without knowing better. They won't be cast away.

But this is different from someone who knows better and just looks down on God and live in profanity. Well all I will say is . God in his mercy knows better.

At least, confessions help clean up 'the almighty' mess.