| Rom 10:9 Because if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. I firmly believe that Salvation is by faith and Faith alone. One thing I want to bring to your attention is what the Word confess actually means. G3670 Strongshom-ol-og-eh'-oFrom a compound of the base of G3674 and G3056; to assent, that is, covenant, acknowledgeTo make sense of this let’s replace the word confess with the word covenant.Rom 10:9 Because if you make covenant with the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.Covenant as defined in Easton Bible dictionaryA contract or agreement between two partiesThis covenant is not to be taken lightly. Yahweh takes His Covenants between Himself and man very serious. When you agree to a contract between yourself and let’s say a financial institution you would not commit to it without first reading and understanding your part and the company’s part. The same must be done when we confess make covenant with Yeshua has our Lord and Savior. There is always an obedience aspect to any covenant or contract made whether between man or Yahweh. Its not about saying some magic words or a special prayer. Our faith in Y’shua is in obedience to His Word. The same was true of Abraham. Gen 22:17-18 that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies. (18) “And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” The blessing came because of faith obeying Yahveh and all that was commanded Abraham. We also prove our faith by belief and obedience in Yeshua and His Word.When we accept Yeshua as our savior we are in Conenant with Him. Covenant is the most solemn, binding, intimate contract known in the Bible. Covenant was considered a binding agreement among the ancients, and so was not entered into lightly It should be entered into today with the same mindset as in the O.T. After pieces of the sacrificial animal were laid opposite one another, the individuals who were cutting covenant would walk between the flesh. Note: The Covenant now comes from the inside, not from the flesh or an outside source. This walk represented the so-called "walk into death" indicating their commitment to die to independent living and to ever after live for their covenant partner and to fulfill the stipulations of their covenant. This "walk into death" was a testimony by each covenant partner that if either broke the covenant Yahveh would take their life, even as had been done to the sacrificial animal. Covenant was a pledge to death.. A pledge cut in blood. In covenant the shedding of blood demonstrated as nothing else could, the intensity of the commitment. Certain things are exchangedDavid and Jonathan Putting on" the covenant partner's robe symbolizes putting on the partner's identity. Two become one. 1 Sam 18:1-5. Jonathan declaration 1 Sam 20:13 When do the New Testament saints put on Christ's robe? When we received Yeshua as our Lord and Savior, we clothed ourselves with Christ Gal 3:26-29. Also, Isa 61:10 Now when the lost world sees us, it should see His robe of righteous attitudes and actions, now made possible by His indwelling Spirit. Our responsibility is (in the power of the Holy Spirit) to put off the old attitudes and actions associated with darkness and put on the deeds associated with those who walk in the light.What did the exchange of armor symbolize? Armor ~ defense, protection. The covenant partner was responsible to defend the partner and take on the partner's enemies. Who is our Covenant Defender from Acts 9 :1-7? Yeshua is now obligated to be our Defender and Protector. When Persecution, affliction and suffering come upon believers, we have a Covenant Defender We do not need to seek revenge. God is committed to be our Avenger and He will repay2Th 1:6 since Elohim shall rightly repay with affliction those who afflict you,We are called to love our enemies, pray for them, bless those who persecute us, curse not and to overcome evil with good Rm 12:14-21We learn from the covenant Jonathan and David cut (1Sam 20;16,42)? It was between their houses (families) and their descendants forever. Covenant is binding - covenant partners are obligated to
one another unto death. Messiah Yeshua laid His life down for us. Joh 10:15 even as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. Shouldn’t we do the same for Him and the Kingdom? 1Jn 3:16 By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. |
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