Prairie View Christian Church Norway, Iowa PastorTeacher Bill Wenstrom www'prairieviewchristian'org

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Prairie View Christian ChurchNorway,
IowaPastor-Teacher Bill Wenstromwww.prairievie
wchristian.org
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Wednesday May 20, 2009Romans Romans
109-Acknowledging With Ones Mouth Jesus Is Lord
Is To Believe With Ones Heart That God Raised
Him From The Dead Resulting In SalvationLesson
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Please turn in your Bibles to Romans 101.
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This evening we will note Romans 109 and in this
verse Paul teaches that if the Jew acknowledges
with his mouth to the Father that Jesus is Lord,
which is equivalent to believing in his heart
that the Father raised him from the dead, then
the Jew will receive eternal salvation.
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Romans 101, Brethren, my heart's desire and my
prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
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Romans 102, For I testify about them that they
have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with
knowledge.
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Romans 103, For not knowing about God's
righteousness and seeking to establish their own,
they did not subject themselves to the
righteousness of God.
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Romans 104, For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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Romans 105, For Moses writes that the man who
practices the righteousness which is based on law
shall live by that righteousness.
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Romans 106, But the righteousness based on
faith speaks as follows DO NOT SAY IN YOUR
HEART, WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN? (that is,
to bring Christ down).
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Romans 107, Or WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE
ABYSS? (that is, to bring Christ up from the
dead).
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Romans 108, But what does it say? THE WORD IS
NEAR YOU, in your mouth and in your heart --
that is, the word of faith which we are
preaching.
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Romans 109, That if you confess with your mouth
Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Romans 109 presents the basis for Pauls
statement in verse 8 that the word, i.e. the
gospel is always readily accessible and available
to the Jew, in his mouth as well as in his heart,
namely, the word, i.e. the gospel which brings
about faith.
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The gospel, which brings about faith in Christ,
is readily accessible and available to the Jew
because if the unsaved Jew acknowledges with
his mouth to the Father Jesus is Lord, which is
equivalent to believing in his heart that the
Father raised Him from the dead, then the unsaved
Jew will be saved.
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If is the conditional particle ean (e)avn)
(eh-an), which introduces the protasis of a third
class condition.
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This condition indicates the certain fulfillment
in the future that the Jew will be saved if he
fulfills the condition of acknowledging with his
mouth to the Father Jesus is Lord, which is
equivalent to believing in his heart that the
Father raised Him from the dead.
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You confess is the second person singular
aorist active subjunctive form of the verb
homologeo (o(mologevw), which means, to
acknowledge to the Father that Jesus of Nazareth
is Lord, which is a word here that denotes His
deity.
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The question arises, to whom does the unbeliever
have to acknowledge that Jesus is Lord in order
to be saved?
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Also, is a public affirmation to men required or
is this an acknowledgement to oneself or to God?
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Some interpret homologeo in Romans 109 as a
public affirmation to men and use Luke 128 to
support this interpretation but Jesus is speaking
to believers in Luke 128-9 and in Romans 109 he
is writing concerning unsaved Jews.
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This is clearly indicated since Luke 121 reveals
that He is addressing His disciples and in Luke
124, He calls those whom He addresses My
friends and in Luke 124-7, He teaches those
whom He addresses regarding the Fathers care for
them.
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Luke 128-9, And I say to you, everyone who
confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will
confess him also before the angels of God but he
who denies Me before men will be denied before
the angels of God.
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Acknowledging Jesus before men is not a reference
to getting saved since Jesus is teaching those
who are already His disciples and thus already
saved.
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Therefore, those who interpret homologeo in
Romans 109 as a public affirmation to men of
the deity of Christ can not use Luke 128 as
support for this interpretation since in Luke
128 our Lord is addressing believers and Romans
109 is addressing how unsaved Israelites can get
saved.
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Now, in John 1242, John writes that many of the
Jewish rulers believed in Jesus but because of
the Pharisees they were not acknowledging before
the public that they believed Jesus to be the
Messiah for fear that they would be put out of
the synagogue.
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In John 3, the Lord Jesus Christ makes quite
clear to Nicodemus that if he believes in Him
that he will receive eternal life and be saved
and mentions no public affirmation.
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Paul also makes this clear throughout his
writings that salvation is by faith alone in
Christ alone (Romans 322, 26, 30 43, 5 51
Galatians 216 324, 26 Ephesians 28).
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Therefore, in Romans 109, the verb homologeo
refers to the sinner acknowledging to the Father
that Jesus is Lord and which acknowledgement is,
in and of itself, exercising faith that the
Father raised Jesus from the dead.
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This is clearly indicated in the Scriptures
because as we noted the Scriptures teach that it
is through faith alone in Christ alone that one
is saved.
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It is also indicated in that to acknowledge that
Jesus is Lord is the equivalent to having faith
that the Father raised Jesus from the dead since
the Fathers act of raising His Son Jesus from
the dead demonstrated that Jesus was in fact God.
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To acknowledge that Jesus is Lord, i.e. God is to
believe that the Father raised Him from the dead
since the Fathers act of raising His Son Jesus
from the dead demonstrated that Jesus was in fact
God and faith alone in Christ is the only way to
receive eternal life.
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This is clearly indicated by Paul in Romans 14
where he teaches that there is a direct
connection between the resurrection of Jesus
Christ and His deity in that the resurrection
demonstrated that Jesus of Nazareth was in fact
the Son of God.
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Thus, when Paul teaches in Romans 109 that if
the Jew confesses with his mouth Jesus is Lord
and believes in his heart that the Father raised
Jesus from the dead he means that to believe in
ones heart that the Father raised Jesus from the
dead is in fact, an acknowledgment to the Father
that Jesus is Lord, i.e. God.
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To acknowledge to the Father that Jesus is Lord
is to believe that the Father raised Him from the
dead since the resurrection demonstrated that
Jesus is God and faith alone in Christ alone is
the only way to receive eternal salvation.
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Therefore, in Romans 109, Paul is giving only
one condition for salvation and not two when he
teaches that the sinner must acknowledge with
ones mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in his
heart that the Father raised Jesus from the dead.
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So, we can conclude that homologeo in Romans 109
is an acknowledgement to the Father that Jesus is
His Son rather than an acknowledgement to men
because the Father raised Jesus from the dead to
demonstrate that Jesus was His Son.
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Romans 109, That if you confess with your mouth
Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Jesus is the accusative masculine singular form
of the proper name Iesous ( )Ihsou), which
refers to the impeccable human nature of the Lord
Jesus Christ who is the God-Man and functions as
an object in an object-complement double
accusative construction.
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Lord is the accusative masculine singular form
of the noun kurios (kuvrio), which refers to the
deity of Christ and functions as a complement
in an object-complement double accusative
construction.
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The object-complement double accusative
construction is affirming the deity of Jesus of
Nazareth and should be translated as Jesus is
Lord as the NIV rather than Jesus as Lord as
the NASB.
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And is the epexegetical or explanatory use
of the conjunction kai (kaiV), which introduces a
statement that explains the previous statement
of acknowledging with ones mouth to the Father
that Jesus is Lord.
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The previous statement if you acknowledge that
Jesus is Lord looks at salvation from the
perspective of acknowledging the deity of Christ.
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The statement to follow believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead looks at
salvation from the perspective of believing that
the Father raised Jesus from the dead.
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Therefore, because these two statements speak of
one condition and are looking at salvation from
two different perspectives, the deity of Christ
and His resurrection, the conjunction kai is
explanatory meaning that it is introducing a
statement that explains salvation from a
different perspective.
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You will be saved refers to being delivered
by God from eternal condemnation as well as the
sin nature, personal sins, Satan and his cosmic
system since Paul is speaking with reference to
unsaved Israel in our present context.
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Romans 109 teaches that to acknowledge with
ones mouth to the Father that Jesus is Lord is
the same as believing in ones heart that the
Father raised Jesus from the dead since the
resurrection demonstrated the deity of Christ and
faith alone in Christ alone is the only way to
receive eternal salvation.
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This passage teaches that to believe in Jesus
Christ as your Savior is an affirmation of His
deity and a belief in His resurrection and that
both are essential in order to receive eternal
salvation.
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