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Devotional: November 19th

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Romans 10:10

‘With the mouth confession is made unto salvation’

Read 2 Timothy 1:1-18

Our confession of Christ must be according to the Word of God. I have no reason to believe that I am a child of God unless I can open the Bible and show you why, and upon what basis, I have such a hope.

This is what I am saying: if you are a child of God, you can tell how you came to be a child of God (1 John 3:1-3). If you are redeemed, you can explain how you were redeemed (Galatians 3:13). If you are justified, you can declare how God can be just and yet justify the ungodly (Romans 3:24-26). If you have faith in Christ, you can explain what faith in Christ is (John 3:14-15). If you have experienced the grace of God in salvation, you call explain how it is that God saves sinners by his almighty, free grace in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Timothy 1:9).

If I am saved, if I am a child of God, I must be able to confess and declare my faith to you, and I will. I want to tell you three things which I know, three things which I have experienced, three things which I believe, according to the Word of God.

1. I believe that all men were ruined by the fall of our father Adam. Adam was the federal head and representative of our race before God. When he sinned, we sinned. When he fell, we fell. When he died, we died. ‘Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned’ (Romans 5:12).

2. I believe in redemption by the blood of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, bore our sins in his own body on the cross, suffering the just penalty of sin in his own body on the cross, suffering the just penalty of sin as our Substitute, and obtained eternal redemption for all God’s elect, by his sin-atoning sacrifice (Isaiah 53:10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

3. I believe in regeneration by the irresistible power and grace of the Holy Spirit. In the time of God’s appointment the Holy Spirit sovereignly gives eternal life to God’s elect, producing faith in them (Psalms 65:4; John 3:8).

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