Monday | 23 February 2026
Messengers preach that the word is near us. There is no infinite gap between the Creator and the creature! The word that is in our mouth and heart, if we will receive, believe and accept it, is the same word that is in the mouth and heart of Christ’s messengers, which they preach. This word is the confession of our faith obedience to Christ our Lord and King.
Detailing this word, Paul wrote, ‘If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus [that is, ‘He is Lord and King’] and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved’. Rom 10:9. That is, you will receive resurrection life – the sure mercies given to David. In this verse, Paul was highlighting that receiving the word of the King is believing for resurrection life through fellowship in His death. By believing the word of Christ, and confessing Him as our Lord and King, we receive from Him a share in the sure mercies of David as our eternal salvation and glory.
The word of God that spoke creation into existence has been sent to you and me. When it is first proclaimed to an unbeliever, it speaks to them as a son of God. This may seem somewhat anomalous. Why would the gospel call, or address, an unbeliever as a son of God before they even know God? Providing the answer to this question, the apostle Paul said that when the gospel is proclaimed it ‘calls those things which do not exist as though they did’. Rom 4:17. That is, God speaks to a hearer as if they are already His child.
Further Study:
Romans 10
References:
Rom 10:9
That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom 4:17
As it is written, ‘I have made you a father of many nations’, in the presence of Him whom he believed — God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.