We believe in our heart and we are justified (being) and then we do confess with our mouths and are saved.
There must be both the inward faith and the outward confession. Salvation requires both the inward and the outward – being and doing.
And, Paul says, this is true both for the Jew and for the Greek. Because the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
That is a remarkable thing. That God should bestow his riches on us! We have already seen in chapter 8 that we have been adopted into God's family. We have become fellow heirs with Jesus.
God has called us into his family. Therefore, we are to respond by calling upon his name.
But this provokes Paul to ask a series of questions. We started looking at this last time – but I'd like to focus here a bit more...
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