| Believing...Unto Righteousness Romans 10:9-10 By Timothy W. Burnett Throughout the Bible, we find wonderful examples of people believing God onto getting the results He promised. Hebrews chapter 11 gives a number of examples that are followed by the following verses, "And all these having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." (Hebrews 11:39-40). In the name of Jesus Christ anybody can be made perfect, filled with holy spirit. The instructions God gave us for how to be made righteous can be found in Romans 10:9-10. "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." God makes a clear distinction between two conditions that lead to one result...salvtation. This article will address the condition that is unto righteousness. I will address the matter of confessing with the mouth the Lord Jesus in a later article. God made it so easy for anybody to made a righteous saint. Simply believe with the heart that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. It is easy as 1-2-3. We know how to count because we've been taught and practiced it many years. Likewise anybody who spends time in the Gospel of Jesus Christ can eventually believe it unto righteousness. Let's look at the first record of people being filled with holy spirit in Acts 2:4, "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost..." They were filled with the power of holy spirit that was from God. In Acts 1:22-23 we can see they were already believing that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. After Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, one of his disciples killed himself. Another disciple had to be named among the twelve. He had to be among them from the time of John's batism of water, to the day Jesus Christ was take up into heaven. These men believed that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead.So when the day of Pentecost arrived and holy spirit was poured out in the temple, they were immediately filled with holy spirit. The righteousness from God is still available for all who believe. As it is written, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16). |