The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim: If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. Now the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes on Him will not be put to shame,” for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him. “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:8-13 — Holman Christian Standard Bible)
When this passage speaks about the heart, it is referring not to our emotions, but to our souls, our inner core. True belief cannot be based on emotions — they are too unstable and fleshly. Belief involves obedience and action, and therefore the mind and soul of a person.
When we say that Jesus is Lord, we are saying that He is fully God, and when we believe that he was raised from the dead, we are saying that he was fully man. These are two fundamental truths of the Bible — the two natures of the Lord Jesus. Because He was fully God His death has the power to save the entire world, and because He was a man He was able to die — God cannot die. When these two truths are understood they demand action; we cannot truly believe this an do nothing about it. If we respond in belief to this amazing sacrifice of Jesus, we will be saved, and if we don’t, we are insulting Him, and will be lost.
“Everyone who believes on Him will not be put to shame”… is a truth to stand on! In my life this scripture has been so important. The situations of life and the devil are continually threatening to put us to shame, or to make us afraid that we will end up in shame, and the only proper response is to cry out to God in prayer and remind Him of His promises. Believers in the Lord Jesus cannot be put to shame.
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