Most of you will remember that we are dealing at the moment with the 9th and the 10th verses

in the 10th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, verses 9 and 10 in the 10th chapter

of the Epistle to the Romans, that if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus

and shall believe in thine heart that God

hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart men believeth unto righteousness,

and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. Now, I've described these two verses as the Apostles'

summary of saving faith, and we are examining, therefore, what is meant by saving faith.

And I've suggested a threefold division. First, of course, you must consider the content of saving faith.

Then you consider its character or its nature.

And finally, the proof of saving faith.

Those three things are suggested here by this statement which the apostle makes.

Now, we've already been dealing with the content

of saving faith. That is, that we believe that Jesus is Lord and that we believe that God

hath raised him from the dead. We've considered those two statements and their full implications. So that now

we are in a position to move forward to the second division of this statement of saving faith.

And that is the nature or the character of saving faith. Now, you notice that the apostle deals with this in both the verses, 9 and 10,

if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart

that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved,

for, with the heart men believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made

unto salvation. And there can be no doubt, therefore, that the very fact that the apostle

repeats in verse 10, what he's said in verse 9,

means that he attaches very great significance to this. The object of the repetition

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