00:09:23.420You're bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.
00:09:29.020And so, you know, you're bought at a price and you're not your own.
00:09:32.260So this recognition of lordship is it's confession.
00:09:35.560I'm in agreement with it's a recognition of who who Jesus is, that he's Lord.
00:09:40.080So step two really is this after confession and believing,
00:09:46.920but not just believing in Jesus as Lord,
00:09:50.180but also believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead.
00:09:54.740It's fascinating that we just kind of brush over the fact
00:09:57.480that God included the resurrection in this confession.
00:10:01.700And so one thing I want to point out is the heart.
00:10:05.560Confess with your, you know, believe with all your heart, right?
00:10:08.820in your heart that god raised from the dead this is a type of belief that's sincere it's not false
00:10:14.360it's not fake um it's not just words it's not just words it is it's from the heart yes exactly
00:10:20.720and so it's sincerity and we have to recognize again how important the resurrection is to the
00:10:27.100gospel and if you read first corinthians chapter 15 you can see that paul even says man if the
00:10:32.120if jesus didn't resurrect like none of this matters and he gives a really good case of why
00:10:37.480none of that matters that's also why the resurrection is under attack all the time
00:10:41.000and so the resurrection is God's validation of Jesus's atoning work on the cross he when Jesus
00:10:49.380is resurrected it's God saying that I accept your sacrifice Jesus that's really what's being said
00:10:58.480there that the atoning work of Jesus is sufficient and the the approval of that is the resurrection
00:11:05.800of Jesus. And that's because it was just, you know, he died an unjust death because he was
00:11:14.140actually perfect. And so there's lots to talk about there. This is why he's the propitiation
00:11:19.640of our sins. That's a biblical word. That word means to appease the wrath of God through blood
00:11:25.300sacrifice. That's what that word propitiation means. So you got a couple steps here that are
00:11:30.000important um you're in agreement with him number one number two you're publicly identifying with
00:11:36.520him number three you're making him lord and number four uh you're believing in your heart that god
00:11:42.300validated you know his atoning work on the cross through the resurrection so that's that's a good
00:11:48.540simple breakdown i think of what real salvation looks like um in terms of coming to to christ
00:11:58.400Now, this doesn't talk about sanctification.
00:11:59.960This doesn't talk even about being born again necessarily or regeneration or transformation or any of this stuff that comes after this process.
00:20:19.420for instruction and righteousness that the man of God may be complete, that man, that word man
00:20:23.680is man and woman, are thoroughly equipped for every good work. So again, I talked about this
00:20:31.080in the chapter, breaking this down with an argument that you guys need to really get down to.
00:20:35.940Is the word of God authoritative? When I read something, do I actually do it? And that's an
00:20:41.440important process uh to go through and so i also argue in the book um you know uh people think that
00:20:49.540oh look the word of god's been changed over the years like this is what the mormon religion the
00:20:54.120islamic religion and the uh jehovah's witness religion thinks that there's a corrupted bible
00:20:59.160and that it's changed and that we needed to write a new bible right uh that's not true either um
00:21:06.640And if you go, I actually, I'm going to leave a link in the show notes for this episode because I watched a fantastic video that was actually, I had to, it was required viewing for one of my seminary classes on hermeneutics.
00:21:21.640It's titled New Testament Reliability by Daniel, or Dr. Daniel Wallace.
00:21:27.520So if you want to look that up on YouTube, New Testament Reliability by Dr. Daniel Wallace.
00:21:32.920It offers a fantastic mountain of evidence on the reliability of the text.