{"id":141,"date":"2011-08-14T01:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T08:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-08-08T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:03:56","slug":"saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/2011\/08\/14\/saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, &#8220;Men and brethren, what shall we do?&#8221;<br \/>\nThen Peter said to them, &#8220;<strong>Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit<\/strong>.<br \/>\nFor the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, <strong>&#8220;Be saved<\/strong> from this perverse generation.&#8221;<br \/>\nThen those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.<br \/>\nAnd they continued steadfastly in the apostles&#8217; doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.<br \/>\nActs 2:37-42<\/p>\n<p>But what does it say? &#8220;THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART&#8221; (that is, the word of faith which we preach):<br \/>\nthat if you<strong> confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.<br \/>\nFor the Scripture says, &#8220;WHOEVER BELIEVES ON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.&#8221;<br \/>\nFor there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.<br \/>\nFor &#8220;WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.&#8221;<br \/>\nRomans 10:8-13<\/p>\n<p>For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,<br \/>\nby whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were <strong>saved through water<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong>There is also an antitype which now saves us\u2014baptism<\/strong> (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,<br \/>\n1 Peter 3:18-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, &#8220;Men and brethren, what shall we do?&#8221; Then Peter said to them, &#8220;Repent, and let every one of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/2011\/08\/14\/saved\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}