Though calling 10 times has become a target for skepticism, it is really better to
call on the name of the Lord.
Two times is good if you want to touch the Lord.
Once may be good for it simply said. "Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."
It did not say anything about how many times. 10, 9, 8, 7, . . . etc. is not as important than deliberateness and persistence as though you mean business to contact the Lord Jesus.
Some don't understand. Our whole being from birth is on a current away from God. It is a strong current. So to seek the Lord Jesus is like the salmon fish swimming upstream against the current.
What an analogy God may have left us in nature. The salmon, I understand, is seeking its birth place to return to. SOMEHOW it has such a keen sense as to where it must go. But the current is strong in the opposite direction. So it has to exert deliberate desperation to go against the current.
This is an analogy. Please don't argue a lot of biology with me. The point is that to turn your heart to the living and available Lord Jesus you have to mean business to go against the drift AWAY from God.
"O Lord Jesus. O Lord Jesus!. O Lord, Lord JESUS. I TURN my heart to You..
One time is good. More than one time is good. But to go against the tendency to forget about God and just drift downward always away from the Lord, you will stand against. And CALL to open your whole being to the Lord Jesus.
That is the main thing.
Well, did you try it?
If you love someone, you may out of love call or say their name as much as you please.
You may call on God out of love as many times as it seems fresh and affectionate to you.
Question: Is Ten time too much ?
Answer: It may be and it may NOT be.
Call "O Lord Jesus" as many times as you feel your love overflows your heart to call O Lord Jesus.
Oh, you may whisper too.
And you may simply meditate in your heart to call to him.
There is no need for a police force stopping you.
Call on the Lord Jesus with a believing heart.
@sonship saidSo you disagree that God, through scripture, has made clear that it's the heathens who resort to mindless repetition?
If you love someone, you may out of love call or say their name as much as you please.
@sonship saidYour continued calling out to God only pleases and satisfies your own selfish needs and ego. It does nothing of substance for you. Instead God most likely is laughing at you for foolishly ignoring the words of Christ in the bible :
If you love someone, you may out of love call or say their name as much as you please.
If ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15 KJV)
Professions of love for God and Christ are meaningless without obedience to the commandments. Your calling out to God without obedience is vain and dead, just like your faith.
Your continued calling out to God only pleases and satisfies your own selfish needs and ego.
Just the opposite.
To confess that He is the Lord is to place Him at the center of the universe unseating your ego from that position.
To confess the Jesus is Lord, YOUR Lord is to take yourself off of the throne of egotism and place God in Christ in His rightful position.
To confess to the Lord that He is Lord is to agree with the reality of the truth.
Now it is comfortable to be placed in your rightful and true place as under the Lord Jesus. That is a sweet benefit to be subdued by His eternal love.
It does nothing of substance for you.
He will be saved IS something very much of substance.
"That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." (Rom. 10:9)
Are you saying that that is nothing of substance?
Instead God most likely is laughing at you for foolishly ignoring the words of Christ in the bible :
There is no reason I can see God would tell us:
"For whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved"(v.13)
and then laugh at us for believing His word.
There is one who I imagine is scornfully laughing at faith in Christ. But that laughing one would not be God.
If ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15 KJV)
One of His commandments is that we believe in Him Whom the Father has sent. That, He says, is the work of God.
"Then they said to Him, What shall we do that we may work the works of God.
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe into Him whom He has sent." (John 6:28,29)
Now before you launch your usual slanderous accusation that I teach people to disobey Christ, you must say precisely WHERE in this post I taught anyone - "Believe in Jesus and DISOBEY Jesus."
Or exactly where in this post did I teach "Confess Jesus as Lord and DISOBEY the Lord Jesus."
Professions of love for God and Christ are meaningless without obedience to the commandments. Your calling out to God without obedience is vain and dead, just like your faith.
No it is not. Romans says " . . . for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who call upon Him . .." (v.12b)
That means the Lord is RICH in empowering, RICH in enabling, RICH in supplying, RICH in strengthen to resists temptation, RICH in upholding for obedience and consecration, RICH in enjoying the grace of God coursing through one's being.
It means He is not just RICH for initial salvation and the gift of eternal life.
But His RICH throughout the entire Christian life, to supply, empower, uphold, strengthened, and save from all kinds of daily adverse situations.
He is RICH to develop obedience in the loving heart that turns to Him.
@sonship saidYou preach disobedience by omission. Jesus and all the Apostles preached obedience to the commandments. What have you done? Nothing. You preach nothing. Your faith is dead, and your end will be damnation for misleading the gullible.
Or exactly where in this post did I teach "Confess Jesus as Lord and DISOBEY the Lord Jesus."
@rajk999 saidCan you tell me which sentence or sentences here lead to damnation and mislead the gullible in Romans 10:8-13 ?
You preach disobedience by omission. Jesus and all the Apostles preached obedience to the commandments. What have you done? Nothing. You preach nothing. Your faith is dead, and your end will be damnation for misleading the gullible.
"But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart," that is the word of faith which we proclaim. (v.8)
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; (v.9)
For with the heart there is believing unto righteousness, and with the mouth there is confession unto salvation. (v.10)
For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes on Him shall not be put to shame." (v.11)
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who call upon Him; (v.12)
For "whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."(v.13)
Which verse/s is leading to damnation and misleading the gullible?
@sonship saidPeople who are serious about eternal life in the Kingdom of God read the teachings of Jesus Christ, and keep the commandments. Others like you that just like to run your mouth and beat your gum, rather cherry pick Paul to find out how they can avoid the keeping of the commandments. Your motives are evil.
Can you tell me which sentence or sentences here lead to damnation and mislead the gullible in Romans 10:8-13 ?
"But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart," that is the word of faith which we proclaim. (v.8)
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, yo ...[text shortened]... rd shall be saved."(v.13)
Which verse/s is leading to damnation and misleading the gullible?
@divegeester
And what did I write after that?
I think the sentence should begin with the words "As a matter of fact . . . ".
As a matter of fact send anything you want to anybody you want.
You're wasting my time.