Romans 10:13 “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

My friend, I commend you for your interest in the spiritual things that led you to read this. Keep reading
to the end!

Friend, I pray and desire that you may be saved today. This is also God’s own desire for you, for He
desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4). Your greatest need
is not to have a job or more money or even for your family to prosper. Your greatest need is not a wife or
a child! Your greatest need is not to be healed and be healthy. In as much as these are things that truly
matter to you, yet your greatest need is salvation from your sins.

You may be wealthy or healthy, but what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?
There is no profit for your soul if you drove a Porsche and lived in Runda or Karen Estates, yet be
without eternal hope. If your sins are upon you, then you will surely die. For the wages of sin is death.
But there is a message of good news here.

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into world to save
sinners, even the worst of sinners (1 Tim. 1:15). You have lived an addict, or even as a prostitute, you
have been a murderer or a rapist, you may have been corrupt even a thief, or even proud or a liar, or even
a robbery with violence convict – the message today is simple, “BE SAVED!”

But then you ask, “Be saved from what?” Be saved from your sins. Be saved from the wrath of God. For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by
their unrighteousness suppress the truth (Rom 1:18). Since you have broken God’s law, you deserve
eternal death! Yes! You deserve hell!

Let me unpack the verse that heads this message. Hear the promise of God in it. See in it a faithful saying
that deserves full acceptance. Please receive it as ours today, even now. Receive it with humility of heart
and meekness of spirit and believe its message: “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved.”

1. EVERYONE –

Whoever, whosoever… Anyone and everyone – without distinction is a candidate of salvation now. Jews
and Gentiles can have this wonderful blessing of salvation. Our Saviour calls upon male and female to be
saved – and He is able to save them. This promise may be received by any boy or any girl. It may be an
old man as well as a young man. Anyone means the sick as well as the healthy so long as they call upon
the Saviour Jesus Christ, there will be salvation for their souls. The king of sinners may be saved –
whether a pencil thief or a bank burglar. Any sinner can be saved today if you were to call on the name of
Christ.

Therefore, the salvation that there is in Jesus Christ does not discriminate in terms of nation or tribe,
language or race, age or gender or anything else. Rich or poor may gain entrance into the glorious
kingdom of God. Jews and Gentiles are saved in the same way. Neither Jews nor Gentiles have righteousness of their own. Salvation is for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord. So do not delay
or postpone or procrastinate. Call on the Lord for salvation right away. And He will save you now! When
the thief upon the cross requested the Lord Jesus Christ to remember him, the Lord promised him, “Today
you will be with me in Paradise!” You could be saved now for the Lord is able to save and willing to
save you now.

2. WHO CALLS ON –

To call on or upon is taken from the Greek word epikalesntai, which means ‘a believing expectation of
our all from Christ’. To call upon is to express faith in prayer, trusting only in the one person being called
upon. Calling upon is the same as crying out for help, having abandoned all hope in oneself. Calling upon
is not despair, where all hope is abandoned an expectant and hopeful trust that when you call on, the
object could save you, or deliver you to safety and salvation. Imagine a person who has fallen into a pit,
he can shout his voice hoarse hoping there would be someone to hear him. He could also keep quiet and
listen if there was anyone passing by so that he may call upon him to help. The latter is the case in view
here. It is a call directed at someone – it is not hopeless, aimless weeping.

It is trusting in another who is both able and willing to offer or to bring help to the one who calls. The
point is made – if anyone is to be saved, he has a responsibility to call upon Christ. Do you need to saved
from your sins? Then call upon Christ now. In other words, believe in him today. Request him to save
you from your sins & wrath of God right away.

To call on the Name of the LORD is to appeal to Him to save in accordance with who He is and what He
has done and accomplished for salvation. The saving mercy and grace is extended to those who ask the
Lord for it. God says that He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and who is it that He will
have mercy? Everyone who calls on His name.

Charles Hodge commenting on this verse puts it this way;

“Whosoever, therefore, betakes himself to God as his refuge, and calls upon Him, in the exercise
of faith, as his God, shall be saved, whether Gentile or Jew.”

Robert Haldane also commenting on this verse puts it this way:

“By calling on the name of the Lord, all parts of religious worship which we render to God are
intended. It denotes a full entire communion with God. He who calls on the name of the Lord,
profoundly humbles himself before God, recognises His power, adores His majesty, believes His
promises, confides in His goodness, hopes in His mercy, honours Him as his God, and loves Him
as his Saviour. It supposes that this invocation is inseparable from all other parts of religion. To
call on the name of the Lord is to place ourselves under His protection, and to have recourse to
Him for aid.”

3. THE NAME OF THE LORD –

Who is the LORD? In Joel 2:32, from where this verse is cited, the LORD in reference is Yahweh or
Jehovah. This is a reference to the covenant making and keeping God. This is a reference to the eternal,
sovereign God who created everything. He knows all things and does all his holy will. He is omnipotent,
omniscient and omnipresent God. The Bible says,

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Psalm 115:3

Whatever the LORD pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. Psalm 135:6

Of this God, King Nebuchadnezzar said,

I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an
everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants
of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you
done?” Dan 4:34-35.

Notice that this person who is Yahweh, who revealed himself to Moses as “I am who I am” is the Lord
Jesus Christ. Peter and Paul’s inspired hermeneutics takes it to refer to Christ! Salvation full and free is to
be obtained from only one Saviour – the Lord Jesus Christ, who being the eternal Son of God became man and so was and continues to be God and Man in two distinct natures and one person forever. For there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12)

4. WILL BE SAVED –

The gospel is the good news, and it is the message of the Christian faith – that the vilest sinner can be
saved. The worst of sinners is not beyond the saving grace of God in Christ. The Gospel speaks of
salvation from sins, any kind of sin, and any number of sins. Anyone can be saved now!

But what is salvation? Salvation is eternal and happy blessedness, where our sinful nature is replaced
with a new nature after the image and likeness of Christ in true righteousness and holiness. It is being
born again and adopted into the family of God. It is becoming a child of God, and therefore co-heir with
Christ. It is being made a partaker of the kingdom of God. This is the highest form of riches that this
world can ever know. This salvation could be yours now!

Therefore, salvation is always spoken of as that happiest condition and most peaceful state in all eternity.
This is the hope of all believers. Even angels have never been partakers of salvation. Remember that by
nature we were sinners, dead sinners, enslaved in sin, blind to the riches and preciousness of Christ,
children of wrath and enemies of God. In salvation all that old condition is done away with and we are
immediately made to be the redeemed of the Lord. You could become a new creation in Christ now!

Is there any assurance of salvation? YES! No one has ever called upon the name of the Lord who did
not get saved. The Gentile Naaman from Syria was not too leprous to be cleansed from the fountain of
God in Christ. Zacchaeus was saved in spite of being a corrupt man in his duties. The paralytic was
forgiven his sins and freed from the bondage of sin even though he had been a slave to sin for years. The
mad-man with a legion of demons was saved and made sober evangelist by Christ. Mary Magdalene, who
was a well-known prostitute and who, perhaps, broke many families in her sexual immorality was saved.
The dying thief who repented while he was upon the cross went to Paradise with Christ that same day.
You can be saved now!

Don’t trust upon yourself or any other. Don’t depend upon your work, merit or conduct. Depend on Christ. Don’t depend on a preacher or a pastor or a priest. Depend on Christ alone. Don’t repeat any preacher’s prayer – repent from your own heart, thinking about your own sin with your own mind, sorrowing over your own guilt, weeping for offending such a benevolent God, pleading for the forgiveness of your own iniquity, entrusting your soul only to the Saviour. You can be saved now!

To get to God, you need a Mediator – Jesus Christ (1 Tim. 2:5). However, to go to the Mediator, you
don’t need another mediator! The Mediator has already come to men and has taken the nature of men in
order that He may be a merciful and faithful high priest in relation to God, on our behalf (Hebrews 4:14-
16). The mediation of Mary is not necessary; the mediation of a human priest is completely unwarranted;
saints cannot mediate for you either! Therefore, the mediation of a pastor is completely useless! Don’t
trust any other mediation to be saved. Jesus Christ is perfectly sufficient to handle your case. He is all you
need and you have Him if you will trust Him now!

We have a great Saviour in Jesus Christ. There is no need to delay a salvation so full and free. There is
nothing to keep you from coming to Christ except your own rebellion and sin. A great high priest is none
other than the Saviour Christ – come to Him. Christ is the greatest and the best sacrifice for sin… yes
Christ is the sin-bearing Lamb of God who can take away all your sins now. He is willing to take all your
sins, and give you all his righteousness. He is able to save to the uttermost all those who draw near to God through Him (Heb. 7:25).

He bears the name above all names: For he is the reigning Son of God, surpassing all other titles, powers
and claims. He is our mighty Advocate with the Father. He is our Friend, Prophet, Priest and King. He is
our Great Physician. He is all and in all. He knows all your weaknesses, tears and pain for He was
tempted like us in every respect yet emerged triumphant, without sin. Christ could be yours today, for he
is willing to save you now!

Come and obtain salvation for your soul. Come and find rest for yourself. Do not harden your heart in
rebellion. You have heard His invitation – “Come to me all you who labour and are heavy laden and I
will give you rest!” He will give you eternal rest.

Seek His grace and you will find it through faith in Christ. He is supreme to save. Therefore go to Him
without any more delay.

Let us praise our risen, ascended Lord, the great Saviour of sinners, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Halleluiah what a Saviour!