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Get Out the Gospel Romans 10 · Life For Toledo

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  I'm thinking today of Romans chapter 10. It's a unique message for an important
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  time of year. In Romans chapter 10, Paul is talking about getting out the gospel.
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  How then are they to call on Him in whom they have not believed? That's verse 14.
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  Or how are they to believe in Him whom they have not heard and how are they to
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  hear without a preacher? That's the rest of 14. And then down in verse 16, in the
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  middle of the discussion about how the Word of God has to get out and how the
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  Word of God will grow faith, there is this kind of excerpt. It says, however, they
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  did not all heed the good news. For Isaiah says, quote, Lord who has believed our
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  report, unquote. The bottom line is this, even if someone has sent, even if someone
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  goes, not everyone will hear the gospel. Not everyone will respond positively to
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  the message that God is willing to save souls. I remember in the story of Lazarus
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  and the rich man, the rich man is begging the angel at the gate to send somebody
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  back to his brothers to warn them. And he says, no, they have Moses and the prophets.
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  And even if they saw somebody come back from the dead, even then they
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  wouldn't listen. And that's exactly where we're living today. Jesus has come back
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  from the dead and believers have been born again and are now living on this
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  earth and delivering the message about Jesus. And still there are those who will
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  not believe. It does not lessen our obligation to share, but it reminds us
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  that even this year, even this time as we are celebrating the coming of Jesus, who
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  is the most spectacular way that God declared his love and his salvation
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  available, people sometimes won't hear. Tell them anyway.