Romans 10:14-21
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I am humbled this morning by the support and encouragement my family has recieved over this past month.
Amy’s surgery was a success and we continue to praise the Lord for moving the surgery date and gifting the surgeons hands to bring healing.
I had some time to reflect as I was home with her as she was healing. As pastor of Bridge of Faith, I have felt so supported through this time. For this, I am very grateful. I see online and sometimes hear from friends that are pastors that not every pastor is supported and encouraged by their church family.
I personally thank you for supporting me and my family during this time. I believe as a church our potential is great with this kind of support.
Romans
We continue through the book of Romans this morning. Thank you Pastor Cameron for last week walking us through Romans 10: 5-13. What appreciated about last week was how Cameron worked to simplify the text for us.
Macy come on up for just a second. I need a volunteer who does not like peanut butter.
Macy as your father I know you love these. What are they? They are peanut butter M&M’s. You love them so much! You love them so much that it is hard to get you to share them. When you get these, you never leave them in the living room or the kitchen. Do you? Why?
As I think about you love for these you might would say you Macy were made and designed for peanut butter M&M’s! You might go as far to say you were more made for peanut butter M&M’s than you father was made for them. (Yes!)
So I have some of these but I am going to give them to (insert name).
You was designed and made for this right but I gave them to this person who doesn’t even like them.
So what does this make you? It can make you jealous of them. They got the M&M’s that were designed for you.
13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
This is where we finished up last week. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Not all will call on the Lord but everyone who does will be saved.
14 But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?
15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things!
Preach:
means “to be a herald, to announce,” it is not limited to proclamation from a pulpit
Apostle: Means Sent
Perhaps Paul is recalling his own conversion as well. This call here is for the Jews.
He quotes Isaiah 52:7-10
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald, who proclaims peace, who brings news of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
8 The voices of your watchmen — they lift up their voices, shouting for joy together; for every eye will see when the Lord returns to Zion.
9 Be joyful, rejoice together, you ruins of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has displayed His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
The messenger in Isaiah 52:7 is announcing to Judah that God had ended their Exile in Babylon. Paul is applying this to the Jews of his day to whom the gospel was being given.
16 But all did not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?
But all did not obey the gospel
When you confess Jesus as Lord, you are obeying everything He commands for us.
Think about this for the Jew. The end goal of the Law is Jesus. So some of them are ok with Jesus but they still want only the Law for salvation.
Paul says not all obeyed the Gospel. Even the beginning of this chapter he says some have Zeal but not according to Knowledge. They are not obeying the Gospel. Nothing is changing for them.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary 10:16–18
But not all the Israelites (the Gr. text simply says “all”) accepted the good news, he obviously had in mind the Jews’ failure to respond. (“Accepted” translates hypēkousan, a compound of the verb “to hear.” It means “to hear with a positive response,” and so “to obey, to submit to.”)
He quotes Isaiah 53:1
1 Who has believed what we have heard? And who has the arm of the Lord been revealed to?
This verse introduces one of the greatest messianic chapters in the Old Testament. In Isaiah’s day, the people did not believe God’s Word, nor do hey believe it today.
17 So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.
Then comes some questions for the Jews unbelief
Did they not hear?
18 But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Yes, they did: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.
4 Their message has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
God’s general revelation
Did they not understand?
19 But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said: I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that lacks understanding.
20 And Isaiah says boldly: I was found by those who were not looking for Me; I revealed Myself to those who were not asking for Me.
One as early as Moses Deuteronomy 32:21
21 They have provoked My jealousy with their so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
1 “I was sought by those who did not ask; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said: Here I am, here I am, to a nation that was not called by My name.
21 But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.
2 I spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people who walk in the wrong path, following their own thoughts.
22 “But the father told his slaves, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
23 Then bring the fattened calf and slaughter it, and let’s celebrate with a feast,
24 because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
25 “Now his older son was in the field; as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 So he summoned one of the servants and asked what these things meant.
27 ‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’
28 “Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
29 But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’
31 “ ‘Son,’ he said to him, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.
32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ ”