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What
is the process of coming to faith and salvation ?
Romans
10:9-10 and 13-17
Charles
e Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher October 27 2013
How
Shall People Be Saved? 10:13-21
13 For "everyone
who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
14 But how are
they to call on him in whom they have not believed?
And how are they
to believe in him of whom they have never heard?
And how are they
to hear without someone preaching?
15 And how are
they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How
beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"
16 But they have
not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has
believed what he has heard from us?"
17 So faith comes
from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
18 But I ask, have
they not heard? Indeed they have, for "Their voice has gone out
to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world." 19
But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will
make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation
I will make you angry."
20 Then Isaiah is
so bold as to say, "I have been found by those who did not seek
me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me." 21 But
of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a
disobedient and contrary people."
How you can be saved from God's wrath
and from the guilt and dominion of sin with the hope of eternal life
in God.
What
is the process of coming to faith and salvation ?
Keep in mind that the problem Paul is
dealing with in Romans 9 and 10 is mainly the unbelief of Israel and
why it happened and why this does not undermine the faithfulness and
reliability of God.
So what Paul does in the last verses
of Romans 10 is show once more that the reason most of Israel does
not have a share in salvation is that they do not believe in the
Messiah, Jesus.
What are the prerequisites of
salvation? Maybe they missed it? Maybe they didn't believe because
they didn't have what they need to know to be held accountable to
believe.
So Paul is going to specifically spell
out the steps to salvation that apply to the Jews or for that matter
anyone else. And Paul's argues that they had all they needed to
know to be saved.
WHAT ARE THOSE STEPS WE NEED TO KNOW
TO BE A PART OF GOD'S SAVING PLAN? ROMANS 10:14-17
- But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
WHAT THE
CONDITIONS ARE THAT HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE FOR ISRAEL AND THAT MUST
BE PUT IN PLACE WHENEVER ANYONE IS TO BE SAVED?
Romans 10:14-15 and 16 cf. Isaiah 53:1
- A preacher must preach the gospel of grace
- The sent preacher must preach the good news that there is hope
- The preacher good news must be heard
- The heard good news must be believed
- The belief must be the kind that calls on God for salvation.
Sending,
preaching, hearing, believing, calling on God.
Then
vs. 17 So faith
comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
So
we have: Sending to preach, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ,
hearing the gospel of Christ, and believing in this Christ, then
calling on the Lord Jesus for salvation.
CALLING ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST:
